I got the job! I got the job I got the job I got the job I got the job I got the job I got the job I … (got the job).
Interrogatories
Have you ever actually seen a Ronald Reagan film? Which one(s)? Any good?
Have you ever seen any Schwarzenegger films? Did you enjoy them? Would you go see any new ones he makes?
It’s Abet and Aid Punsters Day! How can you help the punsters in your life?
Do you know the words to the National Anthem? The Pledge of Allegiance? The Preamble? The Petticoat Junction theme?
The Twitter Emitter
Glad to see Rand Paul and Chris Christie back to the serious business of calling each other names. http://t.co/arSbAs9yl9
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 6, 2013
The federal prison population has ballooned 790% since 1980, and yet before 2009 President Obama did nothing to address it!
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 6, 2013
Darrell Issa to call hearings to determine if Obama closed Blockbuster to hurt seniors who still go there for tapes to watch on their VCR.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 7, 2013
The tragedy is that 15 million people lost their insurance because Obamacare changed the rules, instead of losing it when they got sick.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 7, 2013
The difference between having your insurance cancelled because you're sick vs. because of #ACA is that with Obamacare you get #abetterplan
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) November 7, 2013
Rand Paul will now be cutting and pasting at http://t.co/jnbUTSK5PW. Presumably he will be plagiarizing old Ben Domenesch columns.
— TBogg (@tbogg) November 7, 2013
There's no use worrying about things you can't control. And the good news is, that's pretty much everything.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) November 7, 2013
President Obama is making the largest attempt to cover the uninsured in American history — and it's about time he apologized for it!
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) November 7, 2013
So odd that God allows Chuck Todd.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) November 7, 2013
I have to stop talking to my friends about mitosis. It’s such a divisive topic.
— Shayera Tangri (@shayera) November 8, 2013
On This Day
In 1519, Moctezuma (not yet vengeful) made the mistake of welcoming Hernán Cortés and his men to Tenochtitlán.
In 1889, Montana became the 41st U.S. state.
In 1892, black and white workers and unions teamed up for what is now called the New Orleans General Strike. In spite of attempts by anti-labor forces to turn the workers against each other, they held firm, and eventually had most of their demands met (quite a rare thing at that time).
In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the Civil Works Administration in order to create jobs for millions of unemployed Americans. Too bad Repubs and ConservaDems don’t believe in government creating jobs, or we could do this now and repair our badly decaying infrastructure.
In 1960, Richard Nixon was defeated by John F. Kennedy in an extremely close election for the Presidency of the United States.
In 1966, an antitrust exemption that allowed the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
In 1966, B movie actor Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California.
In 2000, Florida began a statewide recount of presidential ballots.
Born on This Day
1777 – Désirée Clary, reluctant queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
1817 – Théophile Hamel, Canadian painter (d. 1870)
1883 – Charles Demuth, U.S. Precisionist painter (d. 1935)
1836 – Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1847 – Bram Stoker, Irish novelist (d. 1912)
1876 – Jean Puy, French Fauvist painter (d. 1960)
1881 – Clarence Gagnon, Canadian painter (d.1942)
1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922) (this will be on the test)
1898 – Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 – Margaret Mitchell, American author of “Gone With the Wind” (d. 1949)
1908 – Martha Gellhorn, American war correspondent and author. (d. 1998) ”
1912 – June Havoc, American actress (d. 2010)
1920 – Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1922 – Christiaan Barnard, South African heart surgeon (d. 2001)
1935 – Alain Delon, French actor
1936 – Virna Lisi, Italian actress
1944 – Bonnie Bramlett, American singer (Delaney, Bonnie & Friends)
1946 – Roy Wood, English songwriter and musician (Electric Light Orchestra, The Move, Wizzard)
1947 – Minnie Riperton, American singer (d. 1979)
1949 – Bonnie Raitt, American singer
1949 – Wayne LaPierre, whackjob wingnut Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association whose insanity grows stronger with each passing day.
1952 – Alfre Woodard, American actress
1954 – Rickie Lee Jones, American singer
1966 – Gordon Ramsay, Scottish chef and television host
1968 – Parker Posey, American actress
1975 – Tara Reid, American “actress” (Sharknado!)
1980 – Laura Jane Grace (born Tom Gabel), American punk rock musician (Against Me!)
Died on This Day
1621 – Gerolamo da Ponte, Italian painter (b. 1566)
1674 – John Milton, English poet (b. 1608)
1675 – Allaert van Everdingen, Dutch Baroque landscape marine painter (b. 1621)
1817 – Andrea Appiani, Italian painter (b. 1754)
1830 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russian landscape painter (b. 1791)
1865 – Carl Friedrich Moritz Müller aka Feuermüller, German genre painter (b. 1807)
1880 – Bartholomeus van Hove, Dutch painter (d. 1790)
1890 – David Adolf Constant Artz, Dutch painter (b. 1837)
1905 – Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1926 – Joseph Noël Sylvestre, French painter (b. 1847)
1933 – Vittorio Mateo Corcos, painter (b. 1859)
1965 – Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1974 – Ivory Joe Hunter, American singer-songwriter and pianist (b. 1914)
1978 – Norman Rockwell, American illustrator (b. 1894)
1983 – James Booker, American singer and pianist (b. 1939)
1998 – Rumer Godden, English author (b. 1907)
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 – Lester Bowie, American trumpet player and composer (b. 1941)
2010 – Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
2011 – Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
Today is
Try a New Recipe Day
Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
X-Ray Discovery Day
National Dunce Day
National Cappuccino Day
National Harvey Wallbanger Day
World Urbanism Day
Abet and Aid Punsters Day (!)
National Parents As Teachers Day
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