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(Part deux of July 4th ...celebration? ) On a brighter note, today is the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the British and North American Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, or more commonly known as The Cunard Line. Led by Samuel Cunard, his was intended to be a transatlantic steamship service between Liverpool, Halifax, and Boston(later New York), although all early steamers used sails as well as steam. The first ship was the Britannia, 207 ft. long, with a 420 horsepower engine, burning 38 tons of coal a day at a speed of 8.5 knots. Captain Henry Woodruff was in command on July 4th, 1840 when she set sail fr

SO, today is the 239th anniversary of the founding of this lil' old country, and..... am I REALLY proud to be an American? The more I think about it, the more my brain says: no. Think about it, we elected Bush TWICE, President Obama's recent actions haven't been much better, people are actually supporting Donald Trump's bullshit nonsense  and we MADE GAY MARRIAGE LEGAL. Yeah, I think I have quite a legitimate reason to have lost my patriotic spirit. BUT, don't think for one millisecond that I'm going to hop "across the pond" and join those ISIS fuckwit hethans. They can take the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop's sharpest samurai sword, and STICK IT

Today marks a full century since the sinking of the British passenger liner Lusitania, in an asinine but successful start by the British Admiralty of a chain of events that would bring America into World War I. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast. After a second, more violent explosion caused by coal dust from the damaged coal bunker, the 785-foot long Lusitania sank in 18 minutes, dragging 1198 people down with her. 761 people survived in the worst marine disaster of The Great War.