History Marches On

If we had to sum up 2016 in a single word, it would be… unprintable.…

…Today is Friday, November 11, 2016; Veteran's Day. On this day in 1839 the Virginia Military Institute was founded in Lexington, Virginia. It is the oldest military school in the United States. It was all male until 1997 when it was forced by the liberals under President Clinton and SCOTUS. SCOTUS ruled that they could not discriminate against women as a public school when VMI said it would go private Clinton's stooges said they would withdraw their ROTC program if they did. Once women were admitted the physical standards were quickly lowered so they could meet them, just like West Point.

…On this day in 1765 the British Parliament enacted the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America during the French and Indian War.…

On this day in 1825 the Erie Canal opened passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. …

Good Morning Morons. Today is Sunday, October 23, 2016.…

…On this day last year the big news was almost $5B had been allocated, almost all of it to heavy Democrat States, for setting up Obamacare programs and yet there was no record of how those funds were spent and only a small amount returned. …

…On this day in 1943 streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University. The use of this drug and vaccines had caused a constant decline in TB in the US and other advanced countries. However, since Obama started letting in every third world disease ridden parasite he could get here it is going back up again.

The average life expectancy for men was 47 years.
Fuel for cars was only sold in drug stores.
Only 14 per cent of the homes had a bathtub. …

It got me to thinking,and I said to myself:’self,what a great segue for a nostalgia post.’…

In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded… Neft Dashlari, far out in the Caspian Sea. … In Neft Dashlari's heyday, some 2,000 drilling platforms were spread in a 30-kilometer circle, joined by a network of bridge viaducts spanning 300 kilometers. Trucks thundered across the bridges and eight-story apartment blocks were built for the 5,000 workers who sometimes spent weeks on Neft Dashlari. The voyage back to the mainland could take anything between six and twelve hours, depending on the type of ship. The island had its own beverage factory, soccer pitch, library, bakery, laundry, 300-seat cinema, bathhouse, vegetable garden and even a tree-lined park for which the soil was brought from the mainland. … most of the rigs are now out of use or can't be reached because the bridges leading to them have collapsed. Of the 300 kilometers of roads, only 45 kilometers remain usable, and even they have fallen into disrepair. During a flood a few years ago, many apartments were submerged up to the second story…. In a few decades, rusting steel jutting out of the waves and old seacharts will be all that remain of this gigantic labyrinth in the sea.