Interrogatories
Ever purchase vanity plates? What did they say? Did you get your money’s worth of vanity?
Ever sing in a choir? Ensemble? Along with the radio, to the annoyance of your neighbors?
Describe perfect weather.
The Twitter Emitter
Temperature in Hollywood just dropped to 81 degrees. Pray for us.
— Steve Weinstein (@steveweinstein) January 15, 2014
Is it okay to hang out in front of Sunday schools and tell the kids that religion is bullshit? I'm asking for the Supreme Court.
— TBogg (@tbogg) January 16, 2014
If you can't directly yell in a woman's face as she seeks medical help, how will she know that you're a Christian?
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 16, 2014
Rand Paul announced he joined SnapChat today, though he says he's "getting sick of all the sex messages from some Carlos Danger guy."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 16, 2014
PLEASE NOTE: If "propaganda" can make you gay, it wasn't that hard.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 16, 2014
Just saw a guy with a tramp stamp. The death panels can't come fast enough.
— TBogg (@tbogg) January 16, 2014
Trent Franks: "My bill will have the IRS focus on what's good for America– auditing rape victims instead of billionaires buying elections."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 17, 2014
"Muslim headscarves? What a cruel & primitive supertstition" said the circumcised Western man.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 17, 2014
Nadya Suleman has trademarked the term 'Octomom.' Her children, meanwhile, have trademarked the term 'Somebody Help Us.'
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 17, 2014
First, GOP cut Food Stamps to preserve tax breaks for corporate polluters.
Then corporate polluters poisoned the water supply.
#freedom
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 16, 2014
On This Day
In 1806, Thomas Jefferson’s daughter, Martha, gave birth to James Madison Randolph, the first child born in the White House.
In 1917, the United States paid Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands. I wonder if they would have cost less if they were not virgins?
In 1945, Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, credited with saving tens of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust, was taken into Soviet custody in Budapest, Hungary. (His fate has never been determined.)
In 1946, the United Nations Security Council held its first meeting.
In 1977, convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was shot by a firing squad at Utah State Prison in the first U.S. execution in a decade.
In 1994, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Southern California, killing at least 61 people and causing $20 billion worth of damage. 20 years already! Feels like only yesterday.
In 1995, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake devastated the city of Kobe, Japan; more than 6,000 people were killed.
In 1997, an Irish court granted the first divorce in the Roman Catholic country’s history.
In 1998, President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to testify as a defendant in a criminal or civil suit when he answered questions from lawyers for Paula Jones, who had accused Clinton of sexual harassment.
In 2001, faced with an Enron-created electricity crisis, California used rolling blackouts to cut off power to hundreds of thousands of people. I was lucky that the Socialist DWP in L.A. did not have to do that.
Born on This Day
1581 – Bernardo Strozzi, Italian Baroque painter (d. 1644)
1657 (baptism) – Pieter van Bloemen Flemish painter and draftsman (d. 1720)
1706 – Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and inventor (d. 1790)
1820 – Anne Brontë, British author (d. 1849)
1829 – Raphaël Ritz, Swiss painter (d. 1894)
1840 – Lorenzo Delleani, Italian landscape painter (d. 1908)
1863 – David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister (d. 1945)
1863 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian actor and theatre director (d. 1938)
1880 – Mack Sennett, Canadian film director (d. 1960)
1899 – Al Capone, American gangster (d. 1947)
1904 – Patsy Ruth Miller, silent film actress (d. 1995)
1905 – Peggy Gilbert, American jazz saxophonist and bandleader, advocate for women musicians (d. 2007)
1922 – Betty White, American actress
1923 – Carol Raye, Australian actress
1925 – Patricia Owens, Canadian actress (d. 2000)
1926 – Moira Shearer, Scottish actress (d. 2006)
1927 – Tom Dooley, American humanitarian (d. 1961)
1927 – Eartha Kitt, American actress and singer (d. 2008)
1928 – Vidal Sassoon, English hair stylist and cosmetologist (d. 2012)
1931 – James Earl Jones, American actor
1939 – Maury Povich, American talk show host and Tabloid TV pioneer
1942 – Muhammad Ali, American boxer
1944 – Françoise Hardy, French singer
1949 – Andy Kaufman, American comedian (d. 1984)
1949 – Mick Taylor, British musician (John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and The Rolling Stones)
1955 – Steve Earle, American musician
1959 – Susanna Hoffs, American musician (The Bangles)
1960 – John Crawford, American musician (Berlin)
1964 – Michelle Obama, First Lady of the United States
1964 – Andy Rourke, English bass guitarist (The Smiths and Freebass)
1966 – Stephin Merritt, American singer and songwriter (The Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, and The Gothic Archies)
1966 – Shabba Ranks, Jamaican singer1967 – Richard Hawley, English singer, guitarist, and songwriter (Pulp and The Longpigs)
1969 – Naveen Andrews, British actor
1978 – Ricky Wilson, British singer (Kaiser Chiefs)
Died on This Day
1654 – Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (b. 1625)
1686 – Carlo Dolci, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1616)
1706 – Phillip Peter Roos, aka “Rosa da Tivoli,” German painter (b. 1657)
1737 – Jacob Laurensz van der Vinne, Dutch Mennonite painter and engraver (b. 1688)
1826 – Joseph Boze, French portrait and miniature painter (b. 1745)
1861 – Lola Montez, Irish-born adventurer (b. 1821)
1863 – Horace Vernet, French painter (b. 1789)
1884 – Henry Brittan Willis, British painter (b. 1810)
1886 – Paul Baudry, French portrait painter (b.1828)
1893 – Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (b. 1822)
1927 – Juliette Gordon Low, American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA (b. 1860)
1933 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, American artist and designer (b. 1848)
1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1925)
1967 – Evelyn Nesbit, American model, actress, and star witness in one of the many murder trials that were dubbed Crime of the Century by the journalists of the day. This one (Stanford White killing Harry Thaw) is now so forgotten that you probably never heard of it. (b. 1884)
1972 – Betty Smith, American writer (b. 1896)
1996 – Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936)
2005 – Virginia Mayo, American actress (b. 1920)
2007 – Art Buchwald, American humorist (b. 1925)
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