6 Responses to Open Thread – August 19, 2012

1. chopper says:

   August 19, 2012 at 6:15 am

   on August 19th:
   1812 – "Old Ironsides" (the USS Constitution) won a battle against the British frigate Guerriere east of Nova Scotia.
   1848 – The discovery of gold in California was reported by the New York Herald.
   1856 – The process of processing condensed milk was patented by Gail Borden.
   1909 – The first car race to be run on brick occurred at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
   1917 – Team managers John McGraw and Christy Matthewson were arrested for breaking New York City's blue laws. The crime was their teams were playing baseball on Sunday.
   1919 – Afghanistan gained independence from Britain.
   1929 – "Amos and Andy," the radio comedy program, made its debut on NBC starring Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll.
   1934 – Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer.
   1940 – The new Civil Aeronautics Administration awarded honorary license #1 to Orville Wright.
   1942 – About 6,000 Canadian and British soldiers launched a raid against the Germans at Dieppe, France. They suffered about 50 percent casualties.
   1960 – Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of espionage in Moscow.
   1960 – Two dogs were launched in a satellite into Earth's orbit by the Soviet Union.
   1962 – Homero Blancas shot a 55 at the Premier Invitational Golf Tournament held in Longview, TX. It was the lowest score in U.S. competitive golf history.
   1974 – During an anti-American protest in Nicosia, Cyprus, U.S. Ambassador Rodger P. Davies was fatally wounded by a bullet while in the American embassy.
   1981 – Two Libyan SU-22s were shot down by two U.S. Navy F-14 fighters in the Gulf of Sidra.
   1991 – Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
   1998 – The first piece of the 351 foot bronze statue of Christopher Columbus arrived in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
   1999 – In Belgrade, thousands of Serbs attended a rally to demand the resignation of Yugoslavia's President Slobodan Milosevic.
   2004 – Google Inc. stock began selling on the Nasdaq Stock Market. The initial price was set at $85 and ended the day at $100.34 with more than 22 million shares traded.(on Friday it closed at $677.14)
2. kissmygrits says:

   August 19, 2012 at 8:18 am

   The latest from Big Butch Napalitano: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/strike_on_j...
3. Taxpayer1234 says:

   August 19, 2012 at 12:33 pm

   It's a gorgeous day in CO today.

   Also, last night my kid and I watched "The Hunger Games" on DVD. It's a terrific movie and shows what "life" would be like under a socialist utopia. Except the socialists try to deny that socialism leads to totalitarianism. The only hair-split difference is who's the dictator: a single person (a la Hitler) or a group of people (USSR Politburo).
   • kissmygrits says:

     August 19, 2012 at 3:07 pm

     You need to read all the books. They are a lot better. I have a feeling they will make movies of them too.
     The books are pretty gruesome. I loved the books.
   • TanksSherman says:

     August 19, 2012 at 7:46 pm

     ….and Donald Sutherland was appropriately cast. The elite sycophants were remarkably similar to the leftist-liberal obots that swoon when baraky speaks.
4. TanksSherman says:

   August 19, 2012 at 9:50 pm

   Today my kid and I drove to the mountains to pick huckleberries and came home empty handed….hot dry summer left our dependable patch with nothing but a few small berries and alot of dried up immature fruit. She spotted a momma Spruce Grouse with two of her brood about ten feet away from us as we searched the area. After a photo, I talked to her about how to capture and kill one of these unwary birds if she should ever find herself lost and in need of food.