A NOT SO NICE DAY IN HISTORY

July 31
From the History Channel
1941 Goering orders Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution

On this day in 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, "to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."

My own thoughts.
Wow I don't think much needs to be said of this day. There can be good events associated with this day but overall this event just puts July 31st into the infamous days of history. Even the way the sentence is written is just so creepy. That the Nazis actually cared about the finacial aspects of the "final solution" really shows how methodically they went about this issue.

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Bobby Abreu Trade

Why in the world did the Yankees make this trade. I mean I know that people think the Yanks need a new bat but we need pitching more. When Cano and Matsui come back our lineup will be fine. The 19-6 debacle against the Rays shows where our problems are. I mean you score 6 runs a game you better win most games. We do not need more runs. I can just smell Georges hands on this one.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY JULY 29th

SPANISH ARMADA DEFEATED 1588
WOW lets hear it for the English

Presidential Signing Statements

So in the aftermath of Shrubs first veto in his entire presidency(and people thought he was all about the power of the executive:->) Many people are now starting to realize hey President Bush has put all these signing statements on practically each bill he has signed. These signing statements essentially say I am not going to follow this part of the law. Now Al Franken has been going on about this for a while. My question is why has no one else until this moment. These signing statements are clearly an attempt by this less than brilliant President's smart advisors to gain more power for the executive branch. Historically this simply spits in the face of the constitution. What to do. We need to show how the GOP leadership allowed this to happen. Until it became aware that this president had no idea what he was doing too many in congress were simply too willing to allow their rights to be taken away. Why I will have to think on that one.

State of Israel

The news from israel continues to depress me. This situation does not seem to be improving. Israel needs to protect itself but is what its doing now actually helping the defense of Israel. Israel seems to be making the situation which Hamas and Hezballah started worse. I just wish Israel would let the whole world just see how bad these two terrorist organizations are. Instead Israel allows these groups to claim that it is the aggresor. And of course Bush makes the situation worse by refusing to really do anything. Lets hope the situation works out.

I am back

Okay I lost my internet access for a while. I am back now. Plan to be blogging.