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The Daily F Bomb, Thursday 9/26/13

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Interrogatories

It’s National Good Neighbor Day. Are you a good neighbor? Do you have good neighbors?

Do you and your partner/spouse have “your song?” What is it?

Are you a bowler? What was your best score? Are you a golfer?

Has anything in your medicine cabinet expired? Have you checked lately, or do you check regularly?

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On This Day

In 1580, Sir Francis Drake returned to England after having circumnavigated the earth.

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson became the first Secretary of State.

In 1914, the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) was established.

In 1960, the first televised Presidential debate occurred in Chicago between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy.

In 1957, “West Side Story” made its Broadway debut.

In 1960, Fidel Castro threw Cuba’s support behind the U.S.S.R.

In 1969, The Beatles’ Abbey Road album was released in the U.K.

In 1986, William Rehnquist was sworn in as Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia was sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

In 2005, Lynndie England was found guilty by a military court of one count of conspiracy, four counts of maltreating detainees and one count of committing an indecent act. She beat a conspiracy charge. She was sentenced to 3 years in prison and was dishonorably discharged.

Born on This Day

1774 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (d. 1845)

1791 – Théodore Géricault, French painter (d. 1824)

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1803 – Thomas Sidney Cooper, English painter of sheep (d. 1902)

1823 – William Henry Knight, British painter (d. 1863)

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1848 – Helen Allingham, English painter (d. 1926)

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1862 – Arthur Bowen Davies, U.S. painter and illustrator (d. 1928)

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1865 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (d. 1937)

1874 – Lewis Hine, American photographer and activist (d. 1940)

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1875 – Edmund Gwenn, Welsh actor (d. 1959)

1876 – Georges Emile Lebacq, Belgian painter (d. 1950)

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1887 – Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor (d. 1967)

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1888 – T. S. Eliot, American-English publisher, playwright, and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

1893 – Gladys Brockwell, American actress (d. 1929)

1897 – Pope Paul VI (d. 1978)

1914 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)

1926 – Julie London, American singer and actress (d. 2000)

1936 – Winnie Mandela, South African activist

1945 – Bryan Ferry, English singer-songwriter (Roxy Music)

1946 – Christine Todd Whitman, American politician and author, 50th Governor of New Jersey

1948 – Olivia Newton-John, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actress

1949 – Minette Walters, most excellent English mystery author

1956 – Linda Hamilton, American actress

1958 – Darby Crash, American singer-songwriter (The Germs and Darby Crash Band) (d. 1980)

1967 – Shannon Hoon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blind Melon) (d. 1995)

1968 – James Caviezel, American actor

Died on This Day

1670 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (b. 1629)

1785 – Charles Bird King, U.S. painter who was commissioned to paint many Native American leaders (d. 1862)

1893 – Annie Feray Mutrie, English still life painter (b. 1826)

1902 – Levi Strauss, German-American businessman, founded Levi Strauss & Co. (b. 1829)

1914 – August Macke, German expresssionist painter (b. 1887)

1937 – Bessie Smith, American singer and actress (b. 1894)

1952 – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher (b. 1863)

1973 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (b. 1908)

1996 – Nicu Ceaușescu, Romanian politician (b. 1951)

1998 – Betty Carter, American singer (b. 1930)

2000 – Richard Mulligan, American actor (b. 1932)

2003 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (The Power Station and Vinegar Joe) (b. 1949)

2008 – Paul Newman, American actor, director, and businessman, co-founded Newman’s Own (b. 1925)

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2010 – Gloria Stuart, American actress and painter (b. 1910)

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Today is

Johnny Appleseed Day

Shamu the Whale Day

World Maritime Day

World Pancake Day (or Pancake Lover’s Day)

World Heart Day

National Good Neighbor Day


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14 comments

  1. Floja Roja

    I am a very good neighbor. I’m quiet during the times that one should be quiet, I pet-sit, I don’t yell at the kids to get off my (non-existent) lawn.  I have very good neighbors. They cat-sit when I go away, they help with stuff I need done that I can’t do by myself, and they are liberals.

    No “your song.” I don’t know why, just never had with any partners.

    I could not bowl to save my life. I only tried once, so that could explain it. I only golfed once, too. I have an odd hostility to golf. It’s such a white male Republican sport, even though that is changing. And those damned courses are so bad for the environment, and they never have to ration water during the droughts!

    I always forget to check my medicine cabinet. I think all my cold and flu stuff is expired. It’s a few years since I’ve had one. Which reminds me, I should get a flu shot. I admit that if I woke up sick tomorrow, I’d use the stuff, expired or not. I also always end up with vitamins and other supplements that I took for a while and then stopped. I’m sure plenty of those are expired. Oddly, my Advil supply never gets a chance to expire.

  2. plf515

    It’s National Good Neighbor Day. Are you a good neighbor? Do you have good neighbors?

    We’re OK I guess. We say hello when we see each other and we don’t bother each other.

    Do you and your partner/spouse have “your song?” What is it?

    No.

    Are you a bowler? What was your best score? Are you a golfer?

    No to both

    Has anything in your medicine cabinet expired? Have you checked lately, or do you check regularly?

    We check once in a while.  

  3. JanF

    Winner!!

       By voting for cloture Ted Cruz is the personification of ” The food there is terrible.. and such small portions”

       – TBogg (@tbogg) September 25, 2013

    A day that shall live in infamy:

    In 1986, William Rehnquist was sworn in as Chief Justice, and Antonin Scalia was sworn in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

    Hovering …

    – Hay, you seem to feeling your oats again … difficult to harness that creativity, eh?

    – HAHAHA!! “slaw abiding citizen”? Certainly one way to get a head …

    – Republican children don’t have to worry about child labor laws. They are unlikely to be suitable for any kind of work since they live in an alternate reality, a place where there are millions of available jobs and poor people who want to “eat meals” are simply lazy if they can’t find one.

    Pancake Hovers Day? Butter milk that one. OH!!! Pancake Lovers Day. NEVER MIND!!

  4. jlms qkw

    It’s National Good Neighbor Day. Are you a good neighbor? Do you have good neighbors?

    Do you and your partner/spouse have “your song?” What is it?

    Are you a bowler? What was your best score? Are you a golfer?

    Has anything in your medicine cabinet expired? Have you checked lately, or do you check regularly?

    i am a great neighbor! not at 2am though.

    no, my new neighbors are freaking loud at night :-((((

    no comment

    not really. ? no.

    yes i check on the med’s.  

  5. Avilyn

    I’m working from home this morning so I can run errands this afternoon.  Yay!

    Q&A:

    It’s National Good Neighbor Day. Are you a good neighbor? Do you have good neighbors?  Depends on your definition of ‘good neighbor’.  We aren’t friends with our neighbors, but will say Hello if we see them.  We’re quiet and we don’t play loud music late at night or anything.

    Do you and your partner/spouse have “your song?” What is it?  No, not really.

    Are you a bowler? What was your best score? Are you a golfer?  Uh, I’ve bowled, mostly at like work outings and stuff.  I think my best score was in the 40’s.  I don’t gold unless it’s on the Nintendo, or unless Mini-Golf counts.  Not too good at that either, except accidentally.

    Has anything in your medicine cabinet expired? Have you checked lately, or do you check regularly?  Probably.  Haven’t checked.

  7. JanF

    The sillybuster and then the 100-0 vote for cloture confused right wing zealots.

    Senate GOP’s Constituents Are Confused About Obamacare Vote


    Two other Senate Republican offices confirmed to TPM that they had been fielding calls from confused constituents. National Review Online’s Robert Costa reported that a harsh response from the base had reduced administrative assistants in two Senate GOP offices to tears:

    @robertcostaNRO

    Back at the Capitol. Anger among Repub sens vs Cruz is simmering. One source says admn assts in 2 offices have cried due to neg Right calls

    One Senate GOP aide told TPM that the reaction was split between anger and mere confusion. “Bit of both,” the aide said.

  8. JanF

    Not Fronting A Fake Filibuster: Nation’s Top Newspapers Bury Ted Cruz

    Major newspapers across the country downplayed Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) long speech against the Affordable Care Act on Wednesday, a survey of front pages finds, and just half of newspapers in Texas led with the junior senator’s effort.

    ~snip~~

    The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, USA Today, LA Times, and Chicago Tribune eschewed stories about Cruz’s speech on their front pages in favor of the mall siege in Kenya and President Obama’s address before the United Nation’s General Assembly. The Washington Post’s front page included 14 words on the speech.

    Ouch! That’s got to sting. The president’s speech: more important than Ted Cruz????

  9. JanF

    Jon Stewart Torches Ted Cruz’s Fake Filibuster (VIDEOS)

    “Yes, that’s Ted Cruz, the senator who starting yesterday at 2:41 eastern wasting time took to the Senate floor for 21 hours, not to filibuster, not to delay, but to cast himself as Churchill to Obama’s Chamberlain in the great fight against…Hitler’s health care exchanges? I lost the thread of the metaphor,” Stewart said.

    ~snip~

    Stewart wondered if there was a study or a book that Cruz could cite to bolster his case, prompting the clip of the senator reading the Dr. Seuss classic “Green Eggs and Ham.”

    “So to express your opposition to Obamacare you go with a book about a stubborn jerk who decides he hates something before he’s tried it,” Stewart said. “And when he finally does get a taste, he has to admit after tasting it, this is pretty f*cking good.”

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