Good morning, bombshells! Have you found that lost hour of sleep yet? Have some coffee, you know driving sleepy is just as bad as driving drunk, just less stigma.
Interrogatories
Who was the first President you voted for? Were you raised by Liberals or Conservatives? If the latter, where did they go wrong? 😉 What was the turning point where you realized that you had a different set of values? What was the first volunteer work you ever did? How many U.S. States have you visited?
The Twitter Emitter
Retweet if you know someone who is still alive only because you can’t afford a hit-man.
— Grumpy Grandma(@lnternetGrandma) March 10, 2013
I hope that none of the pope contestants twirl flaming batons in the talent portion of the competition.
— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) March 11, 2013
A hidden advantage of spring forward: it was me waking the cats this morning. Now you know how it feels Bucky & Hal!
— Unstable Isotope (@UnstableIsotope) March 11, 2013
So where’s all the daylight we saved?
— David Waldman (@KagroX) March 11, 2013
Daylight austerity is obviously bullshit.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) March 11, 2013
Why can’t daylight & darkness work together to find bipartisan compromise instead of putting us through this series of manufactured crises?
— David Waldman (@KagroX) March 11, 2013
The Founders would never have never approve of a soda ban — unless it was to keep all the soda for white, male landowners.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 11, 2013
BREAKING: Judge strikes down NYC 16 oz. soda ban on the grounds that “it’s hot in here and I had a large pastrami sandwich for lunch.”
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) March 11, 2013
Bloomberg speaks at 5:30. Word is he will buy all the soda in NY forever and store it on private island where he’ll live with hairless cat.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) March 11, 2013
I could never respect any spellcheck that recognized ‘Couponing’ as a word.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) March 11, 2013
Fox News worries about the kids who can’t visit the White House – but not the poor kids who could starve eclectablog.com/2013/03/fox-ne…
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) March 11, 2013
On This Day
In 1894, Coca-Cola was bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn. Back then it contained cocaine instead of high-fructose corn syrup (or corn sugar, as they are re-naming it).
In 1928, the St. Francis Dam in Southern California fail; resulting more than 600 deaths and ending the career of General Manager and Chief Engineer, William Mulholland, who really does not deserve to have that canyon named after him.
In 1930, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi began a 200-mile march to protest a British tax on salt.
In 1939, Pope Pius XII was crowned at the Vatican.
In 1993, Janet Reno was sworn in as the nation’s first female attorney general.
In 2002, Homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveiled a color-coded system for terror warnings.
In 2002, the U.N. Security Council approved a U.S.-sponsored resolution endorsing a Palestinian state for the first time.
In 2008, New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigned two days after reports had surfaced that he was a client of a prostitution ring.
In 2009, disgraced financier Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty in New York to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in Wall Street history.
Born on This Day
1479 – Giuliano de’ Medici, Duke of Nemours, ruler of Florence (d. 1516)
1637 – Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1781 – Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
1806 – Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
1831 – Clement Studebaker, American automobile executive (d. 1901)
1832 – Charles Boycott, British land agent (d. 1897)
1863 – Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italian writer (d. 1938)
1878 – Gemma Galgani, Catholic saint and mystic (d. 1903)
1890 – Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish ballet dancer (d. 1950)
1907 – Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1914 – Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (d. 1958)
1917 – Googie Withers, British actress (d. 2011)
1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
1923 – Clara Fraser, American feminist and activist (d. 1998)
1928 – Edward Albee, American playwright
1931 – Billie “Buckwheat” Thomas, American actor (d. 1980)
1932 – Andrew Young, American civil rights activist and politician
1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress and model
1936 – Patrick Procktor, English artist (d. 2003)
1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
1947 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)
1947 – Mitt Romney, American politician, 70th governor of Massachusetts
1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter
1949 – Bill Payne, American musician (Little Feat)
1953 – Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer and actor(The Jackson 5)
1968 – Tammy Duckworth, American politician, military aviator
1969 – Graham Coxon, English musician (Blur)
1969 – Jake Tapper, Beltway Bubble journalist
1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician (The Libertines and Babyshambles)
Died on This Day
417 – Pope Innocent I
604 – Pope Gregory I
1507 – Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
1681 – Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
1757 – Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
1858 – William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (b. 1816)
1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1955 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
1989 – Maurice Evans, English-born actor (b. 1901)
2001 – Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
2011 – Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet) (b. 1923)
Today is
Organize Your Home Office Day
Plant a Flower Day
World Day Against Cyber Censorship
Girl Scouts Day
National Baked Scallops Day
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