Pearl Harbor Remembrance

By George H. W. Bush

• This is Pearl Harbor Day. Forty-seven years ago to this very day, we were hit and hit hard at Pearl Harbor.
  
  
  • Bush addressing the American Legion in Louisville, Kentucky (7 September 1988), three months prior to the actual anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor (7 December 1941).
  
  
  

Not sure this contributes much to the whole nature - nurture question.

But a hat tip to Silbey either way

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Mellow Yellow Monday - 12/07

Buckroe Beach, February, 2006

February sun
Shines bright on the sands of a 

Beach in Virginia

Extrapolation

Permanent link to this comic: http://xkcd.com/605/

My friend Jerry* actually used to do this kind of extrapolation.  In 2002, He extrapolated that by now I would have 57 grandchildren.

He only missed by 46.**
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* RIP, and sorely missed.  Damn, he could play some great jazz.  Now I'm sad.
** If you think I have 103 grandchildren you have had either too many or too few martinis. Drink up and recalculate.

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Sunday Music Blogging

Buying Knives!



What - no Golden Fleece?

Shadow Shot Sunday - Dec 6

(Some people celebrate the sabbath on Saturday.)

Another Heffalump

Living at Disney,

Here - so far from Africa.

Does it remember?

Six Word Saturday - 12/05

Four musical performances soon, starting Monday.

Jazz, jazz, classical, jazz -  great fun!

And three grandaughters dancing in Nutcracker.
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Tariff Terror Redux

I love it when Krugman agrees with me.

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Health Care Update

Anyone who says we can't afford health care reform is a lying Republican.  (Forgive the redundancy, please.)

Here are the facts, from the CBO to you, via Krugman and Yglesias.

And here is Aetna forcing customers away to enhance the bottom line.

Do you see the fundamental and unavoidable conflict between patient service and the profit motive?  For-profit insurance companies bring nothing to the party, and skim away financial resources.

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Chart by Johnathon Gruber, as used by Yglesias and Krugman.


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Friday Doggerel* Blogging

                          TIGER!**

Tiger, Tiger burning bright

With endorsements left and right,

Inquiring minds now want to know

Everywhere you come and go.

In what distant bed or lair

Do you toss? Why do we care?

With each Hottie you aspire,

Our imaginations fire.

Now what inviting body part

Twists the sinews of thy heart?

When you twist with thy sinews

We see it on the evening news!

And when you seek to roam again

In what furnace is thy brain?

The dreaded iron in Elin's fist

Is treacherous. Good thing she missed!

When you stand upon a tee

Do you expect to hit a tree?

And when the last hole has been made

Do you plan to crash your Escalade?

Tiger, Tiger burning bright

With endorsements left and right

Inquiring minds now want to know

Everywhere you come and go.

Copyright JazzBumpa. All rights reserved. Yep - even for this.

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* Or, in this case, possibly catterel
** Counterpoint. Or, more bluntly stated.

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Sky Shot Thursday 12/03

Virginia Lighthouse

Stands stark against the deep blue
Of sky and ocean.

Photo and haiku copyright JazzBumpa.  All rights reserved.
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Wednesday Poetry Blogging

THE SUBSTITUTE

There are those whose lives are meant to be entwined,

Lovers thrust together by the force of destiny,

When choice and fate converge, that they may be

Connected at the soul, the heart, the mind.

Within their closed circumference one can find
Two curves in perfect fit -- his yang, her yin,
That in each cycle once again begin
To cluster into love's sweet spiral bind.

But consider -- if in the vast span of infinity
One of them becomes displaced in small degree;
Is born a decade late, perhaps is sent
To the farthest corner of the continent --
 

The distant echo of an unfelt touch, an unseen face.
Who will be the one who comes to take his place?


Copyright JazzBumpa. All rights reserved.

Heffalump

This nice fresh tree part,

A trunk full of green goodness

And a snack later.