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yellojkt1999 – A very rare tornado rips through downtown Salt Lake City killing one, injuring 100, and causing over $170 million in damages. According to the National Weather service this is the first major tornado ever to hit a major urban downtown district, with buildings over 500 feet tall being effected. Vice President Al Gore blames global warming.
1994 – Major League baseball players go on strike, resulting in the longest work stoppage in the history of MLB, the cancellation of the 1994 season, and the first time since 1904 that a World Series champion is not crowned. The stoppage extends until the eve of the 1995 season, but with owners preparing to field teams of replacement players, future Supreme Court justice Judge Sonia Sotomayor issues an injunction against the owners, and players subsequently agree to end the strike. I wonder if this was the kind of situation in which a wise Latina woman was positioned to make a “better” decision than those dreaded white males.
1988 – Osama Bin Laden and other mujahideen fighters from the Afghanistan war against the Soviet Union meet in Peshawar, Pakistan to discuss expanding their efforts to Islamist movements in other parts of the world. The result of the meeting is the formation of an organization called Al Qaeda.
1984 – While performing a microphone test prior to a radio address, President Ronald Reagan jokes that he “signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes.” The joke is recorded and later revealed to the public. Portrayed as at best an embarrassing political gaffe and at worst an indication of Reagan’s warmongering inclinations, the American electorate doesn’t seem to care as Reagan goes on 3 months later to get re-elected, trouncing Walter Mondale and winning 49 of 50 states.
1973 – George Lucas’ American Graffiti, opens in theaters across the country. Transforming child actor Ron Howard into a legitimate adult star, it also launches the careers of Richard Dreyfus and Harrison Ford. Also notable for a cameo appearance by Suzanne Somers as the mysterious blonde in the T-Bird.
1965 – In Los Angeles a scuffle breaks out between a black motorist and a white police officer following a traffic stop for suspected DUI, sparking a reaction from the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts that grows into a six-day race riot, leaving 34 dead, over 1,000 injured and more than $40 million in property damage. The rioting eventually encompasses a 50 square mile area of South Central LA with over 30,000 people participating in looting, arson, and sniper shooting at police and firefighters. Peace is finally restored 6 days later after the National Guard is called in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6PVzar8jw4
1919 – A new constitution is adopted by the national assembly in Weimar, Germany, beginning the 14 year existence of the Weimar Republic. Weimar is marked by great political turmoil including the rise of Adolf Hitler, but is perhaps most notable historically for its experience of hyper-inflation during its early years. Unable to pay its debts and war reparations, the government simply prints more and more money, resulting eventually in daily and even hourly hikes in prices of goods and services throughout Germany. Paper money becomes so worthless that it is cheaper to burn it in fireplaces and stoves than to use it to buy wood to burn.
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Let’s see, I went to high school with Richard Dreyfus’ cousin. I knew him when he was a punk…………..haha. Unfortunately we became bitter enemies (his cousin and I) in our senior year of high school so I missed out on knowing the famous Richard Dreyfus.
And I remember watching the Watt’s Riots on television from our next door neighbors’ house. Her husband and father in law owned a little electronics store in South Central. It was pretty scary because she couldn’t get a hold of either of them by phone for most of the first and second day of the riots. Their store was damaged but they got out unscathed. His narrative of events from being there was pretty harrowing though.
I grew up in a fascinating time in CA and the rest of the country for that matter.
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I don’t know if anyone but me is really interested in food safety or not. After becoming so sick last year from a food borne bacterial infection, I’ve been following these kinds of stories much more closely. Anyway, these ag/gag laws appear to be hindering the public’s right to know.
The spread of ag-gag bills is alarming for many reasons. Aside from exposing specific incidents of animal abuse, undercover videos have also drawn attention to industry practices such as housing chickens in cramped battery cages that hasten the sickening of birds and the spread of salmonella.
Elizabeth Holmes, an attorney with the nonprofit Center for Food Safety, comments: “The reason these are public health issues, and not just animal rights issues, is that those unsanitary conditions provide breeding grounds (for disease).”
Holmes has a point. Keeping animals alive in wretched conditions requires the use of massive amounts of pharmaceutical drugs. Nearly 80 percent of the antibiotics used in the United States are given to animals, not people. The antibiotic overuse that allows meat producers to keep animals in filth and misery is spawning drug-resistant superbugs.
http://www.alternet.org/food/unbelievable-ways-companies-are-trying-keep-you-seeing-where-your-meat-comes?page=0%2C0
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Waiting for Fox Butterfield.
http://www.nssfblog.com/infographic-gun-crimes-plummet-even-as-gun-sales-rise/
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I believe that, one fine year in the mid-20th century, Markinaustin was born on this day, also.
Mark??
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Thanks. August 11, 1943.
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Happy Birthday Mark. You just don’t seem that old to me……………..hahaha.
Hope you’re having a great day. We drove up to Big Bear Lake and had lunch and then went for a hike.
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Lms, yesterday was a good day. At my birthday brunch, my youngest daughter, the pharmacist, said I was the youngest 70 she knew and that was mainly a compliment.
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Interesting point from Peter Suderman regarding the Abomination:
“Supporters of the law typically respond that Republicans wouldn’t have supported any comprehensive Democratic health care overhaul. That may well be true—and it also perhaps a sign that Democrats shouldn’t have passed it, or at least should have known that they would be responsible for making it work, perhaps in the face of ongoing GOP opposition. Relying on cooperation from a fundamentally opposed party seems like poor policy planning.”
I wish this were true but, once again,President Obama is lying.
Obama’s sharpest words at the press conference were reserved for Republicans who wanted to block his health law, a goal he described as the GOP’s “number one priority” and its “holy grail.”
The party as currently constructed will happily fund this disaster.
I am truly sorry America, that my TeaParty compatriots were not successful enough.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/08/09/obamas-weak-defense-of-obamacare
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Try not to take it amiss if I disagree with you about Obamacare, McWing!
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Glad you had a nice day Mark and that was definitely a compliment. On my last birthday our youngest said she hoped she still looked like me when she was my age….lol
Don’t you think remaining active both physically and mentally is what keeps us young?
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Nah, it’s the drugs.
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Hah jnc. Fortunately or unfortunately, as the case may be, I’ve been drug free since 1970. I can’t vouch for Mark though.
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