23 Jul 2011
For debt crisis lessons, look back 225 years

Those who do not learn from history ...

America's political leaders are paralyzed. The government is reeling from debt. Corrupt bankers foreclose on people's homes as a brutal recession sweeps the land.
We're talking, of course, about the great debt standoff of 1786: Shays' Rebellion.

(link) [CNN]

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Not Cool

From the National Weather Service:

Record daily highest minimum temperature set Friday...
The minimum temperature at Indianapolis on Friday July 22 2011 was only 79 degrees. This set a new record high minimum temperature for date. The previous record was 78 degrees... last reached in 1934.
Temperature records in Indianapolis began in 1871.

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