stockmarket crash and the internet

Four score and forty years ago today our progenitors brought forth a terrific country wide money crash and later others began to conceive The Internet. The internet has finally opened the news and publishing of it to the common man.

October 29 – a ‘red-letter-day’ in Internet history!

The Stock Market Crash made us all aware that we are all common men and all equally prone to tragedy. We recall the great losses as many had gambled their life savings and lost it all.

The Great Crash, 80 years later

Now we are engaged in a great political war, testing whether that conservative idea of limited government, or any other so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
We are met on a great internet and ideological battle-field of that war. The freedoms we have were provided by those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

It was on this day in 1969 that a part of the first-ever message traveled between two computers that were connected through the ARPANET, the computer network that later took shape as the Internet!

Looking for a cigar that would pay tribute to the great Gettysburg Battle, The Great Stock market Crash, and the start of the internet - was quite a challenge. The cigar I have chosen is the Avo 80th Anniversary LE Belicoso.
The cigar (which is made by Davidoff) comes in a magnificent leather box with 3 shelves and itself is quite remarkable! The cigar is double banded and comes with a beautiful Ecuadoran Sungrown wrapper. Dominican binder and filler complete it and add significantly to the flavor profile. It is an elegant 6x52 Belicoso but not in the traditional belicoso torpedo sense. It has a flatter, shorter, and more linear taper.

I found my cigar to be easy to light and a wonderful burst of woody creamy smoke. There was a leather and mild peppery which soon took over after the light. The draw was very good. I would say that this is the type of cigar that is dense enough, but had an easy draw - thereby greatly enhancing the smoking experience. The different flavors were appreciated even though they tended to be mild. There was a bit of a nutty flavor as well.


"But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate...we can not consecrate...we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government: of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."