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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2014, 02:45:02 AM »

In 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 was enacted.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2014, 02:45:52 AM »

In 1943, Congress passed, over President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto, the Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act, which allowed the federal government to seize and operate privately owned war plants facing labor strikes.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #17 on: June 25, 2014, 02:46:15 AM »

In 1950, war broke out in Korea as forces from the communist North invaded the South.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #18 on: June 25, 2014, 02:46:45 AM »

In 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Engel v. Vitale, ruled 6-1 that recitation of a state-sponsored prayer in New York State public schools was unconstitutional.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #19 on: June 25, 2014, 02:47:20 AM »

In 1973, former White House Counsel John W. Dean began testifying before the Senate Watergate Committee, implicating top administration officials, including President Richard Nixon as well as himself, in the Watergate scandal and cover-up.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #20 on: June 25, 2014, 02:47:43 AM »

In 1984, the Prince and the Revolution soundtrack album "Purple Rain" was released by Warner Bros. Records.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #21 on: June 25, 2014, 02:48:04 AM »

In 1993, Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, the first woman to hold the post.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #22 on: June 25, 2014, 02:48:36 AM »

In 1998, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a line-item veto law as unconstitutional, and ruled that HIV-infected people are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #23 on: June 25, 2014, 02:49:12 AM »

Ten years ago: Republican Jack Ryan withdrew from the U.S. Senate race in Illinois after revelations of sex-club visits with his then-wife, actress Jeri Ryan. President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, opened a European trip as they arrived in Ireland. Taliban fighters killed up to 17 people after learning they had registered for Afghanistan's U.S.-backed national elections.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #24 on: June 25, 2014, 02:49:51 AM »

Five years ago: North Korea vowed to enlarge its atomic arsenal and warned of a "fire shower of nuclear retaliation" in the event of a U.S. attack, as the regime marked the 1950 outbreak of the Korean War.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #25 on: June 25, 2014, 02:50:20 AM »

One year ago: President Barack Obama declared the debate over climate change and its causes obsolete as he announced at Georgetown University a wide-ranging plan to tackle pollution and prepare communities for global warming. Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the whereabouts of National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden at a Moscow airport, but promptly rejected a U.S. plea to turn him over. Democratic Texas State Senator Wendy Davis began a one-woman filibuster to block a GOP-led effort to impose stringent new abortion restrictions across the nation's second-most populous state. (Republicans voted to end the filibuster minutes before midnight, sparking a chaotic scene with demonstrators who succeeded in forcing lawmakers to miss the deadline for passing the bill.)
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2014, 02:50:49 AM »

Today's Birthdays: Actress June Lockhart is 89. Civil rights activist James Meredith is 81. Rhythm-and-blues singer Eddie Floyd is 77. Actress Barbara Montgomery is 75. Actress Mary Beth Peil (peel) is 74. Basketball Hall-of-Famer Willis Reed is 72. Singer Carly Simon is 69. Rock musician Ian McDonald (Foreigner; King Crimson) is 68. Actor-comedian Jimmie Walker is 67. Actor-director Michael Lembeck is 66. TV personality Phyllis George is 65. Rock singer Tim Finn is 62. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is 60. Rock musician David Paich (Toto) is 60. Actor Michael Sabatino is 59. Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is 58. Actor-writer-director Ricky Gervais (jer-VAYZ') is 53. Actor John Benjamin Hickey is 51. Rock singer George Michael is 51. Actress Erica Gimpel is 50. Retired NBA All-Star Dikembe Mutombo (dih-KEHM'-bay moo-TAHM'-boh) is 48. Rapper-producer Richie Rich is 47. Rapper Candyman is 46. Contemporary Christian musician Sean Kelly (Sixpence None the Richer) is 43. Actress Angela Kinsey is 43. Rock musician Mike Kroeger (Nickelback) is 42. Rock musician Mario Calire is 40. Actress Linda Cardellini is 39. Actress Busy Philipps is 35.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2014, 02:51:20 AM »

Thought for Today: "Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything." — Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian poet-author (1875-1926).

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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #28 on: June 25, 2014, 02:51:59 AM »

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Church Gossip
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Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.

Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon.

She emphatically told George (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.

George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away.

He didn't explain, defend, or deny.

He said nothing.

Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house... walked home... and left it there all night.

You gotta love George.
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Re: 6/25/2014
« Reply #29 on: June 25, 2014, 02:53:18 AM »

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Church Gossip
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Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business.

Several members did not approve of her extra curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused George, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon.

She emphatically told George (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing.

George, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away.

He didn't explain, defend, or deny.

He said nothing.

Later that evening, George quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house... walked home... and left it there all night.

You gotta love George.
One way to shut her up.
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