Bush has officially begun his retirement

Now that the President has told his generals to take all the time in the world to decide what needs to be done in Iraq and will not reduce the troop levels after August, why don't we just let him go back to Texas and let Dick continue to do the rest of his heavy lifting until January.

Here is your Today in History -

April 11, 1814 -
Able was I ere I saw Elba. Napoleon tries a forced retirement, for the first time, as Emperor of France. Retirement on a small island in the Mediterranean off the coast of Italy, doesn't suit him and he comes back for his metric Hundred Day campaign (see March 20).




April 11, 1890 -
If I had a million dollars, well I'd buy you John Merrick's remains, oh all of them crazy elephant bones. Joseph "John" Merrick, the Elephant Man dies at the Royal London Hospital at the age of 27.



April 11, 1905 -
A simple patent clerk, Albert Einstein, known mostly for looking at the town clock or passing trains, produces a not so simple paper discussing the Theory of Relativity which among other things postulates that E = MC2 (yeah, yeah I'm no Einstein, I can't make 2 squared). This astonished the world because previously E had always equally the fifth letter of the alphabet.



April 11 1979 -
Kampala, the capital of Uganda, falls to the Tanzanians and dictator Idi Amin is overthrown. Amin, an occasional cannibal who killed perhaps 300,000 during his reign, had made the mistake of invading Tanzania - this is the mistake most occasional cannibals make.



Apr 11 1996 -
Jessica Dubroff, a 7-year-old pilot hoping to become the youngest American ever to fly coast-to-coast, is killed along with her father and flight instructor when their single-engine plane crashes on takeoff in Cheyenne, WY. Now I don't want to say anything negative here but I barely let my seven year old who thinks she's in charge get the milk out of the refrigerator.



And so it goes