On this day:
1610
Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1835
HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1940
Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942
World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945
World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1952
President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
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Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede, Callisto, Io and Europa, although he is not able distinguish the last two until the following day.
1785
Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries travel from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in a gas balloon.
1835
HMS Beagle drops anchor off the Chonos Archipelago.
1920
The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
1940
Winter War: The Finnish 9th Division stops and completely destroys the overwhelming Soviet forces on the Raate-Suomussalmi road.
1942
World War II: The siege of the Bataan Peninsula begins.
1945
World War II: British General Bernard Montgomery holds a press conference in which he claims credit for victory in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948
Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of a supposed UFO.
1952
President Harry S. Truman announces that the United States has developed the hydrogen bomb.
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“Empires have no interest in operating within an international system; they aspire to be the international system.”--Kissinger
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The Maduro capture is looking like a more serious international position. Venezuela and South America are less vulnerable to American enemies, the yuan is less a threat, the hemisphere emphisis is new and places a burden upon NATO--the military arm of the people at risk, and may make opponents of former allies over the remaining hemisphere. China and Russia.
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The Maduro capture is looking like a more serious international position. Venezuela and South America are less vulnerable to American enemies, the yuan is less a threat, the hemisphere emphisis is new and places a burden upon NATO--the military arm of the people at risk, and may make opponents of former allies over the remaining hemisphere. China and Russia.
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The early hearings on Minnesota fraud sound as if the government is really an agent of organized crime.
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A lot of the fraud in Minnesota was done in crypto.
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The Price of Freedom
What is the price of freedom?
In all other governmental systems, you are forced to suffer other people's errors. Imagine living where the political philosophy believes that a person is born with an unescapable responsibility for the condition of total strangers, conditions that stretch back before either you or they were born. And imagine that the future depends, not only on your acceptance of this, but your death and the deaths of your children and family. Imagine being subject to whatever goofy notion catches on in university coffee houses: illiterates taking over oil facilities, or health facilities. Beliefs that you will work tirelessly for the well-being of your alcohol-consumed neighbor. The somber belief you should sacrifice your daughter's heart to the Sun God.
Freedom allows you to make your own decisions, to make your own life. Freedom also allows you to make your own mistakes, a circumstance that encourages the insinuation of people who offer to relieve you of those risks, with, by the way, no credentials at all.
The price of a Melania coin is just under 14 cents; people paid as much as $8.48 for each one less than a year ago.
But you can also buy 25 pristine, wrapped pennies for between 9 and 10 dollars.
That is the price of freedom.
What is the price of freedom?
In all other governmental systems, you are forced to suffer other people's errors. Imagine living where the political philosophy believes that a person is born with an unescapable responsibility for the condition of total strangers, conditions that stretch back before either you or they were born. And imagine that the future depends, not only on your acceptance of this, but your death and the deaths of your children and family. Imagine being subject to whatever goofy notion catches on in university coffee houses: illiterates taking over oil facilities, or health facilities. Beliefs that you will work tirelessly for the well-being of your alcohol-consumed neighbor. The somber belief you should sacrifice your daughter's heart to the Sun God.
Freedom allows you to make your own decisions, to make your own life. Freedom also allows you to make your own mistakes, a circumstance that encourages the insinuation of people who offer to relieve you of those risks, with, by the way, no credentials at all.
The price of a Melania coin is just under 14 cents; people paid as much as $8.48 for each one less than a year ago.
But you can also buy 25 pristine, wrapped pennies for between 9 and 10 dollars.
That is the price of freedom.
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