Lies my teachers told me

Not really sure where this belongs, but I wanted to get this off my chest for quite some time.  I want to talk about an outright lie that my teacher told me.  A lie that, while seemingly insignificant, is a part of a larger, more systematic lie.  The lie that my teacher told me was this:

"Napoleon Bonaparte shot the nose off the sphinx in Egypt because he was racist and didn't want people to see its black African features"

For years, I believe this to be true, but thanks to the internets, I found out that it was an out right lie.  Here is a picture of the Sphinx made in 1755:

Here it is from another angle:

Notice anything?  The nose is already gone by this time and it is many years before Napoleon even got there in 1789.

Thank you, President Regan, for Transformers.

 

 

 

Ronald Reagan was a controversial presidents in many ways.  You either love him or hate him, and this often depends on if you are a conservative or not.  Throughout his career, he led America though turbulent times and made many difficult choices.  The Iran Contra scandal, Grenada, and the whole thing with the airport unions is what we all remember.  However, there was one particular controversial policy that Reagan supported, which most of us may not remember but many of us do benefit from.

More Gun Control talk

Well, here we go again.  Another week, another shooting and more posturing from our politicians.  As everyone knows by now, there has been a rash of shootings in 2012.  There was the Oikos University shootings, the  Aurora shootings, the Sikh Temple shootings, and the now infamous Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.  Not to mention all the other shootings where only a few people people were killed (Millard South High School and University of Alabama).

I'm sure many have already pointed this out, but new gun control regulation will have little effect on gun crimes.  America, being the homeland of gun, cannot be disarmed.  It would be next to impossible to go door to door and take guns away from American citizens, and we all know that going door-to-door is the only way to really "control guns".  In addition, any government regulation seeking to limit the 2nd Amendment is bound to hurt only law abiding citizens and not criminals.

Since I live in California, we have the strictest gun control in the Union.  I heard someone say that we have over 10,000 gun laws in California, but I don't know if it is really that much.  I looking it up and only counted 20 some odd:

California Gun Laws - All 50 pages.  Still pretty damn convoluted.

It's interesting to note that a nunchaku is outlawed along with guns under Penal Code Sec. 12020(c)(3).  It's defined on page 6 as "an instrument consisting of two or more sticks, clubs, bars, or rods to be used as handles connected by a rope, cord, wire, or chain."  This is in the same section which covers sawed-off shot guns, which kinda makes carrying a pair of nunchucks just as bad as a hiding a sawed-off shot gun in your coat.

Nunchuck skills