Interrogatories
It’s National Greasy Foods Day. None of these has to be greasy if cooked right. What is your favorite food in the so-called “Greasy Food” category?
It’s International Artists Day. Do you have a favorite artist, and if so, who is it?
Speaking of artists, what is your opinion of Banksy?
What is your favorite building in your city? Why?
The Twitter Emitter
To give Ted Cruz credit, he DID display the virtues of political discipline and unity, once he united his entire chamber against Ted Cruz.
— Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) October 16, 2013
BREAKING: Princeton/Harvard Law grad whose wife works for Goldman Sachs attacks the Establishment
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) October 16, 2013
When is the House E&C hearing on the dumbass, pointless, costly, harmful govt shutdown?
— roadkillrefugee (@rkref) October 24, 2013
#GOP Game Plan: 1. Pick something about #Obama. 2. Launch an investigation over it. 3. Impeach #Obama. 4. Repeat 1-3 'til something sticks.
— Eric Wolfson (@ericwolfson) October 24, 2013
“If you’re an intellectually honest liberal you’ll unquestioningly accept my histrionic proclamations that ACA rollout is worst thing ever!”
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) October 24, 2013
If Congress needs to see an Obamacare error log, it can just look at the 40-odd repeal votes in the Congressional Record.
— Danielle (@DCPlod) October 24, 2013
Next on Monkey Court: Bobo groomed Tinkles, but says Tinkles never returned the favor. Celebrity judge Ted Cruz presides.
— Hunter (@HunterDK) October 24, 2013
Why can't that fucking President Obama live up to the Bush standard? He was able to coordinate voting machines across 36 states! Leadership!
— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) October 25, 2013
Spying is like farting. Everyone does it, but when you catch someone doing it, you complain.
— Frank Vdl (@fvdlfvdl) October 25, 2013
Pat Robertson attributes healthcare .gov glitches to "gay code that entered the site from a back door."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) October 25, 2013
On This Day
In 1940, Benjamin O. Davis became the first African American general in the U.S. Army.
In 1971, China was admitted to and Taiwan was expelled from the United Nations.
In 1983, the United States and allies from various Caribbean countries invaded Grenada after a bloody coup had deposed the democratically elected government.
In 1994, South Carolina housewife Susan Smith told police her car had been hijacked by a black man with her two children in the vehicle. She later confessed, after nine days of police harassment of black male fitting the description she gave, that she had killed the children by rolling the vehicle into a lake with the children in it.
Born on This Day
1782 – Levi Lincoln, Jr., American politician, 13th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1868)
1801 – Richard Parkes Bonington, English coastal landscape painter (d. 1828)
1811 – Carl Morgenstern, German painter (d. 1893)
1812 – Charles de Tournemine, French painter (d. 1872)
1838 – Georges Bizet, French composer (d. 1875)
1859 – Rubens Santoro, Italian painter (d. 1942)
1865 – Walter Leistikow, German painter (d. 1908)
1875 – Modest Huys, Belgian painter (d. 1932)
1881 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1973)
1886 – Leo G. Carroll, English actor (d. 1972)
1888 – Nils von Dardel, Swedish painter (d. 1943)
1889 – Abel Gance, French director (d. 1981)
1892 – Nell Shipman, Canadian actress, screenwriter, and producer (d. 1970)
1902 – Eddie Lang, American guitarist (d. 1933)
1903 – Harry Shoulberg, American painter (d. 1995)
1912 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (d. 1996)
1913 – Klaus Barbie, German SS captain (d. 1991)
1924 – Billy Barty, American actor (d. 2000)
1924 – Earl Palmer, American drummer (The Wrecking Crew) (d. 2008)
1926 – Ismail Gulgee, Pakistani painter (d. 2007)
1926 – Jimmy Heath, American saxophonist and composer (Heath Brothers)
1928 – Anthony Franciosa, American actor (d. 2006)
1941 – Helen Reddy, Australian singer and actress
1943 – Roy Lynes, England, rock organist (Status Quo)
1944 – Jon Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Yes)
1944 – James Carville, American lawyer and political consultant
1951 – Richard Lloyd, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Television and Rocket from the Tombs)
1959 – Chrissy Amphlett, Australian singer-songwriter and actress (Divinyls) (d. 2013)
1961 – Chad Smith, American drummer (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 – Ed Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Barenaked Ladies)
1984 – Katy Perry, American singer-songwriter and actress
Died on This Day
1400 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (b. 1343)
1510 – Giorgione, Italian painter (b. 1470)
1730 – Johann Michael Rottmayr, Austrian painter (b. 1656)
1760 – George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)
1806 – Henry Knox, American general and politician (b. 1750)
1902 – Frank Norris, American novelist (b. 1870)
1916 – William Merritt Chase, U.S. painter (b. 1849)
1919 – Ernest Albert Waterlow, British landscape painter (b. 1850)
1921 – Bat Masterson, American journalist and sheriff (b. 1853)
1933 – Lillian Hall-Davis, British silent film actress (b. 1898)
1941 – Robert Delaunay, French painter (b. 1862)
1957 – Henry C van de Velde, Flemish painter/architect/designer (textiles, furniture, etc) in the Art Nouveau and then Bauhaus style. He didn’t paint much before switching to other pursuits. (b. 1863)
1973 – Cleo Moore, American actress (b. 1928)
1986 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (b. 1919)
1989 – Mary McCarthy, American author (b. 1912)
1991 – Bill Graham, German-American concert promoter (b. 1931)
1992 – Roger Miller, American singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
1993 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
1994 – Mildred Natwick, American actress (b. 1905)
1995 – Bobby Riggs, American tennis player (b. 1918)
1995 – Viveca Lindfors, Swedish actress (b. 1920)
1995 – Te Ata Fisher, Native American (Chickasaw) actress and storyteller (b. 1895)
2002 – Richard Harris, Irish actor (b. 1930)
2002 – Paul Wellstone, American politician (b. 1944)
2010 – Gregory Isaacs, Jamaican singer-songwriter (b. 1951)
Today is
National Greasy Foods Day
Punk for a Day Day
World Pasta Day
International Artists Day
Sourest Day
International Bandana Day
National Breadsticks Day
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