Sunday, August 30, 2009

08.30.92 week in revue


Clinton was looking pretty smug holding the White House calling card. Gore is suited up right behind. Bush One seems to be having a headache of sorts while South African's social matrix and long history of oppression is a key element to unrest and senseless violence.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

08.23.92 week in revue


Hurricane Andrew was about the only real news for the week. Some homesteaders exercised their right to bare arms to keep looters away. Homestead Air Force Base was left with a runway and that was about it. It was rebuilt and today is an Air Force Reserve Base. Pentagon and The White House confirmed the airlift of food to famine-stricken Somalia this same week.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

08.16.92 week in revue


The Queen of England was not pleased with the manor of commoner Sarah Ferguson and her split with Prince Andrew. I think my graphics make this clear. Yeltsin was back in the news again with $60 vouchers for Russia’s 150 million people in a “bold” effort to boost the economy. Reminds me of the recent stimulus most of us received this past spring. I had to hire an account to handle the extra $13. Bush looks overly optimistic as well.

Sunday, August 9, 2009

08.09.92 week in revue


Two giants in the news this week and one is not Clinton’s head. Howard Hughes H-4 “Hercules” was transported from San Diego to Oregon It remains the largest aircraft ever built with a wingspan longer than a football field. That is more than a city block. Her next door neighbor while in San Diego was the former luxury liner, the Queen Mary, which, ironically brings us to the QE2 voyage to the states. Retired from active Cunard service in 2008, the summer of 2009 anticipated her sailing for South Africa to become a floating hotel as part of a Dubai World project.

Movie buffs will recognize the 1959 Vincent Price sci-fi movie title, “The Tingler.” One of the William Castle produced features with the obligatory fright warning before the movie began. Here though, it takes on a whole new meaning.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

08.02.92 week in revue


The big man rules the roost. Jay Leno, that is. Arsenio Hall tried to slice into the late night ratings but fell far short. Just goes to prove goods looks aren’t everything. Having a much longer reign than Arsenio, Mobutu ultimately died in exile three years later. A NASA shuttle mission made the news as well as.