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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2015, 02:40:18 AM »


In 1972, reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes, speaking by telephone from the Bahamas to reporters in Hollywood, said a purported autobiography of him by Clifford Irving was a fake.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2015, 02:40:51 AM »


In 1987, the White House released a Jan. 1986 memorandum prepared for President Ronald Reagan by Lt. Col. Oliver L. North showing a link between U.S. arms sales to Iran and the release of American hostages in Lebanon.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2015, 02:41:31 AM »


In 1995, in New York, the trial of Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman and 11 other defendants accused of conspiring to wage holy war against the United States began. (All the defendants were convicted of seditious conspiracy, except for two who reached plea agreements with the government.) British actor-comedian Peter Cook died in London at age 57. "The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder" premiered on CBS.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2015, 02:42:00 AM »


In 1997, a Comair commuter plane crashed 18 miles short of the Detroit Metropolitan Airport, killing all 29 people on board.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2015, 02:42:45 AM »

Ten years ago: Mahmoud Abbas, the No. 2 man in the Palestinian hierarchy during Yasser Arafat's rule, was elected president of the Palestinian Authority by a landslide. Sudan's vice president (Ali Osman Mohammed Taha) and the country's main rebel leader (John Garang) signed a comprehensive peace agreement, concluding an eight-year process to stop a civil war in the south.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #20 on: January 09, 2015, 02:43:38 AM »

Five years ago: In a video broadcast posthumously, the Jordanian doctor who'd killed seven CIA employees in a suicide attack in Afghanistan on Dec. 30, 2009, called on all jihadists to attack U.S. targets to avenge the death of Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud (BEH'-tuh-luh mah-SOOD'). Peyton Manning became the first player to win The Associated Press' NFL Most Valuable Player award four times.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #21 on: January 09, 2015, 02:44:29 AM »


One year ago: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired one of his top aides, Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, and apologized repeatedly for his staff's "stupid" behavior, insisting during a news conference that he had no idea anyone around him had engineered traffic jams as part of a political vendetta against a Democratic mayor. A chemical plant spill into West Virginia's Elk River contaminated the water supply for Charleston, forcing more than 300,000 water customers in nine counties to stop using tap water. Activist poet-playwright Amiri Baraka, 79, died at a hospital in Newark, New Jersey.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #22 on: January 09, 2015, 02:44:57 AM »

Today's Birthdays: Author Judith Krantz is 87. Football Hall-of-Famer Bart Starr is 81. Sportscaster Dick Enberg is 80. Actress K. Callan is 79. Folk singer Joan Baez is 74. Rockabilly singer Roy Head is 74. Rock musician Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) is 71. Singer David Johansen (aka Buster Poindexter) is 65. Singer Crystal Gayle is 64. Actor J.K. Simmons is 60. Actress Imelda Staunton is 59. Nobel Peace laureate Rigoberto Menchu is 56. Rock musician Eric Erlandson is 52. Actress Joely Richardson is 50. Rock musician Carl Bell (Fuel) is 48. Rock singer Steve Harwell (Smash Mouth) is 48. Rock singer-musician Dave Matthews is 48. Actress-director Joey Lauren Adams is 47. Actress Angela Bettis is 42. Roots singer-songwriter Hayes Carll is 39. Singer A.J. McLean (Backstreet Boys) is 37. Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, is 33. Pop-rock musician Drew Brown (OneRepublic) is 31. Rock-soul singer Paolo Nutini is 28. Actress Nina Dobrev is 26. Actor Tyree Brown is 11.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #23 on: January 09, 2015, 02:45:41 AM »

Thought for Today: "One's lifework, I have learned, grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it, and first thing you know, you'll have made a life out of it. A good life, too." — Theresa Helburn, American theatrical producer (1887-1959).

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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #24 on: January 09, 2015, 02:46:29 AM »

The Pharmacist
-------------------------

Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the
door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained,
"It's the pharmacist. He insulted me terribly
this morning on the phone."


Immediately the husband drove downtown to confront
the phamacist and demand an apology. Before he
could say more than a few words, the druggist
told him, "Now, just a minute, please listen
to my side of it...


This morning the alarm failed to go off, so
I was late getting up. I went without breakfast
and hurried out to the car, just to realize that
I locked the house with both house and car keys
inside. I had to break a window to get my keys.
Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding
ticket.


Later, about three blocks from the store, I
had a flat tire. When I got to the store there
was a bunch of people waiting for me to open
up. I opened and started waiting on these people,
and all the time the darn phone was ringing off
the hook."


He continued, "Then I had to break a roll of
nickels against the cash register drawer to make
change, and they spilled all over the floor.
I got down on my hands and knees to pick up the
nickels; the phone was still ringing. When I
came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer,
which made me stagger back against a showcase
with bunch of perfume bottles on it...all of
them hit the floor and broke.


Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with
no let up, and I finally got to answer it. It
was your wife. She wanted to know how to use
a rectal thermometer...and, honest mister, all
I did was tell her!"

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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #25 on: January 09, 2015, 03:09:46 AM »

Time to hit the road for work, enjoy your day guys.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #26 on: January 09, 2015, 05:52:45 AM »

Good Morning and Happy Friday LSU.  Only 37 here this morning with some light showers but another cold front coming through late this afternoon bringing freezing rain tonight.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #27 on: January 09, 2015, 06:03:00 AM »

Morning all. Don't think I've driven to work yet this week and been able to see the lines on the highway. Sheesh.
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #28 on: January 09, 2015, 06:06:39 AM »

Morning Golf.  That is certainly an ass puckering drive!
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Re: 1/9/2015
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2015, 06:20:42 AM »

Good Morning and Happy Friday LSU.  Only 37 here this morning with some light showers but another cold front coming through late this afternoon bringing freezing rain tonight.
Good morning Native.
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