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What are your favorite and least favorite constitutional amendments?

How good a typist are you? Do you have to look at the keys, or hunt and peck? Do you use all of your fingers?

Are you a good swimmer? Can you dive?

How is the view from your bedroom window? Kitchen? Living room?

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On This Day

In 1630, the city of Boston, Mass. was founded.

In 1787, the U.S. constitution was signed in Philadelphia.

In 1849,  Harriet Tubman and her brothers, Ben and Henry, escaped from slavery.

In 1859, a San Francisco eccentric named Joshua Horton named himself Emperor Norton, emperor of the United States.

In 1978, Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David Accords.

In 2001, the New York Stock Exchange opened for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.

In 2011, Occupy Wall Street began to coalesce as a movement in Zuccotti Park, NYC.

Born on This Day

879 – Charles the Simple, French king (d. 929)

1550 – Pope Paul V, who once excommunicated the government of Venice and forbade the rest of the city to perform any rites such as Mass, all because they refused to turn over two priests who had been charged and convicted with cruelty and murder, among other crimes. When Venice still refused to comply with his demands, Paul put a hit out on the attorney who prosecuted the priests. In one attempt, the prosecutor was stabbed many times, but still survived. (d. 1621)

1677 – Stephen Hales, English physiologist and chemist, invented forceps (d. 1761)

1734 – Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, French painter and printmaker (d. 1781)

1743 – Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician (d. 1794)

1822 – Frederick Goodall, English orientalist painter (d. 1904)

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1857 – Harry Wilson Watrous, U.S. artist (d. 1940)

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1858 – Robert William Vonnoh, U.S. Impressionist painter (d. 1933)

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1871 – Edgar Maxence, French painter (d. 1954)

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1883 – William Carlos Williams, American pediatrician and poet (d. 1963)

1900 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)

1904 – Jerry Colonna, American singer-songwriter and comedian (d. 1986)

1907 – Warren E. Burger, American politician and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)

1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (d. 2011)

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1916 – Mary Stewart, English author

1923 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drifting Cowboys) (d. 1953)

1927 – George Blanda, American football player (d. 2010)

1928 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)

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1929 – Sil Austin, American saxophonist (d. 2001)

1931 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)

1932 – Robert B. Parker, American author (d. 2010)

1933 – Chuck Grassley, old crackpot politician

1935 – Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)

1939 – David Souter, American jurist

1948 – John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)

1950 – Fee Waybill, American singer-songwriter (The Tubes)

1953 – Steve Williams, Welsh drummer and songwriter (Budgie)

1962 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director

1963 – James Urbaniak, American actor

1968 – Lord Jamar American rapper and actor (Brand Nubian)

1968 – Jonn Penney English singer (Ned’s Atomic Dustbin)

1969 – Adam Devlin, English guitarist and songwriter (The Bluetones)

1979 – Chuck Comeau, Canadian drummer (Simple Plan and Reset)

1985 – Jon Walker, American singer-songwriter and musician (Panic! at the Disco and The Young Veins)

Died on This Day

454 – Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria

1179 – Hildegard of Bingen, German saint, philosopher, and composer (b. 1098)

1665 – Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)

1675 – Jacob Adriaensz Bellevois, Dutch marine painter (b. 1621)

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1772 – Louis-Gabriel Blanchet, French painter (b. 1705)

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1858 – Dred Scott, American slave who sued for freedom in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case (b. 1795)

1899 – Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American businessman, co-founded the Pillsbury Company (b. 1842)

1915 – Konstantin Makovsky, Russian painter (b. 1839)

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1917 – Toni von Stadler, German landscape painter (b. 1850)

1925 – Carl Eytel, German-American painter (b. 1862)

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1948 – Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)

1951 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)

1972 – Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)

1974 – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter (b. 1884)

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1994 – Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)

1996 – Spiro Agnew, American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)

1997 – Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)

2000 – Paula Yates, Welsh television host and author (b. 1959)

2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American traveler and writer (b. 1924)

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24 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    It’s 65 in here this morning. Lovely. It’s supposed to be in the low 80s. Also lovely, as I have errands to run.

    Answers:

    My least favorite constitutional amendments is (naturally) the 2nd. My favorites? The rest, maybe the 1st being my favorite.

    I’m not a great typist, though I can be pretty fast when I get going. I use all of my fingers (and my thumbs) and I don’t look at the keys. I am often surprised by the number of friends I have who just use a couple of fingers.

    I can barely tread water. When I was young with 0% body fat I couldn’t even float. I never tried diving, since I figured one should master the swimming part first.

    I’m a city dweller (it’s actually an old “streetcar suburb”), so I have buildings, but it’s LA, so there is vegetation as well. I have a floor to ceiling french window in my dinky bedroom looking out on the tiny patio out back, and once the Hollywood sign was visible, but is now concealed by that vegetation. My bathroom window view is similar to the bedroom, but the cats tell me they can see more birds from it. The kitchen looks out on the building next door (which blocks the Southern sun). The living and dining room look out to the yard next door and across the street to the old brick former silent movie studio to the South, and over rooftops to hills in the background on the front windows, which face east. The skylight over the stairs reveals sky, or the occasional tap-dancing crow.

  2. anotherdemocrat

    What are your favorite and least favorite constitutional amendments?

    I’m ok with the 2nd – if people would use the whole thing. I’m always tempted to ask peole who describe themselves as fans of it what their National Guard unit is. Sigh.

    My favorites are the ones expanding the franchise.

    How good a typist are you? Do you have to look at the keys, or hunt and peck? Do you use all of your fingers?

    Not very. Must look at keys. Use most of my fingers.

    Are you a good swimmer? Can you dive?

    I suck.

    How is the view from your bedroom window? Kitchen? Living room?

    Parking lot. Parking lot. Parking lot.

  3. Gee

    What are your favorite and least favorite constitutional amendments?

    That’s a loaded (pun not intended, but hard to avoid) question the day after a mass shooting.  I guess my favorite would be #1.  Least favorite, #18.  One hates to pick on the Bill of Rights, but I think we’d be better off without #2.

    How good a typist are you? Do you have to look at the keys, or hunt and peck? Do you use all of your fingers?

    Pretty bad typist.  We had one semester of it in high school, and I “learned” touch typing, but I was woefully slow.  I no longer use all my fingers, and I look at the keys.  Interestingly, when I don’t look at the keys, I think I make fewer errors.

    Are you a good swimmer? Can you dive?

    Not much of a swimmer.  I can float on my back, and I know how to rise to the top by raising my arms.  Never did figure out how to tread water.  I have never dived, dove, or diven, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t.  😉

    How is the view from your bedroom window? Kitchen? Living room?

    All three views have plenty of green, so not bad for the suburbs.

  4. JG in MD

    What are your favorite and least favorite constitutional amendments? Fave: Freedom of speech Least fave: you can own a gun no matter who you are.

    How good a typist are you?  Been typing for OMG sixty years, fingers so fast they blur, wish I had also learned the piano.

    Are you a good swimmer? Can you dive? Not very good but love to dive. Of course they removed the diving board from our pool years ago because liability.

    How is the view from your bedroom window? Kitchen? Living room? Bedroom, parking lot. Liv rm/office Was Just Lovely Trees Now I Can Hardly See The Sky Because of the Invasive Weeds Dammit ::oops, did it again didnt I, sorry::

  5. Gee

    1550 – Pope Paul V, who once excommunicated the government of Venice and forbade the rest of the city to perform any rites such as Mass, all because they refused to turn over two priests who had been charged and convicted with cruelty and murder, among other crimes. When Venice still refused to comply with his demands, Paul put a hit out on the attorney who prosecuted the priests. In one attempt, the prosecutor was stabbed many times, but still survived. (d. 1621)

    So that’s why it was so long before there was a Pope Paul VI!

  7. princesspat

    constitutional admendments…I had to look, List of amendments to the United States Constitution The 2nd is being abused now but the mist annoying part for me is that images of the Tea Party People and The Constitution are linked together.

    typist……I have to look again and I seem to just use 2 or 3 fingers and I have to look at the keys.

    swimmer….I’m not a strong swimmer but I have wonderful memories of jumping off rocks into deep pools in the Clearwater River. Given how I swim it was prolly very dangerous, but I was young and it was fun.

    views….. I see a glimpse of Belingham Bay behind my old maple trees from my bedroom and living room windows and my garden with it’s tall trees is outside my kitchen windows. I live in a city neighborhood but I’ve planted enough trees to feel like the house is in the PNW forest.

    Thanks Floja!

  8. JanF

    One Conservative’s Provocative Rules For Covering Mass Shootings

    My favorite is Rule 3 but Rule 5 is a close second.

  9. plf515

    What are your favorite and least favorite constitutional amendments?

    Favorite: The 1st, which (I am learning by reading The Great Dissent) really came into its own (esp. the free speech part) only around 100 years ago. Least favorite: Prohibition (that was easy)

    How good a typist are you? Do you have to look at the keys, or hunt and peck? Do you use all of your fingers?

    I am pretty good. Not all that fast, but not slow. I don’t look at the keys unless I need the F keys.

    Are you a good swimmer? Can you dive?

    I am a decent swimmer. When I was in the water more, I swam about half as fast as good swimmers. (Think of it like running an 8 minute mile, if running’s your thing) but I haven’t been swimming a lot in recent years and would likely be much slower. At one point I could swim a mile without stopping, but not now. I can dive from the side of the pool but that’s about it.

    How is the view from your bedroom window? Kitchen? Living room?

    I see 85th St. out one set of windows and West End Ave out the other. Buildings, cars, some trees. Reasonable light. Nothing special.

  10. Avilyn

    Busy busy busy day today.  

    What are your favorite and least favorite constitutional amendments?    Favorite is tough.  1st & 4th rank right up there, along with 14th & 15th.  Least favorite is 2nd, because people always ignore the “well regulated militia” and the history at the time.  I’d say 18th, but that was repealed so I don’t have to worry about them taking my margaritas away.  😉

    How good a typist are you? Do you have to look at the keys, or hunt and peck? Do you use all of your fingers?   Pretty good.  I type faster when I look at the keys, but I can touch type.  My freshman year of high school we had to take a mandatory class on typing (on electric typewriters, which was F A N C Y at the time).  I use all my fingers; only have to hunt and peck if I need to use the F1-F10 keys.

    Are you a good swimmer? Can you dive?    Very good, although I’m out of shape & practice now.  But my grandfather was a swim coach, and coached my mom & her brother; and my mom was a coach & coached my brother and I.  We swam on both summer and winter leagues, from about 5yrs to 18yrs of age.  Backstroke was my best stroke, although I could do Freestyle and Butterfly decently as well.  Breaststroke was my downfall, alas, so I was never a decent IM’er.  Diving is so-so.  Again, Back dive was probably my best, Front Dive was OK, and I did learn to do an inward and a front flip.  Never mastered twists or back flips.

    How is the view from your bedroom window? Kitchen? Living room?  We’re in a townhouse, so bedroom window looks out on visitor parking and other units.  Blech.  Kitchen doesn’t have a window.  Living room looks out back, but is on the second floor, so it mostly sees the middle of pine trees.

    Well, turned out I was chatty today!  🙂

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