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Friday, February 23, 2007

Defender of the Fatherland Day

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February 23
: Defender of the Fatherland Day in Russia . I bet you didn't know that. How do we celebrate? Get someone to say something about your father and then knock his lights out.

I was wondering where I would take my dinner at today and came across this story. I think I'll eat at Subway today. Rats run wild in KFC-Taco Bell in N.Y.

1st Beaver spotted in NYC in 200 years. They obviously weren't going to the same clubs as I. hehehe. "Nice Beaver." "Thanks. I just had it stuffed."

Chimpanzee seen 'hunting' with weapon. Darwin told us, didn't he?

A group of U.S. tourists, including a former Marine, killed a Costa Rican mugger by breaking his neck after he pulled a gun on them in a Caribbean port. Take that biotch.

After sentencing Kite on Wednesday to prison for stealing a lawnmower from a home, St. Clair County Circuit Judge John Baricevic obliged the 23-year-old man's request and married him to girlfriend Victoria Smith in the same courtroom. This should be a "My Name Is Earl" episode.
"Hey Earl" "Hey Crabman"

Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta. The detective entered the tent and said "get those clowns outta here!!!" If you don't get that joke.........

A routine appendix operation in Belgrade went badly wrong when two surgeons started fighting and stormed from the operating theater to settle their dispute outside. That must've been funny. I hear that by the time the fight was over, the patient was in stitches.

Fake bull testicles and other anatomically explicit vehicle decorations would be banned from Maryland roads under a bill pending in the state legislature. It's a good thing I live close to Texas. They're not stoopid enouf to do anything like thaat. My Pt Cruiser has a set of bull balls too. It's so masculine. My cruiser has bite now. hehehe

Let's take a break from all of this news crap. Have you ever wondered what was happening in London right now? Take a look at Londons webcams here. Have I mentioned that I want to go on vacation there? This may be the year.

Back to the news.
A newly opened store catering to very pampered dogs, especially female dogs, is getting more than questioning looks for its name, High Maintenance Bitch. Hahahaha. I think I knew her.

A man sleeping in a trash receptacle was injured Thursday after being dumped into a trash truck and then compacted. Who would sleep there? Don't knock it until you try it. That's all I have to say about it.

Tired of your heating bill being so high? Be very thankful. Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running. Thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices.

Just curious. Do you know who Richard Starkey is?

Documentary makers claim tomb of Jesus found in Jerusalem. "Don't you judge me."
It makes you wonder. If this were true, what would the world come to? That's scary. How would someone prove this? I guess the same way the Bible was proven. Remember religion is based on faith and not historical fact as we know it.

Court Backs NYC's Ban on Dancing in Bars. That is such a waste of time. Who comes up with this crap? How much did that ban cost? Dumbasses.

South Bay Lawmaker Abandons Outlawing Spanking. That's why we have such a violent youth in this country. In school, you can't discipline kids. They try to make it where you can't discipline at home? They try to blame it on video games and tv. C'mon, we're smarter than that. It all goes back to bad parenting. If you disagree, please leave a comment for the rest of us to laugh at.


Today in History:
0303 Emperor Diocletian orders general persecution of Christians

1455 - Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed from movable type. We'll have no scribblers here. 1455 Johannes Gutenberg prints 1st book, the Bible (estimated date)

1668 Fire in Wiener Hofburg in Vienna, emperor Leopold I rescued

1689 Dutch prince William III proclaimed king of England

1778 - American Revolution: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army. I wonder how the British see that war.

1813 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham MA

1820 - Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed. Wait a minute. The British have cabinet ministers? How do you preach to a cabinet? "Here we stand in the kitchen where many have stood before....."

1836 - The Siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas. Doh!!!

1861 - President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland. They should've left that man alone.

1870 - Military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.

1874 - Major Walter Clopton Wingfield patents a game called "sphairistike," now more commonly called lawn tennis.

1886 Aluminum manufacturing process developed

1886 London Times publishes world's 1st classified ad. Now that's interesting.

1893 - Rudolf Diesel receives a patent for the diesel engine.

1896 Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield. How has this man not been on a postage stamp yet?

1904 - For $10 million the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.

1910 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)

1915 Nevada enforces convenient divorce law. The words convenient and divorce should never be in the same sentence.

1916 French artillery kills entire French 72nd division at Samogneux Verdun. French killed French? Did they know they were at war with themselves?

1917 - First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution. They demonstrated how to finish drywall. The next week was an interior painting demonstration. I'd like to have the odds of that. A February Revolution in February.

1921 1st US transcontinental air mail flight arrives in New York NY from San Francisco CA

1927 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies. Why did they do that? To make money.

1936 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake NY

1940 Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio", released

1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. Did anyone ever ask Plutonium if he liked being all lonely and isolated?

1945 - World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize. 1945 US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue. So did they raise a flag, a famous photo, and a statue? A quick funny. A southern black man was on trial and the judge started to speak.... "You are charged with statutory rape, how do you plea?" He replies back "Statue???? I ain't rapes no statue!!!"

1945 - World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is completely destroyed by a raid of 379 British bombers. No one could pronounce it anyway.

1954 - The first mass vaccination of children against polio begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I think I'd like to try to play polio. It looks fun with the horses and stuff.

1956 - In a cosmic event known as the great flare, the Earth was bombarded with a burst of protons and other nuclei from a solar flare. Millions went on with their daily lives.

1967 US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War

1971 George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year as a result of several speeding tickets and a dispute with the police. He tried to explain that it was all Lovely Rita, Meter Maids fault. "We can work it out", he said. "Life is very short and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend."

1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst. Keep your little kidnap victim. She's not worth $4 million. Maybe 2.5 millions. Whatdayasay?

1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States. Can they do that? I guess so, they're the government. They can do anything.

1979 George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album

1981 People magazine features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips(mamas and papas)

1983 - The Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.

1987 - A supernova is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud (see Supernova 1987a). Was the Supernova made by Chevrolet?

1993 Gary Coleman wins $1,280,000 lawsuit against parents for high fees. Whatchoo talkin bout dad?

1997 - A large fire occurs in the Russian Space station, Mir. Were those crazy Russians lighting farts again?

1997 NBC TV shows "Schindler's List", completely uncensored, 65 million watch. No farts were lit in the making of this show.

1997 Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly".

1998 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Charleston SC on WAVF 96.1 FM. Millions of farts are lit simultaneously.

1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders. Holy jihad Batman.


Happy Birthday:
1583 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (d. 1656)
1680 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (d. 1767)
1685 - Georg Friedrich Handel, German/British Baroque composer (d. 1759)
1729 - Josiah Hornblower, American statesman (d. 1809) This guy missed his calling. I see him as a Sax player.
1850 - César Ritz, Swiss hotelier (d. 1918)
1883 - Victor Fleming, American director (d. 1949)
1904 - Leopold Trepper, Soviet spy (d. 1982)
1915 - Paul Tibbets, American pilot
1932 - Majel Barrett, American actress
1940 - Peter Fonda, American actor
1944 - Johnny Winter, American musician
1952 - Brad Whitford, American musician (Aerosmith) Brad plays bass. Hmmmm.
1955 - Tom Bodett, American voice actor, radio personality, and writer. "We'll keep the light on for ya"
1965 - Michael Dell, American computer manufacturer. "Dude, you're getting a piece of crap if you're gettin' a dell."
1983 - Amy Pendergrass, crazy girl I know.




























Deaths on This Day:
1781 - George Taylor, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (bc. 1716)
1848 - John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States (b. 1767)
1937 - Victim 7 of the Cleveland Torso Murderer
1946 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885) So why is it not Hung anymore. I guess that's now reserved for someone that is well endowed???
1965 - Stan Laurel, British born actor and comedian (b. 1890) He barely heard of the Beatles?
1995 - Melvin Franklin, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1942)
2003 - Howie Epstein, American bass guitarist (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers) (b. 1955)


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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Check This Out!!!!

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New Kennedy film could kill off one conspiracy theory.


Film of U.S. President Kennedy Moments Before Death Is Released.



Hillary Objects to Confederate Flag... Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that South Carolina should remove the Confederate flag from its Statehouse grounds, in part because the nation should unite under one banner while at war. It is part of our history. It cannot be erased. It is part of our heritage, be it good or bad. I object to Hillary. Take that!!!! Of course she wants it to be removed. Her biggest presidential rival is black. She's gotta get that black vote too. I thank God everyday that I'm not a politician and am, for the most part, honest.

Argentine smuggles cocaine in chocolate cookies . That's why they're so irresistible. Mmmm hmm.













New Orleans celebrates Fat Tuesday.
Nice mellons. Watermelon, right?









Australia to ban old-style light bulbs. Sorry Mr. Edison. It's the future man.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said his country was ready to stop its enrichment program and return to talks provided Western nations also stopped their own. That only seems fair. But the U.S. won't do that because we don't have to. We're the U.S.A.
























OUCH!!!






Today in History:
1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment. I wonder if they made pony's?

1547 - Edward VI of England crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

1725 - The second reported case of white men scalping Native Americans takes place in New Hampshire colony.

1792 - The Postal Service Act, establishing the United States Post Office Department, is signed by President George Washington.

1810 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean patriot and leader of rebellion against Napoleon's forces, was executed.

1816 - Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.

1872 - In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.

1942 - Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.








1944 Batman & Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers








1962 - Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn orbits the earth three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes, becoming the first American to orbit the earth.

1965 - Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

1965 Beatles record "That Means a Lot"

1968 John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth

1969 - The date that Michel Collin had predicted as the coming of a world wide catastrophe.








1974 Cher files for separation from husband Sonny Bono














1987 - Unabomber: In Salt Lake City, in the USA, a bomb explodes in a computer store.

2003 - In Rhode Island, in the USA, The Station nightclub fire kills about 100 and injures over 200.


Happy Birthday:
1937 - Nancy Wilson, American singer

1946 - Jerome Geils, American guitarist (J. Geils Band)

1950 - Walter Becker, American jazz-rock guitarist (Steely Dan)








1954 - Patty Hearst, American socialite and kidnapping victim





1966 - Cindy Crawford, American model

1967 - Kurt Cobain, American musician (Nirvana) (d. 1994)


Deaths on this day:
1618 - Philip William, Prince of Orange (b. 1554) Prince of Orange? Good thing Ozzy doesn't go by that instead of Prince of Darkness.

1993 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)

2005 - Sandra Dee, American actress (b. 1944)




Monday, February 19, 2007

The Way I See It

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Today is Presidents Day. It's a legal holiday. All the others? Not so legal. Get up, jump around at your desk and shout "Happy Presidents Day You Crackers!". Your life might just depend on it.
This mornings commute into town was boring as usual. There was nothing but political hogwash on the radio, and hogwash it is. I realized that I had my handy camera so I decided to take a few pictures on the way to work. What a beautiful blue sky.












































Tiny duckling has rare mutation: 4 legs. This could be yet another step in the evolution process. In a few hundred thousand years, ducks could walk as dogs and cats do.



Israeli police investigating why a car was blocking traffic in the fast lane of a major highway Sunday found a couple inside having sex. This reminds me of the Eagles song "Life in the Fast Lane".

Stallone's plane searched in Australia.

Police called to a Long Island man's house discovered the mummified remains of the resident, dead for more than a year, sitting in front of a blaring television set. What a great neighborhood. It's amazing that someone can be dead a year in front of a tv set and no one noticed? Who was paying this cats electric bill?

Couple plan marriage ceremony in graveyard. That's very cool.






Man wins $25,000 lottery two days in row. This would be a nice friend to have around.








Today in History:
1700 Last day of the Julian calendar in Denmark. Does this mean the world was gonna end in 1700? Someone missed an appointment.

1807 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddart.

1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Pennsylvania

1847 - The Donner Party is rescued. It is noted that some of the survivors seem to be remarkably well-fed considering their ordeal. I've read about this and I can assure you, it was no party.

1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier OH

1859 Dan Sickles is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity 1st time this defense is successfully used






















1878 - The phonograph is patented by Thomas Edison.

1881 - Kansas became the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages. Isn't it great living in a free country? What a joke that is.

1884 Tornadoes in Mississippi, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky & Indiana kill 800 people

1906 W K Kellogg & Charles D Bolin incorporate Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, Battle Creek MI. "They're Great!!!!"

1913 - Prizes are included in Cracker Jack candy boxes for the first time.

1934 Bob & Dolores Hope marry

1944 U-264 sinks off Ireland

1945 - World War II: Battle of Iwo Jima - about 30,000 United States Marines land on Iwo Jima.


1953 - Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States. Isn't it great living in a free country? Did I already say that?

1953 Ted Williams safely crash-lands his damaged Panther jet

1958 Carl Perkins leaves Sun Records for Columbia Records. You remember Carl? Blue Suede Shoes? I know Elvis did it but Carl did it first.

1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts






1964 - Paul Simon writes "The Sounds of Silence," the song which, in a year and a half, will catapult him and Art Garfunkel to stardom as Simon & Garfunkel.
















1964 UK flies ½ ton of Beatle wigs to US













1968 - National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service in the United States) debuts the children's television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Won't you be my neighbor?

1969 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet

1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album released

1980 - Bon Scott (Ronald Belford Scott), lead singer of AC/DC, dies after a night of heavy drinking. I thought he froze to death in his car????

1981 George Harrison is ordered to pay ABKCO Music $587,000 for "subconscious plagiarism" "My Sweet Lord" with "He's So Fine". It makes no sense. You can re-record anyones song for free, you just can't use the same basic format to write your own? Here's a challenge. Listen to both songs in an unbiased fashion and in one hour see which song is still in your head. It won't be He's So Fine. That's just my biased opinion.

1982 - Ozzy Osbourne arrested for urinating on The Alamo.

1985 - Iberia Airlines Boeing 727 crashes into Mount Oiz in Spain, killing 148.

1985 Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola

1985 Mickey Mouse welcomed in China. They do realize that he's a cartoon, right? Notice even I said "He" and not "it". Maybe I should take another look at how I see Mickey. "Who's the leader of the gang that's made for you and me? M I C.....hold up. Mickey was a gang leader? I'm shattered.

1985 William Schroeder is 1st artificial heart patient to leave hospital He spent 15 minutes outside Humana Hospital in Louisville KY. Then what?

1986 - The Soviet Union launches the Mir space station.

1986 - After waiting 37 years, the United States Senate approves a treaty outlawing genocide.

1987 Anti-smoking ad airs for 1st time on TV, featuring Yul Brynner

1992 Porn producer Jim Mitchell found guilty of killing his brother Artie. I saw the movie about this starring Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen, brothers. Strange coincidence? I don't think so.

2002 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.


2006 - The Rolling Stones made the largest show open to the public of the world in Copacabana beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1.3 million people went to the show.


Happy Birthday:
1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)

1937 - Robert "Bilbo" Walker Jr., American blues guitarist

1940 - William "Smokey" Robinson, American singer




1943 "Mama" Cass Elliot actress/singer (Mamas & Papas-Monday Monday)







1943
Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], Pennsylvania, rock vocalist (Lightning Striking Again)


1946 - Paul Dean, Canadian guitarist (Loverboy)

1948 Tony Iommi rock guitarist (Black Sabbath-Paranoid, Iron Man)

1955 - Jeff Daniels, American actor

1957 - Falco, Austrian singer (d. 1998)


Deaths on this day:
1980 - Bon Scott, Australian musician (AC/DC) (b. 1946)

1998 - Grandpa Jones, American entertainer (b. 1913)

2003 - Johnny Paycheck, American singer (b. 1938) (Take this Job and Shove It)




Thursday, February 15, 2007

It's a Conspiracy

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ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide.

Man guilty in stripper slaying.


An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.

A day will come when the Earth's natural resources will be running dangerously low. The Race Wars now over, a new war begins. The great war, referred to Darwin's War, will begin worldwide where humans will go through an elimination process based on DNA structure to decide which humans will attempt to carry on the human species. The spaceship called "the Mayflower" will take these designated beings to their new world, Mars..... To Be Continued.....


Space shuttle Atlantis began a sluggish move to the launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a mid-March mission to continue construction of the international space station. Can you see how this series of events is put into motion? It goes back to Sputnik. The Russians understood this problem all to well and wanted to be first in line when the time came.


A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for conning people out of 3 billion yuan ($387 million) in a giant scam to breed ants. I ant joking about this one.

Interesting facts from Great Britain.

An American Airlines flight made an unscheduled landing in Honolulu after pilots heard something skittering about in the wire-laden space over the cockpit. The airline blamed the emergency landing of the Tokyo-Dallas flight with 202 passengers on a stowaway squirrel.

A cash-strapped Hungarian village is offering the chance of immortality to anyone willing to pay to have a street named after them, and it's hoping world famous celebrities apply. I want one.

Villagers in southwestern China are scratching their heads over the county government's decision to paint an entire barren mountainside green.


Holy fence jumping, Batman! Three schools in the north Phoenix suburb of Cave Creek were on lockdown for about 45 minutes Wednesday morning after a student at Desert Arroyo Middle School reported seeing a person dressed as Batman run across campus, jump a fence and disappear into the desert.


Today in History:
399 BC - The philosopher Socrates sentenced to death. That is not So Crates.

1764 - The city of St. Louis, Missouri established.

1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia

1879 - Women's rights: American President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

1898 - Spanish-American War: The USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing more than 260. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.

1903 - Morris Michtom and his wife Rose introduce the first teddy bear in America.

1929 St Valentine's Day massacre (Chicago)




1931 1st Dracula movie released









1933 - In Miami, Florida, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago, Illinois Mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.

1936 Hitler announces building of Volkswagens (starting slug-bug game)

1946 - ENIAC (for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer"), the first general-purpose electronic computer, unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.

1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1952 - King George VI buried in St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

1961 - Sabena Flight 548 crashes in Belgium, killing 73, with the entire US Figure Skating team, several coaches & family.

1964 Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 11 weeks

1965 John Lennon passes his driving test

1965 - A new red-and-white maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

1970 - A Dominican DC-9 crashes into the sea during takeoff from Santo Domingo, killing 102.

1971 After 1200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal

1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL

1981 Rocket-powered ice sled attains 399 kph, Lake George NY

1982 - The drilling rig Ocean Ranger sinks during a storm off the coast of Newfoundland, killing 84 rig workers.

1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys

1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.

1996 - Mortar attack on the US Embassy in Athens, Greece.

1998 - Dale Earnhardt wins the Daytona 500 after 20 years of disappointment.

2000 - Indian Point II nuclear power plant in New York State vents a small amount of radioactive steam when a steam generator fails.

2002 - At the Tri-State Crematory in La Fayette, Georgia, investigators find uncremated bodies disposed of in the woods and buildings on the crematorium's property. The discovery reveals one of the worst incidents of abuse in the funeral service industry.

2003 - Protests against the Iraq war occur in over 600 cities worldwide. Estimates from 8,000,000-30,000,000 people took part, making this the largest peace demonstration in history of the world.

2004 - Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the Daytona 500, six years to the day when his father won his only Daytona 500.

2005 - YouTube, a popular video-sharing website, is established.

Happy Birthday to:
0037 Claudius Drusus Germanicus Caesar Nero emperor of Rome (54-68)

1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)

1710 - King Louis XV of France (d. 1774)

1723 - John Witherspoon, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1794)

1812 - Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902)

1820 - Susan B. Anthony, American feminist and suffragist (d. 1906)

1874 - Sir Ernest Shackleton, British polar explorer (d. 1922)

1882 - John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942)

1935 - Roger Chaffee, astronaut (d. 1967)

1944 - Mick Avory, British drummer (The Kinks)

1945 - John Helliwell, British musician (Supertramp)

1947 - Rusty Hamer, American actor (d. 1990) Can you believe his parents name him Rusty? He committed suicide in DeRidder La. Go figure.

1951 - Jane Seymour, British actress

1954 - Matt Groening, American cartoonist

1957 - Jake E. Lee, guitarist

1964 - Chris Farley, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)


Deaths on this day:
1965 - Nat King Cole, American singer and musician (b. 1919)



Monday, February 12, 2007

I'd Buy That For A Dollar!!!!

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A new version of the $1 coin, paying tribute to American presidents, goes into general circulation Thursday. How cool is that? I want one.

Drivers on their way to breakfast in northern Virginia on Saturday found it all over the road after nearly 165,000 eggs spilled out of an overturned tractor-trailer on the Capital Beltway. Police from three agencies were scrambled to the scene.

Viagra sold over counter in UK on Valentine's Day. You've just got to love the British. Would you fancy a V Shag?

A group of young German women used so much spray deodorant in the bathroom of a North Sea youth hostel that it set off a fire alarm and brought the local fire brigade rushing to the rescue. I didn't know Germans wore deodorant.

Joanne Harding broke a tooth on a Tootsie Roll she took from a candy jar in the town clerk's office in Abington Town Hall last month during a visit to get a license for her dog. Now, Harding wants the town to help pay her $4,000-$5,000 dental bill. Harding should get a bill from the town for being a dumbass.


Today is Darwin Day!!! Rock On!!!

Today in HISTORY:
1502 - Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal on his second voyage to India.

1502 Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism. No freedom of religion in the 1500's? Go figure.

1554 - A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason. She was "headed" down the wrong path, wasn't she???

1624 English parliament comes together, right now..... over me

1733 - Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th United States colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).

1737 - The San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is inaugurated.

1771 - Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden when his father Adolf Frederick "[eats] himself to death". I wonder what he ate first. Did he just start with his feet and work his way up?

1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300.

1870 - Women gain the right to vote in Utah Territory. That's just crazy. Women voting???

1870 Official proclamation sets April 15 as last day of grace for US silver coins to circulate in Canada

1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop

1877 1st news dispatch by telephone, between Boston & Salem MA

1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358). Noses everywhere breathe a sigh of relief.

1879 - At New York City's Madison Square Garden the first artificial ice rink in North America opens.

1892 - Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States. Das right

1894 - Anarchist Emile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris's Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.

1909 - The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded. Is there a NAAWP? Hell no. That'd be racist.

1914 - In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies

1924 - Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.

1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia

1949 "Annie Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances

1949 Panic in Quito Ecuador, after "War of the World" played on radio. You've just gotta love Orson wells.

1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb. Smart man, that Einstein.

1955 McGuire Sisters' "Sincerely" single goes to #1 & stays #1 for 10 weeks. I wonder if Einstein sang along with that one?

1961 USSR launches Venera 1 toward Venus. She's got it. Yeah baby she's got it. Well, I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, SING ALONG, your desire........

1964 Beatles 1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall). The world will never be the same.

1965 Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean. Should've listened to Einstein.

1967 Keith Richards, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for drugs

1973 - Vietnam War: The first United States prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong.

1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1981 Pete Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m

1982 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site. Get over it already.

1987 Survivors of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 million damages. Oh please. $7 million???

1990 - Super Mario Bros. 3, technically the best selling video game of all time, is released in the United States.

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo) (also known as the Scream)

1994
Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose


1998 - The presidential line-item veto is declared unconstitutional by United States federal judge.

1999 - President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

2001 - NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

2002 - Nuclear waste: US Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United States' nuclear repository.

2004 - On National Freedom to Marry Day, two days after Mayor Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, California, issued a directive to the county clerk, the City and County of San Franciso begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. How do I feel about same sex marriages? I'm not gay. I don't care. I started to say that we live in a free country, but that's bullshit.

2004 - Mattel announced the split of Barbie and Ken. I hate that soooo much. Divorce is so sad.



1588 John Winthrop English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Massachusetts

1775 - Louisa Adams, First Lady of the United States, wife of John Quincy Adams (d. 1852)

1809 - Charles Darwin, English naturalist (d. 1882) You know it's true.

1809 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)

1939 - Ray Manzarek, American keyboardist (The Doors)

1950 - Steve Hackett, British musician (Genesis)

1955 - Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host

1956 - Brian Robertson, Scottish musician (Thin Lizzy) and (Motorhead)








1980 - Christina Ricci, American actress. Please gain some weight. You looked sooooo much better. Just my opinion.














1554 - Lady Jane Grey, claimant to the throne of England (executed) (b. 1537)

1554 Lord Guildford Dudley Jane Grey's husband, beheaded

1789 - Ethan Allen, American patriot (b. 1738)

1971 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (b. 1875)

1995 - Philip Taylor Kramer, American musician (Iron Butterfly) (b. 1952)

2000 - Screamin' Jay Hawkins, American musician (b. 1929)

2000 - Tom Landry, American football coach (b. 1924)





2000 - Charles Schulz, American comics author (b. 1922)