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yellojkt1989 – In his 2nd start following treatment for a cancerous tumor in his pitching arm, Dave Dravecky of the league leading San Fransisco Giants breaks his arm while throwing a pitch to Tim Raines. Dravecky later retires from baseball after breaking his arm a second time during the Giants celebration following their pennant clinching victory, and will eventually have his left arm and shoulder entirely amputated. He is currently an author and motivational speaker. (The video of the break is out there, but it is included with some other gruesome injuries you probably don’t want to see.)
1979 – Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is released in theaters. Beset by all kinds of production problems including a change in the lead after one week of shooting (Harvey Keital as Willard was quickly dropped by Coppola), a heart attack in mid-film (Martin Sheen), unprepared starring actors (an overweight Marlon Brando ad libbed most of his role since he didn’t know his lines), and weather problems (a typhoon destroyed several of the sets), production costs soared and the release date was postponed several times. Coppola himself suffered a nervous breakdown. Still, the film was met with critical acclaim and garnered 6 Academy Award nominations, winning for Best Cinematography and Best Sound. Coppola later released a documentary of the making of the film, taken largely from home movies filmed by his wife, called Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-eUEKmdg-E
1969 – The Woodstock Music and Art Festival, advertised as “3 days of peace and music”, opens on the grounds of Max Yasgur’s dairy farm in Bethel, New York on Friday, August 15. Although Bethel permit authorities are told to expect no more than 50,000 people, some 186,000 tickets are sold prior to the event. Unable to manage security for the expected numbers, the events organizers decide at the last minute to open the gates for free admittance, and at its peak about 400,000 people are in attendance. Thirty three different bands are scheduled to appear, including some of the top performers of the day such as Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, and CSN&Y. The concert becomes a defining event of the 1960’s and the decade’s youth culture. The final act, former army paratropper Jimi Hendrix, finished up Monday morning and included this now historic nod to his country.
1945 – Japan’s Emperor Hirohito takes to the radio for the first time ever and announces Japan’s unconditional surrender. This is the first time his voice has ever been heard by the vast majority of Japanese citizens. Noting that “the enemy has begun to employ a new and most cruel bomb, the power of which to do damage is, indeed, incalculable”, the Emperor says that “Should we continue to fight, it would not only result in an ultimate collapse and obliteration of the Japanese nation, but also it would lead to the total extinction of human civilization.” Although Japan’s official surrender will not be signed until early September, August 14-15 (US/Japan time zones) is generally accepted as V-J Day.
1914 – After 30 years of of digging, first by the French and later by the US, the Panama Canal is officially opened to commercial traffic, cutting the time it takes ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean in half. While the canal was originally completed and owned by the United States, it reverted back to Panamanian control in 1999. Interestingly, owing to the geography of Panama, traveling through the canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific will have one traveling eastward, not westward.
Famous Birthdays – Napoleon Bonaparte (1769), T.E. Lawrence (1888), Julia Child (1912), Ben Affleck (1972)
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The movie has a funny scene, Joe Cocker’s manager telling him not to get fucked up.
Always loved 10 Years After’s set as well. Alvin Lee, RIP.
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While a kid in the Philippines we visited the Apocalypse Now set which had become a tourist attraction. It was really remote.
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Hawt blue on blue action ramping up in Cali. Coming to a tv near you: A unsupervised NP killed my child!
http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/08/15/nurse_practitioners_in_california.html?original_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FF5MmxYpCNz
Plus it’s written by a Juiceboxer whose political opponents are immoral! Win win !
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scope of practice will be huge. and expanding it is the only way I see to avoid access issues. that or.. ha …immigration.
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One advantage of moving is that you find all the little hidden things you’d forgotten about. . . like the jar of spare change that I picked up when I was cleaning up Brian’s apartment after he died. I’d thrown it in a box and then put the box in my garage and promptly forgot about it. So now I’ve got $21.50 all in quarters–that should get me through the toll roads! 🙂
Will they take Sacagawea dollars, as well?
I didn’t count the other coins, but I’m feeling wealthy. . .
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Money is fungible. ‘Found’ money should be spent with the same care and concern as money you worked for and earned.
Aw, heck with it. Go out and buy some booze.
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Nova, I’ll take the AMA’s $ for the win.
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Plus, somehow I must have made an enormous math error somewhere on my state income taxes (probably had something to do with the fact that I was filing them out at 10:00 pm on the 15th) and I just got a substantial refund check from the state yesterday.
Just like that couple from AZ who figured that God would provide for them to sail their boat to safety, somehow, the FSM must be providing me with the funds for my road trip.
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“I’ll take the AMA’s $ for the win.”
good client. oh. wait.
[not actually a client]
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While you are on a roll, check all your jacket pockets for missing twenty dollar bills.
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Can’t now–the packers just got finished and everything I own is boxed up now.
Those $20s will be there for me when I get to Maryland to buy some beer. 😀
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FSM?
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Flying Spaghetti Monster – The deity of Pastafarians.
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See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
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Bill Pexton, the former ombudsman to the Washington Post (a position now vacant never to be re-filled) gives its new owner some good advice::
WaPo is a little cursed in trying to find and keep a right-wing blogger. Ben Domenech was a plagiarist (who has rehabbed himself in the fairly forgiving waters of the right wing bubble). David Weigel was a good reporter on the conservative movement but had not drunk enough Kool-Ade to pass muster with True Believers who saw him as a lefty plant. And Rubin is just a shill and an embarrassment.
So my question to ATiM is: Who in the conservative blogosphere would be the best choice (just about anybody would be a better choice) to replace Jennifer Rubin?
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yello:
So my question to ATiM is: Who in the conservative blogosphere would be the best choice (just about anybody would be a better choice) to replace Jennifer Rubin?
I don’t know anything about Rubin (could she possibly be any worse than Greg Sargent?), but the question I have is whether you want someone to “cover” the conservative movement the way a newspaper might cover the behavior of some strange and exotic species of animal, or someone to actually provide coverage of politics from a conservative perspective.
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could she possibly be any worse than Greg Sargent?
Just by asking that question you are proving you don’t know anything about Rubin. To quote Pexton:
the question I have is whether you want someone to “cover” the conservative movement the way a newspaper might cover the behavior of some strange and exotic species of animal, or someone to actually provide coverage of politics from a conservative perspective.
Weigel did the former, which is why he got ridden out on a rail. What I (and presumably WaPo when they hired Rubin) am looking for is the anti-Sargent.
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yello:
Just by asking that question you are proving you don’t know anything about Rubin.
I did say that up front.
What I (and presumably WaPo when they hired Rubin) am looking for is the anti-Sargent.
So a conservative dishonest hack. I’ll have to think about it.
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Ace apparently had a similar thought to mine:
Does he have any problem with laughable hack Greg Sargent? Of course not; Greg Sargent is a liberal, and therefore Possessed of The Truth.
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yello:
On your WaPo blogger question, I can think of several conservative writers that would make good additions to any political coverage, whether at the WaPo or elsewhere. Among writers that are already blogging, I would second McWing’s mention of Ace, and add the guys at Powerline. Among writers who are not exactly bloggers, but who I think would be interesting covering politics in a blog format, I would include James Taranto of the WSJ, Jonah Goldberg of NRO, and for a more newsy, slightly more objective (but still conservative) analysis, I would put forward Byron York of The Washington Examiner.
BTW…I wouldn’t call any of these guys the anti-Sargent. They are all far superior to him in terms of writing ability, insight, and independent thinking.
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They are all far superior to him in terms of writing ability, insight, and independent thinking.
Thanks. That does seem like a good list. Perhaps the only one I would differ with you on, not being familiar with all of them, would be Jonah Goldberg. My point being that the right wing talent pool is deeper than Jennifer Rubin. I wonder if these others were never approached or if they find their current arrangements more rewarding than being a cog in the alleged left wing media.
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yello:
I wonder if these others were never approached or if they find their current arrangements more rewarding than being a cog in the alleged left wing media.
I would guess the high profile writers have a much better gig, both in terms of compensation and exposure, than they could get in a WaPo blogging role.
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Libertarian first responder approach:
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I’d want either Allahpundit, Ace or Mary Katherine Ham.
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Make no mistake, Rubin and Sargent’s work are comparable.
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Even the Propagandists at MMfA had no respect for Sargent!
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“Rubin was the No. 1 source of complaint mail about any single Post staffer while I was ombudsman,”
Well, the readers of the Post lean left in a big way, so this is not surprising and speaks more to the politics of the readership than anything Rubin is writing.
I’m sure Krauthammer is second, with Ed Rogers next…
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I would read a righty blog by Michael Barone or Costa or Fred Barnes and expect it to be of better quality than PL. They of course are not bloggers, but actual journalists.
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Speaking of Barnes:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/jack-germond-1928-2013_748429.html
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