Interrogatories
Are you right or left handed?
Steak – rare, medium rare, medium, well done, or not at all?
Who would you like to blame to celebrate Blame Someone Else Day?
What is the highest land elevation you have ever attained?
Do you deliberately try to tan, or do you slather on the sunblock?
The Twitter Emitter
GOP still furious that GOP SCOTUS upheld GOP-designed Obamacare & promises GOP repeal before it can save any GOP lives.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 12, 2013
Halliburton to rebrand nerve gas as Freedom Tingle™.
— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) August 12, 2013
If I didn't mean for you to eat pigs I wouldn't have made them out of pork.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) August 12, 2013
Well I for one think Mitt Romney looks way better since he removed the bolts from his neck.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 12, 2013
Let's do stop & frisk but for white guys in suits to see if any of them stole our economy.
— CC:Indecision (@indecision) August 12, 2013
For all the chatter about Rand Paul appointing a dead Milton Friedman to the Fed, I'm more excited to see Ayn Rand as secretary of education
— Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) August 12, 2013
This tweet contains the names of every Republican who's ever demanded to see Ted Cruz' birth certificate.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 12, 2013
Sources say Musk was driven by desire to reduce duration/frequency of DC journos whining about bad wi-fi and quiet car violations.
— Olivier Knox (@OKnox) August 12, 2013
New York still hasn't tried Stop n' Frisk at Wall Street, and that's where all the real crime is. Most of the coke, too.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) August 12, 2013
Ray Kelly: "The notion that my officers use racial profiling is recklessly untrue. It's just that minorities are all criminals."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 12, 2013
Judge tosses racial discrimination claims against Paula Deen on grounds that "using the N-word isn't racist. I use it, and I'm not racist."
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 12, 2013
On This Day
In 1521, the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan fell to Cortez. It later become known as Mexico City.
In 1907, Harry N. Allen put the first gas-powered taxis on the streets of New York.
In 1918, Opha May Johnson became the first woman to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps.
In 1942, Disney’s animated film, Bambi, was released in theaters. The film did not make back its initial costs during its first run. This was due more to the timing of the release (during WW2) than to the film itself. In addition, hunters spoke out against the movie, calling it an insult to sportsmen. Just think if the NRA had been the organization they are today…
In 1961, East Germany began construction of the Berlin Wall.
In 1966, KLUE-AM in Longville, Texas threw a bonfire party for anyone offended by Beatle John Lennon’s Jesus comment to burn their records. The next morning their radio tower was struck by lightning. Coincidence?
In 2011, Michele Bachmann paid good money to win the Iowa straw poll, which of course vastly increased her chances of winning the Presidency.
Born on This Day
1576 – David Vinckboons, Flemish painter (d. 1629)
1818 – Lucy Stone, American women’s rights activist – the unnatural woman who decided to (gasp!) keep her maiden name after marrying (among other things). (d. 1893)
1834 – Ludwik Kurella, Polish genre painter (d. 1902)
1852 – Christian Krogh, Norwegian painter (d. 1925)
1860 – Annie Oakley, American target shooter (d. 1926)
1867 – George Benjamin Luks, American painter of the Ashcan School (d. 1933)
1879 – Felice Carena, Italian painter (d. 1966)
1889 – Christopher R. W. Nevinson, English painter (d. 1946)
1895 – Bert Lahr, American actor (d. 1967)
1899 – Alfred Hitchcock, English director and producer (d. 1980)
1904 – Charles “Buddy” Rogers, American actor (d. 1999)
1908 – Gene Raymond, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 – June Brewster, American actress (d. 1995)
1917 – Gloria Dickson, American actress (d. 1945)
1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist (d. 2011)
1926 – Fidel Castro, Cuban lawyer and politician, 15th President of Cuba
1933 – Joycelyn Elders, American physician, 15th Surgeon General of the United States
1939 – Alphonse Osbert, French symbolist painter (b. 1857)
1948 – Kathleen Battle, American soprano
1952 – Dave Carter, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer) (d. 2002)
1952 – Herb Ritts, American photographer (d. 2002)
1958 – Feargal Sharkey, Irish singer (The Undertones)
1959 – Danny Bonaduce, American actor
1963 – Valerie Plame, American C.I.A. agent and author
1964 – Debi Mazar, American actress
Died on This Day
1523 – Gerard David, Flemish painter (b. 1460)
1816 – Pehr Hillestrom, Swedish painter (b. 1732)
1863 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter (b. 1798)
1873 – Fritz Bamberger, German painter (b. 1814)
1894 – Remigius Adrianus van Haanen, Dutch landscape painter (b. 1812)
1910 – Florence Nightingale, English nurse and writer (b. 1820)
1946 – H. G. Wells, English writer (b. 1866)
1948 – Elaine Hammerstein, American actress (b. 1897)
1961 – Mario Sironi, Italian painter (b. 1885)
1982 – Joe Tex, American singer-songwriter (b. 1933)
1986 – Helen Mack, American actress (b. 1913)
1995 – Mickey Mantle, American baseball player (b. 1931)
1997 – Carel Weight, English painter (b. 1908)
2004 – Julia Child, American chef (b. 1912)
2009 – Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter, created the Gibson Les Paul (b. 1915)
2012 – Helen Gurley Brown, American author, publisher, and editor (b. 1922)
2012 – Joan Roberts, American actress (b. 1918)
Today is
International Left Handers Day
National Fillet Mignon Day
National Garage Sale Day
Blame Someone Else Day
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