Capitol Hill Blue Forums Hot Topics & Breaking News The RoundTable Round Table for Saturday, November 8, 2008

[size:20pt]GOOD SATURDAY MORNING, EVERYBODY!!




I think it is finally 'peak weekend' here.


EVENTS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY...



1656 - Edmond Halley was born. Halley, an astronomer-mathmatician, was the first to calculate the orbit that was named after him. The comet makes an appearance every 76 years.


1793 - The Louvre Museum, in Paris, opened to the public for the first time.


1805 - The "Corps of Discovery" reached the Pacific Ocean. The expedition was lead by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis. The journey had begun on May 14, 1804, with the goal of exploring the Louisiana Purchase territory.

1880 - French actress Sarah Bernhardt made her American stage debut in "Adrienne Lecouvreur" in New York City.

1887 - Doc Holliday died at the age of 35. The gun fighting dentist died from tuberculosis in a sanitarium in Glenwood Springs, CO.

1889 - Montana became the 41st U.S. state.

From my daughter's photo album. The one that is in Montana right now doing a stint for AmeriCorp.

1895 - Wilhelm Roentgen while experimenting with electricity discovered the scientific principle involved and took the first X-ray pictures.

1923 - Adolf Hitler made his first attempt at seizing power in Germany with a failed coup in Munich that came to be known as the "Beer-Hall Putsch."

1933 - The Civil Works Administration was created by executive order by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The organization was designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed people in the U.S.

1956 - After turning down 18,000 names, the Ford Motor Company decided to name their new car the "Edsel," after Henry Ford's only son.

1965 - The soap opera "Days of Our Lives" debuted on NBC-TV.

1966 - Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first African-American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.

1966 - Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.

1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to President Reagan to negotiate a release.

1986 - Vyacheslav M. Molotov died at age 96. During World War II, Molotov ordered the mass production of bottles filled with flammable liquid later called the "Molotov cocktail."

1987 - A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead. Eleven people were killed.

1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq.

1992 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence.

1993 - Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.

2000 - In Florida, a statewide recount began to decide the winner of the 2000 U.S. presidential election.

2000 - Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report that absolved the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 seige of the Branch Davidian compound in Texas.

2001 - The "Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend" exhibit opened at the Appleton Museum of Art in Florida.





BIRTHDAY PICKS FOR NOVEMBER 8...

1900 - Margaret Mitchell
Pulitzer Prize-winning author: Gone with the Wind [1937]; died Aug 16, 1949

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I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
Margaret Mitchell

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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret Mitchell

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Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Margaret Mitchell

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Southerners can never resist a losing cause.
Margaret Mitchell

1927 - Patti Page (Clara Ann Fowler)
singer: Tennessee Waltz, Old Cape Cod, I Went to Your Wedding, Doggie in the Window, Allegheny Moon, Steam Heat, Cross over the Bridge; in film: Elmer Gantry

1931 - Morley Safer
TV correspondent: CBS News: 60 Minutes

1949 - Bonnie Raitt
Grammy Award-winning singer [1990]: Runaway, The Boy Can’t Help It, Something to Talk About, Sweet Forgiveness; actress: Urban Cowboy; musician: guitar; daughter of actor, John Raitt


click on the picture (Bruce Hornsby too! )








click on the picture. This is hilarious!


I FEEL LIKE AN OMELET THIS MORNING. JOIN ME?


HAVE A GREAT DAY Y'ALL!
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Omelet looks interesting, but I prefer ham. You'd never guess that from my posts!

Lovely beginning to yet another weekend! Only 10 more Saturdays in the Bush administration!

...gotta early start time at the crab shack this morning. I much prefer to close, but they need me this morning. So off for some pumpkin pancakes before work - I love those. They're only served during the fall. The IHOP that I go to also serves pumpkin syrup with the pumpkin pancakes. YUM!!

Also not moving tomorrow - now next Thursday. The seller (Chase Bank) needed to sign some docs and they took f-o-r-e-v-e-r !!!

...but, it's all good - I wasn't packed to move tomorrow anyway - I was procrastinating - like somehow this whole real estate deal would blow up and I'd be surely disappointed.

But it didn't and now I'm moving on Thursday. Funding happens Monday, Tuesday is Veteran's day so the county assessor's office is closed, and Wednesday the county records the sale between 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. and 11 a.m. I'll get the keys.

(...but I already have the keys and been doing work in the house getting it all ready for the move... )

Nice start to a Saturday Olyve! That Omelet looks great. maybe I'll have one for brunch. My daughter is out in Montana too, a biologist in Bozeman. She took my damn horse with her when she went, I miss him more than her.

Nice job, peaches!

Don’t forget Nixon’s wage and price controls which had disastrous consequences when they were discontinued. Can you imagine anyone proposing those controls today? Nixon was personally an oddball in many ways, but many of his ideas would have today’s Republicans tearing their hair out.

Yes Rick, and can you believe the number of documents you had to sign and initial? That terrible song on and on—on and on—on and on-- runs through my head just thinking about it..

I agree Ken. Yesteryear Repubs were a lot different than the ones now since oh....about Reagan in my opinion and the Christian Coalition.

Morning everybody. Thanks!

Alright full disclosure here.
That is an omelet turned up by google. It was the best looking one I could find.
I LOVE omelets but truth be... I don't like tomatoes with eggs....ever.
I like cheese, mushrooms, onions, peppers and sometimes I'll add Canadian bacon too. Ummmm....that is good! Yellow stone ground grits with lots of cracked pepper, toast and jelly to compliment it.

yaaaaa......!!!!

you're silly....but I know the feeling sometimes.
Have you been out to see her?
We're going out next spring. I loved Montana on previous train trips. It's purty.

Mine is in the eastern part....Terry, Montana. She loves it but is getting homesick.
The only real problem she is having out there is that people keep breaking into her vehicle (provided by the gubmint)......and leaving her fresh grown vegetables and boxes of steaks and hamburgers.
Ha! Those kids are like celebrities to the locals. It's cute.