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1995 - Microsoft officially rolled out their Windows 95 operating system. Midnight parties at retailers across the U.S. offered the new system for sale to those who just couldn’t wait any longer. NBC’s Jay Leno hosted the official launch party at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington. The company lit up the Empire State Building with the Windows 95 logo colors, and licensed the Rolling Stones song, "Start Me Up", to use in its TV advertisements (for $12 million)





Today In History~

1456 - The printing of the Gutenberg Bible was completed.

1853 - The American Pharmaceutical Association held its first convention.







1869 - Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York received a patent for the waffle iron, a “device to bake waffles.” He didn’t waffle about putting his invention to good use. It quickly became a popular appliance. You would heat up the waffle iron on the old coal stove - and later, the gas range - pour the batter on the griddle, close the cover and after a few minutes, flip the griddle in its little groove, and cook the other side of the waffle. Not quite as convenient as our electric waffle irons, but, you can be sure, if it’s Swarthout!

1891 - Thomas Edison applied for a movie camera patent. The most important element in making a movie ... the film ... was patented six years later.







1912 - The U.S. Post Office got heavy -- by abolishing its rule that only parcels up to four pounds could be sent through the system.

1939 - Louis ‘Lepke’ Buchalter, the leader of Murder, Incorporated, gave himself up to columnist Walter Winchell in New York City. Winchell turned the underworld leader over to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.







1950 - The summer replacement radio show for Suspense, titled Somebody Knows, was heard for the final time on radio. The program offered a reward of $5,000 for information that led to the solving of crimes. Somebody Knows began with the introduction, “You out there. You, who think you have committed the perfect crime -- that there are no clues, no witnesses -- listen. Somebody knows.”

1963 - John Pennel became the first pole-vaulter to vault higher than 17 feet. Pennel, using a fiberglass pole, vaulted 17 feet, 3/4 inches during a meet in Miami, FL.







1969 - Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant premiered in both New York and Los Angeles.

1975 - Davey Lopes of the Los Angeles Dodgers established a major-league baseball record. He successfully stole his 38th consecutive base. Lopes pulled off the steal in the 12th inning of a game against the Montreal Expos. The Dodgers, however, still lost in 14 innings. The Score was 5-3.







1979 - B.B. King celebrated his 30th year in show business at a special celebration held at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.

1985 - Huey Lewis and The News reached the top. The Power of Love was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks.







1989 - Pete Rose, baseball's all-time hits leader, was out - of baseball (banned for life). Rose signed a five-page agreement with A. Bartlett Giamatti, comissioner of baseball, who charged that Rose, as Cincinnati Reds manager, bet on baseball games.

1991 - The day the Soviet Union began to break apart, and Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as head of the Communist party. (He resigned the presidency of the Soviet Union on Dec 25, 1991).







1992 - One of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States occurred on this day as Hurricane Andrew crashed into southern Florida. Andrew left a trail of destruction that killed at least 20 people, left over 50,000 without homes and caused billions of dollars in property damage.


Quote For The Day~

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Niels Bohr





Chuckle For The Day~

Two hillbillies walk into a bar.
While having a shot of whiskey,
they talk about their moonshine operation.

Suddenly, a woman at a nearby table,
who is eating a sandwich, begins to cough.
After a minute or so, it becomes apparent that she is in real distress.

One of the hillbillies looks at her and says,
"Kin ya swallar?"

The woman shakes her head no.

"Kin ya breathe?"

The woman begins to turn blue and shakes her head no.

The hillbilly walks over to the woman,
lifts up the back of her dress, yanks down her
drawers and quickly gives her right butt cheek a
lick with his tongue.

The woman is so shocked that she has a violent
spasm and the obstruction flies out of her mouth.

As she begins to breathe again, the hillbilly
walks slowly back to the bar.

His partner says, Ya know,'d heerd of that there
'Hind Lick Maneuver', but I ain't never seed nobody do it!"





Picture For The Day~


[img]http://www.dehn.wustl.edu/~blake/links/images/ozarks-shutins.jpg[/img]
Ozarks, Arkansas



The only rock that floats in water is pumice.


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internet argument

enjoy

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

a) AIPAC
this group is spreading the word that Israel is suffering from a missile gap, one that makes it vulnerable to Syria and Iran.
Let me see. Who is getting 30 billion MORE in arms over the next few years from the US? Who has a cruise-missile, nuclear tipped submarine? Who has the top of the line US-designed aircraft and AWACs control systems? Who has a larger standing army per capita than Israel?
no one.

AIPAC managed to cancel a public discussion scheduled for next month in Chicago - two professors wrote a book showing that kowtowing to Israel has served neither US interests, nor Israel's as well as AIPAC would have you believe. At least they were not able to cancel the publication of the book.

Are the rumors that AIPAC is a major funder of Freedom's Watch true? Hmmmm.
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b) George Bush
the cammer ruge?
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c) IRAQNAM - NIE
Who would have thought that our intel agencies would have the balls to say that Iraq is the failure we know it to be?
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d) Condi Rice
Because we can.

The mask if finally coming off - the charade is over.

And now we're dropping bombs on UK troops...not intentionally, of course, but this certainly isn't going to improve America's image with the rest of the world. We do have an image, don't we...? Or have we become universally hated, thanks to Bush & Cheney's criminal behavior?
MSNBC

missile gap?

doesnt this sound suspicously like a Team B re-run, of 70s/80s neo-con (before they were the neocons) scaremongering in order to boost militarism.

turns out the nukular weapons gap they were spouting on about was a product of their own imaginations.

taking bets now on this being similar

no you havent... however bush and cheney have!

edit:

oh dear looks like i wasnt entirely correct

oops

Good morning here.

Hope all is calm in Chicago area.

Have a good day!

Kathy

calm-er. still thundering and showering coming at us. more than 100,000 without eclecticity. lots of lights out, trees down, getting to court was fun.

whew, luckily no deaths.

but still, a tornado in chicago's LINCOLN PARK? There is a line of highrises west of the park - how can a funnel form?

Lake Michigan had a saitch, a movement of water from one shoreline to the other. (it is kinda bowl shaped at our end) think of a bowl splashing on one side, then returning to the other side. we had one yesterday. nasty things those walls of water.

Morning Ranters!

Well we didn't get any rain last night, but the wind blew mightily and it felt downright COOL for a while there.

Hope everyone has a pleasant Friday.