yep. I was more replying to the last sentence of the article where the author gets into how difficult it is to define “first”. The US is great because we took all the information we coud and attracted the best people we could and ran with it when others couldn’t do anything with it (for multiple reasons).

Are we just ignoring the Nazis got us our rocket program and rocket staff from the v2?

The biker did nothing wrong, but I can’t help but think riding a black bike with a black helmet, black gloves, black pants, and black boots is kinda dumb.  

cotd

Nacho cheese blood type? I wonder if there is an equivalent joke to President Obama that isn’t considered racist?

damn it. you beat me. 

Loud pipes save lives!! So whistles must save lots of lives. Wa Woooooooo!

You had a good dad. 

I had one. It was my first car, and I paid a staggering interest rate on it, but I loved it. Looking back I could have gotten a base BMW for a little more, but the CSVT had an edginess that was really hard for a 20year old to pass up. And it handled great too.

110% agree

Lucky 17 year old men that’s who, like the guys next to her.

Ford Contour SVT. It had the chassis work for AWD from the Jag, so it was always possible. Great little car in its day. 

Any interview where someone thinks Conan is a “moron even though he went to Harvard!” Then he proceeds to pull out a dictionary . . . are my favorite. 

Disagree. If Coral and Midway had fallen Japan would have had a ring from the Aleutians to Australia that they controlled. Hawaii would not have been far from that point. Once we got our industrial base motivated it was no contest, but early on it could have been a very different story.

The Japanese strategy revolved around making it painful for the US to the point we would just sue for peace and agree to terms. All Japan wanted was to be left alone to trade freely especially in rubber, oil, and silk. They took some of the Aleutians and tried to force us out of the Pacific with this goal. They knew…

They’re spendy

Note the guy in the crosswalk at 2:19 that just misses the biker. Bikes vs Pedestrians. Where’s my popcorn?

Are you trying to use reason to convince vegans? Silly boy.

Isn’t this the method Osama Bin Laden used to talk to his cronies? Except the opposite he had operational orders inside pron.

Wow. I’m 38. I have seen a lot of things in my day, and during this whole time this creep was on death row just sitting there waiting for death. Yikes.