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They call it the May 2-4 (2013) Lounge up here.

2013-05-24T04:17:09+00:00

Happy birthday to ... one of my gradeschool classmates. I think it was Justin B, might have been Justin S.

this is how I’ve been trained to force entry into lounges (5/23/12)

2013-05-23T04:21:52+00:00

1096 Peter the Hermit leads Crusaders in forcing mass baptism of Jews in the Danube
1430 Joan of Arc captured by Burgundians
1533 marriage of Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon declared null & void
1568 Netherlands declares independence
1618 Defenestration of Prague
1621 HRE Ferdinand signs 28 death warrants. Creates the “Blood court” Worse than a crime, a mistake (carried out 6/21)
1701 Captain William Kidd hung as pirate
1706 Marlborough defeats French army at Ramillies, which is SE of Brussles
1707 Carl Linnaeus, created system of naming species (personally named homo sapiens) & father of modern taxonomy, born
1783 James Otis, patriot, dies
1788 SC becomes 8th state to ratify constitution
1794 French authorities arrest Cecile Renault, who apparently tried to enter the Tuileries to stab Robespierre
1813 Simon Bolivar enters Merida, leading to invasion of Venezuela
1824 Gen. Ambrose Burnside born
1836 Senate consents to ratificaiton of Treaty of New Echota w/ Cherokees, even though no authorized Cherokee signed it
1838 deadline for voluntary removal for the Cherokee - only 250 of 17,000 assemble for it
1846 Mexico declares war on US
1852 Taiping forces enter Xingan, which Qing forces somehow left virtually unguarded
1853 first plat of land for Seattle laid out
1861 3 slaves escape to Fortress Monroe, where Benjamin Butler is in charge of. This is the beginning of contraband policy
1861 Virginia’s secession is ratified by a popular vote: 128,884 - 32,134
1863 organization of Seventh day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, MI
1868 Kit Carson dies
1871 women famously defend the barracades of Paris
1873 Canada establishes NW Mounted Polic - forerunner of Royal Canadain Mounted Police
1892 a negro lynched near Bastrop, LA for muder
1894 William Brooks, black, lynched in Palestine, AK for asking a white woman to marry him
1900 Sgt William Henry Carney becomes 1st black to get Medal of Honor (Assault on the Battery Wagner)
1901 US captures Filipeano independence leader Emilio Aguinaldo
1903 1st direct primary voting system (in WI)
1906 Henrik Ibsen dies
1908 John Bardeen, helped invent the transistor, born
1910 Scatman Crothers born
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
1929 Aman Allah, recently resigned Amir of Afghanistan flees, never to return. Dies a furniture maker in Europe.
1929 1st talking Mickey Mouse cartoon, Karnival Kid, released
1933 Joan Collins born
1933 Seabiscuit born
1934 “Battle of Toledo” - 7 hours: 10,000 block Auto-Lite preventing scabs fr leaving
1934 Bonnie & Clyde shot and killed
1934 The Thin Man (movie) released
1937 John D. Rockefeller dies
1939 Hitler tells military leaders “further success cannot be won without bloodshed”
1942 Hitler tells Nazi leaders that bomb on 5/18 in Berlin (no injuries) is evidence of a Jewish plot
1945 Ger surrenders island of Heigoland to British
1945 Heinrich Himmler commist suicide
1949 Fed Rep of Germ (W. Ger) proclaimed
1950 The Asphalt Jungle released
1951 Tibetians forced to sign Agreement w/ PRC
1951 NAACP files court case calling for end of segregated schools in Virginia (one of Brown v. Board cases)
1952 boxer Marvin Hagler born
1958 Drew Carey born
1958 Explorer I ceases transmission
1960 Israel announces capture of Eichmann
1962 Miracle Worker released
1966 penguinmobile born
1967 Egypt closes Strais of Tiran and blockades port of Eilat, laying foundations for 6 Day War
1969 album Tommy released
1974 singer Jewel born
1975 Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (Elton John) released
1975 Phil Coorey born
1977 2 terrorist actions in Netherland - 100 kids taken hostage at school. Dozens taken on a train
1978 Springsteen single Prove It All Night released
1979 KISS disco album Dynasty released
1980 The Shining released
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom released
1986 Sterling Hayden dies of sapped and impurified precious bodily fluids.
1990 End of first Twin Peaks season has lots of action, including: Audrey at 1-Eyed Jacks. Jacoby attacked in the park. Leo traps Shelly in mill. Cooper shot. Leland kills J.Renault.
1994 Beastie Boys album Ill Communication released
1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City imploded
1995 Everclear album Sparkle and Fade released
1997 Mohammad Khatami, a moderate Shiite Muslim cleric elected Iran’s president
1997 The Lost World: Jurassic Park released
1998 3/4 of N. Ireland accept Good Friday Agreement in referendum
2000 Buffy episode Restless ends 4th season
2000 Bon Jovi single It’s My Life released
2000 The Marshall Mathers LP released by Eminem (The Real Slim Shady, The Way I Am)
2001 bodies of 12 dead illegal immigrants found in desert (115 degrees)
2002 Pakistan announces its taking troops away from al-Qaeda front to Kashmir front
2002 golfer Sam Snead dies
2002 internal FBI inquiry begun into charges by Coleen Rowley, Mpolis agent that attacks could’ve been stopped
2003 L. Paul Bremer isues CPA Order #2: dissolves Iraqi’s army, navy, air force, secret PD, intel, Rep Guard, baat miliita
2003 Bruce Almighty released
2003 Senate passes final version of Bush’s tax cuts, 51-50
2004 WaPo break story of how 6 in charge of Iraq budget have no experience w/ budget
2005 Tom Cruise jumps up and down on Oprah’s couch
2006 Lloyd Bentsen dies
2008 Utah Phillips dies
2009 Ex-South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun commits suicide, as he’s under investigation for curruption
2010 Breaking Bad: There’s a fly. Dull 1st half leads to some great bonding later on. Final killing of the fly in hilarious and rather something strangely appropriate Michael Bay-style shot
2010 Everyone’s favorite Colin Wyers story
2011 Tornado hits Joplin, MO. Kills over 100, deadliest US tornado in over 50 years

Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: Lounge. 5/22/13

2013-05-22T04:39:58+00:00

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Leopold and Lounge (5/21/2013)

2013-05-21T04:38:35+00:00

That’s quite enough of yesterday’s lounge. Today’s lounge will be cheery and upbeat, or beatings will ensue.

Harold’s horrible hair cut experience lounge (5/20/13)

2013-05-20T04:09:21+00:00

As first told here:

Harold - 20 May 2012 04:11 PM
I had a horrible haircut experience just now. I usually kinda like haircuts (especially the part where I leave looking better than I did walking in), but this was really something else. First, the woman was enormous, and kept pushing her sizable gut into my head and body. She went a little heavy on the spray bottle, to the point that water was dripping down my face and neck, into my collar. It felt unpleasant enough that I was kinda wishing for it to end quickly, so I didn’t object when she completely skipped my neck, sideburns, or even showing me how it looked from the back. She suddenly declared herself done, and—this is the part I can’t really believe happened—rather than using a blow-dryer, she huffed and puffed and blew the hair off my neck herself.

There was a chick waiting for a haircut, and when the stylist called her name, she said, “No, I’m not getting a haircut, I’m just waiting for my friend.” OK, she had obviously put her name on the list, but once she saw how mine went, she decided she’d rather just wait for her friend.

And . .. and .. and.. he still goes to the very same place to get his haircuts even to this day!

Mt. St. Helens Annivesary Weekend and Ghost Blown Photo Op Lounge of May 18-19, 2013

2013-05-18T06:10:36+00:00

See Post 34.

The Has Joe Bivens really been identified Lounge of May 17, 2013

2013-05-17T05:55:36+00:00

Nothing to see here. Post something worth reading.

MASSIVE SPOILERS Star Trek Into Darkness MASSIVE SPOILERS Star Trek Into Darkness MASSIVE SPOILERS

2013-05-16T18:00:31+00:00

I’m serious. This is going to have major spoilers. Turn away now if you haven’t seen the movie and care about it.
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KKKKKKHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today is May 16, 2013, and this is the lounge.

2013-05-16T07:25:58+00:00

True Story.

The lounge is here to preserve disorder (5/15/13)

2013-05-15T04:17:07+00:00

1252 Pope Innocent IV issues papal bull that authorizies the torture of heretics & the Medieval Inquisition
1532 Archbishop Warham, representing English clergy, abandon rights/immunities to Henry VIII. Submission of the clergy
1567 Mary Queen of Scots marries James Hapburn, Earl of Bothweel
1602 1st sighting of Cape Cod by a European
1618 Johannes Kepler confirms his third law of planetary motion
1648 Peace formally sworn in Netherlands, after Treaty of Munster signed
1701 War of Spanish Succession begins
1756 England declares war on France
1776 VA Convention instructs its Cong delegrate to propose independence at Cont. Congress
1787 Alan Keyes & abortion protesters arrested at Notre Dame. I might have the wrong year here.
1793 Diego Marin Augilera flies a glider for about 360 meters at height of 5-6 meters in early flight attempt
1811 Paraguay declares independence
1848 Austria agrees to have unicameral national assmbly elected by universal male suffrage
1848 Paris mob invades nation’s Constituent Assembly, looking to install a more radical gov’t
1848 in Kingdom of Two Sicilies, King Ferdinand strikes back
1856 begining of 3-mnth reign of vigilante committee in SF
1856 Frank L. Baum, Wizard of Oz author, born
1859 Pierre Curie born
1861 Montgomery C. Meigs made General & also Quartermaster General for the US Army
1862 Dept of Agriculture created
1863 crucial strategy meeting between Gen. Lee & Jefferson Davis - groundwork laid for Gettysburg
1864 Battle of New Market, VA in Shenandoah Valley - drives out Union forces under General Franz Sigel
1864 End of the Battle of Rescala, GA
1869 Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton form Nat’l Women Suffrage Assoc.
1886 appearance of the most famous drawing of the Haymarket bombing. Really inaccurate
1886 Emily Dickinson dies
1891 publishing of Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII - on Catholic Social Teaching
1895 John Calvin & William Dunn, both white, lynched near Ingalla, OK for informing. A licky boom-boom down
1902 Richard J. Daley born
1905 Joseph Cotton born
1905 Las Vegas founded
1909 James Mason born
1911 Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil
1915 unnamed negro lynched in Louisville, MS for insutling a white woman
1917 Nivelle replaced by Petain as head of French armies
1919 Winnipeg General Strike begins
1919 Jim Waters, black, lynched in Johnson, GA for leaving employer
1929 123 die in fire in Cleveland
1932 Japan’s Prime Minister Inukai killed by nationalists
1933 Federation of Geramn Women’s Associations dissolves under pressure from Nazis & female Nazis association
1934 1st of 2 laws passed requring all workers to carry workbooks, detailing their training, qualifications, employment, etc
1935 Utah Phillips born
1937 born
1938 Diane Nash, civil rights worker, born
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips released
1939 Only Angels Have Wings released
1940 Prime Minister Paul Reynaud of France phones Churchill “we’ve been defeated”
1940 1st McDonalds restraunt opens
1942 Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps established
1943 Stalin dissolves Comintern
1945 last skirmish in Europe in WWII fought in Prevalje, Slovenia
1947 Congress approves Truman Doctrine
1948 hostilities break out between Isreal & neighbors
1955 Austrian Independence Treaty signed
1956 Dan Patrick born
1957 UK tests its first H-bomb. Fails
1958 in Algiers, Gen. Salan declares publicly “Vive de Gaulle!” Army now committed to DeGaulle. DeGaulle issues statement: “I am ready to assume the powers of the republic.”
1958 Gigi released
1960 USSR launches Sputnik 4 in Algiers
1963 Gordon Cooper spends a day in space May 15-16
1966 Janet Jackson born
1969 Emmett Smith born
1970 Carpenters release Close To You as single
1970 Pink Floyd play at Crystal Place Gardents in London - noise kills a number of fish in nearby lake
1972 Okinawa, other Ryukyu Isls restored to Japan
1972 George Wallace shot and seriously wounded
1974 Maalot Massacre - 31 die, mostly Israeli high school students taken hostage by Palestinians
1975 Ray Lewis born
1985 Prince single Raspberry Beret released
1987 Ishtar released
1987 Motley Crue album Girls, Girls, Girls released
1988 beginning of official Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan
1989 Mikhail Gorbachev comes to China
1990 Mariah Carey single Vision of Love relesed
1991 Paula Abdul album Spellbound released
1992 Lethal Weapon 3 released
1994 Rwandan Tutsi RPF force massacres Hutu in Kigina massacre
1997 Cremation of the body of former Pres. Habyarimana of Rwanda. In Kinshasha so Tutsi-backed forces can’t get to it
1998 The Horse Whisperer released
1999 Yeltsin again survives impeachment vote
2001 Missy Elliot album Mis E . . So Addictive released
2001 N’Sync single Pop released
2001 Weezer’s green album released
2002 W.House reports that Bush had been briefed of possible bin Laden hijackings in Aug ‘01
2003 June Carter Cash dies
2003 Ghost of Sox Fans Past’s mom dies
2003 Davoarid in MN, after massive efforts made the next day, sees 12:01 AM debut of Matrix Reloaded. So giddy . . Then film began
2003 Matrix Reloaded released
2004 horse Smarty Jones wins Preakness by record margin
2005 Flanders moves to Humbleton
2007 Jerry Falwell dies
2009 Angels and Demons released
2011 Samuel Wanjru, defending gold medalist in marathon, dies in weird incident jumping off balcony (murder? Suicide? Accident?)
2011 25,000 baseball events in the TDiH file
2012 Chris Dial has one of the wost days ever in his career. Supposedly, he just doesn’t have that je ne sais quoi. Last dmotion killed his career