Sarah Palin is the other whom Yoda spoke about.
Wednesday - July 28, 2004
Facts for you
I got this from a friend and hopefully you will benefit from the data provided. Print it out. Rub it in a liberal's face if you have to.It comes from the Bush/Cheney '04 campaign and talks to the real numbers behind the economy. For the table which displays much of the data discussed below, please click here.
John Kerry is traveling the nation on his misery tour, inundating voters with his pessimism about America's economy. What voters may not realize, however, is that the growing economy that Kerry continues to talk down is remarkably similar to the economy Bill Clinton touted during his 1996 reelection campaign and that Kerry speaks of in glowing terms. Unemployment was 5.6 percent in May 1996, the exact same level as it is now. The average monthly payroll growth from January to May 1996 was 233,000 jobs, and from January to May 2004 the economy created an average of 238,000 jobs each month. Many key economic indicators are stronger today than in 1996, including GDP growth and homeownership.
President Bush's leadership has helped America overcome great challenges, including 9/11, war and recession. As a result of the President's pro-growth policies, America's economy today is strong and getting stronger-even stronger than Bill Clinton's 1996 economy.
Analysis
Job growth is as robust as it was in the mid-1990s. Average monthly payroll job growth for the last five months is stronger than during the same period in 1996. And contrary to Kerry's claim, the gross job growth is occurring in high-paying industries including manufacturing. On average, more Americans were in part-time jobs during President Clinton's first term than President Bush's first term. Kerry says that today's job growth is occurring only in part-time work and food service jobs, yet ignores Clinton's eight year record:
Three times more temporary jobs (1.3 million) than manufacturing jobs were created (385,000).
Four times more food service jobs (1.53 million) were created than manufacturing jobs (385,000).
More food service jobs (1.53 million) were created than Internet and telecommunications jobs (1 million).
More temporary jobs (1.3 million) were created than Internet and telecommunications jobs (1 million).
Unemployment
The unemployment rate is lower than the average of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The unemployment rates match President Clinton's during the exact same time periods.
Growth
Production has soared during President Bush's stewardship. Real GDP increased at an average 5.6% over the last three quarter, more than two percentage points faster than the comparable period of the Clinton Administration. Propelled by low inflation and middle class tax relief real after tax workers' pay has increased at more than twice the rate experienced at this point in the Clinton Administration, $1,900 under President Bush versus just $980 under President Clinton. Despite the stock-bubble bursting and mutual fund scandals, more American households own stock and mutual funds than in 1996. Where Kerry sees misery, consumers see progress and opportunity. Consumer sentiment is as high as it was in the mid-1990s and consumer expectations are strong as well.
Homeownership
Homeownership is at record levels and for the first time in our nation's history, more than half of all minorities own their own home. The National Realtors Association's Housing Affordability Index reveals that during the first quarter of 2004, the nation's typical household had 144.1% of the income needed to purchase a home at the median existing-home price, which was $170,800. In the first quarter, a median-income household ($54,517) could afford a home costing $246,100, which is well above the national median price of $170,800. In contrast, a median-income household could only afford a home with a median price of $145,000 in 1996.
Middle-income families are not only able to afford a home, but they're buying much larger homes. More than 57% of new home construction in 2003 were housing units larger than 2,000 square feet of floor area - up from only 48% in 1996. And today, despite Kerry's claims that middle-income families are more squeezed, families are spending more dining out, giving more to charity, and even going on more cruises - a vacation option once thought only available to the wealthy.
More To Be Done
President Bush has said that he will not rest until every American who wants a job can find one. He understands the difficulty of workers transitioning from old economy jobs to Innovation economy jobs which is why he has increased job training funding by 12% to $23 billion and raised support for Trade Adjustment Assistance by 150%. President Bush is determined, even with today's record homeownership levels, to close the gap between minority and non-minority homeownership. He has proposed the No Down Payment Mortgage and enacted the American Dream Downpayment Act to help thousands of families own their own home. The President's policies are working to strengthen our growing economy, train workers for high-paying jobs, and help Americans achieve their dreams.
Sources:
Jobs and Unemployment: BLS
Economy: Richard Rahn, "Tallying Presidential Economic Success," Washington Times, 6/18/2004; Equity Ownership in America, SIA and Investment Company Institute, 2002; Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 5/21/2004; U.S. Census Bureau, "Statistical Abstract of the United States," 1996 and 2003; BLS
Homeownership: Census/HUD; National Realtors Association
Quality of Life: US. Census Bureau Current Population Survey; Food and Drug Administration; National Restaurant Association; Cruise Line International Association; "The 'personalities' of cruise ships," MSNBC, 12/12/2003; Giving USA 1996, 2003
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Counter-punch
Thanks to Barb I was turned on to this issue which, as I read into it, really rankles me.It concerns Andrew Sullivan, the openly homosexual journalist and commentary writer who professes to be Republican but is now equally openly considering the possibility of voting for Kerry. (Can you tell it will be for one issue only regardless of what he may be saying?)
It all started with this site, The Spoons Experience criticizing Sullivan for his blatant "donations" icon after every post. Sullivan claims to need to money to run his blog. Spoons disagrees.
So the effort is this: rather than contribute to Sullivan, how about donating to other "more conservative" sites: like ours? hehehe
Really, though, what Sullivan is doing is blatant pandering. I am not sure if he is serious about voting for Kerry or if it is just a ruse to dupe liberals to give him money. A part of me says that if he engages in the latter and actually gets donations, so much the better as those liberals now have less to give to other liberals.
A bigger part of me says it is unethical and does not reflect well on other conservative bloggers for we will be seen as nothing but a bunch of money grubbers. Worse yet we will be likened to politicians who will say anything to get you to support them.
OK, I've said/made my piece/peace on this issue.
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What to Watch For
When The Poodle gives his acceptance speech on Thursday night, see if he answers these 4 questions:1. If Kerry were president, would he be willing to use force? (he voted for this before he voted against it)
2. If Kerry had been president the past four years, would Saddam still be in power? ( see #1 above)
3. If Kerry were president, would we pull out of Iraq? (witness what he did in Vietnam)
4. If Kerry were president, would marriage be redefined? (witness how he did not vote on this resolution last week)
According to William Kristol the answers to these questions will help sKerry define himself and show how he is different from other Dems. Of course, those of us on the other side of the aisle know this is a hopeless case but it will be an interesting exercise nevertheless.
The Master of the FLIP-FLOP might be very entertaining Thursday.
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Leno’s Liners
John Kerry decided on the new party slogan, "The Democratic Party - love it or shove it”.John Kerry threw out the first ball before last night’s Yankees-Red Sox game in Boston. You probably saw that. In fact, Kerry asked "Where do you want me on the field? I can take any position.”
Actually, Boston is the perfect city for the Democrats. The Democrats are just like the Red Sox. They’re optimistic in the spring, concerned in the summer and ready to choke in the fall.
CNN announced that Bush’s missing National Guard records have been found! Here’s the amazing thing - you know where they found ‘em? Inside former National Security Adviser Sandy Berger’s pants!
This has not been a good year for political quotes. When I was a kid, I remember John F. Kennedy, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” And those were great quotes. What do we have this year? We had "Shove it”, "girlie men”, and Dick Cheney saying "go f yourself.”
Congratulations to Lance Armstrong! Won his 6th Tour de France! President Bush phoned lance immediately after his win. Which was a surprise. Not that Bush called him. That he was able to get past the French operator without hanging up on him. "This is President Bush. Click. Hello, hello…it’s President Bush.”
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Quote of the DayIt is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.' Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
On This Day in History
1540 King Henry VIII of England's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, was executed (all loyalists supporting Caesar take note!!!) and Henry married his fifth wife, Catherine Howard.
1750 The great baroque composer Johann Sebastian Bach died.
1868 The 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which established the citizenship of African Americans and guaranteed due process of law, was ratified.
1914 Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, precipitating the start of World War I.
1945 US Army bomber crashes into 79th floor of Empire State Bldg, 14 die
1945 U.S. Senate approves United Nations charter
In a ringing declaration indicating that America's pre-World War II isolation was truly at an end, the U.S. Senate approves the charter establishing the United Nations. In the years to come, the United Nations would be the scene of some of the most memorable Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
In 1919, following the close of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson implored the U.S. Senate to approve the charter for the League of Nations. Postwar isolationism and partisan politics killed U.S. participation in the League, however. In July 1945, with World War II coming to a close, the U.S. Senate indicated the sea change in American attitudes toward U.S. involvement in world affairs by approving the charter for the United Nations by a vote of 89 to 2. President Harry S. Truman was delighted with the vote, declaring, "The action of the Senate substantially advances the cause of world peace." Acting Secretary of State Joseph Grew also applauded the Senate's action, noting, "Millions of men, women and children have died because nations took to the naked sword instead of the conference table to settle their differences." The U.N. charter would provide the "foundation and cornerstone on which the international organization to keep the peace will be built." Once the charter had been ratified by a majority of the 50 nations that hammered out the charter in June 1945, the U.S. Senate formally approved U.S. participation in the United Nations in December 1945.
Whether the United Nations became a "foundation and cornerstone" of world peace in the years that followed is debatable, but it was certainly the scene of several notable Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1950, with the Russians absent from the U.N. Security Council, the United States pushed through a resolution providing U.N. military assistance to South Korea in the Korean War. And in one memorable moment, during a speech denouncing Western imperialism in 1960, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev took off one of his shoes and pounded his table with it to make his point.
1976 Worst modern earthquake
At 3:42 a.m., an earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 magnitude on the Richter scale flattens Tangshan, a Chinese industrial city with a population of about one million people. As almost everyone was asleep in their beds, instead of outside in the relative safety of the streets, the quake was especially costly in terms of human life. An estimated 242,000 people in Tangshan and surrounding areas were killed, making the earthquake one of the deadliest in recorded history, surpassed only by the 300,000 who died in the Calcutta earthquake in 1737, and the 830,000 thought to have perished in China's Shaanxi province in 1556.
Caught between the Indian and Pacific plates, China has been a very active location for earthquakes throughout history. Earthquakes have also played a significant part in China's culture and science, and the Chinese were the first to develop functioning seismometers. The area of northern China hit by the Tangshan earthquake is particularly prone to the westward movement of the Pacific plate.
In the days preceding the earthquake, people began to notice strange phenomena in and around Tangshan. Well-water levels rose and fell. Rats were seen running in panicked packs in broad daylight. Chickens refused to eat. During the evening of July 27 and the early morning hours of July 28, people reported flashes of colored light and roaring fireballs. Still, at 3:42 a.m. most people were sleeping quietly when the earthquake struck. It lasted for 23 seconds and leveled 90 percent of Tangshan's buildings.
The Chinese government was ill-prepared for a disaster of this scale. The day following the quake, helicopters and planes began dropping food and medicine into the city. Some 100,000 soldiers of the People's Liberation Army were ordered to Tangshan, and many had to march on foot from Jinzhou, a distance of more than 180 miles. About 30,000 medical personnel were called in, along with 30,000 construction workers. The Chinese government, boasting self-sufficiency, refused all offers of foreign relief aid. In the crucial first week after the crisis, many died from lack of medical care.
Tangshan was eventually rebuilt with adequate earthquake precautions. Today, nearly two million people live there. There is speculation that the death toll from the 1976 quake was much higher than the official Chinese government figure of 242,000. Some Chinese sources have spoken privately of more than 500,000 deaths.
Today's Birthdays
1964 David Spade (comedian, actor)
1955 Willem Dafoe (actor)
1944 Bobby Sherman (singer)
1934 Louise Fletcher (actress)
1923 Robert Dole (US Senate majority leader)
1890 Rose Kennedy (mother of JFK, Robert, edward)
1866 Beatrix Potter England, children's author (Tale of Peter Rabbit)
1907 Earl S Tupper invented Tupperware
1929 Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1st lady (1961-63)
1949 Vida Blue major-league pitcher (Cy Young & AL MVP 1971)
Thanks to The Quotations Page Famous Birthdays Snopes
Tuesday - July 27, 2004
Caesar Speaks, Part II
All right. I confess.I've been in Boston since Sunday. Unfortunately, I'm under a vile agreement not to post any comments until Saturday.
Be prepared. On Saturday, I will literally explode. Duck and cover, kids.
My bullshit meter is pegged and completely broken.
I will also have an important announcement to make. Stay tuned.
P.S. Michael Moore is an EXTREMEMLY FAT FUCK. I got as close as ten feet away. Too close. Way too f**king close.
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OH MY GOD!!!!
I almost blew my gin and tonic out my nose when I read this.FRANCE, yes, FRANCE, the home of the famous Surrender Monkeys, may finally have done something right!
They annulled their first homosexual marriage and the mayor that allowed it was suspended!
There may be hope yet!
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Can Voters For The Poodle Be Dangerous?
I got this from Neal Boortz's site and thought it was so good I just hijacked it over here.On Friday he made a comment that got lots of folks riled up such that they are demanding his show be cancelled. But check out what he said and wonder for yourself how any bunch of people can be SO bloody stupid to make the associations they made. Then again, this from the same group that equate Bush with Hitler so the surprise factor SHOULD be low.
WELL ... THAT DAMNED SURE GOT THEM RILED UP! What got them riled up, you say? Me. Friday. Oh boy, you should see the email. Letters to sponsors, radio stations, the Democratic National Committee all pretty much demanding the same thing ... that I be cancelled/fired/executed.
So, why all the fuss? Because I said on Friday that I honestly couldn't make up my mind which group of people was more dangerous to the future of this country: (a) Islamic jihadist terrorists; or, (b) people who intended to vote for The Poodle for president.
It seems that some of the more strident complainers were convinced that I had compared Kerry voters to Islamic terrorists. This quality of thought is pretty much what you would expect from someone who would cast a Democratic ballot, but for those of you who did manage the incredible feat of graduating from a government school .. let's put that to rest. You can die if someone fires an apple at your head at 150 miles per hour. You can also die if someone drops a Volkswagen on you. Either the apple or the VW can be dangerous, but that does not mean that apples and VWs are alike. Ergo ... saying that both Kerry voters and Islamic terrorist can be dangerous is not necessarily comparing one to the other. I know that's a bit tough for you government school grads, but if you read this paragraph a few times I'm sure you'll get the idea.
Now ... let's deal with the question of whether or not I was out of line suggesting that Kerry voters, as a group, could possibly be as or more dangerous to this country as, say, whatever remains of al Qaeda.
First question: Can voters actually be dangerous? That's a hanging curve ball. Hitler was elected in Germany. Nuff said.
So ... second question. Can Kerry voters be dangerous. Well now that would be a matter of opinion, wouldn't it? My opinion is that they very well can be, especially if there are enough of them out there to actually put Mr. Paper Cut Purple Heart into the White House with his trial lawyer pal. I consider Kerry to be dangerous to the future of our Republic, to freedom and to economic liberty. You may disagree. So be it. Consider, though, my reasoning. Here's a brief list of the threats Kerry poses to our country, not necessarily in the order of their severity.
1. Kerry is soft on sovereignty. As Boston Herald columnist Cosmo Macero says: "Never has the dilution of U.S. Sovereignty been so boldly forecast." This is a man who said that the United States should not deploy troops overseas without the "permission" of the United Nations. He made no exceptions. He stated it as a hard and fast rule. Do we want a president who seeks the permission of the United Nations before he can act in what he believes to be the best interests of the United States? Oh .. to be sure, Kerry wouldn't dare make this statement today. He's running for office! Tell me ... just when do you think a person speaks his true mind? Hint: It's not when he's in the middle of the campaign. Remember ... Kerry has instructed Democrats to hold back on their anti-war statements during the convention. He knows that many of the voters he wants to convince approve of the liberation of Iraq. He also knows that most of the voters don't think the UN should have veto power over US military deployments. Believe him now at your peril.
2. Kerry is an appeaser. Kerry knows that many of the principal members of the European Union want to build the strength of that body on the declining weakness of America. The leaders of these countries are quite upset over George Bush's show of strength in the Middle East. They knew the threat was there, but it was a threat they didn't have the courage to face. The US did. The US is showing strength, Europe is showing weakness. Naturally this is going to breed bitterness toward our country. Kerry wants to address and moderate this bitterness by weakening America through a policy of appeasement.
3. Kerry is a tax-and-spend liberal. Just recently Microsoft announced that it was going to distribute $32 billion ... that's with a "B" ... in Microsoft cash to shareholders via a dividend. Give The Poodle his way and the dividend, which has already been taxed by the Imperial Federal Government, will be taxed again when it reaches the shareholder. How nice. Kerry's spending plans, if enacted, would essentially double the size of the federal government. Virtually every economist out there not working for the government credits Bush's tax cuts with our economic turnaround. Raising taxes is a good way to stop our economy in its tracks.
4. Kerry sends a message of weakness. Islamic terrorists are emboldened when they believe their enemies to be weak. Disagree if you wish, but there's a school of thought out there which believes that the election of John Kerry would send a signal to the wonderful world of Islamic terrorism that America is once again ripe for an attack. I attend that school. How many Americans will die when Kerry brings us the era of appeasement?
5. Kerry sends a message of government dependency. Whatever you need, the government is there to provide it for you. Kerry is pressing the concept of health care as a right. This means that the person in need of health care would have, under a Kerry regime, an enforceable right to a portion of the life of some health care provider somewhere. If health care is a right, what else? The right to a home? The right to a job?
I've said it before, but here we go again for the record. We're in the middle of World War IV. Bin Laden has pledged to kill as many Americans as he can. He has even set a goal of four million. Will you be one of those? How about a member of your family? The Democrats are going to nominate a man who was opposed to removing Saddam Hussein from Kuwait. A man who voted for the Iraq war, and then voted to deny the funding our troops needed to pursue that action. The Democrats are nominating a man who believes that the United Nations should have veto power over American military moves. A man who would weaken the American economy through ratification of the Kyoto Treaty and the imposition of tax increases on the very people who are now powering our economic revival.
Kerry is dangerous. Anyone who would put him in power is dangerous. Islamic jihadists are dangerous. The question as to which group presents a greater threat to our Republic, to our freedoms and economic liberty is a valid one. I suspect that some Kerry voters are just a wee bit uncomfortable with the possible consequences of their actions
From the Mouthes of Spouses
These are bound to hit the fan in conservative circles.The wife of the democratic governor of Iowa stated in a speech that:
``I am fascinated at the way some African-Americans speak to each other in an English I struggle to understand, then switch to standard English when the situation requires''
Cries will be heard throughout the land that she is insensitive to the plights of Blacks. Conservatives will vilify her by saying that if it had been them to utter that quote their heads would be on media pikes throughout the land.
Remember that Bill Cosby said basically the same thing a couple of weeks ago and conservatives were praising him to high heaven.
Is this the sort of conundrum where, if we criticize her it'll be strictly partisan as we agree with her premise? Or do we engage in attack-dog measures because that's how we'd have been treated by Dems, the media, and Blacks themselves?
Then The Poodle's mistress is quoted back from 1975 as saying "I don't trust Ted Kennedy" and that Democrats are "putrid."
29 years ago she was a Republican.
What say you, readers? Think hard on these before you respond.
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From Newsmax.--- And the day after the 9/11 report came out saying we do not have the luxury of time, Congress has left for a 6 week vacation. Great timing, guys! And you wonder what the problem is.
--- Leave it to Congress to make George W. Bush look like a workaholic!
---Sandy Berger hasn’t read it either, but he’s does have a copy in his pants.
---Do you know about this? Sandy Berger who was President Clinton’s National Security Advisor and also an advisor to Senator Kerry is now under criminal investigation for putting classified documents into his pants and sneaking them out of the national archives. Well, thank God his pants never fell into enemy hands.
---In "ESPN” magazine, John Kerry said he’s learned a lot about life from playing sports. He had to fight! Yeah like so many other kids in impoverished areas who turn to polo as a way out.
---The Kerry Campaign said that Kerry will show his "softer” side for the convention. We’ve already seen him and John Edwards fondling each other. How much softer than that can you get? What’s next? The two of them spooning now?
---During the Democratic Convention in Boston next week, Bill Clinton is scheduled to host a policy briefing at the Wang Theater. Oh there's a good idea. The Democrats are putting Clinton in the Wang Theater. Don’t they see where this is leading too? The Democrats are putting Clinton in the Wang Theater! That's like the Republicans putting Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Hooters restaurant.
Update
In this post I commented how the left idolizes their heroes no matter what crimes they commit nor what lack of morals or ethics they possess.One of the people mentioned was Clinton's AIDS czar who got suspended for possession of a controlled substance. His name is R. Scott Hitt. He goes by Scott. Guess what? There is more. The drug charge was from two months ago. Now he's voluntarily turned in his license after having been nailed for abusing and fondling his patients.
And...OBTW......this guy? S.Hitt? He's a homosexual doctor in the land of Californication.
Let's see now. A Clinton appointee. Criminal mischief. Homosexual. Morally corrupt. Ethically challenged.
Gee! What a surprise!
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This says it all
Thanks, Laurie!
Weird News
Just what we need. A car capable of showing emotion. A car:"with an antenna that wags, an adjustable body height, headlights that vary in intensity, and hood slits and ornamentation designed to look like eyebrows, eyelids and tears, all of which could glow with colored lights to create moods and physical features."
And to what end? According to the inventors, so that driving can be "more entertaining."
WTF,O?
Entertaining? I thought driving was supposed to be taken seriously? Isn't it bad enough we have to deal with stupid maroons putting on makeup? Or eating breakfast? Or talking on the phone? Or taking their eyes off the road to punch in phone numbers so they can tell their spouses they just left the driveway and are headed down the street? Or reading newspapers? Or managing screaming kids in the backseat? Or all the above simultaneously? Now you're having them fiddle with knobs and switches to wink, blink, display "rolling" teardrops, raise or lower actual car body, etc? What are these assholes thinking?
A dentist has you sit in his chair, prepares you for dental work and then injects his semen into your mouth via a syringe.
You'll love this----a psychiatrist say he DOES NOT have "a psychiatric illness or an interest in deviant sex."
It gets worse. Thus same psychiatrist thinks this moonbat asshole can continue to practice:
"with a reasonable degree of safety to his patients" if he gets psychological counseling about appropriate boundaries "as far as the joking with sexual undertones, being too friendly and familiar with people."
Further, this psychiatrist thinks:
"he should have a mandatory chaperone, that his therapist should make regular reports to the board, that his staff should monitor his behavior and that he should take a lie-detector test every six months."
For what? So that after parole he can continue to do this to unsuspecting patients? What if the SOB is HIV positive? What about his patients then? Or is that what it will take to consider him to be deviant?
I believe it is time his victims, armed with baseball bats, get a chance to meet him behind a barn somewhere. Afterwards they can participate in this study.
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Quote of the DayTo be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy. Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
On This Day in History
1923 Dillinger joins the Navy in an attempt to avoid prosecution
John Herbert Dillinger joins the Navy in order to avoid charges of auto theft in Indiana, marking the beginning of America's most notorious criminal's downfall. Years later, Dillinger's reputation was forged in a single 12-month period, during which he robbed more banks than Jesse James did in 15 years and became the most wanted fugitive in the nation.
Dillinger didn't last in the Navy very long. Within months he had gone AWOL several times-the last time in December 1923. Making his way back to Indiana, he was arrested for armed robbery the following summer. Dillinger pled guilty, thinking that he would receive a light sentence, but instead got 10 to 20 years. His first words to the warden at the prison were, "I won't cause you any trouble except to escape." A man of his word, Dillinger had attempted to escape three times by the end of the year.
Ironically, his eventual arrest was the result of pure luck. While hiding out in Tucson, Arizona, Dillinger was caught in a fire that broke out in his hotel. Firefighters became suspicious when two gang members offered them a large sum of money to save two heavy suitcases. When they found a small arsenal of guns inside, everyone was taken into custody.
Dillinger was extradited to Indiana and held in what was believed to be an escape-proof jail, with extra guards posted to protect against outside attacks. But on March 3, 1934, Dillinger used a fake pistol that he had carved out of wood and painted black to escape. For the next several months, Dillinger and his gang went on a bank-robbing spree with the FBI one step behind at all times. J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, reportedly put out an order that agents should shoot Dillinger on sight. An illegal immigrant named Anna Sage offered to set the outlaw up if deportation proceedings against her were dropped. On July 22, 1934, detective Martin Zarkovich shot a man identified by the FBI as Dillinger as was leaving the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois.
Some historians believe that the man killed that day was not Dillinger, but Jimmy Lawrence. They think that Dillinger engineered the setup to drop out of sight. If so, he was successful-no further record of Dillinger exists.
1940 Bugs Bunny's debut
On this day in 1940, Bugs Bunny first appears on the silver screen in "A Wild Hare." The wisecracking rabbit had evolved through several earlier short films. As in many future installments of Bugs Bunny cartoons, "A Wild Hare" featured Bugs as the would-be dinner for frustrated hunter Elmer Fudd.
Cartoon animation first appeared in 1908 in France, followed quickly by American cartoons. In 1909, a newspaper cartoon artist named Winsor McCay created Gertie the Dinosaur, the first animated character to appear regularly on the screen. In 1918, McCay produced The Sinking of the Lusitania, the first feature-length cartoon. A variety of recurring cartoons developed by the late teens and early '20s, and these characters became more popular after the development of sound pictures in the late 1920s. Walt Disney introduced the Silly Symphonies cartoons and created Mickey Mouse and his gang. By the mid-1930s, Disney was making feature-length musical cartoons like "Sleeping Beauty."
Under the direction of animation director Tex Avery, Warner Bros. developed its own set of cartoon stars, including Bugs, Elmer, Tweety, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and many others. Bugs was animated by Chuck Jones, and his famous accent came from legendary voice man Mel Blanc. Blanc started with Warner Bros. in 1937, creating the voices (or sounds) for Bugs, Road Runner, Sylvester, and Tweety Bird, among other characters.
Today's Birthdays
1789 Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1948 Peggy Fleming, ice figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1949 Havilland Comet 40-passenger airliner makes maiden flight
1953 Armistice signed ending Korean War
2003 Lance Armstrong won his fifth straight Tour de France, tying Miguel Indurain's record.
2003 Comedian Bob Hope died in his home, at the age of 100.
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Monday - July 26, 2004
Caesar Speaks
Our Imperial Bat Catcher is doing a fine job ranting and managing the blog in the absence of our Imperial person. However, he has gone slightly unhinged with the extra power with which he has temporarily been given. Pay no attention to any posts pertaining to myself. Vilmar will be dealt with upon my return. I promise not to hurt him too badly since he has been a good and loyal troop until my recent absence.In the meantime, encourage him to "stay on message". I've just had to endure speeches by Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton and Slick Willie Clinton himself. Right now, Caesar is very tired and nauseated. And grumpy. I encourage Vilmar to retain sanity at all costs. Carrying the blog alone is a heavy burden but I would gladly swap places with him. I am here in "The Belly Of The Beast", lurking in the shadows, my life in danger every moment.
Memo to Dottie: no, I am not in Boston .. but if I were I would have to lie about it because I would have to obtain credentials to the convention by cutting a deal with a liberal blogger whom I dislike and who hates my guts, and I would have to promise not to write anything on the blog until after the convention .... and I could never do that, could I?
We Should Do This
Isn't it time we start employing these steps the Saudis allegedly are taking?In an effort to round up suspected terrorists, the Saudis have taken the wife and three children of Al-Awfi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.
You know, that's just a great idea! If he refuses, they should start by killing the wife, then the kids, one by one. Hell, if left to grow up they will only turn out like their fucktard father.
Sorry, I have grown cold and heartless when it comes to these dirtbags and since the only thing they understand is brute force, then it should be dished out to them in equal measure.
So................anyone got a heavy, dull-bladed sword?
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