Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 03, 2026
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
nidificate \ NID-uh-fi-keyt \ , verb;
- to build a nest.
Origin: Nidificate entered English in the early 1800s from the Latin nīdificāre meaning "to build a nest."
scorpio
- scorpios are sensual, sexy and mesmerizing. they're loyal and sweet to the very end. they're highly intelligent have a quick wit. all the scorpios I know are adventurous, curious and very loving.
damn that baxojayz is hot! he must be a scorpio.
Holiday
- Election Day USA
History
- The Times of India: the world's most widely circulated daily newspaper was founded under the name The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce (1838)
- Opium War: first broke out between China and Britain (1839)
- US presidential election of 1948: the Chicago Tribune reported erroneously that "Dewey Defeats Truman"
- Sputnik II: the Soviet Union sent the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space; Laika died in orbit (1957)
- Iran-contra affair: Reagan administration scandal came to light when a Lebanese periodical revealed that the US was selling weapons to Iran (1986)
- John Montague 1718
- William Cullen Bryant 1794
- Bronko (Bronislaw) Nagurski 1908
- James Reston 1909
- Bob Feller 1918
- Charles Bronson 1921
- Wanda Hendrix 1928
- Peggy McCay 1931
- Monica Vitti 1931
- Ken Berry 1933
- Micheal Dukakis 1933
- John Barry 1934
- Briam Poole 1941 - Musician (Tremeloes)
- Steve Landesberg 1945
- Shadoe Stevens 1946
- Lulu (Marie Lawrie) 1948
- Tom Shales 1948
- Mike Evans 1949
- Larry Holmes 1949
- Roseanne Barr 1952
- Kate Capshaw 1953
- Dennis Miller 1953
- Adam Ant 1954 - Musician (Adam & the Ants)
- Phil Simms 1956
- Lee Montgomery 1961
- Ian McNabb 1962 - Musician (Icicle Works)
- Aria Giovanni 1977 - adult model / t3h pr0n
- Elizabeth Smart 1988



Sunday, November 01, 2026
The Grand Old Party
Spotlight: One hundred and seventy years ago today, the first official meeting of the Republican Party took place in Jackson, Michigan. It was organized by disgruntled members of the Democratic and Whig parties in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would serve to repeal the anti-slavery laws in the Northern states. It quickly became the second largest political party in the United States. The Republicans ran John C. Fremont as their first candidate for President in 1856. He lost that race to Democrat James Buchanan. In 1860, Fremont once again announced his candidacy, but withdrew in favor of Abraham Lincoln, who became the first Republican President of the United States.Quote: "I hope you're all Republicans." — Ronald Reagan, to surgeons as he entered the operating room after a failed assassination attempt
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Politics
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
higgledy-piggledy \ HIG-uhl-dee-PIG-uhl-dee \ , adverb;
- in a jumbled, confused, or disorderly manner; helter-skelter.
adjective:
- confused; jumbled.
Presponse
- To respond to a question before it is finished, often confusing the asker.
Wendy: So are you avail-
Jimmy: No. (Presponse)
Wendy: -ible Monday?
(silence)
Wendy: Are you?
History
Birthdays
- Philadelphia: the City of Brotherly Love was founded (1682)
- Federalist Papers: the first of a series of essays was published, calling for the ratification of the US Constitution; the essays were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay (1787)
- IRT: New York City's first rapid transit subway opened (1904) [Pictured below: The City’s mayor, George McClellan, opens the world-renowned New York City subway system. He actually drove the first passengers, charging them 5¢ to ride a line that, back then, only covered 9.1 miles of track with 28 stations. How things changed…]
- nylon: chemical company DuPont announced the name of its new synthetic fiber (1938)
- Wall Street crash: trading was halted for a cooling-off period after the Dow fell more than 500 points (1997)

- James Cook 1728
- Nicola Paganini 1782
- Theodore Roosevelt (U.S.) 1858
- Emily Post 1872
- Leif Erickson 1911
- Dylan Thomas 1914
- Teresa Wright 1918
- Nanette Fabray 1920
- Ralph Kiner (MLB) 1922
- Roy Lichtenstein 1923
- Ruby Dee 1924
- Floyd Cramer 1933
- John Cleese 1939
- Lara Parker 1942

- Lee (Melvin) Greenwood 1942
- Carrie Snodgress 1946
- Terry Anderson 1947
- Jack Daniels (Highway 101) 1949
- Garry Tallent (E Street Band) 1949
- Fran Lebowitz 1950
- Jayne Kennedy-Overton 1951
- Roberto Benigni 1952
- Peter Firth 1953
- Robert Picardo 1953
- Simon LeBon (Duran Duran) 1958
- Scott Weiland (Stone Temple Pilots) 1967
- Sean Holland 1968
- Sheeri Rappaport 1977
- Kelly Osbourne 1984
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Word of the day,
Work Sucks
Monday, October 26, 2026
Monday, October 26, 2026
ablactate \ ab-LAK-teyt \ , verb;
- to wean.
Origin: Ablactate entered English in the 1700s and combines the Latin prefix ab- meaning "from" or "away," and lac meaning "milk."
Dank
or...
That borritos was the dankness
Dank
- Also an expression frequently used by stoners and hippies for something of high quality.
or...
That borritos was the dankness
History
- Erie Canal: 160-mile (257 km.) waterway opened, offering a route from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River (1825)
- Gunfight at the OK Corral: a legendary Wild West shootout in Tombstone, Arizona, killed three, wounded three, inspired movies; it did not actually take place in the corral (1881)
- Baby Fae: neonatal infant was given a baboon's heart by transplant surgeon Dr. Leonard L. Bailey in Loma Linda, California; she lived for 21 days (1984)
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: ISIS leader was killed in Syria (2019)

- Joseph Aloysius Hansom 1803 - Architect, inventor (the hansom cab)
- C.W. (Charles William) Post 1854 - Founder of Post cereals and products (Grape Nuts)
- Abby (Greene Aldrich) Rockefeller 1874 - Philanthropist: cofounder of New York Museum of Modern Art
- H.B. (Henry Byron) Warner 1876 - Actor (It’s a Wonderful Life, Lost Horizon, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Ten Commandments)
- Napoleon Hill 1883 - Writer (Think and Grow Rich)
- John S. (Shively) Knight 1894 - Reporter, editor, publisher (Knight-Ridder newspaper)
- Jack Sharkey 1902 - Boxer
- Primo Carnera 1906 - Boxer
- Mahalia Jackson 1911 - Singer
- Charlie Barnett 1913 - Musician (saxophone), bandleader
- Francois Mitterand 1916 - President of France (1981-1995)
- Neal Matthews 1929 - Musician (Jordanaires)
- John Arden 1930
- Rodney "Hot Rod" Hundley 1934 - Basketball player, sportscaster
- Bob Hoskins 1942 - Actor (Hook, Brazil, Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
- Michael Piano 1944 - Singer (The Sandpipers)
- Ivan Reitman 1946
- Keith Hopwood 1946 - Singer, musician (Herman's Hermits)
- Pat Sajak 1947 - TV host (Wheel of Fortune, The Pat Sajack Show)
- Jaclyn Smith 1947 - Actress (Charlie’s Angels, The Bourne Identity)
- Toby (Colbert Dale) Harrah 1948 - Baseball player
- Steve (Stephen Douglas) Rogers 1949 - Baseball player
- Mike (Dudley Michael) Hargrove 1949 - Baseball player, manager
- Chuck Foreman 1950 - Football player
- Bootsy Collins 1951
- Steve (Steven Robert) Ontiveros 1951 - Baseball player
- Maggie Roche 1951 - Musician (The Roches)
- Keith Strickland 1953 - Musician (B-52's)
- Lauren Tewes 1954 - Actress (The Love Boat, Magic Kid, The China Lake Murders)
- D.W. Moffett 1954
- Rita Wilson 1958 - Actress (Sleepless in Seattle, Mixed Nuts, Runaway Bride)
- Cary Elwes 1962 - Actor (Twister, Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Robin Hood: Men in Tights)
- Dylan McDermott 1962 - Actor (Twister, Steel Magnolias)
- Marla Maples 1963
- Natalie Merchant 1963 - Musician (10,000 Maniacs)
- Thomas Cavanagh 1968 - Actor (TV: Ed)Seth MacFarlane 1973 (Family Guy, Ted)

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Birthdays,
Cinema,
History,
Music,
People who suck,
Politics,
Rock,
Television,
Trivia,
Violence,
Word of the day
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Sunday, October 25, 2026
flapdoodle \ FLAP-dood-l \ , noun;








- Informal . nonsense; bosh.
ratfuck
- Politics: Formerly known as "the double-cross," it refers to infiltration and sabotage of the opposition party, particuarly during (but not limited to) an election campaign. The second half of "All the President's Men" describes ratfucking done to 1972 Democratic presidential candidates by employees of the Committee to Re-Elect Nixon. A typical ratfuck is to falsely claim there's a political rally for the opposition party, order 300 pizzas for delivery in the name of the party, and then nobody shows up.
Ken Clawson, Nixon's communications director, confessed to a ratfuck when he told how he forged a letter making it look like a Democratic candidate was a racist.
History
- The Charge of the Light Brigade: the British assaulted Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava, which was commemorated in a poem by Tennyson (1854)
- Battle of Leyte Gulf: one of the largest naval battles in history took place between the US and Japan as the US invaded the Philippines (1944)
- United Nations: voted mainland China in, Taiwan out (1971)
- Operation Urgent Fury: the US invaded Grenada in response to the execution of Prime Minister Maurice Bishop (1983)
Birthdays
- Georges Bizet 1838
- Pablo Picasso 1881
- Richard Byrd 1888
- Leo G. Carroll 1892
- Whit Bissell 1909
- Minnie Pearl (Sarah Ophelia Colley) 1912
- Lee MacPhail 1917
- Chubby Jackson 1918
- Buddy Thomson (MLB) 1923
- Earl Palmer 1924
- Billy Barty 1924
- Jimmy Heath (Heath Brothers) 1926
- Barbara Cook 1927
- Marion Ross 1928
- Jeanne Cooper 1928
- Tony Franciosca 1928
- Earl Ingarfield 1934
- Jeanne Black 1937
- Bobby Knight 1940
- Ann Tyler 1941
- Helen Reddy 1942
- Jon Anderson (Yes) 1944
- Taffy Danoff (Starland Vocal Band) 1944
- Glen Tipton (Judas Priest) 1948
- Brian Kerwin 1949
- Matthais Jabs (The Scorpions) 1955
- Nancy Cartwright 1957
- Mark Miller (Sawyer Brown) 1958
- Nick Thorp (Curiosity Killed the Cat) 1958
- Christina Amphlett (Divinyls) 1960
- Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers) 1962
- Tracy Nelson 1963
- Michael Boatman 1964
- Speech 1968
- Chely Wright 1970
- Adam Goldberg 1970
- Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies) 1970
- Midori 1971
- Pedro Martinez (MLB) 1971
- Lamont Bentley 1973
- Ben Gould 1980
- Young Rome 1981
- Jerome Jones (Immature) 1981
- Katy Perry (Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson) 1984







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