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This week in History in 1989 (20 years ago)
12.23.09
| Perdogg
Posted on 12/23/2009 12:15:47 PM PST by Perdogg
Romanian revolution and the execution of President Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena on Christmas day.
Operation Just cause in Panama
Former Yankees Manager Billy Martin dies after his car hits an ice patch
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To: DemforBush
Now, theyre both worm food themselves. I find that both amusing and highly satisfying.Who was it who joked that we needed more statesmen, after it was mentioned that a statesman was a dead politician?
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:37:27 PM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: Perdogg
Alphabetically, "Ceausescu" comes just after "Barack".
Coincidence?
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:37:42 PM PST
by
The Comedian
(Evil can only succeed if good men don't point at it and laugh.)
To: library user
I was well past my 20s in 1989!
To: Paine in the Neck
A Ceaucescmas Eve vote, on the 20th anniversary, in fact.
To: DemforBush
I watched a video of their execution a few weeks ago. I found it somewhere on my internet machine. She was mouthing off vigorously until she was shot numerous times.
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:39:48 PM PST
by
KingLudd
To: Tijeras_Slim
To: IYAS9YAS
Am I really that old, and who is that grey-haired fat guy staring at me in the mirror every morning? Hey, you still got hair! :)
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:40:32 PM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I gained almost 10 pounds drinking half-gallons of eggnog in just the past week or so.
They were on sale for 99 cents at Kroger (manager’s special).
I bought eight of them.
My personal trainer asked WHY EIGHT?! and I said “based on the expiration date (they all had the same expiration date) I figured I could drink one a day for the next eight days, finishing the last one on the date they expired.”
So it was a question of timing. Still, dumb, dumb move...
To: Tijeras_Slim
I was off to Sint Maarten for three weeks to visit my sister. I was gone so long I went on job interviews. I was so dark people spoke Spanish to me. I looked like Tony Orlando.
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:42:45 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: BenLurkin
Back in the 80s I used to wonder why these people from the 60s kept talking about such a long ago time all the time. Twenty years later, I now realize, the 60s was like yesterday to them then, the way 1989 seems like yesterday to me now.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Hey, you still got hair! :) True, but now it grows in new and unimagined places. And at an unfortunate rate.
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:45:58 PM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: Paine in the Neck
LOL!!!! ding ding you win!
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:48:01 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: al baby; Artemis Webb; Extremely Extreme Extremist; lainie; lewisglad; PennsylvaniaMom; ...
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:48:35 PM PST
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: HungarianGypsy
Back in the 80s I used to wonder why these people from the 60s kept talking about such a long ago time all the time.Holy majoly, the first Rush album is 35 years old!
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:51:12 PM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: DemforBush
Regardless of how richly they deserved the firing squad, that was absolutely the most chilling thing I'd ever seen on television up to that point, the two of them lying there dead, cold blue eyes staring lifelessly at the camera, with blood streaking down their faces. And on Christmas Day, no less. I'll never forget it.
Sic Semper Tyrannis, I guess.
I got the sense at that moment, that the world was changing and not for the better. That vague, sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, the cold chills and the hair standing up on the back of my neck. Felt it again and again, since then. Seems to have become almost a part of daily life.
To: IYAS9YAS
True, but now it grows in new and unimagined places.I hear ya'... my eyebrows in the last few years look like mutant tumbleweeds.
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:52:57 PM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Live jubtabulously!)
To: qam1
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posted on
12/23/2009 12:53:12 PM PST
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
To: DemforBush
Don’t think our milatary won’t do the same thing to the demcRATS in office today. I can easily see it happening and would approve whole heartedly.
To: Perdogg
Ronald Reagan - still in our lives in January ‘89 and in our hearts forever;)
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posted on
12/23/2009 1:14:43 PM PST
by
sodpoodle
(Stop wasting our wealth and start telling the truth.)
To: Perdogg
I had finally left Missile Combat Crew and had become a Missile Maintenance Officer still stationed in North Dakota.
The winters up there were brutal, and I was born and raised in Michigan.
After spending my entire adult life fighting the Cold War and the Soviets, watching the disintegration of the USSR and all the satellite countries gave me an uneasy feeling. I was proud I had helped win the Cold War but I was uneasy about the future.
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posted on
12/23/2009 1:26:31 PM PST
by
OldMissileer
(Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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