Today in History: January 31st (Year One, Day Twelve in The Golden Age of Obama)
1504 – France cedes Naples to Aragon
1606 – Guy Fawkes executed for plotting against Parliament and James I of England
1747 – First venereal disease clinic opens at London Lock Hospital
1846 – Gervasio Antonio de Posadas becomes Supreme Director of Argentina
1846 – Milwaukee Bridge War ends: Juneautown and Klbourntown unified as City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1848 – John C. Fremont court-martialed for mutiny and disobeying orders
1849 – Corn Laws abolished in United Kingdom
1862 – White dwarf star observed for first time (companion of Sirius)
1876 – United States orders all Native Americans onto reservations
1915 – Germany uses poison gas against Russians
1917 – Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare
1929 – Soviet Union exiles Leon Trotsky
1930 – 3M corporation begins making Scotch tape
1944 – Americans land on Marshall Islands
1945 – US Army private Eddie Slovik executed for desertion (first such execution since Civil War)
1946 – Yugoslavian constitution establishes six Soviet-style constituent republics (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia)
1950 – President Truman announces Hydrogen-bomb program
1956 – Guy Mollet becomes Prime Minister of France
1958 – Explorer 1 is the first successful American satellite in orbit
1958 – Van Allen radiaton belt discovered
1961 – Aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, Ham the Chimp travels into outer space
1966 – Soviets launch Luna 9 spacecraft
1968 – Viet Cong attack US embassy in Saigon
1968 – Nauru declares independence from Australia
1971 – Apollo 14 lifts off for mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands of the moon
1990 – First McDonald’s in Soviet Union opens in Moscow
1995 – President Clinton authorizes $20 billion loan to stabilize collapsing Mexican economy
2001 – Scottish court convicts one Libyan and acquits another for the Pan Am 103 bombing over Locerbie Scotland in 1988
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today the the Republican party gets its first African American as chairman. this is a great day,
the Party of Lincoln and MLK now gets a great new leader who would have once not had freedom and voting rights if the Republican party had not done what it did.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BuGRX6rbbMI
Yes, congratulations to Michael Steele. Now if only all women and Native American men had parity, MLK’s dream really would be realized. Waiting… Let’s get a move on; I’m already 53.
Do you believe this tax cheat Daschle? These politicians don`t have to pay their taxes and we do. That is the class envy. How can someone be the head of the senate for all those years and be ignorant of the tax laws he created. He`s just plain ignorant and not capable of being responsible for health care reform. This should have been Hillary`s. Obama is just a naive DUMB-O.He`s more stupid than Bush ever was. How do you not vet these people? What immaturity! I`m tired of hearing “The dog ate my Homework!”
Patience, you know what they say about Rome?
MS is a great start, give him and them some time.
Steele is a great pick for RNC Chair. Dawson would have meant the end of the Republican Party or close to it. The fact that he is black is a nice “extra.” These tax cheats are amazing and they want to be on Clinton’s cabinet and can feign ignorance. If so, it is clear we need a new kind of tax, FAIRTAX.ORG
Please add Lamecherry to your blogroll!!
PVG: LOL! My lament was in general, not directed to the RNC. And hey, when you’re my age, there isn’t all that much time left to be patient!
How d’ya know I’m not?
Hey, I just heard on the news the President has yet another plan him and Geithner are working on for the economy and he will make an announcement soon…
I’ll betcha we do not have to pay our taxes!!!Just like Geithner!
1.5 million people without power 5 days after a storm in Kentucky and FEMA is a no show. Where is the outrage from the media? Did they forget about Katrina?
JRD, yes, remember, it is only a national issue when a Republican is in office.
Do you think Obama will mention the voting in IRAQ today, or do you think he will over look it?
what a difference a day makes…
So much for Obama’s good judgment in choosing his people. How many is this now who have a smell of felony to them?
Seems to the mainstream are already losing patience with their boy wonder. They are criticizing his hypocrisy, but what about their colossal hypocricy during the entire campaign?
Don’t think for a moment that Daschle was unaware of the laws he was breaking. The motto of the democratic party is to get away with it as long as you can, or until someone notices. How noble!
Hey guys at Hillbuzz…
Did you catch this at Fox News….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRt9R7S8aM&eurl
$93K each to our Senators and Representatives in petty cash from the stimulus package.
CNN: From the jail cell of George Obama after his drug bust. George Obama and the President had the same father but are not believed to have a close relationship. Well, I guess that explains why George is living in a hut! George does however, expect to get an appointment in B.O.’s cabinet after he gets busted for tax evasion!
I agree Julianne. Until I see otherwise, I feel women are having to wait their turn, whenever that is. I hope Steele can see that white women (one in particular) have a helluva lot to give their country.
And black women too, I’m sure! I was referring to Obama’s particular disdain for white women shown in his remarks to Hillary, about Sarah and about Nancy Reagan. He is a nasty little piece of work underneath all the “charisma”.
AJ – is that the same half brother George he sends 20.00 a month to? funny how he does not take care of his own.
It’s being reported that Obama has given the rabid Samantha Power a senior policy job which will involve travelling with the Secretary of State – in effect, to spy on Hillary.
Smilla: Don’t forget BO’s “typical white” (and now late) grandmother, whom he also chucked under the bus. And when is that funeral, anyway? May she have a great time in heaven, with a little time off now and then to haunt Dear Grandson’s dreams.
Interesting news about Samantha Power. Don’t worry about Hillary. She’ll take care of that disrespectful antifeminist little snot.
Sharon,
BO sends his bro NADA! Rush was having fun with it a few months ago and stated if BO would send a measly $20, he’s double his income.
Look at the public housing his elderly, illegal, auntie lived in. This guy cares for no one but himself, oh and hopefully his immediate family. Michelle better sleep with one eye open.
Is Samantha Power the one that called HRC a monster?
Yes PVG, she is the one.
LOL, thanks PVG.. I must have heard that somewhere, thanks for correcting me / as I can only give Obama credit where credit is due…
Nada? No credit : ) loser
Sharon, I read somewhere that George lives on $12.00 a month. There is also speculation that George was set up with “a joint” to insure that an arrest would be made and George would be jailed and therefore it would be difficult for someone to pay him to sign a release for a vault copy of B.O.s’ birth cerificate in Hawaii.
WOW aj l, I’m tellin ya, this is like a bad dream huh?
Sharon, yeah, he’s like a real life freddie kruger! I especially liked when B.O. made the comment that he was his brother’s keeper! Holy crappolla’s! We’re all in for it if that’s the case!