FIREFLY - OBJECTS IN SPACE (episode 14) final episode

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These episodes are now independent of the Hulu feed and will not continuously disappear.


"Let's all be careful out there!"

AUGUST 5TH

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Today is Tuesday, August 5, the 218th day of 2008.
There are 148 days left in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:
On August 5, 1858, the first trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, the dreamchild of American businessman Cyrus Field, was laid between Newfoundland and Ireland. (However, after several weeks of use, the cable burned out.)
On this date:

• In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Adm. David G. Farragut led his fleet to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala.
• In 1884, the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty's pedestal was laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
• In 1914, one of the first, if not the first, electric traffic light systems was installed in Cleveland, Ohio, at the intersection of 105th Street and Euclid Avenue.
• In 1924, the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, made its debut.
• In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the National Labor Board, which was later replaced with the National Labor Relations Board.
• In 1953, Operation Big Switch began as prisoners taken during the Korean conflict were exchanged at Panmunjom.
• In 1962, actress Marilyn Monroe, 36, was found dead in her Los Angeles home; her death was ruled a probable suicide from an overdose of sleeping pills.
• In 1963, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed a treaty in Moscow banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere, in space and underwater.
• In 1968, the Republican national convention convened in Miami Beach.
• In 1981, the federal government began firing air traffic controllers who had gone out on strike.

Ten years ago:

• Iraqi President Saddam Hussein broke off cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors and demanded the commission monitoring the weapons be reorganized.
• Marie Noe of Philadelphia was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, accused of smothering eight of her children to death between 1949 and 1968. (Noe later received 20 years' probation.)

Five years ago:

• Episcopal leaders in Minneapolis voted to approve the election of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay clergyman, as bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire.
• A car bombing at the Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia, killed 12 people.

One year ago:

• President Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai began meeting at Camp David to discuss security issues in Afghanistan.
• Lorena Ochoa won the Women's British Open — the first women's professional tournament played at venerable St. Andrews — for her first major title.
• Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, one of the most influential Roman Catholic figures in France, died in Paris at age 80.
• Comedian Stanley Myron Handelman died in Panorama City, Calif., at age 77.

Today's Birthdays:

• Former astronaut Neil A. Armstrong is 78.
• Country singer Vern Gosdin is 74.
• Actress Cammie King ("Gone with the Wind") is 74.
• Actor John Saxon is 73.
• Actor Zakes Mokae is 73.
• Country songwriter Bobby Braddock is 68.
• Rock musician Rick Huxley (The Dave Clark Five) is 66.
• Actress Loni Anderson is 62.
• Actress Erika Slezak is 62.
• Rock singer Rick Derringer is 61.
• Actress Holly Palance is 58.
• Singer Samantha Sang is 55.
• Actress-singer Maureen McCormick is 52.
• Rock musician Pat Smear is 49.
• Actress Tawney Kitaen is 47.
• Country musician Mark O'Connor is 47.
• Rapper MCA (The Beastie Boys) is 44.
• Actor Jonathan Silverman is 42.
• Country singer Terri Clark is 40.
• Actor Brendon Ryan Barrett is 22.

Thought for Today:

"I slept, and dreamed that life was Beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty."
Ellen Sturgis Hooper, American poet (1816-1841).

"Let's all be careful out there!"

DAILY CHUCKLE 8-218

"Let's all be careful out there!"

McCAIN'S DEMOGRAPHIC

IS FINALLY IDENTIFIED


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And if for some reason you've never heard of Sturgis.

Now if I am reading this correctly, our choice is between a stick-in-the-mud or a willow-wisp.
I guess it really doesn't matter much either way. Anything will be an improvement over the pothole we've endured the last, almost, 8 years.

Why is it that I envision a pay toilet paper dispenser in the airline industry's immediate future?
Or maybe the movie will be like an adult book store's video arcade. So much viewing time for each quarter inserted.

And if you didn't already believe that the basic infrastructure of America isn't unraveling faster than a Wal-Mart sweater. Even the various segments of the infrastructure are going nose-to-nose against each other.



$14 frakking million for pics of two kids with semi-famous, quasi-celebrity parents? Okay Lord, we await the trump and shout. Eagerly await. You there Lord? Hello!? What do you mean his copy of People hasn't arrived yet. So much for the all seeing, all knowing bull-shit.



No problem. Steal a pickup truck. Do a little cruisin'. Have the stolen vehicle car-jacked from you. Wait! What? How'd that one get on the agenda?

Have a great day everyone. Thanks for visiting.

"Let's all be careful out there!"