Capitol Hill Blue Forums Hot Topics & Breaking News The RoundTable Round Table For Friday, July 20th, 2007

1985 - Treasure hunters began hauling off $400 million in coins and silver ingots from the sea floor in the biggest underwater jackpot in history. The bounty came from the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Spanish galleon sank 40 miles off the coast of Key West, Florida in 1622. It was located by treasure hunter Mel Fisher. The 40 tons of gold and silver and was the richest treasure find since the opening of King Tut’s tomb in the 1930s.





Today In History~

1801 - A 1,235 pound cheese ball was pressed at the farm of Elisha Brown, Jr. The huge ball of cheese was later loaded on a horse-driven wagon and presented to President Thomas Jefferson at the White House. Mr. Jefferson was heard to say, “That’s one small bite for man, one giant cheese for mankind.”

1859 - Brooklyn and New York played baseball at Fashion Park Race Course on Long Island, New York. The game marked the first time that admission had been charged for spectators to see a ball game. It cost $.50 to get in and the players on the field received no salary (until 1863). Hot dogs were $18.50, just like today.







1868 - Legislation that ordered U.S. tax stamps to be placed on all cigarette packs was passed this day.

1935 - NBC radio debuted G-men. The show was later renamed Gangbusters and stayed on the air until 1957.







1940 - Billboard magazine published its first listing of best-selling singles. 10 tunes were listed.

1942 - The first members of the WAACS, the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps began training at Fort Des Moines, IA. In 1943, the name was changed to WACS (Women’s Army Corps) and the organization became a part of the U.S. Army. All WAACS were given the choice of joining the new WACS (and joining the army) or returning to civilian life (75% stayed on).







1947 - The National Football League ruled that no professional team could sign a player who had college eligibility remaining.

1958 - Pitcher Jim Bunning threw a no-hitter and led the Detroit Tigers to a baseball win over the Boston Red Sox. The no-hitter was the last by a Tiger pitcher until Jack Morris did the same 26 years later. This turned out to be a major-league record for time between no-hitters.







1961 - Stop the World, I Want to Get Off opened in London. The show went to Broadway in 1962.

1963 - Ray Conniff received two gold-record awards -- for the albums, Concert in Rhythm and Memories are Made of This -- on Columbia Records. Conniff recorded dozens of albums of easy listening music for the label. He had been a trombonist and arranger with Bunny Berigan, Bob Crosby, Harry James, Vaughn Monroe and Artie Shaw.







1983 - Frank Reynolds, anchor of the nightly ABC News, died at the age of 59. He was replaced by ABC News correspondent, Peter Jennings. Through his years at ABC, Reynolds was noted for being temperamental. That personality came through on the air from time to time. During the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan, Reynolds scolded staff members while he was on camera. Reynolds had to retract previously broadcast statements that Reagan’s Press Secretary James Brady had been killed in the attack. The misinformation embarrassed Reynolds, causing the on-air reaction.

1996 - Blue, the very first major-label (Curb Records) album by Country singer LeAnn Rimes (13 years old), debuted at number one on Billboard’s Country music chart and number four on the Pop album chart. The title track from Blue went on to became a signature song for Rimes. The album went on to go multi-platinum.





Quote For The Day~

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
Voltaire





Chuckle For The Day~


GORLLA GRIP


Picture For The Day~



Redrock Drive,near Sedona, Arizona




Everyone in the Middle Ages believed -- as Aristotle had -- that the heart was the seat of intelligence.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

a) Bread lines
A 94 yr old Wilmette driver created her own drive thru window when she rammed a Panera bread store with her cadilac, injuring 9 people.
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b) News you can use
The Chinese reporter who broke the story about shredded cardboard being the major component of CHinese buns is now in jail. the government claims he made it all up.
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c) Ryan Crocker
How dare he? HOW DARE HE? The guy got on a video conference with the US senate and told them Iraq is falling apart, the most pervasive emotion is fear (which is growing) and the government is falling apart.
Watch for Mr. Crocker to be joining the ranks of the unemployed soon.
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d) shake rattle and roll
Proteins used to make drugs act differently depending on their internal "motion". This explains why despite the best intentions, certain drugs don't act as predicted, or give horrific unexpected side effects.
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e) IraqNam
5 more US soldiers' lives WASTED. You can thank your GOP senator for this.

Shake Rattle and Roll of a different variety. about 20 minutes ago a 4.2 earthquake was the reason I was jolted awake this morning. Felt MUCH stronger. It was centered East of Oakland. Apparently, even people driving felt it. Some power outages in tne area. CA Rick, ya still out there?

Good morning all! Off to a good start here. We had a significant rainfall yesterday a gullywasher YAY! and my garden is very happy, though my ponds are all muddied up. I haven't been able to take a count of my fishies to determine if any got washed away.

Nice opening today, Scout. One giant cheese for mankind.

I noticed allison cheesehead posted on yesterday's RT. Welcome back, allison!

Hope everyone out on the Left Coast is all right after that quake. Gotta wonder, Jeffro, who in th' heck is out driving at that hour of the morning?


What does the good Pastor think? Did he or didn't he?

Well...isn't it??

Oh pullleeze. Every modern person knows he had the order of the terms confused: it's the seat that is the heart of intelligence.

Me thinks there are a few Dems we can thank as well.

How'd you like it if you know a kid who will be one of the ones killed during August, while the resident is in Crawford, the Congress is home, and the Iraqi Parliament is on vacation? How about if you didn't know them? Never mind.

Believe me, I do know people over there. And I shutter to think that before it's all over I will know more.

Today is the day in 1969, that man first landed on the moon! My dad worked on all the Apollo space projects while he was an electrical engineer with North American-Rockwell(now known as Rockwell International). That and the Space Shuttle were two of his proudest professional achievements. We were glued to the TV, and my dad had the biggest smile on his face! One of my favorite memories of him.