Interrogatories
Have you, or has anyone close to you, ever fallen for a scam?
If you’re on Facebook, what percentage of “friends” is people you actually know in real life?
Did you ever have a trampoline? A swing set? When you played outdoors, what did you play on, and what kind of games?
Is your local infrastructure in good or bad condition?
The Twitter Emitter
REMINDER: Being poor is fun. Being forced to call Christmas "the Holidays" is SLAVERY.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 9, 2013
I generally don't recommend holding a cat while bare-chested at the exact moment someone turns on a vacuum.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 9, 2013
Republicans say they have "small-town values"? Why do they want to rip the heart out of every small town? #SaveUSPS
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 9, 2013
Rand Paul: "Pope Francis shouldn't be ministering to the homeless. He's just discouraging them from starting businesses."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) December 10, 2013
The #GOP's definition of success is the ability to go from one failure to another, with no loss of enthusiasm
— word34 (@word_34) December 10, 2013
Dear Republicans: Nobody is forcing you to be on the wrong side of history. That's your own choice. – Sincerely, America.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) December 10, 2013
If you boycott MLK day because he was an anti-war 'socialist' then you'd probably better boycott Christmas, too.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) December 10, 2013
Mandela died so you could have someone to compare NSA abuses to.
— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) December 10, 2013
It's no coincidence that today the administration passed the Raul Castro Rule to nationalize banks, code named, deceptively, "Volcker Rule."
— roadkillrefugee (@rkref) December 10, 2013
On This Day
In 1816, Indiana was admitted as the 19th U.S. state.
In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States when the Americans’ declared of war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The United States, in turn, declared war right back on Germany and Italy.
In 1968, the Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus began filming. Featuring such artists and the Stones (duh), The Who, Jethro Tull, John and Yoko, Taj Mahal, and Marianne Faithfull. It was never shown, though it was finally released on VHS and Laserdisc in 1996.
In 1972, Apollo 17 was the sixth and final Apollo mission to land on the Moon.
In 2008, Wall Streeter Bernard Madoff was arrested and charged for masterminding a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Born on This Day
1599 – Pieter Jacobs Codde, Dutch genre painter (d. 1678)
1656 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian Baroque painter (d. 1730)
1668 – Domenico Maria Viani, Italian painter (d. 1711)
1781 – Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist and inventor of the kaleidoscope. (d. 1868)
1803 – Hector Berlioz, French composer (d. 1869)
1805 – Carl Ferdinand Sohn, German painter (d. 1867)
1830 – Kamehameha V, Hawaiian king (d. 1872)
1838 – John Labatt, Irish-Canadian brewer (d. 1915)
1841 – Antonio Montemezzo, Italian animal painter (d. 1898)
1852 – Alfred Zoff, Austrian landscape painter (d. 1927)
1872 – René Bull, Irish illustrator (d. 1942)
1876 – Ricardo Canals y Llambi, Spanish painter (d. 1931)
1890 – Pierre de Belay, French painter (d. 1947)
1904 – Felix Nussbaum, German Jewish painter (d. 1944 in a concentration camp)
1905 – Gilbert Roland, American actor (d. 1994)
1911 – Val Guest, English film director (d. 2006)
1912 – Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (d. 2007)
1913 – Jean Marais, French actor (d. 1998)
1918 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer and Soviet dissident, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
1919 – Marie Windsor, American actress (d. 2000)
1922 – Maila Nurmi, Finnish-American actress (d. 2008)
1923 – Betsy Blair, American actress (d. 2009)
1926 – Big Mama Thornton, American singer (d. 1984)
1927 – Dovima, fashion model (d. 1990)
1927 – John Buscema, American comic book artist (d. 2002)
1931 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican actress
1932 – Anne Heywood, English actress
1938 – McCoy Tyner, American jazz pianist
1939 – Tom Hayden, American politician and activist
1941 – Max Baucus, American politician, senior senator of Montana
1943 – John Kerry, American politician
1944 – Brenda Lee, American singer
1954 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer (Jackson 5)
1961 – Dave King, Irish singer (Flogging Molly)
1964 – Justin Currie, Scottish singer and songwriter (Del Amitri)
1964 – Dave Schools, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (Widespread Panic, Stockholm Syndrome, and J Mascis + The Fog)
1973 – Mos Def, American rapper who has grown into a fine actor as well
Died on This Day
1513 – Bernardino Betti di Biagi, best known as Pinturicchio, Italian frescoe painter (b. 1454)
1737 – Nicolas Vleughels, French painter (b. 1668)
1738 – Johann-Rudolf Byss, Swiss painter (b. 1660)
1845 – Roger Joseph Jourdain, French painter (d. 1918)
1872 – Kamehameha V of Hawaii (b. 1830)
1885 – Niels Simonsen, Danish orientalist painter (b. 1807)
1942 – Séraphine de Senlis, French painter who allegedly died insane (b. 1864)
1957 – Musidora (Jeanne Roques), French actress (b. 1889)
1964 – Sam Cooke, American singer (b. 1931)
1968 – Richard Sagrits, Estonian painter (b. 1910)
1975 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer (b. 1908)
1989 – Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer (b. 1895)
2008 – Bettie Page, legendary American model (b. 1923)
Today is
National Noodle Ring Day (I believe these are those spaghetti-O things)
International Mountain Day
National Tango Day (Buenos Aires)
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