Friday, July 21, 2006

 
Khhhhhhaaaaannnnn!!!!!! Happy Birthday, Great Khhhhhhaaannnn!!!!!.......

Or: Beat him like a red-headed steppe-child?

Unless *I* missed it, the Corner missed Gk's 800th Happy Yurtday Bashu in Monglia on July 8, 2006. I'm somehow blogging via WifFi several *blocks* distant from the main lodge of the Breezy Point resort of Minnesota. I don't have my two(?)Harold Lamb books, but here's a link regarding reports of GK's hair(possibly red, with a ruddy complexion to boot) and eye color - er colour.
http://www.white-history.com/earlson/genghis.htm

I sent a link some time ago regarding the possibility that millions of people in Asia carry the ol' conqueror's genes and a recent press release
http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/world/MI24358/
mentions speculation that they may not be rare even in Caucasians today.

I won't bother googling recollections about some Hebrew prophecy regarding the birth of a red heffer, given that others have, no doubt, already done so, and I'm pretty sure that it was covered on the Corner as well in recent years.
Btw., if you're counting "amens" in your er "Amen Corner", put me down for one regarding your recent post regarding income inequality and pressures on the middle and lower "classes". And one an amen or a "What the $*#!(!? were they thinking of?" Or a "Sha stil!!!"
for BiBi's King David Hotel blunder. Granted, it doesn't strike me as indefensible as European and American expressions of "anti-Zionism" -attempts to disinvest in stocks linked to commerce with Israel -and cutting off ties with Israeli researchers etc. - but *sheeesh"!

And, as is often case here, my fingers barely paused while typing as I came up with the "red-headed steppe-child"-

Marveling At Myself,*
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*-as usual and mostly alone in this -stole "marveling at myself" from Bill Cosby.