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Post by Tamrin on Jun 10, 2010 6:53:43 GMT 10
10 June1899 - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati 1914 – Birth of Saul Bellow, author (Mr Sammler's Planet) 1925 – Birth of Nat Hentoff, columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society) 1935 - Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous 1941 - Marcus Garvey, dies at 52 in London England 1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked 1988 - Louis L'Amour, western writer, dies at 80 of cancer  Nat Hentoff(Born this day 1925) Those who created this country chose freedom. With all of its dangers.
And do you know the riskiest part of that choice they made? They
actually believed that we could be trusted to make up our own minds
in the whirl of differing ideas. That we could be trusted to remain free,
even when there were very, very seductive voices – taking advantage of
our freedom of speech – who were trying to turn this country into the kind
of place where the government could tell you what you can and cannot do
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 11, 2010 7:18:14 GMT 10
11 JuneHawaii: King Kamehameha I Day (1737-1819) 1184 - BC- Greeks finally captured Troy 1572 – Birth of Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist) 1847 – Birth of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement 1871 - Bro. Kamehameha V, decreed Kamehameha Day, in honour of first Hawaiian king, Kamaehameha 1910 - Birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer aboard Calypso 1918 - Birth of Nelson Mandela, civil right activist in South Africa 1963 - Quang Duc, Buddhist monk, immolates himself on a street in Saigon  Kamaehameha I(Hawaiians commemorate him on this day as of 1871) Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the roadside in safety
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 12, 2010 10:09:54 GMT 10
12 JuneBuddhist-Bhutan: Buddha's Ascension 1819 - Birth of Charles Kingsley, England, clergyman/novelist (Hypatia) 1851 - Birth of Oliver Joseph Lodge, England, early radio pioneer 1929 - Birth of Anne Frank, Holland, diarist/Nazi victim 1964 - South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment 1967 - Israel wins 6 day war 1967 - [US] Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages 1972 - Saul David Alinsky, radical writer (Rules for Radicals), dies at 63  Bro. Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge(Born this day 1851) Genuine religion has its root deep down in the heart of humanity and
in the reality of things. It is not surprising that by our methods we fail
to grasp it: the actions of the Deity make no appeal to any special
sense, only a universal appeal; and our methods are, as we know,
incompetent to detect complete uniformity. There is a principle of
Relativity here, and unless we encounter flaw or jar or change, nothing
in us responds; we are deaf and blind therefore to the Immanent
Grandeur, unless we have insight enough to recognise in the woven
fabric of existence, flowing steadily from the loom in an infinite progress
towards perfection, the ever-growing garment of a transcendent God
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 13, 2010 10:57:57 GMT 10
13 June0323 - BCE - Alexander the Great dies of fever at Babylon 1752 - Birth of Fanny Burney, England, author (Camille, Evelina) 1865 - Birth of William Butler Yeats, Ireland, poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923) 1893 - Birth of Dorothy L Sayers, England, novelist (9 Taylors) 1894 - Birth of Mark van Doren, Ill, author (The Happy Critic) 1900 - China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners & Christians 1940 - Paris evacuated before the German advance  Fanny Burney(Born this day 1752) Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy(The “ Grand Tour” inspired a craze for architecture, and masonry, among the British gentry)
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Post by maximus on Jun 13, 2010 11:37:00 GMT 10
Heh, I knew, before I even scrolled down, that you would feature the only woman in the bunch.  |
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Post by maximus on Jun 13, 2010 11:41:15 GMT 10
1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invokedNote that they were Democrats, the same party which today excoriates Republicans, the party of Lincoln, who were instrumental in passing this Civil Rights legislation. They have convinced Black Americans that they are the party who looks after them (in the manner of a benevolent master), but who in reality continues to keep them in bondage. |
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 13, 2010 12:37:44 GMT 10
1964 - Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked Similarly, our Labor Party was once a strong advocate of what was, in effect, a "White Australia Policy," now they are the chief advocates of multi-culturalism. I understand your typical, old-style southern Democrats differed from their northern contemporaries. Yours is a good example of how political parties evolve and devolve. Here, our so-called "Liberal Party" has morphed into a conservative clique. |
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 13, 2010 12:43:32 GMT 10
Heh, I knew, before I even scrolled down, that you would feature the only woman in the bunch. I do what I can to off-set current and historical imbalances in race, gender, politics, ethnicity, etc. That said, the last three I had featured were men: Somehow that goes unnoticed. |
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Post by maximus on Jun 13, 2010 14:33:59 GMT 10
Heh, I knew, before I even scrolled down, that you would feature the only woman in the bunch. I do what I can to off-set current and historical imbalances in race, gender, politics, ethnicity, etc. That said, the last three I had featured were men: Somehow that goes unnoticed. I know, just ribbing you a bit. |
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Post by maximus on Jun 13, 2010 14:38:20 GMT 10
Re: The Democrat party. They figured out in the 1960s that if you got a segment of society addicted to government aid, you create a permanent underclass, totally dependent on your party for largesse, which assures a permanent voting block to keep your party in power.
Slavery by any other name...
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