When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.
Saturday - August 07, 2004
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Quote of the DayThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
On This Day in History
1782 George Washington creates Order of the Purple Heart
1789 US War Department established
1882 Hatfields of south WV & McCoys of east Ky feud, 100 wounded or die
1915 The 100MPH Man
Driving a Peugeot, race-car driver Dario Resta broke the 100mph speed barrier on this day in 1915. He broke the record while winning the 100-mile Chicago Cup Challenge Race at the Maywood Board Speedway in Chicago. With an average speed of 101.86mph, this was the first event in which such speeds had been attained for a race of this length in the U.S.
1942 U.S. forces invade Guadalcanal
On this day in 1942, the U.S. 1st Marine Division begins Operation Watchtower, the first U.S. offensive of the war, by landing on Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands.
On July 6, 1942, the Japanese landed on Guadalcanal Island and began constructing an airfield there. Operation Watchtower was the codename for the U.S. plan to invade Guadalcanal and the surrounding islands. During the attack, American troops landed on five islands within the Solomon chain. Although the invasion came as a complete surprise to the Japanese (bad weather had grounded their scouting aircraft), the landings on Florida, Tulagi, Gavutu, and Tananbogo met much initial opposition from the Japanese defenders.
But the Americans who landed on Guadalcanal met little resistance-at least at first. More than 11,000 Marines had landed, and 24 hours had passed, before the Japanese manning the garrison there knew of the attack. The U.S. forces quickly took their main objective, the airfield, and the outnumbered Japanese troops retreated, but not for long. Reinforcements were brought in, and fierce hand-to-hand jungle fighting ensued. "I have never heard or read of this kind of fighting," wrote one American major general on the scene. "These people refuse to surrender."
The Americans were at a particular disadvantage, being assaulted from both the sea and air. But the U.S. Navy was able to reinforce its troops to a greater extent, and by February 1943, the Japanese had retreated on secret orders of their emperor (so secret, the Americans did not even know it had taken place until they began happening upon abandoned positions, empty boats, and discarded supplies). In total, the Japanese had lost more than 25,000 men, compared with a loss of 1,600 by the Americans. Each side lost 24 warships.
The first Medal of Honor given to a Marine was awarded to Sgt. John Basilone for his fighting during Operation Watchtower. According to the recommendation for his medal, he "contributed materially to the defeat and virtually the annihilation of a Japanese regiment."
Today's Birthdays
1876 Mata Hari dancer/courtesan/spy (WW I)
1929 Don Larsen NY Yankees
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Quote of the DayWhat you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
On This Day in History
1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire
1959 Corvair Makes its Debut
The Chevrolet Corporation registered the Corvair name for its new rear-engine compact car on this day in 1959. Corvairs became quite controversial--people either loved them or hated them. The car was accused of being "unsafe at any speed," with much criticism directed toward its handling, even though a 1972 government study later exonerated the Corvair. Today, the Corvair is considered rare and collectable and has been called one of the most significant cars in automotive history..
1787 First draft of Constitution debated
In Philadelphia, delegates to the Constitutional Convention begin debating the first complete draft of the proposed Constitution of the United States.
The Articles of Confederation, ratified several months before the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781, provided for a loose confederation of U.S. states, which were sovereign in most of their affairs. On paper, Congress--the central authority--had the power to govern foreign affairs, conduct war, and regulate currency, but in practice these powers were sharply limited because Congress was given no authority to enforce its requests to the states for money or troops. By 1786, it was apparent that the Union would soon break up if the Articles of Confederation were not amended or replaced. Five states met in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss the issue, and all the states were invited to send delegates to a new constitutional convention to be held in Philadelphia.
On May 25, 1787, delegates representing every state except Rhode Island convened at Philadelphia's Pennsylvania State House for the Constitutional Convention. The building, which is now known as Independence Hall, had earlier seen the drafting of the Declaration of Independence and the signing of the Articles of Confederation. The assembly immediately discarded the idea of amending the Articles of Confederation and set about drawing up a new scheme of government. Revolutionary War hero George Washington, a delegate from Virginia, was elected convention president.
During an intensive debate, the delegates devised a brilliant federal system characterized by an intricate system of checks and balances. The convention was divided over the issue of state representation in Congress, as more-populated states sought proportional legislation, and smaller states wanted equal representation. The problem was resolved by the Connecticut Compromise, which proposed a bicameral legislature with proportional representation in the lower house (House of Representatives) and equal representation of the states in the upper house (Senate).
On September 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States of America was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states.
Beginning on December 7, five states--Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut--ratified it in quick succession. However, other states, especially Massachusetts, opposed the document, as it failed to reserve undelegated powers to the states and lacked constitutional protection of basic political rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. In February 1788, a compromise was reached under which Massachusetts and other states would agree to ratify the document with the assurance that amendments would be immediately proposed. The Constitution was thus narrowly ratified in Massachusetts, followed by Maryland and South Carolina. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789. In June, Virginia ratified the Constitution, followed by New York in July.
On September 25, 1789, the first Congress of the United States adopted 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution--the Bill of Rights--and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of these amendments were ratified in 1791. In November 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. Rhode Island, which opposed federal control of currency and was critical of compromise on the issue of slavery, resisted ratifying the Constitution until the U.S. government threatened to sever commercial relations with the state. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island voted by two votes to ratify the document, and the last of the original 13 colonies joined the United States. Today, the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world.
Today's Birthdays
1809 Alfred Lord Tennyson poet laureate of England
1911 Lucille Ball Jamestown NY, comedienne/actress
1938 Peter Bonerz Portsmouth NH, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5) eh??? PETER BONERZ?!?!?!?!?!
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Time for Readers to Sound Off
This story got out yesterday and I have heard it on local radio being debated today. I make no secret that I am fed up with all this Muslim tolerance bullshit and it really gets on my nerves. Everywhere you turn we seem to be bowing and scraping and trying not to offend them. Yet in their home countries there are no feelings of reciprocity for our feelings and habits when it comes right down to it. It's as if they can come here and DEMAND we do things their way, tolerate their stupid behaviors and smile while we do it. But they'd never attempt any of that crap in their own shithole countries.So here's a little grist for the mill of your minds:
It appears this woman, working for a company with strong Muslim ties, got fired for eating a BLT. Her employers did not want her eating any pork products on company premises.
OK, to a certain point I feel companies should be able to state what they find to be appropriate or inappropriate behavior. But to tell you what you can eat? Where's the fucking ACLU when you need them? Or are they getting stroked by these guys and don't want to piss them off?
If you were an employer and told your workers that eating tofu offended you, how quickly would you be ganged up on by these shitheels at the ACLU? How about if you were a Jewish company and said no food could be brought unto the premises unless it was kosher? Yeah, I know.............
Here's another link out of Miami about the story.
Anyway, that's how I originally felt.
Yesterday afternoon I heard on 540 WFLA, Orlando, where a caller said she worked there and knew the woman in question. The caller stated the woman not only knew company policy (no pork products inside the building but OK outside) she actually FRIED UP the bacon on the premises. The Miami paper said she heated up her sandwich in the microwave, generating smells.
OK, gang. I am only going to say this once: ASSUME the whole truth is everything I've written and everything in the two articles.
No, "what if?" crap
No, "unless she...." crap
No, "we don't have the whole story yet" crap.
You HAVE the whole story (for the sake of this post.) The only facts are the ones I've given you.
Better yet, and to make it easier, pretend you are a Democrat who does not let the facts get in the way of your opinion! (hehehe)
So how's this one going to go? Was she a bit over the top? Does she have a leg to stand on? If she knew the rules going in, is the company wrong to fire her?
Far as I am concerned, she's like the people that move into a 55 year old plus community and then decide they want to raise their grand kids in there. So sorry, That's wrong.
Does she win the lawsuit or does the company?
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Permalink • More People to Add to the Sh*tlist
A bunch of music groups will be staging simultaneous concerts across the country to raise money to defeat President Bush.Yes, they are associated with MoveOn.org
Yes, they should be boycotted.
I wonder if bands SUPPORTING President Bush will get together? In any case, it makes you wonder where our political system is headed.
News adds to my shitlist:
Jurassic 5 (never heard of them. They are hip hop so I'd never buy any of their crap anyway.)
John Mellencamp
Bonnie Raitt
Jackson Browne
Babyface (another one who's music I'd not buy regardless of affiliation)
Bright Eyes (no idea who they are)
Dave Matthews Band
Bruce Springsteen
Vote with your wallet. Don't buy the music. Don't attend the concerts. Pass this on to your friends, colleagues, associates, acquaintances.
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Permalink • Children in the News
Here's another "child raised by wild animals" story. This one is in Siberia. The kid supposedly lived with wild dogs over 6 years.Think hard about this: baby abandoned when only several months old. Neighbors unaware of his abandonment. He lives in SIBERIA, for Christ's sake!
So how did he get food in the dead of winter when he was unable to walk?
Sounds like bullshit to me.
Little boy goes camping. He's with adults. They are on a hike. A bear comes by. Not only does the bear scare the shit out of the boy, it scares him to death. Sad.
Little girl joins soccer team. Goes to practice. Drops dead. Other kids think she's goofing around.
Sad...again.
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Accident Prone? Get Hurt Often? Boring Personality?
We already know that if get into an accident you need only call the bottom feeding, scum sucking ambulance chasing landsharks at John Edwards' law firm and become rich overnight.But did you know you can become an instant war hero AND give your personality a boost, too? When you sustain an injury (paper cut, fingernail cut too close, a nick from shaving) or people walk away when you tell jokes at the office copying machine, use what The Poodle uses: Bland Aids!
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Permalink • Irony Smacks Eco-Freaks Up Beside the Head
The scene: Eco-freaks take a vacation on a small cruise ship.Eco-freaks: OOOH! AAAHH! Look at that pretty whale. Let's pet it and show it we are at one with it!
Whale thinks: "assholes!"
Cruise ship: "hey, Captain! YO! NUMBNUTS!! You're too close to......................CRASH! SCREECH! (sounds of tearing metal)
Ship runs aground! Punctures the fuel tank. Probably fucks up a bunch of wildlife.
Returning to the present: No outcry from PETA or the Tree-Huggers or Greenpeace yet. They're probably all gathered together plotting to release a news story saying the Captain was a drunken, religious zealot, right wing republican in favor of logging.
Am I the only one who sees the irony in this?
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A Little About John Edwards
Not much is known about The Poodle's Puppy, or, as I like to call him, The Breck Girl, John Edwards.As luck would have it, here's a piece that fills you in on the "middle class worker's" son. It's from Lowell Ponte.
In it you will find out more about how Edwards built his name on junk science, pretending to be babies in the womb, how his methods increased caesarian births in this county but DID NOT decrease MS births as he contended.
You'll read about his roll in the increased donations by trial lawyers to the Democratic Party.
You'll read about his ties to a specific law firm and what impact its founder expects to have on the body politic in general and the American public in particular.
If Kerry wins, we will need to fear for the state of the union. Like the hacks on the left who "claim" Cheney makes decisions to favor his pals at Halliburton, there will be hacks on the right that will go after Edwards for his influence with trial lawyers. The only difference? We'd be right.
Learn about Edwards' ties to the Saudis, the liberalism of his voting record.
It's not a pretty picture.
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Permalink • Monday Rant (see addendum below)
Should We Eliminate The IRS? (see addendum at bottom)I just read on Drudge that Denny Hastert is going to propose the elimination of the IRS during President Bush's second term.
You're all thinking, "HOORAY!! YIPPEE!! ABOUT DAMNED TIME!!! F**KIN' A!!!!!"
Hold on a minute now. Let's not get too excited just yet.
Something like that, frankly, scares me. Remember, this is Congress you are dealing with. The same people that passed Campaign Finance Reform with loopholes in it so big you could steer an aircraft carrier thought it with room for its destroyer escorts.
Here's what I would want you to consider in such a move:
1. What will be the sales tax rate and HOW will it be calculated?
2. What assurances do we have that the methodology for RAISING those rates is one tied to the requirement to maintain a balanced budget----at all costs? If not, you'll find this to be a nightmare!
3. Here's the biggest one of all which I rarely ever see discussed: during what sort of economic times will we be doing this changeover? If our economy is depressed, it will get even more so. If the economy is vibrant, no president will want it to happen during his watch. Why? Think about it.
a. How many people are employed by the IRS? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
b. How many people specialize in tax law? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
c. How many people are independent contractors doing printing of IRS publications? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
d. How many independent contractors run things like web sites, doing QC on print jobs for the IRS? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
e. How many companies specialize in tax preparation? (H.R. Block, among others) They will be UNEMPLOYED!
f. How many companies print "How-To" manuals for tax form preparation (J.K. Lasser for one) They will be UNEMPLOYED!
g. How many small print companies are there making copies of forms for individuals, mailing them out, etc. Some of them will become UNEMPLOYED!
h. How many accountants do nothing but tax preparation? They will be UNEMPLOYED!
Now let's look at the economic implication all these unemployed have on those who sell real estate, cars, furniture, appliances, etc. Their business will turn down as there will be millions of folks with no jobs to make the money to buy these things. Home prices will tumble. Neighborhoods will be at risk as folks will need to move who no longer have jobs.
And when this ripple effect begins folks start laying off and it begins to affect restaurants, gas stations, convenience stores, etc.
Bankruptcies will skyrocket. Inflation will shoot up. Cost of borrowing will make purchases prohibitive. People will consume less. GDP goes in the toilet. Wages follow. The vicious circle widens. Revenue to the treasury will PLUMMET (since people won't be buying) and sales taxes will need to be increased further exacerbating the now dire situation.
Just something for you to consider.
Hey, I think it is more than overdue that the IRS be abolished. But let's not get too excited about it yet, OK? We may think our Congressmen are nothing but a bunch of incompetent, power hungry individuals but stupid they are not. Once the public begins to grasp the enormity of such a change, you'll see how quickly it gets killed.
As for abolishing the IRS in small increments? Silly, silly people! Name for me when that's ever happened since every year Congress promises to make things simpler yet all they do is add more laws, more pages to the code, more complexity necessitating more accountants.
Sweet dreams, boys and girls!
ADDENDUM:
The comments have been spirited and lively. But I fear some have missed the point completely so let me polish a couple of points and add a couple more:
Some of you folks are missing the point on my "economic" numbers: remember, it is not JUST the IRS we are abolishing. It's the printers, printing companies, accountants, lawyers, etc. This group numbers in the MILLIONS!!! Do I care much for lawyers? No! Accountants? No. My recent dealings with them regarding financial planning for my parents reinforced that feeling. Will I feel sorry for them losing their jobs? No. But it is not just them.
Back on topic--How many people work JUST for J.K. Lasser and H&R Block?
Maj Mike brought up another point--states! In states with income taxes and treasuries to handle the returns, how many hundreds of thousands MORE people get the pink slip?
DO NOT GET ME WRONG! The IRS should be abolished. It is confiscatory in its dealings.
BUT......................there is TOO MUCH invested by trial lawyers and such types (too many special interest groups paying off Congressmen, too) for this to get much headway. The rhetoric is great but if done too quickly the economy WILL suffer. GREATLY. Much as I'd like to see them go away I believe the solution will devastate the economy and repercussions would last years. To the young this can easily be overcome. But what about the others approaching retirement? This isn't just a couple of thousand of people from a large corporation. This will be hundreds of thousandss, millions---at once! Can we survive something like that? What if our unemployment numbers were already high? It's too ugly to think about.
And yes, the cost of running government with these people is prohibitive and we'd shrink government by not having them but to do this in one fell swoop is political and economic suicide.
I'd love to see a consumption tax but you can be guaranteed there will be NOTHING simple about it. There will be gradients in it. Exclusions to it. Rebates for others. Higher taxes for some. This new beast will not die.
In this particular scenario I'd rather have an enemy I know rather than a new one, unknown and created overnight by people who do NOT have my best interests at heart.
One last thing: Remember, we are approaching 50% of people in the US who pay NO INCOME TAX whatsoever right now. How excited do you think they will be when they find out their next pair of shoes will cost them 15% more? Or the next car about $4000 more? How much you want to bet the democratic rhetoric will reach heights and pitches we've not even begun to imagine as they are informed about this? Believe me, their incentive to vote will be very high!
I predict: We will not see abolition of the IRS in my lifetime.
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Permalink • Unbiased Reporting at NPR
If you ever need a good example of the left-leaning agenda at NPR, you'll have it with this one.As usual, NPR is my wake-up alarm every morning. Usually within 3-4 minutes they've pissed me off enough that I get out of bed, fix the coffee, and start blogging.
This morning they were blathering about Kerry and what he says he'd do if he becomes President and what Bush should be doing in light of the newest terrorist threats and how not adopting the measures proposed by the 9-11 commission is to blame for what is going on. What pure, unadulterated claptrap.
Anyway, the announcer happily goes on to say that The Poodle's Puppy, Edwards, would be in the Orlando area where he was going to the home of a Republican who said he was changing allegiances this November.
Who is this republican? Frankly, my dear, who gives a fuck? Some schmoe.
But the Mayor of St. Paul Minnesota, a Democrat, goes in front of the media to say he is voting for Bush in November and what does NPR say about this?
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ........................................nothing!
Do you need any more proof?
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Quote of the DayI stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. Shirley Temple (1928 - )
On This Day in History
1776 Formal signing of the Declaration of Independence
1819 1st parachute jump in US
1858 1st street mailboxes-Boston, Mass
1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted
1990 Iraq invades & occupies Kuwait
1861 First income tax is passed
The United States Congress passes the first income tax to raise revenues for the war effort. Although never enacted, it was an important fiscal innovation that paved the way for growth of the government in the 20th century..
HITLER BECOMES FÜHRER
With the death of German President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Adolf Hitler becomes absolute dictator of Germany under the title of Führer, or "Leader." The German army took an oath of allegiance to its new commander-in-chief, and the last remnants of Germany's democratic government were dismantled to make way for Hitler's Third Reich.
Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, Austria, in 1889. As a young man he aspired to be a painter, but he received little public recognition and lived in poverty in Vienna. Of German descent, he came to detest Austria as a "patchwork nation" of various ethnic groups. He found direction as a German soldier in World War I, and was decorated for his bravery on the battlefield. He was in a military hospital in 1918, recovering from a mustard gas attack that left him temporarily blind, when Germany surrendered.
He was appalled by Germany's defeat, which he blamed on "enemies within"--chiefly German communists and Jews--and was enraged by the punitive peace settlement forced on Germany by the victorious Allies. He remained in the German army after the war, and as an intelligence agent was ordered to report on subversive activities in Munich's political parties. It was in this capacity that he joined the tiny German Workers' Party, made up of embittered army veterans, as the group's seventh member. Hitler was put in charge of the party's propaganda, and in 1920 he assumed leadership of the organization, changing its name to Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' party), which was abbreviated to Nazi.
In November 1923, after the German government resumed the payment of war reparations to Britain and France, the Nazis launched the "Beer Hall Putsch"--an attempt at seizing the German government by force. Hitler hoped that his nationalist revolution in Bavaria would spread to the dissatisfied German army, which in turn would bring down the government in Berlin. However, the uprising was immediately suppressed, and Hitler was arrested and sentenced to five years in prison for treason.
Imprisoned in Landsberg fortress, he spent his time there dictating his autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), a bitter and rambling narrative in which he sharpened his anti-Semitic and anti-Marxist beliefs and laid out his plans for Nazi conquest. Political pressure from the Nazis forced the Bavarian government to commute Hitler's sentence, and he was released after nine months. However, Hitler emerged to find his party disintegrated. An upturn in the economy further reduced popular support of the party, and for several years Hitler was forbidden to make speeches in Bavaria and elsewhere in Germany.
The onset of the Great Depression in 1929 brought a new opportunity for the Nazis to solidify their power. Hitler and his followers set about reorganizing the party as a fanatical mass movement, and won financial backing from business leaders, for whom the Nazis promised an end to labor agitation. In the 1930 election, the Nazis won six million votes, making the party the second largest in Germany. Two years later, Hitler challenged Paul von Hindenburg for the presidency, but the 84-year-old president defeated Hitler with the support of an anti-Nazi coalition.
Although the Nazis suffered a decline in votes during the November 1932 election, Hindenburg agreed to make Hitler chancellor in January 1933, hoping that Hitler could be brought to heel as a member of his cabinet. However, Hindenburg underestimated Hitler's political audacity, and one of the new chancellor's first acts was to exploit the burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building as a pretext for calling general elections. The police under Nazi Hermann Goering suppressed much of the party's opposition before the election, and the Nazis won a bare majority. Shortly after, Hitler took on dictatorial power through the Enabling Acts.
Chancellor Hitler immediately set about arresting and executing political opponents, and even purged the Nazis' own SA paramilitary organization in a successful effort to win support from the German army. With the death of President Hindenburg on August 2, 1934, Hitler united the chancellorship and presidency under the new title of Führer. As the economy improved, popular support for Hitler's regime became strong, and a cult of Führer worship was propagated by Hitler's capable propagandists.
In 1938, Hitler implemented his plans for world domination with the annexation of Austria, and in 1939 Germany seized all of Czechoslovakia. Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, finally led to war with Germany and France. In the opening years of World War II, Hitler's war machine won a series of stunning victories, conquering the great part of continental Europe. However, the tide turned in 1942 during Germany's disastrous invasion of the USSR.
By early 1945, the British and Americans were closing in on Germany from the west, the Soviets from the east, and Hitler was holed up in a bunker under the chancellery in Berlin awaiting defeat. On April 30, with the Soviets less than a mile from his headquarters, Hitler committed suicide with Eva Braun, his mistress whom he married the night before.
Hitler left Germany devastated and at the mercy of the Allies, who divided the country and made it a major battlefield of Cold War conflict. His regime exterminated nearly six millions Jews and an estimated 250,000 Gypsies in the Holocaust, and an indeterminable number of Slavs, political dissidents, disabled persons, homosexuals, and others deemed unacceptable by the Nazi regime were systematically eliminated. The war Hitler unleashed upon Europe took even more lives--close to 20 million people killed in the USSR alone. Adolf Hitler is reviled as one of history's greatest villains..
Today's Birthdays
1905 Myrna Loy Montana, actress (Rebound, Emma)
1922 Carroll O'Connor NYC, actor (All in the Family, Heat of the Night)
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Sunday Pin-Ups (sorta)
Three little lovelies for the men today. Ladies, scroll down for yours.We start with the king of pin-ups, Alberto Vargas.
From the time Esquire first introduced America to the Varga Girl, in 1940, the name Vargas has been synonymous with pin-up and glamour art. In fact, the word "vargas" has actually been applied to almost every kind of pin-up subject - a fitting tribute to the most famous and prolific glamour artist of all time.
Born February 9, 1896, in Peru, Alberto Vargas was the son of a renowned photographer, Max Vargas, who had taught him how to use an airbrush by the time he was thirteen. Vargas' first encounter with America happened about noon at Broadway and Fourteenth Street, when he was suddenly surrounded by a lunchtime crowd of smartly dressed office workers. Mesmerized by their grace, sophistication, and beauty the young artist decided he would spend his life glorifying the American Girl.
Vargas maintained a full schedule throughout the 1920s, working for a diverse group of clients in addition to the Follies and Paramount. Vargas. By 1935, he was working for Warner Brothers and, before the decade was over, for MGM.
Vargas' first calendar jobs were two pastel glamour pin-ups executed for Joseph C. Hoover and Sons between 1937 and 1939. He became an American citizen in 1939.
Vargas continued to paint Hollywood stars while he worked for Esquire. His 1941 movie poster of Betty Grable in Moon Over Miami was a great success; among the other leading ladies he painted were such stars as Jane Russell, Ann Sheridan, Ava Gardner Linda Darnell, Marlene Dietrich, Loretta Young, and Marilyn Monroe.
In 1957, Playboy magazine published a pictorial feature on Vargas' nudes, which drew the attention of publisher Hugh Hefner.Embarking on this momentous association in 1960, Vargas was to paint 152 works for Playboy during this period, adapting to new moral standards and more explicit sexuality.
This one is untitled.
Next we have an artist named Jennifer Janesko
Janesko began drawing and painting female images at a very early age. The Kansas City artist started exhibiting sensual female paintings in galleries after graduating from Stephens College with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in December, 1989. As a fine artist, Jennifer focuses her attention on the female form. As an added effect, Jennifer often uses metallic gold and silver on selected areas of clothing and accessories. The hard, reflective metallic sharply contrasts with the soft, flowing skin for a dramatic effect. Jennifer uses airbrush and paintbrush to create a mixed media painting.
Jennifer Janesko's distinctive art is quickly achieving international recognition. Playboy magazine featured illustrations by Janesko in the June 1998, March 1999, March 2000 and February 2001 issues.
Title: "Fit to be Tied"
Last, we have Drew Posada
He was born in 1969, as Andrew Posada and raised in a very poor household that didn’t have money to buy sporting equipment and video games, etc. but always had pencils and paper.
He became a professional freelance artist in 1985. After graduating high school he freelanced as an artist and worked as a picture framer.
In 1994 he was flown down from Seattle to San Diego to try out for a job as an illustrator at Image Comics. They hired him immediately and he worked for quite a few studios within Image; Top Cow, Wildstorm and Extreme.
Title: Heaven and Hell
Ladies, the last time Allan tried this we heard complaints about the pin-up being too young, blah, blah, blah. So in an effort to ameliorate this situation, we give you this:
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Quote of the DayA fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
On This Day in History
1964 The U.S. space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the Moon’s surface.
1777 Marquis de Lafayette, 19, made major-general of Continental Army
1910 Chicago Cub King Cole no-hits St Louis, 4-0 in a 7 inning game (posted just for Cubcake fans)
1703 Daniel Defoe is put in the pillory
On this day, Daniel Defoe is put in the pillory as punishment for seditious libel, brought about by the publication of a politically satirical pamphlet.
Defoe's middle-class father had hoped Defoe would enter the ministry, but Defoe decided to become a merchant instead. After he went bankrupt in 1692, he turned to political pamphleteering to support himself. A deft writer, Defoe's pamphlets were highly effective in moving readers. His pamphlet The Shortest Way with Dissenters was an attack on High Churchman, satirically written as if from the High Church point of view but extending their arguments to the point of foolishness. Both sides of the dispute, Dissenters and High Church alike, took the pamphlet seriously, and both sides were outraged to learn it was a hoax. Defoe was arrested for seditious libel in May 1703. While awaiting his punishment, he wrote the spirited "Hymn to the Pillory." The public sympathized with Defoe and threw flowers, instead of the customary rocks, at him while he stood in the pillory.
He was sent back to Newgate Prison, from which Robert Harley, the future Earl of Oxford, obtained his release. Harley hired Defoe as a political writer and spy. To this end, Defoe set up the Review, which he edited and wrote from 1704 to 1713. It wasn't until he was nearly 60 that he began writing fiction. In 1719, The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe's fictional account of a shipwrecked sailor who spent 28 years on a desert island, was published. His other works include Moll Flanders (1722) and Roxana (1724). He died in London in 1731.
1941 Goering orders Heydrich to prepare for the Final Solution
On this day in 1941, Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmler's number-two man, "to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question."
Goering recounted briefly the outline for that "final solution" that had been drawn up on January 24, 1939: "emigration and evacuation in the best possible way." This program of what would become mass, systematic extermination was to encompass "all the territories of Europe under German occupation."
Heydrich already had some experience with organizing such a plan, having reintroduced the cruel medieval concept of the ghetto in Warsaw after the German occupation of Poland. Jews were crammed into cramped walled areas of major cities and held as prisoners, as their property was confiscated and given to either local Germans or non-Jewish Polish peasants.
Behind this horrendous scheme, carried out month by month, country by country, was Hitler, whose "greatest weakness was found in the vast numbers of oppressed peoples who hated [him] and the immoral ways of his government." This assessment was Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's, given at a Kremlin meeting that same day, July 31, with American adviser to the president Harry Hopkins.
Today's Birthdays
1936 Buddy Guy (blues artist)
1965 J. K. Rowling (author - harry potter)
1964 Jim Corr (the corrs - singer, guitarist)
1962 Wesley Snipes (actor)
1912 Milton Friedman (economist)
Thanks to The Quotations Page Famous Birthdays Snopes
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WTF? Could it be?
By now everyone should know the convention is over. John Kerry blew his wad last night. He gave it all he got.We all know that by day, he's a left leaning, flip flopping socialistic America hating liberal.
But by night...the rallying cry goes out: (Sung to the tune of Mighty Mouse
Good socialists all hang around
When they hear this Mighty sound.
"Trust me! Help is on the way"
That means that Poodle Mouse is on his way.
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