Off Topic Bullsh*t Thread Volume XXIII

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[Colorado700R]

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Pat didn't!!!

[Krandall]

 

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Aug. 18, 1963, James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University of Mississippi

On Aug. 18, 1934, Roberto Clemente, one of major league baseball's top outfielders was born. Following his death on Dec. 31, 1972, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On August 18, 1888, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1888.





1227    The Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.

1587    Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents to be born on American soil, on what is now Roanoke Island, N.C.

1846    U.S. forces led by Gen. Stephen W. Kearny captured Santa Fe, N.M.

1914    President Woodrow Wilson issued his Proclamation of Neutrality, aimed at keeping the United States out of World War I.

1920    The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guarantees the right of women to vote, was ratified when Tennessee became the 36th state to approve it.

1969    The Woodstock Music and Art Fair in Bethel, N.Y., concluded with a mid-morning set by Jimi Hendrix.

1983    Hurricane Alicia slammed into the Texas coast, leaving 22 dead and causing more than $1 billion damage.

1988    Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle was nominated as George H.W. Bush's running mate during the Republican National Convention in New Orleans.

1991    Soviet hard-liners launched a coup aimed at toppling President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, who was vacationing in the Crimea.

1997    Virginia Military Institute admitted a female student for the first time in its 158-year history.

2005    A judge in Wichita, Kan., sentenced BTK serial killer Dennis Rader to 10 consecutive life terms.

2008    Pervez Musharraf resigned as the president of Pakistan amid efforts by opposition lawmakers to seek his impeachment.

2009    Columnist and TV pundit Robert Novak died at age 78.

Current Birthdays

Actor Edward Norton turns 41 years old today.


83    Rosalynn Carter
Former first lady

77    Roman Polanski
Director

73    Robert Redford
Actor

67    Martin Mull
Actor

58    Elayne Boosler
Comedian

53    Denis Leary
Actor-comedian ("Rescue Me")

52    Madeleine Stowe
Actress

49    Tim Geithner
Treasury secretary

49    Bob Woodruff
Broadcast journalist

45    Craig Bierko
Actor

41    Christian Slater
Actor

40    Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Actor ("The Cosby Show")

35    Kaitlin Olson
Actress ("It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia")

32    Andy Samberg
Comedian ("Saturday Night Live")

30    Jeremy Shockey
Football player

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History
On Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.

On Aug. 19, 1883, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, the influential French fashion designer, was born. Following her death on Jan. 10, 1971, her obituary appeared in The Times.
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On August 19, 1871, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the Tweed Ring.


On this date in:

1929    The comedy "Amos 'n' Andy" made its network radio debut on NBC.

1955    Severe flooding in the Northeast caused by the remnants of Hurricane Diane claimed some 200 lives.

1960    A tribunal in Moscow convicted American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage.

1969    Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis began three days of recording sessions that yielded the album "Bitches Brew."

1976    President Gerald R. Ford won the Republican presidential nomination at the party's national convention in Kansas City.

1977    Comedian Groucho Marx died at age 86.

1994    President Bill Clinton halted the nation's three-decade open-door policy for Cuban refugees.

1996    A judge sentenced former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker to four years' probation for his Whitewater crimes.

2004    The Internet search engine Google went public.

2005    A Texas jury found pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. liable for the death of a man who'd taken the once-popular painkiller Vioxx.

2009    Suicide bombers struck Iraq's finance and foreign ministries, killing more than 100 people.

2009    Don Hewitt, the TV news pioneer who created CBS' "60 Minutes," died at age 86.

Current Birthdays

Former President Bill Clinton turns 64 years old today.
(I did NOT tell that woman Miss Lewinsky to lie in deposition... I told her to lie in dat' position.) 

71    Ginger Baker
Rock musician (Cream, Blind Faith)

70    Jill St. John
Actress

68    Fred Thompson
Actor, former U.S. senator, R-Tenn.

62    Tipper Gore
Wife of former Vice President Al Gore

62    Gerald McRaney
Actor ("Major Dad")

57    Mary Matalin
Political consultant

55    Peter Gallagher
Actor

54    Adam Arkin
Actor

50    Morton Andersen
Football player

47    John Stamos
Actor ("Full House')

45    Kevin Dillon
Actor ("Entourage")

45    Kyra Sedgwick
Actress ("The Closer")

44    Lee Ann Womack
Country singer

43    Tabitha Soren
MTV reporter

41    Matthew Perry
Actor ("Friends")

40    Fat Joe
Rapper

35    Tracie Thoms
Actress ("Cold Case")

28    Erika Christensen
Actress

21    Romeo
Rapper

[Krandall]

Former President Bill Clinton turns 64 years old today.
(I did NOT tell that woman Miss Lewinsky to lie in deposition... I told her to lie in dat' position.) 




Today's Highlights in History
On Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer.

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Aug. 20, 1968, the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the ''Prague Spring'' liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.

On Aug. 20, 1833, Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born. Following his death on March 13, 1901, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On August 20, 1904, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1904.







On this date in:

1833    Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.

1914    German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.

1918    Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.

1940    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill paid tribute to the Royal Air Force, saying, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

1953    The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.

1955    Hundreds of people were killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.

1964    President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.

1977    The United States launched Voyager 2, an unmanned spacecraft carrying a 12-inch copper phonograph record containing greetings in dozens of languages, samples of music and sounds of nature.

1992    The Republican National Convention in Houston nominated President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle for a second term.

1998    Retaliating for deadly embassy bombings in East Africa, the United States launched cruise missile strikes against al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan and what was described as a chemical plant in Sudan.

2009    Voting in Afghanistan's presidential election was marred by rampant ballot-box stuffing. (Hamid Karzai was declared the winner in November.)

2009    The only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 returned home to Libya after his release from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.

Current Birthdays

TV weatherman Al Roker ("Today") turns 56 years old today.


77    George Mitchell
Former Senate majority leader

64    Connie Chung
Broadcast journalist

63    Jimmy Pankow
Rock musician (Chicago)

62    Robert Plant
Rock singer (Led Zeppelin)

58    John Hiatt
Rock singer, songwriter

54    Joan Allen
Actress

48    James Marsters
Actor ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Angel")

45    KRS-One
Rapper

40    Fred Durst
Rock singer (Limp Bizkit)

37    Todd Helton
Baseball player

18    Demi Lovato
Actress ("Sonny With a Chance")

Historic Birthdays

Benjamin Harrison

8/20/1833 - 3/13/1901
23rd president of the United States
(Go to obit.)

71    Jacopo Peri
8/20/1561 - 8/12/1633
Italian composer

70    Francis Asbury
8/20/1745 - 3/31/1816
English-born bishop of the American Methodist Episcopal Church

76    Eliel Saarinen
8/20/1873 - 7/1/1950
Finnish architect

77    Edgar Guest
8/20/1881 - 8/5/1959
English-born American poet

66    Salvatore Quasimodo
8/20/1901 - 6/14/1968
Italian Nobel Prize-winning poet, critic and translator

58    Jack Teagarden
8/20/1905 - 1/15/1964
American jazz trombonist

80    Valentin Glushko
8/20/1908 - /1989
Soviet rocket scientist

88    Kingsley Davis
8/20/1908 - 2/27/1997
American sociologist and demographer

51    Eero Saarinen
8/20/1910 - 9/1/1961
Finnish-born American architect

80    Roger Wolcott Sperry
8/20/1913 - 4/17/1994
American Nobel Prize-winning neurobiologist (1981)

[preddy08]

Gotta love Iowa


Beating death in Bluffs
By Cindy Gonzalez
World-Herald Staff Writer
« Metro/RegionRSS SHARE
DiggNewsvinedel.icio.usRedditFacebookTwitterPRINT EMAIL AdvertisingA 28-year-old man was found beaten to death Saturday night in a Council Bluffs neighborhood.

Police responded about 11:30 p.m. to a call about a disturbance in the 3000 block of 10th Avenue and discovered the body of a man who had been beaten with a blunt object, said Council Bluffs Police Sgt. Chad Meyers.

The man's identification is being withheld pending notification of relatives. Police Sunday were not releasing any other information, including whether a suspect had been questioned or apprehended

[Peelz]

Iowa rulez.

Wife and kids went to the yamaha shop Friday, and surprised me with some new "glubbies" (gloves)

pretty sweet.

http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/2/6/2/28950/ITEM/One-Industries-Drako-Yamaha-Gloves.aspx

[Krandall]

ooh, those look fancy shmancy

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History
On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery.

On Aug. 23, 1912, Gene Kelly, the American dancer and choreographer, was born. Following his death on Feb. 2, 1996, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On August 23, 1884, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1884.



On this date in:

1754    France's King Louis XVI was born at Versailles.

1775    Britain's King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of open rebellion.

1926    Silent film star Rudolph Valentino died at age 31.

1939    Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty.

1960    Broadway librettist Oscar Hammerstein II died at age 65.

1979    Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defected while the Bolshoi Ballet was on tour in New York.

1989    Yusuf Hawkins, an African-American teenager, was shot dead by white youths in Brooklyn.

2000    The first season finale of the reality show "Survivor" aired on CBS, with contestant Richard Hatch winning the $1 million prize.

2003    Former Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan, a convicted child molester, was killed by a fellow inmate in a Massachusetts prison.

2005    Israeli forces evicted militant holdouts from two Jewish settlements, completing a historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank.

2008    Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama introduced his choice of running mate, Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware.






Current Birthdays

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant turns 32 years old today.


82    Marian Seldes
Actress

80    Vera Miles
Actress

78    Mark Russell
Comedian

77    Pete Wilson
Former California governor, U.S. senator

76    Barbara Eden
Actress ("I Dream of Jeannie")

76    Sonny Jurgensen
Football Hall of Famer

70    Richard Sanders
Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati")

63    Linda Thompson
Rock singer

61    Shelley Long
Actress ("Cheers")

61    Rick Springfield
Actor, singer

59    Queen Noor
Queen of Jordan

40    Jay Mohr
Actor

Historic Birthdays

Gene Kelly

8/23/1912 - 2/2/1996
American dancer, actor, choreographer and director
(Go to obit.)

65    Francois Hotman
8/23/1524 - 2/12/1590
French jurist and humanist scholar

38    Louis XVI
8/23/1754 - 1/21/1793
French king; guillotined in French Revolution

62    Georges, Baron Cuvier
8/23/1769 - 5/13/1832
French zoologist and statesman

53    William Ernest Henley
8/23/1849 - 7/11/1903
English poet, critic and editor

30    Arnold Toynbee
8/23/1852 - 3/9/1883
English economist and social reformer

80    Edgar Lee Masters
8/23/1868 - 3/5/1950
American poet and novelist

85    Jack Butler Yeats
8/23/1871 - 3/28/1957
Irish painter

70    Jonathan Wainwright
8/23/1883 - 9/2/1953
American army general and World War II hero

45    Constant Lambert
8/23/1905 - 8/21/1951
English composer, conductor and critic

[Krandall]

Today's Highlights in History

On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm.

On Aug. 24, 1899, Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian writer of poems, essays and short stories, was born. Following his death on June 14, 1986, his obituary appeared in The Times.
Editorial Cartoon of the Day
   
On August 24, 1872, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the presidential election of 1872.



On this date in:

79    Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. An estimated 20,000 people died.

1572    The slaughter of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris.

1814    British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.

1857    The New York branch of the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust Co. failed, sparking the Panic of 1857.

1932    Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States, traveling from Los Angeles to Newark, N.J., in just over 19 hours.

1949    The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.

1954    The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.

1968    France became the world's fifth thermonuclear power as it exploded a hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific.

1970    A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.

1981    Mark David Chapman was sentenced in New York to 20 years to life in prison for the murder of rock musician John Lennon. (His latest bid for parole was denied in August 2008.)

1989    Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti banned Pete Rose from the game for gambling.

2006    The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."

2007    A judge in Inverness, Fla., sentenced John Evander Couey to death for kidnapping 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, raping her and burying her alive.

2007    James Ford Seale, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman, was sentenced to three life terms for his role in the 1964 abduction and murder of two black teenagers in Mississippi.

2007    The NFL indefinitely suspended Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick without pay for his involvement in dogfighting. (He was reinstated in July 2009 after serving 18 months in prison.)

Current Birthdays

Actress Marlee Matlin turns 45 years old today.


76    Kenny Baker
Actor (R2D2 in "Star Wars")

68    Max Cleland
Former U.S. senator, D-Ga.

63    Anne Archer
Actress

63    Joe Manchin
Governor of West Virginia

61    Joe Regalbuto
Actor ("Murphy Brown")

58    Bob Corker
U.S. senator, R-Tenn.

58    Mike Shanahan
Football coach

55    Mike Huckabee
Former governor of Arkansas

54    Gerry Cooney
Boxer

53    Stephen Fry
Actor

52    Steve Guttenberg
Actor

50    Cal Ripken Jr.
Baseball Hall of Famer

48    Craig Kilborn
Talk show host

45    Reggie Miller
Basketball player

40    David Gregory
Broadcast journalist ("Meet the Press")

37    Dave Chappelle
Actor, comedian ("Chappelle's Show")

29    Chad Michael Murray
Actor ("One Tree Hill")

22    Rupert Grint
Actor ("Harry Potter" movies)

[Peelz]

Iowa rulez.

Wife and kids went to the yamaha shop Friday, and surprised me with some new "glubbies" (gloves)

pretty sweet.

http://www.motorcycle-superstore.com/2/6/2/28950/ITEM/One-Industries-Drako-Yamaha-Gloves.aspx

better pic of those gloves the wife and kids bought me last weekend. Pretty sweet.

[Krandall]

1970    A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.

fricken hippies.

and sweet gloves peelio

[NaturalRaptor]

Resident Evil - Afterlife 3D

Milla Jovovich is hot! 

http://www.youtube.com/user/ResidentEvilMovie?v=4xSdh3b_jhU&feature=pyv&ad=5405680420&kw=flowgo%20youtube%20videos