To hell with Spain!
On this day in 1898, American forces raised the US flag over Puerto Rico, formally ending Spanish control over the island. You would think the Spanish learned their lesson.
We have a new controversy. Scientists at Cal Tech discovered a planetoid in the Kuiper Belt in July. Before they could make their findings know, a Spanish group of astronomers used the Cal Tech research posted on the internet and, using that information, located the planetoid and made the announcement.
Look, we found it, we paid for it, it's ours. Now how we're going to get our flag out there is a different question.
