| Have a most blessed and awesome day! |
Today is...
| (answer below) |
| February 9 |
| Unscramble The Word |
| Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ~ Kahlil Gibran |
| The story you are about to read is true. The name(s) may have been changed to protect the stupid... Bozo criminal for today comes from Brunswick, GA. Bozo Bob Hall snatched a woman's purse in a shopping center parking lot. The woman was able to give a good description to the police and so the police were quickly able to pick up Bob as a suspect. The police explained to the Bozo that they were going to take him back to the shopping center so that they could get a positive ID out of the victim. When they arrived at the scene, the Bozo did exactly as he was told. He stepped from the car, looked at the victim and said, "yeah, that's her. That's the woman I robbed." |
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| " span-new " PRONUNCIATION: ( span-noo, -nyoo ) MEANING: adjective: Brand-new. ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English spannewe, from Old Norse spannyr, from spann (chip of wood) + nyr (new). Ultimately from the Indo-European root newo- (new) that also gave us new, neo-, neon, novice, novel, novelty, innovate, and renovate. The same term appears in the phrase spick-and-span-new which was later shortened into spick-and-span. A spick is a spike; a spick-and-span-new ship referred to a brand new ship, one that is made up of new nails and new wood. USAGE: "Nita Patton: 'I had fun last time and I'd have fun again, especially as Columbus now boasts a bran, span-new hotel." Stanley P. Hirshson; General Patton; HarperCollins; 2003. |
1825 ~ Presidential election decided in the House
As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives
votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the
United States. Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States.
1942 ~ Daylight saving time instituted
On this day, Congress pushes ahead standard time for the United States by one hour in each time zone, imposing daylight
saving time--called at the time "war time."
Daylight saving time, suggested by President Roosevelt, was imposed to conserve fuel, and could be traced back to World
War I, when Congress imposed one standard time on the United States to enable the country to better utilize resources,
following the European model. The 1918 Standard Time Act was meant to be in effect for only seven months of the year--and
was discontinued nationally after the war. But individual states continued to turn clocks ahead one hour in spring and back
one hour in fall. The World War II legislation imposed daylight saving time for the entire nation for the entire year. It was
repealed Sept. 30, 1945, when individual states once again imposed their own "standard" time. It was not until 1966 that
Congress passed legislation setting a standard time that permanently superceded local habits.
1950 ~ McCarthy says communists are in State Department
During a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) claims that he has a list with
the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are "known communists." The speech vaulted McCarthy to
national prominence and sparked a nationwide hysteria about subversives in the American government.
1960 ~ Coors brewery heir is kidnapped
Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. The grandson of the Coors' founder and
chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death. Surrounding
evidence launched one of the FBI's largest manhunts: the search for Joe Corbett.
1965 ~ U.S. sends first combat troops to South Vietnam
A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this
deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there.
1973 ~ Max Yasgur dies
Max Yasgur, owner of the 600-acre farm where the original Woodstock took place in August 1969, dies on this day. More than
400,000 people attended the three-day festival. Concert organizers had expected only 50,000 to show up.
2001 ~ U.S. sub collides with Japanese fishing boat in Pearl Harbor
On this day in 2001, a United States military submarine collides with a Japanese fishing boat in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing
four students and five other people. The USS Greenville was hosting a cruise for VIPs at the time, some of whom were
actually at the controls of the sub when the collision occurred.
As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives
votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the
United States. Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States.
1942 ~ Daylight saving time instituted
On this day, Congress pushes ahead standard time for the United States by one hour in each time zone, imposing daylight
saving time--called at the time "war time."
Daylight saving time, suggested by President Roosevelt, was imposed to conserve fuel, and could be traced back to World
War I, when Congress imposed one standard time on the United States to enable the country to better utilize resources,
following the European model. The 1918 Standard Time Act was meant to be in effect for only seven months of the year--and
was discontinued nationally after the war. But individual states continued to turn clocks ahead one hour in spring and back
one hour in fall. The World War II legislation imposed daylight saving time for the entire nation for the entire year. It was
repealed Sept. 30, 1945, when individual states once again imposed their own "standard" time. It was not until 1966 that
Congress passed legislation setting a standard time that permanently superceded local habits.
1950 ~ McCarthy says communists are in State Department
During a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) claims that he has a list with
the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are "known communists." The speech vaulted McCarthy to
national prominence and sparked a nationwide hysteria about subversives in the American government.
1960 ~ Coors brewery heir is kidnapped
Adolph Coors disappears while driving to work from his Morrison, Colorado, home. The grandson of the Coors' founder and
chairman of the Golden, Colorado, brewery was kidnapped and held for ransom before being shot to death. Surrounding
evidence launched one of the FBI's largest manhunts: the search for Joe Corbett.
1965 ~ U.S. sends first combat troops to South Vietnam
A U.S. Marine Corps Hawk air defense missile battalion is deployed to Da Nang. President Johnson had ordered this
deployment to provide protection for the key U.S. airbase there.
1973 ~ Max Yasgur dies
Max Yasgur, owner of the 600-acre farm where the original Woodstock took place in August 1969, dies on this day. More than
400,000 people attended the three-day festival. Concert organizers had expected only 50,000 to show up.
2001 ~ U.S. sub collides with Japanese fishing boat in Pearl Harbor
On this day in 2001, a United States military submarine collides with a Japanese fishing boat in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing
four students and five other people. The USS Greenville was hosting a cruise for VIPs at the time, some of whom were
actually at the controls of the sub when the collision occurred.
| If I could have just one wish, I would wish to wake up everyday to the sound of your breath on my neck, the warmth of your lips on my cheek, the touch of your fingers on my skin, and the feel of your heart beating with mine... Knowing that I could never find that feeling with anyone other than you. ~*~ Courtney Kuchta ~*~ |
| Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. ~Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989) |
| If we each had a mirror which would perfectly reflect everything that was inside of us... what would we see? Would we see a beautiful... magnificent world in that mirror .... or would things look pretty much the same as they do right now? To a great extent...the world around us is a mirror of what is within us. The fact of the matter is... we tend to see what we look for... people tend to treat us as we expect to be treated. Everything that we experience .... comes from the very actions we take. When we think of the world as a mirror or ourself... we can then consider whether or not we like what we see. More importantly... we realize that we have the power to change it. Our world is a part of us... our world is an expression of us. With our thoughts and our actions... we can make it what we want it to be. |
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