No matter your politics or ideology, this weekend we should all remember those who died for our rights to disagree.
The Flourtown Memorial is located on Bethlehem Pike, opposite the old Black Horse Inn.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Memorial Day 2010
This sign in my hometown of Flourtown, PA says it all:
The Flourtown Memorial is located on Bethlehem Pike, opposite the old Black Horse Inn.
The Flourtown Memorial is located on Bethlehem Pike, opposite the old Black Horse Inn.
Friday, May 28, 2010
I'll be suing you, in all the old familiar places..
This is amazing:
http://bit.ly/dfhoop
Here's the gist: A woman falls asleep a plane. It lands. She doesn't wake up. The crew locks the doors with table and seat in the full upright position and the slumbering passenger still belted in. She wakes up. Checks the time on her phone, but doesn't call for help. Help comes 4 hours later. Having safely de-planed, she uses her phone to call...a lawyer.
Most people would tell it this way: "Honey, the CRAZIEST thing happened to me after my flight to Philly! I must have been SO tired from my trip to Detroit that I slept though the landing. Can you believe it? Uh Huh. Right through. Then get this. They LOCKED me inside! I know...right? I'm like totally freaked out until they finally let me out. Isn't that hysterical? My God I am like sooo embarrassed!"
Now granted, we would hope that the airline would be a lot more vigilant than to let its passengers sleep one off after landing. This points out a serious security flaw that needs to be fixed. But how exactly did Sleeping Beauty suffer from this, aside from the pubic flogging she is now getting?
She probably would have sued if they woke her up too.
America. What a country.
http://bit.ly/dfhoop
Here's the gist: A woman falls asleep a plane. It lands. She doesn't wake up. The crew locks the doors with table and seat in the full upright position and the slumbering passenger still belted in. She wakes up. Checks the time on her phone, but doesn't call for help. Help comes 4 hours later. Having safely de-planed, she uses her phone to call...a lawyer.
Most people would tell it this way: "Honey, the CRAZIEST thing happened to me after my flight to Philly! I must have been SO tired from my trip to Detroit that I slept though the landing. Can you believe it? Uh Huh. Right through. Then get this. They LOCKED me inside! I know...right? I'm like totally freaked out until they finally let me out. Isn't that hysterical? My God I am like sooo embarrassed!"
Now granted, we would hope that the airline would be a lot more vigilant than to let its passengers sleep one off after landing. This points out a serious security flaw that needs to be fixed. But how exactly did Sleeping Beauty suffer from this, aside from the pubic flogging she is now getting?
She probably would have sued if they woke her up too.
America. What a country.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Space
The shuttle Atlantis returned back to earth this morning. Didn't know it was gone? You probably aren't alone.
I'm of a generation that used to get excited about "space shots" as we called them then. Teachers took time out of class as the A/V Club kids wheeled in bulky black and white TV sets and futzed with rabbit ears to get a decent picture.
T-minus 1 minute...t-minus 30...all systems go...5, 4, 3, 2, 1..Liftoff! We all held our breaths, exhaling only as the rocket arched to a speck and beyond the camera range.
Today, a launch is a footnote, probably not even on the front page for those who still read newspapers; The landing, a few seconds on TV for those who still take their news the old fashioned way, at the dinner hour, from Katie, Brian or Diane.
This is the last flight for Atlantis with only two shuttle missions more planned. The date of the next American manned launch after that? No one can say. After November, the only operational manned space vehicles will launch from a Cosmodrome, not a Cape and return not with a chute and a splashdown or with a graceful glide, but with a thud, somewhere on the Russian Steppes.
The space race is over and somehow, we've lost.
I'm of a generation that used to get excited about "space shots" as we called them then. Teachers took time out of class as the A/V Club kids wheeled in bulky black and white TV sets and futzed with rabbit ears to get a decent picture.
T-minus 1 minute...t-minus 30...all systems go...5, 4, 3, 2, 1..Liftoff! We all held our breaths, exhaling only as the rocket arched to a speck and beyond the camera range.
Today, a launch is a footnote, probably not even on the front page for those who still read newspapers; The landing, a few seconds on TV for those who still take their news the old fashioned way, at the dinner hour, from Katie, Brian or Diane.
This is the last flight for Atlantis with only two shuttle missions more planned. The date of the next American manned launch after that? No one can say. After November, the only operational manned space vehicles will launch from a Cosmodrome, not a Cape and return not with a chute and a splashdown or with a graceful glide, but with a thud, somewhere on the Russian Steppes.
The space race is over and somehow, we've lost.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
First Post
It is a beautiful sunny afternoon into early evening in Erdenhiem, Pennsylvania. What better time to start a blog? I'll be sharing my ideas and thoughts from here, hoping to enlighten and perhaps even entertain a bit. So off we go into the blogosphere...
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