Golly gee willikers, we've got oodles of great "this day in history" items that should appeal to a variety of people, so let's get right to it!
Here's a visual clue for the first one.
That's your humble diarist holding one of Mickey Mantle's bats when I went to the Louisville Slugger Museum last weekend; "Mick" was born on this date in 1931. If I can get my Dad down there to hold one of Mick's bats, he will die a happy man - well, that in addition to meeting AJ Foyt & Bob Knight. ;D
On this date in 1947, the House Un-American Activities Committee opened hearings into alleged Communist influence in the motion picture industry. And, Bat$hit's so damn disappointed that she missed the first go - around she's dying to start her own HUAC.
Tom Petty is 59 today! Here's his video for "Into the Great Wide Open" featuring one Johnny Depp & Faye Dunaway. He also has some comedic chops in doing voice over work in King of the Hill & was featured on one of my favorite Simpsons episodes where Homer gets to go to rock - n - roll camp!
And, finally, the 1 & only TRUE Dracula was born on this date in 1882 - Bela Lugosi. Martin Landau won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his portrayal of Bela in Ed Wood; he was awfully damn good!
Let's Countdown & keep helping the National Association of Free Clinics all we can!
#5 "Public Support for the Public Option" AKA "The Public Opts for Public Option" AKA "House Call" AKA "Leadership Down" - Golly, Keith is very stripey tonight! Most Americans (57%) want a public option even if not a single damn GOPer votes for it (that figure 51%). Ya’ hear that, Senator Snowe?! Wow! Support of a public option actually went up 5 points since August when all those town hall attendees were spreading their "joy!" HA! Fat lotta good that did! However, Harry Reid still has the jelly spine about a public option; the group behind closed doors trying to meld the HELP Committee & Finance Committee bill might actually lean toward possibly talking about a public option! Ugh... *&^%$#@! President Obama’s support among Democrats has dropped 15% in the area of health care reform over the last month. Gee...I wonder why. Can we get Rep. Anthony Weiner in Harry Reid’s office? Go to Rep. Weiner’s website here if you haven’t already! Um...if what Keith said is true in the possible assumption of President Obama & his peeps only getting the ball rolling on health care reform & being happy with that, then why did President Obama say in that "You lie!" address to both houses of Congress that he was going to be the last President to tackle this issue? Nevada voted for President Obama in 2008, but he’s very unpopular there these days, so that’s another reason in the long list of reasons Harry Reid has the jelly spine on the public option in the Senate health care reform bill shtick.
#4 "Bankrupt System" AKA "Pain in the Asset" - A family, Kerry & Patrick Burns, lost their house, their retirement savings, and their son while declaring bankruptcy in order to get their son the treatment he needed. Legislation to ease the current bankruptcy law in the event that it is medical bills or treatments that is leading to the bankruptcy is making its way through Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s sub - committee. The Burns family had to borrow the money to begin the going bankrupt process, and they are still fighting. What a shock. Senator Jeff Sessions from Alabama is holding up the works. Well, of course he is. He made such a big splash with Sonia Sotomayor he decided to spread the love someplace else! Elizabeth Edwards testified to this committee, too. The Burns family both had jobs & are hard – working people. Kerry Burns got collection calls while her son was dying in ICU.
** Gee, Keith stole one of my TDIH items – the Yankee one! Go figure... ;D Aw, a wolf was stuck in a car’s grill! O...M...G... And, it survived! That’s a tough little SOB! A FL city council meeting looked more like a hockey match. A dude on the Home Shopping Network got a little excited with his Wii. Newt Gingrich is talking cultural revolutions with the Mannity. A nursing home assistant is now a tribal leader in Uganda. A lady tried to smoke out a raccoon under her trailer with fireworks. BRILLIANT! I wonder if this raccoon knows this gopher? **
#3 "Fixed News" - FAUX News has taken yellow journalism to a whole new level! William Randolph Hearst would be proud. Robert Gibbs had a lovely allusion to the Mannity & Lonesome Rhodes! Yea for Craig Crawford! Actual NEWS outlets begin to second – guess themselves when FAUX News gets all hot & bothered about something. Craig thinks the Obama Administration is making a bit of a mistake going after FAUX News because he believes they’re attacking someone or some organization "below" them. But, at what point do you not attack & let bull – pucky be lead news items when they really aren’t news?
WPITW – A GOP Congress critter likes to hunt "...liberal tree – hugging Democrats..." He represents the district where the voting rights workers were murdered in Mississippi & was the basis of Mississippi Burning. CLASSY! Boss Limbaugh is complaining about other journalists calling him for what he is. Lonesome Rhodes thinks anyone who promotes volunteer work is "Maoist."
#1 "Reality Busts" AKA "Bad Inflations" AKA "Musto See TV" - My morning radio silly guys played the Heenes’ theme songs & the 911 call the family made to report their boy in the balloon. The 911 call, especially, was SOMETHING! Miss Opposite Marriage has to pay back the coin for her boob job – HA! I’m sure some good Christian organization will front the money for a fine Christian woman such as Miss Prejean. Mr. Heene played the bass for the "science guy" theme, so he’s a bass player, too! Well, at least he’s got THAT goin’ for him. He can entertain his cellmates when he goes to the Graybar Hotel. Yea! We get Michael Musto! I’d be willing to bet dollars for doughnuts that the Heenes will still get their reality show if they can avoid jail.