As reported online in the Drudge Report and in Wikipedia, USINFO does contain four Spanish translations of the Star Spangled Banner, but these date back to 1919. Our site links to the Library of Congress which has a copy of the sheet music from 1919 which shows that the translation was done at the behest of the “U.S. Bureau of Education” under the direction of a committee which included John Philip Sousa. Even President Bush, during his 1999 campaign, would sing along when the Anthem was sung in spanish during stops in Hispanic comunities. The version on the State Department website is not the newly released ” Nuestro Himno. ”

Surely there must be something terribly wrong with an organization (the U.S. Army) who orders one of their members into harms way and then, when that soldier is wounded seriously enough that he has to be discharged, the organization in question charges the soldier the dollar amount of the equipment that saved his life because it was damaged and he can’t return the item he was issued. And they wouldn’t continue to process his discharge until he paid up.

The military is spending Billions of dollars a day on this war and yet they want to collect $700 from someone who put his life on the line doing his duty for them.

Maybe thats the price for becoming “Battle Hardened.”

I’m sure President Bush was very diligent in his search for his pick to fill the vacancy on the High Court Bench.

He must have been in order to come up with a white male in his fifties.

Somewhere in the Nexus, Scotty is keeping watch over his beloved engineering space on the Enterprise.

He now has all the time he needs to make those engines do everything (and more) that they were designed to do.

Beam me up!, Scotty

James Doohan 1920 – 2005

A Russian Astrologist is suing NASA for $300Million because the recent Deep Impact Probe screwed up her Horoscope by altering the orbit of Comet Tempel 1. Of course, the filing was done BEFORE the collision.

Sam, the 14-year-old pedigreed Chinese crested recently won the Sonoma-Marin Fair contest for the third consecutive time, and it’s no surprise.