From Denny:
Yeah, go ahead, ya long-haired freak! I gotcher “Guitar Hero” right here…
I woke up this morning to one of those bleak, grey days this morning. It was forty when I walked out to get the paper, up from the lower thirties last night. I’m scheduled to do posole for lunch. This sort of day just cries out for a hearty, steamy [...]
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published. I remember encyclopedias on the shelves.
1862 – President Lincoln orders the hanging of 39 Santee Sioux indians. Can’t be having these people get freedom and all that…
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning [...]
This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to scream sarcasm at the weather folks. After a day full of breathless weather geeks on TV and radio issuing dire and serious warnings about the oncoming winter storm along with the earliest snow on record for this corner of [...]
1846 – C F Schoenbein obtains patent for cellulose nitrate explosive, commonly known as “guncotton” and a major component in smokeless gunpowder.
1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.
1861 – [...]
For those who’ve been following my last blowup, which started here, you may have been thinking that you missed my declarations fo success in the restoration of full function to my 9000 horsepower electric drive at my compressor stion forty miles north of here.
There is a reason for that. [...]
It is snowing outside. Of course, the ground is wet and the temperature is above freezing so none of this is accumulating, but my ex-wife just called my son and told him to look outside, and it is indeed snowing big wet flakes.
You Yankees may now snort derisively…
[...]Yeah, I know… He said that whole thing is between him and his family. I guess that was true if he was Joe Schmuck working the second shift at the tractor factory, not the world’s best known golfer.
So, like the guy says: “The higher you climb up the flagpole, the [...]
It’s that time of the year when many families do things that have a way of forming lasting memories. When I was little, we lived next door to my grandmother, Mom’s mom. Visiting back and forth was almost daily and we often ended up there for Sunday dinner and such.
Once [...]
If Obama was Churchill:
Why the economy’s not taking off:
When your only tool is a hammer, every problem is a nail. Obama’s only tool is talk…
[...]1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas). What?!?! No participation by wise, compassionate, all-knowing native Americans?
1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I [...]
This came by email:
A WINTER STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY EVENING
THROUGH LATE FRIDAY NIGHT.
AFTERNOON RAINS WILL CHANGE TO SNOW DURING THE EVENING HOURS ON
FRIDAY…ALTHOUGH A MIX OF RAIN AND SNOW WILL BE MORE LIKELY
ACROSS COASTAL AREAS AND AROUND VERMILION BAY. ACCUMULATIONS OF UP
[...]
1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia.
1967 – At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
1967 – The luxury train 20th Century Limited completes [...]
Q: What’s the difference between an Escalade and a golf ball?
A: Tiger Woods can drive a golf ball 300 yards.
Q: Why did Tiger Woods hit a fire hydrant and a tree?
A: He couldn’t decide between an iron or a wood.
Tiger Woods wife is the only person who can [...]
1763 – Touro shul of Newport, Rhode Island dedicated, becoming the first and oldest existing US synagogue.
1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years. So much for that “revolution” crap…
1823 – Monroe Doctrine: US [...]
I enjoy watching pro football. I’m not nutty about it, but if I’m home and a game’s on, it’s always an option, depending on what’s on the other channels. That’s one thing.
The second thing is that I HATE (despise, deplore, scorn, detest, loathe, have a strong dislike of, etc.) the [...]
ANOTHER TAKE ON THE OLD FAVORITE
Day 1. Dear Emile, Thanks for da bird in the Pear tree. I fixed it las night with dirty rice an it was delicious. I doan tink the Pear tree would grow in de swamp, so I swapped it for a satsuma.
Day 2. Dear Emile, [...]
Barack HUSSEIN Obama intimates that he will discuss this as he lays out his superior plans for straightening out our involvement in Afghanistan.
If I’m your average murderous raghead thug, I’d be thinking, “Okay, Achmed, you and the boys kind of back off for a while and let everything look nice [...]
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris. Big deal! Everybody with a dozen wineheads with weapons has entered Paris. Paris is like the “Elizabeth Taylor” of European capitals: A facade of classiness until you analyze who all she’s been with…
1913 – The Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving [...]
Actually, in years gone by I did some contract work for Louisiana Offshore Oil Port (LOOP). That’s where this ship was heading before Somali pirates hijacked it.
Somali pirates capture huge tanker taking oil to US
Somali pirates have captured a tanker carrying oil to the [...]
His Oneness Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s expected move to send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan has a lot of his Lefty buddies upset. Obamalamadingdong is making a trip to West Point to deliver a speech showing his military prowess tomorrow.
Michael Moore, Leftist lard-a** film producer says it’s Obammy’s last hurrah [...]
“Pencil-whipping” is a term we commonly use to indicate that somebody fudged some readings. A lot of the things we test, relays, breakers, transformers, whatever, the results of the testing are numbers written on a sheet of paper. Oh, well, today it’s likely to be a PDF we give to [...]
1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris (1783) — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles recognizing American independence. (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1886 – First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, [...]
Woke up to a beautiful morning, walked out to get the paper in about sixty degrees. Reading through it at breakfast, there are no birth announcements. I expect next week to be bountiful. who knows? Maybe we’ll see our first little “Barack” or a baby “Obama”.
[...]1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine. City council immediately sets a fine for running one.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
1944 – John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery. [...]
I am not sure what’s causing it, but my site has gone into bandwidth limiting several times this morning. I’m trying a few things to see if I can cut into the issue.
I apologize for any difficulties.
[...]Mom was without a doubt the most accomplished cook I’ve ever been closely associated with. Raised as the only daughter in a Cajun household, she had Cajun fare down pat, and during that part of her working life as a waitress she learned from some of the chefs and restaurateurs [...]
1520 – After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. And THAT’S why it’s called the “Straits of Magellan”. The other route is around [...]
It ain’t going to be too black here.
Oh, yeah, I got out the door at 0800 for some shopping. This was brought about by the unimaginable discovery that I had NO ONIONS in the house, so I made a run to the grocery store. I was happily surprised to [...]
1826 – John Walker invents friction match in England.
1868 – Indian Wars: Battle of Washita River – United States Army Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer leads an attack on Cheyenne living on reservation land.
1895 – At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting [...]
I’m sitting here with the TV on in the background, and I’m sipping a free sample of tea I got in the mail.
The cats are in the sunlight on the back of the sofa basking in the sun.
I am anticipating dinner with friends.
And I am thankful for much in my [...]
1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1942 – Holocaust: Shoah: 572 Norwegian Jews are deported to Auschwitz on the cargo [...]
That’s what the office looks like today. Most of the staff took vacation, so out of the almost thirty people making up our full complement, we have eight. One of them is the boss.
I drank my requisite amount of coffee. I engaged in conversations about subjects not related to [...]
1491 – The siege of Granada, the last Muslim stronghold in Spain, begins. They’re back now!
1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite, taming the power of nitroglycerine.
1950 – The “Storm of the Century”, a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and [...]
We never did get the parts that we expected from the manufacturer, at least not before I left the station at 1 PM.
I got to the station at 0720 and my Chinese friend, factory rep commissioning engineer showed up at 0750 and we went out to the building that houses [...]
1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1943 – World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks. Only 272 of her crew of 916 were rescued. The ship was less than a year old.
1950 – UN troops begin an assault intending [...]
That used to be my standard comeback to my clients who asked about a warranty for my work. Those who’d worked with me over the years knew it was a joke. I **NEVER** got called back on any of MY work. I had some call-backs for less than stellar performances [...]
(Stolen from Neal Boortz)
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When [...]
1644 – Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship, and written by John Milton is published. When the Left gets finished with us this time, this will be a banned book.
1869 – In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched – one of the last clippers ever to be built, and [...]
Yes, I know it’s late. I left home this morning at 0600 headed to Plantersville, Texas to take son to the Texas Renaissance Festival. Coming home, my right kidney decided that this was the perfect time to divest itself of a stone, so I drove most of the three and [...]
