Minnesota HS Principal Cancels War Vets Appearance

AFRAID It Might Turn "Political"



Another f**king coward on the taxpayer dole.

This time from a Minneapolis area high school.

A national tour which featured decorated veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had to cancel its planned appearance at Forest Lake Area High School yesterday after school principal, Steve Massey, suddenly pulled the plug on the visit.

Massey, the school principal, said the decision to cancel was prompted by concerns that the event was becoming political rather than educational and therefore was not suitable for a public school.

Massey said the school had gotten a few phone calls from parents and others, and some of those callers indicated that they may stage a protest if the event took place.

So if a public school is handing out condoms and parents protest, the school is portrayed as "courageous" for standing behind the power of the state and telling parents to, basically "shut your piehole".

But if a few non-parents call and threaten to demonstrate, pro-American events get canceled?

The principal's explaination--caving in to a few at the expense of the majority--most probably was copied from a NEA (National Education Association) press release.

Most likely titled, "What to do when your school is threatened by patriotism".

"The event was structured to be an academic classroom discussion around military service. We thought we'd provide an opportunity for kids to learn about service in the context of our history classes," Massey said. "As the day progressed, it became clear that this was becoming a political event ... which would be inappropriate in a public setting.
"We decided to cancel," Massey said. Organizers of the National Heroes Tour then scrambled to relocate the event to the American Legion building in Forest Lake. The visit, which U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, had been scheduled to attend, is sponsored by Vets for Freedom, a national organization run by Pete Hegseth, a 1999 graduate of Forest Lake Area High School who served with the 101st Airborne in Iraq in 2005-06.

"I think it's extremely unfortunate that a school would bow to the political pressure of outside groups and not bring in a veterans organization," Hegseth said. "Are we saying that patriotism and duty and honor have no place in our public schools?" So far, the tour has visited one school, albeit a private school.

The Forest Lake HS stop involved about 150 social studies students--and was closed to the public--and the media. The last-minute change left Hegseth wondering how many people would actually show up today.

Why did the 101st Airborne vet have to assure the principal "not to advocate about the progress made in Iraq and Afghanistan"?

Want to send the principal an email letting him know what you think?

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GANGSTERS

1929 Members of Al Capone's gang killed rival gang members in the St. Valentine's Day massacre.

WAR!

1945 8th Air Force bombs Dresden.

2003 In a dramatic showdown, major powers rebuffed the United States in the U.N. Security Council and insisted on more time for weapons inspections in Iraq. Earlier, chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix told the Council his teams had not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

TERRORISM

1975 Bomb explodes at annex of Amsterdam metro station.

1979 Adolph Dubs, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was kidnapped in Kabul by Muslim extremists and killed in a shootout between his abductors and police.

1985 Hostage CNN reporter Jeremy Levin is released in Beirut.

1998 Authorities officially declared Eric Rudolph a suspect in the bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., abortion clinic and offered a $100,000 reward.

2007 Challenged on the accuracy of U.S. intelligence, President Bush told a news conference there was no doubt the Iranian government was providing armor-piercing weapons to kill American soldiers in Iraq, and he said he would fight any attempt by the Democratic-controlled Congress to cut off money for the war.

DISASTER

1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 million damages for Bhopol disaster.

FATWAS

1989 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, calling for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic Verses.

WATERGATE

1971 Richard Nixon installs secret taping system in White House.

FRUIT

1889 1st trainload of fruit (oranges) leaves Los Angeles for the east.

COMMIES

1956 Khrushchev denounces Stalin at USSR Communist Party Conference.

PATENTS

1803 Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington PA.

FRACAS

1779 James Cook British explorer, murdered by natives in fracas with Hawaiians.

JEWS

1349 2,000 Jews burned at the stake in Strasbourg France.

DRUGS

1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in New York NY.

BUSINESS

1924 IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson.

EDUCATION

2001 The Kansas Board of Education reversed its 1999 ruling and restored evolution to the state's science curriculum.

MARRIAGE

1952 Comedian Joey Adams marries gossip columnist Cindy Heller.

1995 Roseanne weds bodyguard Ben Thomas.

MURDER

1943 Frieda Reiss French 11 month old baby, murdered in Auschwitz.

CARTOONS

1921 Skeezix of "Gasoline Alley" discovered on Wallets' doorstep.

POLITICS

1859 Oregon became the 33rd state in the United States.

1912 Arizona became the 48th state in the United States.

BORN

1894 comedian Jack Benny was born Benjamin Kubelsky in Waukegan, Ill.

1913 Jimmy Hoffa Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975.

BIRTHDAYS

TV personality Hugh Downs is 87. Actress-singer Florence Henderson is 74. Country singer Razzy Bailey is 69. Jazz musician Maceo Parker is 65. Movie director Alan Parker is 64. Journalist Carl Bernstein is 64. Sen. Judd Gregg (R-New Hampshire) is 61. TV personality Pat O'Brien is 60. Magician Teller (Penn and Teller) is 60. Cajun singer-musician Michael Doucet is 57. Actor Ken Wahl is 51. Opera singer Renee Fleming is 49. Actress Meg Tilly is 48. Singer-producer Dwayne Wiggins is 47. Actor Enrico Colantoni is 45. Actor Zach Galligan is 44. Actor Valente Rodriguez is 44. Rock musician Ricky Wolking (The Nixons) is 42. Tennis player Manuela Maleeva is 41. Rock musician Kevin Baldes (Lit) is 36. Rock singer Rob Thomas (Matchbox Twenty) is 36. Actor Freddie Highmore is 16.

DEATH

1969 Vito Genovese US mafia chief, dies at 71.

1994 Gary "BB" Coleman blues vocal/guitarist/producer, dies at 47.

2003 Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, was euthanized because of incurable lung cancer.

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1968 Three college students were killed in a confrontation with highway patrolmen in Orangeburg, S.C., during a civil rights protest against a whites-only bowling alley.

WAR!

1862 Battle of Roanoke Island NC, Federals gain control of Pamlico Sound.

1904 the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict over control of Manchuria and Korea, began as Japanese forces attacked Port Arthur.

1916 French cruiser "Admiral Charner" torpedoed off Syrian coast, kills 374.

2003 The chief U.N. arms inspectors arrived in Baghdad for a new round of crucial talks with Iraqi officials. In a jab at major U.S. allies, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told a security conference in Munich that countries such as France and Germany that favored giving Iraq another chance to disarm were undermining what slim chance existed to avoid war.

TERRORISM

2007 Rival Palestinian leaders signed an agreement on a power-sharing government at Saudi-brokered talks in Mecca.

DISASTER

1905 Cyclone hit Tahiti & adjacent islands, killing some 10,000 people.

1923 Coal mine explosion at Dawson NM kills 120.

1931 Gas explosion; Fire in Fushun-coal mine, Manchuria kills 3,000.

1965 Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84.

1989 144 people were killed when an American-chartered Boeing 707 filled with Italian tourists slammed into a fog-covered mountain in the Azores.

1995 6.4 earthquake at Trujillo, Colombia (46+ killed).

HOAX!

1993 GM sues NBC, alleging that "Dateline NBC" program had rigged 2 car-truck crashes to show that 1973-87 GM pickups were prone to fires.

ANGER MANAGEMENT

1994 Jack Nicholson uses a golf club to attack a car.

PROGRESS

1883 Louis Waterman begins experiments to invent the fountain pen.

1933 1st flight of all-metal Boeing 247.

KIDNAPPED

1983 Champion thoroughbred Shergar kidnapped in Ireland; never found Lloyds of London pays $10.6 million insurance.

CLOSE CALL

1743 Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth.

METEORS

1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, México.

PATENTS

1802 Simon Willard patents banjo clock.

1898 John Ames Sherman patents 1st envelope folding & gumming machine (Massachusetts).

MUSIC

1992 "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred peaks at #1.

NANNY STATE

1960 Congress opens hearings looking into payola.

PRO WRESTLING

1971 Pedro Morales beats Ivan Koloff in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion.

WEDDINGS

1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea in mass ceremony.

SPORTS

1986 5' 7" Spud Webb of Atlanta Hawks wins NBA Slam Dunk Competition.

BEHEADING

1587 Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

WATERGATE

1973 Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal.

ADVICE

1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort.

CLIMATE

1989 5 cm of snow falls in outskirts of Los Angeles.

PAPERS

1918 "Stars & Stripes", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published.

EDUCATION

1693 A charter was granted for the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va.

POLITICS

1837 The Senate selected the vice president of the United States, choosing Richard Mentor Johnson after no candidate received a majority of electoral votes.

GROUPS

1910 The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.

ASSASSINATION

1963 Abdul Karim Kassem PM of Iraq (58-63), assassinated in Baghdad at 48.

MOVIES

1915 D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking as well as controversial silent movie epic about the Civil War, "The Birth of a Nation," premiered in Los Angeles.

SUICIDE

1990 Del Shannon Coopersville MI, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 55.

EXECUTION

1924 The first execution by gas in the United States took place at the Nevada State Prison in Carson City as Gee Jon, a Chinese immigrant convicted of murder, was put to death.

1932 Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll mobster, killed by Dutch Schultz gang.

2007 A federal judge in Fargo, N.D., sentenced Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. to death for the slaying of college student Dru Sjodin.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1978 The deliberations of the Senate were broadcast on radio for the first time as members opened debate on the Panama Canal treaties.

1990 "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine.

STRONGMAN

2003 Tens of thousands of Venezuelans marched in support of 9,000 oil workers fired for leading a two-month strike against President Hugo Chavez.

BORN

1820 William Tecumseh Sherman Major General (Union Army), dies in 1891 (War is hell).

1918 John Intoxication resistance fighter.

1920 Lana Turner Wallace ID, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest).

1931 James Dean Marion IN, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause).

BIRTHDAYS

Composer-conductor John Williams is 76. Actor Jack Larson is 75. Former ABC News anchor Ted Koppel is 68. Actor Nick Nolte is 67. Comedian Robert Klein is 66. Actor-rock musician Creed Bratton is 65. Country singer Dan Seals is 60. Singer Ron Tyson is 60. Actress Brooke Adams is 59. Actress Mary Steenburgen is 55. Author John Grisham is 53. Rock singer Vince Neil (Motley Crue) is 47. Rock singer-musician Sammy LLanas (The BoDeans) is 47. Actor Gary Coleman is 40. Actress Mary McCormack is 39. Actor Seth Green is 34. Actor Josh Morrow is 34. Rock musician Phoenix (Linkin Park) is 31. Actor Ryan Pinkston is 20. Actress Karle Warren ("Judging Amy") is 16.

DEATH

1725 Peter the Great Tsar of Russia dies at 52.

2007 Model, actress and tabloid sensation Anna Nicole Smith died in Florida at age 39 of an accidental drug overdose.

February 8, the 39th day of 2008. There are 327 days left in the year.

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1789 Electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. They also elected John Adams as Vice-President. (However, the results of the balloting were not counted in the U.S. Senate until two months later).

WAR!

1783 Britain declared a formal cessation of hostilities with its former colonies, the United States of America.

1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery AL. Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy.

1945 President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.

TERRORISM

1990 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo.

1994 20 die in armed assault on mosque in Khartum Sudan.

DISASTERS

1783 Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy).

1797 Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 40,000.

1966 All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133.

1971 Government exhibit under construction collapses, kills 65 in Brazil.

1976 7.5 earthquake kills 22,778 in Guatemala & Honduras.

1977 Elevated train jumps track, crashes onto Chicago st (11 die, 200 hurt).

1997 73 Israelis die when army copters collide.

1998 More than 2,300 people were killed when an earthquake hit northeast Afghanistan with a magnitude of 5.9, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

RECORDS

1982 Indoor distance record for a paper airplane (47 meters) Tacoma WA.

1984 Frank Aquilera sets world frisbee distance record (168 meters) Las Vegas.

RIOTS

1971 National Guard mobilized to quell rioting in Wilmington NC.

CHIMPS

1974 Chimpanzee Nim Chimsky signs his 1st word, at 2½ months.

BOOMS

1964 FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City OK.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

2003 A rare television interview with Saddam Hussein aired in which the Iraqi leader charged that U.S. claims of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons in his country were a pretext to seize Iraq's oil fields.

EDUCATION

1849 University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students.

BANKRUPT

1971 British car maker Rolls Royce declared itself bankrupt.

DEPORTED

1972 Senator Strom Thurmond suggests John Lennon be deported.

NAZIs

1938 Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts.

RELIGION

1866 Mary Baker Eddy cures her injuries by opening a bible.

ASSASSINATION

1949 Failed assassination attempt on Shah of Persia.

JEWS

1855 Soldiers shoot Jewish families in Coro, Venezuela.

1959 Israel begins exporting copper ore.

1997 Secretary of State Madeline Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish.

SPORTS

1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt opened the Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid.

1969 John Madden is named head coach of the NFL's Oakland Raiders.

PATENTS

1913 Louis Perlman patents demountable auto tire-carrying wheel rim.

PROGRESS

1824 J W Goodrich introduces rubber galoshes to the public.

1930 1st tieless, soundless, shockless streetcar tracks, New Orleans.

1957 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY).

EXECUTIONS

1699 350 rebellious Streltsi executed in Moscow.

BORN

1902 Charles A Lindbergh Detroit MI, pilot (1st fly solo across Atlantic).

1904 MacKinlay Kantor Webster City IA, novelist (Andersonville).

1913 Woody Hayes [Wayne], college football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of year).

BIRTHDAYS

Actor William Phipps is 86. Actor Conrad Bain is 85. Actor Gary Conway is 72. Movie director George A. Romero is 68. Rock musician John Steel (The Animals) is 67. Singer Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension) is 64. Former Vice President Dan Quayle is 61. Rock singer Alice Cooper is 60. Actor Michael Beck is 59. Actress Lisa Eichhorn is 56. Rock singer Tim Booth is 48. Rock musician Henry Bogdan is 47. Country singer Clint Black is 46. Country musician Dave Buchanan (Yankee Grey) is 42. Actress Gabrielle Anwar is 38. Singer David Garza is 37. Actor Michael Goorjian is 37. Rock musician Rick Burch (Jimmy Eat World) is 33. Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 33. Rapper Cam'ron is 32. Rock singer Gavin DeGraw is 31. Olympic gold medal gymnast-turned-singer Carly Patterson is 20.

DEATH

1957 Joseph Hardaway creator of Bugs Bunny, dies at 66.

1983 Karen Carpenter singer/drummer (Carpenters), dies of anorexia at 32.

1987 Pianist Liberace died at his Palm Springs, Calif., home at age 67.

1989 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns country singer (Homer & Jethro), dies at 69.

2003 Opera singer Jerome Hines died in New York at age 81.

2007 Singer-actress Barbara McNair died in Los Angeles at age 72.

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1870 Donkey 1st used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly

WAR!

1865 Fort Fisher, NC falls to Union troops

1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue baseball during WWII
1942 Cubs, drop plans to install lights at Wrigley due to WWII
1943 Japanese driven off Guadalcanal
1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
1944 General Eisenhower arrives in England
1944 Vught Concentration Camp puts 74 women in 1 cell, 10 die
1945 Red Army frees Crakow-Plaszow concentration camp
1949 Mao's Red army conquers Ten-tsin
1955 USSR ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1973, President Nixon announced the suspension of all U.S. offensive action in North Vietnam, citing progress in peace negotiations.

DISASTER

1919 2 million gallons of molasses "Tidal wave" Boston MA, drowning 21

1934 8.4 earthquake in India/Nepal, 10,700 die

1951 "Cloud of Death" rolls down Mount Lamington, New Guinea kills 3-5,000

1993 7.5 earthquake strikes northern Japan, 2 die

ICE CREAM

1935 300 Dutch ice cream salesmen protest against Italian competition

QUEENS

1559 England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.

1994 Queen Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks her left wrist

FREEDOM

1777 the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The tiny republic later became the state of Vermont.)

GEEZERS

1998 NASA announces John Glenn, 76, may fly in space again

EDUCATION

1844, the University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.

POLITICS

1942, Jawaharlal Nehru was named to succeed Mohandas K. Gandhi as head of India's Congress Party.

RECORDS

1983 Thom Syles keeps a life saver intact in his mouth for over 7 hours

LANDMARKS

1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.

MURDERS

1947 The mutilated remains of Elizabeth Short, the 22-year-old aspiring actress now known as the "Black Dahlia," were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot.

SPORTS

1934 Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)

1967 The Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, retroactively known as Super Bowl I.

SERIAL KILLERS

1978 Two students at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Lisa Levy and Margaret Bowman, were murdered in their sorority house. (Ted Bundy was later convicted of the crime, and executed.)

SCANDAL

1992 Cleaning woman finds intimate photos of Sarah Ferguson with US man

1998 Henry Cisneros' ex-mistress, Linda Medlar Jones, pleaded to misleading federal authorities investigating the former U.S. housing secretary's payment of alleged hush money to her. (Jones served nearly 18 months in prison; she was later pardoned by President Clinton.) Labor Secretary Alexis Herman denied allegations that she had sold her influence in the White House. (Herman was cleared in 2000 by Independent Counsel Ralph I. Lancaster.)

FINANCE

2003 White House budget director Mitchell Daniels predicted federal deficits would balloon to the $200- to $300 billion range over the next two years.

SUPREME COURT

1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest

2003 Mickey Mouse and The Walt Disney Co. scored a big victory as the Supreme Court upheld longer copyright protections for cartoon characters, songs, books and other creations worth billions of dollars.

EXECUTIONS

2008 The Iraqi government hanged two of Saddam Hussein's henchmen, including a half-brother (Barzan Ibrahim) who was accidentally decapitated by the noose.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1973 Gene Shalit joins the Today Show panel

1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC

1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"

1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on NBC-TV

1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes remarks about black athletes

1993 Soap opera "Santa Barbara" final show on NBC TV

POPES

708 Sisinnius begins his reign as Catholic Pope (dies 20 days later)

KINGS

1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church

RIOTS

1754 Riot at burial of doelist Daniel Raap in Amsterdam

FASHION

1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)

PROGRESS

1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger train makes 1st run; Mr & Mrs Pierson of Charleston SC make 1st US railroad honeymoon trip

1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal

1936 1st all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio

SCIENCE

1833 HMS Beagle anchors at Goeree Tierra del Fuego

PATENTS

1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis

1907 3-element vacuum tube patented by Dr Lee de Forest

INVENTIONS

1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by William Taggart, who invented them

JEWS

1943 1st transport of Jews from Amsterdam to concentration camp Vught

1973 Pope Paul VI has an audience with Golda Meir at Vatican

1988 Arab uprising in Israel begins

RATIONING

1945 Every Amsterdammer gets 3 kg sugar beets

CIVIL RIGHTS

1950 4,000 attend National Emergency Civil Rights Conference in Washington DC

MUSIC

1961 Supremes signed with Motown Records

1965 Rock group The Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain"

LABOR

1964 Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract

WATERGATE

1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court

1974 Expert panel reports 18½-m gap in Watergate tape, 5 separate erasures

ASSASSINATION

1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot President Ford

PRO WRESTLING

1989 Big John Studd wins WWF's 1st Royal Rumble

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Margaret O'Brien is 71. Singer Don Van Vliet (aka "Captain Beefheart") is 67. Actress Andrea Martin is 61. Actor-director Mario Van Peebles is 51. Actor James Nesbitt is 43. Singer Lisa Lisa (Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam) is 41. Actor Chad Lowe is 40. Actress Regina King is 37. Actor Eddie Cahill is 30. Rapper/reggaeton artist Pitbull is 27.

DEATH

1998 Amos "Junior" Wells blues harpist, dies at 63

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EXPLORERS

1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage.

WAR!

871 Battle at Reading Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army.

1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown New Jersey.

1861 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama.

1862 Battle of Fort Hindman, AR (Arkansas Post).

1862 Battle of Helena, AR.

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath.

1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops.

1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack.

1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul.

REAGAN

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.

JEWS

1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew".

1915 1st elected Jewish Governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department.

POLITICS

1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament.

1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state.

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru.

1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address.

1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims.

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes.

1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828).

1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.

1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House.

EDUCATION

1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City NY).

FAST

1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession.

INVENTIONS

1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY.

ENDANGERED SPECIES

1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario).

1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas.

DICTATORS

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin.

MEDICINE

1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22).

AMNESTY

1893 US President Harrison grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy.

IMMIGRATION

1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US.

LABOR

1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants.

PHILOSOPHY

1925 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better".

MUSIC

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade.

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville.

1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million.

1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios.

SPORTS

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes.

1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame.

1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000.

1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots.

WATERGATE

1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee.

CLIMATE

1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm.

BOYCOTTS

1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics

SERIAL KILLERS

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary.

1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show.

1982 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show".

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV.

DISASTERS

1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase MD.

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1992 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome).

SCIENCE

1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up.

1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity.

1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon.

1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion.

BORN

1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
1813 Sir Isaac Pitman inventor (shorthand)
1883 Max F Eastman US, critic/essayist (Masses)
1890 Alfred G Jodl German Wehrmacht General/Chief of Staff
1908 Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1914 Jane Wyman St Joseph MO, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)
1914 Mohammed Sahir shah (Afghanistan)
1920 William Egan Colby CIA director (Nixon)
1930 Don Shula winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1935 Floyd Patterson heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Olympics-gold-1952)
1937 Dyan Cannon Tacoma WA, Mrs Cary Grant, actress (Heaven Can Wait)
1941 Maureen Reagan 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)
1946 Bernard Sumner rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1956 Ann Magnuson Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
1957 Patty Loveless [Ramey], Pikeville KY, singer (Blue Side of Town)
1966 Deana Carter country singer (Strawberry Wine)
1973 Todd Sauerbrun NFL punter/kicker (WVU, Chicago Bears)

DEATH

41 Caligula murdered
1761 Stephen Hales English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt US robber baron, dies at 82
1913 Alfred von Schlieffen Prussian General-field marshal, dies at 79
1946 Barney Oldfield daredevil, dies at 67
1960 Albert Camus French author (Stranger), dies in an automobile accident at 46
1961 Barry Fitzgerald actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1965 T S Eliot poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76
1986 Phil Lynott rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34
1992 William Walker stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1997 Harry B Helmsley owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87

January 4, the 4th day of the year. There are 362 days left.

compiled by Mondoreb
[image: casema]
Source: Today in History





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Today in History: January 3, 2008

WAR!, SAINTS, DISASTERS, EXCOMMUNICATIONS, TAXES, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, REVOLTS, ISRAEL, DICTATORS, UTOPIA, POLITICS, ENGINEERING, PATENTS, BEGINNINGS, EDUCATION, LABOR, CHARITY, MISSING PERSON, GERMS, CIVIL RIGHTS, INVENTIONS, EXPLORERS, GOLD, TELEVANGELISTS, SPORTS, SURRENDER, COUNTRY MUSIC, TRADEMARKS, ROCK AND ROLL, BORN, DEATH



In 1988, Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century.

WAR!

1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow.

1777 Washington defeats British at Battle of Princeton, New Jersey.

1861 Delaware legislature rejects proposal to join Confederacy.

1861 US Fort Pulaski & Fort Jackson, Savannah, seized by Georgia.

1862 Romney Campaign - Stonewall Jackson moves north from Winchester.

1921 Turkey makes peace with Armenia.

1941 Canada & US acquire air bases in Newfoundland (99 year lease).

1941 Italian counter offensive in Albania.

1943 Canadian Army troops arrive in North Africa.

1945 Allies land on west coast of Burma, conquer Akyab.

1945 US aircraft carriers attack Okinawa.

SAINTS

1431 Joan of Arc handed over to the bishop.

DISASTERS

1994 Tupolev-154M crashes at Irkutsk, Siberia 122 killed.

EXCOMMUNICATIONS

1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church.

1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.

TAXES

1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Netherlands.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1929 27 year old William S Paley becomes CBS president.

1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised.

1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV.

1967 "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes.

1997 Bryant Gumbel co-hosted his final "Today" show on NBC-TV.

REVOLTS

1994 100s killed in Venezuela in prison revolt.

ISRAEL

1985 Israel government confirms resettlement of 10,000 Ethiopian Jews.

1988 Israel orders 9 Palestinian "instigators" deported from W Beirut.

1991 Israel reopens consulate in USSR after 23 years.

POLITICS

1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state.

DICTATORS

1925 Mussolini dissolves Italian parliament/becomes dictator.

UTOPIA

1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community.

BEGINNINGS

1847 California town of Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco.

1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii.

ENGINEERING

1870 Brooklyn Bridge construction begins; completed May 24, 1883.

PATENTS

1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton NY.

1872 1st patent list issued by US Patent Office.

1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC.

EDUCATION

1876 1st free kindergarten in US opens in Florence MA.

1890 1st US college-level dairy school opens at University of Wisconsin.

LABOR

1910 British miners strike for 8 hour working day.

CHARITY

1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio.

MISSING PERSONS

1943 1st missing persons telecast (New York City NY).

GERMS

1945 Cato-Meridian School, NY, installs germicidal lamps in every room.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1939 Gene Cox becomes 1st girl page in US House of Representatives.

1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee.

1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE.

INVENTIONS

1957 1st electric watch introduced, Lancaster PA.

EXPLORERS

1924 British Egyptologist Howard Carter finds sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.

1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland.

GOLD

1974 Gold hits record $121.25 an ounce in London.

1980 Gold hits record $634 an ounce.

TELEVANGELISTS

1989 Jim & Tammy Bakker return to TV (Oy Vey!).

SPORTS

1920 New York Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000.

1962 Ground is broken for the Houston Astrodome.

1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million.

1991 Los Angeles King Wayne Gretzky scores his 700th goal against New York Islanders.

COMPUTERS

1977 Apple Computer incorporated.

ROCK AND ROLL

1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion.

1969 John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in New Jersey.

1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin.

SURRENDER

1990 Panamá's leader General Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities.

TRADEMARKS

1994 35-foot-tall Chief Wahoo, trademark of Indians on top of Stadium since 1962, is taken down, to be moved to Jacob's Field.

COUNTRY MUSIC

1998 Grandpa Jones suffers a stroke.

BORN

1624 William Tucker 1st Black child born in America
1883 Clement Richard Attlee (L) British PM (1945-51)
1892 John Ronald Reuel Tolkien South Africa, philologist/writer (Lord of Rings)
1909 Victor Borge [Borge Rosenbaum], Copenhagen Denmark, pianist/comedian
1916 Betty Furness New York City NY, actress/consumer activist (Studio 1)
1918 Maxene Andrews Minnesota, singer (Andrew Sisters-Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy)
1926 George Martin record producer (The Beatles)
1929 Sergio Leone Italian, director (Fist Full of Dollars)
1930 Robert Loggia Staten Island, actor (Officer & a Gentleman, THE Cat)
1939 Bobby Hull NHL forward (Chicago Blackhawk 1957-72)
1945 Victoria Principal Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas)
1945 Stephen Stills Dallas TX, singer/songwriter/guitarist (Crosby Stills & Nash)
1946 John Paul Jones rocker (Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven)
1956 Mel Gibson Peekskill NY, actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon)
1964 Cheryl Miller Riverside CA, basketball player (Olympics-gold-1984)
1967 Helena Bonham Carter London England, actress (Getting it Right)

DEATH

1795 Josiah Wedgwood British, ceramic craftsman/woodworker, dies at 64
1946 William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), hanged in Britain for treason
1967 Jack Ruby assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, dies at 55
1976 Mal Evans Beatles' roadie, dies
1979 Conrad Hilton US founder (Hilton Hotels), dies at 91
1988 William Cagney actor (Torrid Zone), dies of a heart attack at 82
1990 Ken Hill actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies

January 3, the third day of 2008. There are 363 days left in the year.

compiled by Mondoreb
[image: conservativehome
Source: Today in History





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Ain't That Something? Dept.

We saw this little ratings widget at Simply Jews and it intrigued us. So we headed over to Critics Rant to check it out.

We decided to put Death By 1000 Papercuts to the test. As the title says, "What level of education is required to understand your blog?" We wanted to know!

Below is what we found out:

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So now we can't get through the door because our head is swelled three sizes.

And if you are a regular reader, give yourself a pat on the back: we write to our readership. So far, no one's had any trouble reading or understanding us. Not sure how accurate the widget is, but we're not going to question it.

At least one of us ran out and bought a book on quantum mechanics.

The next time someone looks down on you for reading or commenting about Dog the Bounty Hunter. Or they think your web-surfing is low-brow stuff.

Just smile as you're walking away and mention that you read "Genius Level" articles everyday at DBKP.

by Mondoreb

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Sex Offender Struggles In School Board Race

This is a contemporary American story if ever there was one; if only because it's hard to imagine it occuring at any other time in American history.

It says a lot about our country today. What it says is up for grabs.

"Sex Offender Seeking Seat on School Board"
A Horatio Alger story--kinda--from the Denver Post:

A Delta school board candidate says his criminal record has been overstated publicly and is relevant only because it shows he overcame daunting barriers to become successful.

Dale Haag, 48, is a registered sex offender who also was convicted of starting a fire in Sioux Falls, S.D., that killed two women when he was 17. But a supporter said Haag's rough start in life makes him uniquely qualified to be a board member of the Delta County Joint School District.

Haag, who is very open about his past, is undeterred by an onslaught of bad publicity and said he will not change his focus of strong discipline and encouraging more parental involvement.

"I'll tell you up front, I've got zero to hide," he said.

He turned out the way he did - going to 10 juvenile correctional homes and institutions before burning a Sioux Falls halfway house on Oct. 23, 1977, when he was 17 - because he didn't get the discipline he needed, he said.

Kids need to be told: "You need to sit down and shut up and read," he said.

It turns out that 'sex offender' wasn't the only thing in Haig's past.

Haag said he was angry at the world when he intentionally left a lit cigarette in a couch at the halfway house, intending to destroy the furniture but not kill anyone.

"The next thing I know, people were screaming and everything was crazy," he said.

At first he was praised as a hero because he helped people escape the blaze, he said. But days later, he failed a lie detector test and was charged with murder.

Haag, who is a salesman, was released from a South Dakota prison in the early 1980s and became a health care aide at Hope Haven, a group home in Doon, Iowa, in the mid-1980s, he said.

He was convicted of assault with intent to commit sexual abuse after he touched a 19-year-old developmentally disabled woman at the group home for the disabled.

The plucky candidate explains his sexual offender conviction thusly:

"I pinched her in the boob and patted her on the butt. It was a flirtatious situation. She knew what she was doing," Haag said. "It was blown way out of proportion."

The case was marginal against him at the time, he said, adding that it was overblown because at the time he was on parole for first-degree manslaughter in the arson case.

Haig had at least one supporter, a mother. Here she gives her reason for supporting the unfortunate Haig.

"We don't have anyone on the board who has been where he has been: someone who was lost in the system," said Beverly Ray, 40, who has two children in the district. "I look at what he has done in the last 10 years, and I'm going to judge him on that."

Next, the election was held. People went to the polls and chose their school board. From the Grand Junction Sentinel:
Haag Loses School Board Election

Dale Haag, a registered sex offender who also served nine years in prison for manslaughter in the deaths of two women in South Dakota, lost his bid for the Delta School Board but received 38 percent of votes cast.

Haag received 2,197 votes to 3,599 for his opponent, incumbent Bob Tweedell.

Haag said he was disappointed with the results but will continue to go to school board meetings and serve as an at-large member of the school district’s accountability committee. He added he wasn’t sure how publicity about his past, which was made public last week, affected the race.

The people of Delta had spoken.

Only in America and only today. No matter what you think of Dale Haag, shocked, hopeful or other, you have to admit one thing.

It will make you scratch your head.

by Mondoreb
& Little Baby Ginn




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Education and Globaloney: School Teaches Humans Are the Villains

There once was a time when the favorite villain in any movie was the Nazi. In the 50s and even into the 60s, Nationist Socialists were everywhere on the screen.

Today's evil-doers?

Human beings.

Human beings are consuming resources, something they were doing long before today's teachers consumed enough resources to obtain a teaching license.

The Soviets had their political education commissars, responsible for the idealogical indoctrination of their pupils. The hapless teachers mentioned below would perhaps have qualified as commissars.

A sad tale of a poor clueless school district and their poor clueless charges.

Third-grade teacher Debbie Robles made her acting debut before a packed auditorium of youngsters at Rancho Elementary School in Novato. She bombed.

Playing the villain in a school assembly Wednesday aimed at educating the students about global warming, Robles - dressed in a witch's black attire and prancing around the auditorium as "Queen Carbon" - drew the biggest response from more than 500 students who attended two "Curb Your Carbon" assemblies.

"My own daughter Hannah asked me, 'Do you have to be my mother today?'" Robles said.

Teachers, parents and volunteers helped organize the assemblies and participated in the skits to help raise awareness about global warming and what people can do about it - exchanging traditional light bulbs for compact fluorescent bulbs, for example.

School officials distributed more than 500 CFLs last week.
Source: Marin Independent Journal

-Sigh.-
60+ years after World War II and the Nazis are still the villains.

Only this time, they're disguised as techers and having their students perform the global warming goosestep.

by Mondoreb
[hat tip & graphic: RidesAPaleHorse]



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Closing Saudi-Financed Virginia School Recommended

Radical Islam beachhead or a simple school?
by Mondoreb

Is a Virginia school a beachhead for radical Islam or just a simple school. Federal authorities have recommended the Saudi-based school close. From the AP:

McLEAN, Va. (AP) -- A private Islamic school supported by the Saudi government should be shut down until the U.S. government can ensure the school is not fostering radical Islam, a federal panel recommends.

In a report released Thursday, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom broadly criticized what it calls a lack of religious freedom in Saudi society and promotion of religious extremism at Saudi schools.

Particular criticism is leveled at the Islamic Saudi Academy, a private school serving nearly 1,000 students in grades K-12 at two campuses in northern Virginia's Fairfax County.

One wonders why our good friends the Saudis are financing a school in the United states. What on earth could be their reasons? The school naturally disagreed with the findings. As The Captain's Quarters'x Ed Morissey posted:

The school itself disputed the report, at least as far as it concerned ISA. The Virginia school's director complained that the USCIRF had not contacted the school, nor had it reviewed the textbooks in use now. After a series of negative reports following 9/11, ISA claims it has replaced those texts with new books that do not contain any negative references to other religions, and that the Saudis consider ISA a model for school reform.

So the Saudis are interested in funding schools in the USA. It's noble for a kingdom that prohibits even the possession of a Bible within its borders to be financing schools in infidel America. Perhaps they find it pleasant.

Like a day at the beach.
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