The Way I See It

Ugg Boot


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)