Highlights of this day in history: Cornwallis formally surrenders at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War; On "Black Monday", the DJIA falls by 22%, 508 points; Napoleon I of France retreats from Moscow; The Concorde makes its first landing in New York City.
Other notable October 19th events include:
1512 – Martin Luther becomes a doctor of theology.
1789 – Chief Justice John Jay is sworn in as the first Chief Justice of the United States.
1873 – Yale, Princeton, Columbia, and Rutgers universities draft the first code of American football rules.
1933 – Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1960 – The United States government places an embargo on Communist Cuba.
1973 – President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court demand to turn over the Watergate tapes.
2003 – Mother Teresa is beatified by Pope John Paul II.
2005 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial in Baghdad for crimes against humanity.
2009: PaladinPhil shows up for work on time. :)
ReplyDeleteMazel Tov, Phil! :-)
ReplyDelete/we'll have to remember to add this notable date in history to next year's list...
Well, I don't know about that. I think it would be more notable if I was LATE for work.
ReplyDelete/OCD about being on time for everything...
Not me. I must be EARLY.
ReplyDeleteThat kind of stuff is funny. If you're perpetually late you're inconsiderate. Always early means you're insecure. And 100% on time means you're compulsive.
Unless you vary your tactics...YOU CANNOT WIN! ;-)
littleoldlady, in response to the gun question last thread, 12 guage is a bit powerful. You just have to prepare for it. You can also get lighter loads for it so you can work your way up.
ReplyDeleteToo late for an avatar?
ReplyDeleteGood morning. We have frost this morning.
Gorebull warming/
Morning VT, we have had frost up here for the past week. Good thing is that the trees are turning all sorts of beautiful colours.
ReplyDeleteI think I should probably get myself a little girl-gun.
ReplyDelete/because...you know...I'm a little girl! ;-)
I'm also too old to get bruised up from a "sport". Anyway, no such expenditure forthcoming until I get the rest of this joint Armageddon-ready...
LOL, I got myself a big boy gun.
ReplyDeleteNot a very good shot yet, but working on it.
VioletTiger! :-)
ReplyDeleteHappy Day After Phillies Creamed The Dodgers Day! ;-)
THey sure did LOL. Hope we can sweep the rest here at home.
ReplyDeleteHappy Day After Phillies Creamed The Dodgers Day! ;-)
ReplyDeleteMorning, LoL.
Lee was magnificent.
Really interesting to see if Blanton will step it up tonight.
littleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteI think I should probably get myself a little girl-gun.
/20 gauge, alternate load of shot and slugs
Not going to be posting much for a bit, have to do some writing. Going to have to get a grip and start writing a bunch of posts to be put up in a timely manner.
ReplyDelete/*engages lurking device*
Killian! AHA! A YOUTH model! Brilliant! :-)
ReplyDeleteHiya squatch! :-)
ReplyDeleteI have learned never to count this particular Phillies team out. First of all they're a real TEAM! (And we're truly not used to that around here.) Second, they never give up or get demoralized. A loss just spurs them to a greater win the next time out.
Still, I can't help but feel...WE ARE NOT WORTHY! ;-)
Gotta git to work folks.
ReplyDeleteBBL
Still, I can't help but feel...WE ARE NOT WORTHY! ;-)
ReplyDeleteI told the better half they were going to win that game against the Rockies even being down 2 runs in the 9th. They never give up.
All I can say is it is about damn time.
The most losses ever by a Pro sports team, over 10K, some heartbreaking losses (think Mitch).
Used to be when we'd say at least we're not the Cubbies.
You folks with jobs are really annoying.
ReplyDelete;-)
See ya, VioletTiger! :-)
squatch,
ReplyDeleteNOTHING can ever beat the 1964 Phillies for Community Wide Sports Depression.
I'll never forget (or maybe even GET OVER!) my mother rushing my 5 year old brother to the doctor because we thought the kid was going to have a heart attack.
Luckily, now...when he really IS a candidate for heart failure...we don't have to worry as much! :-)
You folks with jobs are really annoying.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry; thanks to Obama, we're an endangered species.
Morning all. Cats are fed. The coffee is hot. Life is good.
ReplyDeleteKIRK! :-)
ReplyDeleteI know...
/verybigsigh.
GAK! :-)
ReplyDelete1959 РThe first discoth̬que
ReplyDeleteTruly, today is a day that will live in infamy.
Born today:
1903 – Tor Johnson, Swedish wrestler and actor (d. 1971)
Among his acting roles, "Plan 9 From Outer Space"
1945 – Divine, American actor (d. 1988)
1967 – Amy Carter, daughter of US President Jimmy Carter
1969 – John Edward, American TV Psychic
Hmmm. Infamy.
1958 – Michael Steele, American political figure
1969 – Trey Parker, American cartoonist and actor
OK, so maybe today's not all bad.
LITTLE OLD LADY!! :-)
ReplyDeleteGood morning folks!
ReplyDeletePhil, how's your mother doing?
NOTHING can ever beat the 1964 Phillies for Community Wide Sports Depression.
ReplyDeleteAhh, The Phold....
Wow,that's bad.
Kenneth! :-)
ReplyDelete(I think it was Phil's *friend's* mother who was ill...but I could be wrong.)
JamesTKirk said...
ReplyDelete"Plan 9 From Outer Space"
Amy Carter
/what's the difference?
I have a bad case of Mondaymorningitis, LOLady...
ReplyDelete"Plan 9 From Outer Space"
ReplyDeleteAmy Carter
/what's the difference?
Better special effects? You couldn't see the strings holding Amy up...
JamesTKirk,
ReplyDeleteDon't look at me! THIS is my theme song every Monday...
When did the avatars change to flags ?
ReplyDeleteLost my comp over the weekend, so haven't been on since Thurs night.
Just wondering.
And I am back. Post is done. Memories of Summer so to speak from last year.
ReplyDeleteKenneth: It was my friends mother, I believe she is fine. I haven't had any panic stricken phone calls so I am assuming the best.
So a good morning to Kenneth, JTK, midwestgak, squatch, and Killian. :)
/*lurk mode disengaged*
squatch,
ReplyDeleteA blogger bug has infected us. The first 5 or 6 posts in a thread get the correct avatars. After that...well, we used to have Stroehmann King white bread slices until Pi Guy and CC figured out how to put something "actual" in there.
Meanwhile, Bare sent blogger his bug-fixing idea. It remains to be seen what happens next.
/stay tuned!
Oh this article is bound to get some heads splodin. It touches on all the super bad craziness; birthers, truthers, paulinians, white supremacists, right wing extremists, ODS, you name it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.lvrj.com/news/oath-keepers-pledges-to-prevent-dictatorship-in-united-states-64690232.html
oh, morning all. sup?
I have to get this day moving...Monday or no Monday!
ReplyDeleteSee y'all later! :-)
Bye {LOL}
ReplyDeletelittleoldlady said...
ReplyDeleteLOL. Interesting...
Phil - {Nietzsche}
ReplyDeleteMorning {turn}
Ok Phil, thanks for clueing me in. I hope your mother is well too, while we are at it.
ReplyDelete(goes off in search of more coffee)
I noticed the avatar problems over the weekend; but for whatever reason CC won't let me comment from my home computer.
ReplyDeleteFlags aren't bad. Could be worse.
Bye littleoldlady, morning turn.
ReplyDeleteKenneth: My mom is doing great. Going to have to give her a call this week sometime and see how her group is doing as well.
Morning {red} and {blue}, oh wait I ain't huggin blue! ha
ReplyDeleteMorning, all. Two kids still home sick, possibly with H1N1 and the Lions still suck but it is a stunner of a fall day outside. How is everyone?
ReplyDeleteThat should have been {gal}, hey it's early ...
ReplyDeleteMorning Spenser, hope the kids are going to be ok. You see that Vikings game yesterday. Wow, what a squeaker.
ReplyDeleteHere is another article bound to splode some heads, and from a favorite news source to boot
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=113347
Morning Spenser. Hope your household doesn't get any worse with that mad virus. Just think, the regular flu season is just around the corner as well. :p
ReplyDeletehttp://www.google.com/search?q=stewart+rhodes+ron+paul&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1
ReplyDeleteSHAZAM,
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The media rebelling against White House control in 4... 3... 2... 1½... 1¼...
ReplyDeleteIt could be a regular cold since 3 have it and 3 don't, but there's a bit of a fever with it that makes me suspicious. The kids all had the regular flu vaccine, which hasn't really hit the country yet, but the H1N1, which has been just waiting for school to start? Vaccine not available yet.
ReplyDeleteLet's give them control over all of health-care!
fact checked a spoof
ReplyDeletefact checked a spoof
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Just think, the regular flu season is just around the corner as well.
ReplyDeleteI've had my regular seasonal flu shot, and I've been avoiding swine so far. Hard to do the latter in DC.
What is it with this administration and Fox news? The Vance Jones thing must have really stung. The best explaination I've heard is now that Bush, McCain, and Palin are out of the picture they need a new boogie man to fight. Why do the leftists always have to be doing battle with someone?
ReplyDeleteWhy do the leftists always have to be doing battle with someone?
ReplyDelete"Look! Over there!"
Why do the leftists always have to be doing battle with someone?
ReplyDeleteThe Ole Playbook doesn't work without an enemy.
It's the right wing media and middle class America now.
SOS, you talking about that flying saucer publicity stunt? Those two should be jailed, I knew that was a stunt from the get go.
ReplyDeleteSOS & Captain, right on. Probably one of Alinski's rules too.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I have seen such a large amount of demonization directed against one group from the White House or the democrats in a long time.
ReplyDelete/if ever
Well, This Rhodes guy looks to be exactly what the "all conservatives are closet racist Nazi tea-party Paulians! Eleventy!" need to dig themselves out of the various holes Obama Dunn shoved them into.
ReplyDelete"Why do the leftists always have to be doing battle with someone?"
ReplyDeleteI think that might be human nature, but why can't they pick appropriate enemies? Those who would line them up against the wall about a minute after us? Some of them (homosexuals, women, journalists, etc..) would actually go first.
Oh that reminds me, I missed the flap between Rush and Sharpton this weekend. I'll have to go google that ....
ReplyDeleteDeucedly clever, that H1N1, to hold off on the rampant plague behavior until school starts.
ReplyDelete/What?
/That was almost two months ago?
/Nevermind!
Those two should be jailed, I knew that was a stunt from the get go.
ReplyDeleteThe kid outed 'em.
LMAO.
Dumbasses.
I think I heard this morning charges are going to be filed.
Sharpton's gonna SUE, because he's NOT A RACE-BAITER, and you are gonna PAY for saying that (or you can pay him to say that).
ReplyDelete/
What "media outlet" was supposedly paying them to do it?
ReplyDeleteMorning OLT, Oh I forgot the racist and nazi things ... jeeze. The list is so long I should start writing it down.
ReplyDeleteturn, you need a program these days to keep track of what you're accused of being, don't you?
ReplyDeleteOLT: Don't we all? It's hard trying to figure if I am a race baiter today or bitter and clingy? At least we have a lot of options to pick from.
ReplyDelete//////
Seriously we need to make a list or write a program to keep track of this shit. It's crazy all the acusations the left comes up with. Hey I haven't read the WSJ op ed by Rush but I really doubt he would write and acusation like that about Sharpton without having fact checked and verified the validity of it.
ReplyDeleteGood morning, everyone. It has been one heck of a weekend! And now look, The One has decided that marijuana? Not so bad after all.
ReplyDeleteWow - what happened around here? We are all American Flags!
ReplyDeleteThe One has decided that marijuana?
ReplyDeleteThat marijuana what?
...and WTH happened to the Eagles yesterday?
ReplyDeleteIt wasn't that the Raiders looked good, although JaHeartbreak Russell had moments where he actually looked like he was qualified to be a second string QB instead of a power forward for the Washington Generals. But that's no reason for the Eagle defense to fold up like a cheap suit play after play.
Sure Oakland DE Richard Seymour played out of his head, but he wasn't going against a starter for most of the game, and one would think the brain trust of Reid and McNabb would know how to deal with that sort of thing or at least figure it out inside of 60 minutes.
I know the Raider locker room was all fired up and indignant about the (much deserved) "felt like a scrimmage" comments after the NY Giants game/debacle last week, but really...
That wasn't the Raiders playing better then they really are, that was the Eagles playing and being coached far worse then they really are. All game long.
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Thanks to the inscrutable mysteries of NFL TV scheduling I actually got to see a Raider game broadcast on free TV in the DC area (Yay Foxsports!) - on a channel that actually comes through the digital box with minimal pixalization. That only seems to happen once a decade. I understand the game was blacked out in Oakland though.
That's a rule I've never understood.
Lets punish those fans who cannot afford tickets because those who can afford them won't buy them because the team sucks. But only sometimes and only certain teams...
Tuck rule my ass, Tom Brady fumbled.
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Morning {ArmyWife}. Mary Jane will be glad to hear that./
ReplyDeletedang, did google lock out the WSJ op ed by Rush? I can't friggin find a link .... HELP C2'rs
ReplyDeleteMorning ArmyWife ...
They need us smoking marijuana until they finish designing soma.
ReplyDeleteGood morning.
ReplyDeleteSave Darfur! Or, like, something:
US offers 'incentives' to Sudan
The US has offered Sudan "incentives" in return for "verifiable changes" on the ground, in an apparent softening of its stance on the African nation.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the US remained focused on reversing the "ongoing dire human consequences of genocide" in the Darfur region.
Apparently, these are sekrit insentivs, because the BBC failed to mention what any of them are.
And once again, a thug regime will get rewarded for brutality.
Here, JamesTKirk
ReplyDeleteObama\'s new MJ policy
California has the most liberal laws regarding medicinal pot use, personally I think it's much to do about nothing. The feds should legalize pot and tax the shit out of it IMO.
ReplyDeletedang, did google lock out the WSJ op ed by Rush?
ReplyDeleteDid you consider just checking WSJ's home page?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704322004574477021697942920.html
The feds should legalize pot and tax the shit out of it IMO.
ReplyDeleteI'm mostly in agreement with that, actually; although I'll stick to Romulan Ale for my own brain cell-killing purposes.
Good morning all y'all - form a COLD (35 degrees, booming all the way up to 62 degrees) but bright and sunny Charlotte!
ReplyDeleteHow is everyone doing this morning?!
Thanks Captain .. doh
ReplyDeleteFrom a glace at our avatars, it appears that Le Monde headline from shortly after 9/11 has come to pass: Nous sommes tous americains.
ReplyDeleteKenneth, PaladinPhil, welcome to the USA!
OR, nice. "If you Arabs would 'pretty-please' take your boots off the necks of your black citizens, we will give you more aid to further cement your position as the rulers of that messed-up piece of land".
ReplyDeleteCan't agree with you, Turn. I've just seen too much damage.
ReplyDeleteHi RW! It was cold here, too, this morning.
ReplyDeleteJamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteThey need us smoking marijuana until they finish designing soma.
Only a real Epsilon Minus would make a comment that stupid!
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Just think of all the stimulus to the munchie industry alone.
ReplyDeleteCOUGH,
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Hey turn! Nah, if the Fed's legalize pot, then tax the shit out of it, the illegal pot growers will have - forgive the experession - a field day in the black market - buy 'em free of taxes and probably much more potent pot to boot!
ReplyDeleteThe Feds ought to keep it illegal, but for Federal Pot - grow it our ownselves and sell Federal Pot and just rake in the normal profits!
render64 said...
ReplyDelete...and WTH happened to the Eagles yesterday?
/McNabb couldn't hit a toilet bowl sitting down
We control the news, too - except that pesky Fox
ReplyDeleteI'm an Alpha. Just look at my Red Cross blood donor card.
ReplyDeleteArmyWife, pot has certainly produced damage, but I think there are sound arguments that it's less damaging than alcohol (e.g., it is, so I've heard, pretty much physiologically impossible to OD on pot). I can't really think of any good argument to allow the one and not the other.
ReplyDeleteWe control the vertical... we control the horizontal...
ReplyDeleteKenneth and PP, does this churn your stomach to see that symbol of oppression and racism attached to your Maple-leaf-loving, fur-wearing, 'eh'-speaking good names? ;)
ReplyDelete"Federal Pot" would be a pretty great brand name, come to think of it. (They make great ammo, why not pot, too?)
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean, Spenser? Canada isn't a country, it's just those other seven states Obama was talking about.
ReplyDeleteHowdy ArmyWife! How cold is it where you are and, btw, where are you? LOL!
ReplyDeleteAnd I have to say, I know folks who've smoked pot for 35+ years, never went on to "heavier" drugs, never turned to a life of crime to feed their "habit" or anything else.
Well, except of course for the mad runs (at 15 mph) of potheads to 7-11's for Cheetos and Tortilla chips and such!
The country might as well be literally going to pot, eh?
ReplyDeletewell - pot is a much stronger carcinogenic than tobacco. I need to find all my "just say no to pot legalization" links for you to show the leap from pot to other drugs being greater than alcohol, and all kinds of other fun stuff.
ReplyDeleteI'm in central Virginia. It was 39 this morning - frost on the windows of the car!
ReplyDeleteInvest in Visine stock and make a killing. Seriously, ArmyWife you and I don't agree on the pot issue - fair enough. It might surprise you that I believe there are many good arguments to be made about legalizing drugs entirely.
ReplyDeleteMorning Realwest, OR.
ReplyDeleteSpenser: Nah, I don't believe most of that hippy-dippy chest beating rhetoric. I have actually read and studied some history. :)
/besides, if it wasn't for the American Civil War we wouldn't have become the country we are today.
Realwest said...
ReplyDeleteFederal Pot - grow it our ownselves
/they're way ahead of you
That's ok! If we all agreed on everything, it would be boring. Of course, I'm right in this case. ;)
ReplyDeleteMorning real, federal pot - heh
ReplyDeleteIt might surprise you that I believe there are many good arguments to be made about legalizing drugs entirely.
ReplyDeleteI definitely wouldn't go that far. Pot, yes. Crack, meth, LSD? Not so much.
ArmyWife - ok, I'll wait, cause all of the scientific/medical stuff I've read says that pot is less of a carcniogenic than is tobacco and is MUCH LESS damaging to your health than is alcohol use. Course, now if all of your information comes from Nancy Reagan, then your stat's will disagree with mine, but I never believed in just say no - doesn't work I'm afraid.
ReplyDeleteThe unfortunate (or not) fact of life is that people like to unwind or get high or whatever you want to call it - look at Prohibition as a perfect example. And I've seen,up close and personal, what alcholoism can do to someone and it's a damn sight uglier than anything pot has ever done to anyone I ever met.
LSD? What's wrong with Lake Shore Drive? It's been legal for years./
ReplyDeletePot, yes. Crack, meth, LSD? Not so much.
ReplyDeleteHey, isn't that a quote from "Dreams From My Father"?!
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Good Morning C-squares! Any new (old) friends come around over the weekend?
ReplyDeleteHey there James T. (Cap'n)Kirk - would you classify alcohol as a drug?
ReplyDeleteKB - And yet Reid couldn't come up with a better plan then to throw the ball 40+ times. Even with McNabb getting pounded for 6 sacks the message still didn't seem to be getting through.
ReplyDelete===
I think I'd hire Justin Fargas for just about any job. Not flashy or pretty but he sure does deliver the goods at the point of contact on a consistent basis - when they give him the ball.
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gal, look at your avatar. I'ts a patriotic blogger morph
ReplyDeleteLSD, everyone should try it at least once in their life.
ReplyDelete/with a babysitter of course, otherwise you tend to get into trouble
@Killian: Lorenzo St.-Dubois?
ReplyDeleteGood morning Beer Drinking Victory Monkey! How are you doing today? I don't know if any more folks joined us or not, I just like the crew we have NOW.
ReplyDeleteEven Occasional Reader!!
(and yes, I know you're on the boards O.R., just a little - very little - joke to say hi to you too!).
render64 said...
ReplyDelete...and WTH happened to the Eagles yesterday?
I folded on the Eagles when the hired that person in the off season. Now with Rush an official persona non grata for the NFL, I'm done with football for a while. I actually read a book this Sunday - the latest Vince Flynn asskicker.
But I just had to laugh this morning watching McNabb screw up the play clock yet again.
Hey O.R. - "Pot, yes. Crack, meth, LSD? Not so much." is almost an exact quote, but I think it was really Pot, yes. Cocaine, yes.Crack, meth, nope and only White people do LSD!"
ReplyDeleteCourse my memory could be wrong on that.
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Hey Render64 - excuse my ignorance but who is
ReplyDeleteJustin Fargas?
Hey BDVM, Jorline and I were discussing this last week, but Daniel Silva's novels are awesome and also kick-ass, both Muslim terrorist and Russian KGB (oh, sorry, I meant FSB). Scary-real storylines.
ReplyDeleteMorning {real}. Always good to see you around. :)
ReplyDeletereal, the exact quote is: "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though..."
ReplyDeleteOur President, ladies and gentlemen!
Okay, folks, there's a new thread upstairs, let's roll!
US condemns Iran suicide attack
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. has condemned a suicide attack that killed five Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members today.
Five commanders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in suicide attacks in Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province bordering Pakistan, according to reports.
Unbelievable, these bastard were responsible for hundreds of American deaths.
/they should either be cheering or just STFU about it
Jay Nordlinger on why Fox is not CNN:
ReplyDelete* only one network invents a sexual slur as the term for participants in a major grassroots protest movement
* only one network defames public figures with made-up quotes
/But... the quotes have never been denied! Like you can ever prove a negative...
Alright, new thread.
ReplyDelete/everyone out of the pool
@killian bundy: Yeah, I saw that too, and wasn't sure whether the "condemnation" was mind-numbingly shtoopid or a game of diplomatic disinformation.
ReplyDeleteI know which possibility I would put money on ;-)
Hey there James T. (Cap'n)Kirk - would you classify alcohol as a drug?
ReplyDeleteYes, I would. Keep in mind that almost everything is a drug. Vitamins are drugs. However, the word "drug" if often used as a scare tactic -- people never refer to alcohol, nicotine, or caffeine as drugs except when they're demonizing them. The fact that something is or isn't a "drug" is not in itself proof that something should or shouldn't be legal.
LSD, everyone should try it at least once in their life.
ReplyDeleteThere's a time and a place for everything, and it's called "college".
JamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteThere's a time and a place for everything, and it's called "college".
I had no idea you were a Chef.
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