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April 14, 2006

Quote of the Week

"Bottom line: It is hard to see how the GOP is not like the Titanic, except it is aiming for the iceberg."
-Hugh Hewitt
Odd he should choose that analogy. John Wilkes Booth had a ticket for a performance at Ford's Theater on April 14th in 1865, while a scant 47 years later this same night,
"The Band Played NEARER MY GOD TO THEE
as the ship went down".

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 14, 2006 10:34 AM

Comments

If the steersman on the Titanic had aimed for the iceberg, most of those people who died would have lived. It was the attempted (and ineffective, due to bad steering control) turn to avoid a collision that ripped open 4 compartments.

Just so we're clear.

Posted by: mojo at April 14, 2006 10:48 AM

Yeah, that's one of the best ironies of the whole thing.

Of course it's based on the assumption that the rivets which held the plates together would not have popped from the hull flex on impact, which is not unfortunately a completely safe assumption.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 14, 2006 11:01 AM

I was going to pick that nit too, but I'll go with another one: Booth didn't have a ticket to the play. As a famous actor, he didn't need a ticket to get backstage.

Posted by: Tainted Bill at April 14, 2006 12:12 PM

AARRGHHH! They BOTH happened today ~ Hugh mentions Titanic (and I didn't pay a lick of attention whether it was/shoulda/coulda going forward, backward, sideways or upside down, at sea or on the radio) the same week ~ it was the conflux of coincidence with the Lincoln assasination TODAY, that's all, that's all, that's all.

And maybe I meant 'ticket' in the literal sense ~ like 'date with destiny', ya know? JEEZ LOO~EEZ. Go find another ship picture, already.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 14, 2006 12:37 PM

There, there Sis; don't worry, I'm sure Bush was at fault in both events.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 14, 2006 01:15 PM

Wonder how hard it would be to splice in Chimpy McBushitlerburtons face into Darth Vaders in Tie-Tanic.....hhhmmmmmmm.....

Posted by: Crusader at April 14, 2006 02:37 PM

Posted by: Tainted Bill at April 14, 2006 06:56 PM