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This week’s theme has turned out to be bones. Old bones of people that depending on how you look at it are long gone or have just become part of the carbon cycle and are thus still with us in some ways. ‘Find of century’ for Egyptology

Egyptologists say they have identified the 3,000-year-old mummy of Hatshepsut, Egypt’s most powerful female ruler.

….Hatshepsut was an important 18th Dynasty ruler in the 15th Century BC, having usurped her stepson, Thutmosis III.

She was known for dressing like a man and wearing a false beard, and was more powerful than either of her more famous female successors, Nefertiti and Cleopatra.

Hatshepsut’s funerary temple is one of the most visited monuments around the pharaonic necropolis of the Valley of the Kings in Upper Egypt.

But after her death, her name was obliterated from the records in what is believed to have been her stepson’s revenge.

The big bad “internets” a combination of library and instant access user friendly 24 hour news channel and what has it gotten us, Public Knowledge of Current Affairs Little Changed by News and Information Revolutions What Americans Know: 1989-2007  

On average, today’s citizens are about as able to name their leaders, and are about as aware of major news events, as was the public nearly 20 years ago. The new survey includes nine questions that are either identical or roughly comparable to questions asked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 2007, somewhat fewer were able to name their governor, the vice president, and the president of Russia, but more respondents than in the earlier era gave correct answers to questions pertaining to national politics.

Statistically error taken into account we’ve remained about the same, but the actual numbers say we know a little less now then 1989. Fox News watchers are particularly ignorant. I still occasionally run into someone that thinks Iraq attacked us on 9-11 and they are always Fox watchers rather then on-line news readers or even ABC watchers. It’s one of those sad funny situations - how can someone make good decisions about the future of their country if they’re uninformed about the most basic facts.

Speaking of same, shame on Mr. Giuliani, Giuliani’s 9/11 Conspiracy Theory. And he thinks he’ll make a great president.