Happy Thanksgiving

Four score + 7 + 150

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Abraham Lincoln 
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863

Here we come, Espana.

I sure hope you can handle us.

Point here if you enjoy delightful things.

So, after years and years of riding the New York Subway (which is, without a doubt, the most superior subway in the world, as I so emphatically thought to myself last night while waiting an unbelievable 25 minutes for a DC Metro train at L'Enfant Plaza) I never noticed that at every station there is a black and white striped board which train conductors must point to whenever they pull into the station. It's a safety precaution, and a rather clever one at that. They are on camera at the time and they do it to show they are awake and alert.

Some awesome people took marvelous advantage of that fact, and bless them for doing so.