Women: Liberal vs. Consevative Women's Pictures

Differences
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The difference between conservative women and liberal women

If it came down to voting, which would you rather look at everyday? The choice seems obvious.





by RidesAPaleHorse
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Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton: Men are the Bystanders Now

Roar
Suzette
Cripes! Suzette

Barack Obama was right when he said that we are the ones we've been waiting for, but it we turns out that "we" are the women. And as fast as that, the men are bystanders in the national drama and it's all about the women.

What is is about Sarah Palin that has people so agitated? I don't mean the laundry list of of the details of her God-fearing, gun-toting, social conservatism that we've all been discovering over the weekend - I mean the absolutely visceral reaction to her very presence.

It's because she doesn't seek permission and she doesn't apologize.

These are the traits that you are used to seeing in defeminized women - those who are past the reproductive years, like Golda Mier and Margaret Thatcher and those who fall into the virile female category such as Janet Reno. That bumper sticker that says "I'm Out of Estrogen And I've Got A Gun" is no joke. It's also reason that women were declared witches, hunted and executed in the most vile and extreme manner possible to imagine - the fear of that power necessitated a response equal in intensity. But to recognize the audacity of a woman's non-dependence combined with the power of a fertility requires a different mindset altogether. And America - you're not doing very well with that.

In between the outrageous rumor-mongering on the left side of the net this weekend, one commenter laid it bare and stated that he could not wrap his mind around the thought of a lactating vice president. Imagine that fear: confronting the idea of a fertile, life-producing, life-sustaining woman. We already have the power of life - it may be too much to contemplate the potential risk of relinquishing other types of power. Who knows to what uncomfortable place that might take us all. And how are we supposed to act once we get there?

It's not the men who are solely responsible for this attitude. Some of us cannot bear the anxiety of reinventing ourselves in our own image but fight to keep our comfortable and traditional place in the world - at the grace of others. Those mouthpieces who shout loudest about racism have the most to gain by perpetuating it; likewise those who express such grave concern about Palin's mothering choices and the impact her decision to seek office will have on her family have a self-preserving interest in keeping things just as they are.

The womanization - different from the feminization - of the political conversation is an awesome thing and apparently a thing to be feared for so many. Compare Palin's presence with that of Hillary Clinton. Hillary, who did what she could with what she had, rode the coattails of her husband along her own career path. I have no doubt whatsoever that she was the mastermind of his career and the success that he had was due in large part to her efforts, both private and public. But her approach to her own public career is based on being allowed to have it. She got the pity vote in NY state for her traditional reaction to the humiliation at the hands of that husband, and as I write this, she is smarting from the refusal of permission by her party to attain her lifelong goal.

This is a turning point indeed. While others were intent on staring at the their own individual impenetrable ceilings, something happened. We turned around and a woman is standing not on the threshold but is already halfway in the door and she got there without seeking permission from the doorman. So many voices raised now, not in recognition of the primal nature that got her to that point, but to remind her in the most dismissive and condescending terms that the world would really be better off if she would just politely get back to her place because no one gave her permission to be where or who she is now.

It's a message to us all, born of fear and spoken on behalf of safety for the greater pack. I will not listen.

WANT More Suzette? Try these recent offerings from Cripes! Suzette: * A Brief Break From Political Blogging Before Sarah-cuda Churns Up The Waters Tonight * "How Does My Ass Taste Now, Barry?" * Just Kidding! I Would Never Do That. * Me and Mrs. Palin

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Hillary Clinton Vs. Sarah Palin: Compare and Contrast

Hillary Vs Sarah
Nancy Morgan
Right Bias.com

Taking a line from Michelle Obama, for the first time in my life, I'm proud to be a woman.

I'm no feminist and I abhor identity politics, which tend to divide instead of unite. But seeing Sarah Palin yesterday stirred feelings I never knew I had. I couldn't help but contrast her with Hillary.

Consider: Hillary has spent her whole life in the quest for power. She is a political animal through and through, willing to do what ever it takes to obtain the highest office in the world. How galling to see a beautiful young upstart come out of nowhere and grab the acclaim that is rightfully hers. Hillary is finding out that life just isn't fair. Welcome to the real world.

Speaking of the real world, Sarah Palin is a life long member. No power hungry politico, she. Gov. Palin, by all accounts, is a woman who embodies the best of the female species. Experienced in real life, she is the epitome of what America stands for. She exhibits the traits that have made America great. And she does it effortlessly, because that's who she is. A mother of five, a wife, a conservative, a person who has lived life and succeeded at everything she has set out to do. That's what America is.

Unlike Hillary, Gov. Palin has never had the need to 'reinvent' herself. Unlike Obama, her message comes from the heart instead of the teleprompter. Unlike McCain, she is not a career politician. She has a life, and politics is a part of it. Kinda like the citizen legislators our founding fathers favored.

The difference between Hillary and Sarah was glaringly evident yesterday. Gov. Palin graciously acknowledged Geraldine Ferraro and Hillary Clinton for paving the way, for breaking the glass ceiling. Hillary, on the other hand, issued a tepid, "Congratulations." Scripted vs from the heart. Classy vs craven. Finally, substance trumps perception. Finally, proven merit trumps vague intentions and scripted sound bites.

Unlike Hillary, Palin has a history of practicing what she preaches. From taking on corruption in her own party and prevailing, to standing up for her principles even thought they weren't politically expedient. She governed Alaska not by polls, but by doing the right thing. Can anyone mention the last time Hillary did the right thing?

The experts opine endlessly on the risk McCain took in naming a relative unknown as his choice for VP. A look into a forum of Hillary supporters, however, indicates that the experts may have it wrong, once again. 99% of comments posted on Hillary Clinton Forum reveal Hillary supporters are already in Palin's corner. Ah, the fickleness of politics.

The barbs already winging Gov. Palin's way all have the word 'inexperience' highlighted. One need only look to Reagan to suspect that Palin's supposed inexperience could be a major advantage. When Reagan was running for Governor of California in 1966, he said, "I am not a professional politician. The man who currently has the job has more political experience than anybody else. That's why I'm running." Just so.

The institutional bias in favor of 'experience' is one of the problems with our current system. Most politicians are lawyers, experienced in working the system. Finally, along comes someone like Palin, who is more interested in making the system work than in working the system. I expect she will pose a genuine threat to the status quo, to say nothing of the 'good old boy' system. Sounds like change to me.

Her experience as an American citizen, mother, wife, Mayor and PTA member mean that all those people in flyover country, the millions of Americans who aren't part of the 'elite' might finally have found a voice inside the beltway.

Most politicians claim to speak for the common man. Sarah Palin IS the common man. And, thank God, she seems more than willing and able to speak for herself. And me.

by Nancy Morgan
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Nancy Morgan is a columnist and news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina

Article may be reprinted, with attribution

DBKP Today in Weird History: March 16, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, ROCKETS, NAZIS, SCANDALS, ST. PANCAKE, SURE, BOBBIES, JEWS, ASSASSINATION, BYE, QUIET, NANNY STATE, WOMEN, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, DRAMA, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

ACADEMIES

1802 President Jefferson signed a measure authorizing the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

WAR!

1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima.

1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die.

2003 Five years ago: Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein warned that if Iraq were attacked, it would take the war anywhere in the world "wherever there is sky, land or water." President Bush gave the United Nations one more day to find a diplomatic solution to the standoff.

TERRORISM

1977 US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland.

1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas, who later murdered him.

1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen; he died in captivity.

1985 Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut; he was released in December 1991.

1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed.

DISASTER

1941 Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60.

1969 Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155.

1991 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash.

DRAMA

1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan.

QUIET

1830 New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded).

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1966 "Man From Uncle" star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London.

WOMEN

1876 Nelly Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (New York).

BOBBIES

1830 London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms.

ROCKETS

1926 rocket science pioneer Robert H. Goddard successfully tested the first liquid-fueled rocket, in Auburn, Mass.

BYE

1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union.

NAZIS

1935 Adolf Hitler decided to break the military terms set by the Treaty of Versailles by ordering the rearming of Germany.

ST. PANCAKE

2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American in Gaza to protest Israel operations, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block troops from demolishing a Palestinian home.

NANNY STATE

1871 1st fertilizer law enacted.

SCANDALS

1988 A federal grand jury indicted former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, fired White House aide Oliver North, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Richard Secord and Secord's business partner, Albert Hakim, on charges related to the Iran-Contra affair. (Poindexter and North were later convicted, but had their convictions overturned; Secord and Hakim received probation after each pleaded guilty to a single count.)

ASSASSINATION

1978 Aldo Moro 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists.

JEWS

1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism.

1998 In a long-awaited document that Jewish leaders immediately criticized, the Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.

SURE

2007 Former CIA operative Valerie Plame told a House committee that White House and State Department officials had "carelessly and recklessly" blown her cover in a politically motivated smear of her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for publicly disputing President Bush's assertion that Saddam Hussein was on the brink of acquiring a nuclear bomb.

BORN

1751 James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.

1849 James E Smith became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger.

BIRTHDAYS

Comedian-director Jerry Lewis is 82. Movie director Bernardo Bertolucci is 67. Game show host Chuck Woolery is 67. Singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker is 66. Country singer Robin Williams is 61. Actor Erik Estrada is 59. Actor Victor Garber is 59. Actress Kate Nelligan is 57. Country singer Ray Benson (Asleep at the Wheel) is 57. Rock singer-musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) is 54. Golfer Hollis Stacy is 54. Actress Isabelle Huppert is 53. Actor Clifton Powell is 52. Rapper Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) is 49. Rock musician Jimmy DeGrasso is 45. Folk singer Patty Griffin is 44. Actress Lauren Graham is 41. Actor Alan Tudyk is 37. Actress Brooke Burns is 30. Rock musician Wolfgang Van Halen is 17.

DEATH

37 Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula.

March 16, the 76th day of 2008. There are 290 days left in the year. Today is Palm Sunday.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 27, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, POLITICS, UNREST, WOMEN, LIMITS, MIRACLES, NAZIS, INDIANS, UPSETS, ROYALS, FINANCE, SWEET, PATENTS, TIRED, STARS, GOLF, HAUNTED, DEATH PENALTY, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, KILLERS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


NAZIS

On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire. Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming the Communists, used the fire as justification for suspending civil liberties.

WAR!

1864 6th & last day of Battle at Dalton, Georgia (about 600 casualties).

1991 President George H.W. Bush declared that "Kuwait is liberated, Iraq's army is defeated," and announced that the allies would suspend combat operations at midnight, Eastern time.

2003 Iraq agreed in principle to destroy its Al Samoud II missiles, two days before a U.N. deadline.

TERRORISM

1962 South-Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem's palace bombed, 1st US killed.

1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup.

1980 Terrorists occupies Dominican embassy in Bogota.

1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed.

1995 Car bomb explodes in Zakho, North-Iraq (54-80 killed).

2003 The Bush administration lowered the national terror alert from orange to yellow.

2007 A suicide bomber struck Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, who was rushed to a bomb shelter. (Twenty-three people were killed; Cheney was unhurt.)

DISASTER

1803 Great fire in Bombay, India.

1932 Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead).

GOLF

1927 For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.

STARS

1908 Star #46 was added to US flag for Oklahoma.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1957 Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X" "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until X-Files).

1974 "People" magazine begins sales.

HAUNTED

1939 English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire.

SWEET

1879 Constantine Fahlberg discovers saccharin (artificial sweetener).

TIRED

1890 D Needham & P Kerrigan box 100 rounds (6 hours 39 minutes), San Francisco; match is draw.

PATENTS

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine.

DEATH PENALTY

1987 NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption.

KILLERS

1982 Wayne Williams found guilty of murdering 2 of 28 blacks in Atlanta GA.

1998 FBI arrests 10 most wanted suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati.

POLITICS

1801 the District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.

JEWS

1670 Jews are expelled from Austria by order of Leopold I.

1949 Chaim Weizmann becomes 1st Israeli President.

SPORTS

1901 NL Rules Committee decrees that all fouls are to count as strikes except after two strikes.

UNREST

1861 in Warsaw, Russian troops fired on a crowd protesting Russian rule over Poland; five marchers were killed.

WOMEN

1922 The Supreme Court, in Leser v. Garnett, unanimously upheld the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that guaranteed the right of women to vote.

LIMITS

1951 The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, limiting a president to two terms of office, was ratified.

MIRACLES

1960 The U.S. Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviets, 3-2, at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, Calif. (The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal.)

INDIANS

1973 Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.)

UPSETS

1979 Jane M. Byrne confounded Chicago's Democratic political machine as she upset Mayor Michael A. Bilandic to win their party's mayoral primary. (Byrne went on to win the election.)

ROYALS

1998 With the approval of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain's House of Lords agreed to end 1,000 years of male preference by giving a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son.

FINANCE

2007 The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 416.02 points, the worst drop since the 2001 terrorist attacks.

BORN

1807 poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine.

1920 Reg Simpson cricketer (prolific England opener 1948-55).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Joanne Woodward is 78. Actress Elizabeth Taylor is 76. Consumer advocate Ralph Nader is 74. Actress Barbara Babcock is 71. Actor Howard Hesseman is 68. Actress Debra Monk is 59. Rock singer-musician Neal Schon (Journey) is 54. Rock musician Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden) is 51. Actor Timothy Spall is 51. Rock musician Paul Humphreys (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) is 48. Country singer Johnny Van Zant (Van Zant) is 48. Rock musician Leon Mobley (Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals) is 47. Basketball Hall-of-Famer James Worthy is 47. Actor Adam Baldwin is 46. Actor Grant Show is 46. Rock musician Mike Cross (Sponge) is 43. Actor Donal Logue is 42. Rhythm-and-blues singer Chilli (TLC) is 37. Rock musician Jeremy Dean (Nine Days) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Roderick Clark is 35. Country-rock musician Shonna Tucker (Drive-By Truckers) is 30. Chelsea Clinton is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer Bobby Valentino is 28. Singer Josh Groban is 27. Actress Kate Mara is 25.

DEATH

1939 Nadezjda K Krupskaya Russian revolutionary/wife of Lenin, dies at 70.

1985 J Pat O'Malley actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83.

2003 Children's television host Fred Rogers died in Pittsburgh at age 74.


February 27, the 58th day of 2008. There are 308 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 15, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, WOMEN, CITIES, ASSASSINATION, SCANDAL, EXECUTED, COMMIES, CONDIMENTS, RESCUE, SLAVERY, TREASON, TREES, TOYS, MEAT, CLIMATE, VAMPIRES, COMMIES, BEETLES, CARTOONS, FAKES, BEATLES, SPORTS, BOOTLEG, DREAMS, SERIAL KILLERS, CHESS, JEWS, POPULATION, FINANCE, CLINTONS, GLOBAL WARMING, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH



WAR!

1898 USS Maine blew up in Havana harbor, touching off the Spanish-American War.

1989 More than 100,000 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan almost 10 years after the USSR invaded the country.

1918 1st WWI US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland.

1942 Singapore surrenders to the Japanese.

1984 500,000 Iranian soldiers move into Iraq.

TERRORISM

1993 Bombings by Mafia drug lords kill 14 in Bogotá Colombia.

DISASTER

1864 Fire in Rotterdam Netherlands damages Museum Boymans.

1898 USS Maine blows up in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die.

1961 73 people, including an 18-member U.S. figure skating team en route to Czechoslovakia, were killed in the crash of a Sabena Airlines Boeing 707 in Belgium.

1970 Dominican DC-9 crashes into sea at Santo Domingo, kills 102.

1982 Ocean Ranger oil-drilling platform lost off Newfoundland, 84 die.

1991 Freighter with dynamite explodes in Phang Nga Thailand, 120 die.

DREAMS

1967 Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23).

VAMPIRES

1931 1st Dracula movie released.

SERIAL KILLERS

1978 Escaped mass murderer Ted Bundy recaptured, Pensacola FL.

1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane & guilty of killing 15 boys.

CLINTONS

1998 Monica Lewinsky's attorney, William Ginsburg, continued his harsh criticism of Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr for alleged leaks of information to the news media, charging on CNN that his client's constitutional rights were being trampled.

TOYS

1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom.

FINANCE

1995 Dow-Jones closes at record 3986.17

CONDIMENTS

1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia.

BEETLES

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

BEATLES

1965 John Lennon passes his driving test.

BOOTLEG

1967 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted.

FAKES

1955 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced.

GLOBAL WARMING

2007 National Guardsmen in Humvees ferried food, fuel and baby supplies to hundreds of motorists stranded for nearly a day on a 50-mile stretch of Interstate 78 in eastern Pennsylvania because of a monster storm.

CARTOONS

1950 Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released.

COMMIES

1933 Karl Radek praises invincible force of German communist party.

POPULATION

1995 Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion.

MEAT

1882 1st cargo of frozen meat leaves New Zealand for Britain, on SS Dunedin.

SPORTS

1956 Pirates & Kansas City A's cancel an exhibition game in Birmingham AL, because of local ordinance barring black from playing against white.

SLAVERY

1804 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery.

JEWS

1989 Israel attacks border strip Taba near Egypt.

CLIMATE

1895 23 cm (9") of snow falls on New Orleans.

CHESS

1985 World chess championship match abandoned-Karpov 25, Kasparov 23.

SCANDAL

2002 Olympics officials resolved the judging scandal by awarding Canadian pairs figure skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians, Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze, to keep their medal.

TREASON

1869 Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped.

RESCUE

1851 Black abolitionists invade Boston courtroom rescuing a fugitive slave.

TREES

1876 Historic Elm at Boston blown down.

WOMEN

1879 President Rutherford Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court.

ASSASSINATION

1933 Chicago Mayor Anton J. Cermak was killed in an assassination attempt on president-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt in Miami.

EXECUTED

1979 Mehdi Rahimi Iran General/military Governor of Tehran, executed.

1994 Andrei Tsjikatilo [Rostov Ripper], Russian mass murdered, executed.


CITIES

1764 St. Louis, Mo., was founded as a French fur-trading post.

COMMIES

1984 Leamon Hunt US director-General in Sinai, killed by communists.

BORN

1564 Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa.

1803 John Augustus Sutter Swiss/US colonist of California gold rush fame (New Helvetia CA, Sutter Mill).

1820 Susan Brownell Anthony Adams MA, women's suffragette.

1882 John Barrymore [Blythe], Philadelphia PA, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, The Tempest, Beloved Rogue).

1907 Cesar Romero New York NY, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, The Thin Man).

BIRTHDAYS

Actor Kevin McCarthy is 94. Actor Allan Arbus is 90. Country singer Hank Locklin is 90. Former Illinois Rep. John Anderson is 86. Comedian Harvey Korman is 81. Actress Claire Bloom is 77. Author Susan Brownmiller is 73. Songwriter Brian Holland is 67. Rock musician Mick Avory (The Kinks) is 64. Jazz musician Henry Threadgill is 64. Actress Jane Seymour is 57. Singer Melissa Manchester is 57. Actress Lynn Whitfield is 55. "Simpsons" creator Matt Groening is 54. Model Janice Dickinson is 53. Actor Christopher McDonald is 53. Reggae singer Ali Campbell is 49. Actor Joseph R. Gannascoli is 49. Musician Mikey Craig (Culture Club) is 48. Country singer Michael Reynolds (Pinmonkey) is 44. Actor Michael Easton is 41. Actress Renee O'Connor is 37. Actress Sarah Wynter is 35. Rock singer Brandon Boyd (Incubus) is 32. Rock musician Ronnie Vannucci (The Killers) is 32. Actress Ashley Lyn Cafagna is 25.

DEATH

1943 Thomas "Fats" Waller US jazz pianist (Hot Chocolate), dies at 38.

1973 Wally Cox actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), dies at 48.

1984 Ethel Merman singer/actress (Kid Million), dies in her sleep at 76.

February 15, the 46th day of 2008. There are 320 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 12, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, FREE, BEHEADED, WOMEN, RACE, CIVIL RIGHTS, ABDICATE, MEMORIALS, CLINTONS, COMICS, GUNMAN, STARTS, FIREBALL, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, VIETNAM, CLASH, BUSTED, RECORDS, THIEF, TABLOID, OJ, BORN, BIRTHDAY, DEATH



THIEF!

1994 Edvard Munch's painting "The Cry" stolen (in Oslo).

WAR!

1861 State troops seize US munitions in Napoleon AK.

1973 Operation Homecoming began as the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place.

TERRORISM

2003 The U.N. nuclear agency declared North Korea in violation of international treaties, sending the dispute to the Security Council.

2007 Car bombs shattered Baghdad's oldest and largest market, killing at least 78 people.

DISASTERS

1998 250-car Italy pile-up due to fog, 4 die & 50 hurt.

FIREBALL

1947 Daytime fireball & meteorite fall seen in eastern Siberia.

CLINTONS

1998 A federal judge threw out President Clinton's new line-item veto authority.

1999 The Senate acquitted President Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice.

STARTS

1876 Al Spalding opens his sporting good shop.

BUSTED

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

OJ

1997 Fred Goldman says he will settle for a signed murder confession from O J Simpson in lieu of his $20.5 million judgment.

VIETNAM

1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam.

PATENTS

1878 Frederick Thayer patents the catcher's mask (pat # 200,358).

RECORDS

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

TABLOID

1994 Model Anna Nicole Smith hospitalized for drug overdose.

CLASH

1960 Chinese army kills 12 Indian soldiers.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech.

JEWS

1941 Jewish Council for Amsterdam forms, under Ascher/Cohen; Occupation Police arrest "Jewish Foursome".

BEHEADED

1554 Lady Jane Grey, who'd claimed the throne of England for nine days, and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were beheaded after being condemned for high treason.

FREE

1818 Chile officially proclaimed its independence, more than seven years after initially renouncing Spanish rule.

MURDER

1976 Sal Mineo actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed at 37.

WOMEN

1870 women in the Utah Territory gained the right to vote. (However, that right was taken away in 1887).

RACE

1908 the first round-the-world automobile race began in New York. (It ended in Paris the following July with the drivers of the American car, a Thomas Flyer, declared the winners over teams from Germany and Italy.)

CIVIL RIGHTS

1909 the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded.

ABDICATE

1912 Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, abdicated, marking the end of the Qing Dynasty.

MEMORIALS

1915 the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington, D.C., a year to the day after groundbreaking.

COMICS

1940 The radio play "The Adventures of Superman" debuted with Bud Collyer as the Man of Steel.

GUNMAN

2007 Teen gunman Sulejman Talovic shot nine people, killing five, at a Salt Lake City mall before he was shot and killed by police.

BORN

1809 Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in present-day Larue County, Ky.

1880 John Llewellyn Lewis union leader (United Mine Workers, 1920-60).

1904 Ted Mack Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour).

BIRTHDAYS

Movie director Franco Zeffirelli is 85. Actor Louis Zorich is 84. Baseball Hall-of-Fame sportscaster Joe Garagiola is 82. Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) is 78. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell is 74. Actor Joe Don Baker is 72. Author Judy Blume is 70. Rock musician Ray Manzarek (The Doors) is 69. Country singer Moe Bandy is 64. Actress Maud Adams is 63. Actor Cliff DeYoung is 63. Actor Michael Ironside is 58. Rock musician Steve Hackett is 58. Rock singer Michael McDonald is 56. Actress Joanna Kerns is 55. Actor-former talk show host Arsenio Hall is 53. Actress Christine Elise is 43. Actor Josh Brolin is 40. Singer Chynna Phillips is 40. Rock musician Jim Creeggan (Barenaked Ladies) is 38. Rhythm-and-blues musician Keri Lewis is 37. Actor Jesse Spencer ("House, M.D.") is 29. Actress Sarah Lancaster is 28. Actress Christina Ricci is 28.

DEATH

1983 Eubie Blake ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), dies at 100.

2003 Holiday Inn chain founder Kemmons Wilson died in Memphis, Tenn., at age 90.

February 12, the 43rd day of 2008. There are 323 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 7, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, TRIAL, RATIONING, IKE, WOMEN, SCIENCE, EXECUTION, QUACKS, POLITICS, BARE KNUCKLES, CLIMATE, CARTOONS, PREDICTIONS, MOVIES, WEDDINGS, JEWS, FLAVORS, MUSLIMS, SURGERY, NANNY STATE, UNREST, BUBBLE BOY, SHOCK JOCKS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


1964 The Beatles began their first American tour as they arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

WAR!

1861 The general council of the Choctaw Indian nation adopted a resolution declaring allegiance with the South "in the event a permanent dissolution of the American Union takes place."

1862 Federal fleet attack on Roanoke Island NC.

1864 Federal troops occupy Jacksonville FL.

2003 President Bush courted the leaders of France and China in an uphill struggle to win U.N. backing for war with Iraq.

2007 U.S. officials confirmed a new security operation was under way in Baghdad; U.S. armor rushed through streets, and Iraqi armored personnel carriers guarded bridges and major intersections. A Marine CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter was shot down by insurgents in Anbar, killing all seven people on board.

TERRORISM

1969 Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO.

2003 The government raised its terror threat level to "high risk" orange, warning of a growing possibility that the al-Qaida network would launch an attack against the United States to coincide with Muslim holy days.

2003 Colombian guerillas bombed the exclusive El Nogal social club in Bogota, killing 36 people and injuring 160 others.

DISASTER

1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid MO; this is the last of Midwest quakes (see 12/16).

1904 A fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hours and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in 80 blocks.

1962 Gas explosion in Luisanthal coal mine Voelklingen Germany kills 298.

FLAVORS

1964 Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream.

RATIONING

1943 the government announced the start of shoe rationing, limiting consumers to buying three pairs per person for the remainder of the year.

QUACKS

1979 Josef Mengele concentration camp doctor, drowns.

WEDDINGS

1993 Pebbles Flintstone & Bamm Bamm Rubble wed.

SURGERY

1965 George Harrison of the Beatles, has his tonsils removed.

BUBBLE BOY

1984 David (born without immunity system) at 12, touches mom for 1st time.

SPORTS

1985 Marshall University's Bruce Morris scores a basket from 92'5¼".

UNREST

1990 Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators.

EXECUTIONS

1920 Alexander Koltsjak Admiral/leader Russian counter-revolutionary, executed.

SHOCK JOCKS

1994 Howard Stern stops a would-be jumper on the George Washington Bridge.

POLITICS

1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president".

1905 Oklahoma admitted to statehood.

BARE KNUCKLES

1882 Last bare knuckle champion John L Sullivan KOs Paddy Ryan in Mississippi.

PREDICTIONS

1945 General Douglas MacArthur returns to Manila.

NANNY STATE

1976 FCC raids & shuts down pirate radio station WCPR (Brooklyn NY).

JEWS

1947 Arabs & Jews reject British proposal to split Palestine.

MUSLIMS

1964 Cassius Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali.

TRIAL

1857 A French court acquitted author Gustave Flaubert of obscenity for his serialized novel "Madame Bovary."

CLIMATE

1891 Great Blizzard of 1891 begins.

COMMIES

1950 Senator Joe McCarthy finds communists in US Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

IKE

1948 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army chief of staff; he was succeeded by General Omar Bradley.

WOMEN

1983 Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn in as the first female secretary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

SCIENCE

1984 Space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart went on the first untethered space walk.

CARTOONS

1936 Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren from Otto Messmer.

MOVIES

1940 Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres (New York NY).

1974 Mel Brooks' "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters.

BORN

1478 Sir Thomas More lawyer/lord chancellor of England/saint (Utopia).

1804 John Deere pioneer manufacturer of agricultural implements.

1812 Author Charles Dickens was born in Portsmouth, England.

1817 Frederick Douglass Maryland, 1st high ranking black in US government.

1885 Sinclair Lewis novelist/social critic (Main Street, Nobel 1930).

1908 Clarence Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe Oakland CA, swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)/actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon).

BIRTHDAYS

Country singer Wilma Lee Cooper is 87. Author Gay Talese is 76. Actor Miguel Ferrer is 53. Reggae musician Brian Travers (UB40) is 49. Actor James Spader is 48. Country singer Garth Brooks is 46. Rock musician David Bryan (Bon Jovi) is 46. Actor-comedian Eddie Izzard is 46. Actor-comedian Chris Rock is 43. Actor Jason Gedrick is 41. Actor Ashton Kutcher is 30. Actress Tina Majorino is 23.

DEATH

1993 Arthur Ashe tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), dies of AIDS at 49.

1998 It was announced that Carl Wilson, a founding member of The Beach Boys, had died in Los Angeles from complications of lung cancer; he was 51.

2003 Tom Christerson, the longest-living recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart, died at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Ky., after 512 days on the AbioCor; he was 71.

February 7, the 38th day of 2008. There are 328 days left in the year. This is the Lunar New Year of the Rat.

compiled by Mondoreb
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* Today in History
* Today in History



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Can Women Handle the "50 Universal Truths About Men"?

While doing research for a new topic, "what men want," we came across a list of 50 Universal Truths About Men.

Written by Bob Grant, L.P.C. "The Relationship Doctor," the list was on the site, Relationship Headquarters, where one can find such topics as understanding men, love and dating, The Woman Men Adore, and the Man of Your Dreams.

We thought it would be interesting to do a counterpoint to each of Dr. Bob's "Truths". From our own "unique" perspective.

Are women capable of understanding the "50 Universal Truths About Men?"

We thought we'd give it a shot.

50 Universal Truths About Men
By Dr. Bob Grant

1. Why should I remind you that “I love you?” I already told you once.
Ginn: Because a man who's stingy saying "I love you" isn't worth my time. That's why.

2. I’ll do anything for sex; even commit to you for life.
Ginn: Good grief, no woman wants a man that desperate.

3. I hate arguing with you. I’d much rather find a compromise.
Ginn: Too bad, buddy, you're a wuss. A real man knows how to catch a plate every now and then.

4. I love long hair. Sorry, but I do.
Ginn: Women hate men who apologize too much. Sorry, but we do.

5. When you speak softly, I can’t help but listen.
Ginn: We do speak softly, and carry big sticks.

6. I need to be told “no” sometimes. Not a lot, but every now and again reminds me that you are expensive.
Ginn: Why would telling you no, remind you we're "expensive?"

7. Please don’t ask me how you look unless you’re willing to trust my answer.
Ginn: We lie about your appearance to make you feel good, why can't you?

8. My eyes notice other women a lot more when you are upset with me.
Ginn: This is where the big stick comes in.

9. When you’re happy with me I can’t help but want to please you.
Ginn: Well, okay, we can handle that. In fact, that's kind of sweet.

10. If I don’t feel I can make you happy, it makes me feel less than a man.
Ginn: You always make us happy when you're just being yourself.

11. I expect you to be ready when I pick you up.
Ginn: Of course! It's rude to make people wait!

12. Cigarettes make any woman look cheap and easy.
Ginn: Whiskey and a cigarette every now then doesn't make us cheap. Besides, sometimes, cheap is fun.

13. I'm scared if I let a woman inside my heart, she'll take advantage of me.
Ginn: Women feel the same way.

14. If you can’t stand up to me when I’m a brat, you’re too weak for me to open up to when I’m upset.
Ginn: We didn't sign on to be your mother.

15. Sitting quietly next to me after you’ve made me a meal is your get-out-of-the-doghouse-free ticket. You’ll be surprised how quickly I can forgive.
Ginn: Oh really? You'd be surprised how quickly I'd decide to not date you.

16. You did something hurtful. If I never bring it up, I’m considering leaving you.
Ginn: Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out.

17. I don’t read minds. Remember, I’m not a girl.
Ginn: Then don't act like one.

18. You may know fashion, but I wish you’d dress to please me, not other women.
Ginn: What a myth! We do not wear thigh highs and heels for other women.

19. If I’m losing my hair, it’s not funny. Would you like me to joke about your weight?
Ginn: You're right, losing your hair is not funny. Classy women know it's not nice to make fun of losing your hair.

20. When I talk to you about golf and you act bored, it would be nice for you to remember all the times I listened to you talk about what is important to you.
Ginn: Let's make a deal. If you think listening to what's important to me is boring then I'm obviously with the wrong person. Period.

21. The woman I love is easy to please. She appreciates the effort I put into making her happy, even if I get the details wrong.
Ginn: True. We adore a man who cares about our happiness. We want his happiness as much as he wants ours.

22. You look hot in a dress.
Ginn: Yes, I do. Thanks.

23. I hate being told what to do when I don't ask for help. It makes me feel you're my mother.
Ginn: I agree. It's a bad habit for some women to break.

24. If you sleep over, I might eventually marry you, but I'm less motivated.
Ginn: If you sleep over, I might eventually marry you, unless, for some reason, you're less motivated.

25. During sex my ears are as sensitive to your words as your skin is to my touch.
Ginn: Girls been dissin you during sex?

26. I need some type of signal or cue to walk across the room and approach you. What if you’re married!?
Ginn: If I'm married you won't get a "signal" so no need to obsess about it.

27. It makes me feel like you trust me when you ask for my advice.
Ginn: I wouldn't ask unless I thought you knew the answer.

28. It feels competitive when you insist on being in charge.
Ginn: A relationship is supposed to be fun. Not work. Being someone's boss is too much work.

29. Being respected is more important to me that being loved.
Ginn: Respect and love come together in the same package. If someone doesn't respect you, they don't love you. It's as simple as that.

30. I want every guy to envy me when we arrive as a couple. Please don’t let yourself go.
Ginn: And vice-versa, oh shallow one.

31. When I’m upset I am very tone sensitive. How you say it is more important that what you say..
Ginn: Good grief. This is sounding more and more like work.

32. I hate it when you minimize/ignore my compliments. It makes me what to stop giving them.
Ginn: (playing world's smallest violin) Interesting. Truly.

33. I’m more insecure than you think. Why do you think I need your respect so much?
Ginn: Again, if I love you, then I respect you too. Just how insecure are you? Inquiring minds...

34. I don’t always know how I feel. That’s why I don’t tell you.
Ginn: But how do you really feel?

35. I don’t need you to do things for me. What I crave is being able to please you.
Ginn: Then please me.

36. If I do one thing and say something contradictory – Go with my actions, that will always tell you what’s in my heart.
Ginn: Sigh. Okay. You don't happen to have a manual I can take home with me?

37. I find myself wanting to please you when you simply smile at me without asking for something. (Like a favor).
Ginn: If you're fun to be with, we smile, a lot.

38. I really don’t want to hear about any of your ex-boyfriends, regardless of the point.
Ginn: Nor do we want to hear about your ex-girlfriends... or your mother.

39. If I don’t share what I’m thinking it’s because I don’t think you will listen without interrupting.
Ginn: I'm sorry, could you repeat what you just said...

40. I don’t like to argue and I don’t like to guess what’s wrong. Just tell me so I can fix it.
Ginn: What makes you think you can "fix" it?

41. I love it when you put your hair in a pony tail. Yes, it’s a Freudian thing.
Ginn: And yet, when I put my hair in a pony tail, you remind me of Pavlov's dog.

42. Don’t ask me, “Are you going to wear that?” when I’m already dressed.
Ginn: It was more a statement, not a question. Perhaps you need some "Queer Eye for the Overly Sensitive Straight guy?"

43. A gentleman should always be respected by his lady in public, even if she is disagreeing with him.
Ginn: What kind of women are you going out with?

44. If you don’t believe you’re pretty, you won’t believe me when I tell you, no matter how many times I say it.
Ginn: Women like to hear they're pretty. Even the ones who don't believe it.

45. It isn’t how much you weigh; it’s that your body is proportionate which is so attractive.
Ginn: Yes, we already know this. How ironic that women aren't more demanding of men's body shapes. Why do we let you get away with this double standard?

46. Sometimes I have weird and strange thoughts. I don’t take them seriously and I don’t want to share them with you (or anyone).
Ginn: Who said we wanted to hear them? Unless it involves murdering us, then we want to know.

47. Sometimes you really don’t want to know what I’m thinking. See above.
Ginn: And sometimes you really don't want to know what I'm thinking either.

48. If you cheat on me, it is nearly impossible for me to get over it.
Ginn: Same here, buddy. (Smacks big stick in palm of hand)

49. I don’t remember everything about our relationship and that doesn’t mean I don’t love you.
Ginn: We just pretend we remember everything.

50. I need some time to myself to calm down when I’m upset so that I don’t say something I will regret.
Ginn: Is this because woman don't need extra time to get their thoughts together? Hmmm?

Whoever this guy is, if this were a date, I'd be wondering where that waiter was with the check. After I finished my whiskey and cigarette, of course.

By LBG
Image - Girls Out Of Hell
Source - Relationship Headquarters




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Today in History: January 12, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, JEWS, CONGRESS, PROGRESS, DECREES, UNION, EXPELLED, FAUX COMPUTER, MARRIAGE, MEDICINE, REBELLION, SPORTS, FINANCE, WOMEN, PATENTS, VICTORY!, SCIENCE, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SUPERMARKETS, DEATH PENALTY, CIVIL RIGHTS, DIPLOMACY, SERIAL KILLERS. CLIMATE, BANS, PLOTS, EXPELLED, RODENTS, MUSIC, BORN, DEATH, RESIGNATION


1995 Murder trial against OJ Simpson, begins in Los Angeles

WAR!

1809 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814)

1836 Battle of Wetumka

1861 FL state troops demand surrender of Fort Pickens

1863 President Davis delivers his "State of the Confederacy" address

1865 Union fleet bombs Fort Fisher NC

1879 British Zulu War begins Lieutenant-General Chelmsford invades Zululand

1942 National War Labor Board created

1942 British troops reconquer Sollum

1942 Dutch troops on Tarakan surrender

1944 Churchill & de Gaulle begin a 2-day wartime conference in Marrakesh

1944 Failed resistance raid on distribution office of Borgerstraat Amsterdam

1945 German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of the Bulge

1945 US Task Force 38 destroys 41 Japanese ships in Battle of South China Sea

1970 Biafran War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria

1991 US Congress gives George Bush authority to wage war against Iraq

1996 Russian troops arrived in Bosnia (joint operation with US)

TERRORISM

1971 Fed grand jury indicts Reverand Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2 priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger

1977 Anti-French demonstrations takes place in Israel after Paris released Abu Daoud, responsible 1972 Munich massacre of Israeli athletes

JEWS

1493 Last day for all Jews to leave Sicily

1953 9 "Jewish" physicians arrested for "terrorist activities" in Moscow

CONGRESS

1933 US Congress recognize independence Philippines

DISASTERS

1552 Dutch west coast hit by heavy storm, 100s killed

1807 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Netherlands, 150 die

1903 Rhodes Opera House burns in Boyertown PA, killing 170

1950 Swedish tanker rams British submarine Truculent in Thames, 64 die

1954 Austria's worst avalanche-kills 200; 9hours later 2nd one-kills 115

1989 6 claim to survive in rubble, 35 days after Armenian quake (hoax)

1995 Major earthquake kills 5,092 in Kobe Japan

PROGRESS

1812 1st cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez

1839 Anthracite coal 1st used to smelt iron, Mauch Chunk PA

1929 Seatrain (RR cars on ships) service begins, New Orleans-Havana

1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage

DECREES

1816 France decrees Bonaparte family excluded from the country forever

UNION

1974 Libya & Tunisia announces they are merging as "Islamic Arab Republic"

EXPELLED

1989 Idi Amin expelled from Zaire

FAUX COMPUTERS

1997 HAL becomes operational (2001: A Space Odyssey); this date was given as January 12, 1992 on screen, but 1997 is the date used in both the novel and screenplay

SCIENCE

1820 Royal Astronomical Society founded in England

1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reach Sydney Australia

1986 24th space shuttle (61-C) mission-Columbia 7-launched

MEDICINE

1896 1st X-ray photo in US (Dr Henry Smith, Davidson NC)

REBELLION

1904 Southwest-Africa uprising under Samuel Maherero against German garrison

1933 Uprising of Guardia Civil in Spain, 25 dies

1964 Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence

SPORTS

1906 Football rules committee legalizes the forward pass

1921 Kenesaw Mountain Landis becomes 1st commissioner of baseball

1958 NCAA adds 2 point conversion to football scoring

1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points

1966 Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics

1969 Super Bowl III New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami; Super Bowl MVP Joe Namath, New York Jets, Quarterback

1975 Super Bowl IX Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans; Super Bowl MVP Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, Running Back

1988 Willie Stargell (Pittsburgh Pirate), elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

1993 Doctors announce Pittsburgh Penguin Mario Limeux has Hodgkin's disease

FINANCE

1906 1st time Dow Jones closes above 100 (100.26)

1975 Chrysler Corp offers 1st car rebates

WOMEN

1915 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women the right to vote

PATENTS

1937 Plow for laying submarine cable patented

FASTS

1948 Mohandas Mahatma Gandhi begins his final fast

VICTORY!

1943 Frankfurters replaced by Victory Sausages (mix of meat & soy meal)

SUPERMARKETS

1948 1st Supermarket in UK opens

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1949 "Arthur Godfrey & His Friends" premieres on CBS TV

1965 "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV

1968 Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV

1971 "All in the Family" premieres on CBS featuring 1st toilet flush on TV

1981 "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by Dallas, starring Joan Collins, premieres on ABC-TV

DEATH PENALTY

1949 Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter

1928 Ruth Snyder 1st woman to die in electric chair

1950 USSR re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage & sabotage

CIVIL RIGHTS

1952 University of Tennessee admits its 1st black student

1957 Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) founded

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes



MARRIAGE

1993 MTV hostess Martha Quinn marries longtime boyfriend Jordan Tarlow

DIPLOMACY

1961 UN genocide pact goes into effect

1976 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to seat Palestine Liberation Organization

MUSIC

1963 "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1

1974 "Joker" by Steve Miller Band peaks at #1

SERIAL KILLERS

1979 Los Angeles's Hillside Strangler, Kenneth Bianchi, arrested in Bellingham

CLIMATE

1979 Record blizzard struck midwest killing over 100

RESIGNATION

1987 Britain's Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training

BANS

1990 Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)

PLOTS

1994 Malcolm X's daughter arrested for plotting Louis Farrakhan's murder

POPES

1995 Pope John Paul II begins visit to Southeast Asia

RODENTS

1965 Porcupine in Washington DC zoo, dies at 27; oldest known rodent

BORN

1580 Jean Baptiste van Helmont Belgian chemist, (found boiling point temperature)
1588 John Winthrop 1st Governor (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
1588 Jose Ribera [Lo Spagnoletto] Spanish painter
1599 Adrian van Utrecht Flemish painter
1729 Edmund Burke British author (Philosophy & Inquiry)
1737 John Hancock patriot (1st to sign Declaration of Independence)
1852 Joseph J C Joffre French field marshal (Indo-China, Marne)
1863 Vivekananda Calcutta, Hindu religious leader/reformer
1876 Jack London writer/socialist (Call of the Wild)
1893 Hermann Goering Reichsmarshall/propoganda minister (Nazi Germany)
1902 Ibn Abdul-Aziz Saud Kuwait, king (Saudi Arabia)
1906 Henny Youngman England, comedian (Take my wife please...)
1906 Tex Ritter Texas, country singer (5 Star Jubilee, The Wayward Wind)
1916 A P(ieter) W Botha Orange Free State, President of South Africa
1917 Walter Hendl West New York NJ, conductor
1920 James Farmer Marshall TX, civil rights leader
1921 John Henry Davis Jr Smithtown NY, light-super-heavyweight (Olympics-gold-1948, 52)
1921 Leo Smit Philadelphia PA, pianist/composer
1926 Ray Price country singer (For The Good Times)
1930 Glenn Yarborough singer (Limeliters-Honey & Wine, Jubilee)
1935 "The Amazing" Kreskin Montclair NJ, mentalist/telepath
1943 Ray Manzarek rock pianist (Doors-Light my Fire, People are Strange)
1944 Vlastimil Hort Czechoslovakian/German chess player
1947 Tom Dempsey NFL record-holder (longest field goal, 63 yards)
1951 Kirstie Alley Wichita KS, actress (Star Trek II, Cheers-Rebecca)
1951 Rush Hudson Limbaugh III Cape Girardeau MO, conservative radio & television host
1951 Bill Madlock 4X NL batting champ (Chicago Cubs)
1951 Chris Bell Memphis TN, rock guitarist (Big Star)
1952 Ricky Van Shelton Danville VA, country musician (Somebody Lied, From a Jack to a King, Rockin' Years)
1954 Howard Stern Roosevelt NY, "Radio's Bad Boy" (WKRK, WYSP, WJFK)
1960 Dominique Wilkins NBA forward (Atlanta Hawks)
1968 Heather Mills Aldershot England, model/writer (Out on a Limb)
1996 Sarah Morales Mexico, Siamese twin (survived)
1996 Sarahi Morales Mexico, Siamese twin (died on Jan 27, 1996)

DEATH

1517 Vasco Núñez de Balboa Spanish conquistador/admiral, beheaded at 41
1829 Friedrich von Schlegel German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56
1962 Ernie Kovacs comedian (Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42
1976 Agatha Christie mystery writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85
1978 Nancy Spungen stabbed to death by boyfriend Sid Vicious
1981 Beulah Bondi Chicago IL, actress (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 89

January 12, the 12th day of the year. There are 354 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
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Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Hillary Clinton and Women

All women support Hillary?
Um, not exactly


Hillary won over Obama, which makes me a bit happy.

Obama in 2012 when he gets out of diapers, and even the NASCAR daddies will vote for him. Right now, he’d be a disaster.

Yet the newest spin is that women saw Hillary crying and changed their mind.

Give me a break.

Do we really want a president who cries when the going gets rough? Crying in public destroyed the Muskie attempt to run for president, but we give a woman candidate a break?

Yet the polls in New Hampshire show something interesting. From the Washington Post:

CNN-WMUR-University of New Hampshire poll shows a much bigger movement to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) among women than among men. In the pre-election poll released Sunday, 34 percent of women said they supported Clinton, while the exit poll showed that 46 percent of women voted for the senator. The change among men was plus four percentage points.

Is this partial evidence of the “tear” effect that so many have latched onto? A return to the “gender gap” that polls showed before Iowa and the media storm that followed? As was clear last night, much more data analysis — and more elections — await.

Yet this shows that, despite tears, the majority of Democratic women in the state of New Hampshire did not support Hillary.

Ah, but where were the non supporters? In southern New Hampshire, which has become a suburb of Boston? Or in the more rugged and independent north, where blue dog Democrats abound?

I’m waiting for more analysis.

Of course, in a general election, it’s moot: Even Obama supporters won’t vote for an evil Republican who will take away a woman’s right to abort her baby up to five seconds before birth.

Finally, I was only partly right in saying that the “Iron my shirt” was a plant.

Yes it was, but the plant was from a Boston radio station shock jock, not from someone in the Clinton campaign.

However my remarks about her security being so poor that one of these guys with a large cardboard sign got within twelve feet to her, remains a big question.

Perhaps her secret service guys and gals need to review her security a bit better...

by Boinky
[image:atlasshrugs]
Crossposted toBNN.





Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.

Today in History: January 9, 2008

WAR!, TERRORISM, DISASTERS, POLITICS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, SCIENCE, JEWS, MANATEES, POPES, DICTATORS, PROGRESS, TAXES, WOMEN, REVOLTS, LGF?, CLIMATE, FINANCE, SPORTS, LABOR, ENGINEERING, ADVICE, RESIGNATIONS, EXPELLED, PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING, MUSIC, CIVIL RIGHTS, BAD TASTE, BEHEADINGS, DRUGS, SUPREME COURT, HOAX, ACCIDENTS, HEART ATTACKS, CHESS, STATUES, BORN, DEATH



MUSIC

1965 "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks

WAR!

1861 1st hostile act of Civil War; Star of the West fired on, Sumter SC

1861 Mississippi becomes 2nd state to secede

1863 -Jan 11th] Battle of Arkansas Post AR (Fort Hindman)

1923 – The United States withdrew the last of its First World War troops from Germany.

1936 Semi-automatic rifles adopted by US army

1940 2 German officers make emergency landing in Belgium

1941 Maiden flight by Canada's Avro Lancaster military plane

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale & use of motorcars

1945 US soldiers led by General Douglas MacArthur invade Philippines

1987 Chinese/Vietnamese border fights, 1500 killed

1991 Baker & Aziz meet in Geneva; talks fail to defuse the gulf crisis

1995 Ecuador & Peru involve in boundary fight

TERRORISM

1957 Checheno-Ingush ASSR reformed in RSFSR

DISASTERS

1855 Clipper Guiding Star disappears in Atlantic, 480 dies

1857 7.9 earthquake shakes Fort Tejon CA

1927 Fire in Laurier Palace cinema in Montréal, 78 children died

1982 5.9 earthquake in New England & Canada; 1st since 1855

1953 Korean ferryboat "Chang Tyong-Ho" sank off Pusan killing 249

1959 Dam across Tera River collapses after heavy winter rains, 135 die

1972 Passenger ship Queen Elizabeth destroyed by fire

POLITICS

1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state

1983 British PM Margaret Thatcher visits the Falkland Islands

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

1984 "TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes" premieres on NBC TV (Whoops)

1989 "Pat Sajak Show" premieres on CBS

SCIENCE

1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin arrives in Port San Julian, Patagonia

1839 Daguerrotype photo process announced at French Academy of Science

1839 Thomas Henderson measures 1st stellar parallax (Alpha Centauri)

1968 Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on the Moon

1973 Luna 21 launched, to Moon

1990 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit

1998 Anatoly Solovyov & Pavel Vinogradov spacewalk record 3 hours 8 minutes

JEWS

1349 700 Jews of Basel Switzerland, burned alive in their houses

1941 6,000 Jews exterminated in pogrom in Bucharest Romania

MANATEES

1493 1st sight of manatees (by Christopher Columbus)

POPES

1522 Adriaan F Boeyens of Utrecht elected only Dutch/last non-Italian pope (Adrian VI) until Pope John Paul II.

DICTATORS

1570 Tsar Ivan the terrible kills 1000-2000 residents of Novgorod

1812 Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon

1937 Mussolini bans marriages between Italians & Abyssinians

1963 Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

PROGRESS

1793 Jean Pierre Blanchard makes 1st balloon flight in North America (Philadelphia)

1894 "Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" released in movie theaters

1923 Juan de la Cierva makes 1st autogiro (helicopter) flight, Spain

1969 Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight (Bristol England)

TAXES

1799 Income Tax introduced in UK

WOMEN

1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

FINANCE

1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established

REVOLTS

1848 People's uprising in Palermo Sicily

1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Fort Robinson

1905 Bloody Sunday-demonstrators fired on by tsarist troops

1964 Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panamá Canal Zone

LGF?

1866 Fisk University establishes

CLIMATE

1880 6' (1.8 meters) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days

1954 -87ºF (-66ºC), Northice Station, Greenland (Greenland record)

SPORTS

1903 Baseball's National & American Leagues make peace

1903 Frank Farrell & Bill Devery purchase AL Baltimore franchise for $18,000 & move it to New York City NY (Yankees)

1942 Joe Louis KOs Buddy Baer in 1 for heavyweight boxing title

1952 Marines give notice that they will recall Ted Williams to active duty

1953 Bevo Francis, Rio Grande College, scores 116 points in basketball game

1954 Bert Olmstead, Montréal Canadiens, ties NHL record of 8 points in game

1961 Twins agree on $500,000 payment to AA for Minneapolis/St Paul territory

1962 NFL prohibits grabbing of face masks

1967 The NFL New Orleans franchise takes the name "Saints"

1990 Boston Celtics worst-ever (6 points in 2nd vs New Jersey Nets) & lose 87-78

1991 Baseball officially bans Pete Rose from being elected to Hall of Fame

1991 Dean Smith of North Carolina is 6th to win 700 career coaching basketball games

1998 Hockey News selects Wayne Gretzky best NHL player ever

LABOR

1922 Rotterdam metal strike ends

1933 Amsterdam confectionery worker go on strike against wage reduction

1975 600 employees of Royal Canadian Mint go on strike

ENGINEERING

1960 Building of Aswan dam in Egypt, begins

ADVICE

1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers

RESIGNATIONS

1957 British premier Anthony Eden resigns

EXPELLED

1957 Dutch Newspaper Society expels communist daily paper "Truth"

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1959 Pat O'Connor beats Dick Hutton in St Louis MO, to become NWA champ

1962 Mister M (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne in Minnesota, to become NWA champ

CIVIL RIGHTS

1967 Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond

1994 14th United Negro College Fund raises $11,000,000

HOAX

1972 Billionaire Howard Hughes said Clifford Irving's biography is a fake

ACCIDENTS

1995 Worker accidentally cuts electrical wires at Newark Airport

HEART ATTACKS

1997 Heart attacks sends Frank Sinatra back to hospital

CHESS

1998 Anatoly Karpov defeats Viswanathan Anand to retain chess title

STATUES

1998 Decapitated head of Danish Little Mermaid is returned

MUSIC

1976 Ringo releases "Oh My My" in UK

1976 CW McCall CB song "Convoy" hit #1 on the country music charts

BAD TASTE

1979 K-Mart pulls Steve Martin's "Let's Get Small" for being in "bad taste"

BEHEADINGS

1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

DRUGS

1984 Braves pitcher Pascual Perez is arrested for cocaine possession

SUPREME COURT

1979 Supreme Court strikes down (6-3) PA law requiring doctors performing an abortion to try to preserve lives of potentially viable fetuses

1990 Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses

BORN - The Historic, The Famous, The Near-Famous, The Intriguing

1870 Joseph B Strauss civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)
1879 John Broadus Watson behaviorist psychologist
19-- Melissa Morgan actress (Brittany-Young & Restless)
1901 Chic Young cartoonist (Blondie)
1908 Simone de Beauvoir France, author (Mandarins, 2nd Sex)
1913 Richard Milhouse Nixon Yorba Linda CA, (R) 37th President (1969-74)
1913 Lavad "Dr Hepcat" Durst vocal/piano
1914 Kenny (Klook) Clarke Pittsburgh PA, jazz/drummer, composer (Epistrop)
1914 Gypsy Rose Lee [Rose Hovick], Seattle, burlesque actress (Gypsy)
1915 Anita Louise New York City NY, actress (My Friend Flicka)
1915 Fernando Lamas Buenos Aires Argentina, actor ("You look marvelous")
1915 Les Paul guitarist/inventor (Les Paul Guitar)
1925 Lee Van Cleef New Jersey, actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from New York)
1928 Judith Krantz New York New York, author (Scruples, I'll Take Manhattan, Princess Daisy, Dazzle)
1931 Algi[rda]s [Jonas] Budrys Prussia, sci-fi author (Man of Earth)
1934 Bart Starr NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
1935 Bob Denver New Rochelle NY, actor (Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island)
1935 Dick Enberg Mt Clemens MI, sportscaster (Where's Huddles)
1935 Kenneth "Buddy" Scott blues guitarist/Singer
1937 K Schlesinger writer
1941 Joan Baez Staten Island, folk singer/human rights advocate
1941 Susannah York London, actress (A Man for All Seasons, Tom Jones)
1943 Kenneth Kelley US singer (Manhattans, One Life to Live)
1944 Jimmy Page London England, rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1945 Frank J Biondi Jr president (HBO)
195- Margaret Klenck actress (One Life to Live, As The World Turns)
1950 David Johansen [Buster Poindexter], NY, singer (Hot! Hot! Hot!)
1951 Crystal Gayle Kentucky, country singer (Don't it make my brown eyes blue)
1956 Kimberly Beck Hilton Glendale CA, actress (Kim-Peyton Place)
1965 [Tyrone] Muggsy Bogues NBA guard (Charlotte Hornets, San Francisco Warriors, Washington Bullets)
1967 Dave Matthews singer/musician (Dave Matthews Band)
1967 Dave Mcllwain Seaforth, NHL center (Pittsburgh Penguins)
1972 Kristie Hicks Bardstown KY, Miss Kentucky-America (1995)

DEATH - The Historic, The Famous, The Near-Famous, The Intriguing

1324 Marco Polo Italian explorer, dies
1677 Aernout "Aert" van der Neer cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at 73
1878 Victor Emmanuel II king of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78), dies at 57
1939 Johann Strauss Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72
1977 Hal Sawyer TV host (Sawyer Views Hollywood), dies at 62
1979 Sara Carter vocalist/guitarist (Carter Family), dies at 80
1987 Arthur Lake actor (Dagwood-Blondie), dies at 81
1994 Silas Hogan blues singer/guitarist, dies at 82
1995 Peter Cook English comic/actor (Peter n' Dud, Bedazzled), dies at 57
1997 Jesse [Marc Weidenfeld] White actor (Maytag repairman, Bedtime for Bonzo), dies at 77

January 9, the 9th day of 2008. There are 357 days left in the year.


compiled by Mondoreb
[image: wyeside]
Source: Today in history





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