Castro, Chasing Monkeys, and the Queens Gowns

Ugg Boot

What would this world be without Castro? I've heard people say that his death will change a lot of things. Will Americans get to smoke Cuban cigars legally again? What will this do for the Cubans? Although I consider myself a history buff, I don't have enough information to make an educated decision about Castro. Don't look at me with that tone of voice. I hate politics! My definition of politics is....bullshit to make one man richer while making hundreds more poorer. It irritates me when someone tries to tell you what to think but doesn't want to hear your opinions. The same goes for religion, abortion, voting, practically any topic. The next time you go to the polls, just take a minute and see if you know and UNDERSTAND what you are voting for or against. In the past I've voted for or against something because my family was. If you don't have enough information to make an educated decision, don't make one at all and stay home. You have the right, and should use your right to vote, just make sure you understand your vote. How did I go from Castro to voting? I have no idea. On to better things....

* India tries to chase monkeys from trains??? What do you call a monkey on a train? a trained monkey. hahahahahaha.....it's okay. take a deep breath. All better now.

* Archaeologists excavating the 200-year-old graves of a slave family said Tuesday that they recovered several artifacts that could shed light on the life of a man dubbed "the black Paul Bunyan." Crazy crackas try to take everything from da black man.

* Queen Elizabeth's dresses go on display at Buckingham Palace. Any nickers in there? I said nickers! Long live the Queen.

* Diamonds are no longer a girl's best friend, according to a new U.S. study that found three of four women would prefer a new plasma TV to a diamond necklace. That makes perfect sense to me. Here's the test. Watch a necklace for 10 minutes then watch a plasma tv for 10 minutes. After the 20 minute test, don't you want to know how that old episode of Little House on the Prarie ends?

* Stephen King and John Irving plead for Harry Potter's fate. Please don't kill Harry.

* Elton John is sick of American bands' style.....and so am I. When Reginald Kenneth Dwight changed his name to Elton John, do you know what he changed his middle name to????????? Hercules. You go boy.

* Three Indian doctors caught on camera apparently agreeing to amputate the healthy limbs of beggars are to be questioned by the Indian Medical Council. Crazy.

* A team of surgeons in western Serbia earlier this week took out eight nails, a knife, a pen, a screw, a spoon, a clothes-peg and other, smaller objects, from a young man's stomach. He just needed a little iron and fiber in his diet.


Today in History:

1375 1st roller skating rink opens (London). Our feet will never be the same.
1610 - Henry Hudson sails into what it is now known as Hudson Bay, thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean. Dumbass.
1776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence. Take that King George
1790 - The first US Census is conducted.

1819 1st parachute jump in US. Notice it doesn't say 1st successfull parachute landing. Doh!!!
1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1860 1st game of mailbox baseball. (I made this one up. It's funny though. Laugh damnit!)
1861 First income tax is passed. Bastards
1870 - Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones

1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1909 Army Air Corps formed as Army takes 1st delivery from Wright Brothers
1914 Sherlock Holmes Adventure "His Last Bow" takes place
1916 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it.
1934 - Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany. We all know how that crap turned out.
1943 - PT-109, with future president of the United States Lieutenant John F. Kennedy commanding, sinks.

1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club. It won't be the last. Well, it will be for that drummer. Where are you Ringo?
1967 US's Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5
1979 Gilda Radner Live From New York opens on Broadway
1980 - A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
1985 Strong and sudden wind gusts cause a plane crash at the Dallas/Fort Worth Airport in Texas that kills 135 people. The rapid and unexpected formation of a supercell, an extremely violent form of thunderstorm, led to the tragedy.
1988 Raymond Acevedo is retired from singing group Menudo. Thank heavens. My Saturday morning cartoons will no longer be interrupted.

1991 Funk singer Rick James, arrested on sexual torture charges. I would think that just having sex with Rick James would constitute sexual torture. hehehe
1991 Hedy Lamaar is arrested for shoplifting in LA.

2005 - Air France Flight 358 skids off the runway at Toronto Pearson International Airport outside Toronto, Canada, destroying the plane but resulting in no loss of life.

Happy Birthday:
1754 Pierre Charles L'Enfant France, architect laid out Wash DC
1922 Carroll O'Connor NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
1924 - Carroll O'Connor, American actor (d. 2001) Hmmmm. Two good sources, one wrong date. Which one?
1926 Betsy Bloomingdale dept store mogul.
1932 - Peter O'Toole, Irish-born actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia)
1939 Edward Pattern Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips).
1939 - Wes Craven, American film director.
1942 Garth Hudson keyboardist (The Band)
1949 Bertalan Farkas 1st Hungarian space traveler (Soyuz 36)
1950 - Lance Ito, American judge
1959 - Victoria Jackson, American comedian
1960 Apollonia [Patricia Kotero], Santa Monica Ca, actress (Purple Rain)

1970 - Kevin Smith, American actor, director, and screenwriter

Deaths this day:
1100 - King William II of England
1589 - King Henry III of France (b. 1551)
1849 - Governor Muhammad Ali of Egypt (b. 1769) Wasn't he also a boxer?

1876 Wild Bill (James Butler) Hickok shot dead (from behind) by Jack McCall while
poker. Hickok held a pair of aces and a pair of eights, with all cards black, and this has since been called a "dead man's hand".
1922 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born inventor (b. 1847)
1923 - Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (b. 1865)
1934 Paul Von Hindenburg dies at 86, Hitler takes over presidency. Damn!!!
1972 Brian Cole rocker with the Association, dies of heroin OD at 28

Check this out.
* Entertainers by age upon death.
* Entertainers who committed suicide in their 20's.
* Entertainers who committed suicide in their 30's.