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1787 - Edward Gibbon completed The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

1964 - Ernest Borgnine and Ethel Merman were married.


COINCIDENCE? I think NOT
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“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made. There are . . . some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry--the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.”
-- Emma Goldman 1898

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

a) IraqNam
only 21 bodies found scattered on the streets of Baghdad. But that ignores the dead from assassinations, bomb blasts, mortars and US attacks.

b) Hersey bites
3000 more jobs moved to Mexico.

c) coultergeist
Miss Annie suggests that terra-ists kill John Edwards.

d) NFL
The lowest salaries start a $389,000
That represents 9 years of wages for a family of 4.
the average career in the NFL is 3 yrs, w/increases in pay each year.
It takes a family of four, sometimes with two wage earners 30+ years to earn

And now they are complaining that they don't have a pension program or adequate medical care in their retirement years.

Tough titties, boys. You got a FREE COLLEGE education, you earned more than a million bucks, plus travel, costs, food, and hotels, you squandered it, you can go find a real job in the real world like the rest of us.

e) Chinese Take Out
yup, they took out 180 large factories, because they used illegal materials, poisons, and dated, rotting ingredients. And that stuff was for foreign export! imagine what they made for local use.

"There was never a good war or a bad peace."

Benjamin Franklin