today in history

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Okay - in case you were sitting there wondering just what happened on August 6th in 258...

8-6-0258 St. Sixtus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
seems strange - weren't the Romans still in business?

8-6-1661 Holland sells Brazil to Portugal for 8 million guilders

and of course we all knew that on aug 6th 1774 Mother Ann Lee the founder of the Shaker movement arrived in NY!!
who wouldn't?

another important event
8-6-1806 the official ending of the HOly Roman Empire; it was neither holy, roman nor an empire
who knew?

8-6-1861 Lexington KY union Military camp forms in neutral state

8-6-1870 Prussia beats France (surprise) at battle of Spicheren

8-6-1914 the real beginning of WWI Serbia declares war on Germany. The kaiser is thrilled!

8-6-1939 first broadcast of Dinah Shore show on NBC - RAdio
now, i know you couldn't make it through the day without that one.

8-6-1945 Hiroshima bombed.

8-6-1953 Ted Williams returns to Red Sox from the military

good day everyone. Remember your history...

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August 6th 2003 - My newest littlest niece Olivia was born!

yeeee haaaaaa!!!!!

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16 August 2003.

Farewell Idi Amin (not).

The world lost on this day formerly living proof that on occasion God/evolution/chaos theory/mother nature/dumb luck really does get it horribly wrong.

The current British administration should resign on masse - that's right every single one of the duplicitous bastards, in open public apology to the rest of the world for being a part of the same self serving institutionalized madness that actually celebrated his assumption of power and then sat idly by whilst he brutalized his own nation and the rest of the continent.

For those unfamiliar with this particular star of the world arena search under cannibal. That is not a joke.

Why oh why does the West consistently get it wrong when these sons of bitches come to power.

We consistently bemoan the fact that feeding and giving succor to the nations these scumbags destroy costs far too much for so little in return, when for the few cents that a bullet costs, we refuse to pre-empt the problem.

[Dog paws]

Look at the flack G.W. is taking for removing a despot. There is one of the reasons we refuse to pre-empt problems.

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M,
The flak isn't for doing it.
The flak is coz no-one involved can agree why.