SCREW UNTO OTHERS AS THEY . . .
TRUST YOU
Counselors. Counsel. Advice and Counsel. Those in the exalted position of offering counsel possess a power which must be exercised prudently. Where a conflict between personal and public interest arises, the counselor must act for the good of all, not for selfish, debased reasons.
Doctors, lawyers, and clergy are three professions that carry a special obligation of trust and responsibility, not only to their clients, but to society; three professions that require, as a condition to admittance into the chamber of secret knowledge, oaths vowing to act for the good of others. People turn to doctors, lawyers and clergy at vulnerable times, with problems that go beyond a mere human's capabilities to handle and require the advice and counsel of someone who has vowed to act honorably, help others and rise above corrupting influences.
Doctors, you are off the hot seat today. But lawyers and clergy, Oh My!
Lawyers and clergy can really mess with the mind. They can cause society to lose faith in what is the right thing to do, and the right thing to expect of others. "Everbody's doin' it, doin' it" might work for adolescents, but not for those wearing the mantle of counselor. We hate it when the bad behaviors of clergy, whether Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart or predatory priests, are uncloaked. We hate it when the lies of lawyers who have taken upon themselves the mantle of public trust, whether Nixon, the Clintons or Edwards, are uncloaked.
True, it means they are just people - - just like us - - but these phonies have preached to us about the right thing for us to do, used their perfect lives as a template on which to pattern our own mean existence, and we have trusted them to handle our problems and help us to cope with our vulnerabilities. By circumstance and necessity they must be held to the highest standard.
Clergy and lawyers are both admired and despised because we need them in the worst times of our lives, and they have to be trusted at those most vulnerable times. They can be honorable, protecting and helping us, at which times we admire them, and hope our children go to law school or seminary and gain admittance into the chamber of secret knowledge. Or they can use their power for their own selfish reasons, deceiving and hurting us.
The only people who benefit no matter which end of the spectrum the behavior occupies are John Grisham and journalists. They can spin a good tale from either extreme of behavior, and an excellent tale when an esteemed counselor's behavior takes a roundtrip between the extreme poles. The tale can run from north to south - - "Whee, I just fell from Grace!" (or "I just fell off Grace!") It can travel from south to north by a number of routes, guided by one's moral compass - - the blue highways routes of responsibility, reflection and quiet work to rehabilitate one's self, or the express route of confession, immediately followed by turning the wheel over to God.
"Men think with their pants, not their brains" and "it's a private family matter" are illogical, patently silly excuses. If the brains - pants dichotomy was a logical excuse, predatory priests would be off the hook because they don't think with their brains. In the Edwards case, neither excuse is applicable because the culpable acts are not the sex or the affair. Rather, the bad acts are the months of lying to the public and supporters, and the sin of hubris exercised by all involved in the matter and the cover up.
Hubris is one of those hard, not-used-every-day words, so it is tempting to say, "Sin of Hubris? Okay, take the express route. Confess just far enough to squeak through, and then turn the whole problem over to God. You'll see absolution straight ahead in about 10 minutes."
But it isn't that easy. Hubris is a serious personality flaw. It has made these people untrustworthy. They have a chronic case of bad judgment, both over the prolonged period of the cover-up and the intense, panicky period at the end, which birthed the confession (with limited warranty where applicable) and started Chapter Two of the cover-up chronicles. Shouldn't these people have refrained from dumping this hubris mess on the heads of the unknowing public and supporters (unknowing except for supporters with jets and moola)?
They intentionally suckered the public and supporters. What they were "reille-y" saying was, "Please donate so I can pay a sultry videographer/roadie and her hotel bills on the road. Please donate so We can reign in photogenic marital harmony and "most admired" status over all the Land. Please donate so our special interest squad of air-borne lawyers can exert big influence and bomb any tort reformers. Just please, please donate, and p.s. judge us by our empty words, not our actions."
In the next national crisis, would you want a president with great hair and hubris galore, who would be in denial, and lie and stall, then panic and fall apart at the critical moment? A president whose friends and family were enablers? Sounds like a good story line for "24," both Nixonian (except the hair part) and Clintonesque to keep it non-partisan.
by Phil Ander
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Open Season on the Clinton Scandals?
by Nancy Morgan
FLASH:
The Mainstream Media Discovers--GASP!--the Underbelly of the Clintons
Eight Years Later
The day following the crucial Indiana and NC primaries that seemed to end Hillary's presidential aspirations, a strange thing happened. The media started releasing bits and pieces of Hillary's seldom reported, nefarious doings. Doings that have been in the public arena for years but never followed up by the media.
The Washington Times headline Once-Secret Memos Question Clinton's Honesty appeared Wednesday. The article outlined the decades old information that federal prosecutors had assembled hundreds of pages of evidence suggesting she concealed information and misled a federal grand jury. Information that has long been available but, curiously, never reported in depth until now.
On Friday, The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled, The Clinton Divorce, in which they actually mentioned nine of the most well known Clinton scandals. This was followed on Saturday by a current (potential) Hillary scandal, U.S. Criminal Probe Eyes Clinton Donor.
Monday we see another headline from the Washington Times, Clinton's Records Vanished After Warning, about the billing records of Hillary's Rose Law Firm. The billing records that disappeared 14 years ago, and were found by Hillary two years later.
These articles may come as a shock to many voters, especially young students, who weren't around during the era of non-stop Clinton scandals. They, along with many voters, believe the unchallenged statements by Hillary and legions of pundits that Hillary has been thoroughly vetted. Even McCain and many other conservatives echo this false statement and accept it as truth. Its not.
The Clinton scandals, both Bill's and Hillary's, have never been reported to the American people. Or were reported in such a way as to convey the impression they were fantasies motivated by hate filled members of the right wing conspiracy. They were one or two day stories which were then swept down the old memory hole. Despite iron-clad evidence of malfeasance, perjury, cover-up, blackmail and conspiracy.
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As one of the only three journalists that dared cover the Vince Foster supposed 'suicide', I remain perplexed to this day how solid evidence of conspiracy, cover-up and numerous documented illegalities by team Clinton managed to be kept from public view. I have seen the actual evidence. The evidence that was never made available to the American public. Whether Vince Foster was murdered or committed suicide is not known. The evidence, however, clearly shows that his death did not occur in Ft Marcy Park, as most Americans believe.
Most Americans would be shocked to know that the Monica Lewinsky scandal served Bill Clinton quite well. It diverted attention from the more serious charges concerning Chinese cash that coincidentally flowed to Bill Clinton at the same time his crony, Ron Brown, in the Commerce Department was approving the export of our nuclear technology to China. This Chinese cash was instrumental in Bill Clinton's re-election in 1996. These two scandals are merely the tip of the Clinton iceberg but they set the reporting standard for the many scandals that followed.
Whether conservatives were honestly unaware of the available facts, or whether they were afraid of losing their credibility by reporting the unbelievable shenanigans of the Clintons is a question I can't answer. What I do know is that every article I have written about the Clinton's malfeasance over the last 13 years, has been rejected. By liberals and conservatives alike.
The timing of these articles raises a red flag. Why, after all these years, is it now acceptable to point out the reality surrounding the Clintons? Will the public finally be made aware of the extent and scope of team Clinton's illegalities, scandals and cover-ups? Will the media finally let the American public know about Hillary's supporting and leading roles in the numerous documented cases involving corruption, perjury, blackmail and intimidation? If so, why now?
No matter what side of the aisle you're on, every American has the right to enough information to make an informed decision when casting their vote. We should all question why all this information was never made available to the public when it actually mattered.
by Nancy Morgan
Nancy Morgan is a columnist and a news editor for RightBias.com
She lives in South Carolina, where she writes "Culture Watch" weekly, as well as other articles.
Article may be reprinted with attribution. Bio available on request.
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LANDMARKS
1889 French engineer Gustave Eiffel unfurled the French tricolor from atop the Eiffel Tower, officially marking its completion.
WAR!
1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326.
2003 American forces battled Iraqi defenders in fierce street fighting 50 miles south of Baghdad, pointing toward a drive on the capital. Seven Iraqi women and children were killed at an Army checkpoint when their van refused orders to stop.
TERRORISM
2007 President Bush called for the release of 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran, calling their capture by Tehran "inexcusable behavior." (The crew members were released on April 4.)
DISASTER
1932 150 wild swans die in Niagara waterfall.
1983 Earthquake in Colombia kills some 5,000 people.
1986 167 die when Mexicana Airlines Boeing 727 crashes.
VRROOOM!
1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine.
ZIP!
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago IL, patents a hookless fastening (zipper).
TRANSVESTITES
1991 Danny Bonaduce attacks a transvestite prostitute in Phoenix AZ
FIRE!
1967 Jimi Hendrix begins his tradition of burning his guitar.
DANCE!
1923 1st dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hours.
AWARDS
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins.
POPULATION
1850 US population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%)).
PRO WRESTLING
1985 Wrestlemania I at Madison Square Garden New York, Hogan & Mr T beat Piper & Orndorf.
1996 Wrestlemania XII: Shawn Michaels beats Brett Hart for WWF title.
SURPRISE!
1968 At the conclusion of a nationally broadcast address on efforts to bring a peaceful end to the Vietnam War, President Lyndon B. Johnson shocked listeners by announcing he would not seek another term of office.
JEWS
1492 Queen Isabella of Castilia & Ferdinand of Aragon expels Jews.
1808 French-created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names.
1944 Hungary orders all Jews to wear yellow stars.
LIT UP
1880 Wabash, Ind., became the first town in the world to be illuminated by electrical lighting.
LEVIATHAN
1933 Congress approved, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed, the Emergency Conservation Work Act, which created the Civilian Conservation Corps.
OFFERS
1954 USSR offers to join NATO.
WELCOME!
1949 Newfoundland (now called Newfoundland and Labrador) entered confederation as Canada's 10th province.
PLAYING GOD
1976 the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Karen Ann Quinlan, who was in a persistent vegetative state, could be disconnected from her respirator. (Quinlan, who remained unconscious, died in 1985.)
2005 Terri Schiavo, 41, died at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute.
STALKING
1994 James Farentino pleads no contest to stalking Tina Sinatra.
CLINTONS
1998 In an unprecedented move, the Clinton administration released a detailed financial statement for the federal government showing its assets and liabilities.
BORN
1811 Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner).
1878 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-1915).
1929 Liz Claiborne Brussels Belgium, fashion designer.
BIRTHDAYS
Actress Peggy Rea is 87. Actor William Daniels is 81. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Gordie Howe is 80. Actor Richard Chamberlain is 74. Actress Shirley Jones is 74. Country singer-songwriter John D. Loudermilk is 74. Musician Herb Alpert is 73. Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is 68. Actor Christopher Walken is 65. Comedian Gabe Kaplan is 63. Former Vice President Al Gore is 60. David Eisenhower is 60. Actress Rhea Perlman is 60. Actor Ed Marinaro is 58. Rock musician Angus Young (AC/DC) is 53. Actor Marc McClure is 51. Actor William McNamara is 43. Actor Ewan McGregor is 37. Rapper Tony Yayo is 30. Jazz musician Christian Scott is 25.
DEATH
1931 Knute Rockne football player/coach, dies in a plane crash at 43.
1998 Former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug died at age 77.
March 31, the 91st day of 2008. There are 275 days left in the year.
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WAR!
1942 General MacArthur vows, "I shall return".
2003 A subdued Saddam Hussein appeared on state-run television after the initial U.S. air strike on Baghdad, accusing the United States of a "shameful crime" and urging his people to "draw your sword" against the invaders. American combat units rumbled across the desert into Iraq from the south and U.S. and British forces bombed limited targets in Baghdad. The start of war in Iraq triggered one of the heaviest days of anti-government protesting in years, leading to thousands of arrests across the United States and prompting pro-war counter-demonstrations.
TERRORISM
1993 IRA-bomb kills 3 year old in Warrington England.
1995 In Tokyo, 12 people were killed, more than 5,500 others sickened when packages containing the poisonous gas sarin were leaked on five separate subway trains by Aum Shinrikyo cult members.
DISASTER
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings.
1972 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche.
1998 A tornado in rural northeast Georgia killed at least 13 people and injured 100.
WOW!
1988 8-year-old DeAndra Anrig found herself airborne when the string of her kite was snagged by an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View, Calif. (DeAndra was lifted 10 feet off the ground and carried some 100 feet until she let go; she was not seriously hurt.)
MUPPETS
??? Big Bird muppet was born today on in an unknown year.(Sesame Street)
DICTATORS
1992 Manuel Noriega's (Panama) wife Felicidad arrested for stealing buttons from dresses.
PRO WRESTLING
1994 Wrestlemania X at Madison Square Garden New York, Bret "The Hitman" Hart pins Yokozuna to win WWF championship.
PATENTS
1885 John Matzeliger of Suriname patents shoe lacing machine.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania).
MURDER
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents.
ESCAPES
1815 Napoleon Bonaparte returned to Paris after escaping his exile on Elba, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
CLINTONS
1998 President Clinton's lawyer, appearing before a federal court in Little Rock, Ark., declared that Paula Jones' evidence of sexual harassment was "garbage" unworthy of a trial.
CLUELESSLY IMPOTENT
1980 US appeals to International Court on hostages in Iran.
JEWS
1939 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania.
BEATLES
1969 John Lennon married Yoko Ono in Gibraltar.
HANGED
2007 Saddam Hussein's former deputy, Taha Yassin Ramadan, was hanged in Baghdad, the fourth man to be executed in the killings of 148 Shiites.
GODLESS
1984 Senate rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools.
RESCUED
2007 Rescuers found Michael Auberry, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, who was dehydrated and disoriented after four days in the wooded mountains of North Carolina.
BORN
1902 Edgar Buchanan Humansville MO, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction).
1906 Ozzie Nelson Jersey City NJ, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet).
1908 American broadcasting pioneer Frank Stanton, the president of CBS for 26 years, was born in Muskegon, Mich.
BIRTHDAYS
Producer-director-comedian Carl Reiner is 86. Actor Hal Linden is 77. Singer Jerry Reed is 71. Former Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney is 69. Country singer Don Edwards is 69. TV producer Paul Junger Witt is 65. Country singer-musician Ranger Doug (Riders in the Sky) is 62. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Bobby Orr is 60. Blues singer-musician Marcia Ball is 59. Actor William Hurt is 58. Rock musician Carl Palmer (Emerson, Lake and Palmer) is 58. Rock musician Jimmie Vaughan is 57. Country musician Jimmy Seales (Shenandoah) is 54. Movie director Spike Lee is 51. Actress Theresa Russell is 51. Actress Vanessa Bell Calloway is 51. Actress Holly Hunter is 50. Rock musician Slim Jim Phantom (The Stray Cats) is 47. Actress-model Kathy Ireland is 45. Actor David Thewlis is 45. Rock musician Adrian Oxaal (James) is 43. Actress Liza Snyder is 40. Actor Michael Rapaport is 38. Actor Alexander Chaplin is 37. Rock singer Chester Bennington (Linkin Park) is 32. Actor Michael Genadry is 30. Actress Bianca Lawson is 29.
DEATH
1727 Sir Issac Newton English physicist/astronomer, dies in London at 84.
1991 Conor Clapton Eric Clapton's son, falls out of 53rd floor window at 4.
March 20, the 80th day of 2008. There are 286 days left in the year. Spring's arrival: 1:48 a.m. Eastern time.
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TOP TEN
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.
WAR!
1951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.
TERRORISM
1991 a British court overturned the convictions of the "Birmingham Six," who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.
2007 The Pentagon released the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z."
DISASTER
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX.
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA.
1980 A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80.
1998 An earthquake killed at least five people and left some 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.
NICE GUYS
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA.
PATENTS
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.
NOT GUILTY
2003 Actor Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11 months after he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (Blake was later acquitted at trial.)
IMMIGRATION
1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.
CLINTONS
1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery.
LEVIATHAN
1923 President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax return.
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.
JEWS
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.
GUILTY
1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.
POLITICS
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).
SPIES
2003 Christopher Boyce, whose Cold War spying was immortalized on film in "The Falcon and the Snowman," was released from a halfway house in San Francisco after a quarter-century in prison.
BORN
1879 Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921).
BIRTHDAYS
Former astronaut Frank Borman is 80. Singer Phil Phillips is 77. Actor Michael Caine is 75. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 75. Former astronaut Eugene Cernan is 74. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 69. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 67. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 63. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 63. Actor Steve Kanaly is 62. Comedian Billy Crystal is 60. Country singer Jann Browne is 54. Actor Adrian Zmed is 54. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 50. Actress Tamara Tunie is 49. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is 47. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 43. Actor Gary Anthony Williams is 42. Actress Megan Follows is 40. Rock musician Michael Bland is 39. Country singer Kristian Bush is 38. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 36. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 29. Actor Chris Klein is 29. Actress Kate Maberly is 26. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 25. Actor Jamie Bell is 22.
DEATH
1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.
1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77.
1961 Akiba Rubinstein Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78.
March 14, the 74th day of 2008. There are 292 days left in the year.
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VIDEO
1991 In a case that sparked a national outcry, motorist Rodney King was severely beaten by Los Angeles police officers in a scene captured on amateur video.
WAR!
1815 US declares war on Algiers for taking US prisoners & demanding tribute.
1863 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted.
1878 Russia and the Ottomans signed the treaty of Stenafano. The treaty granted independence to Serbia.
1918 Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, which ended Russian participation in World War I. (The treaty was rendered moot by the November 1918 armistice.)
1945 The Allies fully secured the Philippine capital of Manila from Japanese forces during World War II.
TERRORISM
1968 Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague.
2003 Israeli troops arrested Hamas co-founder Mohammed Taha in a deadly raid. (Israel released him 14 months later.)
DISASTER
1943 Bomb-fleeing crowd falls into London shelter; 173 die.
1953 Canadian Comet crashes at Karachi, 11 killed.
1966 Twister hits Jackson MS; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die.
1974 Nearly 350 people died when a Turkish Airlines DC-10 crashed shortly after takeoff from Orly Airport in Paris.
1991 25 people were killed when a United Airlines Boeing 737-200 crashed while approaching the Colorado Springs airport.
1992 Gas explodes in coal mine at Zonguldak Turkey, 100s die.
2007 President Bush handed out hugs to residents who survived killer tornadoes that ripped through Alabama and Georgia and offered encouraging words at Enterprise High School, where students were grieving the loss of eight classmates.
SPITTING
1903 In St Louis, MO, Barney Gilmore was arrested for spitting.
TAVERNS
1634 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole).
CAMELS
1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use.
JAILBREAK
1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a wooden pistol.
READ MY LIPS
1992 President Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to.
CLINTONS
1998 Presidential confidant Vernon Jordan testified before the grand jury investigating the Monica Lewinsky matter.
JAZZ
1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher" (Jazz's 1st million seller).
UNCLE SUGAR
1812 The US Congress passed the first foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake victims).
SPORTS
1875 1st recorded hockey game (Montréal).
NANNY STATE
1791 1st Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages).
2003 President Bush offered a rough blueprint for adding drug benefits to Medicare.
POLITICS
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi.
1845 Florida became the 27th state.
1845 The US Congress passed legislation overriding a US President’s veto. It was the first time the Congress had achieved this.
1849 The US Congress created the territory of Minnesota.
1851 The US Congress authorized the 3-cent piece. It was the smallest US silver coin.
1875 The US Congress authorized the 20-cent piece. It was only used for 3 years.
INSPIRING
1887 Anne Sullivan arrived at the Tuscumbia, Alabama, home of Captain and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher for their blind and deaf 6-year-old daughter, Helen.
IMPEACHED
1803 The first impeachment trial of a US Judge, John Pickering, began.
JEWS
1801 1st US Jewish Governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia.
ANTHEMS
1931 President Hoover signed a measure making "The Star-Spangled Banner" the national anthem of the United States.
BORN
1853 Vincent Van Gogh Dutch painter.
1909 Harry Hemsley billionaire New York landlord.
BIRTHDAYS
Socialite Lee Radziwill is 74. Actress Hattie Winston is 62. Singer Jennifer Warnes is 60. Actor-director Tim Kazurinsky is 57. Singer-musician Robyn Hitchcock is 54. Actress Miranda Richardson is 49. Actress Mary Page Keller is 46. Olympic track and field gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee is 45. Football player Herschel Walker is 45. Rapper-actor Tone-Loc is 41. Rock musician John Bigham is 38. Actress Julie Bowen is 37. Country singer Brett Warren (The Warren Brothers) is 36. Actor David Faustino is 33. Singer Ronan Keating (Boyzone) is 30. Rapper Lil' Flip is 26. Actress Jessica Biel is 25.
DEATH
1966 Alice Pearce comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52.
1966 William Frawley actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89.
1987 Danny Kaye comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74.
1998 Former CBS News president Fred W. Friendly died in New York at age 82.
2007 Malcolm Kilduff, the White House spokesman who announced to a shocked world the death of President Kennedy, died in Beattyville, Kentucky, at age 75.
March 3rd, the 63rd day of 2008. There are 303 days left in the year.
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CLASSIC
1885 Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" published.
WAR!
1865 Evacuation of Charleston SC; Sherman's troops burn the city.
2003 Declaring that America's security should not be dictated by protesters, President Bush said he would not be swayed from compelling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to disarm.
TERRORISM
1969 PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland.
2003 An arson attack on two South Korean subway trains in the city of Daegu claimed 198 lives. (The arsonist was sentenced to life in prison.)
2007 A pair of bombs on a train headed from India to Pakistan killed 68 people.
2007 Twin car bombs blew up in a mostly Shiite area of Baghdad, killed at least 62 people.
DISASTER
1828 More than 100 vessels destroyed in a storm, Gibraltar.
1947 24 die in a train crash in Gallitzin PA.
1965 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain British Columbia.
2007 A military helicopter crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing eight U.S. service members; 14 survived with injuries.
DEATH BY WINE
1478 Duke of Clarence forced drowning in a wine barrel.
FLYING COWS
1930 First cow milked in an airplane. Olly the Cow flown & milked, milk sealed in paper containers & parachuted over St. Louis MO.
PROGRESS
1953 Premiere of 1st 3-D feature film-"Bwana Devil" (New York NY).
OCTOPUS
1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7 meter across captured in Hood Canal, Washington.
CLIMATE CHANGE
1979 Snow falls in the Sahara Desert.
MARRIAGE
1995 Pamela Anderson (Baywatch) & Tommy Lee (Motley Crüe) wed.
ENLIGHTENED
1787 Austrian emperor Jozef II bans children under 8 from labor.
PATENTS
1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner.
DRY
1896 Cave of Winds at Niagara Falls goes almost dry for 1st time in 50 years.
BEHEADED
1587 Mary Stuart Queen of Scots (1560-87), beheaded at 44.
CLINTONS
1998 President Clinton's foreign policy team encountered jeers during a town meeting at The Ohio State University while trying to defend the administration's threat to bomb Iraq into compliance with U.N. weapons edicts.
QUAKERS
1688 Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown PA.
POLITICS
1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11.
TRIALS
1970 the "Chicago Seven" defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention; five were convicted of violating the Anti-Riot Act of 1968. (Those convictions were later reversed).
SCIENCE
1930 photographic evidence of Pluto (now designated a "dwarf planet") was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Ariz.
1977 the space shuttle Enterprise, sitting atop a Boeing 747, went on its maiden "flight" above the Mojave Desert.
REBELS
1861 Jefferson Davis was sworn in as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Ala.
BORN
1516 Mary I Tudor [Bloody Mary] Greenwich, (1553-58), 1st reigning queen of Great Britain.
1859 Sholem Aleichem [Solomon Rabinowitz], author (Fiddler on the Roof).
1890 Boris L Pasternak Russian poet/writer (Dr Zhivago).
1892 Wendell Wilkie Presidential candidate (R-1940)/author (One World).
1895 George "The Gipper" Gipp Notre Dame football star.
1920 Jack Palance [Walter Palanuik], Lattimer PA, actor (City Slickers).
BIRTHDAYS
Former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown is 86. Actor George Kennedy is 83. Sen. John Warner, R-Va., is 81. Author Toni Morrison is 77. Movie director Milos Forman is 76. Singer Yoko Ono is 75. Singer/songwriter Bobby Hart is 69. Singer Irma Thomas is 67. Singer Herman Santiago (Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers) is 67. Singer Dennis DeYoung is 61. Actress Sinead Cusack is 60. Producer-director-writer John Hughes is 58. Actress Cybill Shepherd is 58. Singer Juice Newton is 56. Singer Randy Crawford is 56. Rock musician Robbie Bachman is 55. Rock musician Larry Rust (Iron Butterfly) is 55. Actor John Travolta is 54. Game show host Vanna White is 51. Actress Greta Scacchi is 48. Actor Matt Dillon is 44. Rapper Dr. Dre is 43. Actress Molly Ringwald is 40. Actress Sarah Brown is 33. Singer-musician Sean Watkins (Nickel Creek) is 31. Actor Tyrone Burton is 29. Actor Shane Lyons is 20.
DEATH
1546 Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, died in Eisleben.
1564 artist Michelangelo died in Rome.
1967 American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer died in Princeton, N.J., at age 62.
1990 Hulk fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies.
1998 Sportscaster Harry Caray died in Rancho Mirage, Calif., at age 83.
2001 NASCAR driver/"The Intimidator", dies in crash during Daytona 500 at 49.
2003 Country singer Johnny PayCheck died in Nashville, Tenn., at age 64.
February 18, the 49th day of 2008. There are 317 days left in the year. This is Presidents Day.
by Mondoreb
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Sources:
* Today in History
* Today in History
Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
Kathleen Willey is back in the news and she's saying she doesn't think it was the butler that did it.
Hillary Clinton did the cover-up to what she believes was a suspicious death of her husband. It wouldn't be the first time the Clintons have been hinted at being involved in a suspicious death.
More on this Clintonesque tale from World Net Daily:Willey, who claims she was groped by President Clinton in the White House, acknowledged in an interview with WND today that she stands by the speculation she poses about her husband's demise in "Target: Caught in the Crosshairs of Bill and Hillary Clinton," set for release this week by World Ahead Publishing, WND Books' partner.
A medical examiner had some suspicions too, apparently. According to the book, others are now looking into some familiarly similar events.
Asked if she suspects her husband Ed, a lawyer and son of a prominent Virginia lawmaker, was murdered, Willey replied, "Most definitely."
"I'm having someone with a forensics background look at this, and I intend to pursue this further, now that these questions have been raised," she told WND, pointing to alleged discrepancies in the autopsy report.
Does she believe the Clintons were involved?
"I do have suspicions," Willey said, "yes." Willey said she requested a copy of the autopsy report and spoke to a medical examiner who told her the powder burns on her husband's right hand were consistent with suicide.
"When I asked if the burns were indicative of a left-handed person committing suicide, [the examiner] said no. The room started to spin, and I went into the bathroom and threw up. By the time she sent me the full report, though, she'd reconsidered, saying it could be consistent with a left-handed person. She suggested that he held the gun with both hands but pulled the trigger with his right. That's exactly how Vince Foster is said to have killed himself."
This is not the first time that people who've crossed the Clintons have accused them of being behind burglary. Tapes, manuscripts, documents have all been claimed to have been taken in "mysterious" break-ins, much like Willey described.
This is also not the first time Hillary has been accused of covering up nefarious actions against Clinton political enemies. Is it just a coincidence that every time someone has threatened the Clintons they suffer break-ins--or worse?
Of course, the mainstream media will either ignore this or attack Willey, much as they did Paula Jones and anyone else who brought accusations against Bill Clinton.
The attack poodles will begin tomorrow in the New York Times and Washington Post, and rotten eggs will be splattered by Clinton outpost, Media Matters.
Mark this down. The Clinton War Room "Emergency Media Template" will be followed as it has been whenever these kinds of unpleasant things surface. There will be no answering of anything the book alleges. There will be a 55-gallon drum of mud and invective thrown.
"Journalists" who puff up their chests in pride at their investigative abilities, will suddenly go limp. Investigative lions who roar about taking on the "Big" interests--Oil, Tobacco, Pharmaceuticals--will suddenly turn into kittens at the thought of taking on Big Clinton. Others on the Left will call Willey a "conspiracy nut".
It was Hillary who coined the quaint phrase "Great Right Wing Conspiracy". She believed there was a conspiracy out to get her. Why wasn't Hillary ridiculed for her "conspiracy theory". Why was it that members of her alleged conspiracy, rather than the Clintons, had their homes and offices broken into?
One is then struck by what older people used to say all the time.
"People who can't be trusted don't trust other people."
by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn
[hat tip: pat]
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