Saturday, May 21, 2005
Archive for May 21, 2005
TV news
Teaser on the news: “How long will the heat stick around?”
Answer from NewMexiKen: “Pretty much until September, you knuckleheads.”
So utterly stupid it’s funny
Well, I thought it was funny, but then I’m easily amused.
1 CommentInheriting the land
Momentum is building to transfer federal lands in New Mexico to the heirs of Spanish and Mexican land grants.
Descendants of families who received government grants of land before New Mexico was annexed to the United States say that’s the only way to correct injustices caused when their ancestors lost control of some of their properties.
While the prospect of fencing off forests and streams now open to the public riles many who aren’t land-grant heirs, Gov. Bill Richardson and the New Mexico Legislature are urging Congress to transfer lands from the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management to land-grant heirs.
If the land is to be returned to “rightful” parties, you might want to consult with the Pueblos.
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One-third
Two numbers begin and end this story.
• 5,633 — The number of students who began eighth grade in Denver Public Schools classrooms in the fall of 1999.
• 1,884 — The number of those students who graduated from a DPS high school five years later.
Read the story in the Rocky Mountain News.
The Indians should have had a law in 1630 — no Puritans
The Massachusetts Legislature on Thursday repealed a 330-year-old law that barred American Indians from entering Boston and has long irked area tribes — even though it hasn’t been enforced.
Both the House and the Senate voted to strike down the 1675 law passed during King Philip’s War between colonists and area Indians, and that has remained on the books ever since.
Quite a jock (and I mean the horse)
Can’t yet locate a photo of Afleet Alex stumbling, but this is a great shot from SI.com.
The myth of the female orgasm
Jesus’ General hits a home run. Go enjoy!
Still a bully?
A rather interesting column from Joseph Nocera: Google This: Is Microsoft Still a Bully? He begins:
Not long ago, I went to Washington for a dinner given by a friend. She wanted to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the end of the Microsoft antitrust trial, which she had covered for a news agency and I had covered for Fortune magazine.
In all, about 10 of us made it to the dinner, and it wasn’t long before we were regaling one another about the “good old days” of the trial - laughing at the way Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson used to roll his eyes at Microsoft’s witnesses, and recalling how the superlawyer David Boies, whose daily skewering of Microsoft gave the trial most of its entertainment value, would put straws in his jacket pocket when he went out drinking with us so he could keep track of how many drinks he had.
The President’s pants are on fire
President Bush’s meticulously stage-managed presentations on Social Security have slowly shifted into a new phase, in which White House aides find misinformed young people to share the stage with the president and assert that Social Security won’t be there at all when they retire.
And rather than correcting them on their misconception — government estimates, after all, say that after 2041 Social Security will still be able to pay at least three-quarters of currently promised benefits without any changes — Bush congratulates them on their perspicacity.
Darth Vader
“The Air Force announced this week that it must secure outer space to protect the nation from attacks so they want President Bush’s approval of Star Wars space weapons. In fact, right after they made that announcement, Dick Cheney whispered in the president’s ear, ‘I am your father.’”
Jay Leno
“She Got Game”
Katie Brownell, we assume, doesn’t get many you-throw-like-a-girl catcalls from opposing dugouts.
Brownell, 11, pitching for her Dodgers Little League team in Oakland, N.Y., had the ultimate putdown for the boys on the opposing Yankees team in an 11-0 victory last Saturday: 18 batters up, 18 down — and all 18 via strikeouts. In fact, she didn’t even go to a three-ball count.
“As far back as I can remember, I don’t ever recall hearing of a perfect game,” Eric Klotzbach, president of the Oakland-Alabama Little League, told The Daily News of Batavia.
And her performance was no fluke, either. She threw five innings of one-hit ball — with 14 of the 15 outs strikeouts — in the season opener, and she’s hitting .714 after three games.
“She had older brothers, and we were always outside,” said her mother, Denise Bischoff, “so the minute she could pick up a ball, she was [playing].”
With rumblings that this thing could go Hollywood, Tatum O’Neal is reportedly warming up in the bullpen.
Update: Sideline Chatter’s Dwight Perry informs NewMexiKen that Miss Brownell plays in the Oakfield, N.Y., little league, not Oakland, and that she is the only girl in the league.
When you gotta go, why not go here?
How much do you love Yosemite? Do you love it enough that you want it to be your final resting place?
If you’ve ever thought about being cremated and having your ashes spread over the National Park then here’s some news, you can.
Yosemite Blog tells us more.
Lucky Lindy Lands
Paris, May 21 — Lindbergh did it. Twenty minutes after 10 o’clock tonight suddenly and softly there slipped out of the darkness a gray-white airplane as 25,000 pairs of eyes strained toward it. At 10:24 the Spirit of St. Louis landed and lines of soldiers, ranks of policemen and stout steel fences went down before a mad rush as irresistible as the tides of ocean.
“Well, I made it,” smiled Lindbergh, as the little white monoplane came to a halt in the middle of the field and the first vanguard reached the plane. Lindbergh made a move to jump out. Twenty hands reached for him and lifted him out as if he were a baby. Several thousands in a minute were around the plane. Thousands more broke the barriers of iron, rails round the field, cheering wildly.
The Royal Road
From American Heritage, a modern tour of America’s oldest highway.
In 1598 Oñate blazed the Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, a trail that became the most used and most significant route of commerce and culture for 300 years. At its peak the Camino Real ran 1,800 miles from Mexico City north to Santa Fe. Spaniards used the trail to settle towns and villages all along the way, Franciscans used it to spread their gospel, troops from the United States and Mexico used it for waging battles and building forts, Indians used it to fight the swelling tide of foreigners, and traders used it for commerce.
(Reposted from NewMexiKen, May 21, 2004)
Summertime
Albuquerque made it to 90° Thursday, 93° Friday (a record for the date) and is looking for 97° today. Albloggerque claims The Evaporative Cooler As An Alter Of Manhood; personally I think they’re a pain in the behind, but I got mine running this morning and I’m grateful.
According to the National Weather Service, Albuquerque averages three days a year where the temperature reaches 100°, 22 where it reaches 95° or more, and 63 with a max of 90° or more. Three down, 60 to go.
