Highlights of this day in history: John Brown leads a raid on Harper's Ferry; Marie Antoinette is beheaded; Pope John Paul II is elected after the October 1978 Papal conclave; Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Former Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet is arrested; Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood; Jessica McClure rescued from a well; James Michener dies.
Other notable October 16th events include:
1781 – George Washington captures Yorktown, Virginia after the Siege of Yorktown.
1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
1875 – Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah.
1923 – The Walt Disney Company is founded by Walt Disney and his brother, Roy Disney.
1940 – The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis between the United States and Cuba begins.
1984 – Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1995 – The Million Man March occurs in Washington, D.C.
Okay, where is everyone? I said I would be back for the history thread. Any one out there?
ReplyDeleteWAKEY! WAKEY!
ReplyDeleteWe're all too old to climb the stairs quickly?
ReplyDelete/well that's MY excuse, and I'm sticking to it!
littleoldlady: I thought the stair risers were too high for you?
ReplyDelete/*ducks and covers*
LoL -- what did I do to make you sigh?
ReplyDeleteIf it makes you feel any better I just had to take a COLD shower since we don't have any hot water and won't have any until Monday it looks like.
Phil has ducks under his covers?
ReplyDeleteKiiiinky.
Morning Lol, lucius and PP. I have to call one partner and go see the other partner this morning to tell them I've got a F/T job. They've been very cool to me and they did see this going F/T, but I am completely at peace with the work I did and that the other gig is much more solid. I am hoping, since this isn't a competitor, they will let me work up until the day before I start at the new job.
ReplyDeleteMorning Lucius, Spenser. Here's hoping that your current employers are understanding Spenser. Should be no problem I think.
ReplyDeleteWell, time to go bend young minds to my iron will.
ReplyDeleteThat or just talk at them for 50 minutes.
Later, all.
'Barackie Madoff' rescue nothing but a $16B rip-off
ReplyDeleteThe Obama administration boasted yesterday that with $16 billion taken from you and given to others, 30,383 working Americans owe a hearty thanks of gratitude for their jobs.
Even the Obama-fawning press had to do the math and could not avoid pointing out that at $71,500 per job, it's a very costly stimulus.
Struggling small businesses all around this country could have created three times that many jobs with that much money.
/meanwhile, Obama's lost over 3 million jobs on his watch, what a job savior!
I thought the stair risers were too high for you?
ReplyDeleteThat too. :-(
'Bye, Lucius! ;-)
Hi, Spenser! :-)
I may be a lot more talkative after I find my glasses...
/IF (BIG IF) I find them!
All: are you also seeing avatars for exactly the first five (5) posts only on each thread?
ReplyDeleteMaybe a new Blogger setting to reduce page loading time?
I may be a lot more talkative after I find my glasses...
ReplyDelete/IF (BIG IF) I find them!
Have you checked the top of your head?
/*ducks again*
//yeah I know I am in a silly mood this am
FF: This has been going off and on for the past couple of days. We think Blogger is having conniptions.
ReplyDelete"Have you checked the top of your head?"
ReplyDeleteHey...I've found MINE there before! LOL!
Morning y'all!
Busy busy busy...
OT: the nutjob who Emailed death threats to 0bama apparently did the same with Bush, and has a long history of this sort of thing to public officials.
ReplyDelete1869 – The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
ReplyDeletePeople who didn't fall for the hoax were angrily called "deniers".
Born today:
ReplyDelete1854 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)
According to Edmund Blackadder, Oscar Wilde was: 'A big, bearded, bonking, butch Oscar. The terror of the ladies. 114 illegitamate children, world heavyweight boxing champion, and author of the best-selling phamplet, "Why I Like To Do It With Girls".'
Looks like it's just me...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds4eDwEW1qw
ahhhh, the 400,000 all black men march organized by a radical muslim who exclued women and bullied the Park Service over the count until white guilt ABC TV funded a "study" that put the appeasement number at double that amount. That million man march ... oh, morning all.
ReplyDeletehey, what happened to our avatars?
ReplyDeleteI think this will fit into the history theme of the thread. Was just randomly clicking links and found this page on Flickr. Have I ever mentioned how much I love modernt technology?
ReplyDelete/so many stories that would have been lost, I would have missed...
hey, what happened to our avatars?
ReplyDeleteI'm testing a stolen cloaking device.
Genius from Krauthammer-
ReplyDelete"And what's come from Obama's single most dramatic foreign policy stroke -- the sudden abrogation of missile defense arrangements with Poland and the Czech Republic that Russia had virulently opposed? For the East Europeans it was a crushing blow, a gratuitous restoration of Russian influence over a region that thought it had regained independence under American protection.
But maybe not gratuitous. Surely we got something in return for selling out our friends. Some brilliant secret trade-off to get strong Russian support for stopping Iran from going nuclear before it's too late? Just wait and see, said administration officials, who then gleefully played up an oblique statement by President Dmitry Medvedev a week later as vindication of the missile defense betrayal.
The Russian statement was so equivocal that such a claim seemed a ridiculous stretch at the time. Well, Clinton went to Moscow this week to nail down the deal. What did she get?
"Russia Not Budging on Iran Sanctions; Clinton Unable to Sway Counterpart." Such was The Post headline's succinct summary of the debacle.
Note how thoroughly Clinton was rebuffed. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared that "threats, sanctions and threats of pressure" are "counterproductive." Note: It's not just sanctions that are worse than useless, but even the threat of mere pressure."
Captain, another tranporter malfunction? Scottie!
ReplyDeletezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
ReplyDelete-note to self; Krauthammer in the early am may break a thread...
ReplyDeleteIf I had to guess, I would say that yes it was a publicity stunt.
ReplyDeleteStart your Friday with a laugh:
ReplyDeleteBig Bird talks to Michelle Obama
Turn, it does seem that way. When I thought the kid was in danger and/or dead, their parenting skills seemed like a poor, untimely topic. Now that he was never in danger and possibly set up for this, I think they should be investigated and a large bill and or charges given to these parents if it is what it seems.
ReplyDeleteSpenser,
ReplyDeleteThat quote from Krauthammer says it all. Obama's one actual foreign policy accomplishment, praised by his sycophants as "strategic genius" has been quickly proven a strategic disaster. This is worse than Russia continuing to cover for Iran, which they have done for years anyway. Russia is now openly thumbing her nose at the US, having wrung with little apparent effort a major concession from Obama.
Obama's debacle sends 2 messages: to US allies it means you can be sold out for a weak promise, & to US enemies it means "Go for it!"
The bitter irony is that this years Nobel Peace Prize recipient has made the world less safe and war more likely.
Good morning y'all - from a chilly(50 degrees going up to 62 degrees) and damp Charlotte!
ReplyDeleteHow is everyone doing this morning? Well, I hope!
this years Nobel Peace Prize recipient has made the world less safe and war more likely.
ReplyDeleteBusiness as usual.
Spenser, I know this won't happen but if the cops got the kid away from his parents and questioned him for a while a whole differrent story would probably come out ...
ReplyDeleteMorning Realwest. Sounds like nice temperatures down there. How's things been going?
ReplyDeleteMorning real, long time no "see". How are you doing man?
ReplyDeleteFinally Free said...
ReplyDeleteOT: the nutjob who Emailed death threats to 0bama apparently did the same with Bush, and has a long history of this sort of thing to public officials.
But ... but ... but ... Obama haters are all right-wingers!
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I heard the Avatars walked off the job after we failed to give them their lawful 15 min. for every 4 hours worked.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I see the U.N. continues its stellar performance in making itself wholly irrelevant.
Hiya Real! We got some cool weather here, too.
ReplyDeleteThank goodness ... the heat and humidity turned all my raisins into plums.
Currently 69 degrees at 645am with highs near 100 here in PHX today, RW.
ReplyDeleteLooks like our summer is not quite done yet....
The bitter irony is that this years Nobel Peace Prize recipient has made the world less safe and war more likely
ReplyDeletewhile back at home the dems earmark funding for pet projects that would have been spent on the ammunition needed should the war break out. The lunatics are running the asylum.
That would be an amazingly single-mided six-year-old, IMO, to stay in a box for that long on orders.
ReplyDeleteEven as a result of fear it's an accomplishment.
Hi PaladinPhil,turn, and OLT and all y'all!I'm doing ok sorta, but OLT, I really, TRULY don't want to talk about your raisns being turned into plums, ya know what I'm sayin'?! HMMM?!
ReplyDeleteCourse it could be worse: Your Plums could be turned into raisins!!
/ducks and heads for cover!
DD I am jealous. Currently 37 degrees with light rain and gun metal gray skies.
ReplyDeleteIt's been like living in a Ronco Simple Steamer around here ... ain't nothin wrinkled any more.
ReplyDelete;)
I heard the Avatars walked off the job after we failed to give them their lawful 15 min. for every 4 hours worked.
ReplyDeleteJust think of it as a masquerade party … morning {CE}
Anybody wants 100 degree weather can have it.
ReplyDeleteNo thanks!
Maybe in the high desert, but no where else.
I like my weather "San Diego" style. We get about two weeks a year like that. :(
Avatar problem?
ReplyDeleteWe all aren't flying the white flag?
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Morning OLT, and the kid supposedly climbed up a pole and hid in a box in the rafters of the garage? come on, this is fishy
ReplyDeleteHey turn, y'all talking about that $2.6 Billion in earmarks in the defense budget? According to F&F with the natural caveat that goes with that, Republicans AND Democrats were slurping at that trough.
ReplyDeleteBut - and don't get me wrong here, I wouldn't mind $2.6 Billion buckos, but still and all that's within the framework of the entire defense budget which was, iirc, the only Department who's budget was CUT by the Lefties.
And even so Obama's first "budget" includes a $1.4 TRILLION DEFICIT!! Just how the hell do you do that? I mean, prepare a budget with that kinda deficit for one year?!
Morning Turn. Could be a party, but I am also concerned that the Avatars could be organizing a Union.
ReplyDeleteWhy you simply print money real, no brainer. doh
ReplyDeleteWell, my talk with the owner telling him I'm taking a F/T job went better than expected. He congratulated me on getting a F/T job in MI's economy and even asked if I wanted to work the phones for them in the western time zones after I'm done there. I think I'll take them up on that if it works out.
ReplyDeleteAll avatars will be the same from now on. We will all be equal. It was not fair that some of us had very nice avatars, while others had none. Therefore, we will get rid of all avatars and make everyone the same!
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Oh, and hey real, Origin, OLT, kenneth. It's been quiet, too quiet.
ReplyDeleteWTH - I just tried posting a typcially witty and amusing comment to Desert Dog about how 100 degrees IS Autumn in his part of our Country and I get a "Conflicting Edits" notice!!
ReplyDeleteAnd again, no avatars!
POWER TO THE AVATARS!!!
ReplyDelete/hey, some one has to agitate for them.
Hey, I changed my avatar ... that's a graph of all the things O has accomplished during his presidency. Seriously, the no avatar thing sucks. Can't wait for the new site ...
ReplyDeleteSpenser, owner?
ReplyDeleteBarack Obama's silly obsession with Fox News
ReplyDeletehttp://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/100013785/barack-obamas-silly-obsession-with-fox-news/
It's the narcissism thing again. Obama cannot abide anybody criticizing him.
Where have all the Avatars gone . . .?
ReplyDeleteLong time passing . . .
Morning c-squares!
ReplyDeleteSpenser (with an S)- Congrats on getting a full time job - hopefully with health insurance bene's and now a chance to pick up more dough from the employer you're leaving? Not bad, not bad at all.
ReplyDeleteBy gosh, Obama was right, the economy IS getting better, one new job a day after the other!
Hold tight to your wallets y'all, the government sponsored pickpockets are out in force these days!
No friggin fair! BDVM's "B" shows up ...
ReplyDeletethe heat and humidity turned all my raisins into plums.
ReplyDeleteWell, this certainly isn't a boob thread. It's probably about time for redstate to pop in and comment about our ranks swelling again...
turn: BDVM's avatar must belong to management.
ReplyDeleteUfo Tofu: well that would get some attention.
ReplyDeleteLOL
ReplyDeleteLEBANON, Pa. (AP) -- Police in central Pennsylvania say they've nabbed a real pothead. They said an officer spotted 29-year-old Cesar Lopez inside a convenience store with a bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead. Investigators said Lopez was seen peering inside his baseball cap early Saturday morning in Lebanon, about 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia. When Lopez looked up, the officer noticed a small plastic bag appearing to contain marijuana stuck to his forehead.
Police said the officer peeled the bag off Lopez's forehead and placed him under arrest. He has been charged with drug possession. Police do not know whether Lopez has an attorney.
Authorities say the sweatband of a baseball cap is a frequent hiding place for drugs.
Morning blue, rank has its privileges. Hey, did you read the comment I posted on your blog?
ReplyDeleteOrigin of Specious said...
ReplyDelete"Morning Turn. Could be a party, but I am also concerned that the Avatars could be organizing a Union"
ROTFLMAO!! Great one cause, ya know, look how well the Union thing went for the auto industry - UAW gets 55% of Chrysler and Chrysler is expected to be gonski in a year, some odd % of GM and they are apparently not all that far behind Chrysler and FORD - the only auto company that DIDN'T take taxpayer money*, just struck a deal with the UAW that included a NO Strike Clause!
* BUY FORD Folks - They did it without OUR TAXPAYER MONEY!!
Yep, them avatars better not get a union going or we'll sick Sasquatch on 'em!!
No friggin fair! BDVM's "B" shows up ...
ReplyDeleteWhat did I do?
Hey BDVM!! Good to see you my friend! It's been awhile I'm afraid!
ReplyDeleteHow are y'all doing?
Whoops, BBIAM!
ReplyDeleteturn: not yet. Off to look now. :)
ReplyDeleteLOL. what a fricken dumb ass CE.
ReplyDeletePaladinPhil
ReplyDeleteSome very cool pictures on your blog.
Thanks Ufo Tofu. I am just muddling along with a cheapy at the moment. Should be getting a real good camera in the coming weeks.
ReplyDeleteturn: Which posting did you comment on? Or also what nic did you use?
I've still got a half-pot of that Tanzanian Peaberry if anyone's in need.
ReplyDeleteHELP PINK FREUD, WE NEED OUR AVATARS BACK
ReplyDeleteIt was nothing blue, just to say I likde the pics and that next time I'm in Toronto maybe we could get together for a Stella ...
ReplyDeletelikde? hey that kind of looks neat
ReplyDeleteSounds like a plan turn. How often are you in Toronto?
ReplyDeleteI'm still not quite awake after staying up late to watch the Phillies last night. Every other sport has West Coast games that don't last until after midnight - MLB needs to get its act together.
ReplyDeleteNot very often blue, been ther two times. Stella beer and titty bar capitol of Canada, no? hehe
ReplyDeleteHey Beer Drinking Victory Monkey - what, you don't think the World Series should be over before Thanksgiving, do ya?!
ReplyDelete/
Oh, and the Niagra falls from the Canadian side is just awesome folks. Incredible
ReplyDelete"Peaberry"
ReplyDeleteA more aptly named beverage I cannot recall.
Good Morning, {all y'all} from a much cooler Deep South.
ReplyDeleteBeer Drinking Victory Monkey said...
ReplyDelete"Peaberry"
A more aptly named beverage I cannot recall.
never heard of it. Does it cause the Indian death?
I feel so lost without my avatar.
ReplyDeleteUNHRC approves [deleted] Gaza report accusing Israel of war crimes.
ReplyDeleteOut of current UNHRC members, the vote division:
Against: USA, Italy, Holland, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine.
For: China, Russia, Egypt, India [!?], Jordan, Pakistan, South Africa, Argentina, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Ghana, Indonesia, Djibouti, Liberia, Qatar, Senegal, Brazil, Mauritius, Nicaragua, Nigeria.
Abstain: Bosnia, Burkina-Faso, Cameron, Gabon, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Belgium, South Korea, Slovenia and Uruguay.
Absent: Madagascar, Kyrgyzstan.
turn said; "titty bar capitol of Canada, no?"
ReplyDeleteI thought that was Windsor? That was always portrayed to us as Sodom. You could drink beer when you were 19 and the nudie bars were fully nude! Wicked Canucks.
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Morning {red}, glad it's cooling down for ya. It was the first foggy day autumn this morning. The central valley fog can be unbelievable. Man I could tell you some stories about fog ...
ReplyDeleteOLT, the Peaberry is a delicious coffee bean from Africa. I do believe that BDVM meant it, as all coffees, can kick-start your need to find a bathroom.
ReplyDeleteNever been to Windsor Speser, I see it's just across the border. No wonder it is popular.
ReplyDeleteWell I better gets some stuff done, be back at break.
ReplyDeleteHey y'all - just wanted you all to know that outsidephily's son and grandson (who are firefighters in Philly area) had been out on that huge CHEMICAL plant fire last night and both got out alive and, outsidephilly thinks, ok!
ReplyDeleteBut outsidephilly won't be able to report on it at all until much later tonight!
But so far, they seem to be ok!
turn and Spenser, I don't know about us being the "titty bar" capital of Canada. Might be true. I know of 3 on Yonge street and been in two of them when I was younger. I know there's quite a few out by the airport. I don't do the strip clubs any more. Beer is too expensive and I just can't really get into it any more. Comes from dating a stripper once I guess. Besides, I like a woman that I can touch and caress without any restrictions. ;)
ReplyDeleteHey Finally Free - except for India, not one of those votes really surprises me. Well also having Japan abstain surporised me too. But what DOES surprise me is how many Democracies are memembers of the UNHRC and how many thugocracies are.
ReplyDeleteThey got some balls including China and otheres in the UN Human Rights Commission.
Remember Tianemen Square? One guy, one tank; if ever there was a PERFECT visual of humans vs. State control of government - that's it.
Turn, y'all get a BREAK? Hell all this time I thought you were on break! LOL!
ReplyDeletePP, I agree. Went maybe 3 times as a young man to bachelor parties, etc.. but it never really took.
ReplyDeletePP said; "Besides, I like a woman that I can touch and caress without any restrictions. ;)"
-Yeah, that would be nice. I'm married.
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FF: I notice that Britain and France were not there for the vote.
ReplyDeleteSpenser: Where do you get your Peaberry? National chain, or local roaster? Mine does not carry it.
Has anyone heard from Occasional Reader lately?
ReplyDeleteSpenser (with an S) said...
ReplyDeleteOLT, the Peaberry is a delicious coffee bean from Africa. I do believe that BDVM meant it, as all coffees, can kick-start your need to find a bathroom.
The "Indian death" around these parts is more common in the summer with the most common iced beverage.
/drown in your tea-pee
So Spenser, you two are having hall sex? :D))))
ReplyDeleteI believe OR dropped into the Pub last night from the airport in Brazil.
ReplyDeleteBDVM
ReplyDeleteIsn't OR out of the country? Guess he's too busy for us!
Origin, I get it from a local roaster. It's nice, they are a wholesaler, but they keep a little cafe open in front as kind of a loss-leader and their cups are only $1.00 for a large.
ReplyDeleteGoing to the Balloon Races tomorrow. If the wind is right, they'll fly over the lakehouse and land in the fields. Pretty cool to see.
ReplyDeleteYep, OR's probably still sleeping from his trip. Shouldn't have jetlag though, I don't believe.
ReplyDeleteredstateredneck said...
ReplyDeleteGoing to the Balloon Races tomorrow. If the wind is right, they'll fly over the lakehouse and land in the fields. Pretty cool to see.
I thought those were yesterday!
How old are THEIR jockeys?
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OR's in Brazil again? I think he's taking this whole Adriana Lima thing a bit too far.
ReplyDeleteOLT
ReplyDeleteLOL! These are the real ones..not homemade weather balloons.
Steve Doocy said this morning that the balloon the kid wasn't in looked like a Jiffy-Pop tin.
ReplyDeleteMorning all.
ReplyDeleteJust saw this at Ace of Spades. Limbaugh's fake "quotes" apparently came from a NY City law firm.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/10/the_search_for_the_wikipedia_l.html
Beer Drinking Victory Monkey - O.R.'s down in Argentina and Paraguay on business this week and he estimated possibly next week as well.
ReplyDeleteNew thread.
ReplyDelete/move it!
ABC radio news is playing the tape they say is the on purpose launch of the balloon yesterday, including a count-down. Doesn't look good for the family.
ReplyDeleteLincolntf - Y'all got a name for that firm or at least a link to the Ace story?!
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