Remember the Maine!
Feb. 15th, 2008 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetleyOn this date, in the perfidious environs of Havana harbor, the battleship Maine blew up. Somebody tell Shrub. We can still attack those dastardly Spaniards and teach them a lesson about international state-supported terrorism.*
(Ignore that forensic guy behind the curtain, who says the likely cause was a coal-dust explosion in the bunkers...)
Meanwhile, we got about an inch of snow on top of that ice I reported earlier. This turns surfaces into the ultimate winter death-trap. I have gimped around to spread salt on our driveway, hopefully killing the ancillary grass come spring.
*Thereby proving the wisdom of "Shoe", in which was said "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat sixth grade."
(Ignore that forensic guy behind the curtain, who says the likely cause was a coal-dust explosion in the bunkers...)
Meanwhile, we got about an inch of snow on top of that ice I reported earlier. This turns surfaces into the ultimate winter death-trap. I have gimped around to spread salt on our driveway, hopefully killing the ancillary grass come spring.
*Thereby proving the wisdom of "Shoe", in which was said "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat sixth grade."
