Interrogatories
What is the first thing you see right now when you look up from your computer?
Do you have any vices you refuse to give up? If so, what?
When was the last time you willingly stayed up all night?
If someone refused to take your wedding pictures because he/she hated something about you and your lifestyle, would you force the issue?
The Twitter Emitter
And then the cowards claimed that their religious freedom was being denied. Their freedom to deny my freedom!
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 27, 2014
Log Cabin Replicants
— Wile E. Quixote (@ScottLinnen) February 27, 2014
Dick Cheney: “Obama is reducing troop levels, when everyone knows you can save money by cutting armor for troops fighting a war in Iraq.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 27, 2014
The wages are too damn low.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 27, 2014
Arizona Gov Jan Brewer vetoes the "If I can't be an anti-gay bigot then you're an anti-Christian bigot" bill.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) February 27, 2014
Fox News reports that Rick Santorum has issued a fatwa on the federal judge who ruled the Texas gay marriage ban unconstitutional.
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) February 27, 2014
The only religious freedom that maters is the one that frees me from your religion.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) February 27, 2014
The correlation between bigots and poor grammar is absolutely astonishing.
— Calvin (@aurosan) February 27, 2014
Remember that time Jesus refused to heal someone because he didn't support their lifestyle? Me neither.
— Susie Meister (@susie_meister) February 26, 2014
Cons: Replace these activist judges with OUR activist judges.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) February 26, 2014
If we renamed immigrants "fetuses" would the GOP would start treating them as human beings?
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) February 26, 2014
On This Day
In 1801, The District of Columbia was placed under the jurisdiction of Congress.
In 1812, poet Lord Byron gave his first speech as a member of the House of Lords, where he defended violence by Luddites against Industrialism in Nottinghamshire.
In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified officially limiting a president to two terms of office. Can’t have any more of those Socialist Roosevelt types!
In 1973, Members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, S.D., the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux people. They remained there until May.
In 1986, the Senate allowed its debates to be televised.
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced that Kuwait was liberated, and the Persian Gulf War was over. He stated that combat operations would be suspended at midnight.
in 1997, divorce was finally legalized in Ireland.
In 1997, in Britain, legislation banning most handguns went into effect.
Born on This Day
272 – Constantine the Great, Roman emperor (d. 337)
1606 – Laurent de La Hyre, French painter (d. 1656)
1622 – Carel Fabritius, Dutch painter (d. 1654)
1729 – Jean-Hugues Taraval, French painter (d. 1785)
1741 – Michel Pierre Hubert Descours II, French painter (d. 1814)
1805 – Pharamond Blanchard, French painter (d. 1873)
1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
1814 – Charles Louis Baugniet, Belgian genre painter (d. 1886)
1824 – Henri Pierre Picou, French painter (d. 1895)
1831 – Nikolai Ge, Russian painter (d. 1894)
1847 – Ellen Terry, English actress (d.1928)
1863 – Joaquín Sorolla, Spanish painter (d. 1923)
1869 – Alice Hamilton, American doctor and public health advocate (d. 1970)
1886 – Hugo Black, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1971)
1887 – James Dickson Innes, British painter (d. 1914)
1890 – Freddie Keppard, American jazz musician (d. 1933)
1891 – David Sarnoff, Russian-born broadcast pioneer (d. 1971)
1902 – John Steinbeck, American writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1968)
1903 – Grethe Weiser, German actress (d. 1970)
1905 – Franchot Tone, American actor (d. 1968)
1907 – Mildred Bailey, American singer (d. 1951)
1910 – Joan Bennett, American actress (d. 1990)
1912 – Lawrence Durrell, English writer (d. 1990)
1917 – John Connally, American politician (d. 1993)
1923 – Dexter Gordon, American jazz saxophonist (d. 1990)
1930 – Joanne Woodward, American actress
1932 – Elizabeth Taylor, British-American actress (d. 2011)
1934 – Ralph Nader, American author, activist, and political figure
1936 – Roger Mahony, American cardinal and pedophile protector
1942 – Jimmy Burns, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1951 – Lee Atwater, evil American political figure (d. 1991)
1951 – Steve Harley, British musician (Cockney Rebel)
1958 – Nancy Spungen, American murder victim (d. 1978)
1959 – Johnny Van Zant, American singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1969 – Brad Vander Ark, American musician (The Verve Pipe)
1971 – “Chilli” Thomas, American singer (TLC)
1980 – Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton
1983 – Kate Mara, American actress
Died on This Day
1834 – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar, French Neoclassical painter (b. 1762)
1868 – Maximilien de Meuron, Swiss landscape painter (b. 1785)
1892 – Louis Vuitton, French ugly luggage maker (b. 1821)
1902 – Harry ‘Breaker’ Morant, Anglo-Australian soldier (b. 1864)
1926 – Olga Wisinger-Florian, Austrian painter (b. 1844)
1942 – Ernest Rouart, French painter (b. 1874)
1964 – Orry-Kelly, Australian costume designer (b. 1897)
1966 – Gino Severini, Italian Cubist and Futurist painter (b. 1883)
1968 – Frankie Lymon, American singer (The Teenagers) (b. 1942)
1977 – John Dickson Carr, American author (b. 1905)
1985 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American politician (b. 1902)
1987 – Joan Greenwood, English actress and director (b. 1921)
1992 – S. I. Hayakawa, Canadian-American linguist and politician (b. 1906)
1993 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)
2003 – Fred Rogers, American television host (b. 1928)
2008 – William F. Buckley, Jr., American author and journalist, founded the National Review (b. 1925)
2013 – Richard Street, American singer-songwriter (The Temptations and The Monitors) (b. 1942)
Today is
National Strawberry Day
National Chili Day
National Kahlua Day
No Brainer Day
International Polar Bear Day
National Day of Action
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