More awesome than you thought

2013, wasn't that great.  Obamacare wasn't what we needed all this time and  the NSA took over.  Two crappy consolescame out, and the old ones do much more than these ones (one wil send videos of you at your most intimate and private moments to the aforementioned NSA and punish you if you try to keep it from doing so.

Amid the bad movies, the media controversies that didn't last, and still being in a recession and war, it was a craptacular year, wasn't it?

The year was different for everybody, so I'll let you be the ultimate judge, but before deciding, know that all these happened as well:

*A child born with HIV, no longer needs medication and shows no signs of the virus.  the child is 2/12 in 2013.  Although the scientists responsible don't want to use the word 'cure', this is a medical breakthrough nonetheless

Violence in Iraq has increase with at least 7 thousand casualties

Google purchase Boston Dynamics, a DARPA contractor, and according to CNN Money has 'started the robotics revolution'

A working 3D printed ear from actual living cells was created

Embryonic cells were created with a 3D printer

Japan has created a working liver from blood and skin cells in hopes to solve the dwindling donor crisis worldwide

China's Chang'E 3 ship successfully landed on the moon

Since independence in 1944, the first incidence of a citzen being shot down by armed forces happened in Iceland.  The police apologized to the man's family.

A direct ancestor to the T- Rex, Lytrhonax Argestes, was discovered in Utah

The spacecraft Gaia was launched to thoroughly and accurately map the solar system

Scientists have planted false memories in mice (not sure how they could tell)

Good year or bad, let hope all these pay off  and don't end in disaster (or just worse).

Enjoy the new year

Good ol' Nazis

Today, no one likes Nazi to the point that you can't even show swastikas and pictures of Hitler have to be subtly added and only for brief periods of time.

Before we became so uptight about them that we couldn't technically admit they existed, they were everywhere until communists replaced them (and even then, cartoons or comics or even books would slip in a mention or a short mockery.

But America once had the opposite idea bout Nazis.  When the most famous patriotic superhero, Captain AMerica, was created, his covers sported him running up to Hitler and punching the fuhrer in the face.  This alone earned the creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby several death threats in the mail by American Nazis and Nazi sympathizers.

That is no joke or even myth; these people were not a weird and batshit minority.  This was normal and praised.  America had a strong Nazi sentiment to the point that comics about a man who burst through a wall like the Kool-Aid man later would and smacked the leader of a genocidal war in another continent made them fear for their lives and America felt this was normal.

Be assured the entire country changed it's mind after the attack on Pearl Harbor, but always remember: America once thought Hitler was A-OK.

Let's hope the New Year will bring in more tolerance.

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