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In Greek mythology, Perseus slew a monster that threatened Andromeda. Not to be outdone, the Crusaders from the 1300s told the story of Saint George. George used his magic sword to kill a dragon ... just in the nick of time to save the king’s daughter from being sacrificed to the fire-breathing beast. As the story goes, this dragon had an insatiable appetite and it was only through his deep faith that George was able to accomplish this deed.
Little factual information is known about Saint George other than his becoming a soldier and rising to a high rank under Diocletian. Because of his strong and open belief in Christianity, he was arrested, tortured and put to death at Nicomedia on this day in 303 A.D.
He was so revered by the Crusaders, that George was named Patron Saint of England in 1350 A.D. For many years, English soldiers wore the red cross of St. George on a white background as a badge; and it remains a part of the British Union flag.
The martyred hero is still honored throughout England on this day, Saint George Feast Day. ![[Linked Image from neveryetmelted.com]](http://neveryetmelted.com/wp-images/StGeorge.jpg) Click on the picture!Today In History~ 1772 - Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle wrote one of the world’s most familiar -- and beautiful -- national anthems. La Marseillaise is still proudly sung by the French citizenry today. 1789 - Courier De Boston was published for the first time in, of course, Boston, MA. It was the first Roman Catholic magazine in the United States. 1872 - Charlotte E. Ray became the first black woman lawyer -- in ceremonies held in Washington, DC. 1900 - The word, hillbilly, was first used in print in an article in the New York Journal. It was spelled a little differently, as the story said that a Hill-Billie was a “free and untrammelled white citizen of Alabama, who lives in the hills.” The article continued that “he has no means to speak of, dresses as he can, talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it and fires off his revolver as the fancy takes him.” 1921 - Charles Paddock set a record time in the 300-meter track event by posting a time of 33.2 seconds. There is a zoo named after Paddock in Atascadero, CA. The cheetah at the zoo is probably the only animal that can run faster than Paddock did. 1948 - Johnny Longden became the first race jockey to ride 3,000 career winners as he set the mark at Bay Meadows in San Mateo, CA. 1951 - The Associated Press began use of its new Teletypesetter circuit. The AP provided a perforated, paper-tape message to a news bureau in Charlotte, North Carolina. The message was then fed to a monitor for preparation into a printer. From there, the newspaper copy was completed. 1954 - Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves hit his first major-league home run on this day. 1963 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds got his first hit in the major leagues. It was a booming triple off the Pirates’ Bob Friend. ‘Charlie Hustle’ went on to break Ty Cobb’s all-time hitting record more than 20 years later, playing for the Reds, the Phillies and the Expos. 1964 - Ken Johnson of the Houston Colts will certainly never forget this day. Johnson tossed the first no-hit game -- for a loss -- in baseball history. Cincinnati’s Reds beat Johnson’s no hitter by a score of 1-0. The Reds capitalized on two costly Houston errors. We wonder what Johnson had to say in the locker room... 1985 - This was a big day for the flamboyant Liberace. Lee, as he was called by those close to him, first appeared on the TV soap opera, Another World. The sequined and well-furred pianist appeared as a fan of Felicia Gallant, a romance novelist. Later in the day, Liberace was a guest video jockey on MTV! 1985 - The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, GA, made a showy, glitzy announcement that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke was called “the most significant soft drink development” in the company’s history. Yeah, well, so much for history. Fans of the original Coke were instrumental in bringing Classic Coke back. The way they did it was, actually, quite ingenious. They didn’t buy the new Coke and it turned out to be one of the biggest corporate flops ever. 1985 - The first musical to win a Pulitzer Prize in over a decade was Sunday in the Park with George. Also on this day, Studs Terkel earned his first Pulitzer for The Good War: An Oral History of World War II. 1987 - Business Week magazine announced its list of the highest paid executives in the U.S. Lee Iacocca of Chrysler Corporation topped the list, followed by Paul Fireman of Reebok International. Music For The Day~ ![[Linked Image from townofbabylon.com]](http://www.townofbabylon.com/uploads/calendarimg/5th%20Dimension.jpg) Click on the picture! The 5th Dimension-Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In Picture For The Day~ ![[Linked Image from homeboyski.com]](http://homeboyski.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/mount-mckinley-in-denali-national-park.jpg) Mount Denali, Alaska
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Morning, everybody! It's official - Omaha is in bloom.
When I moved here I was surprised by two things: how hilly the city is, and how many flowering trees it has. Crabapples and other fruit trees are blooming on every block (and lining major streets). Even the magnolias are out.
For the last few years, we've had a sharp frost just after the magnolias began to bloom - so regularly that I began to view blooming magnolias as a sign that winter wasn't quite over. But spring is so late this year that I think we'll be in good shape.
This being Nebraska, it's supposed to hit 90 tomorrow, which gives us a very short spring!
I hope all the ill ones feel better, all the sad ones start to recover, and all the overheated ones cool off.
Julia
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Ah, Aquarius! The closest I ever got to being a hippie! Prompted me to wear poet shirts my sister made for me, big, gaudy, floral print things! An uptown hippie! Was 40 before I knew what a bong was and learned about Woodstock 5 years after the fact. Oh, well! Still a very groovy song.
Denali. So pretty. So far away. Have a niece in Alaska now; was planning to go up in September but the economy is crimping that plan. It and Hawaii are my only remaining states. So far away. Keep those pictures coming!
Best to little Scout; glad she is up and about.
"The white men were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to." Dee Brown
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1900 - The word, hillbilly, was first used in print in an article in the New York Journal.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, GA, made a showy, glitzy announcement that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. COINCIDENCE? I think NOT! “Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.”
-- "Twelfth Night," Act I, Sc. III
“His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.”
-- "The Merry Wives of Windsor," Act I, Sc. IV FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY: a) Bank(rupt) of America It is easy to pick on BoA because of their credit card policies, loan policies, investment policies, hedge fund policies, sub prime mortgage policies, and how incredibly well they reward their top execs for failure. It would be easy, and it would be proper. BUT. . . . Bank of America Chief Executive Kenneth Lewis told the New York attorney general he believed former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke wanted him to keep quiet about the worsening terms of the bank's acquisition of Merrill Lynch, according to testimony reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. . . .
Lewis testified in February to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office, which has been trying to determine if Merrill and Charlotte, N.C.-based Bank of America failed to provide adequate disclosures to shareholders about the more than $15 billion in losses Merrill incurred in the 2008 fourth quarter and hefty bonus payments. Had they had that information, BofA shareholders might have voted down the deal.
The Journal said in Thursday's edition that Lewis doesn't say in the transcript that he was told specifically to remain silent about Merrill's burgeoning losses. But the paper quotes Lewis as testifying that disclosing that information "wasn't up to me," and that he was warned by Paulson and Bernanke that failing to complete Merrill's takeover would "impose a big risk to the financial system." Hm. The plot thickens. And once again, at the center of this mess stand Paulson & Bernanke. - - - b) Sen. John Thune, (R- Torture supporter) We should look through the windshield, not the rear view mirror. Our plates are full with other problems. Why go after people who simply followed good legal advice? They kept us safe for seven years. (What about that 8th year?) "If we start looking into these things, who can say where these things will end?" Precisely, Senator. - - - c) A summer vacation for GM, or what? Looks like school won't be the only thing out for the summer. GM will finally stop building those stupid Hummers for at least nine weeks. You know what would be nice, GM? It would be nice, no, it would be shocking, if a large auto maker suddenly declared that they are shutting down, retooling, and redesigning each line of vehicles, in order to be flex fuel, high mileage, hybrid, or electric. Period. That would bring back customers. That would be survivable. That would be smart, but as GM, you know best. You KNOW that we want ugly, large, wastes of space like the Hummer on the road. UPS searched long and hard looking for a hybrid answer to its fuel costs. It came to you. You refused to give them what they wanted, even though all the technology is on the shelf. Guess what. They are building their small trucks elsewhere. that's 20,000 vehicles in a year, for five years, all involving profitable small trucks you could have built. USPS is looking for hybrid and electrical delivery vehicles. It also came to you. You refused to give them what they wanted, even though all the technology is on the shelf. Hey, is this deja vu or what? What's good for GM is what again? - - - c) "You guys got TARP funds, or what?" Police are looking for a pregnant woman they say tried to rob a North Carolina bank at gunpoint but left empty-handed after answering her cell phone. Fayetteville police spokeswoman Teresa Chance said Wednesday the woman had a handgun and demanded money when she entered a Carter Bank & Trust branch at 9:43 a.m. Tuesday.
But she got distracted when her cell phone rang. Police said she began talking to the caller and left the bank without taking any money. No one was hurt. The cell call saves the day. Indeed. Florida better watch out. North Carolina seems to have its fair share of ineffably stupid crooks. - - - d) The Bloggo Saga, part XIII v. iii (a). Indicted Governor Blagojevich is crowing about how the federal judge saved him from having to eat bugs. The continuing spectacle that is Blago simply will not go away. As narcissistic, egotistical, self-absorbed, and self-promoting as he appears, one cannot help but wonder if this is all a cagey plan to create an insanity defense. If one is mentally incapable of telling right from wrong, such a defense may actually work. Former Gov. Blagojevich, on NBC's "Today Show" on Thursday morning--facing federal criminal corruption charges--said he was disappointed a judge did not allow him travel to Costa Rica to be on the NBC reality show, "I am a celebrity, get me out of here."
"The judge did save me from eating bugs," said Blagojevich. He said he was departing for Los Angeles this morning.
From Chicago, the former Illinois governor said he wanted to do the show because he needed work and "it was presented to me. - - - e) Condi Rice, John Ashcroft, Dick Cheney They sat down and approved the torture of people we captured. They are war criminals. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/23/cheney.rice.waterboarding/ On July 17, 2002, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who later became secretary of state, said the CIA could proceed with "alternative interrogation methods," including waterboarding, when questioning suspected al Qaeda leader Abu Zubaydah. - - - f) Conservative GOPers in Congress undergo mental testing: Have total IQ of 83 between the 50 of them. Conservative House Republicans are calling on their leaders to ask President Obama for Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s resignation.
And GOP Conference Secretary John Carter (Texas) became the first member of leadership to call for the secretary's resignation, saying Wednesday that Napolitano should be removed or resign.
“No search or arrest warrant should ever be issued on the pure speculative grounds contained in the DHS report, and this report should never have been issued either. The fact that it was, coupled with Secretary Napolitano’s failure to issue an unqualified retraction and apology, displays a level of contempt for a healthy democracy that demands she be removed from office immediately," the judge of 20 years said.
Conservative House GOPs think Napolitano should resign because of the release of a report that singled out conservatives as “right-wing terrorists,” according to several GOP lawmakers. I suppose we should ignore the DC snipers, the cop killer in southeast, Timothy McVeigh, Montana's conservative separatists, the calls for murdering Obama at Palin's rallies, and more. Ignore it all. It never happened. The good thing about the GOP's calls for resignation is that it truly highlights how insane, ultra-conservative and out of the mainstream today's GOP office holder has become. These folks are not only nuts, they are dangerous. The bad thing is that their small, demented, uneducated, and barely literate followers listen to Rush, Sean, and other agitators, pushing for armed insurrection. Just today, a conservative Ohio Militia announced that it is organizing a million man ARMED march on Washington DC for early May. An armed march on DC? That ought to be good.
"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
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1900 - The word, hillbilly, was first used in print in an article in the New York Journal.
1985 - The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, GA, made a showy, glitzy announcement that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!   Morning all. I loved the music too, Scout. I wasn't much of a hippie then either, Logan. I thought I'd try it now though. It's good! I'm going to get my eyes checked. I broke my glasses. Now that I've been quit from those cancer sticks so long (near 7 years!) i'm going to try contacts again. Cross your fingers. I'm hoping my eyes are nice and moist again. Olyve
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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Ah, Aquarius! The closest I ever got to being a hippie! Logan, being a hippie wasn't all it was cracked up to be, you completed college and law school and have led a comfortable and prosperous life. I learned early on what a bong was and dropped out of art school on the first day to go to the beach and drop acid.........
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1921 - Charles Paddock set a record time in the 300-meter track event by posting a time of 33.2 seconds. There is a zoo named after Paddock in Atascadero, CA. The cheetah at the zoo is probably the only animal that can run faster than Paddock did. Actually, there's probably quite a few animals at the zoo that are faster than Charles. Here's a top-ten list: #1 - Cheetah (71mph / 114kmh) #2 - Pronghorn Antelope (57mph / 95kmh) #3 - Blue Wildebeest (50mph / 80kmh) #4 - Lion (50mph / 80kmh) #5 - Springbok (50mph / 80kmh) #6 - Brown Hare (48mph / 77kmh) #7 - Red Fox (48mph / 77kmh) #8 - Grant's Gazelle (47mph / 76kmh) #9 - Thomson's Gazelle (47mph / 76kmh) #10 - Horse (45mph / 72kmh) Top Ten Fastest Mammals We lowly humans are way down the list...the fastest runners top out just under 30 mph /48 kph.
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b) Sen. John Thune, (R- Torture supporter)
We should look through the windshield, not the rear view mirror. Our plates are full with other problems. Why go after people who simply followed good legal advice? They kept us safe for seven years. (What about that 8th year?)
"If we start looking into these things, who can say where these things will end?"
Precisely, Senator. Yesterday on Bay Area talk radio, a station host suggested the very same as the good Senator - why look back and is there really criminality in bad legal advice? I think so - given that torture is not something the US does (supposedly). I don't know where specifically that the US doesn't torture is written, but, I think that it is...somewhere. 
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An armed march on DC? That ought to be good. Well that way, nobody will notice all the guns pointed at the White House.
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1985 - The Coca-Cola Company of Atlanta, GA, made a showy, glitzy announcement that it was changing its 99-year-old secret formula. New Coke was called “the most significant soft drink development” in the company’s history. Yeah, well, so much for history. Fans of the original Coke were instrumental in bringing Classic Coke back. The way they did it was, actually, quite ingenious. They didn’t buy the new Coke and it turned out to be one of the biggest corporate flops ever. A big "Hell Yeah!" for consumer activism  Also, southern folk are picky 'bout their co-cola products. ...aaaaand I'm back from virus and malware hell. I battled that stuff for two solid weeks. G'mornin everyone!
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