Whether or not you agree with this “left-wing agenda”, this is an amazingly well-written and presented speech:
Great stuff! Pure prose. Almost makes me want to watch TV again.
From Crooks and Liars.
Category Archives: History
Ronald Reagan Speech Suggests Aliens Among Us
No kidding. In his address to the 42d Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York he said that we just need a common enemy (outsider, if you will) to absolve our differences. Sounds dangerously like scapegoating to me. Then he said there are aliens already among us — those who are in favor of war.
Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?
So we should unite ourselves against those who favor war or who threaten war? A war on those who want war?
Quick, grab a pitchfork and some torches. We have some unification work to do.
Gold Fish Crackers Stolen from Switzerland
Did you hear the one about the Gold Fish cracker invented in 1958 by Oscar Kambly at his family business?
America gets its first taste of Goldfish crackers in 1962. Margaret Rudkin discovers the snack cracker on a trip to Switzerland and returns with the recipe.
The Kambly site says the idea originally was a gift for Oscar’s wife.
Who would have thought that the Gold Fish cracker is actually a Swiss invention? And I wonder why Rudkin re-branded as OEM instead of being a distributor.
Maybe the Swiss stole the idea from the French, and maybe they stole it from… will the real inventor please swim forward?
One has to wonder what would happen if the town of Cheddar had a penny for every ounce of cheese sold in America under their stolen name…
Exxon versus Bald Eagles
After writing a post about a bald eagle that survived being shot in the bill, I was reminded of my Exxon analysis from a couple years ago…my, how time flies. Like an eagle?
I pointed out back then that Exxon killed 250 bald eagles in a single accident. The EPA estimate is 100 bald eagles, the NYT said 140, a legal case review says 151, while the International Bird Rescue Research Center reported 300 dead. I guess you can not argue the fact that it was more than one, and even killing one is a felony offense. Amazing to think, in terms of compliance, that the oil company was not charged with such a felony under the US Eagle Act.
The legal case review says the State of Alaska evidently charged Exxon with two felonies, but they were related to marine safety. Interesting.