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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

The Road Goes On Forever....

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Do you know what angers me? All of these people that our President George Bush put into office resigning. Ungrateful little pond scum sucking, brown nosing, idiots. I just heard that the director of Homeland Security resigned. Buck up and take it like a man.



A former bodyguard of Princess Diana on Tuesday dismissed her claim that one of her lovers was "bumped off." Ken Wharfe said he believed there was no truth in Diana's suggestion that Barry Mannakee, a policeman assigned to protect her, was killed after their affair was discovered. Conspiracy? Could be.

Student Invents Glow-In-Dark Underwear. Speaking of underwear....

An unnamed Zimbabwean politician has been trying to win women's votes by handing out free lingerie. I'll take that, thank you.

Iranian police have seized 18 kilograms of opium after cutting open the stomachs of six camels, which are being increasingly used to carry narcotics from Afghanistan.

For doting parents: gold-plated umbilical cords. For people with more money than sense(cents).

Bisexual 'Alexander' Irks Some in Greece. Well, the people in Greece need to study their history. According to the history of Sex on the History Channel, what we consider bisexuality was basically expected in Greece in the time of Alexander. A group of Greek lawyers angry at the portrayal of Alexander the Great as a bisexual in the Hollywood movie "Alexander" suspended legal action Tuesday after conceding they had not watched the film. How do you sue someone for something you know nothing about? That's crazy!!!


Natalie Portman Bares It All!!!!! MEOW!!!

An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls. We've all been there.

China's first nationally televised show about sex will get participants talking freely but allow them to wear masks to avoid embarrassment. We've all been there too.

Last week, a train left the station at Aigle, in the French-speaking west of Switzerland, without its conductor and with its doors wide open, the Swiss railroad company confirmed Tuesday. Did I hear someone say lawsuit?

A gallstone the size of a golf ball — about 16 times the size of a normal one — has been removed from a 56-year-old man.


Do you shop at Wal-Mart? Check this out... The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, says its inventory of stock produced in China is expected to hit US$18 billion this year. It's time to spend my money somewhere else for Christmas. Buy your tree and decorations from an independent source this year.


Former teacher to use insanity plea against charges of sex with student. Yeah, right. Insane about sex.

Today in History:
1803 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo , officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).

1804 - The Jeffersonian Republican-controlled United States Senate begin an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase (he was charged with political bias but was acquitted by the Senate of all charges on March 1, 1805).

1866 - Work on the first underwater highway tunnel in the United States began on this day in Chicago, Illinois.

1872 - First ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Scotland.

1902 - American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan , is sentenced to 20 years hard labor.

1936 - In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed in a fire (it had been built for the 1851 Great Exhibition).

1940 - Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz are married in Greenwich, Connecticut.

1943 - World War II: Teheran Conference - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin establish an agreement concerning a planned June 1944 invasion of Europe codenamed Operation Overlord.

1954 - In Sylacauga, Alabama, an 8.5 pound sulfide meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a Mrs. Elizabeth Hodges in her living room after bouncing off her radio, giving her a bad bruise (this is the only unequivocally known case of a human being hit by a space rock).

1959 - Psycho production begins.

1982 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher receives a parcel bomb at 10 Downing Street.

1988 - Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for US$25.07 billion.

1989 - Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb .

1989 - Richard Mallory of Palm Harbor, Florida takes a ride with Aileen Wuornos before becoming the female serial killer's first victim.

1993 - US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.

BIRTHDAYS:
1466 - Andrea Doria, Italian naval leader (d. 1560)

1723 - William Livingston, revolutionary governor of New Jersey (d. 1790)

1810 - Oliver Winchester, developer of the Winchester rifle (d. 1880)

1835 - Mark Twain, writer (d. 1910)

1874 - Sir Winston Churchill , British political leader, writer (d. 1965)

1929 - Dick Clark, television host

1955 - Billy Idol, musician

1965 - Ben Stiller, actor, director, producer, writer (There's Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)

DEATHS:
1016 - King Ethelred the Unready

1718 - King Charles XII of Sweden

1900 - Oscar Wilde, writer (b. 1854)

1979 - Zeppo Marx, actor

1996 - Tiny Tim, musician

2001 - Robert Tools , first person to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart

IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD!!!!













Monday, November 29, 2004

Back To Work!!!

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Snow White Fired for Posing Nude!!!!! I always had a thing for Snow White.

A 32 year-old man robbed a hotel in the western Finnish town of Turku, got drunk, passed out in a taxi and was picked up by police. Dumb with a capital D!!!

Platinum Hello Kitty Sells for $102,000. The 4.1 cm (1.6 in.) tall figurine, dressed in a queen's outfit and studded with 250 diamonds, was produced to celebrate the 30th birthday of the famous white cat with no mouth. Crazy witha a capital C!!!

A British hotel chain is offering couples called Mary and Joseph a free night's stay over Christmas. What if they run out of room? No vacancy, no room in the inn.

The world's first known piece of printed pornography, described as the "quintessence of debauchery," is expected to reach up to 35,000 pounds ($65,040) when it is auctioned next month.

Imagine being denied a passport for, of all things, your teeth. It could happen, but not because they're crooked. Under new rules for visa photographs that began this summer, the State Department doesn't want to see them at all. Wow!!!

India, home to the world's second-largest HIV population, may have found a perfect cocktail for safe sex -- a free condom with every bottle of alcohol sold at liquor shops. And... Condoms make sex sooo much better. Right? Wrong.

College President, 61, Again a Freshman. Well, that's odd.

LAPD Officer Wounded In South LA Gunfight. Police said they were trying to break up a loud party, possibly an illegal rave, when suspected gang members fired on them. Officers immediately returned fire killing one person. When you go to a party, leave your gun at home. If you only feel safe at a party with a weapon, you shouldn't be there in the first place. Use your head people.


NBC Sports Chief Survives Plane Crash. Must Read.

French researchers reported Sunday that an AIDS vaccine designed to treat the disease, rather than prevent it, has scored an initial success by suppressing the virus for up to a year among a small group of patients who tried it. Keep your fingers crossed.

TODAY IN HISTORY:
1777 - San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.

1864 - Indian Wars: Sand Creek Massacre - Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 400 Cheyenne and Arapahoe noncombatants at Sand Creek, Colorado .

1872 - Indian Wars: Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.



1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time. Now if all of those Indian war idiots would have done something productive instead of just killing indiands, the world would be a better place.

1929 - US Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.

1942 - Coffee joins the list of items rationed in the United States.

1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

1948 - The children's television program Kukla, Fran and Ollie debuts. Who, who, and who?

1952 - Korean War: US president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. I Like Ike!!!

1954 - The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes. What a sad day.

1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 is launched with Enos the chimp aboard (the spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast of Puerto Rico).

1963 - US President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

1963 - A Douglas DC-8 carrying Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831 crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal.

1967 - Vietnam War: US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.

1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for microcomputer software) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time.

1981 - Off Santa Catalina Island, 43-year old actress Natalie Wood drowns during a boating accident.

1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 exploded over the Thai-Burmese border killing 155.

1992 - Dennis Byrd of the New York Jets is paralyzed by a neck injury during a football game against the Kansas City Chiefs.

1992 - Volkswagen executive Jose Ignacio Lopez resigned on this day under charges of industrial espionage from General Motors (GM), his former employer

HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
1803 - Christian Doppler, physicist († 1853) Ever hear of the Doppler radar?

1895 - Busby Berkeley, film director, choreographer († 1976)

1917 - Merle Travis , country music singer († 1983)

1941 - Dennis Doherty of The Mamas and the Papas

1949 - Garry Shandling, comedian, actor, writer, producer, director

1955 - Howie Mandel, actor

1958 - Michael Dempsey of The Cure

1968 - Jonathan Knight of New Kids on the Block

Deaths:
1314 - King Philippe IV of France

1530 - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, adviser to King Henry VIII of England

1979 - Zeppo Marx, actor, comedian (b. 1901)

1981 - Natalie Wood, actress

1986 - Cary Grant, actor

1998 - David "Butch" McDade of The Amazing Rhythm Aces



2001 - George Harrison, musician (The Beatles)

Wednesday, November 24, 2004

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

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I've learned a new expression that fits me: Being bad makes me good.
Don't you agree? If not, get the hell off of my site!

Town Raffles Rifles to Raise Money for School. I'm very surprised that this makes the news. The school I graduated from has had a rifle raffle every year for as long as I can remember. No winner has ever murdered anyone. The rifle is never on school property. You must be a certain age to win. What's the problem? Oh that's right. Guns are bad.

A Spanish army sergeant has been arrested for staging a make-believe attack in a Madrid bar using a plastic toy gun, Defense Minister Jose Bono said on Wednesday after dropping into the bar to apologize. Were working with a smart one here.

A German computer scientist has broken the world record in mental calculation, needing just 11.80 seconds to work out the 13th root of a 100-digit number. I bet he's a fun date.

The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium and help usher in 80 years of New York Yankee dominance over his former team, the Boston Red Sox, is going on the auction block. Who in their right mind would sell that? ME!!!!

A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense civilian workers in the war zone. That's one tough grandma.

A Nashua School District driving instructor is due to appear in Merrimack District Court Dec. 1 after being charged with drunk driving Monday. Back when I was a cop, I received a call in reference to a possible dwi. I get behind the maroon suburban and sure enough, the vehicle is swerving. I initiate the stop and speak to the young driver. That's when I notice the clipboard on the passengers lap. Turns out, the young driver had just started drivers education. I bet he had to work extra hard for his license. Louisiana state law doesn't require the Caution Student Driver stickers on the vehicles although most insurance companies require it.

Fan banned for racist abuse. Let's talk about racism. Every morning on the way to work I hear this commercial that goes like this. (obviously white people talking)"Did you have any luck renting the apartment yesterday? No. I told him the apartment was already spoken for. You wouldn't want him living beside you, he's a brother. A Brother???? You know, a black guy, you know what I mean? No David, I don't know what you mean. (enter obvious black voice)Imagine what one voice can do." I agree that racism is wrong. I respect every living being. Of course some idiots are excluded. It seems to me in my everyday life that the African American population are the racist ones. In the past year I've heard maybe two racist remarks towards African Americans. You can turn on the tv and hear two racist remarks towards the white man or cracka. Does this seem right? I don't think so. So next time you complain about racism, remember it's a two way street.

Cell phone batteries explode, causing recalls. For some a blessing, others a curse.

San Antonio police say they've arrested a Pentagon analyst who allegedly flew to the Alamo City to have sex with a 14-year-old girl. Ouch.

Today in history:
1639 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus (November 24 in the Julian calendar, or December 4 in the Gregorian calendar).

1642 - Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania).

1859 - British naturalist Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species, a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection (it immediately sold out its initial print run). Have any of you read this? Very interesting book. I know some of you say, I'm Christian I think Darwins theory is against Christianity. But unless you've read it, you can't say that. I'm a Christian and think Darwin has some very interesting thoughts. Check it out.

1904 - The first successful caterpillar track is made (it would later revolutionize construction vehicles and land warfare).

1922 - Popular author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver. This was his only crime?

1932 - In Washington, DC, the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab ) officially opens.

1944 - World War II: Bombing of Tokyo - The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital of Tokyo from the east and by land was made by 88 American aircraft.

1947 - Red Scare: After refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of Communist influence in the movie industry, the United States House of Representatives votes 346 to 17 to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10.

1951 - The Broadway play Gigi opens starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character (the play ran for six months and led to Hepburn's film debut in Roman Holiday).

1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: Alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is mortally shot by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television. Did you know that Lee Harvey Oswald and Kennedy were buried on the same day? It's true. Have ya'll heard of the Kennedy Lincoln connection? check this out.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1846.
JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ELECTED TO CONGRESS IN 1946.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1860.
JOHN F. KENNEDY WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT IN 1960.

THE NAME LINCOLN AND KENNEDY EACH CONTAIN SEVEN LETTERS.
BOTH WIVES LOST CHILDREN WHILE LIVING IN THE WHITE HOUSE.

BOTH WERE PARTICULARLY CONCERNED WITH CIVIL RIGHTS.
BOTH PRESIDENTS WERE SHOT ON FRIDAY.
BOTH WERE SHOT IN THE HEAD.

BOTH WERE ASSASSINATED BY SOUTHERNERS.
BOTH WERE SUCCEEDED BY SOUTHERNERS.
BOTH SUCCESSORS WERE NAMED JOHNSON.

ANDREW JOHNSON, WHO SUCCEEDED LINCOLN, WAS BORN IN 1808.
LYNDON JOHNSON, WHO SUCCEEDED KENNEDY, WAS BORN IN 1908.

JOHN WILKES BOOTH, REPORTEDLY ASSASSINATED LINCOLN.
LEE HARVEY OSWALD, REPORTEDLY ASSASSINATED KENNEDY.
BOTH ASSASSINS WERE KNOWN BY THREE NAMES.
BOTH NAMES CONTAINED FIFTEEN LETTERS.

BOOTH AND OSWALD WERE ASSASSINATED BEFORE THEIR TRIALS.

BOTH PRESIDENTS WERE FOREWARNED THROUGH DREAMS OF THEIR PLIGHT WITHIN A MONTH OF THEIR ASSASSINATIONS.

YEAR ELECTED
1840: WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON (DIED IN OFFICE)
1860: ABRAHAM LINCOLM (ASSASSINATED)
1880: JAMES A. GARFIELD (ASSASSINATED)
1900: WILLIAM MCKINLEY (ASSASSINATED)
1920: WARREN G. HARDING (DIED IN OFFCE)
1940: FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT (DIED IN OFFICE)
1960: JOHN F. KENNEDY (ASSASSINATED)
1980: RONALD REAGAN (SURVIVED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT)
2000: ?

1963 - Vietnam War: Newly sworn in US President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.

1969 - Apollo program: The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.

1971 - During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a man calling himself Dan Cooper (commonly remembered as D. B. Cooper) parachutes from the Northwest Orient Airlines plane he hijacked with US$200,000 in ransom money (he was never heard from again).

1976 - The Band gives its last public performance; Martin Scorsese is on hand to film it.

1978 David Letterman's first Tonight Show appearance.

1992 - In the People's Republic of China, a China Southern Airlines domestic flight crashes, killing all 141 people on-board.

1993 - In the United Kingdom, 11-year olds Robert Thompson and Jon Venables are convicted of the child murder of 2-year-old James Bulger of Liverpool (they were sentenced to "indefinite detention").

Birthdays:
1655 - King Charles XI of Sweden (d. 1697)

1784 - Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States (d. 1850)

1853 - Bat Masterson, gunslinger, policeman, sports reporter (d. 1921)

1859 - Cass Gilbert, architect, designer of U.S. Supreme Court Building (d. 1934)

1877 - Alben W. Barkley, Vice President of the United States (d. 1956)

1888 - Dale Carnegie, writer (d. 1955)

1941 - Pete Best, drummer. Was he pretty good? He was the best. dumb dumb dumb.

1946 - Ted Bundy, serial killer. Killer of Sugar Smacks, Lucky Charms, and Tony the Tiger.

1947 - Dwight Schultz, actor (The A-Team, Star Trek: The Next Generation)

1949 - Linda Tripp, figure in Lewinsky scandal

1957 - Denise Crosby, actress (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

Deaths:
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, assassination suspect

1985 - Big Joe Turner, blues singer (b. 1911)

1991 - Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen)




Tuesday, November 23, 2004

I Did It My Way

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Don't you just love Ozzy Osbourne? Well, I sure do. Check this out. Heavy metal rocker turned reality TV star Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon spoke of their distress Tuesday after a burglar stole valuable jewelry from their English country mansion. The thief, who was unsuccessfully tackled by Ozzy as he raided the house early Monday morning, made off with items including wedding rings, gem-encrusted watches, necklaces and a rare 24-carat sapphire, the couple and police said.

Sharon Osbourne called police at 4 a.m. Monday to tell them a burglar was in the house, Miller said, adding that he apparently used a ladder to get in through a first-floor window. Ozzy surprised the thief and chased him from the house, Miller said. Asked if he would tackle a burglar again he replied: "Is the Pope a Catholic?" One of the burglars wore a ski mask and used a ladder to climb into the second-floor room of the mansion where a "large amount of jewelry" was stolen. Both burglars apparently escaped in a van, and the man who jumped was probably injured by the fall, police said. "It was terrifying, I was looking to see if he had a knife." Perhaps Osbourne was recalling the 2000 incident in which a psychotic man broke into George Harrison's countryside home and stabbed the former Beatle, nearly killing him. OZZY FOUGHT THE GUY!!!!! TAKE THAT YOU BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!

A California-based pornographer says it has sued Google, alleging that its leading Internet search engines are illegally allowing people to view hijacked versions of its nude photos and to access its Web site with stolen passwords. Oh stop your whining.

A veteran criminal received the longest prison sentence of his career Monday, after being caught because of the dandruff he had left behind at the scene of an armed robbery. He should have used Selson Blue.




A woman called police to report that her dealer sold her bad drugs. The woman made the call about 4:30 p.m. Friday from a coin-operated laundry and told police a drug dealer sold her crack cocaine that was possible fake. Hey lady.... YOU ARE AN IDIOT!!!!

Nearly 64 percent of Japanese women in their 20s and 30s participating in a survey said they've been groped on trains, subways or at transit stations in Tokyo. 79.3% of them said they enjoyed it and didn't want it to stop.

A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $28,000 on eBay. Did you hear about my new items on ebay??? Grilled cheese sandwiches with Buddy Christ on them. They're just in time for Christmas, which is fitting in itself. Buy three get a glass of 10 year old milk and a knife to cut it with.




For almost 70 years, Lloyd 0stendorf was a man obsessed by images of Abraham Lincoln. He would track down everything from rare photos to strands of the 16th U.S. president's hair and even a piece of the bloody coat he was killed in. Now the fruits of his obsession are up for sale. This guy needs a heaping helping of Jesus, fast.

A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark. Dolphins are reported to be the smartest animal only second to humans. They taste good too. Why do humans always think they are so smart? The ability to speak makes no one smart. Take Jessica Simpson for example.

Italians love their mobile phones and often carry out love affairs over them -- but they must beware, flirting with text messages can carry a fine. Looks like somebody is a little bit uptight.

Santa chains himself to Buckingham Palace over fathers rights.

A batch of Elvis Presley's earliest RCA recordings from nearly 50 years ago failed to meet the minimum asking price at auction on Monday, but lesser keepsakes from the King of Rock 'n' Roll fetched more than $6,000. I find that hard to believe.




'Security services foil 9/11 attack in UK'. It ain't over folks. We're in for a long ride. Damn the taliban.

Next time you make a printout from your color laser printer, shine an LED flashlight beam on it and examine it closely with a magnifying glass. You might be able to see the small, scattered yellow dots printer there that could be used to trace the document back to you. Isn't the technology age great?

Nearly Half of Adults with HIV Are Women. Did you know that?

A 13-year old Virginia Beach boy is being held at the Virginia Beach Detention Center after police say he abducted an exotic dancer last Tuesday night. We've all been there....



So what should I do?

Lithuanian man commits suicide with self-designed electric chair. We didn't want him on our planet anyway.

Someone sneaked into the production house at Orb Weaver Farm and punctured 237 wheels of cheese. The cheese, a blend of havarti and colby that made up nearly a year's production at the farm, can no longer be sold or eaten because of the contamination last week. Police are searching for the saboteurs. Mmmmmm cheese.




Have ya'll all received the email called BE GRATEFUL FOR THE BOUNTY THE LORD HAS GIVEN TO EACH OF OUR LIVES!!??? I've received it now going on 30 times. I think it's a new record for me.

History Today:
1499 - Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. In 1497 he invaded England claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. Did I mention that I'm Prince Charles' illegitimate son? I'm older than Prince William so I should be Kind after Charles....right?




1644 - Areopagitica by John Milton is published.

1869 - In Dumbarton, Scotland the clipper ship Cutty Sark is launched (it was one of the last clipper ships to be built, and the only one surviving to the present day).

1890 - King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become Queen.




1936 - The first edition of Life is published.

1955 - The Cocos Islands are transferred from United Kingdom to Australian control.

1958 - Have Gun, Will Travel debuts on radio.




1963 - The first episode of the sci-fi tv series Doctor Who debuts on the BBC

1979 - In Dublin, Ireland, Irish Republican Army member Thomas McMahon is sentenced to life in prison for the assassination of Lord Mountbatten

1980 - A series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills approximately 4,800 people

1981 - Iran-Contra scandal: Ronald Reagan signs the top secret National Security Decision Directive 17 (NSDD-17), giving the Central Intelligence Agency the authority to recruit and support Contra rebels in Nicaragua

1985 - Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 while en route from Athens to Cairo (when the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos stormed the hijacked jetliner but 60 people die in the raid).
Explain to me how the hijacker thinks he/she could escape? D. B. Cooper is the only person thought to have escaped capture for a hijacked plane. He, nor his body, were ever found following his jump from a commercial airliner. Dumb criminals.



I hear this is the perfect woman. Is that right?

1996 - An Ethiopian Boeing 767 is hijacked, then crashes after running out of fuel into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros killing 127. Idiot.

Birthdays:
912 - Otto I the Great, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 973)

1804 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States (d. 1869)

1860 - Billy the Kid, bandit (d. 1881)

1887 - Boris Karloff, actor (d. 1969)

1888 - Harpo Marx, comedian (d. 1964)

1935 - Vladislav Volkov, cosmonaut

1954 - Bruce Hornsby, musician

1956 - Steve Harvey, actor, comedian

Deaths:
1503 - Margaret of Burgundy, wife of Charles the Bold

1814 - Elbridge Gerry, Vice President of the United States of America

1890 - King William III of the Netherlands

1965 - Queen Elizabeth of Belgium

1992 - Roy Acuff, country music performer

TODAY IS Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qawl (Speech) - First day of the 14th month of the Bahá'í Calendar



Monday, November 22, 2004

But more, much more than this....

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Over the weekend, I saw the move "The Incredibles". I enjoyed it. Good movie. More importantly, I saw the trailer for Star Wars episode 3, the Revenge of the Sith. Oh my gosh!!! That looks incredible. Click here to get the trailer.

All three wives of a 67-year-old Iranian man took overdoses in an unsuccessful triple suicide attempt after the youngest wife bought an expensive pair of boots. Over a pair of boots. Women are so melodramatic. Get over it!!! The 67 year old man must have something special to have 3 wives. I need to know his trick. Hubba hubba!!!!!

A furious Saudi bride beat up a woman who used a mobile phone camera to photograph her at her wedding party. Too much drama. It's only a picture.

An elephant that stamped on his keeper at a Chinese zoo in the mating season and crushed him to death has been declared innocent because of mitigating circumstances.

A Thai house painter cut off the penises of two teenagers with a knife after he found out they had stolen 50,000 baht ($1,250) of his savings from an ATM machine. The painter was reported to have said "What a couple of dicks!!!" in his native language which would sound like this: "das e tooow e dicks"



A new video game allows players to simulate the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Sounds very disrespectful. I'll have to buy this you see. So who killed Kennedy? Lone gunman Oswald? Linden Johnson? Castro? the Mafia? The picture above is from the famous Zapruder film. It is of frame 312, John has been shot throught the back, the bullet coming out of his throat. Frame 313 shows the horrible head shot. Click here for more.

Two college students returned a lost purse to its owner, not knowing the handbag contained her life savings of $43,000. I would have given her purse back too. I would have delivered it in my brand new, $43,000 car.

When the cafe at former President Clinton's presidential library opens Monday, the public will finally have the chance to enjoy the chocolate chip cookies his wife didn't stay home to make.

A new crime has reared its stinky head in southeast Alabama: Potty tipping. Someone has been overturning portable toilets at four construction sites in the Dothan area, with one company reporting that four or five were flipped in a week. Several firms have complained. I assure you that potty tipping is not a new crime. Potty tipping has been around since the out-house days.

Former Poison singer Bret Michaels has asked fans to help him find his custom-made guitar, which was apparently stolen at the end of a concert last week. That reminds me. I have a guitar on ebay which was formerly owned by Bret Michaels. Just don't ask where I got it.



Vanilla Ice Reunited With Wallaroo, Goat. Yo Vanilla, Kick It One Time Boyyyyyyyyyyy!!!
Yeah, I still like Vanilla Ice.

Paul McCartney will headline the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 6 as the NFL goes mainstream after the controversy over last February's show. I hope I get to see his nipples. In my opinion, every performer at the super bowl should show their nipples. Actually, everyone everywhere should show their nipples.

A deer hunter who apparently intruded on private property killed five other hunters who had been staying in a nearby cabin and wounded three more during the opening weekend of deer season. Hunters are crazy. Nuts.

Awakened by a loud bang and the ring of their doorbell, an interracial couple peered out the front window of their Long Island home at 3 a.m. yesterday and saw a cross burning on the front lawn. The couple went outside and roasted marshmellows in the nude. It was reported that the black male was "hung". hahahahaha



Kirstie Alley flips us off. I love Kirstie. You Go Kirstie!!!

Thieves have made off with DaimlerChrysler Chief Executive Juergen Schrempp's armoured Mercedes limousine while the high-powered car was parked on a Stuttgart street.

World's official oldest man dies at 113.


TODAY IN HISTORY:


1718 - Off the coast of Virginia, English pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle when a British boarding party cornered and then shot and stabbed him more than 25 times.

1935 - The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).

1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - The situation for the German attackers of Stalingrad seems desperate during the Soviet counter-attack Operation Uranus and General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.

1963 - John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn-in as the 36th President of the United States.



1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war.

1975 - Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of dictator Francisco Franco.

1977 - British Airways inaugurates regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1986 - Mike Tyson knocks-out Trevor Berbick in a round 2 fight, becoming the youngest world heavyweight-boxing champion (He 20 years, 4 months old).

1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.

1989 - In west Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.

1990 - Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.


BIRTHDAYS:
1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687). La Salle Parish Louisiana named after him.

1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (d. 1967)

1890 - Charles de Gaulle, general, President of France (d. 1970)

1893 - Harley J. Earl, automobile designer, father of the Chevrolet Corvette (d. 1969)

1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, comedian, actor (d. 2004)

1950 - Steve Van Zandt, musician

1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, actress

1976 - Ville Valo lead singer of finnish rock band HIM

DEATHS:
1718 - Edward Teach ("Blackbeard"), pirate

1875 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President

1916 - Jack London, writer

1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States

1980 - Mae West, actress, writer

1997 - Michael Hutchence, singer/songwriter

2004 - Fred Hale Sr., Worlds oldest man. Hale, one of two children, was born on a farm in New Sharon, Maine, on December 1, 1890, before cars and airplanes and in the same year Sioux Indians were massacred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.