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Wednesday Lazy Linking

Monday Lazy Linking

65 years. 240,000 souls.

Here's Harry S. Truman, looking awfully proud of his damn self.

We won the race of discovery against the Germans….

Sixty-five years ago today:

Harry S. Truman, August 9, 1945.

Truman described Hiroshima, a port city of some 300,000 people, a military base, and then said, That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. About 85% of the people killed in Hiroshima were civilians — about 140,000 people, more than half of all the people living in the city. Meanwhile, on the same day that President Harry Truman recorded this message, at 11:02am, on August 9, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces, acting on Truman’s orders, dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, an industrial center and seaside resort town. About 240,000 people were killed, all told, by these two deliberate atomic bombings of civilian centers.

Here is a city street completely reduced to rubble, with fires smoldering in the background and smoke hanging in the air. A single Shinto gateway remains standing over the rubble.

Photo by Yosuke Yamahata

Jocelyn Pook (1997), “Oppenheimer”

What else is there to say on a day like today?

Having found the bomb, we have used it.

We have used it…

Here is a mushroom cloud, seen from the ground, towering into the sky over a bridge in Nagasaki.

… on Hiroshima, a military base…

We wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians.

Here's a survivor's drawing of a cistern near ground zero. A dozen dying people crowd together into it, desperate for water.

We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor…

We have used it … against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare …

We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war.

See also:

The audio clip above is from a recording of President Harry S. Truman’s radio report on the Potsdam conference, recorded by CBS on August 9, 1945 in the White House. The song linked to above is a recording of Oppenheimer (1997), by the British composer Jocelyn Pook. The voice that you hear at the beginning is Robert Oppenheimer, in an interview many years after the war, talking about his thoughts at the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic bomb in the history of the world, on July 16th, 1945.

Men in Office: Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Makes Rape Joke, MSM frames it as "sexist gaffe". Guest Post by Napalmnacey. Hoyden About Town (2010-08-08):

So, Tony Abbott is totally going after the women's vote! Check this out! The Australian: Tony trips at paid parental leave launch with !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;no' gaffe. On a day that the Coalition was devoting to winning the women's vote, Mr Abbott questioned whether when Julia Gillard says no, she really means…

The State is male in the political sense. So are States-men.

Re: Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. reason.com (2010-08-07):

Katherine Mangu-Ward | August 5, 2010 Some guy’s friend gets killed by a drunk driver and he decides to do something about it. He starts a service to keep drunks off the road by offering free rides home. It turns out that Quincy, Illinois, is well stocked with semi-responsible drunks,…

In which the city government in Quincy, Illinois solves the Free Rider problem.

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