More confessions
When I'm teaching my students, I keep the classroom environment somewhat structured but open and fun. I make a lot of jokes. When I'm using real-life scenarios to illustrate teaching points, I often use situations from my own life. In doing so I often refer to my two ex-wives. I confess to taking the occasional "shot" at them during these examples in order to garner laughs.
While there were issues in both marriages that led to their ultimate demise (infidelity on their part comes to mind immediately), I cannot ignore the fact that I was at least partly to blame. I am not perfect and I did make some mistakes along the way (including proposing marriage twice). I want to acknowledge to the universe that these two women are both intelligent, successful and don't really deserve to be the object of laughter. However, since I preserve their anonymity in front of my students, I think it's okay.
I could be wrong.
* * *
While I'm confessing, I have two other transgressions to confess to today. The first is that I went for fast food this morning. My usual route, along which I planned to stop for something healthy, was too crowded with traffic. I moved to an alternate route and that kept me away from where I wanted to go. So I hit the drive-thru.
And was furious after I'd pulled away from the window. Because in spite of my having mentioned not once, but twice, that I did not want cheese on my order, cheese was there. I suppose it is a good thing that I merely dislike cheese on most things aside from pizza, rather than my being lactose intolerant. I didn't have time to go park and raise heck inside with the manager. I will go to the chain's website and complain. I won't use that location again, even if it means going hungry.
Then I was cut off by a jerk driver who had blown his (yes, his) car's horn at me with a long blast because he felt I had time to make a turn I didn't feel was safe. Oh how I wanted to flip this jerk off as he drove past, at least 15 miles per hour above the posted limit on a city street. I confess to having been sorely tempted to do so.
I did actually flip him the bird, but with my hand held well below the dash so he couldn't see it. It just isn't worth the feeling of satisfaction it would give to risk becoming the victim of road rage.
* * *
Yet another study is out saying that fast food chains should pay their workers a "living wage" and making a specious claim that McDonald's alone is costing the taxpayers $1.2 billion a year by not doing so.
There is a major flaw in their logic. The choice made by McDonald's and the other fast food chains accused of "sponging" off of the taxpayers is based on a successful business model. They offer a low-priced product that their target audience can easily afford. Raising prices significantly in order to pay this so-called "living wage" would drive at least a portion of that audience elsewhere, where bargains in such food would continue to be available.
Plus there is no guarantee in the Constitution or in any other law, prior to Obamacare, that says an employer must provide health insurance benefits to its employees. While Costco has proven that you can make money and not just a little, by offering higher wages and strong benefits, saving money in costs associated with high employee turnover, it isn't the only working business model. Nor should it be mandated in a free, capitalist society.
Our government passed EMTALA (see this link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMTALA) back in 1986 in order to ensure no one died in an emergency room because they couldn't pay for treatment. It was an unfunded mandate. We all pay the cost for treating patients who get cared for under this law's provisions in higher costs that we must pay for our care.
Then there is the biggest flaw in the argument presented by the authors of this study. The fact that the people working at these low-wage jobs at fast food chains would probably not be working in any other industry. They lack the skills to get better jobs, or can't get hired because of arrest records or other problems. Were they not working, they would qualify for welfare and Medicaid and SNAP and all the other programs that the study's authors claim they are using; anyway. They would be a "burden on the taxpayers" whether or not they were working away at a fast food job. By doing that work they are contributing to the economy, possibly qualifying for an Earned Income Credit to better their economic position, and paying into Social Insecurity just in case it survives to the era in which they finally reach retirement age.
I have no problem with the notion that we should not let anyone not be cared for. I have a problem with flawed claims that try to argue an untenable position. The public isn't subsidizing corporate profits with these programs. The programs are there whether or not these private employers choose to offer better wages/benefits.
BTW, no one is talking about a particular problem with Obamacare, because there's so much fussing about the website and the proposed defunding that was defeated.
People who sign up for coverage through an insurance exchange get a 90 day grace period to pay their premiums due at sign-up. So the government will issue subsidy checks for those 90 days even if the person who signed up didn't pay their premium. The insurance company will presumably get those subsidy checks in short order, since they are expected to begin providing benefits immediately upon issuance of the policy.
What happens if the person who signed up decided after the 90 day grace period they'd rather just pay the penalty for failing to comply with the mandate; rather than paying the much higher premium cost? Does the insurer return the money to the government? They've paid commissions to the brokers upon receipt of the subsidy check. Do they get those back?
It's a minor problem and can be easily resolved, but it needs to be resolved and quickly.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Why is it when you want something right then you can't find it, and later when you look for it and don't need it immediately, it is right there where you were looking before?
When will Melissa Rycroft's 15 minutes be up? Not that she's obnoxious, but she's old news.
Just what is it on HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' schedule this coming Thursday that's so much more important than testifying before Congress? When was this event originally scheduled? Why can't it be moved so she can testify when asked?
Now that Melissa McCarthy has said she chose the overcoat and hairstyle for the Elle cover, will all of those accusing the magazine of "fat-shaming" just shut up?
Martha Stewart and J.C. Penney are breaking up, sort of. This just shows the deal the retailer made with her wasn't legal to begin with and they don't want to lose in court.
Wrigley heiress Helen Rosburg, a published author, unashamed of her tattoos and animal rescuer gets two big thumbs up from me for stepping in and saving a Marine from being separated from his two rescue dogs. She paid to charter a flight to take the man, his family and his dogs to their new assignment.
I'm still shaking my head at the idiot Brit who chose to phone in a bomb threat to the venue where his wedding was scheduled to take place; rather than admit he'd simply forgotten to book the venue. What the hell was he thinking? I guess 12 months in jail will give him time to figure it out.
This video of a high school student kicking a 40 yard field goal to win a new car is pretty interesting: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/teen-hits-halftime-field-goal-kicks-off-shoe-183105552.html.
The thief from Romania is threatening to sue a Dutch museum after he was nabbed for stealing paintings worth $24 million from it. His lawyer says the museum is at fault for making it "too easy" to steal the three paintings. There's something wrong with the system if he even gets to take this case to a jury.
Last year early tax filers were delayed because Congress delayed in writing the law. This year, they will be delayed in getting their refunds again, because Congress let the government shut down. When does the fallout from the shutdown stop?
Does the fact that the budget for the city of Chicago has a deficit for the coming year of nearly $340 million scare you? Does that fact that deficit might triple by 2016 if the state doesn't engage in pension reform? That sure scares me. The bill for unfunded pension liabilities is coming due, fast.
* * *
This Date In History:
362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 – Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1923 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity
1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Emperor Juntoku of Japan
Erasmus Reinhold (an ancestor of Judge Reinhold?)
Johann Reinhold Forster
Daniel Boone
Franz Liszt
Sarah Bernhardt (which is what my father called my sister whenever he felt she was crying for no reason)
Curly Howard
Jimmie Foxx
Joan Fontaine
Doris Lessing
Timothy Leary
Dory Previn
Bobby Seale
Christopher Lloyd
Tony Roberts
Bobby Fuller (he fought the law and the law won)
Annette Funicello
Jan De Bont
Catherine Deneuve
Deepak Chopra
Richard McGonagle
Haley Barbour
Lynnette Fromme
Debbie Macomber
Jeff Goldblum
Brian Boitano
Valeria Golino
Carlos Mencia
Shaggy
Stephanie Cutter
Spike Jonze
Amy Redford
Ichiro Suzuki
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jonathan Lipnicki
Movie quotes for today come from "Jerry Maguire":
Jerry Maguire: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?
#2
Jerry Maguire: What are you doing with me, Rod?
Rod Tidwell: Why?
Jerry Maguire: I'm finished, I'm fucked. Twenty-four hours ago, man, I was hot! Now... I'm a cautionary tale. You see this jacket I'm wearing, you like it? Because I don't really need it. Because I'm cloaked in failure! I lost the number one draft picked the night before the draft! Why? Let's recap: Because a hockey player's kid made me feel like a superficial jerk. I ate two slices of bad pizza, went to bed and grew a conscience!
Rod Tidwell: Well, boo-fucking-hoo
#3
Jerry Maguire: I'm still sort of moved by your "My word is stronger than oak" thing. (loved this line, delivered perfectly and clearly calling the recipient a baldfaced liar)
#4
[Looking over an inadequate contract]
Jerry Maguire: I'll go back to them.
Marcee Tidwell: And say what? "Please remove your dick from my ass"?
While there were issues in both marriages that led to their ultimate demise (infidelity on their part comes to mind immediately), I cannot ignore the fact that I was at least partly to blame. I am not perfect and I did make some mistakes along the way (including proposing marriage twice). I want to acknowledge to the universe that these two women are both intelligent, successful and don't really deserve to be the object of laughter. However, since I preserve their anonymity in front of my students, I think it's okay.
I could be wrong.
* * *
While I'm confessing, I have two other transgressions to confess to today. The first is that I went for fast food this morning. My usual route, along which I planned to stop for something healthy, was too crowded with traffic. I moved to an alternate route and that kept me away from where I wanted to go. So I hit the drive-thru.
And was furious after I'd pulled away from the window. Because in spite of my having mentioned not once, but twice, that I did not want cheese on my order, cheese was there. I suppose it is a good thing that I merely dislike cheese on most things aside from pizza, rather than my being lactose intolerant. I didn't have time to go park and raise heck inside with the manager. I will go to the chain's website and complain. I won't use that location again, even if it means going hungry.
Then I was cut off by a jerk driver who had blown his (yes, his) car's horn at me with a long blast because he felt I had time to make a turn I didn't feel was safe. Oh how I wanted to flip this jerk off as he drove past, at least 15 miles per hour above the posted limit on a city street. I confess to having been sorely tempted to do so.
I did actually flip him the bird, but with my hand held well below the dash so he couldn't see it. It just isn't worth the feeling of satisfaction it would give to risk becoming the victim of road rage.
* * *
Yet another study is out saying that fast food chains should pay their workers a "living wage" and making a specious claim that McDonald's alone is costing the taxpayers $1.2 billion a year by not doing so.
There is a major flaw in their logic. The choice made by McDonald's and the other fast food chains accused of "sponging" off of the taxpayers is based on a successful business model. They offer a low-priced product that their target audience can easily afford. Raising prices significantly in order to pay this so-called "living wage" would drive at least a portion of that audience elsewhere, where bargains in such food would continue to be available.
Plus there is no guarantee in the Constitution or in any other law, prior to Obamacare, that says an employer must provide health insurance benefits to its employees. While Costco has proven that you can make money and not just a little, by offering higher wages and strong benefits, saving money in costs associated with high employee turnover, it isn't the only working business model. Nor should it be mandated in a free, capitalist society.
Our government passed EMTALA (see this link for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMTALA) back in 1986 in order to ensure no one died in an emergency room because they couldn't pay for treatment. It was an unfunded mandate. We all pay the cost for treating patients who get cared for under this law's provisions in higher costs that we must pay for our care.
Then there is the biggest flaw in the argument presented by the authors of this study. The fact that the people working at these low-wage jobs at fast food chains would probably not be working in any other industry. They lack the skills to get better jobs, or can't get hired because of arrest records or other problems. Were they not working, they would qualify for welfare and Medicaid and SNAP and all the other programs that the study's authors claim they are using; anyway. They would be a "burden on the taxpayers" whether or not they were working away at a fast food job. By doing that work they are contributing to the economy, possibly qualifying for an Earned Income Credit to better their economic position, and paying into Social Insecurity just in case it survives to the era in which they finally reach retirement age.
I have no problem with the notion that we should not let anyone not be cared for. I have a problem with flawed claims that try to argue an untenable position. The public isn't subsidizing corporate profits with these programs. The programs are there whether or not these private employers choose to offer better wages/benefits.
BTW, no one is talking about a particular problem with Obamacare, because there's so much fussing about the website and the proposed defunding that was defeated.
People who sign up for coverage through an insurance exchange get a 90 day grace period to pay their premiums due at sign-up. So the government will issue subsidy checks for those 90 days even if the person who signed up didn't pay their premium. The insurance company will presumably get those subsidy checks in short order, since they are expected to begin providing benefits immediately upon issuance of the policy.
What happens if the person who signed up decided after the 90 day grace period they'd rather just pay the penalty for failing to comply with the mandate; rather than paying the much higher premium cost? Does the insurer return the money to the government? They've paid commissions to the brokers upon receipt of the subsidy check. Do they get those back?
It's a minor problem and can be easily resolved, but it needs to be resolved and quickly.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Why is it when you want something right then you can't find it, and later when you look for it and don't need it immediately, it is right there where you were looking before?
When will Melissa Rycroft's 15 minutes be up? Not that she's obnoxious, but she's old news.
Just what is it on HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' schedule this coming Thursday that's so much more important than testifying before Congress? When was this event originally scheduled? Why can't it be moved so she can testify when asked?
Now that Melissa McCarthy has said she chose the overcoat and hairstyle for the Elle cover, will all of those accusing the magazine of "fat-shaming" just shut up?
Martha Stewart and J.C. Penney are breaking up, sort of. This just shows the deal the retailer made with her wasn't legal to begin with and they don't want to lose in court.
Wrigley heiress Helen Rosburg, a published author, unashamed of her tattoos and animal rescuer gets two big thumbs up from me for stepping in and saving a Marine from being separated from his two rescue dogs. She paid to charter a flight to take the man, his family and his dogs to their new assignment.
I'm still shaking my head at the idiot Brit who chose to phone in a bomb threat to the venue where his wedding was scheduled to take place; rather than admit he'd simply forgotten to book the venue. What the hell was he thinking? I guess 12 months in jail will give him time to figure it out.
This video of a high school student kicking a 40 yard field goal to win a new car is pretty interesting: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/teen-hits-halftime-field-goal-kicks-off-shoe-183105552.html.
The thief from Romania is threatening to sue a Dutch museum after he was nabbed for stealing paintings worth $24 million from it. His lawyer says the museum is at fault for making it "too easy" to steal the three paintings. There's something wrong with the system if he even gets to take this case to a jury.
Last year early tax filers were delayed because Congress delayed in writing the law. This year, they will be delayed in getting their refunds again, because Congress let the government shut down. When does the fallout from the shutdown stop?
Does the fact that the budget for the city of Chicago has a deficit for the coming year of nearly $340 million scare you? Does that fact that deficit might triple by 2016 if the state doesn't engage in pension reform? That sure scares me. The bill for unfunded pension liabilities is coming due, fast.
* * *
This Date In History:
362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
451 – The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
794 – Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heiankyo (now Kyoto).
1383 – The 1383-1385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
1575 – Foundation of Aguascalientes.
1633 – Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1707 – Scilly naval disaster: four British Royal Navy ships run aground near the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and thousands of sailors drown.
1730 – Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1784 – Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
1797 – André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 – The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
1859 – Spain declares war on Morocco.
1866 – A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, occurred three days before, on October 19.
1875 – First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
1877 – The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
1878 – The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
1895 – In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1923 – The royalist Leonardopoulos–Gargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
1924 – Toastmasters International is founded.
1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity
1928 – Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
1934 – In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
1941 – World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
1943 – World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
1946 – Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
1963 – A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
1964 – Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, but turns down the honor.
1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official Flag of Canada.
1966 – The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
1975 – The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
1999 – Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
2005 – Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic Hurricane Season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Emperor Juntoku of Japan
Erasmus Reinhold (an ancestor of Judge Reinhold?)
Johann Reinhold Forster
Daniel Boone
Franz Liszt
Sarah Bernhardt (which is what my father called my sister whenever he felt she was crying for no reason)
Curly Howard
Jimmie Foxx
Joan Fontaine
Doris Lessing
Timothy Leary
Dory Previn
Bobby Seale
Christopher Lloyd
Tony Roberts
Bobby Fuller (he fought the law and the law won)
Annette Funicello
Jan De Bont
Catherine Deneuve
Deepak Chopra
Richard McGonagle
Haley Barbour
Lynnette Fromme
Debbie Macomber
Jeff Goldblum
Brian Boitano
Valeria Golino
Carlos Mencia
Shaggy
Stephanie Cutter
Spike Jonze
Amy Redford
Ichiro Suzuki
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Jonathan Lipnicki
Movie quotes for today come from "Jerry Maguire":
Jerry Maguire: I am out here for you. You don't know what it's like to be ME out here for YOU. It is an up-at-dawn, pride-swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about, ok?
#2
Jerry Maguire: What are you doing with me, Rod?
Rod Tidwell: Why?
Jerry Maguire: I'm finished, I'm fucked. Twenty-four hours ago, man, I was hot! Now... I'm a cautionary tale. You see this jacket I'm wearing, you like it? Because I don't really need it. Because I'm cloaked in failure! I lost the number one draft picked the night before the draft! Why? Let's recap: Because a hockey player's kid made me feel like a superficial jerk. I ate two slices of bad pizza, went to bed and grew a conscience!
Rod Tidwell: Well, boo-fucking-hoo
#3
Jerry Maguire: I'm still sort of moved by your "My word is stronger than oak" thing. (loved this line, delivered perfectly and clearly calling the recipient a baldfaced liar)
#4
[Looking over an inadequate contract]
Jerry Maguire: I'll go back to them.
Marcee Tidwell: And say what? "Please remove your dick from my ass"?
posted by me at 4:35 PM
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