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The Doc Searls Weblog : Saturday, January 21, 2006

Led to several musings
Doc finds links to ancient Irish Warlord as ancestor

Well, not sure how far back we truely go, but sister seems to have traced us back to the Mayflower.
Good enough.

Dad just tried the National Geographic DNA ancestory test.
(The Genographic Project Y - DNA test)
60K years back
I said "bet it says 'Out of Africa'" ... yup, it does.
Then off to West Central Asia and on West to Iberian Pennisula.

NatGeo has some cool tools here:Atlas of the Human Journey - The Genographic Project

Patterns to the Black Sea / Noah's Flood diasporia.
Amazon.com: Noah's Flood : The New Scientific Discoveries About the Event that Changed History: Books
and
PBS - Scientific American Frontiers | Beneath the Sea | Noah's Flood

Other : among collection of Google Stuff I posted interesting piece on MuSoft and it's ongoing dotage.
Big Blue of the early 21st Century.

Other : we have Hillary's "Plantation" remark.
For which she got the following rebuke from the NYTimes Op/Ed pages
Crying Much Worse Than Wolf - New York Times:
"NEW YORK'S junior senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined quite a group of substance abusers the other day. In this bunch, no one is likely to even try kicking the habit.

The substance is history. The abuse is taking some of its most brutal and shameful chapters - slavery, the Holocaust, the massacre of American Indians - and exploiting them for whatever issue happens to land on the agenda.

Not that Mrs. Clinton invented the technique. She merely followed a well-worn path when she went to Harlem and likened the House of Representatives to a plantation, because, she said, its Republican leaders squelch dissident voices."

To which good ol Dick Morris weighs in with (and remember he has a book to sell):
Fears of Condi Spurred Hillary's Racial Remarks: "Sources close to New York civil rights leader Rev Al Sharpton tell me that Hillary used his annual Martin Luther King Day forum to liken the House Republican majority's conduct of the House of Representatives to a 'plantation' because she fears a Sharpton challenge in the 2008 Democratic Presidential Primary.

Hillary also fears that if Sharpton were to challenge her, it could weaken her in a possible contest against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in the fall, if Rice were to be the GOP nominee.

'She is afraid of Condi,' one of Sharpton's key people said."

After a day of working on taxes, I guess I'll agree with Hank Williams Jr.
"Are we ready for some Football?"

Yup