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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Will the Bears air their Dirty Laundry?

January 23, 2011

January 23 is … National Handwriting Day, National Pie Day, and Measure Your Feet Day

I must be a poet, my feet are Longfellow’s.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

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So Jesus is walking down the street when he comes across a man, sitting on the curb, crying and moaning uncontrollably. “What is wrong, my son?” asks Jesus “Well, I am blind and I have terminal cancer. I am dying.” responds the man. Jesus places his left hand upon the man’s head, says a quick prayer and tells him to get up and leave, he is cured. The man does so.

Jesus continues to walk awhile when he comes upon another man sitting on the curb, crying uncontrollably. “What is wrong my son?” asks Jesus. “Well”, the sobbing man stammered, “I am a Packers’ fan.” Jesus, without saying a word, placed his left hand on the crying man’s head and sat down next to him, crying uncontrollably.

Bears 26 Packers 20.

On this date in history;

1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto. Mr. Tombaugh was from Streator, IL. Our families were friends growing up. The Tombaughs were farmers and we often picked their tomatoes after the professional pickers were done for the season.

1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis & Elvis Presley.)

John Hancock, statesman and patriot, was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1737. Although major sources state that John Hancock was born on January 12 of that year, others were so sure his birthday was on January 23 that it was designated as National Handwriting Day in his honor. In 1985, the National Writing Instrument Manufacturer’s Association set this day to promote legible handwriting. The Association selected the day they believed to be John Hancock’s birthday.

Mr. Hancock, as the President of the Continental Congress from 1775 to 1777, was the first to put his signature on the Declaration of Independence. Hancock reportedly said, “I’ll sign it in letters bold enough so the King of England can see it without his spectacles on!” And he did. We still refer to this momentous event whenever we sign a document, “I’ll put my John Hancock on it.”
Hancock first gained fame as a patriot when one of his ships, Liberty, landed in Boston with a cargo of wine. The crew, having locked the British customs officer in a cabin, unloaded the wine without paying duty. The British seized the ship and filed suit against Hancock. Colonists rioted; the British sent troops to quell the disturbance. Hancock won the suit and became very popular with the colonists and extremely unpopular with the British. Seven years later, he again escaped the wrath of the British when Paul Revere heralded the red coats’ arrival. John Hancock later became the first governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a position he held until his death in 1793.
His signing of the Declaration of Independence was not only bold and legible; it was a commentary on Hancock’s political position.

Does permitting a prisoner to walk in circle eights for one hour a day constitute exercise? Is not being allowed pillows or sheets a form of mistreatment?

These questions may lie at the heart of a formal legal complaint filed this week by the lawyer defending accused WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning, an Army private who is being held in military custody at Quantico, Va. David Coombs, who represents Manning for his court-martial proceedings, announced on his website that he had filed a formal complaint under the Uniform Code of Military Justice protesting Manning's treatment. Coombs said in his complaint that keeping Manning under prevention-of-injury watch for five months, and suicide watch, is abuse of the base commander’s discretion

Manning is in pretrial detention at Quantico awaiting court-martial proceedings. He is suspected of passing a massive trove of military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks, which has posted many of them online. Coombs is asking that Manning be removed from prevention-of-injury watch, which is the reason for many of his current restrictions, and that his status change to "medium" from "maximum" custody.

The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, has been raked over the coals before and since his arrest. What sort of treatment should the person who is actually accused of being the leaker receive? This is a situation where one must be careful what they pray for, they just may get it. I am not sure this guy would enjoy being in general prison population. Although he looks like a party favor, he may not enjoy being one.

According to the USA Today newspaper, sales of Epub books surpassed printed books for the first time as new Ereader owners bought Ebooks after Christmas. Millions of gift-wrapped iPads, Kindles, Nooks and other digital reading devices resulted in an unprecedented surge in sales of e-books last week.

USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list, to be published Thursday, will show digital's new popularity: E-book versions of the top six books outsold the print versions last week. And of the top 50, 19 had higher e-book than print sales.

It is the first time the top-50 list has had more than two titles in which the e-version outsold the print version. May be I got into this business at the right time for once in my life.

Music at the top of the music world on this date throughout history

1951 Tennessee Waltz - Patti Page
The Thing - Phil Harris
A Bushell and a Peck - Perry Como & Betty Hutton
The Shot Gun Boogie - Tennessee Ernie Ford

1959 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters
My Happiness - Connie Francis
Donna - Ritchie Valens
Billy Bayou - Jim Reeves

1967 I’m a Believer - The Monkees
Tell It Like It Is - Aaron Neville
Georgy Girl - The Seekers
There Goes My Everything - Jack Greene

1975 Mandy - Barry Manilow
Please Mr. Postman - Carpenters
Laughter in the Rain - Neil Sedaka
Kentucky Gambler - Merle Haggard

1983 Down Under - Men at Work
The Girl is Mine - Michael Jackson /Paul McCartney
Dirty Laundry - Don Henley
(Lost His Love) On Our Last Date - Emmylou Harris

1991 Love Will Never Do (Without You) - Janet Jackson
The First Time - Surface
Sensitivity - Ralph Tresvant
Unanswered Prayers - Garth Brooks

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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Saturday, January 22, 2011

Say good night, Keith; "Good night Keith."

January 22, 2011

January 22 is … National Answer Your Cat's Question Day and National Blonde Brownie Day

Well, Well, Well; another day for Glenn?

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

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Check out the Lincoln Vampire video at the web address I posted below. It is pretty cool. My brother, the Lincoln scholar likes it;

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/abraham-lincoln-vampire-hunter-the-book/20drc7w9?q=abraham+lincoln&src=v5:share:email&from=email

Keith Olbermann, good morning and good riddance. Your fifteen minutes lasted fourteen and one-half minutes too long. Perhaps you will discover the way back to the civilized world forces you to cross one of the many bridges you previously set ablaze.

The NBC-TV show, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, debuted “from beautiful downtown Burbank” on this night in 1968. It received the official go-ahead after a successful pilot special that had aired in 1967. The weekly show, produced by George Schlatter and Ed Friendly, then Paul Keyes, used 260 pages of jokes in each hour-long episode.

The first 14 shows earned Laugh-In (as it was commonly called) 4 Emmys. And “you bet your bippy,” Nielsen rated it #1 ... for two seasons.
Thanks to an ever-changing cast of regulars including the likes of Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Arte Johnson, Goldie Hawn, Ruth Buzzi, JoAnne Worley, Gary Owens, Alan Sues, Henry Gibson, Lily Tomlin, Richard Dawson, Judy Carne, President Richard Nixon (“Go ahead, sock it to me!”), the show became the highest-rated comedy series in TV history. Out of a list of 40, the only four to remain from the show’s inception to its finale were hosts, Dan Rowan and Dick Martin; announcer, Gary Owens; and comedienne, Ruth Buzzi (famous for her bit as an old lady using her umbrella to whack the little old man who sat down next to her).
You may remember some of the skits:
Lily Tomlin as the nasal, irritating telephone operator; The Flying Fickle Finger of Fate Award; the joke wall with cast members throwing one-liners as they popped out of windows with buckets of water being thrown back; and the final single pair of clapping hands taking the show to its very last second of its weekly close.
Phrases like the aforementioned ‘Burbank’, ‘bippy’ and ‘sock it’ lines plus “Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls” and “Here come da judge” became part of everyday conversation throughout the USA. The fast-paced, unstructured routines were a match for the climate of the country in the late 1960s. Laugh-In was innovative in its comedy style and has since been copied by many. Yet it wasn’t completely original (as if anything can be); being a mix of the slapstick of burlesque, the antics of the Keystone Cops and the topical satire of shows like That Was the Week That Was. In fact, the same shtick that worked for four decades for Burns and Allen, was working again; this time for Rowan and Martin:
“Say good night, Dick.” “Good night Dick.”

Just in time for the Bears-Packers game, actually 47 years too early, in 1964 the World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) was manufactured in Wisconsin.

‘My Mother the Car” was a television show that aired for thirty episodes in 1965. One of its stars was Ann Sothern, who was born on this date in 1909 in North Dakota as Harriette Lake. The main star was Jerry Van Dyke.

My Mother the Car is an American fantasy sitcom which aired for a single season on NBC between September 14, 1965 and September 6, 1966. A total of thirty episodes were produced by United Artists Television.
Critics and adult viewers generally panned the show, often savagely. In 2002, TV Guide proclaimed it to be the second-worst of all time, just behind The Jerry Springer Show.^[1] In 2010 The O'Reilly Factor recorded its viewers as listing it as the worst show of all time (The Jerry Springer Show was second worst, third worst according to The Factor viewers was Friends, ostensibly because of its sexual content). The show's co-creator, Allan Burns, went on to create some of the most critically acclaimed shows in television history, including The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, and Lou Grant. Renowned television producer James L. Brooks, who later collaborated with Burns on these series, created, among others, Room 222 and Taxi, and served as executive producer of The Simpsons, got his start in television sitcoms on My Mother the Car when he was called upon to rewrite a script for an episode of the series.^[2] The other co-creator of My Mother the Car, Chris Hayward, produced and wrote for Barney Miller during its first several seasons.
The show follows the exploits of attorney David Crabtree (played by Jerry Van Dyke), who, while shopping at a used car lot for a station wagon to serve as a second family car, instead purchases a dilapidated 1928 "Porter" touring car. Crabtree heard the car call his name in a woman's voice, which later turned out to be that of his deceased mother, Gladys (voiced by Ann Sothern). The car, a valuable antique, is a reincarnation of his mother who talks (only to Crabtree, of course) through the car's radio. The dial light flashed in sync with "Mother's" voice. In an effort to get his family to accept the old, tired car, Crabtree brings it to a custom body shop for a full restoration. The car was originally coveted by a collector named Captain Manzini even before its restoration, but Crabtree purchases and restores the car before Manzini can acquire it.
For the rest of the series, Crabtree is pursued by the avaricious Captain Manzini (Avery Schreiber), who is determined to acquire the valuable automobile from Crabtree. In a running gag characterizing his shifty nature, Manzini (who resembles a 1920s silent film villain) always mispronounces Crabtree's name when speaking to him. "Now, then, Crabapple..." "That's Crabtree." "Whatever."
Others in the cast included Maggie Pierce as wife Barbara and Cindy Eilbacher (the sister of Lisa Eilbacher) and Randy Whipple as the kids, Cindy and Randy.

Oh, the memories of when TV was TV.

Chart toppers on this date in the history of music charts;

1950 Dear Hearts and Gentle People - Dinah Shore
A Dreamer’s Holiday - Perry Como
The Old Master Painter - Snooky Lanson
Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy - Red Foley

1958 At the Hop - Danny & The Juniors
Oh, Boy! - The Crickets
Don’t/I Beg of You - Elvis Presley
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis

1966 The Sounds of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
We Can Work It Out - The Beatles
No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach’s In) - The T-Bones
Giddyup Go - Red Sovine

1974 Show and Tell - Al Wilson
Smokin’ in the Boys Room - Brownsville Station
I’ve Got to Use My Imagination - Gladys Knight & The Pips
I Love - Tom T. Hall

1982 Physical - Olivia Newton-John
Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner
Centerfold - The J. Geils Band
I Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World - Ronnie Milsap

1990 How Am I Supposed to Live Without You - Michael Bolton
Pump Up the Jam - Technotronic featuring Felly
Everything - Jody Watley
Nobody’s Home - Clint Black

BRUCE A. BRENNAN

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“Early to rise and ditto to bed, make a man healthy, but socially dead”

Friday, January 21, 2011

TJ and Mustache Pete!

January 21, 2011

January 21 is … National Hugging Day. Today should be fun but it seems like it is set up for a day of sexual harassment claims, in today’s “I am way too important for that stuff.” society.

BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND

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Check out the Christian Science Monitor’s Photos of the day;

http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/Photos-of-the-Day/2011/Photos-of-the-day-01-19

These photos are in every edition of the newspaper. They are fascinating, funny, poignant, topical, weird and worth your time to look through. Enjoy.

How long before the Arizona shooting spree video comes to a website near you?

For decades, J. Edgar Hoover denied organized crime existed. Hoover, a long rumored cross-dressing homosexual was well known for his blackmail tactics used to keep politicians in line and his power base intact. Whether you called it The Black Hand, The Mafia, The Cosa Nostra, The Outfit, in Chicago, The Mustache Petes, The Mob, The Syndicate or the Family, Hoover denied it existed. This was likely because organized crime had secrets it was using to blackmail Hoover with to have him direct attention in other areas.

It was not until the summit in upstate New York on November 14, 1957 when sixty Mafiosi from around the country are known to have attended a convention in rural Apalachin, NY, at the home of Joseph Barbara. Their presence was documented by police who collected license plate numbers at the scene and rounded up, identified and searched the conventioneers as they attempted to leave the Barbara property. This was after the Senate Hearings that began May 11, 1950 orchestrated by Estes Kefauver. The Kefauver Committee (U.S. Senate committee) hearings into organized crime's influence on interstate commerce began May 11, 1950. The Committee would hear 600 witnesses during its first year. Kefauver will take the show on the road, conducting hearings in 14 cities.

These two events forced Hoover to acknowledge the existence of organized crime. Now, after years of prosecuting organized crime members and declaring it dead several times, the authorities arrested over 100 people they claim are mobsters. Federal authorities today announced what they called the largest mob roundup in FBI history: the indictment of 127 people, including key Mafia figures from the New York, New Jersey and New England crime families, on charges ranging from murder and racketeering to gambling, extortion and loan-sharking.

It appears the self generated reports by the government of the death of organized crime in America were premature. I am sure the authorities will claim this latest prosecution means the end for the Mafia. If the incompetent, moron John Gotti could not kill off the Mafia, I don’t see how the authorities can do it. But I am sure they will claim a great victory. They have prevented a crook from committing a crime against another crook. Way to go.

Something I picked up off the internet with the help of my editor, Glenn;

Thomas Jefferson was a very remarkable man who started learning very early in life and never stopped.
       At 5, began studying under his cousin’s tutor.
   At 9, he studied Latin, Greek and French.
       At 14, he studied classical literature and additional languages.
       At 16, he entered the College of William and Mary.
       At 19, he studied Law for 5 years starting under George Wythe.
       At 23, he started his own law practice.
       At 25, he was elected to the Virginia House of Burgesses.
       At 31, he wrote the widely circulated "Summary View of the Rights of British America" and retired from his law practice.
       At 32, he was a Delegate to the Second Continental Congress.
       At 33, he wrote the Declaration of Independence.
       At 33, he took three years to revise Virginia’s legal code and wrote a Public Education bill and a statute for Religious Freedom.
       At 36, he was elected the second Governor of Virginia succeeding Patrick Henry.
       At 40, he served in Congress for two years.
       At 41, he was the American minister to France and negotiated commercial treaties with European nations along with Ben Franklin and John Adams.
       At 46, he served as the first Secretary of State under George Washington.
       At 53, he served as Vice President and was elected president of the American Philosophical Society.
       At 55, drafted the Kentucky Resolutions and became the active head of Republican Party.
       At 57, he was elected the third president of the United States.
       At 60, he obtained the Louisiana Purchase doubling the nation’s size.
       At 61, he was elected to a second term as President.
       At 65, he retired to Monticello.
       At 80, he helped President Monroe shape the Monroe Doctrine.
       At 81, he almost single-handedly created the University of Virginia and served as its first president.
       At 83, he died on the 50th anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence along with John Adams

Thomas Jefferson knew because he himself studied the previous failed attempts at government. He understood actual history, the nature of God, his laws and the nature of man. That happens to be way more than what most understand today. Jefferson really knew his stuff. He was a voice from the past to lead us in the future.

John F. Kennedy held a dinner in the white House for a group of the brightest minds in the nation at that time. He made this statement: "This is perhaps the assembly of the most intelligence ever to gather at one time in the White House with the exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
~ Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.
~ Thomas Jefferson

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
~ Thomas Jefferson

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
~ Thomas Jefferson

No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
~ Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
~ Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
~ Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson said in 1802:

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property - until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.

Notable troublemakers born on this date in history;

1884 Roger Nash Baldwin founder (American Civil Liberties Union)

1915 Alan Hewitt New York City NY, actor (Detective Brennan-My Favorite Martian)

Notable events on this date in history;

1974 Gold hits record $161.31 an ounce in London
1974 Silver hits record $3.97 an ounce in London

Look at the prices today. If only I knew then what I know now!

1994 Lorena Bobbitt found temporarily insane for chopping off spouse's penis

Music at the top of the charts on January 21^st through the years;

1949 Buttons and Bows - Dinah Shore
A Little Bird Told Me - Evelyn Knight
On a Slow Boat to China - The Kay Kyser Orchestra (vocal: Harry Babbitt
& Gloria Wood)
I Love You So Much It Hurts - Jimmy Wakely

1957 Singing the Blues - Guy Mitchell
The Banana Boat Song - The Tarriers
Young Love - Tab Hunter
Singing the Blues - Marty Robbins

1965 Come See About Me - The Supremes
Love Potion Number Nine - The Searchers
Downtown - Petula Clark
Once a Day - Connie Smith

1973 You’re So Vain - Carly Simon
Superstition - Stevie Wonder
Crocodile Rock - Elton John
Soul Song - Joe Stampley

1981 (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
Love on the Rocks - Neil Diamond
The Tide is High - Blondie
I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt