Folks,

A bit of awesomeness and human joy here.

The folks over at Attic Room Production have created a wonder filled reproduction of Yuri Gagarin's flight.

It runs just about an hour and a half long - slightly longer than Yuri's actual flight - and has the audio track of Gagarin's radio conversations with Korolev and others back on the ground as the ( Read more... )

Folks,

Wow.  This is very well done.  And is actually pretty spot on.  Damningly so!

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Folks,

Wow, I'd no idea it was this bad.

I had hoped that the Democratic Party would at least have been confident enough in its current form to be honest about its history.  Sadly, this is not so.  Instead, even now they're going to great lengths to cover it up and deny it.  That shows a deep rooted insecurity about who they are today.  And it also ( Read more... )

Folks,

President Obama just did his first Middle East trip since taking office. Along the way he stopped in Cairo and delivered a major speech while there.

Buried within that speech was this little gem:

"For centuries, black people in America suffered the lash of the whip as slaves and the humiliation of segregation. But it was not violence that won ( Read more... )

Folks,

Wow. This is one heckuva good analysis of the "Hitler Myths" that have sprung up over the years and of how those myths have been deliberately perpetuated by the Left to cover up their complicity in the rise of Nazism and of their continued anti-freedom, anti-liberty, and anti-individual policies right through the present day. Yeah, I'm not ( Read more... )

Folks,

Wow.

This is a very nicely produced and spot on bit of Civics 101.

Yeah, it's ten minutes in running time - but it's a quick ten and a ten well spent.

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Hat tip to Jody over at Just Barking Mad

Madoc

Folks,

Interesting bit of analysis here.  Scott Reynolds Nelson, a professor of history at the College of William and Mary, sees more similarities between the Panic of 1873 than the Great Crash of 1929.

The Real Great Depression

Hat tip: Steeljaw Scribe
Madoc

Folks,

Anyone wanna take any bets on how the day's coverage will be?

I'm betting that there'll be some requisite clips of the burning towers but that'll be about it.

You can bet your bottom dollar there'll be no mention - let alone video clips - of the falling people.  Too emotional, that.  What'll make that especially irksome is if the newsies then ( Read more... )

Folks,

Well, Comic-Con 2007 is now part of history.

I had a good enough time.  Not as good as I'd hoped but good enough.  Last year there were several panels which I really wanted to get to.  This year there really wasn't a single panel in the entire Convention program that got my that excited.  There were a couple set up for late Saturday afternoon ( Read more... )

Folks,

Not exactly sure what to make of this one.

Japan changes name of Iwo Jima

By HANS GREIMEL, Associated Press Writer

TOKYO - Japan has returned to using the prewar name for the island of Iwo Jima - site of one of World War II's most horrific battles - at the urging of its original inhabitants, who want to reclaim an identity they say has been ( Read more... )