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#70546 - 08/09/08 12:23 AM
Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
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GOOD SATURDAY MORNING, EVERYONE.
STRETCH BACK AND HAVE A BAGEL.
IT WAS A BUSY DAY IN HISTORY......
ON AUGUST 9,1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. The bombing came three days after the bombing of Hiroshima. About 74,000 people were killed. More than 140,000 ultimately died. Japan surrendered August 14.
Those who survived the blasts became known as hibakusha (Atom Bomb Survivors). Weeks after the explosions, even those who where uninjured began to succumb to a terrible plague. Those affected would loose their hair and purple spots would erupt on their skin. Vomiting, diarrhea, and uncontrollable bleeding from the gums was followed by death. At the time the Japanese did not realize they were dying from radiation sickness, instead they imagined they were in some Buddhist Hell. The atomic age began in 1945 with the pulverizing of two major urban centers and the vaporization of some 200,000 human beings. Sadly, hibakusha in Japan are still dying today from their radiation induced sicknesses and wounds.
The USA, Russia, Britain, France, Israel, China, India, North Korea, and Pakistan all possess weapons of mass destruction many times more powerful than the bombs dropped on Japan. Another arms race has started, with the Bush administration leading the way with its development of new nuclear battlefield weapons like atomic "bunker buster" bombs. Any use of such weapons would result in untold civilian casualties.
My daughter did her senior paper (college) on the memory of the bombings created through art by the survivors.
If anybody is interested in some of the photos, they can be seen here... Art For Change
1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics. He was the first American to win four medals in one Olympics.
click on the picture.  The myth of Aryan Supremacy. So much for Hitler's team!
1974 - U.S. President Richard Nixon formally resigned. Gerald R. Ford took his place, and became the 38th president of the U.S.
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1969 - Sharon Tate and four other people, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger and Steve Parent were found murdered at Tate's residence in Los Angeles, CA.
ALSO ON THIS DAY....
1854 - "Walden" was published by Henry David Thoreau....one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau's sojourn in a cabin near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau lived at Walden for two years, two months, and two days, but Walden was written so that the stay appears to be a year, with expressed seasonal divisions. Thoreau did not intend to live as a hermit, for he received visitors and returned their visits. Instead, he hoped to isolate himself from society in order to gain a more objective understanding of it. Simplicity and self-reliance were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy. As Thoreau made clear in the book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, not far from his family home. wiki
the site of Thoreau's cabin marked by rocks
When his aunt Louisa asked him in his last weeks if he had made his peace with God, Thoreau responded quite simply: “I did not know we had ever quarreled.”
1930 - Betty Boop had her beginning in "Dizzy Dishes" created by Max Fleischer.
click on the picture!
1944 - The Forest Service and Wartime Advertising Council created "Smokey the Bear."
Smokey's debut poster.
Smokey Bear's message "Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires" was created in 1944 by the Ad Council. In a recent study, 95% of those surveyed could finish the sentence when given the first words. In April 2001, Smokey's message was updated to "Only You Can Prevent Wildfires."
1956 - The first statewide, state-supported educational television network went on the air in Alabama
1973 - The U.S. Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair filed suit against President Richard Nixon.
1975 - The New Orleans Superdome as officially opened when the Saints played the Houston Oilers in exhibition football. The new Superdome cost $163 million to build.
2004 - Donald Duck received the 2,257th star on the Hollywood Walk of F
BIRTHDAYS AUGUST 9...
1927 - Robert Shaw
actor: Battle of the Bulge, Black Sunday, The Deep, Force 10 from Navarone, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, Jaws; died Aug 28, 1978
1944 - Sam Elliott
actor: Gettysburg, Lonesome Dove, Mask, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, TVs Mission Impossible
1957 - Melanie Griffith
actress: Working Girl, Night Moves, Smile, A Stranger Among Us, Born Yesterday, Mulholland Falls, Lolita [1997], Crazy in Alabama; actress Tippi Hedren’s daughter
1963 - Whitney Houston
Grammy Award-winning singer: I Will Always Love You; Greatest Love of All, You Give Good Love, Saving All My Love for You; actress: The Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale
thanks Mellow! 
HAVE A GREAT DAY, Y'ALL!
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"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."
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#70547 - 08/09/08 01:07 AM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
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Nagasaki City was one of my favorite places in Japan; it just took my heart, somehow. The tour guide there provided one of the best examples of juxtaposition that I had ever seen. We spent part of the morning at the memorial to the 26 Christian martyrs who were murdered during a period of extreme religious persecution. It is a beautiful monument/park overlooking the city, and you have a lot of time to contemplate these 26 martyrs. Then you get back on the bus and go to Ground Zero. I loved, about Nagasaki, the way they live with reminders of the past - a huge partial tori, one half missing since 1945. A church whose steeple lies on the ground next to the building from which it fell. They are simply there, unchanged, as a reminder.   Peace Monument, Nagasaki Peace Park In the Peace Park there are rows of statues given by countries around the world. To my knowledge, there is no statue from the United States. Standing in that park, I couldn't decide which was more grotesque - the presence, or the absence, of a statue from us. PS: Olyve, thanks for Sam Elliott 
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#70554 - 08/09/08 06:47 AM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
[Re: Mellowicious]
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Oh yes, Sam Elliot. My favorite Elliot role: The Stranger in "The Big Lebowski". He ain't never seen no queen in her damned undies. The Hibakusha gallery - stunning. Everyone who has any influence on decisions about nuclear weapons - about nuclear power of any kind - should be required to view those photos and read about the artists. I did not know about "the absence", Mellow Julia. Obscene. Good morning all! StereoMan is off to work for one of his favorite clients this morning: a former "masseur of the stars" (Bette Midler among them) who got tired of the fast life and came to Asheville to "live more deliberately". Nice turn of phrase, eh? I had the chance to visit Thoreau's little cabin site last summer. It was a memorable day. I don't know the people in this photo, Neither, I believe, did Mr. Thoreau. 
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Steve Give us the wisdom to teach our children to love,
to respect and be kind to one another,
so that we may grow with peace in mind.
(Native American prayer)
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#70557 - 08/09/08 07:14 AM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
[Re: stereoman]
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Thank you, Mellow and Stereoman. You both make me feel a little more serene than I did before bed last night.  Enjoy Bette this morning, Steve. Wow...nice! I'm off to the Farmers Market this morning. I love it. Have a good day all. Let's all be kind today Olyve ps thanks for posting those photos Mellow. I found them in my research and thought about it too.
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#70563 - 08/09/08 09:11 AM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
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1936 - Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics.
1945 - The U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki COINCIDENCE? I think NOT! “A religion, even if it calls itself the religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it.”
-- Sigmund Freud from the CHURCH of INEFFABLE STUPIDITY: a) George Bush - the new Mr. Candor "Candor is most effective where nations have built a relationship of respect and trust," Bush said. "I've worked hard to build that respect and trust. I'm serious. He said this in China today. He even used the words trust and respect in the same sentence - TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF! Honest! - - - b) Nancy Pelosi After taking impeachment off the table, and giving the Bush administration to continue breaking laws for the final two years of their term, Nancy managed to piss off constitutional scholars, liberals, and moderates across the country. Her lame efforts at explaining herself, FISA, and other fiascoes at Austin, TX, at the Netroots Convention was embarrassing, and had she not been saved by Al Gore, it might have gotten less polite and more tense. well, the voter can do something about it today. Cindy Sheehan is on the ballot against our pe-Lousy Speaker of the House. - - - c) Top CIA official confesses order to forge Iraq-9/11 letter came on White House stationery He has tapes, and is publishing them. Investigative reporter Ron Suskind refused to let the issue die. Where did the Iraq-Al Qaida story come from? Well, Dick Cheney, apparently. If so, then the GOP is right to insist that Nancy Pelosi reconvene congress, but not to vote on oil drilling, but on the impeachment of the VP. A forged letter linking Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was ordered on White House stationery and probably came from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a new transcript of a conversation with the Central Intelligence Agency's former Deputy Chief of Clandestine Operations Robert Richer. http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Tape_Top_CIA_officer_confesses_order_0808.html also see: http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/analysis/350- - - e) Illegally operated bus filled w/ Catholics crashes, 15 die Catholics from Houston were heading to Carthage, Mo., for an annual festival honoring the Virgin Mary. Their bus was unlicensed, their equipment was faulty, and their operator had no permit. Maybe they thought that prayer would save them from the use of dangerous equipment? http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1099537,bus080908.article- - - f) Lieberman tries to bribe Democrats ($100,000) to keep his chairmanship intact. He sees the writing on the walls. The GOP is in for a major walloping, a vote based 2x4 across the party's head in November. Pity for Lieberman, he switched to John McCain and the neocons just as America was shifting left. John McCain showed how just much a presidential candidate costs ($300,000) by being bribed with the Oil Industry. So, when Lieberman starts the ante with a $100,000 bribe, it shows that either he is REALLY desperate, or that John McCain can be bought really cheap. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7011877568
Edited by agnostic (08/09/08 09:11 AM)
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#70564 - 08/09/08 09:57 AM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
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Top 10 Political Ads of All Time Sometimes i think this democracy lark aint all its cracked up to be.
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#70570 - 08/09/08 01:00 PM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
[Re: Schlack]
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that 1st one was just boring. Big John needs a flushing.
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#70607 - 08/09/08 09:41 PM
Re: Round Table for Saturday August, 9, 2008
[Re: agnostic]
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 Oh! I forgot this! Jerry died on August 9, 1995 Rest in Peace... 
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