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Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Now on CNN - Dumbest headline Ever!   “Shock and awe” conjures images of the world’s greatest superpower ever, dropping bunker buster bombs (with poundage limited only by Rumsfeld’s wrestler imagination) on a third world nation suffering from the unfortunate luck of being ruled by a despot who offended the same Illuminati wannabes who empowered him in the first place.   Thousands of innocents died highly violent deaths while that nifty catch phrase scrolled nightly on a TV ticker.   Now they are trying to use NASA's Columbia redemption  to bleach the blood out of it. Won't work. Out, out, damned Spot, Fido, Rover, and Beagle too - it can’t be done. We “got our man,” big deal, but why was he our man in the first place?  That photo looks like a close-up of a turd to me in that context. Save “shock and awe” for premeditated murder cases, not scientific advances. 9:38:48 PM    comment []

I don’t know where this photo was taken, probably looking into the North Sea or North Atlantic, probably off the coast of Denmark. This gentleman is one hell of a man. He was decorated for service in Vietnam, Panama, and Grenada. Remember Kurtz, the guy in Apocalypse Now? How the Martin Sheen character was so impressed that he went into Airborne Rangers training at the age of 42? Klaus really did that.   He lives in Panama now, but met his sons when they traveled to Europe for a cousin’s wedding last summer. His sons are also Liz’s sons; their younger one took this picture.   “Chris” brought over his camera and a couple of MMC cards on Sunday, wanting to save the pictures on them before he left for Panama to visit Daddy again Monday morning. I did that, then this evening I used Nero to burn them onto an SVCD disk so Liz can have the pictures too. I got 211 pictures on there, plus a soundtrack of Sam Cooke tunes, ending with A Change Is Gonna Come. Nothing can ever follow that song. It made a slide show about 30 minutes in duration and there was still room for about that much again.   I watched it, enraptured. These northern Europeans are my people. They look like people from my family. They sit at long outdoor tables and eat herring, smoke, and drink good beer. Liz will probably like this SVCD. First of all, it’s got 12 Same Cooke tunes. But her son’s pictures are beautiful – London, Amsterdam, Yorkshire wedding, Bronte country, Whitby (departure point for Captain Cook), Marseilles, Prague, Copenhagen, Venice, and much, much more. 8:00:33 PM    comment []