It's Friday (Chukar-waar, Jom'eh, yawm-al-jum'a, Istiqlal, Sweetmorn, dydd Gwener) and I feel like dancing. Not right now, maybe, because breaking out in spontaneous dance at work may give rise to the assumption that one is on drugs. And as Marilyn Manson put it, "I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me." Or as Huey Lewis said, "I want a new drug." Or there's Nancy Reagan who said, "Just say no to drugs." Do what thou will, I don't care, just don't come and steal my appliances. So, anyway, heading into the weekend, we can look forward to not having to work for two days. We can also be comforted by the fact that it Summer begins tomorrow. I don't know about the rest of the world, but it's rained a lot here so far and it hasn't been brutally hot once. I'm keeping my fingers crossed about the heat thing.
In 451 Flavius Aetius and Theodoric I defeated Attila the Hun at the Battle of Chalons in NE France. In 1214 Oxford received its charter. In 1631 the Irish village of Baltimore was attacked by Algerian pirates. In 1782 the US Congress adopted the Great Seal of the US. In 1789 deputies of the French Third Estate took the Tennis Court Oath in which they vowed to break any ties in voting by playing tennis. In 1863 W. Virginia became a state. Known as the Mountain State, WV is one of two states in which it is legal to marry your first cousin. The state's motto is Montani semper liberi, which means "mountainmen are always free". They are always free to marry their cousins. The mascot of WV University is the Mountaineers and the state was very nearly named Westsylvania. I've been to WV on a white water rafting trip and I must say that it is a beautiful place. In 1877 Alexander Graham Bell installed the 1st commercial telephone system in Hamilton, Ontario. In 1893 Lizzie Borden was acquitted of murder. In 1919 150 people died in a theater fire in Puerto Rico. In 1956 a Venezuelan airliner crashed in NJ killing 74. In 1963 the "red telephone" line b/t the Kremlin and the White House was established. This became known as the Bat Phone. And in 1973 snipers fired into a crowd in Buenos Aires killing 13 and injuring over 300.
Today is World Refugee Day. There is a big refugee problem all over the world. These are people who have been pushed out of their homes for one reason or another, usually due to war or famine, or insect infestations. No one knows what to do with them and they're always creating a burden on wherever it is that they end up. My solution: send them all to Iraq and Afghanistan. I know it sounds strange, but seriously we'll just move them all to one or two places and repopulate those countries with all sorts of people from all sorts of places and create little mixing bowl countries of downtrodden people. In effect we'll be recreating what America once was. Maybe then they'll learn to live together and due to the competition for survival, the groups will eventually learn capitalism and consumerism and some day will be little Americas. Either that or they'll kill each other off and the problem would be solved anyway.
It is also Flag Day in Argentina. The Argentinian flag presents no problems for anyone and is thus better than refugees.
Happy Birthday: Errol Flynn; Olympia Dukakis; Danny Aiello; Anne Murray (Canadian); Lionel Richie; John Goodman, one of the greatest actors ever; and the beautiful Nicole Kidman, I don't know why you married Tom Cruise who is so much shorter than you.
I hope you have a good weekend and please remember to be nice to fat people.
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