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The Daily F Bomb, Wednesday 11/27/13

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Interrogatories

Have you ever been to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?

Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?

Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?

How worried are you about the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision over this religious exemption?

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On This Day

In 1901, the U.S. Army War College (which is exactly what it sounds like) was founded.

In 1924, the first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in NYC.

In 1965, President Johnson was told by the Pentagon that if their planned operations were to succeed, they’d need to increase number of American troops in Vietnam from 120,000 to 400,000 (a veritable surge).

In 1973, the Senate voted to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States, replacing the disgraced Spiro Agnew.

In 1978, former city supervisor and ex-cop Dan White shot and killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk.

In 2001, the Hubble Space Telescope detected a hydrogen atmosphere on the extrasolar planet Osiris. This was the first atmosphere ever seen on an extrasolar planet.

In 2005, surgeons in Amiens, France performed the first partial human face transplant.

Born on This Day

1635 – Françoise d’Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, wife of Louis XIV of France (d. 1719)

1701 – Anders Celsius, scientist/inventor (centigrade temp scale) (d. 1744)

1798 – Rafael Tejeo, Spanish painter (d. 1856)

1809 – Fanny Kemble, British actress, author and abolitionist (d. 1893)

1820 – Thomas Baines, English painter (d. 1875)

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1827 – Edouard Moyse, French painter, possibly the first to paint scenes of Jewish life in France. (d. 1908)

1853 – Frank Dicksee, English Victorian painter and illustrator (d. 1928)

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1859 – William Bliss Baker, American landscape painter (d. 1886)

1878 – William Orpen, Irish painter (d. 1931)

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1886 – Tsugouharu Foujita, Japanese painter who lived and worked in France (d. 1968)

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1905 – Astrid Allwyn, American actress (d. 1978)

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1907 – L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (d. 2000)

1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)

1932 – Benigno Aquino, Jr., Philippine politician (d. 1983)

1937 – Gail Sheehy, American writer

1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist (d. 1970)

1951 – Kathryn Bigelow, American film director

1955 – Bill Nye (The science guy), American engineer and broadcaster

1957 – Caroline Kennedy, American journalist and attorney

1959 – Charlie Burchill, Scottish guitarist and keyboardist (Simple Minds)

1960 – Tim Pawlenty, American dullard, 39th Governor of Minnesota (the man who had a bridge collapse on his watch).

1962 – Mike Bordin, American musician (Faith No More)

Died on This Day

1654 – Pieter Meulener, Dutch painter (b. 1602)

1673 – Anthonie Palamedesz, Dutch painter (b. 1601)

1833 – Philip Reinagle, English painter (b. 1749)

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1894 – Charles Burton Barber, British painter of sentimental pictures of dogs and children  (b. 1845)

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1895 – Alexandre Dumas, fils, French author (b. 1824)

1900 – Anton Seitz, German genre painter (b. 1829)

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1901 – Antonio Gisbert, Spanish painter (b. 1834)

1918 – Bohumil Kubista, Czech painter (who, oddly enough, dabbled in Cubism) (b. 1884)

1925 – Roger de la Fresnaye, French Cubist-Fauvist painter (b. 1885)

1931 – Lya De Putti, Hungarian actress (b. 1899)

1932 – Evelyn Preer, African-American actress and singer (b. 1896)

1933 – Robert Anning Bell, English painter (b. 1863)

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1945 – Josep Maria Sert, Spanish muralist (b. 1874)

1953 – Eugene O’Neill, American writer and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)

1958 – Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch, British horse painter (b. 1869)

981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer and actress (b. 1898)

1988 – John Carradine, American actor (b. 1906)

1997 – Buck Leonard, Hall of Famer in Negro League (b. 1907)

1997 – Eduardo Kingman, Ecuadorian artist (b. 1913)

2005 – Jocelyn Brando, American actress (b. 1919)

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21 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    blank brain. I think I need coffee.

    Answers! I think I have those. Let’s see:

    I have on occasion done the Hollywood Christmas Parade, which is a pretty lame event filled with former stars and local officials that get heckled by the Hollywood club and barfly crowd. Otherwise I only watch parades on TV, and not very often.

    My parents were totally into politics, and were liberals. My primary memory is my mom watching one convention where Nixon was speaking, and she would glare at him every time he came on screen and mutter, “You SHIT!”

    I like unscented. I don’t mind scents, but I have friends who are allergic or intolerant to them, so I avoid them myself. I am a sucker for that cinnamon scent that is so prevalent around the holidays.

    I am so sure the Supremes are going to make the wrong decision in this matter of religious exemptions, which will open a can of worms that will drown this nation in slimy, writhing little things.  

  2. princesspat

    Good morning…..remember when thinking of The Supreme Court felt safe? Sure doesn’t now!

    Thanks Floja.  

  3. Gee

    Tuesday was hump day this week.

    42 degrees now, which is as high as it’s going to get, I understand.  Cold front moving in.

    Flo-Ro’s parade of questions:

    Have you ever been to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?

    Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?

    Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?

    How worried are you about the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision over this religious exemption?

    Many parades, but not those particular ones.  Cherry Blossom parade in DC is probably the only nationally prominent one.

    My family followed politics more or less as a way of keeping informed.  My father was a Democrat, although not a particularly strong one.  My mother was a Republican, but quite liberal in some ways.  They voted Nixon against Kennedy.  My father moved farther left as he got older, and was a big Gary Hart fan, so he was disappointed at the Monkey Business scandal.  I remember being glad he wasn’t alive for Monica Lewinsky.

    Un-.

    Should I worry?  What’s the likely outcome?  Obviously if they find in favor of the business owners, it’ll be horrible.  This whole corporations-as-people concept confuses me.  Besides being a person, just what is a corporation?  If the bosses get their way on their “religious freedom,” how many employees get their religious freedom stepped on?  If I may interject a little religion into politics, how about “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.”

  5. Gee

    1917 – Buffalo Bob Smith, American television host (d. 1998)

    Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody did a college tour back in the early ’70s.  It was big fun.

  6. Gee

    1958 – Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch, British horse painter (b. 1869)

    She likely would not have been remembered if she were a house painter.

  7. JanF

    For example, I am not listening to the voices in my head that say I should curse out loud at THIS:

       Obama’s approval ratings fell again on news that he’s trying to make healthcare affordable for all and prevent nuclear war.

       – Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) November 26, 2013

    Okay … giving in. What the HELL is wrong with Americans?

    Espaniel is a language? Collar me surprised!

  8. bubbanomics

    found in the Stevens Tubes:



    Have you ever been to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?

    nope.nope.nope.nope.

    Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?

    My folks were Republicans. need i say more?

    Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?

    depends entirely upon the nature of the “things.”

    How worried are you about the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision over this religious exemption?

    It’s gonna be bad.

    from the bubbapod:

  9. Avilyn

    Hump day for me; even though I’m off tomorrow I have work on Friday.

    Q&A:

    Have you ever been to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade? How about the Hollywood one? The Rose Parade? Any parades?

    Never any of the big ones, and I wouldn’t go to those if you paid me.  I can’t deal with crowds.  Went to a few local fourth of july parades with my grandparents when I was a kid.

    Did your family follow politics when you were growing up? Do you remember watching the conventions and debates with them as a child? What was that like?  

    I don’t remember my folks ever talking about politics, at least around us kids.  

    Do you prefer things to be scented or unscented?

    I like certain scents, but if it’s something that comes into contact with my skin, then unscented.  

    How worried are you about the Supreme Court’s ultimate decision over this religious exemption?  

    Pretty worried, given how pro-business this court is.  

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