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I played a priest. I don't look upset. It was crazy when I was walking to the set and people not working on the film was nod and say Father. At first I was kind of shy about it but then I began to play around with it by crossing my chest. It was a ball. (11-29-06)

Inside the trailer. Woo Hoo! I need my hair done again. Can you tell that I'm wearing makeup? Yes, they trimmed my hair, removed my goatee, soul patch, and sideburns. (11-29-06)

Courtney had as hard a job as any of the actors/actresses. She has to perform everything Jessica Simpson has to so that everything can be set such as lighting, camera angles, etc. She's also responsible for knowing Jessicas dialogue for rehearsals with the other actors/actresses. Nothing but respect for her.

Blonde Ambition Update

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The past two days have been great. Where do I start. .....I got a part as a Priest in the movie "Blonde Ambition" starring Luke Wilson, Jessica Simpson, Andy Dick, and Karen McClain. Don't worry, no spoilers or secrets revealed here. I spent the most on-screen time with Matt Walker, John Cook, Ted ?, Luke Wilson and Jessica Simpson. I will be visible in this movie unless all of the priest scenes are cut. Let's hope not. I met some wonderful people such as Courtney (Jessica's stand in), Danny (production), Betsy (actress bartender), Tomi (actress waitress), Corey (production), and many,many more. Way too many to list. The most impressive part of the whole movie process is how polite and nice everyone is. When I worked in Missouri around music people such Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kenny Rogers, Lori Morgan, Billy Ray Cyrus, and more of the like, the experience wasn't so pleasant. Everyone was pissed to be there and hated you for being there with them. I was on set from 5:30 am until atleast 6:00 pm for two days, which is less time than any of the production team. Never did I hear a harmful syllable. Everything is please, thank you, excuse me, could you please,....... Truely professional. I still have a scene to do but it's next week, I believe. Woo Hoo!!!

Guess what? Photographs of any kind wore strictly forbidden on the set. I did get a couple off set of me for my loyal readers. Getting a camera even off set was nearly impossible. I've been up since 4:30 am for the last couple of days so now...............................

Blonde Ambition

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Check this out. I was on my way home from work today when my casting agency called and asked if I wanted to be an extra in another movie. How cool is that? What was my first question?
Who is in it? Jessica Simpson and Luke Wilson.
What was my second question? What is the scene? It's a New York city street scene in which I'll be a business type person. Bring suits and business attire. How cool is that? The movie is called Blonde Ambition and should be out in 2007.

Sunday I had to make a cabinet delivery in the Big Easy!!!! I spent the night in New Orleans in our New Orleans Reps place. She said I could use it anytime I wanted. Woo Hoo!!!! Rock and Roll!!! I'll have to upload my pictures. B

Today is Friday for Me

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White House Staffer Robbed, Beaten at Waikiki Nightclub...

NYPD installs watch towers in Harlem... hahahahahahahahaha

FREAK: Snow Reported In Central Florida...

FOUR WOMEN FOUND DEAD IN ATLANTIC CITY DITCH...

TEEN GOES NUCLEAR: Creates fusion in his Detroit-Area home...


In yet another setback for President George W. Bush, his father, former President George H.W. Bush, appeared in the Oval Office today and demanded that his son give back the keys to the White House at once.

The state of Florida was on high alert today as an electronic voting machine that was being tested in advance of next Tuesday's midterm election went berserk and killed nine in a terrifying rampage.

Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills is on the brink of a civil war that could ultimately involve other countries in the region, experts worried today.

But Seriously:
Recliner saves man who was shot in head . Thank you Lazy Boy.

Woman, 92, dies in shootout with police.

Blood tests debunk cat-puppy claim. Blahahahahaha Take that!!!

Beverage firm offers pea-flavored soda. Sounds good. A vegetable drink. blah

Two thieves on the run in Germany made light work for their pursuers when they tried to flee across a drained pond and got stuck so fast in mud they had to be helped out by police.


Today in History:
1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He makes a damn fine tea.

1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts

1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help

1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun. I wonder if he Walked Like an Egyptian?

1932 Pump patented that computes quantity & price delivered

1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY

1957 Mickey Mantle beats Ted Williams by 1 vote for MVP

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

1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in the UK

1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles

1968 - The Beatles release the double album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.

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

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 announces her resignation as British Prime Minister

2005 - Ted Koppel retires after hosting Nightline for over 26 years.


Happy Birthday:
1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (d. 1687)
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
1950 - Steve Van Zandt, American musician
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress


Deaths on this day:
1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate
1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (b. 1960)

You White Trashy Nigger Wop

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Which of these terms offends you the most? Why? Because we're taught that it's wrong. Bullshit!!!

Is Nigger a bad word? If this words offends you, you are a nigger. If the term white trash offends you, you're white trash. If the term wop offends you, you are a wop. Who cares!!!!! Stop wearing you stupid emotions on your sleeve. I'm in a bad mood. Can you tell? Guess what? I'm not gonna apologize for my "Freedom" of speech.

'Seinfeld' star Richards apologizes for racist outburst. So much for a free country. It sickens me that I can't say what I think in this, so called, free country. It makes me want to move to England. Mr. Richards, I am proud of you for standing up and voicing your opinion. I'm ashamed of you for apologizing because of some pussy can't handle the truth. If they would have shut their mouths and watched Mr. Richards act in the first place, that wouldn't have happened. You asked for it. And I believe you are what offends you.

Relatives of a missing boy's mother who killed herself after aggressive questioning by CNN's Nancy Grace sued the network and the talk-show host Tuesday, claiming Grace caused emotional distress that led to the suicide.

Kan. woman, 95, prepares for final exams. Talk about final exams.

Couple marry at monster trucks show. Talk about white trash.


Today in History:
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

1272 - Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.

1620 - Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact 10 days after arrival.

1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia

1783 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar . So,.....what did he have to drink?

1789 - North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.

1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.

1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered. "hmmm. yep. there it is"

1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times. What a smart to spend your time.

1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200. They should've looked in the lost and found.

1861 - American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.

1871 Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter

1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.

1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans"

1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the famous equation e=mc².

1920 - Bloody Sunday during the Anglo-Irish War

1927 - Columbine Mine Massacre: Striking coal miners were allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.

1934 - Ella Fitzgerald makes her singing debut at age 16 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York.

1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1942 - The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943, however).

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 - Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the "Piltdown Man" skull, held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax. Lies, all lies!!!

1959 Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

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

1974 - The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA killed 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this and subsequently acquitted.

1974 - George W. Bush is honourably discharged from the US Air Force Reserve.

1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped

1977 1st flight of the Concorde (London to New York)

1980 - A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.

1980 John & Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum. I'm not impressed at all. Put it back on.

1980 - Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe drilled into the Diamond crystal salt mine; water flowing down into the mine eroded the edges of the hole. The whirlpool created sucked the drilling platform, several barges, houses and trees thousands of feet, to the bottom of the dissolving salt deposit.

1980 - Who Shot JR? - The Dallas Episode "Who Done It?" aired on US television. It was one of the highest-rated episodes of a TV show ever aired.

1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks

1986 - Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1995 - Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. Now they all look the same. Thanks you lazy bastards.

2006 - Lebanese Christian minister Pierre Gemayel assassinated near Beirut. Wait, that's today.


Happy Birthday:
1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
1940 - Dr. John, American musician
1944 - Harold Ramis, American actor
1945 - Goldie Hawn, American actress
1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer
1966 - Troy Aikman, American football star
1976 - Dasha, Czech porn star

Deaths on this day:
1993 - Bill Bixby, American actor and director (b. 1934)
1995 - Peter Grant, British rock manager, actor (Led Zeppelin,Bad Company) (b. 1935)

Blah Blah Friday Blah

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1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins

1292 - (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scotland.

1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

1603 - English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason.

1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.

1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.

1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).

1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.

1941 - World War II: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan has plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable is ignored). Dumbasses.

1962 - President John F. Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C. region.

1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.

1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook".

1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS. Thanks George. Those of us who didn't get to see it the first time have missed out. I know, re-release it with new bonus scenes and deleted old ones.

2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated Governor of California.

2004 - Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation. Isn't K-Mart almost bankrupt?


Happy Birthday:
1925 - Rock Hudson, American actor (d. 1985)
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, Canadian singer. You know, the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director
1944 - Danny DeVito, American actor
1951 - Dean Paul Martin, American singer and actor (d. 1987) Son of Dean Martin

Deaths on this day:
2003 - Don Gibson, American singer (b. 1928)

Only One Week Until Thanksgiving????

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Today has been an odd day indeed.
1. *****OMITTED BECAUSE I'M A NICE GUY******
2. Today would've been my anniversary
3. My ex just called and in a very nice and polite tone said "Happy......Un.....Anniversary".
4. and to top it off, I have to go pick up a tuxedo because I'm gonna be in a friends wedding.
Talk about timing.


How does it sneak up on you so quick? That's crazy talk. I didn't get the memo that Thanksgiving was so close. I should've gotten the memo. I'm upset about that.


Today in History:
534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.

1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.

1676 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts

1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. Doh!!!

1776 - American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States). Yee hee!!!

1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver

1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.

1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces. Yowza!!!

1864 Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to the sea during Civil War

1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York. Interesting, don't you think?

1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube. This invention makes my guitar amps rock out. And my tv. and my microwave. and.........

1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo. Oh how times have changed. Wanna take a stroll with me throught the monkey house? We could even monkey around. Then we could go over to the stables for some horseplaying.

1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

1940 - Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. Stupid Nazis.

1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

1945 - Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.

1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.

1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

1965 1st public announcement about Walt Disney World

1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury

1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

1973 John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album

1974 John Lennon's #1 solo "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"

1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters. One of my favorite movies. The original release was a lot better than the "Directors Cut" that you get now. Stop changing our movies George and Steven.

1979 Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"

1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history. You have got to be kidding.

1984 John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"

1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz

1987 Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"

1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel

1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship. By the time they gave it to her, she was too old to enjoy it. Thanks America.

1996 - The $127.5 million Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.

2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first serving U.S. President to visit Vietnam.

2001 - The first Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States), is released in theatres in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada.

2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.

2006 Uk launch of the 21st james bond film, casino royale I'm There!!!!!!

Happy Birthday:
42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37)
1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
1962 - Josh Silver, American musician (Type O Negative) According to Wikipedia: He also is prone to chronic constipation. On the Symphony For The Devil video he shows off a giant turd in his toilet and picks it up in his bare hand.
I thought you'd like to know that.
1967 - Lisa Bonet, American actress

Deaths on this day:
1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702)
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
1806 - Moses Cleaveland, founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754) Who knew it was almost Moses, Ohio.
1950 - Bob Smith, American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879) I'd like to buy that guy a drink.
1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)

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1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick is published in the U.S. by Harper & Brothers, New York - after it was first published on October 18, 1851 by Richard Bentley, London.

1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.

1889 - Pioneer woman journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days.

1910 - Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first take-off from a ship in Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the light cruiser USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.

1922 - The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.

1967 - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd., The Monkees' fourth album, is released.

1969 - Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the surface of the Moon.

1970 - Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.

1971 - Mariner program: Mariner 9 reaches Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

1973 - In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.

1991 - In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. Hence the term, Going Postal.

1997 - 14-year-old Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers Kelly Ellard and Warren Glowatski.

2000 - Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.

2003 - Planetoid 90377 Sedna is discovered.

Happy Birthday:
1765 - Robert Fulton, American inventor (d. 1815)
1840 - Claude Monet, French painter (d. 1926)
1896 - Mamie Eisenhower, First Lady of the United States (d. 1979)
1908 - Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator and anti-communist (d. 1957)
1936 - Freddie Garrity, English singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (d. 2006)
1948 - Charles, Prince of Wales
1949 - James Young, American guitarist (Styx)

Deaths on this day:
1915 - Booker T. Washington, American inventor, educator, and author (b. 1856)

Yep, he's the only one.

Please Remember Peace Is How We Make It

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Where does that line come from? Hmmm?

IN THE NEWS:

A Chinese submarine stalked a U.S. aircraft carrier battle group in the Pacific last month and surfaced within firing range of its torpedoes and missiles before being detected.

NEW YORK A Burger King restaurant manager is being charged with shooting a teenage boy dead after the two argued and the boy spit in the manager's face.

Scientists announced Monday that they have developed a high-tech T-shirt that turns the strumming of an air guitar into music.

Absentee Florida ballot sent with precious stamp. A Florida voter may have unwittingly lost hundreds of thousands of dollars by using an extremely rare stamp to mail an absentee ballot. Doh!!!

Andy Griffith sues Andy Griffith???? Huh? The star of "The Andy Griffith Show," who portrayed the sheriff of the fictional town of Mayberry, has sued a Wisconsin man who unsuccessfully ran for the Grant County post after legally changing his name to Andrew Jackson Griffith. That makes more sense.

Dead N.C. candidate easily wins election.

Four urinals shaped like a woman's lips were sold on eBay Sunday for a total of 5,343 euros ($6,877) after their owner removed them from a public toilet in Vienna following protests that they were sexist.


Today in History:
1002 - English king Ethelred ordered killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre.

1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"

1841 - James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis.

1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts

1851 - The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become Seattle, Washington.

1865 PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport

1887 - Demonstrators demanding the release of William O'Brien from prison clash with police in central London on Bloody Sunday.

1895 1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii

1940 Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released

1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 . The legal drinking age is still 21 though. This makes sense. Did you know that in Europe, you can buy beer in public vending machines? No ID required. ......and we live in a FREE country.

1950 - General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in Caracas.

1956 - United States Supreme Court declared Alabama and Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1960 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage was still illegal in 31 US states out of 50.

1960 Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude Spain)

1965 - The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.

1969 - Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."

1970 - Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst natural disaster).

1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.

1974 - Nuclear activist Karen Silkwood is killed in a car crash while she is travelling to an interview with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Conspiracy? I think so.

1974 - Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his family in Amityville, New York (Amityville Horror)

1979 Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for President

1981 Ringo releases "Wrack My Brains"

1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport. Minutes after the fight was over, Kim collapsed into a coma, and was taken to a hospital. Emergency brain surgery was performed there to try to save him, but that effort proved to be futile, as Kim died 5 days after the bout on November 18. The week after, Sports Illustrated published a photo of the fight on its cover, under the heading Tragedy in The Ring.
Mancini went through a period of reflection, as he blamed himself for Kim's death. After friends helped him by telling him that it was just an accident, Mancini was able to go on with his career, but Kim's death would always haunt him. The bout's referee, Richard Greene, committed suicide in February of 1983, and so did Kim's mother, four months later. That's why I'm not a boxer. The suicide rate is way too high.

1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

1985 - The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.

1989 Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & Ou Est Le Soleil"

1990 - The World Wide Web first began. Thank you Al Gore.

1991 - Disney's animated film Beauty and the Beast is released in theatres


Happy Birthday:
1312 - King Edward III of England (d. 1377)
1732 - John Dickinson, American lawyer and Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
1947 - Joe Mantegna, American actor
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, and singer
1967 - Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian and talk-show host

WTF? Trust No One! Not Even Walt Disney???

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In The News:
Ford to become oldest living president

Humiliated frat boys sue 'Borat' Stupid frat boys. Did you get your little feelings hurt? GOOD!!!

Hundreds to compete for rock, paper, scissors title Now that shows class. Imagine the training that goes into that? Nothing but skill. It's all skill.

Sunderland man injured after launching firework from bottom A must read. Dumbass!!!!

College professor displays $170,000 pen One word. IDIOT!!!

Man uses bug story to make women disrobe. I use the Joey from Friends technique. "How you doin' "



Today in History:

1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.

1520 - Danish King Christian II executes 82 in the Stockholm Bloodbath.

1619 - René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.

1775 - American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passes a resolution creating two battalions of Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy.

1792 - The White House: Construction begins by placing of the cornerstone.

1865 - Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

1871 - Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

1938 - Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time. Let me tell you one thing. If I were gonna sing something on the air, I would've atleast practiced it first and not sang it for the first time with an audience. Sheesh!

1940 - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives. If you can't trust Walt Disney, who can you trust?

1944 - Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands

1951 - Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

1969 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program Sesame Street. How cool is that?

1972 - Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

1975 - The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board and launching the career of Gordon Lightfoot. hehehe

1997 - WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).


Happy Birthday:
1871 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (d. 1947)
1948 - Vincent Schiavelli, American actor (d. 2005)
1954 - Mario Cipollina, American bass player (Huey Lewis & the News)
1956 - Sinbad, American actor


Deaths on this day:
1992 - Chuck Connors, American actor, baseball and basketball player (b. 1921)

Alcohol May Have Been Involved

Ugg Boot

Michael Jackson to perform Thriller!!! Woo hoo.

A makeover and a trim led to assault charges against a teenager. Dallas R. Esparza, 16, of Cedar Rapids, is accused of shaving off the eyebrows of Shawn Weaver while he was unconscious, police said. Esparza also is accused of shaving off some of Weaver's hair and taking his tennis shoes, which were valued at less than $200. Alcohol may have been involved, police said. Duh!!! Ya think?

The United Church of Canada hopes an ad featuring a can of whipped cream and the question, "How much fun can sex be before it's a sin?" will fill its pews as Christmas nears. People of the church know about this?


Today in History:

694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery. I thought that was Hitlers idea.

1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. Excommunicates? Does this mean they don't talk anymore?

1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte leads the Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).

1848 - Robert Blum, German revolutionary, executed in Vienna

1872 - The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Strange. I thought the Great Boston Fire of 1872 happened in 1885.

1887 - The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1888 - Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.

1906 - Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country (to inspect progress on the Panama Canal).

1907 - The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.

1917 - Stalin enters the provisional government of USSR.

1923 - In Munich, Germany, police and government troops crush the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria. The failed coup is the work of the Nazis.

1933 - Establishment of the SS. No kids, that's doesn't mean Super Sport as in Chevelle Super Sport.

1938 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, begins.

1960 - Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Co., the first non-Ford to serve in that post — quitting a month later to join the newly-elected John F. Kennedy administration.

1961 - Neil Armstrong records a world record speed in a rocket plane, flying 6,587km/h in an X-15.

1965 - Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

1965 - Catholic Worker member Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building. We're better off without him.

1971 - John List, an accountant from Westfield, New Jersey murders his mother, wife and three children. He then hides under a new identity for 18 years.

2004 - Halo 2 is released by the Microsoft Corporation. The sci-fi action shooter smashes entertainment records, grossing $125 Million on its opening day.

2005 - Muriel Degauque becomes the first Belgian female suicide bomber, wounding one in Iraq. And she couldn't even kill anyone other than herself? What a failure.


Happy Birthday:
1841 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (d. 1910)
1913 - Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress and inventor (d. 2000)
1941 - Tom Fogerty, American musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) (d. 1990)
1951 - Lou Ferrigno, American bodybuilder and actor (Incredible Hulk tv series)
1955 - Karen Dotrice, Actress, famous for Mary Poppins


Deaths on this day:
1888 - Mary Jane Kelly, Irish murder victim (b. 1863)
2003 - Art Carney, American actor (Ed Norton the Honeymooners) (b. 1918)