She's In Love With Me and I Feel Fine

Ugg Boot

Where did the title of todays blog come from? Should I let the Sullivans guess? Sure, why not:> Check out one of the Sullivans blog here.

In the news:
California Cabbie finds $350,000 worth of diamonds in the back seat of his cab. The driver said keeping the loot never entered his mind, even though his wife loves diamonds and he dreams of opening a restaurant. This is how you can measure a man. I would've come to work this morning with a new bracelet, ankle bracelet, nose ring, earring, and cuff links.

A NASA spacecraft is halfway toward Mars where it is expected to collect more data on the Red Planet than all previous Martian explorations combined.

Bono says his music will last 100 years. Who's bono? What an ego... If his music is gonna last that long, he needs to die really soon.

The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109.<>

Japanese women are cheerier than men, people grow glummer as they age, and money can buy happiness -- up to a point. But it "Can't Buy Me Love".

A Chinese peasant woman who suffered a brain haemorrhage was left at the undertakers alive for cremation because her family could no longer afford hospital treatment. If beings from another planet ever communicate with Earthlings, I hope they don't contact this family. We'll be doomed for sure.

The sun has stopped shining in Rattenberg. But with the aid of a few mirrors, the winter darkness that grips this small town could soon be brightened up with pockets of sunshine.

Irked by a reporter who told him he seemed to be "off his game" at a Beijing public appearance, President Bush sought to make a hasty exit from a news conference but was thwarted by locked doors. Bush rocks. I'm here for you George.

On this day...

235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
496 St Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1783 Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar. He has a Fuzzy Navel.
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1848 Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded
1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1925 Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1933 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax. Doh!!!
1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 Supremes & Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
1977 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York)
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating
1980 Fire at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michaels replaces Dick Howser as Yankee's 25th manager
1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum. Thank God we now groom.
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1990 Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris

This is the week that was in matters musical...

1960, Patsy Cline waxes the classic country weeper "I Fall to Pieces" ... "Stay" by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs holds down the #1 slot on the Billboard Pop Chart ... the song is notable for being the shortest single in the rock era running a mere one minute and 37 seconds ... a number of covers later reach the chart including Jackson Browne's 1978 rendition...

1968, the queens of Detroit, The Supremes, perform at the Royal Variety Show in London while Queen Elizabeth looks on...

1972, Danny Whitten, guitarist in Crazy Horse, Neil Young's backup band, dies of a heroin overdose ... the talented axeman and songwriter provided a perfect foil for Young, trading licks with him on the extended guitar jams on Young's long-form rockers "Down by the River" and "Cowgirl in the Sand"... Whitten's OD will loom large in Young's dark album Tonight's The Night as well as in his song "Needle and the Damage Done"...

1974, John Lennon scores his only solo U.S. #1 single with "What Ever Gets You Through the Night"...

1976, Jerry Lee Lewis is busted for drunk driving after plunging his Rolls Royce into a ditch...

1979, Chuck Berry is released from the slammer following a stay on tax evasion charges...

1980, Don Henley of The Eagles is arrested after paramedics are called to treat a nude 16-year-old girl suffering from the effects of illicit drugs at his Los Angeles home ... he is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and possession of an array of drugs...

1987, adopting the guise of a country-rock band called The Dalton Brothers, U2 opens for themselves at an LA show...

1988, Stan Love, brother of the Beach Boys' Mike Love and former manager of the band, is sentenced to five years probation after being convicted of embezzling more than $300,000 from the singing surfers...

1989, during Queen's performance of their hit "Fat Bottomed Girls" at a Madison Square Garden show, the band is accompanied by semi-nude women riding bicycles...

1990, in the wake of revelations that they had lip-synced their way to fame, the faux pop duo Milli Vanilli is ordered to return their Grammy award... "singer" Fabrice Morvan unrepentantly claims, "We can sing as good as any other pop star in the Top Ten."...

1993, Nirvana tapes an MTV Unplugged session in one take ... the show is aired with warts and all one month later...

1994, David Crosby gets a glistening, fresh liver...

1995, The Ghost of Tom Joad, Bruce Springsteen's 13th album, is released ... the title refers to a character in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, about the 1930s Dust Bowl emigration...

1997, rapper Coolio and his appropriately named backup band 40 Thevz are arrested in Boblingen, Germany, on charges of assaulting a boutique clerk and ripping off $2,000 worth of apparel...

1998, discount chain Kmart launches it MusicFavorites.com website offering 100,000 songs for download ... despite its early entry into the electronic commerce arena, the site soon is eclipsed by competitors ... ska saxman Roland Alphonso of the pioneering Skatalites collapses in mid-performance during a show at the Key Club in West Hollywood and later dies ... Motley Crue fans have cause for celebration when the S'Crue, a store stuffed with Crue-related merch, opens on LA's trendy Melrose Boulevard...

1999, Doug Sahm--who led the The Sir Douglas Quintet in the 1960s and was fluent in many music forms including Texas blues, Tex-Mex, rock, Cajun, and Western Swing--dies in Taos, NM, at 58 ... late in his career the singer and guitarist was a member of the critically acclaimed Tex-Mex supergroup The Texas Tornados ... pop singer Jewel pulls the plug on her planned Anchorage, AK, New Year's Eve show citing concerns over possible Y2K problems ... word has it, however, that the cancellation is due to weak ticket sales ... only 1,000 of the 8,000 available seats have been sold ... country star Patty Loveless rides a train across Appalachia distributing 15 tons of Christmas gifts to poor families in Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia...

2003, Phil Spector is charged with the murder of Hollywood starlet Lana Clarkson...

2004, The New York Post reports that former Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth is training to become an emergency medical technician ... the story recounts how Roth, while riding with an ambulance crew, saved the life of a Bronx heart-attack victim using a defibrillator ... according to his tutor Linda Reissman, "You would never know you were dealing with a rock 'n' roll guy. His commitment really is touching. He wants to help people." ... The United States Postal Service settles with the group Postal Service following more than a year of legal wrangling over the band's name ... in a creative compromise the duo, comprised of Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard and electronic musician Jimmy Tamborello, agree to let the Postal Service use their music to promote the use of snail mail and refer to the USPS deal in Postal Service CDs ... the musicians also promise to perform at the Postmaster General's National Executive Conference in Washington ... Bill Wyman, the 68-year-old former Rolling Stones bassman, announces he will retire from touring with the Rhythm Kings, his current band...

I'm Cute she says, Not Sexy

Ugg Boot

Women are nuts. I've said it for years.

Thought for the day :

" If we were intended to talk more than we hear, we'd have two mouths and only one ear. "

On this day...

1307 William Tell shoots apple off his son's head
1421 Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1497 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope
1755 Worst quake Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report
1776 Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ
1787 1st Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1803 Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, the first woman's club in America
1820 US Navy Captain Nathaniel B Palmer discovers Antarctica
1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"
1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1883 Standard time zones established by railroads in US & Canada
1889 Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii
1894 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (NY World)
1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
1905 Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya
1911 Britain's 1st seaplane flies
1911 The opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance
1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey
1913 Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego)
1918 Latvia declares independence from Russia
1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the persecution of the Church in Mexico
1928 Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in NY in "Steamboat Willie"
1929 Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places
1932 "Flowers & Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1936 Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined
1940 George Matesky Mad Bomber's first time bomb
1943 1st US ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated
1949 Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, named NL's MVP
1951 "See it Now" premieres on TV
1954 Yanks trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada & Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen & Hunter as part of an 18 player deal
1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight
1958 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1960 Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration
1961 US Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed
1964 J Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
1966 US RC bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays
1967 British government devalues œ from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
1970 Russia lands self propelled rover on the Moon
1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak 58 games
1976 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship
1976 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
1980 "Heaven's Gate" premiers
1984 Devils shutout Rangers 6-0
1984 Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders
1985 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, & turned over to the Smithsonian Institution
1985 Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us"
1987 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station
1990 NFL NY Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0
1990 Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait
1991 France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti
1991 Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland

Now I Am Somebody

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Chapman: Lennon Slay Made Me Somebody. The man who blew away John Lennon nearly 25 years ago says he considered himself a "white knight" on an unstoppable mission the night he pumped five bullets into the back of the beloved Beatles star.
It was a predestined act, Mark David Chapman reveals, that would make the world remember him as a somebody, and not the pathetic loser he had been all his life.
Guess what, you discusting chunk of fat? You are a loser. You're a bigger loser than before you killed John. Everyone hates you. I hope you continue to be raped in prison daily. If I ever go to prison, you can plan on getting raped by me. I'm not into man to man contact so I'd find something to rape you with, maybe a mop. Not just the handle, but the whole mop. It saddens me that millions of people know your name. When you die, people will spit on your grave and I'd be one of them.
Oh you have too much rage, Crazy B. That's not it at all. What's the example we set here? Kill someone famous, become famous. Take the JFK assassination: Thank you Jack Ruby for doing the world a favor and offing Lee Oswald. Of course that's a paradox in itself. Kill someone who killed someone famous and you're famous too. It's all too much.
Loser Chapman, because of you, people will always think of John Lennon a bigger than life being and they'll think of you as pig snot. I think you should be pickin' cotton or something.
Here's an interesting thought. I think I'll start taking bets on this. If Loser Chapman were parolled from prison, how long do you think he would live? 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours? Place your bets now.

Good Times

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It was the best of times, It was the worst of times.

A song about people picking cotton was pulled from a middle school concert in suburban Detroit after a black parent complained that it glorifies slavery. Give me a break. Do you really believe that only blacks picked cotton? My grandparents picked their cotton. I remember being told stories about them picking cotton barefooted until their hands and feet bled. Should this song offend me? Oh I guess not. I'm white. Here's where racism crosses the line. 99% of the time when someone brings up anything racist, it's a black person. Racism is only racism when it's done with the intent to offend. Some people are too stoopid and sensitive. I like pickin' cotton songs and tomorrow, I'll dedicate my site to anything that comes to mind about pickin' cotton. Wait a cotton pickin' minute Crazy B, you can't do that. I'll tell you what. I'll do whatever I cotton pickin' want to because it's my cotton pickin' site. If this offends you, you can kiss my cotton pickin' arse, cotton pickers!!!!

We went to the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport Saturday. We spent way too much money but had a great time. We ate Indian food, from India. It was soooooo good. We rode a lot of rides. The tilt-a-whirl still rocks. We watched a pirate diving show. We went into the freakshow tent and "she" held a huge albino snake. I was terrified and kept my distance. I actually touched it once while it wasn't looking and sweated about a gallon. We went clothes shopping the rest of the evening. I enjoyed that more than usual. We watched part of Catwoman saturday night until I couldn't keep my eyes open.

<> Sunday. I mowed for about 6 hours getting ready for the pecan trees to arrive for planting. We went to Chili's and ate a wonderful meal. We went to the theater and watched "Derailed". What a good movie. I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Go see it.

Happy Birthday:
1842 Walter Williams claimed to be last survivor of Civil War (d 1959)
1896 Mamie Doud Eisenhower 1st lady
1930 Edward H White II San Antonio Texas, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4)
1933 Fred W Haise Jr Biloxi Miss, astronaut (Apollo 13 STS T-1, T-3, T-5)
1948 Prince Charles Britain, Prince of Wales
1956 Alec John Such rocker (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)

Thought of the day: " Democracy will continue as long as people have faith in the people they are going to elect next. " We're doomed!!!!

On this day...

<> 1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1732 1st US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
1792 Capt George Vancouver is 1st Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay
1832 1st streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12c rode on 4th Avenue between Prince & 14th Sts
1834 William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months
1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1881 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination
1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes
1888 USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1889 NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
1894 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez" (BG)
1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
1906 Roosevelt becomes 1st US President to visit a foreign country (Panama)
1910 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 10 singles in a game
1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President
1920 American Pro Football League's Chicago Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House
1935 FDR proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
1940 During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England
1943 Chicago Bear Sid Luckman passes for 7 touchdowns vs NY Giants (56-7)
1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
1960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
1972 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16)
1973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips
1975 Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara
1977 Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
1981 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth
1981 Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired & working again
1984 Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
1984 NASA launches NATO-3D
1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
1990 Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of the party
1991 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premiers on FOX TV

I Bet You Didn't Know This

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Archaeologists digging at the purported biblical home of Goliath have unearthed a shard of pottery bearing an inscription of the Philistine's name (Goliath), a find they claimed lends historical credence to the Bible's tale of David's battle with the giant.

Researchers from the University of Zurich have named a newly discovered species of lemur — one of the most primitive and endangered primates in the world — after the British comedian, John Cleese, in honor of his work with the animal.

Here's a smart one. Woman robs banks while on her cell phone.

In the era when dinosaurs ruled the Jurassic earth, a 13-foot oceanic crocodile with a short snout and a mouthful of deadly teeth hunted large creatures in the sea.

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Chuck Berry has sued three leading karaoke music distributors, claiming they sold sing-along versions of his most popular hits without paying royalties or obtaining licenses.

Former Beatle Paul McCartney is to broadcast live into space from a U.S. concert to two astronauts circling the globe.

Sweden - A mythical monster, believed by some to have lived for hundreds of years in the murky depths of a Swedish lake, is now fair game for hunters — if they can find it. Authorities have agreed to lift its endangered species protection.

A tooth believed to have been pulled from Napoleon's mouth was sold Thursday at auction in London for about $22,600. I've got a whole mouthful of teeth. That's something like $200,000. Where are my pliers???

Iowa woman finds dead turtle in coffee. Sure. It could happen.

What happened today?
537 St Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws)
1647 Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
1648 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
1714 A highway in the Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1778 Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
1811 Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
1860 1st Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1862 The opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1868 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state
1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony
1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
1921 President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
1922 Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (San Francisco)
1925 Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1928 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1928 WGL-AM in Fort Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1928 WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veterans Building
1933 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in the Great Plains
1934 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1939 Kate Smith 1st sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
1944 NY Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
1946 NY Knicks' 1st game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chicago Stags
1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (San Francisco)
1959 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1959 Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
1960 Largest NY Knick 49th St MSG crowd-18,499
1963 Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for the Beatles
1963 Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
1965 Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
1966 Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album
1968 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) become a republic
1968 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England
1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in the UK
1969 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by the FBI for drunkenness
1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years)
1977 Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1980 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
1982 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars
1982 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st commercial flight
1982 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland
1983 President Reagan became 1st US President to address Japan's legislature
1985 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1987 Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to the Supreme Court
1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science
1992 General Synod votes for Ordination of women in the UK


BIRTHDAYS:
1050 Henry IV Holy Roman emperor (1036-1106)
1636 Yen Jo-chu Chinese scholar of Ch'ing dynasty
1744 Abigail Smith Adams 2nd 1st lady
1748 Charles IV king of Spain (1788-1808)
1771 Ephraim McDowell surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
1821 Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky Russia, novelist (Crime & Punishment)
1836 Thomas Bailey Aldrich US, author/editor (Story of a Bad Boy)
1864 Alfred Hermann Fried Germany, pacifist (Nobel 1911)
1869 Victor Emmanuel III king of Italy (1900-46)/Ethiopia
1872 Frederick A Stock Julich, Germany, conductor (Theodore Thomas Orchestra)
1883 Ernest Ansermet Vevey Switzerland, conductor (Ruilles de Printemps)
1885 George S Patton general "Old Blood & Guts"
1896 Charles "Lucky" Luciano Sicily, NYC Mafia gangster
1898 Rene Clair director (I Married a Witch)
1899 Harold "Pie" Traynor baseball hall of fame 3rd baseman (Pirates)
1899 Pat O'Brien Milwaukee, actor (Knute Rockne, Angels with Dirty Faces)
19-- Anne-Marie Martin Toronto Canada, actress (Dori Doreau-Sledge Hammer)
19-- Mic Michaels rocker (Europe-The Final Countdown)
1900 Helena Konopacka Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928)
1900 Hugh Scott (Sen-R-PA), minority whip
1900 John Longden West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)
1901 Sam Spiegel producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
1904 Alger Hiss State Department official and spy
1909 Robert Ryan Chicago, actor (Billy Budd, Dirty Dozen, Longest Day)
1910 Franz Kemser Germany, 4 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1952)
1911 King Hussein of Jordan.
1911 Patric Knowles England, actor (Big Steal, Chisum)
1914 Howard Fast screenwriter (Rachel & the Stranger, Spartacus)
1914 Perry Bass
1915 William Proxmire (Sen-D-WI) (Golden Fleece Awards)
1918 Stubby Kaye NYC, actor (Guys & Dolls, Lil' Abner, Cat Ballou)
1922 Kurt Vonnegut Jr author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan)
1925 Jonathan Winters Dayton OH, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy)
1927 Mose Allison Mississippi, jazz artist (Black Country Suite)
1929 LaVern Baker Chicago, R&B vocalist (I Cried a Tear)
1934 Bibi Andersson Sweden, actress (Scenes From a Marriage)
1934 Paula Myers-Pope US, platform diver, 2 silver, 1 bronze (Oly 1952-60)
1936 Susan Kohner actress (Imitation of Life, Gene Krupa Story)
1937 Warner Wolf Wash DC, sportscaster (WABC-TV, WCBS-TV)
1938 John Reilly Chicago, actor (Sean-General Hospital, Dallas, Hamptons)
1938 Josef Odozil Czech, 1500m (Olympic-silver-1964)
1939 Claudia Boyarskikh USSR, 5K/10K cross country (Olympic-gold-1964)
1943 Jan Adamski Poland, International Chess Master (1976)
1944 Jesse Colin Young NY, rocker (The Youngbloods-Soul of a City Boy)
1945 Daniel Ortega Saavedra President of Nicaragua (1984- )
1945 Denise Alexander NYC, actress (General Hospital, Another World)
1951 Fuzzy Zoeller New Albany IN, PGA golfer (Masters 1981)
1953 Andy Partridge guitars/vocal (XTC-Oranges & Lemons)
1954 Gail Marquis WBL forward (NY Stars, Olympic-silver-1976)
1955 Jigme Singye Wangchuk king of Bhutan (1972- )
1956 Ian Craig Marsh rocker (Heaven 17-Electric Dreams)
1959 Vincent Irizarry Queens NY, actor (Guiding Light, Santa Barbara)
1960 Lisa Welch Semler Aberdeen MD, playmate (Sep, 1980)
1962 Demi Moore [Guynes], Roswell NM, actress (7th Sign, Blame it on Rio)
1963 Vinnie Testaverde NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buckineers)
1964 Philip McKeon Westbury NY, actor (Tommy-Alice, Return to Horror High)
1965 Brian Wilson NYC, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1968 Jo Kittsee Germany, rocker (Fuzzbox-Into Rescue)
1968 Wyatt Pauley Ecuador, rocker (Linear-I Never Felt This Way, Lies)
1970 Derry Brownson rock keyboardist (EMF-Unbelievable)
1970 Lee Parkin Starsky daughter of Ringo
1974 Leonardo DiCaprio LA, actor (Luke-Growing Pains)

Deaths:

1831 Nat Turner former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
1956 Victor Young orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 Rene Coty President of France, dies at 80
1973 Stringbean [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1974 Jane Ace comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1975 Marty May (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79
1984 Rev Martin Luther King Sr dies in Atlanta at 84
1986 Roger C Carmel actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
1987 L T Coggeshall medical scientist (Secretary of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86

It's Not Even 10 A.M. Yet

Ugg Boot

This is turning into a great day already. I usually don't complain but here goes. Yesterday I spent, for arguement sake, $200 (not the actual amount) on Pecan trees via credit card. I checked my online bank information this morning and noticed that they charged me $400 twice. I called them and they had doubled the amount of trees on my order. (The salesperson I spoke to yesterday even gave me a total for my records.) The second charge of $200 was an accident and they had credited my account in that amount. No problem there. I tell this guy how many trees I wanted to get a new total. Keep in mind that I have their pricing schedule in front of me via the internet. He gives me the total. With calculator in hand, I figure my total. I'm still overcharged and mention that I got a lower price according to their website. "Oh yeah, I should've paid more attention" he says. Finally, I think we have it straight.

I bought a kit car 5 months ago, titled in Kansas, and still haven't received a title from the Louisiana DMV yet. I speak to one woman at the Louisiana DMV and have to repeat my drivers license number 5 times because she's incompetent. Then I have to repeat the vin number over and over explaining that it's a vin number, not a license plate number. Then we get cut off. I call back. After submitting my paperwork 5 times, they say that the original title was incorrect. Keep in mind that this was several years ago and the car has been sold twice before me. I ask the Louisiana DMV woman why it took 5 months to figure this out. No good answer, just a run-around. I ask what I can do to sell my car and forget the whole thing. She says, there is nothing you can do with it in Louisiana until the title is fixed. I call Kansas DMV and explain my situation. Kansas seems to be super nice and saw the problem and is looking into correcting it.

And it's not even 10 a.m. yet.

Tomorrow is Friday. Rockin'!!!

Ugg Boot

Man Sues After Using Glue-Covered Toilet.

Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom.

Scientists Find Fossils in Sexual Union.

Police in Papua New Guinea have arrested 320 people for practicing sorcery and religious cults.

Leading Catholic publication Famiglia Cristiana stirred up a media storm in Italy Thursday with its first ever photograph of a naked woman, part of an advertisement for a bathroom ventilation system.

A Dutch dentist who chopped off his finger and then faked a car crash before claiming 1.8 million euros ($2.2 million) from insurers was given a suspended sentence and fined by a court Thursday.

Two Italian boys were recovering in hospital on Tuesday after a 70-year-old man shot them with his hunting rifle because he was frightened by their Halloween costumes.

Someone stole $75,000 worth of bull semen from a Frederick County farm, the sheriff's office says. Eric Fleming said the six small canisters of frozen semen taken from a liquid nitrogen tank represented four to five years of collection work. I would hate to have the job of collecting. I bet the person that does that job is always called Jack.

For $600,000, a 40- to 60-year-old man can buy a house in a trendy Denver neighborhood that comes complete with a bride.

"Young black kids didn't grow up wanting to be a pimp or a stripper like they do now," Spike Lee said of his youth in Brooklyn.

Does anyone read this?

Today in History
1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1679 Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
1820 Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence
1839 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
1899 Jim Jeffries retains heavyweight boxing title over Sailor Tom Sharkey
1900 1st national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 Colombia grants Panama independence
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1917 1st class mail now costs $0.03
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1931 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1935 George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1953 "Sacrifice fly" reactivated in baseball (1939)
1953 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1955 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands
1956 "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1973 Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1982 Detroit blocks 20 Cleveland Cavalier shots tying NBA regulation game record
1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for Presidency (D)
1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1986 John Lennon album, "Menlove Avenue" released
1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 Minnesota Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, lose to Seattle, 106-94
1991 NYC Marathon winners are Salvador Garcia (Mex) & Liz McColgan (Scot)
1992 Bill Clinton elected US President

Happy Birthday
1718 John Montague 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1793 Stephen Fuller Austin colonized Texas
1922 Charles Bronson Pennsylvania, actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen)
1933 Michael S Dukakis (D-Gov-MA) (1988 Presidentidential Candidate)
1953 Dennis Miller Pittsburgh PA, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1959 Dolph Lundgren actor (Rocky IV)

Deaths
1926 Annie Oakley dies