Capitol Hill Blue Forums Hot Topics & Breaking News The RoundTable Round Table For Thursday, July 19th, 2007

1996 - The Centennial Olympics opened in Atlanta, Georgia. In the biggest Olympics staged in the 100-year history of the Games, 197 nations marched in the opening ceremonies. Montreal singer Celine Dion sang "The Power of the Dream," written by David Foster, Kenneth (Babyface) Edmonds and Linda Thompson -- and commissioned for the Olympics. Former heavyweight champ and Atlanta native Evander Holyfield carried the Olympic torch into the stadium. Holyfield handed off to American swimmer Janet Evans Evans, who ran up the aisle with the torch and lighted the torch of heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali. (Evans also swam the 800m in the Olympics and was talking with a German TV crew when the infamous Olympic Centennial Park bomb exploded.)





Today In History~

1909 - The first unassisted triple play in major-league baseball was made by Cleveland Indians shortstop Neal Ball in a game against Boston. “Yer out! Yer out! And you, sir, are out number three!”

1914 - Boston began what was called its miracle drive as the Braves went from worst to first in the National League. They won the pennant and the World Series as well.







1926 - Walter Hagen scored a 132 for 36 holes of golf at the Eastern Open tournament. He set a world’s record low tourney score in the process.

1939 - Jack Teagarden and his orchestra recorded Aunt Hagar’s Blues for Columbia Records. Teagarden provided the vocal on the session recorded in Chicago, IL.







1942 - The Seventh Symphony, by Shostakovich, was performed for the first time in the United States by Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra.

1946 - Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test. She passed it with flying colors and was signed to her first contract with Twentieth Century Fox Studios. The first of her 29 films was Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!







1949 - Singer Harry Belafonte began recording for Capitol Records on this day. The first sessions included They Didn’t Believe Me and Close Your Eyes. A short time later, Capitol said Belafonte wasn’t “commercial enough,” so he signed with RCA Victor (for a very productive and commercial career).

1951 - Famous thoroughbred race horse Citation retired from racing.







1960 - Juan Marichal of the San Francisco Giants became the first pitcher to get a one-hitter in his major-league debut. Marichal allowed just one hit (a double in the eighth inning) as the Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies.

1966 - Frank Sinatra married actress Mia Farrow this day. Sinatra, 50, married the 20-year-old actress and was photographed after the ceremony by 14 motion-picture cameras and 37 still cameras.







1980 - Billy Joel earned his first gold record with It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me, which reached the top of the Billboard pop music chart. He would score additional million-sellers with Just the Way You Are, My Life, Uptown Girl (for girlfriend and later, wife and supermodel Christie Brinkley) and We Didn’t Start the Fire. Joel reached the top only one other time, with Tell Her About It in 1983.

1984 - Geraldine Ferraro was nominated by the Democratic Party to become the first woman from a major political party to run for the office of U.S. Vice President. Ferraro, age 48, campaigned with presidential hopeful Walter ‘Fritz’ Mondale of Minnesota. Both lost in a landslide to the GOP ticket of Ronald Reagan and George Bush.







1985 - Two years after its initial release, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial grossed an additional $8.8 million in its first three days in rerelease. The film placed second in popularity that weekend to another Steven Spielberg film, Back to the Future.

1987 - Don Mattingly of the New York Yankees tied the major-league record of Dale Long (set in 1956) by failing to get a home run after hitting round-trippers in eight consecutive games. Despite rumors as such, Mattingly was not taken behind the dugout and whipped by the team’s owner...







1989 - 181 out of 293 passengers and crew survived the crash of a United Airlines DC-10. The pilot of Flight 232, bound for Chicago, reported trouble to the Sioux City, Iowa airport half an hour before it slammed into the Sioux City runway. Prepared emergency personnel were credited with helping many to survive the fiery crash.

1990 - Baseball’s all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison and fined $50,000 for filing false income tax returns. Rose, who spent 25 years in the majors with 4256 hits, 1314 RBIs and a lifetime average of .303, was released from prison Jan 7, 1991.







1997 - Daniel Komen of Kenya broke the 8-minute barrier for the 2-mile run while setting a new world record of 7:58.61 at the Hechtel Night of Athletics in Hechtel, Belgium. Komen actually ran two sub-4-minute-miles in this race, running his first mile in 3:59.2, then turned in a second mile of 3:59.4.





Quote For The Day~

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck


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Chuckle For The Day~

A woman in her fifties is at home happily jumping unclothed, on her bed and
squealing with delight.

Her husband watches her for a while and asks, "Do you have any idea how
ridiculous you look? What's the matter with you?"

The woman continues to bounce on the bed and says, "I don't care what you
think, I just came from having a mammogram, and the doctor says that not
only am I healthy, but I have the breasts of an 18 year-old."

The husband replies, "What did he say about your 55-year old ass?"

She replied, "Your name never came up."


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Picture Of The Day~


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Tidal Basin-Washington, DC



An albatross can sleep while it flies. It apparently dozes while cruising at 25 mph.


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And jury duty continues...

Jury duty?!

...they stopped asking me 'cuz I never called or showed up. I just kept forgetting - busy life ya know...

But, I'd really like to go and get onto a jury .

The problem is that "they" notify so far in advance that it's easily forgettable. Next time I'll put the "appointment" onto my work Outlook to "remind" me. I hope "they" ask me again.

But you know that saying...twice bitten. Yep, I didn't go or call twice.

isnt it one of the most important duties of a citizen to serve on a jury.

(from the moralise and scold dept)

"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl Buck"

unfortunately i seem to work with too many people who have no joy!

for AG

"From Maria Bartiromo's interview of Condi Rice in the current issue of BusinessWeek:

MB: Would you consider a position in business or on Wall Street?
CR: I don't know what I'll do long-term. I'm a terrible long-term planner.

"

but how do we know shes not lying?

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

a) Britknee Spears
She is offering preggers and mothering skills advice to her best, former best, worst best friend.

One can only shake one's head in wonder.
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b) IraqNam
At least FOUR MORE US SOLDIERS' LIVES WASTED.
But that's OK. The GOP senators managed to show just how much they care

about their president's little invasion.
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c) Copycat antics?
A humvee owner in the state of Washington woke up to find his POS Humvee with slashed tires, broken windows and a note attached. The note warned him about the damage to the environment his POS Humvee caused.

Watch for other POS Humvee owners to suffer the same fate at a location close to you.
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d) Mike Vick
No matter how you slice it, this story gets worse with each new bit of tid. hundreds of dogs trained to die in a fight?
vick = sick
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e) A Bear Market
Bear Stearns had a great idea. Take the highest risk mortgages and loans, and make a hedge fund (gamble on it with computer programming, sucker investors and an ignorant, unknowing public) and build it into a $20 Billion super hegde fund.
Yesterday, Bear Stearns had to admit that the 20 billion dollar fund had a balance of

(cough) -0- (cough)
Watch for a market meltdown coming to location near you!
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f) ". . . like it came from a syphilitic horse with a bladder disorder"
The makers of Budweiser Beer announced that they are getting into the lucrative bottled water industry.

Whereupon, true beer drinkers around the world said, "How could we tell the difference?"
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g) Condi Rice
Her previously announced trip to Israel was quietly cancelled.
three reasons why:
i) Condi is the most incompetent Sec. State in the history of this country
ii) Israel knows her for what she is, and when Dick Cheney is pulling all the foriegn policy strings, why have Ms. Prada Two Shoes as a messenger, when they can talk to him directly?
iii) Her Cheney handler assigned to insure she did nothing on her own was Eliot Abrams. (As part of a plea deal, Abrams swore never to act as an envoy again in his life. So, acting as an envoy and keeping Condi on a tight leash is par for the course for another member of this admin)

What continues to amaze is how members of the media continually give her a pass and promote her as extraordinarily popular. Not once has her performance been reviewed with a jaundiced eye. Not once have her many mistakes, msstatements and mismanaged jobs been discussed. Is it because she is black? or female? or a piano-playing, conservative, black, female?

Good morning all! A week from today, I'll be in Boston! Looking forward to the trip, can you tell?

Scout I didn't get a chance yesterday to say thanks for the photo of Mount Whitney. I've never really explored the Sierra Nevada's, but seeing that photo encouraged me. I mean photos and maps. It will be some years before I can do it in person. If ever.

Re: jury duty. I don't think I'll ever be asked again after I was interviewed during the selection process years ago and told the DA I didn't believe it served the community to have a system of punitive incarceration. I stated that only under the direst of circumstances would I agree to send a human being to prison.

I was not picked to serve on that jury either.

Many counties are now enforcing jury duty requirements by sending the sheriff to pick up those who ignore the call to jury duty and bringing them in for immediate service. Watch out Rick.