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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2016, 07:10:21 AM »

Today is Sunday, Nov. 27, the 332nd day of 2016. There are 34 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:

On Nov. 27, 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (mahs-KOH'-nee) and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside City Hall by former supervisor Dan White. (White served five years for manslaughter; he committed suicide in Oct. 1985.)

On this date:

In 1815, the constitution for the Congress Kingdom of Poland was signed by Russian Czar Alexander I, who was also king of Poland.

In 1901, the U.S. Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.

In 1910, New York's Pennsylvania Station officially opened.

In 1924, Macy's first Thanksgiving Day parade - billed as a "Christmas Parade" - took place in New York.

In 1939, the play "Key Largo," by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York.

In 1942, during World War II, the Vichy French navy scuttled its ships and submarines in Toulon (too-LOHN') to keep them out of the hands of German troops.

In 1945, General George C. Marshall was named special U.S. envoy to China by President Harry S. Truman to try to end hostilities between the Nationalists and the Communists.

In 1953, playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65.

In 1962, the first Boeing 727 was rolled out at the company's Renton Plant.

In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.

In 1983, 181 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashed near Madrid's Barajas airport.

In 1989, a bomb blamed on drug traffickers destroyed a Colombian Avianca Boeing 727, killing all 107 people on board and three people on the ground.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2016, 07:10:58 AM »

Ten years ago: President George W. Bush, stopping over in Estonia en route to a NATO summit in Latvia and meetings in Jordan, intensified diplomatic efforts to quell rising violence in Iraq and Afghanistan. An early morning fire burned down a group home for the elderly and mentally ill in Anderson, Missouri, killing 10 residents and a caretaker. (Faulty wiring was cited as the likely cause of the blaze.)

Five years ago: In an unprecedented move against an Arab nation, the Arab League approved economic sanctions against Syria to pressure Damascus to end its deadly suppression of an 8-month-old uprising against President Bashar Assad. British movie director Ken Russell, 84, died in Lymington, Hampshire, England.

One year ago: A gunman attacked a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and injuring nine. (Suspect Robert Dear has been undergoing treatment at a psychiatric hospital after being deemed incompetent for trial.) A subdued France paid homage to those killed in the Paris attacks two weeks earlier, honoring each of the 130 victims by name as President Francois Hollande (frahn-SWAH' oh-LAWND') pledged to "destroy the army of fanatics" who had claimed so many young lives.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #17 on: November 27, 2016, 07:11:31 AM »

Today's Birthdays: Author Gail Sheehy is 79. Footwear designer Manolo Blahnik is 74. Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow is 65. TV host Bill Nye ("Bill Nye, the Science Guy") is 61. Actor William Fichtner (FIHK'-nuhr) is 60. U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy is 59. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Callie Khouri is 59. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds) is 57. Jazz composer/big band leader Maria Schneider is 56. Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is 56. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) is 54. Rock musician Mike Bordin (Faith No More) is 54. Actor Fisher Stevens is 53. Actress Robin Givens is 52. Actor Michael Vartan is 48. Rapper Skoob (DAS EFX) is 46. Actor Kirk Acevedo is 45. Rapper Twista is 44. Actor Jaleel White is 40. Actor Arjay Smith is 33. Actress Alison Pill is 31. Actress/singer Aubrey Peeples is 23.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #18 on: November 27, 2016, 07:11:59 AM »

Thought for Today: "In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose." - Anne Sophie Swetchine (sweht-CHEE'-nyah), Russian-French author (1782-1857).
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #19 on: November 27, 2016, 07:12:36 AM »

Good morning boys, about to drop the puck here
Morning Hockey Puck Fish
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #20 on: November 27, 2016, 07:20:41 AM »

Guess we must mention Cigars so:  once again the early morning offerings suck.
Received my Warheads and Neanderthals yesterday. The Warheads are almost panatellas
Well all Lanceros are almost Panatela's and many Panatela's are almost Lanceros

The standard Cuban measurement for a lancero is 7 1/2 inches long by 38 ring gauge.

   That happens to be the exact size of the Warhead III's as well as the  Tatuaje Especiale Lanceros,

Panatela's are generally similar to Coronas only they are usualy longer and thinner. They have the Parejo shape and are relatively unfashionable. Their typical sizes are 5.5 to 7 inches in length and have a ring gauge of 34 to 38.

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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #21 on: November 27, 2016, 07:23:57 AM »

College Students Demand Police Investigate "Suck It Up, Pussies" Post-It Note

Today we learn of yet another campus full of disaffected Hillary snowflakes who were triggered by a post-it note suggesting that they should stop whining about the election and just "suck it up, pussies."  This latest example comes to us from Edgewood College in the ultra-liberal bastion of Madison, Wisconsin via Campus Reform.

Apparently the simple post-it note was determined to be a "hate crime" by the college's "diversity offices" and students with knowledge of the incident were encouraged to contact campus police.  To our complete shock, a message from Edgewood's Vice President for Student Development pinned the blame for the "hate crime" on Trump, saying that it is part of a growing trend of "covert micro-aggressions and overt macro-aggressions" that have "taken on new fervor in higher education since our national election."
Always thought Wisconsiners were more practical.
Most all large colleges and large cities are socialist driven now.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #22 on: November 27, 2016, 07:47:22 AM »

good morning. EPC 2nd and coffee here.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #23 on: November 27, 2016, 07:53:13 AM »

College Students Demand Police Investigate "Suck It Up, Pussies" Post-It Note

Today we learn of yet another campus full of disaffected Hillary snowflakes who were triggered by a post-it note suggesting that they should stop whining about the election and just "suck it up, pussies."  This latest example comes to us from Edgewood College in the ultra-liberal bastion of Madison, Wisconsin via Campus Reform.

Apparently the simple post-it note was determined to be a "hate crime" by the college's "diversity offices" and students with knowledge of the incident were encouraged to contact campus police.  To our complete shock, a message from Edgewood's Vice President for Student Development pinned the blame for the "hate crime" on Trump, saying that it is part of a growing trend of "covert micro-aggressions and overt macro-aggressions" that have "taken on new fervor in higher education since our national election."
Always thought Wisconsiners were more practical.
Most all large colleges and large cities are socialist driven now.
hopefully in 4 years they will no longer be pussies.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #24 on: November 27, 2016, 08:00:25 AM »

Pitt beat Syracuse 76-61....that's in football, not basketball.  Highest scoring regulation game in FBS history.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #25 on: November 27, 2016, 08:02:05 AM »

College Students Demand Police Investigate "Suck It Up, Pussies" Post-It Note

Today we learn of yet another campus full of disaffected Hillary snowflakes who were triggered by a post-it note suggesting that they should stop whining about the election and just "suck it up, pussies."  This latest example comes to us from Edgewood College in the ultra-liberal bastion of Madison, Wisconsin via Campus Reform.

Apparently the simple post-it note was determined to be a "hate crime" by the college's "diversity offices" and students with knowledge of the incident were encouraged to contact campus police.  To our complete shock, a message from Edgewood's Vice President for Student Development pinned the blame for the "hate crime" on Trump, saying that it is part of a growing trend of "covert micro-aggressions and overt macro-aggressions" that have "taken on new fervor in higher education since our national election."
Always thought Wisconsiners were more practical.
Most all large colleges and large cities are socialist driven now.
hopefully in 4 years they will no longer be pussies.
Wishful thinking.  It will take a couple of years at least for reality to beat it out of them, for some.....never.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #26 on: November 27, 2016, 08:08:53 AM »

College Students Demand Police Investigate "Suck It Up, Pussies" Post-It Note

Today we learn of yet another campus full of disaffected Hillary snowflakes who were triggered by a post-it note suggesting that they should stop whining about the election and just "suck it up, pussies."  This latest example comes to us from Edgewood College in the ultra-liberal bastion of Madison, Wisconsin via Campus Reform.

Apparently the simple post-it note was determined to be a "hate crime" by the college's "diversity offices" and students with knowledge of the incident were encouraged to contact campus police.  To our complete shock, a message from Edgewood's Vice President for Student Development pinned the blame for the "hate crime" on Trump, saying that it is part of a growing trend of "covert micro-aggressions and overt macro-aggressions" that have "taken on new fervor in higher education since our national election."
Always thought Wisconsiners were more practical.
Most all large colleges and large cities are socialist driven now.
hopefully in 4 years they will no longer be pussies.
Wishful thinking.  It will take a couple of years at least for reality to beat it out of them, for some.....never.
Got them working for us that have been out 10+ years and the same pussified mentality as when they started.  One in particular, a big ole strong boy graduated from FL State with a degree in structural engineering 5 years ago and one of the biggest whiners in the office since 3 others quit.

He loved the pumpkin carving contest and the masquerade retreat - thinks we should do that sort of silly chit several times a year.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #27 on: November 27, 2016, 08:10:03 AM »

good morning. EPC 2nd and coffee here.
Morning Dean, I was going to report you MIA later this morning.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #28 on: November 27, 2016, 08:12:41 AM »

good morning. EPC 2nd and coffee here.
Morning Dean, I was going to report you MIA later this morning.
not to worry. I'm like a bad penny.
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Re: 11/27/2016
« Reply #29 on: November 27, 2016, 09:01:55 AM »

NOT Me! :(

A lottery ticket sold in Tennessee had the winning numbers for a $421 million Powerball jackpot, one of the biggest on record, officials said after Saturday's draw.

The winning numbers selected were 17, 19, 21, 37, 44, with the Powerball 16. No one as yet had stepped forward to claim the prize, which grew in size since Sept. 17, the last time anyone matched all six numbers.

The jackpot soared from $403 million to a reported $420.9 million on Saturday due to a spate of late ticket-buying.
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