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Hey Peggy Noonan: Savor - JASON HENDERSON - Open Salon: "Let us get our heads around the size and scope of what happened Tuesday. Barack Obama, soon to be the 44th president of the United States, the first president born outside the continental United States, has won a landslide victory. He has done so with a message of hope and aspiration. Resoundingly he has done so.

The Democrats have defeated not only John McCain, but Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina, as well as Republican Senators in (as of this writing) New Mexico, Virginia, and New Hampshire. In the House, there is not a single Republican congressman left in all of New England. This is huge.

Savor."

Check out the rest. It's a great read.

Gerrard grabs a penalty so soft it made Istanbul look like a horror tackle. A point is a point though.

Gabcast! AudBlog #4 - The Tristan Betrayal (micro review)

Robert Ludlum(tm)'s The Tristan Betrayal

Balloon Juice � Blog Archive � It Is All Too God Damned Short:

In a post on John Cole's blog on the sad passing of right wing commentator Dean Barnett, Cole wrote

Not a day passes when I do no ponder my own mortality, and not a day passes without me wondering how I will continue without my parents and the people who mean everything to me. A very selfish part of me hopes that I die before them.

To wit Just Some F@ckhead replied:

"No one gets out alive so there’s no need to obsess over it every day. Worry about two things: that you leave the world a better place than you found it and that you don’t accidentally leave any embarassing porn on your computer."

It's clean underwear in the ambulance for the Internet.

Gabcast! AudBlog #3

Claire reviews Outrageous Orange Blast Pops candy.

Chelsea - Liverpool Score | Premier League 08/09 - Yahoo!! Eurosport UK.

Liverpool ends Chelsea's 4 1/2 year 86 match home unbeaten streak and move to the top of the table. This is the year for title number 19.

YNWA

Army of Dude: The Thing I Carried

A vet writes about his assault/back pack.

BBC NEWS | UK | England | Merseyside | QE2 makes final trip to Liverpool

The world's most famous passenger liner, the QE2, has sailed into the River Mersey for the final time as part of her farewell tour of the UK.

The QE2 will be retired in November to be converted into a hotel in Dubai after more than 40 years in service.

Firedoglake -- Kathleen Parker Shocked To Find Her Party’s Full Of “Vicious”, “Threatening”, Delusional Wingnuts

What gets me is that someone with a column by that bastion of the librul me-dee-uh the Washington Post has been so in lock step with Wingnut talking points that she just now "realizes" this.

"Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."
--John McCain Sept/Oct 2008 issue of Contingincies Magazine.

Drew with some guy;) at the Clinton Global Initiative on September 25, 2008

That's moldy corn husks that are blowing all over town. It smells like stale beer and crap. Sort of like Grolsch.

My Political Point... And I Do Have One - The Ellen DeGeneres Show:

"The wording of Prop 8 is tricky. It’s like if someone asked you, “You don’t want dessert, right?” But you do want dessert so you say, “Yes,” which really means you don’t want dessert. And if you say, “No,” which means you do want dessert -- it sounds like you don’t. Either way, you don’t get what you want. See -- confusing. Just like Prop. 8.

So, in case I haven’t made myself clear, I’m FOR gay marriage. And in order to protect that right -- please VOTE NO on Proposition 8. And now that you’re informed, spread the word. I’m begging you. I can’t return the wedding gifts -- I love my new toaster."

I think Ellen pretty much killed Prop 8 with this video.

Yankee Stadium's fate more eBay than eternal -- Newsday.com:

"There is probably no tasteful way to do away with Baseball's Cathedral; cathedrals, after all, are usually built to be left there. But at least there will not be some spectacular, timed implosion that reduces the stadium to a burst of dust. No, its end will come in the form of a clinical disassemblage, with workers given time to preserve the building's numerous saleable and enshrineable parts."

And we don't even get the satisfaction of watching it blown to dust. They're just gonna take Yankee Stadium apart piece by piece so everyone can have a $99.95 chunk of the True Yankee Cross.

Peoria Illinoisan had this good idea:

Here’s something fun to do on a rainy day. Using Wikipedia, click on ‘Random Article‘ and see what comes up. Who knows, you might learn something.

Here's my ten:
Mara Corday -- 1950's era pin-up girl and actress

Borja Sanchez Luque -- Spanish footballer -- still active

Hlukhiv, Ukraine-- City of 36,000 in the Ukraine. Known for its agriculture research center.

Rosalind Allen -- actress who played Dr. Wendy Smith on seaQuest DSV

Isthmus Zpaotec -- indigenous Mexican language

Lincoln Laboratory -- Research lab associated with MIT that does mostly classified research

Peter Taylor -- British journalist known for his coverage of the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland

Acacia aroma var. huarango -- Small shrub which grows in Ecuador and Peru

Derrick Daley -- Canadian politician and member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

Indian Boxing Federation -- Governing body for amatuer boxing in India

The Unbeatable Ship That Nobody Ever Heard Of:

"Few knew of her during World War II, and few know of her even today: a ship named for the city of San Diego. The light antiaircraft cruiser USS SAN DIEGO (CL 53) received the honor of being the first victorious American warship to enter Tokyo Bay."

I cried tears of joy when Hillary Clinton read Obama's nomination. Tears man. I knew it was made for tv manipulative bs setup crap, and still there I sat tears streaming down my cheeks.

Go figure.

Blatantly stolen from Archaeology Magazine Nov/Dec 2002 issue...

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James Aalan Bernsen: Relics of War - Marston Mats

Shortly before WWII, American Engineers were looking for a way to quickly build roads, airfields and dozens of other projects with mass-produced materials that could be quickly brought to the front and assembled. In short, they were looking for the "legos" of infrastructure.

The solution they came to was Marston Mats - sheets of interlocking pierced steel planking that could be pieced together quickly. They could provide all-weather traction over mud in the South Pacific, Tundra in the Aleutian Islands, volcanic ash on Iwo Jima and Sand on Normandy. And once a flat base had been bulldozed by Army Engineers or Seabees, they could be laid down as the foundation of a temporary airfield.