Good morning.
We will have gradual clearing in the Whippet City today, with a high of twenty-seven. Sunrise on Saturday is 6:19 AM and sunset 5:53 PM. The moon is in its first quarter.
Friday’s poll results are in: there’s very little support (only 15.79%) for living in a giant hamster wheel.
Lego has a new, large model of a Star Wars sand crawler: Behold the New 3,296-piece Lego Star Wars Sandcrawler!
It looks truly impressive. The model’s due to hit stores in May.
On this day in 1983, Pres. Reagan again refers to the Soviets as an evil empire:
Speaking to a convention of the National Association of Evangelicals in Florida on this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan publicly refers to the Soviet Union as an evil empire for the second time in his career. He had first used the phrase in a 1982 speech at the British House of Commons. Some considered Reagan’s use of the Star Wars film-inspired terminology to be brilliant democratic rhetoric. Others, including many within the international diplomatic community, denounced it as irresponsible bombast.
He was right – they slaughtered millions and oppressed hundreds of millions more. Even the slightest of Soviet actions would have been violations of human rights in any civilized nation.
On this day in 1862, a soon-to-be-notable Wisconsin unit readies in Kenosha:
1862 – (Civil War) 1st Wisconsin Cavalry Mustered In
The 1st Wisconsin Cavalry mustered in at Camp Harvey, Kenosha, and left for for St. Louis, Missouri, a week later. It would go on to fight in the Battle of Chickamauga in 1863 and in the Atlanta Campaign the following year. It also helped capture Confederate President Jefferson Davis on May 10, 1865. The 1st Cavalry lost about half its men in three years: six officers and 67 enlisted men were killed in combat and seven officers and 321 enlisted men died from disease.