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Posted on 10/05/2006 8:13:09 PM PDT by Soaring Feather
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On this date in history:
In 1775, the U.S. Marine Corps was formed by order of the
Continental Congress.
In 1871, journalist Henry Stanley found missing Scottish
missionary David Livingstone in a small African village.
His famous comment: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
In 1917, 41 women from 15 states were arrested outside the
White House for suffragette demonstrations. American women
won the right to vote three years later.
In 1951, area codes were introduced in the United States,
Canada and parts of the Caribbean, allowing direct-dialing
of long-distance telephone calls. Prior to this, all such
calls were operator-assisted.
In 1969, the long-running children's show "Sesame Street"
premiered on PBS.
In 1975, the ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald broke in two
and sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29
crew members. It was the worst Great Lakes ship disaster
of the decade.
In 1982, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev died at age 75
after 18 years in power.
In 1983, Microsoft released its Windows computer operating
system.
In 1989, Bulgaria's hard-line president Todor Zhivkov
resigned as democratic reform continued to sweep the
Eastern Bloc. Zhivkov was longest reigning active ruler
in Eastern Europe and second-longest in the world.
In 1991, Secretary of State James Baker visited Japan,
South Korea and China. His trip to Beijing marked the
first high-level official contact between the United
States and China since the Tiananmen Square massacre.
In 1992, Guns N' Roses lead singer Axl Rose was sentenced
to two years probation on charges stemming from a 1991
concert riot in suburban St. Louis.
In 1994, Washington announced it would no longer police
the arms embargo on the Muslim-led government of Bosnia.
Also in 1994, the only privately owned manuscript of
Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci was sold
at auction at Christie's in New York for $30.8 million,
the highest amount paid for a manuscript.
In 1996, a bomb at a Moscow cemetery killed 11 and
injured one dozen.
In 1997, a judge in Cambridge, Mass., changed the
second-degree murder conviction of British nanny Louise
Woodward in the death of her 8-month-old charge to
involuntary manslaughter and sentenced her to prison
time already served.
In 2001, Taliban officials confirmed that the Northern
Alliance had captured the Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif,
while President George W. Bush told the United Nations
General Assembly that the time had come for countries to
take swift and decisive action against global terrorism.
In 2002, the House voted to allow President Bush to take
unilateral military action against Saddam Hussein's regime
in Iraq without conditions beyond Congress being informed
almost immediately.
In 2003, Lee Malvo, one of two suspects in the rash of
sniper shootings that terrorized the Washington area,
pleaded not guilty as his trial opened in Chesapeake,
Va. The trial overlapped that of the other suspect,
John Muhammad, in Virginia Beach.
In 2004, President George W. Bush announced he had
selected White House General Counsel Alberto Gonzales
to succeed the resigned John Ashcroft as U.S. attorney
general.
Also in 2004, Shell Hydrogen opened the first hydrogen
outlet at a retail gasoline station in Washington to
service fuel cell vehicles from General Motors.
And, an Israeli parliamentary committee approved a bill
prohibiting pensions to families of suicide bombers.
Lovely, just lovely. Thanks Bob, good to see you in the Lair, you're always welcome here.
I don't want you to think you were my last resort.
There was so little activity this morning I started thinking about going back to bed, and then about how long I'd like to sleep and ... well, you know.
Figured I might as well stir things up.
I woke very early this morning, the change in time is partly responsible for that. Also going to bed early helps. ;)
I have been visiting many of the Veterans Day posts, nice to see our vets young and aging get the honor they deserve.
Here's one that seems appropriate for Veteran's Day.
Politicians Argue As Young Men Die
As the Grunt paces the dirty street, watching his buddy’s back in the killer heat,
they watch for killers hiding among the population walking those same damn streets.
How’d they get in this fix anyway, to take down bad guys and not become dead meat,
cause liberal politicians couldn’t stand up to a threat, figuring nothing money can’t beat.
Give the school ground bully an inch and he’ll just pound you for a mile,
give a damn terrorist the same, and he’ll bury you, and your family too.
Some think the best thing is to ‘get along’, that’s hard with a junkyard dog,
too much denial, all this lib stuff makes even D.C. a sorry excuse for a zoo!
Those who go in honor to do the dirty dangerous job of keeping us all so free,
have to clean up the mess made by those who should have been here in our place.
Politicians, questionable voices, with little understanding of the real world they see,
costing us young, who have to stand where they will not, hurting all the human race.
Old soldiers know what young soldiers will have to learn in time I say,
you stand and deliver what politicians will never have to defend.
America will remember long after the spineless politicians pass away,
and we who once stood in your boots know the price of honor you spend.
We will remember, we will keep the tally of fallen and the lame,
and we will render honor to you who stood amid the fires of that hell.
We will record the stories and tell them all, recalling your heroes name,
and thank you for the duty done, owed when politicians ring war’s bell.
WJ, you know I am so pissed over the outcome of the election I could chew nails, not that it would do any good.
Love the graphic, thanks Lady.
Vets have my undying gratitude.
Did you say you have lousy weather today?
Morning, Tom!
Contemplating Mary at the Death of Jesus
In your tears, O grieving Mother,
What a world of sorrow shimmers,
While the rot of hate now simmers
As they vie with one another
To add shame to the weight he bears.
In your tears, O grieving Mother,
Echoes all the weight of sin
Pain and anguish entered in
Since Eva listened to another
And the world grew rife with tares.
In your tears, O grieving Mother,
Witness to a great God's gift
Of how he chose to heal the rift
Sacrificing for all others
Lamb of God, the cross now bears.
In your tears, O grieving Mother
I see the sorrow veil your face
As you penetrate that place
Your greatest yes to give the Father,
The pain of your son's death you bear.
Let me grieve with you, my Mother,
As you sit in sorrow deep,
God pierce my heart that I might weep
For the sins of self and brother
That lead you to such pain and care.
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