Posted on 04/14/2005 9:57:58 PM PDT by snippy_about_it
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Good morning ALL. It promises to be beautiful here today. About mid 70s.
It seems with Midway, the Japanese got a little careless, tipping their hand with communications on what their target was, not knowing we had cracked their code.
Amen to your post!
Amen is right!
I believe that--sometime this summer or fall--Dubyuh will sign legislation that makes our southern border--and hey, let's not fergit our Northern border--all but impregnable. At the same time, said legislation will require all undocumented workers to register with their local Social Security office within three months to be assigned their FAUX Social Security number (i.e. "IMM666-99-3333") and provide contact information to the authorities. Using this information our newly-empowered BIG GUV'MENT Immigration office, we will begin the process of deporting those who are in our Nation illegally...of course, those who are gainfully-employed may petition fer a 6-month work pass provided they have a legitimate employer willing to go on the hook for them. There's more to this plan, but I've got work to do, please offer input at yer leisure...MUD
Stopping by to say good morning before I head south for the weekend.
I like going south, it feels like I'm going downhill. :-)
Sounds like the beginnin's of a good plan Mud. I'm on board.
I guess that's why Mom and Dad call Kentucky "down home."
Have a safe trip. Keep in touch.
Thanks lady!
You have a good weekend - ya hear? :)
I get to restain the deck. Lucky me!
Morning!
oh dear.... that would NOT be on my list of things-to-do.
however, the more pictures and stuff i take off the wall here the more i think i will have to paint before this house sells. ~ick~
At the great Nimitz museum in Fredericksburg, TX, there is a room with a Hornet deck mockup featuring an actual B-25 aircraft. I'm sure it is a later series type modified to look like a B model, with authentic color, insignia and tail number though. The rest of the planes are in a painted wall mural behind it. There is an audio of the unforgettable sound of a Wrignt engine cranking, over and over and over. Unfortunately it never "starts". I'm afraid the ship would have been rolled over the side after about the third failed start attempt on 4-18-42!
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on April 15:
1452 Leonardo da Vinci Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary
1469 Nanak 1st guru of Sikhs
1684 Catherine I empress of Russia (1725-27)
1707 Leonhard Euler Bassle Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant)
1800 Sir James Clark Ross explorer (British Antarctic)
1820 Evander McNair Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1821 Emerson Brown Joseph (Confederacy), died in 1894
1822 Napolean Jackson Tecumseh Dana Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 Mary Harris Thompson 1st American woman surgeon
1837 Horace Porter Brevet Brigadier General (Union Army), died in 1921
1843 Henry James New York NY, US/British writer/critic (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians)
1850 John Munroe Longyear US, capitalist/bank president
1889 Thomas Hart Benton Neosho MO, painter/muralist (Lonesome Road)
1891 Alvin P[leasant Delaney] Carter Maces Springs VA, vocalist (Carter Family)
1894 Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)
1901 Joe Davis English snooker/billiards-world champion (1927-46)
1912 Kim II Sung "President" of North Korea (1945-94)
1917 Hans Conried Baltimore MD, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy)
1921 Georgi Timofeyevich Beregovoi USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 3)
1924 Neville Marriner Lincoln England, conductor (Minnesota Orchestra 1978)
1929 Adrian Cadbury candy manufacturer (Cadbury, Schweppes)
1932 Nikolai Stepanovich Porvatkin Russian cosmonaut
1933 Elizabeth Montgomery Los Angeles CA, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched)
1933 Roy Clark Meherrin VA, country singer (Hee Haw)
1939 Claudia Cardinale Tunis, actress (Blindfold, 8½, Pink Panther)
1940 Phil Lesh Berkeley CA, bassist (Grateful Dead-Truckin')
1942 Kim Il Jong son of Kim Il Sung, North Korean "President"/sawed-off little twerp/world class fruitloop
1947 DeDe Lind Los Angeles CA, playmate (August 1967)
1947 Linda Bloodworth-Thomason TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)/FOB
1951 Marsha S Ivins Baltimore MD, astronaut (STS 32, 46, 62, 81)
1951 John L Phillips Fort Belvoir VA, PhD/astronaut
1956 Gregory J Harbaugh Cleveland OH, astronaut (STS 39, 54, 71, 82)
1957 Evelyn Ashford Shreveport LA, 100 meter runner (Olympics-4 gold-1976, 84)
1960 Marvin Clyde Goodwin New Orleans LA, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)
1965 Soichi Noguchi Yokohama Japan, astronaut
Good deal, my FRiend...now there's two of us...MUD
Great photo AJC, thanks for sharing with us.
Great movie!
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