Obama – One Year Later
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Guy Fawkes Day (GB)
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lanakila: Victory PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Brumin: Sweep HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Gladness follows in the wake of victory.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “He conquers twice, who restrains himself in victory.” – Anon
November 5, 2008: Barack Obama Wins the U.S. Presidency, becoming the first African-American, and the first person born in Hawai’i, to be elected president of the United States. So what has he accomplished during his first year in office? Does he still represent hope and change, or just disappointment over more of the same? More >
November 5, 430 BCE: The Peloponnesian War began between the Greek states of Sparta and Athens, depending upon when you want to start counting. The militaristic Spartans claimed the war was initiated to bring freedom to the Greeks. In truth, the war began not with a formal declaration, as historian Donald Kagan has written, but with a stealthy and deceitful raid in peacetime by a powerful state against a much smaller adversary. In fact, the fighting began after incessant prompting by a vocal but minor group within Sparta. 2,433 years later, the Iraqi war began. The militaristic American government claimed (one claim of many) that the war was initiated to bring freedom to the Iraqis. More >
