Posted on 07/09/2016 9:43:56 AM PDT by poconopundit
| Every one experiences minor or major disasters in their life. But some people's incompetence and stupidity is so great that their lives appear to be a series of shipwrecks.
Hillary's legacy as Secretary of State is clearly one disaster after another: going to war against Syria, the TPP, the Iran deal, her gloating over the fall of Khadaffi in Libya only to be followed shortly thereafter by the Benghazi tragedy.
So I collected three shipwreck images in tribute to Hillary's legacy. The last shipwreck is an interesting one and I've elaborate on that one a bit... |
| The Swedish warship Vasa is one of the top engineering disasters of all time.
This 1628 ship, built in two years, was constructed to fight the Polish. But the engineers failed to account for the huge weight of the cannons on its deck, and so the ship capsized less than a mile from shore on her maiden voyage!
However, in this case, engineering folly turned into historical treasure.
Because the Vasa sunk in the silt of the Baltic Sea whose salinity is a low 1%, the Vasa was found remarkably preserved over three centuries when it was dug up out of sea in 1961.
Today, if you visit Stockholm, you can see the Vasa reconstructed from its actual wood. Preserving the ship was such a tremendous engineering achievement itself, so the Swedes kind of redeemed the folly of their ancestors :- )
I visited the Vasa museum several years ago and it's thrilling to see this actual 17th century ship which looks like something straight out of Treasure Island.
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Bill shakes hands with Nazarbayev. Kazakhstan ruler, lauded by Bill
Clinton for democratic and human rights gains, wins re-election -- with 98
percent of vote.
Note: this topic is from . Thanks poconopundit.
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