Interrogatories
What is your favorite kind of puzzle?
What would you like to say “Nevermore” to?
What was the last thing, outside of a cashier line, that you waited in line for?
The Twitter Emitter
there will be FOUR GOP "responses" to the SOTU. Because one massive gaffe is just not enough #uniteblue #ladems @BobbyJindal
— Edward Branley (@YatPundit) January 29, 2014
REPORT: The Duck Dynasty guy's beard has been asked to give a Republican response to the State of the Union.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 29, 2014
Sarah Palin expressed sadness at the death of Pete Seeger, saying she loved the songs Old Time Rock And Roll and Night Moves.
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) January 29, 2014
It's emblematic of what the Republicans have become that their idols are a clean cut yuppie family dressed in hillbilly costumes.
— Joy Reid (@TheReidReport) January 29, 2014
I'm watching SOTU tonight while suffering from food poisoning which, I imagine, won't be much diff from watching SOTU w/o food poisoning.
— Brad Friedman (@TheBradBlog) January 29, 2014
If you think a political party hanging the entire country out to dry due to a tantrum is less horrific than a website glitch, you're a moron
— Assassin Grrrl (@AssassinGrl) January 29, 2014
GOP says tax cuts help economy. GOP kills Obama jobs plan that's 60% tax cuts. GOP blames Obama. Your uncle nods. #sotu
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 29, 2014
You know how dumb some of these right-wingers are? They think socialist is an insult.
— Angelo Carusone (@GoAngelo) January 29, 2014
@mmnimmz President Obama said a woman earned 70 cents for every dollar a man makes. That's socialism. Why can't she earn her own money?
— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) January 29, 2014
Damn, my cat just gave a response to the #SOTU
— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) January 29, 2014
On This Day
In 1834, President Andrew Jackson ordered the first use of federal soldiers to suppress a labor dispute.
In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was first published, in the New York Evening Mirror.
In 1861, Kansas was admitted as the 34th state.
In 1900, the American League, consisting of eight baseball teams, was organized in Philadelphia.
In 1995, the San Francisco 49ers became the first team to win five Super Bowl titles when they beat the San Diego Chargers 49-26 in Super Bowl XXIX. (also, though it’s too late this year: Go Niners!!!)
In 1998, a bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Ala., killing an off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse. The bomber, Eric Rudolph, was captured in May 2003 and is serving a life sentence. Unfortunately he is idolized by the “right to life” crowd.
In 2006, ABC “World News Tonight” co-anchor Bob Woodruff and a cameraman were seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
In 2009, the Illinois Senate voted to remove Governor Rod Blagojevich from office.
In 2010, abortion opponent Scott Roeder was convicted of murder by a jury in Wichita, Kan., in the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, one of the only doctors to offer late-term abortions in the entire country.
Born on This Day
1475 – Giuliano Bugiardini, Florentine painter (d. 1554)
1627 – Jan Siberechts, Flemish painter (d. 1703)
1737 – Thomas Paine, English-born American patriot (d. 1809)
1767 – Anne-Louis Girodet, French painter (d. 1824)
1801 – Horatia Nelson, daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (d. 1881)
1817 – John Callcott Horsley, English painter (d. 1903)
1843 – William McKinley, American politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901)
1860 – Anton Chekhov, Russian writer (d. 1904)
1866 – Julio Peris Brell, Spanish painter (d. 1944)
1867 – Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, Spanish writer (d. 1928)
1868 – Albin Egger-Lienz, Austrian painter (d. 1926)
1872 – Sir William Rothenstein, English painter (d. 1945)
1874 – John D. Rockefeller Jr., American entrepreneur (d. 1960)
1880 – W. C. Fields, American actor (d. 1946)
1905 – Barnett Newman, American painter (d. 1970)
1910 – Colin Middleton, Irish artist (d. 1983)
1913 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999)
1915 – Bill Peet, American children’s book illustrator (d.2002)
1918 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010)
1936 – James Jamerson, American bass guitarist (The Funk Brothers) (d. 1983)
1939 – Germaine Greer, Australian writer
1942 – Claudine Longet, French singer and dancer (also murderer)
1944 – Katharine Ross, American actress
1944 – Andrew Loog Oldham, English rock and roll producer
1945 – Tom Selleck, American actor, screenwriter, film producer, NRA member
1946 – Bettye Lavette, American soul singer-songwriter
1947 – David Byron, English singer (Uriah Heep and Spice) (d. 1985)
1952 – Tommy Ramone, Hungarian-born musician and record producer (The Ramones)
Dedicated to the Tea Party:
1953 – Peter Baumann, German musician (Tangerine Dream)
1953 – Louie Pérez, American songwriter, percussionist and guitarist (Los Lobos and Latin Playboys)
1954 – Richard Manitoba, American singer aka Handsome Dick Manitoba (The Dictators and MC5)
1960 – Greg Louganis, American diver
1970 – Paul Ryan, American politician, failed VP candidate, maker of unworkable budgets
1975 – Sara Gilbert, American actress
1976 – Chris Castle, American singer-songwriter
1982 – Adam Lambert, American actor and singer
Died on This Day
1632 – Jan Porcellis, Flemish-born Dutch marine painter (b. 1584)
1678 – Giulio Carpioni, Venitian painter (b. 1613)
1763 – Louis Racine, French poet (b. 1692)
1888 – Edward Lear, English artist, illustrator, author, and poet (b. 1812)
1899 – Alfred Sisley, British impressionist painter (b. 1839)
1919 – Richard Bergh, Swedish painter (b. 1858)
1923 – Elihu Vedder, painter (b. 1836)
1933 – Sara Teasdale, American poet (b. 1884)
1943 – François Cachoud, French painter (b. 1866)
1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist (b. 1880)
1963 – Robert Frost, American poet (b. 1874)
1964 – Alan Ladd, American actor (b. 1913)
1968 – Tsuguharu Foujita, Japanese painter, active in France (b. 1886)
1977 – Freddie Prinze, American actor and comedian (b. 1954)
1980 – Jimmy Durante, American actor and comedian (b. 1893)
1986 – Leif Erickson, American actor (b. 1911)
1992 – Willie Dixon, blues musician and composer (b. 1915)
1998 – Joseph Alioto, American politician (b. 1916)
1999 – Lili St. Cyr, American exotic dancer/stripper (b. 1918)
2009 – John Martyn, Scottish singer and songwriter (b. 1948)
Today is
National Corn Chip Day
National Puzzle Day
Carnation Day
Free Thinkers Day (Note to teabaggers: This day is not for you. What you do does not involve thinking.)
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