Motley Moose – Archive

Interrogatories

Have you ever seen a UFO?

It’s National Anisette Day. Are you a lover or hater of licorice flavors?

Do you shop at Wal-Mart? Why?

Do you listen to the radio? If so, what do you listen to?

Two celebs are in the news for their recent slurs – Paula Deen for her racial slurs and Alec Baldwin for tweeting a homophobic slur. Do you think these two should be treated equally in the media and by the public? (h/t to Jim Beaver for the question)

The Twitter Emitter

Fetal Girlhood: Those precious 9 months when Repugs consider a woman to be a person and worth sacrificing anything for. #prochoice #sb5

— Liz (@childfreediva) June 27, 2013

I wonder if Pat Robertson masturbated as a fetus? #p2

— Joseph J. Santorsa (@Marnus3) June 28, 2013

If you measure your "Christianity" by the list of those you hate, you kinda missed the point.

— techweenie (@techweenie) June 29, 2013

Weird that Julian Assange and I spend the same amount of time in front of a computer and I find much better cat videos.

— Danforth France (@danforthfrance) June 29, 2013

NSA notices uptick in calls to wedding planners.

— Jesus Christ (@JesusOfNaz316) June 26, 2013

Remember, it's not perjury if you apologize after you get caught. That's how the law works, right?

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 1, 2013

I used to get confused by the term “hung jury”. I wondered how they knew if…nevermind.

— Ed (@dmvEd) July 1, 2013

Rick Perry: "We must stop illegal abortions like those performed by Gosnell by making all abortions illegal like those performed by Gosnell"

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 2, 2013

I always judge good government on how much people scream about the legislation we pass.

— Jack Kimble (@RepJackKimble) July 2, 2013

The Pacific island state of Nauru confirms that Edwards Snowden has not sought asylum there, and admits to feeling left out.

— Frank Vdl (@fvdlfvdl) July 2, 2013

Edward Snowden now basically Russia's couch-surfing cousin who refuses to get his own place.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) July 1, 2013

On This Day

In 1504, Bogdan III the One-Eyed became Voivode of Moldavia. (I have no idea what this means, but it sounds cool.) 😉

In 1776, the Continental Congress drafted the resolution severing ties with Britain that was approved two days later as the Declaration of Independence.

In 1777, Vermont, the state that likes to do things first, became the first territory to abolish slavery.

In 1839,  La Amistad, a ship transporting Sierra Leonean captives from Havana to another Cuban port, was taken over by the captives. The ship navigator misled them into thinking they were heading back to Africa, and they wound up off the coast of Long Island. They were taken into custody, and thus began the long court battle that ended with the Supreme Court decision in United States v. The Amistad.

In 1881, President James Garfield was shot by Charles Guitreau. He lingered until September 19th, when he died of an infection, aided by medical ineptitude.

In 1890, Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act, intended to limit cartels and monopolies. It was not often enforced until Teddy Roosevelt’s time, and is little-enforced today (though they have not yet, to my knowledge, sought to repeal it).

In 1897, Marconi received a patent for radio.

In 1937, the last contact from Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, was received. They were never heard from again, and the search still continues for the wreckage of their plane.

In 1962, the first Wal-Mart store was opened.

In 1964, LBJ signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, intended to end segregation in public places.

In 2007, President George W. Bush commuted Scooter Libby’s 30 month prison sentence.

Born on This Day

1489 – Thomas Cranmer, English Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1556)

1597 – Theodor Rombouts, Flemish painter (d. 1637)

1693 – Louis-Fabricius Dubourg, Dutch artist (d. 1775)

1698 – Francesco III d’Este, Duke of Modena (d. 1780)

1714 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer (d. 1787)

1800 – Piotr Michalowski, Polish painter (d. 1855)

1810 – Eduard von Steinle, Austrian painter (d. 1886)

1828 – Jules Jacques Veyrassat, French landscape artist (d. 1893)

1835 – George Dunlop Leslie, English genre painter (d. 1921)

1855 – Georg Vilhelm Pauli, Swedish artist (d. 1935)

1869 – Liane de Pougy, French Folies Bergères dancer and courtesan (d. 1950)

1871 – Nicolás Rauric Petre, Spanish painter (d. 1945)

1877 – Hermann Hesse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)

1884 – Félix Albrecht Harta, Hungarian painter (d. 1967)

1895 – Gen Paul, French painter (d. 1975)

1900 – Tyrone Guthrie, English actor (d. 1971)

1904 – René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt (d. 1996)

1908 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist, first black member of the Supreme Court (maybe the only one, should Clarence Thomas count?) (d. 1993)

1922 – Pierre Cardin, French fashion designer

1923 – Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (d. 1958)

1925 – Medgar Evers, American civil rights activist (d. 1963)

1925 – Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (d. 1961)

1927 – Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)

1929 – Imelda Marcos, Filipino footwear collector

1939 – John H. Sununu, cranky old man

1939 – Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (The Temptations) (d. 1973)

1942 – Vicente Fox, Mexican politician, 35th President of Mexico

1946 – Ron Silver, American actor (d. 2009)

1947 – Larry David, American actor, screenwriter, and producer

1949 – Roy Bittan, American keyboard player and songwriter (E Street Band) (on accordion here)

1949 – Greg Brown, American singer-songwriter and musician

1952 – Gene Taylor, American blues/R&B pianist (The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Canned Heat, the Blasters)

1953 – Mark Hart, American singer, musician, and producer (Crowded House and Supertramp)

1954 – Pete Briquette, Irish bassist, songwriter, and producer (The Boomtown Rats)

1956 – Jerry Hall, American model and actress

1964 – José Canseco, Cuban-American baseball player and rape apologist

1970 – Colin Edwin, Australian musician (Porcupine Tree)

1974 – Rocky Gray, American singer-songwriter and musician (Evanescence

1983 – Michelle Branch, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (The Wreckers)

1986 – Lindsay Lohan, American train wreck

Died on This Day

1566 – Nostradamus, French astrologer whose predictions could only be “verified” after the supposedly predicted incidents had occurred. (b. 1503)

1621 – Thomas Harriot, English astronomer (b. 1560)

1638 – Charles Cornelisz de Hooch, Dutch painter of ruins (b. ca 1600)

1660 – Francesco Maffei, Italian Baroque painter (b. 1610)

1700 – Lambert Doomer, Dutch painter (b. 1624)

1743 – Spencer Compton, 1st Earl of Wilmington, English politician, 2nd Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1673)

1778 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss philosopher (b. 1712)

1850 – Robert Peel, English politician, 28th and 30th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1788)

1887 – Wilhelm von Wright, Finnish/Swedish zoological researcher and illustrator (b. 1810)

1903 – Ed Delahanty, American baseball player (b. 1867)

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

1961 – Ernest Hemingway, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)

1973 – Betty Grable, American actress (b. 1916)

1976 – Frances Howard, actress (b. 1903)

1991 – Lee Remick, American actress (b. 1935)

1993 – Fred Gwynne, American actor (b. 1926)

1997 – James Stewart, American actor (b. 1908)

2002 – Ray Brown, American bassist and composer (b. 1926)

Today is

World UFO Day

Made in the USA Day

I Forgot Day

National Anisette Day

Visitation Of The Virgin Mary Day