Interrogatories
If you had to create something and had an unlimited budget to do so, what would you create? If the world were in black and white and you were allowed to have just one thing in color, what would it be? Would you describe yourself as confident, insecure, or somewhere in between? What is the last song you heard on iPod, radio or CD?
The Twitter Emitter
The GOP economic plan: Decrease funds for social programs and increase gun sales. This way you have your choice of how to die. #p2
— Joseph J. Santorsa (@Marnus3) April 9, 2013
Would you hire someone who hates children to babysit your kids? Why would you elect a party who says they hate gov’t to run gov’t? #GOP
— DrLearnALot (@DrLearnALot) April 9, 2013
It’s OK, everybody. Mother Jones reporters were dressed as pimps at the time.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) April 9, 2013
NRA trying to encourage more black people to buy guns: “Coincidentally, it’s a great way to encourage our white members to buy more guns”
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 9, 2013
They say that Pot makes you violent. And lazy.I say making violent people lazy is the only crime prevention that works.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 9, 2013
In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a very bad idea.
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) April 9, 2013
Marco Rubio: “I’m outraged that Obama didn’t check with me before allowing Beyonce and Jay-Z to go to Cuba.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) April 10, 2013
Constitutionalist – n. a Republican who uses something that isn’t the constitution to stop the Senate from debating extremely popular bills
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) April 10, 2013
I was going to wear a cloak of invisibility, but I just couldn’t see myself in it.
— JerryThomas (@JerryThomas) April 10, 2013
If evolution was real, how could Mitt Romney have received 48% of the popular vote?
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) April 10, 2013
On This Day
In 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was incorporated.
In 1925, “The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald was published. (There’s a new movie version coming out, presumably to be as big a hit as all the others.)
In 1947, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey announced he had purchased the contract of Jackie Robinson from the Montreal Royals, paving the way for Robinson to become the first black to play in the major leagues. (There’s a movie coming out about him, too.)
In 1970, Paul McCartney announced that he was leaving the Beatles.
In 1981, imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands won election to the British Parliament.
In 2001, The Netherlands legalized mercy killings and assisted suicide for patients with unbearable, terminal illness.
Born on This Day
1492 – Vincenzo Tamagni, Italian painter (d. 1516)
1731 – Louis-Joseph Watteau, French painter (d. 1798)
1758 – Jean-Joseph-Xavier Bidauld, French painter (d. 1846)
1783 – Hortense de Beauharnais, Queen Consort of Holland (d. 1837)
1794 – Matthew C. Perry, American commodore (d. 1858)
1796 – James “Jim” Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (d. 1836)
1806 – Juliette Drouet, French actress (d. 1883)
1868 – George Arliss, English actor (d. 1946)
1877 – Alfred Kubin, Austrian printer and illustrator (d. 1959)
1880 – Frances Perkins, American politician and 4th United States Secretary of Labor (d. 1965)
1880 – Hans Purrmann, German painter (d. 1966)
1881 – William John Leech, Irish painter (d. 1968)
1915 – Harry Morgan, American actor (d. 2011)
1916 – Lee Jung Seob, Korean painter (d. 1956)
1918 – Lee Bergere, American actor (d. 2007)
1921 – Chuck Connors, American actor (d. 1992)
1929 – Max von Sydow, Swedish actor
1932 – Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (d. 1990)
1932 – Omar Sharif, Egyptian actor
1936 – John Madden, American football coach and broadcaster
1936 – David A. Hardy, British sci-fi illustrator
1936 – Bobbie Smith, American singer (The Spinners) (d. 2013)
1947 – Bunny Wailer, Jamaican singer and musician (The Wailers)
1950 – Eddie Hazel, American guitarist (Funkadelic, Parliament, and The Temptations) (d. 1992)
1954 – Anne Lamott, American writer
1957 – Steven Gustafson, American musician (10,000 Maniacs)
1958 – Babyface, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (After 7 and The Deele)
1959 – Davy Carton, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Saw Doctors and Blaze X)
1959 – Brian Setzer, American musician (Stray Cats and The Tomcats)
1960 – Katrina Leskanich, American singer and musician (Katrina and the Waves)
1965 – Tim Alexander, American musician (Primus)
1970 – Dylan Keefe, American bassist (Marcy Playground)
1970 – Q-Tip, American rapper and producer (A Tribe Called Quest)
1973 – Aidan Moffat, Scottish musician (Arab Strap)
1984 – Mandy Moore, American singer and actress
Died on This Day
1585 – Pope Gregory XIII (b. 1502)
1599 – Gabrielle d’Estrée, French mistress of Henry IV of France (b. 1571)
1704 – William Egon of Fürstenberg, German clergyman Bishop of Strassburg (b. 1629)
1808 – Jean-Laurent Mosnier, French painter (b. 1743)
1830 – Johann-Jakob Biedermann, Swiss painter (b. 1763)
1840 – Alexander Nasmyth, Scottish painter (b. 1758)
1865 – William Frederick Witherington, English painter (b. 1785)
1866 – Hippolyte Bellangé, French painter (b. 1800)
1872 – John Mix Stanley, American painter (b. 1814)
1909 – Algernon Charles Swinburne, English poet and critic (b. 1837)
1919 – Emiliano Zapata, Mexican general (b. 1879)
1931 – Khalil Gibran, Lebanese poet and painter (b. 1883)
1938 – Joe “King” Oliver, American jazz cornet player and bandleader (b. 1885)
1945 – Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman, Dutch printer/painter, executed by Nazis (b. 1882)
1962 – Stuart Sutcliffe, Scottish musician (The Beatles) (b. 1940)
1965 – Linda Darnell, American actress (b. 1923)
1980 – Kay Medford, American actress (b. 1914)
1992 – Sam Kinison, American comedian (b. 1953)
2003 – Little Eva, American singer (b. 1943)
2010 – Dixie Carter, American actress (b. 1939)
Today is
National Cinnamon Crescent Day
Golfers Day
National Siblings Day
ASPCA Day
National Farm Animals Day
Safety Pin Day
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