Published by VirusHead on 29th June 2005
In 1964 (the year you were born) |
Lyndon B. Johnson is president of the US
After riots break out, Panama suspends relations with he US
Cassius Clay becomes heavyweight champion when Sonny Liston throws in the towel in the sixth round in Miami Near Anchorage, the strongest earthquake ever to strike North America kills 117
Worst soccer disaster in history occurs when rioting and panic kills over 300 in Liverpool
Hundreds of white college students work for civil rights in the south during “Freedom Summer”
South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life in prison
Kemeny and Kurtz create BASIC (Beginners’ All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language
Nicolas Cage, Jeff Bezos, Rob Lowe, Elle Macpherson, Courteney Cox Arquette, and Keanu Reeves are born
St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series
Cleveland Browns win the NFL championship
Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup
“I Want to Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles released in the US, sparking Beatlemania
The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show, breaking television ratings records
The game show Jeopardy! debuts on television
Mary Poppins, starring Julie Andrews, is the top grossing film
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Published by VirusHead on 29th June 2005
Your Linguistic Profile:
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50% Yankee |
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35% General American English |
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10% Upper Midwestern |
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5% Dixie |
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0% Midwestern |
Published by VirusHead on 27th June 2005
Dennis Rahkonen (’The Republican Wile E. Coyote‘, 6-27-05) thinks that Durbin’s apology was unwise. In his view, we should perhaps be making more actual historical comparisions between this administration and that of Hitler’s Germany. Here are some starter questions for eager researchers…
Did German motorists have “Support Our Troops” ribbons on their Volkswagens in 1943?
Did conservatives loyal to Hitler pooh-pooh reports of Jews being abused in concentration camps in the same way neocon Bush backers blithely dismiss documentation by Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and even the FBI that Muslims are being routinely abused at U.S. detention centers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba?
Did they actually believe the contrived pretext for the Wehrmacht’s assault on Poland? (Nazi provocateurs dressed in Polish military uniforms “attacked” German border posts and a German radio station.)
Was there a German entertainer like Toby Keith who rallied backing for the official cause with jingoistic, xenophobic phonograph recordings?
When news of Guernica, Lidice and the Warsaw Ghetto reached the German masses, were they any less propagandized about what really happened there then we are about Fallujah?
Was the German press as craven in refusing to criticize Hitler’s purpose as the American media are in failing to seriously challenge George Bush?
Finally, will history and humankind accord his despicable war for oil and hegemony any kinder status than they have for the crimes of the Third Reich?
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Published by VirusHead on 27th June 2005
Published by VirusHead on 26th June 2005
Ok, I don’t usually post opinions about the Hollywood types, but this Scientology thing has been bothering me for a number of years.
Perhaps Katie Holmes should do a little research before the control-conversion is complete?
http://www.rickross.com/groups/scientology.html
http://www.lermanet.com/cos/tom.htm (see Tom Cruise saluting at top)
http://www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/hardtruth/scientology.htm
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/11280
http://www.xenu.net/archive/disk/archive/quotes.htm
http://www.accesshollywood.com/accesstomcruise/index.html
