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#39393 - 11/11/07 11:27 PM
rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
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Yet another Monday… Tiz November 12, 2007
Somewhere up yonder…
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
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Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.
- - - Leon Trotsky
On this day in...
• 1912 - The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• 1927 - Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
• 1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
• 1934 - The musical Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief.
• 1936 - In California, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
• 1938 - Hermann Göring announces Nazi Germany plans to make Madagascar the "Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist Theodor Herzl.
• 1942 - World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between Japanese and American forces begins near Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
• 1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago opens the first ten drive-up teller windows.
• 1948 - In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials to death, including General Hideki Tojo, for their roles in World War II.
• 1969 - Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
• 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous exploding whale incident
• 1971 - Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard M. Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
• 1979 - Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
• 1980 - The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes first images of its rings.
• 1982 - In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding Leonid I. Brezhnev.
• 1982 - Lech Wałęsa, Solidarity leader, is released from a Polish prison after eleven months.
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
- - - Lech Walesa
• 1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
• 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
• 1991 - Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
• 1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
• 1994 - Al Gore symbolically signed the Kyoto Protocol.
• 1996 - A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. See New Delhi Air Crash.
• 1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
• 1998 - Daimler-Benz completes a merger with Chrysler to form Daimler-Chrysler…then what happened?
• 2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
• 2001 - Taliban forces abandon Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
• 2003 - Occupation of Iraq: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
• 2006 - The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
Here’s the birthday bunch!!!
1815 - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
women’s rights activist; died October 26, 1902
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- - - Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
1840 - Auguste Rodin 
sculptor: Gates of Hell, The Kiss, The Thinker, The Balzac, The Burghers of Calais, St. John the Baptist Preaching; museums in Paris and Philadelphia named for him; died Nov 17, 1917
1866 - Sun Yat-Sen
revolutionary leader: China [1911]; died Mar 12,1925
1908 - Harry Blackmun
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1970]: wrote the majority opinion in Roe vs. Wade; died Mar 4, 1999
Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.
- - - Harry A. Blackmun
1922 - Kim Hunter (Janet Cole)
Academy Award-winning actress: A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of Night, Backstairs at the White House; died Sep 11, 2002
1929 - Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco) 
Academy Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1954]; To Catch a Thief, High Society, High Noon, Rear Window, Dial “M” for Murder; singer: True Love [w/Bing Crosby]; died Sep 14, 1982
1944 - Booker T. Jones
musician: group: Booker T and the MG’s: Green Onions, Time is Tight
1945 - Neil Young 
singer, songwriter, musician: Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Heart of Gold, Philadelphia; group: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: LP: Deja Vu; Buffalo Springfield: For What It’s Worth
1961 - Nadia Comaneci
Olympic Gold Medalist: gymnastics [1976]: 7 perfect 10s
1970 - Tonya Harding
ice skater: involved in attack on fellow skater Nancy Kerrigan, pleaded guilty to obstructing justice
Honor the Fallen
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- - - Bob
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#39394 - 11/12/07 12:07 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: BC]
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Registered: 02/19/06
Posts: 3640
Loc: Huntsville, AL
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Gosh it's Monday!!!
That restless mind syndrome is working overtime for me tonight/today!!!
I visisted a very long standing friend in Mississippi this last weekend.
It is so wonderful to have a friend who is a minister and also has a wonderful sense of joy.
My girlfriend, Judy, had told me to call her as we left the Mississippi State Stadium Saturday so that she would be ready for our arrival.
Alabma had just suffered a hearbreaking loss. We were about to enter from the campus onto the bypass when a SCHMUCK was centered in the middle lane, neither turning left nor right. I was furious. Mr. BamaMama chose to weave cautiously around this road obsticle just as Judy answered her cell. Inadvertantly I screamed, "We're on our way, Judy, some assh*le is blocking the intercession!!!!"
I received in my earpiece a heartwarming, welcoming laugh......
"Make new friends.
Keep the old.
Some of silver
BUT THE OTHERS GOLD!!!
Gold Bless the friends of the golden variety!!!
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Where ever you go, there you are!
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#39399 - 11/12/07 05:54 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: BamaMama]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/09/05
Posts: 20378
Loc: Bay Area, California
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Congratulations on becoming a Dad-in-Law last Saturday night, BC! 
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If government has no favors to sell, no one will spend money trying to win them.
-John Stossel
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#39400 - 11/12/07 05:58 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: BamaMama]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/09/05
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Loc: Bay Area, California
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Yeah...I know.  Having a day off yesterday and again last Sunday is beginning to spoil me and make me soft.  ...a guy could get used to have a day or two of rest each week. 
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-John Stossel
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#39402 - 11/12/07 06:24 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: california rick]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/09/05
Posts: 20378
Loc: Bay Area, California
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Last night's Lamb Shanks were fall-off-the-bone deliciouso and were a snap to prepare! Who knew that skanks were so easy? (Remind you of your high school / college days anyone?  ) Who knew that making Lamb Shanks were a cinch to make? 
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If government has no favors to sell, no one will spend money trying to win them.
-John Stossel
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#39403 - 11/12/07 06:38 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: BC]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 05/09/05
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Loc: Bay Area, California
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• 1933 - Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the Loch Ness Monster.
On the night of November 11, 1933, Hugh Gray seen taking a 'hit' of 'acid.' 
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If government has no favors to sell, no one will spend money trying to win them.
-John Stossel
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#39404 - 11/12/07 06:43 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: BC]
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Registered: 07/14/03
Posts: 9634
Loc: ill in noise
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• 1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous exploding whale incident
• 1990 - Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. COINCIDENCE? I think NOT! “I have endeavoured to dissipate these religious superstitions from the minds of women, and base their faith on science and reason, where I found for myself at least that peace and comfort I could never find in the Bible and the church. . . the less they believe, the better for their own happiness and development. . . .
For fifty years the women of this nation have tried to dam up this deadly stream that poisons all their lives, but thus far they have lacked the insight or courage to follow it back to its source and there strike the blow at the fountain of all tyranny, religious superstition, priestly power, and the canon law.”
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity: a) Rush Limbaugh He again denounces fake anti-global warming stories from a non-existent journal, written by fake experts, as real news, while real scientists predict greater severity in storms, droughts, and in other places, flood. In unrelated news, 5 Russian and Ukrainian ships sank in the Black Sea, when an unusually strong storm hit. Total number of dead remains unknown. - - - b) The latest INTEL chip. SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O: Quote, Profile, Research), the world's biggest microchip maker, unveiled fast new processors on Sunday made with new techniques that can etch circuitry nearly 200 times smaller than a red blood cell.
The chips are the first in the world to be mass-produced with a 45-nanometer process, about one-third smaller than current 65-nanometer technology. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter. Oh, great. The chip has more combined computing power than the entire Apollo space program, including all computers in Houston and the Cape, and it still can't go to the moon on its own power. - - - c) Traffic Control Yet another case of murder by US mercenaries in Iraq: “They just killed a man and drove away,” Maj. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said in his office on Sunday afternoon. He added later, “We have opened an investigation, and we have contacted the company and told them about our accusations, and we are still waiting for their response.” - - - d) Pakistan Pakistan amends laws to allow the army to arrest civilians for making "statements conducive to public mischief". The White House must be jealous. - - - e) Gaza In advance of Condi Rice's "most important trip for middle east peace", the Israeli government greeted Gaza residents by cutting electricity to the entire strip. Making friends and influencing people yet again.
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"There was never a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin
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#39412 - 11/12/07 07:10 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: agnostic]
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Registered: 09/02/04
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[quote=agnostic]
a) Rush Limbaugh
He again denounces fake anti-global warming stories from a non-existent journal, written by fake experts, as real news, while real scientists predict greater severity in storms, droughts, and in other places, flood.
'Hoss must have been listening again. TAT
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Except that it's lonesome work
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#39430 - 11/12/07 11:08 AM
Re: rOUND tABLE fOR mONDAY, nOVEMBER 12, 2007
[Re: BamaMama]
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Registered: 08/02/06
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Loc: Athens, Ga.
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Alabma had just suffered a hearbreaking loss.
Bama, I am so sorry. That was a nasty one. Thanks for the congrats from yesterday. This town is STILL wearing black! Talk about excited. I tried to post some pictures from the AJC to show how ummm....creative....some of the kids could paint themselves up but they wouldn't let me lift them. They were FUNNNNY! Anyway it was a big day here. I even watched the game! BC congrats to you and your family on the wedding. I loved the pictures. Steve, I'm glad things are going well (as well as can be expected) with your mom. I'm just going to grab a semi stale donut now and go to work! Olyve
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