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Archive for September, 2012
Ronald Reagan – We Must Fight ( A Time For Choosing )
They won’t get any help from the West , so they’ll take what they can get
“Could Azerbaijan be the key to Israel’s strategy for successfully attacking Iran’s nuclear program? A report from Reuters suggests that talks are afoot between the two unlikely allies:
[Azerbaijan's support] is a far cry from the massive firepower and diplomatic cover that Netanyahu wants from Washington. But, by addressing key weaknesses in any Israeli war plan—notably on refueling, reconnaissance and rescuing crews—such an alliance might tilt Israeli thinking on the feasibility of acting without U.S. help.”
Too Damn Much
“Have you ever wondered how much we as taxpayers actually owe because of commitments politicians have made on our behalf? Turns out, the answer is not as simple as you might think.
The place to start is with a report put out annually by the U.S. Treasury. There I learned that the federal government officially recognizes an outstanding debt of $17.5 trillion. This amount consists of $10.2 trillion in government debt held by the public, plus pension and retirement benefits owed to federal employees.”
Even these numbers are deceptive …
”So let’s see if I’ve got this right. I’ve been paying Social Security taxes for some 45 years or so and the federal government doesn’t officially admit that it owes me a dime. The same is true for 45 years of Medicare taxes. But it does admit that it owes pension benefits and post-retirement medical benefits to federal workers. As a taxpayer, I’m liable for all the promises the government has made to its own employees. But federal workers are not liable (necessarily) for all the promises the government has made to me”
Our Social Security and Medicare isn’t guaranteed but federal employee’s retirement benefits are …
” If today’s seniors get everything that’s been promised to them, they can expect to receive $12.8 trillion in Social Security and Medicare benefits beyond the estimated taxes and premiums that will be collected to fund those programs.”
Hold your nose and read the rest . It isn’t pretty
The race for 270 from Jennifer Rubin
“For all these reasons you can readily see why the liberal narrative that the race is over is aspirational and not factual. Arguing that the “polls are real” or pointing to the
latest gaffe is satisfying for the anxious liberal pundits, I suppose, but neither is an argument to vote for Obama. Neither phenomenon is any guarantee that Obama’s
“lead” is any more lasting than his
”recovery” (which lasted less than the length of an NBA season). “
“Obama administration tries to block sequester layoff notices”
” The latest durable-goods orders report must have the Obama administration — and the Obama campaign — more worried than they publicly let on. According to the National Journal , the White House will press government contractors to hold off on
issuing layoff notices in October in
anticipation of the sequestration cuts, afraid of the political backlash that will ensue. In fact, the Obama administration is offering to indemnify government contractors for losses and fines for delaying
those notices:
The White House moved to prevent defense and other government contractors from issuing mass layoff notices in anticipation of sequestration, even going so far to say that the contracting agencies would
cover any potential litigation costs or employee compensation costs that could follow.
Some defense companies —including Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems and EADS North America—have said they expect to send notices to their employees 60 days before sequestration takes effect to comply with the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, which requires companies to give advance
warning to workers deemed
reasonably likely to lose their jobs.
Companies appeared undeterred by a July 30 guidance from the Labor Department, which said issuing such notices would be inappropriate, due to the possibility that sequestration may
be averted. The Labor Department
also said companies do not have
enough information about how the
cuts might be implemented to
determine which workers or specific programs could be affected should Congress fail to reach a compromise to reduce the deficit, triggering $1.2 trillion in spending cuts, half from defense, half non-defense. For 2013, that would amount to $109 billion in
spending cuts. “
Third Base Politics offers this analysis of preliminary absentee balloting data
“One of the keys to Barack Obama’s victory in Ohio in 2008 was the early voting game. Ohio Democrats tapped into the enthusiasm advantage they had and got their voters to vote early in overwhelming numbers. On election day itself, John McCain actually won. But Obama had such a large lead with votes already banked, that he won Ohio and put the nail in McCain’s coffin.
We have analyzed some polls this year that used ridiculous samples with Democrats outnumbering Republicans by 8 points or more. For example, a recent NBC/WSJ/Marist poll used a Dem +10 sample, and the latest Ohio poll used a preposterous sample with 48% Democrats.“
HT/Instapundit
Today is Gold Star Mothers Sunday
“Mothers of fallen service members began calling themselves “Gold Star Mothers” during the First World War, but the sorrowful bond they share reaches back to every woman who has lost a son or daughter in uniform since our nation’s revolution. The Army cherishes the mothers of its Soldiers as bedrocks of support and comfort, and honors the mothers of its fallen as resilient legacies of their children’s service. The United States began observing Gold Star Mothers Day on the last Sunday of September in 1936. This year, the Army joins the nation Sept. 30, in recognizing the sacrifice and strength of its Gold Star Mothers.”
Fast and Furious Update
“Among other groups of Fast and Furious victim stories Univision says it will tell in the special to air Sunday evening at 7 p.m., is one about how “16 young people attending a party in a residential area of Ciudad Juárez in January of 2010″ were gunned down with weapons the Obama administration gave to drug cartel criminals through Fast and Furious.
“Univision News’ Investigative Unit was also able to identify additional guns that escaped the control of ATF agents and were used in different types of crimes throughout Mexico,” the network added. “Furthermore, some of these guns — none of which were reported by congressional investigators — were put in the hands of drug traffickers in Honduras, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. A person familiar with the recent congressional hearings called Univision’s findings ‘the holy grail’ that Congress had been searching for.”
A video preview published on Friday shows a number of the bodies of people killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as well as victims’ family members pleading with outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderon for justice.”
Via Meadia
“The office of the Director of National Intelligence is both confirming that the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi was deliberately planned in advance and excusing the White House for getting the story wrong. Officials are trying to determine if a mysterious, little known organization called “Al-Qaeda” had something to do with the attack. This doesn’t seem likely, as Al-Qaeda was reported dead or at least in what former Vice President Cheney would have called its “death throes” in Pakistan last spring, but you never know.”
Cheaper Than Dirt on Jeff Cooper
“Along with John Moses Browning, Mikhail Kalashnikov, Eugene Stoner, Dan Shideler, and Elmer Keith, another man made huge waves in the firearms community with his life’s work. If you are new to the gun world, or if you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t bothered to learn read up on some history, let me clue you on whom I’m talking about. Most gun experts recognize Jeff Cooper as the father of the Modern Technique of handgun shooting, and one of the 20th century’s foremost international experts on the use and history of small arms.”
“NASA’s Curiosity, a 2,000-pound super-rover, has found proof that water was on Mars, ranging from ankle to waist deep. This is based on images showing what looks like an ancient gravel stream bed, with Curiosity using one contaminated drill bit.
The evidence of water on Mars is not new evidence, as NASA has found previous signs of water on the Red Planet. NASA’s rover Spirit had discovered sulfate-rich soil beneath the Martian surface, which suggested an earlier presence of liquid water. Also, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbit probed and found water ice in areas that were far away from the Martian polar caps. “
“These are the top 100 conservative websites for 2012 according to Alexa, the web’s number one source for website rankings. This list is based on worldwide rankings, not US rankings. However, it should give you a general idea since almost all of these sites are solely based on conservative American politics. Not much has changed since 2011, just a little reshuffling, with a few omissions and new entries. If you want to know what’s happening with conservative politics in the US, this list should keep you busy for a while.”
Moe Lane
“Background: the Spanish-language media organization Univision has apparently been building up quite the head of steam over Operation Fast & Furious, which was an operation where we blithely let guns get handed over to Mexican narco-terrorist gangs with precisely zero oversight, hesitation, or interest in what said gangs would do with said weapons. What they did with them, of course, was to use those guns to murder Mexican nationals. The administration is stonewalling the investigation into all this (particularly the investigation into US Border Agent Brian Terry’s murder, as OF&F guns showed up at the murder scene); and Univision is promising a long, hard look at the ongoing debacle tomorrow.”
William Havard
“The greatest Glory of a free-born People, Is to transmit that Freedom to their Children.”
Today in the Past
Events
1199 - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew
1399 - King Richard II of England abdicates throne
1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg’s Bible
1544 - King Henry VIII draws his armies out of France
1555 - Oxford Bishop Nicholas Ridley sentenced to death as a heretic
1777 - Congress, flees to York Pa, as British forces advance
1787 - 1st US voyage around the world – Columbia leaves Boston
1808 - Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire
1841 - Samuel Slocum patented the stapler
1846 - Anesthetic ether used for 1st time (Dr Wm Morton extracts a tooth)
1867 - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession
1877 - 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)
1880 - Henry Draper takes the 1st photograph of Orion Nebula
1887 - Volunteer (US) beats Thistle (Scotland) in 8th America’s Cup
1888 - ”Jack the Ripper” butchers 2 more women, Liz Stride & Kate Eddowes
1898 - City of NY established
1927 - Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)
1928 - Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium cycles record 76 mi 604 yds in 1 hr
1929 - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)
1935 - The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1939 - 1st televised college football game (Fordham vs Waynesburg at NYC)
1939 - Britain first evacuates citizens in anticipation of war.
1940 - 47 German aircrafts shot down above England
1942 - Admiral Nimitz B-17 finds Guadalcanal using National Geographic map
1946 - Von Ribbentrop & Goering sentence to death by Nuremberg trial
1949 - Berlin Airlift ends after 277,000 flights (Ed. note: dates differ from site to site)
1950 - 1st congress of International Astronautical Federation opens in Paris
1950 - Radio’s “Grand Ole Opry” is broadcasted on TV for 1st time
1953 - Auguste/Jacques Piccard dives with bathosphere to 3150 m (record)
1953 - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
1960 - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show)
Flintstones Cigarette Commercial
1961 - Bill for Boston Tea Party is paid by Mayor Snyder of Oregon who wrote a check for $196, the total cost of all tea lost
1968 - 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
1972 - Roberto Clemente, is 11th to get 3,000 hits
1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight.
1977 - Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program’s ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1980 - A’s Rickey Henderson sets AL stolen base record at 98 en route to 100
1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.
1984 - NY Yankee Don Mattingly wins AL batting crown with .343 avg
1985 - Howard Stern gets fired from WNBC AM (NY)
1986 - US releases soviet spy Gennadiy Zakharov
1986 - Mordechai Vanunu, who revealed details of Israel covert nuclear program to British media, was kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1988 - IBM announces shipment of 3 millionth PS/2 personal computer
1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6’8″ to win Olympic gold medal
1989 - NASA closes down tracking stations in Hawaii & Ascension
1993 - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed
1993 - MS Dos 6.2 released
1994 - Space shuttle STS-68 (Endeavour 7), launches into orbit
1997 - Microsoft Corp releases Internet Explorer 4.0
1999 - Japan’s worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 - The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat retires.
2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.
Births
1207 - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, Persian mystic and poet (d. 1273)
1227 - Pope Nicholas IV (d. 1292)
1631 - William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials (d. 1701)
1861 - William Wrigley Jr., American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company) (d. 1932)
1870 - Jean Perrin, France, physicist, studied Brownian motion (Nobel 1926)
1905 - Nevill Francis Mott, physicist
1915 - Lester Garfield Maddox, (Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner
1917 - Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), (d. 1987)
Drum Solo Battle with Jerry Lewis
1917 - Chung Hee Park, general/pres of S Korea (1961-79), assassinated
1921 - Deborah Kerr, Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana)
1922 - Alan Stretton, Australian general
1924 - Truman Capote, New Orleans LA, author (In Cold Blood)
1928 - Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire) Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986)
1931 - Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown], Kulm ND, actress (Police Woman)
1935 - Johnny Mathis, SF, vocalist (Chances Are, 12th of Never)
Too Much Too Little To Late with Deniece Williams
1942 - Frankie Lymon, NYC, rocker (The Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love)
1943 - Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension)
1945 - Ehud Olmert, twelfth Prime Minister of Israel
1947 - Marc Bolan, London England, rock vocalist (T-Rex-Bang a Gong)
1951 - Nicholas Yermakov, US, sci-fi author (Epiphany, Jehad, Clique)
1951 - Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1953 - S.M. Stirling, Canadian-born author
1954 - Barry Williams, Santa Monica California, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch)
1957 - Fran Drescher, Queens NY, actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny)
1958 - Marty Stuart, Phila Miss, country singer (Hillbilly Rock)
1958 - Nona Garson, equestrian show jumper (Olympics-96)
1961 - Crystal Bernard, Garland TX, actress (Amy-It’s a Living, Helen-Wings)
1961 - Eric van de Poele, Belgian racing driver
1962 - Dave Magadan, Tampa FL, 1st baseman (NY Mets, Chicago Cubs)
1964 - Stephen N Frick, Pitts PA, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut
1964 - Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1968 - Monica Bellucci, Italian actress
1971 - Jenna Elfman, LA California, actress (Townies, Dharma & Greg)
1975 - Marion Cotillard, French actress
1980 - Martina Hingis, Kosice Slovakia, tennis star (1997 Aust/US/Wimb)
1981 - Dominique Moceanu, California, gymnast (World-silver-95, Olympics-gold-96)
1982 - Lacey Chabert, actress (Party of Five)
1982 - Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1982 - Ryan Stout, American comedian
Deaths
420 - Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible
653 - Saint Honorius, Archbishop of Canterbury
739 - P’u-chi Ho-shang Tao-chao, Northern Ch’an Line Zen teacher, dies
1101 - Anselm IV, Archbishop of Milan
1351 - Muso Soseki, Zen teacher/Rinzai line/head of Nanzenji, dies in Japan
1440 - Reginald Grey, 3rd Baron Grey de Ruthyn, English soldier and politician
1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka, Japanese warlord (b. 1507)
1626 - Nurhaci, Manchurian chief (b. 1559)
1630 - John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution, hanged
1772 - James Brindley, English engineer (b. 1716)
1877 - Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce indians, dies in battle
1888 - Catherine Eddowes, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1888 - Elizabeth Stride, Long Liz, English, murdered by Jack the Ripper at 45
1897 - St Therese of Lisieux, Roman Catholic saint and mystic (b. 1873)
1910 - Maurice Lévy, French engineer (b. 1838)
1955- James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause), dies in a car crash at age 24
James Dean’s Crash – The Truth?
1960 - Harry St John Philby, [sheik Abdullah], British explorer, dies
1965 - E[dward] E[lmer] “Doc” Smith, sci-fi author (Triplanetary), dies at 75
1978 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy), dies at 75
1985 - Charles F Richter, US seismologist (scale of R), dies at 85
1985 - Helen MacInnes, US spy writer (Affiliate in place), dies at 77
1985 - Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina), dies at 64
1987 - Alfred Bester, sci-fi author (Dark Side of Earth), dies at 73
1995 - George Kirby, comedian/impressionist (Pearl Bailey), dies at 71
1997 - Male alligator, largest in Florida (14 feet), killed at about 65
2003 - Robert Kardashian, Armenian-American lawyer (b. 1944)
2011 - Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and islamist militant (b. 1971)
Today in the Past
Events
331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
704 - Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1574 - -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1661 - Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France
1768 - English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston
1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 - The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
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1843 - News of the World began publication in London.
1847 - Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
1847 - German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
1867 - Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital,” published
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band
1888 - National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time
1890 - Congress creates Weather Bureau
1890 - Yosemite National Park forms
1891 - In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1892 - University of Chicago opens
1893 - 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1898 - Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
1907 - Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1908 - Henry Ford introduces Model T car (costs $825)
1910 - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
1910 - Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a “Lawrence of Arabia”) capture Damascus.
1920 - Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1924 - Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia)
1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
1931 - The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
1933 - Packers make 5 1st downs, Giants make 0, but still win 10-7
1936 - Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1940 - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens
1945 - Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
1945 - US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands
1947 - The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time
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1950 - South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea
1951 - 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated
1955 - ”Honeymooners” premieres
1957 - B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1957 - First appearance of “In God We Trust” on U.S. paper currency.
1958 - Inauguration of NASA
1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
1961 - A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha
1961 - Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs (off of Tracy Stallard)
1962 - Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests
1962 - Lucy Show premieres
1967 - Pink FLoyd’s 1st US tour (arrives in NYC)
1968 - ”Night of the Living Dead” premieres in Pittsburgh
1970 - 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1974 - Watergate cover-up trial opens in Wash DC
1975 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Joe Frazier in 15 for heavyweight boxing title in “The Thrilla in Manila”
1979 - US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal)
1982 - EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1984 - Gary Trudeau’s Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus
1985 - Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
1987 - 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA
1989 - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989 - US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus
1990 - 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
1990 - Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean
1991 - Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)
1992 - Cartoon Cable Network premieres
1992 - Ross Perot re-enters presidental race
1998 - Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2000 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, the chairman of the IOC declares Sydney the “best Olympic Games ever”
2000 - United States retain Basketball’s Olympic gold medal defeating France 85-75
2000 - United States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40) in Summer Olympics held in Sydney, Australia
2005 - Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.
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BIRTHS
1207 - Henry III, king of England (1216-72)
1507 - Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola, Italian architect (d. 1573)
1730 - Richard Stockton, US attorney/signer (Decl of Independence)
1781 - James Lawrence, naval hero (War of 1812-“Don’t give up the ship!”)
1799 - Rufus Choate, US, lawyer (Hall of Fame)
1800 - Lars Levi Laestadius, Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
1870 - Pieter van Essen, Dutch artillery officer/inventor (grape-shot shells)
1881 - William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co (Boeing)
1893 - Yip Man, Martial Arts Master d.(1972)
1903 - ”Slapsie” Maxie Rosenbloom, NYC, light-heavyweight box champ (1932-34)
1904 - Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, Rowena, Texas, outlaw (Bonnie and Clyde), (d. 1934)
1920 - Walter Matthau, NYC, actor (Odd Couple, Bad News Bears)
1921 - James Whitmore, White Plains NY, actor (Give ‘em Hell Harry)
1924 - Jimmy Earl Carter, Plains Ga, (D) 39th Pres (1977-1981)
1924 - William Rehnquist, Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987- )
1926 - Roger Williams, American pianist
1927 - Tom Bosley, Chicago, actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote)
1928 - George Peppard, Detroit Mich, actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max)
1928 - Laurence Harvey, [Larushka Skine], actor (Alamo, Romeo & Juliet)
1930 - Frank Gardner, Australian racing driver
1931 - Reginald Hall, endocrinologist
1932 - Albert Collins, Leona TX, blues guitarist (Frosty, Showdown)
Iceman Dirty Dishes Cold Cold Feeling with Gary Moore
I Ain’t Drunk Stormy Monday with BB King Further On Down The Road with Roy Buchanan
Travelin’ South Master Charge Sweet Little Angel with BB , Buddy Guy , Jeff & Eric
1935 - Julie Andrews, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins)
1936 - Charles G Fullerton, Rochester, NY, astronaut (STS-3, 51F)
1936 - Edward Villella, Bayside Queens, ballet dancer (NYC Ballet)
1936 - Stella Stevens, Yazoo City Miss, actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou)
1943 - Jim Martini, rocker (Sly & Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago, singer/songwriter (Where is the Love)
1945 - Rod Carew, baseball slugger (AL Rookie of Year 1967)
1945 - Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
1947 - Mariska Veres, Dutch singer (Shocking Blue)
1950 - Randy Quaid, Houston Tx, actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, Saturday Night Live)
1953 - Greta Andersen Waitz, Oslo Norway, marathoner (NYC – 1984)
1957 - Brad MacDonald, race horse trainer
1959 - Youssou N’dour, Senegalese singer (Shaking the tree)
1963 - Mark McGwire, 1st baseman (AL rookie of year 1988, Oakland A’s, Cards)
1964 - Kristi Atkinson, Van Nuys Ca, WP volleyballer (Best of Beach-6th-1994)
1964 - Harry Hill, British comedian
1965 - Cindy Margolis Model
1973 - Rodney Kite-Powell, historian
1973 - Jana Henke, German swimmer
1975 - Eric Morel, PR, US flyweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1977 - Jeffrey van Hooydonk, Belgian race car driver
1978 - Andrew JC Jackson, Australian surf lifesaver
1982 - Harry Lawrence, Bath born Entrepreneur
1985 - Revazi Zintiridis, Greek judoka
DEATHS
290 - [Christian] Bacchus, roman soldier/martyred saint, killed
552 - Teja, king of Ostrogoten, dies in battle
976 - Al-Hakam II, Moors kalief of Cordoba, dies
1189 - Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1404 - Boniface IX, [Pietro Tomacelli], Pope (1389-1404), dies
1570 - Frans Floris, Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
1864 - Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1913 - Eugene O’Keefe, Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1943 - Antoine T Broekman, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Anton JT Koreman, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Antoon Pleyte, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1943 - Dionysius Remiens, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1943 - Earnest Klijzing, resistance fighter, executed
1943 - Gideon Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Hans Katan, resistance fighter, executed at 24
1943 - Henri H Geul, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Johan Kalshoven, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Johan Roemer, resistance fighter, executed at 22
1943 - Johan van Mierlo, resistance fighter, executed at 35
1943 - John Charles Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Leo Frijda, resistance fighter, executed at 20
1943 - Louis Boissevain, resistance fighter, executed at 21
1943 - Maarten van/of Gilse, resistance fighter, executed at 27
1943 - Olaf T Thomsen, resistance fighter, executed at 23
1943 - Peter “Pam” Pooters, resistance fighter, executed at 32
1943 - Sape Kuiper, resistance fighter, executed at 19
1943 - Victor van Swieten, resistance fighter, executed at 36
1943 - Walter Brandligt, literature/resistance fighter, executed at 42
1945 - Walter B Cannon, US physiologist (Traumatic Shock), dies at 73
1965 - Edward E “Doc” Smith, US, sci-fi writer (Subspace encounter), dies
1970 - Raoul Riganti, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1972 - Louis Leakey, English anthropologist, dies at 68
1975 - Al Jackson, rock drummer (Booker T & The MG’s), dies at 39
1985 - E B White, US author (New Yorker, Charlotte’s Web), dies at 86
1990 - Curtis E LeMay, USAF General/VP candidate, dies at 83
1992 - Bruce Vorhauer, inventor (Today contraceptive sponge), suicide at 50
1994 - Scott Dunbar, bluse vocalist/guitarist, dies at 90
1995 - Aditya Biria, industrialist, dies at 50
2000 - Reginald Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
2002 - Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2004 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (b. 1946)
2007 - Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 - Al Oerter, American discus thrower (b. 1936) (Olympics-gold-56, 60, 64, 68) dies aged 71
Jay-Z Wants Less Government, But Supports Obama Because He’s Black
“Frustrating. Jay-Z likes Barack Obama as the leader of the United States not because of his policies, but because he’s black.”
“The part that is frustrating is that Jay-Z is judging Obama not by the content of his character, but by the color of his skin (heard this before?), because all signs point to a more conservative or libertarian rap mogul and not a guy that a large percentage of the country thinks is about to fall over to the socialist side of the fence.”
