This Date in History
[guest post by JVW]
(1) The greatest movie ever made about high school, Dazed and Confused, was set 40 years ago today on May 28, 1976. Wooderson would be something like 63 today, and Mitch Kramer would be 54.
(2) Twenty years ago today, May 28, 1996, Bill and Hillary! Clinton’s buddies Jim and Susan McDougal along with Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges related to their participation in the Whitewater Development Corporation. Ah, those ethical and honest Clintons.
Truly a momentous day.
– JVW
Happy 45th birthday today to Marco Rubio, and happy 72nd birthday to the incomparable Gladys Knight.
JVW (eabb2a) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:20 pmhah i had to text my lil brudder about that
happyfeet (831175) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:25 pmThis can serve as an open thread here too so that at long last people will have the opportunity to discuss the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
JVW (eabb2a) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:25 pmDazed and Confused or Whitewater, happyfeet? Or both?
JVW (eabb2a) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:26 pmabout the movie
we grew up really close to austin so that movie kinda stuck
happyfeet (831175) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:44 pmThis can serve as an open thread here too so that at long last people will have the opportunity to discuss the presumptive Republican nominee for President.
JVW (eabb2a) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:25 pm
Too funny. Never has so much been said about so little!
Dana (0ee61a) — 5/28/2016 @ 9:59 pmBathos: treating a triviality as important or exalted.
nk (dbc370) — 5/28/2016 @ 10:09 pmYou forgot USS Yorktown which this day in history RTP Pearl Harbor on 27 May, entered drydock 28 May 1942.
I haz a sad. Because, Yorktown.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/28/2016 @ 10:18 pmNo liberty for the Sailors of Yorktown. Hazz to rearm and replenish and revictual, they do! It seems worth a mention.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/28/2016 @ 10:21 pmHeydrich was shot that day, in 1942, should have been sooner,
narciso (732bc0) — 5/28/2016 @ 10:36 pmUSS Yorktown, in drydock, 29 May 1942.
http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/g10000/g13065.jpg
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:59 amThe Yorktown was the only carrier that made its presence known
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 1:11 amat Coral Sea and Midway. She showed up, which if you’re keeping track is half the key to success. With a haircut being the other half.
On either side, ICYMI.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 1:23 amJVW,
‘Dazed and Confused’ is a classic. Parker Posey can give me an initiation spanking any day of the week. (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 5/29/2016 @ 7:18 am“The Stoned Age” should be in the running here.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 5/29/2016 @ 10:00 amNo, not shot. I won’t get into the whole story here, but it was sepsis from injuries because of a bomb. Two brave men from the Czech resistance and a complete village plus paid for that one.
Bill H (971e5f) — 5/29/2016 @ 10:57 amBill, I am prepared to back up my assertion that I have conducted no acts of heroism in battle.
Attention to Orders. I have no scars or wounds that would lead anyone to the opposite conclusion.
I am prepared to back up this claim with documentation, which shows to whit that nothing heroic occurred on my watch or in presence during my entirely ordinary 20 years of service.
That is all.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 11:53 amI showed up on time with a haircut.
Never did I miss movement or look bad. Well, the Navy’s idea of looking bad.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:01 pmI’m still thinking of writing a book about Green Dragons and Black Cats, a Solomons love story.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:12 pmSteve, I have no doubts about your service and your devotion to duty. 20 years in proves it. I don’t need documentation to see that in at least this regard, you’re a far better man than I.
OOOH-RAH!! (Sorry- don’t know the appropriate Navy cheer)
Bill H (971e5f) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:12 pmIt probably won’t be a book maybe a pamphlet.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:15 pmThat’s a start. Remember that some our most provocative writers during the 1700’s leading into the Revolution were pamphleteers.
Bill H (971e5f) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:21 pmThat would be Bravo Zulu, Mr. Bill.
Not that I’ve earned it.
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:29 pmhttp://www.ibdesignsusa.com/Flags/docs/bz/BZ-Award.html
Steve57 (2aedfb) — 5/29/2016 @ 12:37 pm