A Google A Day

Tom and Bob were cousins from Virginia who served at the Battle of Gettysburg in the 36th Infantry and fought bravely in the cavalry. Yet they were thrown in prison not for a crime, but because of who they were. In what prison did they land?

Google Game Answer:
How to find the answer: Search [Civil War cousins +Tom +Bob soldiers 36th Infantry] to find that the cousins in question were Mary and Mollie Bell from Virginia, who served in both the cavalry and the 36th Infantry Division. Adding the plus sign in front of Tom's and Bob's names ensures that the Google search will include those words and will not include any synonyms. Search [Mollie Bell prison] to find that the cousins were held for two weeks in Castle Thunder, a notorious prison in Virginia.

According to all the orders of battle I found regarding Gettysburg, there was no 36th Infantry Division. There was a 36th Infantry Virginia Battalion, which is not a Division, but is in fact much smaller than a division. Google = fails

It's time to stop calling the economic downturn a recession. It is a depression.

I was thinking on unalienable responsibilities today.
1. Not interfere with another man's life.
2. Not interfere with another man's liberty, except in so far as that man is being punished for breaking the law.
3. Not interfere with another man's.... I cannot say right to happiness, for what if you compete with that man? Is lowing the price of your product interfering with his happiness?

What are unalienable responsibilities?

Does day care lead to a hypersocialization and a decline of the reliance on self? This in turn leads to a decline in the noble self-reliant individual (or even the noble selfism espoused by objectivists) and a rise in the destructively selfish individual. I suggest this hypothesis as I have seen a decline in the self reliance in recent generations and wonder if this is the result of bad upbringings that can be traced to day care.

Has anyone else seen an explosion of compromised AOL Accounts? These are in many cases accounts that have not been entered for months or years. I have seen nothing on tech news sites or on AOL itself, but this is a pattern that has been occurring for a month and more.

I would encourage people to delete their old AOL accounts, but it doesn't appear to be possible.

A judge sentenced children to jail in a prison whose owners gave him kick backs. The death penalty should be reserved for corrupt civil servants and people who murder with torture, but especially judges. The judge got 28 years, but it should be hanging.

Also for your review, a police officer who should be in jail. And his partner as well.

First episode of Torchwood: Miracle Day was on this evening. Spoilers ahoy!

First, was there was a reference to UNIT? I thought I heard one, but my wife and her sister were talking at each other when the show was on.

Second, when Jack was talking to Gwen about his wound not healing immediately, the 9th Doctor's theme was playing in the background. What was that about?

Third, what references to Bad Wolf did I miss? I feel confident that there must be some, if not now then in future episodes.

Fourth, where are Martha and Mickey? I understand I'll likely never get an answer to this, but its a question that should have an answer.

Fifth, we need an explanation for the Doctor not being on Earth during the 456, and not Gwen Cooper's throat cutting monologue.

Tony Morrison as the Commendatore. This would be from Don Giovanni. The Commendatore was killed early in the opera, but has returned as a statue at the invitation of the vile Giovanni himself. Giovanni is offered several opportunities to reform, but refuses. As a result, he is dragged to hell by the Commendatore and evil spirits.

The costuming and staging are unfortunate, but Morrison's voice is not. When I saw him at Ravinia (in a rather poorly acoustically designed room) a few years ago, he was imperiling the windows with his magnificent voice. In the version I saw, Morrison (a former left guard) picked up Giovanni like a ragdoll and carried him offstage.

I read a comment somewhere today that stated Freedom is not Free. It requires the lives of our men and women in uniform.

That poster failed to understand, well, anything.

Freedom is not free. That is true. The price of freedom though is the lives of citizens that would rather be free than safe.

Give the other 5 percent a bad name.

A mentally handicap boy (know by the police officer to be mentally handicap) was tazed and beaten by a cop. The biggest problem we have here is that they will not be allowed to sue the police force and the city for millions. There are caps placed on damages by the state, though the crimes committed by these police officers are heinous. The individual officers will also be protected, vile men they might be. Chances are they still employed by Dayton.

Court Papers

Corrupt police officers need to be dealt with like the vermin they are. We have allowed civil servants to become civil masters. It is necessary to take back the Republic.

I think I should rather like to be a colonist / pioneer rather than not. It would be pleasant to move to a new land, fill it with children, bust sod, and otherwise be the first to be somewhere new.

The right to defense of person and property is unalienable. Whether or not the majority votes it away, the individual may always defend himself, his family, and his property. The thief has surrendered his right to life and liberty by violating another man's rights.

Does this mean that the man serving the state when it attempts to remove rights to life, liberty and property also has surrendered his right to life and liberty?

Stories like this are becoming increasingly common. In this particular case, the Department of Education unlawfully detained a man in a patrol car, handcuffed, for six hours, along with his three children.

Why do we continue to allow this to happen?

I recall that Professor Frink made a comment about the Three Laws of Robotics. Something to the effect of so few laws, so many novels. Does anyone remember it? I'm having trouble finding a quote.

Police have special powers required for law enforcement. There should be special responsibilities as well. A police officer who is aware of another police officer committing a crime and does not inform should be charged with the same crime.