Interrogatories
Croissants – plain, filled, sweet?
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
What commonplace personal habit do you find most annoying?
What habit do you have that you wish you didn’t have?
What is your greatest extravagance?
The Twitter Emitter
@lolgop The modern GOP has the same relationship to Reagan they do to Christ. Both beliefs are highly redacted versions of the originals.
— Jaye Simms (@Missjayette) May 28, 2013
Rick Perry: “The tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of uninsured poor people.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 28, 2013
See what you’ve done Minnesota? You legalise gay marriage and now it’s destroyed Michele Bachmann’s Congressional career. FOR SHAME.
— Danielle(@DCPlod) May 29, 2013
In my other prayer to Satan, Bachman’s husband marries Lindsay Graham
— Cranston Snord (@BostonSnob) May 29, 2013
Michele Bachmann will leave congress to star in the new NBC drama “Law And Order: HPV”
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) May 29, 2013
“Who will protect us now from Census workers using Sharia law to kill us with homosexual Obamacare?” nym.ag/132JG2J
— wizardkitten (@wizardkitten) May 29, 2013
Stand with Michelle – it’s a No Brainer.
— rootless (@root_e) May 29, 2013
Michele Bachmann leaving congress to spend more time praying away her husband’s gay. @ryannewyork:
— A. Deno Vir, MD PhD (@Adenovir) May 29, 2013
“Today I am even more concerned about our country’s future than I have ever been in the past.” So, I quit. -Michele Bachmann
— Anne C. Savage (@Anne_Savage) May 29, 2013
Will be great to get Michelle Bachmann off government sustenance. We’ve supported her long enough.#p2 #ctl #topprog #tcot #tlot #teaparty
— ÐiegoUK (@DiegoUK) May 29, 2013
Yeah, but how bitchin’ a rendition of “Let the Eagle Soar” can James Comey sing?
— WeeLaura (@WeeLaura) May 30, 2013
On This Day
In 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake.
In 1536, Henry VIII married Jane Seymour, who had been lady-in-waiting to his previous wives, giving new meaning to that term.
In 1854, Nebraska and Kansas were officially established as territories.
In 1834, Portugese Minister of Justice Joaquim Antonio de Aguiar pulled a Henry VIII and ruled that “all convents, monasteries, colleges, hospices and any other houses of the regular religious orders” were extinguished, and all their properties were taken over by the state. This action earned him the name “Friar Killer.”
In 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.
In 1937, Chicago police shot and killed 10 unarmed demonstrators during a Steel Workers strike.
In 2012, war criminal Charles Taylor, former Liberian president, received a 50 year prison sentence for his part in the atrocities committed during Sierra Leone’s civil war.
Born on This Day
1220 – Saint Alexander Nevsky (d.1263)
1623 – Wallerant Vaillant, Flemish painter (d. 1677)
1786 – John Lewis Krimmel, US painter (d. 1821)
1844 – Félix Arnaudin, French poet and photographer (d. 1921)
1836 – Aleksander Kotsis, Polish painter (d. 1877)
1846 – Peter Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (d. 1920)
1848 – Rudolf Ribarz, Austrian landscape painter (d. 1904)
1862 – Anton Ažbe, Slovenian painter (d. 1905)
1879 – Vanessa Bell, English painter who also happened to be Virginia Woolf’s sister (d. 1961)
1892 – Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (d. 1972)
1896 – Howard Hawks, American director (d. 1977)
1899 – Irving Thalberg, American film producer (d. 1936)
1901 – Cornelia Otis Skinner, American writer and actress (d. 1979)
1902 – Stepin Fetchit (real name Lincoln Theodore Monroe Andrew Perry), controversial African-American actor (d. 1985)
1908 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d. 1989)
1909 – Benny Goodman, American clarinetist, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1986)
1926 – Christine Jorgensen, the first person widely known to have undergone sex reassignment surgery (d. 1989)
1928 – Pro Hart, Australian painter (d. 2006)
1936 – Keir Dullea, American actor
1939 – Michael J. Pollard, American actor
1944 – Lenny Davidson, English guitarist (The Dave Clark Five)
1953 – Colm Meaney, Irish actor
1955 – Topper Headon, English musician and songwriter (The Clash)
1964 – Tom Morello, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, actor, and activist (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine, The Nightwatchman, and Axis of Justice)
1966 – Stephen Malkmus, American singer and musician (Pavement and Silver Jews)
1967 – Tim Burgess, English singer-songwriter (The Charlatans and The Chavs)
1974 – Cee Lo Green, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor (Goodie Mob and Gnarls Barkley)
Died on This Day
1593 – Christopher Marlowe, English playwright (b. 1564)
1640 – Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter (b. 1577)
1695 – Pierre Mignard, French painter (b. 1612)
1712 – Andrea Lanzani, Italian painter (b. 1645)
1730 – Arabella Churchill, English mistress of James II of England (b. 1648)
1744 – Alexander Pope, English writer (b. 1688)
1770 – François Boucher, French painter (b. 1703)
1778 – Voltaire, French writer, philosopher, and author (b. 1694)
1866 – Johann Baptist Pflug, German painter (b. 1785)
1888 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-born painter who worked in Australia (b. 1814)
1911 – Milton Bradley, American businessman, founder of the Milton Bradley Company (b. 1836)
1911 – Arturo Faldi, Italian painter (b. 1856)
1912 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (b. 1867)
1953 – Dooley Wilson, American actor and singer (b. 1886)
1967 – Claude Rains, English actor (b. 1889)
1975 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (b. 1951)
1980 – Carl Radle, American musician and producer (Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos) (b. 1942)
1988 – Ella Raines, American actress (b. 1920)
1993 – Sun Ra, American musician, bandleader, and composer (b. 1914)
2000 – Tex Beneke, American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader (Glenn Miller Orchestra) (b. 1914)
Today is
St. Joan of Arc Day
Water a Flower Day
National Mint Julep Day
My Bucket’s Got a Hole In It Day
National Croissant Day
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