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Good Morning and Happy Easter!
Welcome, Readers and Ranters
the the Round Table for
Sunday, April 12, 2009
![[Linked Image from freefoto.com]](http://www.freefoto.com/images/15/19/15_19_1---Tree--Sunrise--Northumberland_web.jpg) Today's Highlights in History:
In 1606, England's King James I decreed the design of the original Union Flag, which combined the flags of England and Scotland.
In 1877, the catcher's mask was first used in a baseball game, by James Tyng of Harvard in a game against the Lynn Live Oaks.
In 1908, fire devastated the city of Chelsea, Mass.
In 1934, "Tender Is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald was first published in book form by Charles Scribner's Sons after being serialized in Scribner's Magazine.
In 1945, President Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63; he was succeeded by Vice President Harry S. Truman.
In 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective.
In 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the earth once before making a safe landing.
In 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight.
In 1983, Chicagoans went to the polls to elect Harold Washington the city's first black mayor.
In 1989, former boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson died in Culver City, Calif., at age 67; radical activist Abbie Hoffman was found dead at his home in New Hope, Pa., at age 52.
Ten years ago: U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright cited President Bill Clinton for contempt of court, concluding that the president had lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky in a deposition in the Paula Jones case. A jury in Little Rock, Ark., acquitted Susan McDougal of obstructing Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr's Whitewater inquiry and deadlocked on two other charges, causing a mistrial.
Five years ago: A federal judge allowed a nationwide ban on dietary supplements containing ephedra to take effect, turning aside a plea from two manufacturers. Abelardo Flores and Fatima Holloway pleaded guilty in Houston to taking part in a smuggling scheme that resulted in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants abandoned in a sweltering truck trailer. Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie godfather Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list.
One year ago: Democrat Barack Obama conceded that comments he'd made privately during a fundraiser about bitter working class voters who "cling to guns or religion" were ill chosen. Boston College won the NCAA hockey championship, 4-1, over Notre Dame. The United States won its second women's world hockey championship, upsetting Canada 4-3 in Harbin, China.
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Today's Birthdays:
Country singer Ned Miller is 84.
Actress Jane Withers is 83.
Opera singer Montserrat Caballe is 76.
Actor Charles Napier is 73.
Jazz musician Herbie Hancock is 69.
Actor Frank Bank ("Leave It to Beaver") is 67.
Rock singer John Kay (Steppenwolf) is 65.
Actor Ed O'Neill is 63.
Author Tom Clancy is 62. Actor Dan Lauria is 62
. Talk show host David Letterman is 62.
Author Scott Turow is 60.
Singer David Cassidy is 59.
Actor-playwright Tom Noonan is 58.
Rhythm-and-blues singer JD Nicholas (The Commodores) is 57.
Singer Pat Travers is 55.
Actor Andy Garcia is 53.
Movie director Walter Salles is 53.
Country singer Vince Gill is 52.
Actress Suzzanne (cq) Douglas is 52.
Rock musician Will Sergeant (Echo & the Bunnymen) is 51.
Rock singer Art Alexakis (Everclear) is 47.
Country singer Deryl Dodd is 45.
Folk-pop singer Amy Ray (Indigo Girls) is 45.
Actress Alicia Coppola is 41.
Rock singer Nicholas Hexum (311) is 39.
Actor Nicholas Brendon is 38.
Actress Shannen Doherty is 38.
Actress Marley Shelton is 35.
Actress Jordana Spiro is 32.
Rock musician Guy Berryman (Coldplay) is 31.
Actress Claire Danes is 30
. Actress Jennifer Morrison is 30.
Rock singer-musician Brendon Urie (Panic at the Disco) is 22.
Actress Saoirse Ronan ("Atonement") is 15.[/size]
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The ancient Persians painted eggs for Nowrooz, their New Year celebration, which falls on the Spring equinox. The Nawrooz tradition has existed for at least 2,500 years. The decorated eggs are one of the core items to be placed on the Haft Seen, the Persian New Year display. The sculptures on the walls of Persepolis show people carrying eggs for Nowrooz to the king.
At the Jewish Passover Seder, a hard-boiled egg dipped in salt water symbolizes the festival sacrifice offered at the Temple in Jerusalem.
The pre-Christian Saxons had a spring goddess called Eostre, whose feast was held on the Vernal Equinox, around 21 March. Her animal was the spring hare. Some believe that Ēostre was associated with eggs and hares, and the rebirth of the land in spring was symbolised by the egg. Ēostre is known from the writings of Bede Venerabilis, a seventh-century Benedictine monk. Bede describes the pagan worship of Ēostre among the Anglo-Saxons as having died out before he wrote about it. Bede's De temporum ratione attributes her name to the festival, but does not mention eggs at all.
Speaking of Eggs,
Here's how to tell if you are
Mom's Favorite
Ukrainian Easter Eggs
and some Easter Music!
Have a Good Day!
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Well, today is a veritable feast of celebrations welcoming the return of Spring to the earth.... It's an Easter Sunday, during Passover, and on Vaisakhi!! FYI: "With almost 200,000 Punjabi Sikhs living in the Lower Mainland, Sikhism is a well-established B.C. institution. To many non-Sikhs, Vaisakhi means two huge colorful parades in the rain (the largest outside India,) with masses of spicy, pungent free food and political grandstanding. After enduring the rigors of Holy Week, many families will attend Passover and the next day follow the Vaisakhi parade and then indulge in East Egg hunts and Easter services. It is satisfying to live in a multicultural city where so many are so tolerant of all religions.
"And death is welcome, and death comes - and death is a quiet step into a sweet clean midnight."
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Happy Easter everyone. Greger, as for the "Mom's Favorite" thing, I was the one that fell off the branch and left to blend into the landscape for days.....
Today I’ll be making my annual pilgrimage to church. The wife is in the hand bell choir and they perform at 10:45. The only part that drives me crazy are all the regulars that come up afterwards and plead with me to come back next Sunday…we miss you, where have you been, what happened to you, etc. Good day to run outdoors though, sunny and about 70.
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Morning all! Beautiful, beautiful, Greger. Did anyone else notice that the younger the birthday people, the less recognizable their names? I know almost all the ones over 50; the rest not so much.  It looks like a beautiful day outside. I will try to get out of my dark computer cave at some point to breathe some fresh air and absorb some sunshine. Easter dinner will be supper: salsa chicken in the crockpot. We're not real big on tradition. Eddie Izzard on Easter Have a glorious day everyone! EmmaG
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0 - Some jewish guy gets nailed to a board for breeding a bunny that lays chocolate eggs, wraps them in foil, then hides them
2006 - Scientists discover 7 mm long Indonesian fish that thrives in highly acidic water COINCIDENCE? I think NOT! "You can observe a lot just by watching."
-- Yogi Berra
Why, thou deboshed fish thou, was there ever man a coward that hath drunk so much sack as I to-day? Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?
-- Shakespeare FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY: a) Saudi man sells 8 yr old daughter to pay debts A Saudi mother is expected to appeal a judge's ruling after he once again refused to let her 8-year-old daughter divorce a 47-year-old man, a relative said. Sheikh Habib Al-Habib made the ruling Saturday in the Saudi city of Onaiza. Late last year, he rejected a petition to annul the marriage. . . . The judge said the mother, who is separated from the girl's father, was not the legal guardian and therefore could not represent her daughter, the mother's lawyer, Abdullah al-Jutaili, said at the time. The girl's husband pledged not to consummate the marriage until the girl reaches puberty, according to al-Jutaili, who added that the girl's father arranged the marriage to settle his debts with the man, who is considered "a close friend." . . . The relative, who said the girl's mother will continue to pursue a divorce, told CNN the judge "stuck by his earlier verdict and insisted that the girl could petition the court for a divorce once she reached puberty." So when she bleeds, he breeds. What quaint customs this civilized nation has. Of course, if she disobeys some other laws, she earns the joy of being stoned to death. - - - b) DC leads the way For years, conservatives have scoffed at DC schools and school kids, often with a smidgeon of tacit racism, claiming that the kids were just dumb and lazy. Eight years ago, engineers and officials in Washington, D.C. decided to give the go-ahead for a program that would eliminate the "potentially carcinogenic by-products" of chlorine in tap water. The program replaced chlorination with chloramination, and it worked. However, in the next three years, hundreds of families with homes fitted with lead pipes in the District of Columbia were exposed to dangerously high lead levels. Unknown to scientists at the time, the chlorine in tap water served as a 'binder' for the lead pipes, keeping a certain amount of lead from dissolving in the water. In 2004, the chlorination method was restored. Still, in the first half of that year, 74 out of 108 household taps sampled had lead concentrations above the "EPA action level," some astronomically so. Numerous studies confirm that very low levels of lead in blood are linked to short attention spans and reading problems in children. In adults, low levels are linked to high blood pressure and an increased risk of death from heart disease and stroke. If not detected early, children with high levels of lead in their bodies can suffer from brain and nervous system damage, stunted growth, and hearing problems. http://rawstory.com/...I always thought that the CDC was here to prevent illnesses and diseases, not cover them up. I was wrong. Lead makes people stupid, measurably so. And the CDC did nothing but cover up this mess for eight years? Of course! It was the Bush Administration's CDC that kept this hidden. This also explains why we so often ask "What the HELL are they putting into the DC water?" - - - c) Jesus Gone Wild A Philadelphia cable network's early morning broadcast of a Good Friday service at the Vatican abruptly changed to something wildly different _ a 30-second "Girls Gone Wild" ad. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/... Let us pray. - - - d) Thailand erupts Thailand's prime minister narrowly escaped a savage attack and rioting erupted in Bangkok as protesters commandeered public buses and swarmed triumphantly over military vehicles in unchecked defiance after the government declared a state of emergency. Bands of red-shirted anti-government protesters roamed areas of the Thai capital, with some smashing a car carrying Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and others beating up motorists who hurled insults at them. At least 10 intersections were occupied by the protesters, who used buses to barricade several major roads, spawning massive traffic jams. The emergency decree bans gatherings of more than five people, forbids news reports considered threatening to public order and allows the government to call up military troops to quell unrest. I guess large families are SOL this Easter. But, when your government lives by the coup, it dies by the coup. http://www.cbsnews.com/...- - - e) Is Sarah Palin the new Rod Blagojevich? Rod was famous for calling special sessions on the Illinois State budget, then skipping out of Springpatch to watch a beisbol game in Chicago. Wasilly Sarah is leaving Alaska to dine at an Indiana anti-abortion meeting, just as Alaska suffers from economic woes. http://www.mcclatchydc.com/...Are bears catholic? - - - f) Wall Street Pirates When you compare notes, Somalia's pirates are small-time, cheapskates who don't know what real highway robbery is. If they really want to steal serious money, they'd have been Wall street bankers. Well, it looks that their opportunity has set sail. Even Wall Street thieves know that the party's over. According to today's NYT, the worst of the worst criminals, still unindicted, are leaving Wall Street for greener pastures to rob and feast upon. http://www.nytimes.com/...I don't know why the NYT continues to describe them as stars, after all the tarnish that those thieves have attracted. And why has the NYT continued to refuse to do a real investigation into the creation and collapse of these schemes in the first place? PollPastor Agnostic's Ichthyological Poll: 1. This poll smelt lousy 2. I pray to cod each day 3. Geometry lovers are mere anglers 4. Sorry Ag, but this one's crappie. 5. I'll just vote for the halibut 6. To avoid moving violations, one should stay in plaice 7. Can jewfish be anti-semitic? 8. I pick pickerel Pi 9. cut bait oarfish 10. other
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In 1877, the catcher's mask was first used in a baseball game, by James Tyng of Harvard in a game against the Lynn Live Oaks.
In 1955, the Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective. It's all about protection.
Currently reading: Best American Mystery Stories edited by Lee Child and Otto Penzler. AARGH!
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Ate lunch at my daughter's and had an Easter Egg hunt for Taylor Grace. I had no idea she would catch on to the idea but she loved it. Rick, pictures of my beautiful granddaughter will be posted tomorrow -- OF COURSE!
Happy Easter everyone.
We had a great lunch of asparagus, prime rib, and mashed potatoes. Tonight is sandwiches.
Last night I attended a wonderful Seder meal with our friends at their home. There were 15 people in attendance. It was an amazing event. ...and the food (think Fran Dresher saying that!)
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WARNING TO ALL ANIMAL LOVERS!DO NOT ATTEMPT TO SHARE EASTER EGGS WITH BEARS! ![[Linked Image from i.dailymail.co.uk]](http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/12/article-1169266-0466D738000005DC-894_634x390.jpg)
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Ouch Jeff! Are you going to tell us if she made it ok? Or did he just eat her?  Beautiful Easter opener, Greger. Thank you so much for stepping up and putting it together. I'd like to say I like the Mama bird one but I think the one left out mighta been me! I am the black sheep of my family...  (tree huggin librul and all that) After enduring the rigors of Holy Week, many families will attend Passover and the next day follow the Vaisakhi parade and then indulge in East Egg hunts and Easter services. It is satisfying to live in a multicultural city where so many are so tolerant of all religions. Diversity is wonderful, isn't it? Good to see you, OA! How is your health? Emma, funny youtube. Thanks. Happy Easter everybody. I'm actually working some today.
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