Highlights of this day in history: 'Black Tuesday' on Wall St. as the Great Depression begins; Osama bin Laden admits ordering the Sept. 11th attacks; Suez crisis heats up; McKinley assassin executed; John Glenn returns to space.
Other notable October 29th events include:
1390 – The first trial for witchcraft in Paris begins.
1467 – Battle of Brustem: Charles the Bold defeats Liege.
1618 – English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1921 – The Harvard University football team loses to Centre College, ending a 25 game winning streak. This is considered one of the biggest upsets in college football.
1923 – Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
1960 – In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
1966 – National Organization For Women is founded.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
1994 – Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House (Duran is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton).
2004 – In Rome, European heads of state sign the Treaty and Final Act establishing the first European Constitution.
And this thread appeared right after I posted the following in the previous thread...
ReplyDeleteGetting the jump on the next thread... Today in History!
1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
France burns youths. Now, it's the other way around.
1863 – Eighteen countries meeting in Geneva agree to form the International Red Cross.
Also pre-emptively blacklist Israel's Red Star almost a century before its formation.
1901 – In Amherst, Massachusetts nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
The first American "death panel"!
1966 – National Organization For Women is founded.
First item on the agenda is to pre-emptively start planning the smear job on Clarence Thomas.
1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
Al Gore nowhere in the vicinity. (In fact, he was in Vietnam at the time.)
2004 – The Arabic news network Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election.
Charlie Sheen remains unconvinced.
Born today:
1971 – Winona Ryder, American actress
She immediately steals her parents' hearts, which is but the beginning of her long life of crime...
Morning JTK. Thanks for your take on this day in history. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for your take on this day in history. :)
ReplyDeleteNo problem. I should have made up some events that took place on this date in 2050 and 2134...
2050? Isn't that when General Connors defeated Skynet? :)
ReplyDelete/I'm a little hazy on dates.
Wikipedia needs a list of fictional events that took place on various dates. I recall people observing Judgement Day (T2) when that date passed, as well as remarking on the date that the moon left Earth's orbit (Space:1999).
ReplyDeleteMorning, all (both?) of you. I thought Walmart was the bitterest of the clingers but I couldn't a little plastic gun for my son's police costume. Hmm.
ReplyDeleteJTK, "Wikipedia needs a list of fictional events that took place on various dates."
ReplyDeleteYou mean like Easter?
/sorry, wrong blog
Spenser (with an S): I thought Walmart was the bitterest of the clingers but I couldn't a little plastic gun for my son's police costume. Hmm.
ReplyDeleteTry your local dollar store. I've seen toy guns there.
Good Morning C2. I see this place is jumping with activity this morning. Has anyone seen the Coffee IV thingy?
ReplyDeleteCoffee IV? Amateur.
ReplyDeletehttp://pix.motivatedphotos.com/2009/4/5/633744886116611360-smirnoffiv.jpg
Yeah, I usually go with a Coffee V or VI. :)
ReplyDeleteGood morning Erik.
Feds: Radical Islam Leader Killed in Raid
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rF_KJm-EgY
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JamesTKirk said...
ReplyDeleteCoffee IV? Amateur.
LOL. What site is that from? I am always looking for good demotivate sites.
Tom Gross has an interesting piece up on UK-funded 'Palestinian' torturers in the West Bank (and I mean the real hardcore thing, not loud rock music). Go read the whole thing, as they say.
ReplyDeleteBuried in the article is my "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" moment of the day:
"Of course, the abuse of human rights and use of torture is [...] far worse in non-moderate countries like Syria (which yesterday the European Union eagerly signed an Association Agreement with).
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Render, I'm just sorry we had to trade a police dog's life for one jihadist but I'm sure it's the way he would have wanted to go out.
ReplyDeleterender64 said...
ReplyDeleteFeds: Radical Islam Leader Killed in Raid
/domestic contingency operation
LOL. What site is that from? I am always looking for good demotivate sites.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.motivatedphotos.com/
Sorry, Finally Free, I am neither shocked nor surprised that "the European Union eagerly signed an Association Agreement with" Syria.
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ReplyDeletePretty slow this morning. Did every one drink too much last night in the pub?
ReplyDeleteDid every one drink too much last night in the pub?
ReplyDeleteNot me; but I found out last weekend that absinthe does not make the heart grow fonder.
The Single Payer Bunch
ReplyDelete/Obama's lying his ass of, as usual
You should start avoiding most things green. Especially some foods and drinks.
ReplyDelete/hope you still have both your ears....
A long time ago in a far away place I had a girlfriend who dyed her hair green and called me Kirk.
ReplyDeleteI wonder whatever happened to her...
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I wonder whatever happened to her...
ReplyDeleteShe told me to say "hi"...
Did every one drink too much last night in the pub?
ReplyDeleteI've got a nice banger going on this morning.
Alternating coffee,water,coffee,water. And Advil.
Mornin' Phil.
Ugh. Slept in quite against my will. Now I'm even further behind, so I came here.
ReplyDeleteBanger and Mash?
ReplyDeleteBanger? I hardly even know her!
ReplyDeleteI've got a nice banger going on this morning.
ReplyDeleteIs that what you kids are calling it these days?
Banger? I hardly even know her!
ReplyDeleteLike that ever stopped you.
No great surprise here
ReplyDeleteAhmadinejad: 'We will not retreat even an iota' on nuclear rights
I'll be glad when there is not even an iota left of that asshole.
This should, of course, mean it is time to stop talking, and blockade Iran until their nuclear program is verifiably ended, and that means Israel needs to be included in the verification.
Or, an attack soon.
Morning Kosh, Ufo, Squatch. Looks like all the regular miscreants are showing up now.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, the loony Lebanese President is accusing Israel of shooting a Katyusha at itself.
ReplyDeleteWell, the Lebanese have been responsible for blowing up parts of their country recently. Work accidents.
VDH compares Truman and Obama and ends up with this:
ReplyDeleteEver since, most Democrats have embraced Truman's "common purpose." That means containing rival anti-Western ideologies, establishing alliances of similarly-minded democratic allies, and periodically standing up to regional thugs.
Jimmy Carter's presidency was a departure from this strategy. Mr. Carter started out cutting defense. He questioned the U.S. commitment to South Korea and offered homilies about the inordinate fear of communism. Then there was the short-sighted decision to arm radical Islamists in Pakistan, the abrupt abandonment of the previously allied Shah of Iran, and initial courting of the exiled radical Ruhollah Khomeini. The president seemed stunned into inaction by the subsequent Iranian hostage crisis and the rise of militant Islam. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Communist inroads into Central America, and the alienation of European governments further weakened American interests.
Mr. Obama exhibits both the initial inexperience—and some of the naïveté—of Harry Truman when he took office. He has framed the challenge of radical Islam largely in terms of what a contrite America must do to apologize to the Muslim world, instead of addressing endemic religious intolerance, autocracy, statist economies, tribalism and gender apartheid that help fuel extremism.
The Obama administration reaches out to enemies such as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bashar al Assad, the Castro brothers and Hugo Chávez. It pays far less attention to British, Colombian, French, Israeli and Japanese allies. In unilateral fashion we withdrew promises of land-based antiballistic missile defense from Eastern Europe, giddy that we might appease the Russians into abrogating their patronage of Iran's nuclear ambitions. But so far the centrifuges keep spinning while we appear unreliable to friends, compliant to rivals, and weak to enemies. The administration has also promised greater support to the U.N., seemingly unworried that the organization's illiberal majority has often appeased or abetted autocratic governments.
Will an inexperienced Barack Obama, in the fashion of Harry Truman, learn quickly that the world is chaotic and unstable—best dealt with through strength and unabashed confidence in America's historic role galvanizing democratic allies to confront illiberal aggressors?
Or will a sermonizing Mr. Obama follow the aberrant Democratic path of the sanctimonious Jimmy Carter: finger-wagging at allies, appeasing enemies, publicly faulting his less than perfect predecessors, and hectoring the American people to evolve beyond their supposed prejudices?
America awaits the president's choice. The world's safety hinges upon it.
Morning Kosh, Ufo, Squatch. Looks like all the regular miscreants are showing up now.
ReplyDeleteYou can add turn to that list blue. Morning everyone, what's new?
Or, an attack soon.
ReplyDeleteFrom your mouth to IDF's ears.
I was flicking between Imus and Morning Joe getting ready to head into work this morning. jeeze the MSM is doing a full on assault on the war in Afghanistan, RETREAT, RETREAT, RETREAT. Plus o's surprise visit to honor our fallen back home seems staged to me (hey I'm a skeptic). It's like he's setting the teleprompter up to say he has personally witnessed the tragedy of losing American lives therefore I have decided to bring our brave soldiers home and stop this needless bloodshed. Any body else have that feeling?
ReplyDeleteMorning turn. Yeah, I haven't felt settled about Afghanistan since Obama took office. I think they are just looking for an excuse to pull out now. When he does sign the pull out order, god help us all.
ReplyDeleteThe same old MSM shit; the ones who want to fight the war (e.g. Cheney) are the ones who have never served, America is causing the insurgency and if we leave things will get better, the money spent on the war should be spent at home improving our infrastructure, we should be more concerned with Pakistan, yada yada yada
ReplyDeleteAP: Feds overstate "stimulus" job gains by thousands:
ReplyDelete"For example:
• A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.
• A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.
• A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees."
(h/t Instapundit)
Stimulus!
/Of Uncle Sam's prostate
Good Morning, {all y'all}
ReplyDeleteTalladega bound this weekend. Redneck paradise.
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Turn:Plus o's surprise visit to honor our fallen back home seems staged to me (hey I'm a skeptic). It's like he's setting the teleprompter up to say he has personally witnessed the tragedy of losing American lives therefore I have decided to bring our brave soldiers home and stop this needless bloodshed. Any body else have that feeling?
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. It's very odd for a President to see fallen soldiers at Dover, or to attend a funeral - that implies that the servicemen he's so honored are more worthy than those who went before, or will come to follow.
Morning {red}, going to the races?
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ReplyDeleteHell, yeah.
View from our reserved space at turn four
Best party in the south!
Morning BDVM, I don't have a good feeling about all this. The push for the retreat by the MSM timed with O's visit. This may just form the excuse to retreat P2 was talking about.
ReplyDeleteturn --
ReplyDeleteThe MSM is made up of people who want to complain, but don't want to take responsibility for correcting problems. They can't imagine a war they would support because they don't see anything out there worth risking their lives for other than their own skins.
These are people who are vain, selfish, shallow, and cowardly. They like to think of themselves as caring, but their caring is merely moral vanity -- it's never about the other person, it's always about their own sense of well being. They like to see themselves as deep thinkers, but they trade in rumors, innuendo, the subtle nudge and wink, the coying smile, and the holy sound byte. They make sweeping generalization phrased in the conventional language of their trade without careful examination or genuine analysis. They talk a big game, but are bullies when they have the floor and run under the rug when actually called to task for their idiocy and petty prejudices.
From the point of view of the talking hairdos, cutting and running in Afghanistan is the "right" thing to do. Wars are bad, and any war begun by GWB was triple icky wicked bad. Bringing the troops home and making "peace" while repudiating the noxious legacy of Chimpy McHitlerburton will make them feel good about themselves and justified for saying it would never work. And as far as the aftermath is concerned, that's not there problem, is it?
The real problem is not the media. The dinge-merchants of grub-street have always been thus. No, the real problem is that the President and his minions think the same way.
Taranto made an observation regarding the attitude of the White House on the Fox News story. He was commenting on this exchange between Cambell Brown of CNN and White House consigliaria Valerie Jarett:
Brown: So do you think FOX News is biased?
Jarrett: Well, of course they're biased. Of course they are.
Brown: OK. Then do you also think that MSNBC is biased?
Jarrett: Well, you know what? This is the thing. I don't want to--actually, I don't want to just generalize all FOX is biased or that another station is biased. I think what we want to do is look at it on a case-by-case basis. And when we see a pattern of distortion, we're going to be honest about that pattern of distortion.
Brown: But you only see that at FOX News? That's all that--you have spoken out about FOX News.
Jarrett: That's actually not true. I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we're going to speak truth to power.
The "truth to power" comment is just plain stupid, but Taranto suggests something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface of this nitwit's inane babble:
Great power entails great responsibility. There is little to suggest that Obama and his aides appreciate their responsibility, and much, including their incessant complaining that the previous president did a lousy job, to suggest an attitude of total irresponsibility.
The job of those in power is not to "speak truth to power," though it would be nice if they spoke the truth once in a while. It is to exercise power responsibly. The effort to bully Fox News Channel would be an abuse of power were it not so pathetically inept.
Hell, yeah.
ReplyDeletedang, look at those hemis (joe dirt accent)
Hey have a beeer or two for me, ok?
I know we probably won't have the will to take out Iran's nukes but can Israel do it? I mean physically. Multiple hardened sites, long-range flights? Maybe a special ops/mossad operation with no planes at all?
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ReplyDeleteYou, as usual, are right on.
Morning Lucius, man I wish you had home schooled me! That was excellent, I'm saving that somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI know we probably won't have the will to take out Iran's nukes but can Israel do it? I mean physically. Multiple hardened sites, long-range flights? Maybe a special ops/mossad operation with no planes at all?
ReplyDeleteIf they're even going to try, they really should try to take out Dinnerjacket and as much of the command staff as they can at the same time.
P.S. New thread, BTW. ↑
ReplyDeleteI am praying that, under cover of their surface idiocy, the administration and Saudi Arabia have quietly made it known to Israel that they know it needs to be done but must only help out invisibly and there will be no ramifications after the fact.
ReplyDelete/hey, I can pray can't I?
redstateredneck said...
ReplyDeleteGood Morning, {all y'all}
Talladega bound this weekend. Redneck paradise
RACIST!
BTW, I meant Racist as race-ist, as in car race
ReplyDeleteSpenser (with an S) said...
ReplyDeleteI know we probably won't have the will to take out Iran's nukes but can Israel do it? I mean physically. Multiple hardened sites, long-range flights? Maybe a special ops/mossad operation with no planes at all?
Does Israel have subs armed with cruise missiles?