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Today's birthday celebrities:

1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1830 - William P. Frye, American politician
1838 - Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Queen of Hawaii (d. 1917)
1850 - Albert Spalding, baseball player and sporting goods manufacturer (d. 1915)
1853 - Wilhelm Ostwald, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932)
1862 - Franjo Krežma, Croatian violinist (d. 1881)
1877 - Frederick Soddy, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
1884 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, Christian missionary (d. 1970)
1917 - Cleveland Amory, author (d. 1998)
1923 - Rene Thom, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1924 - Daniel arap Moi, President of Kenya
1929 - Hal Ashby, American film director (d. 1988)
1936 - Andrew Grove, American computer chip manufacturer
1941 - David Bale, South African-born activist (d. 2003)
1944 - Al Matthews, American actor (d. 2002)
1948 - Terry Bradshaw, American football player
1948 - Christa McAuliffe, American schoolteacher and astronaut (d. 1986)
1950 - Rosanna DeSoto, American actress
1951 - Mark Harmon, American actor
1952 - Jimmy Connors, American tennis player
1953 - John Zorn, American musician
1961 - Eric Dickerson, American football player
1961 - Carlos Valderrama, Colombian footballer
1964 - Keanu Reeves, American actor
1965 - Lennox Lewis, Canadian-British boxer
1966 - Salma Hayek, Mexican actress
1969 - Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey, American singer
1971 - Tommy Maddox, American football player
1972 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player
1976 - Phil Lipscomb, American bassist Taproot

Keanu Reeves and Salma Hayek

Salma, hmm....

I agree. She's quite something.

Isn't it?

Ah, McTag, I still don't recall that song, but I do love the words.

Much to my dismay, folks. I find that I cannot acknowledge each contributor, but I appreciate each and every one of you.

Well, here's our Raggedy with her celeb updates, and there's nothing like a beautiful woman to attract the guys. <smile>

Keanu Reeves ain't bad, either, folks, but I really look beyond the face. (most of the time)

I'm don't understand what is going on in New Orleans. As one reporter observed, generally people pull together in situations as we have seen recently, but often the animal instincts emerge and in that respect, Freud was right Deprivation of the basic drives is probably to blame.

I was just reading about a killer whale that sets traps for seagulls. It regurgitates fish on the water, then lurks below the surface until a seagull comes to feast. The whale surges up and tries to grab the birds. Often it works. Other killer whales have learned from it to do the same thing.

Probably does it for fun. There's not much eating in a seagull (for a whale)
Much better with a seal, or a shoal of fish.

Or maybe it needed something lighter in its diet. :wink:

Clever mammals, those orca, edgar. <smile> but I think the learned experiences of animals who need to survive, demonstrate in a small way what is going on in New Orleans.

How about a song, folks. Be aware that when my husband was a dj, it was already a forgone fact that the FCC mandated that there would be NO allusions to drugs in songs. As I have said elsewhere, he thought the song said, "One toe over the line" so he played it. As for me, I listened to the beat as opposed to the lyrics. So here it is:

One toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

Awaitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the train is on time
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

Who do you love, I hope it's me
I've been changin' as you can plainly see
I felt the joy and I learned about the pain that my mama said
If I should choose to make a part of me would surely strike me dead

And now I'm one toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

I'm waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the train is on time
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

I sail away a country mile
Now I'm returnin' and showin' off a smile
I met all the girls and I loved myself a few, and to my surprise
Like everything else I've been through, it opened up my eyes and now I'm

One toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

Don't you know I'm just waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the train is on time
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

Don't you know I'm just waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the train is on time
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

I wanna one toke over the line, sweet Jesus
One toke over the line
Sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

Don't you know I'm just waitin' for the train that goes home, sweet Mary
Hopin' that the train is on time
I'm sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line

I'm sittin' downtown in a railway station
One toke over the line
One toke, one toke over the line.

here's a new feature to compliment raggedy's info

September 2

Events

* 44 BC - Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion.
* 44 BC - First of Cicero's Philippics (oratorical attacks) on Antony. He will make 14 of them over the next several months.
* 31 BC - Roman Civil War: Battle of Actium - Off the western coast of Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra.
* 1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope Innocent X, ending the Wars of Castro.
* 1666 - The Great Fire of London breaks out and burns for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral.
* 1752 - The United Kingdom adopts the Gregorian Calendar, nearly two centuries later than most of Western Europe.
* 1789 - United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
* 1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than two hundred priests.
* 1807 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
* 1833 - Oberlin College is founded by John Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart.
* 1862 - American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln reluctantly restores Union General George McClellan to full command after General John Pope's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Second Bull Run.
* 1864 - American Civil War: Union forces enter Atlanta, Georgia a day after the Confederate defenders fled the city.
* 1867 - Mutsuhito, the Meiji Emperor of Japan marries Ichijo Masako. The Empress consort is thereafter known as Lady Haruko.
* 1870 - Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces take French Emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
* 1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
* 1898 - Battle of Omdurman - British and Egyptian troops defeat Sudanese tribesmen establishing British dominance in the Sudan.
* 1901 - Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
* 1935 - Labor Day Hurricane of 1935: A large hurricane hits the Florida Keys killing 423.
* 1939 - Following the invasion of Poland, Freie Stadt Danzig Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) is annexed to Nazi Germany.
* 1944 - Holocaust: Diarist Anne Frank and her family are placed on the last transport train from Westerbork to Auschwitz. They arrive three days later.
* 1945 - World War II ends: The final official surrender of Japan was accepted aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
* 1945 - Vietnam declares its independence, forming the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam).
* 1963 - CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
* 1967 - The microstate Principality of Sealand unilaterally declares its independence.
* 1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Centre, New York.
* 1987 - In Moscow, the trial of 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May 1987, begins.
* 1990 - Transnistria declares its independence from Moldova; however, Moldova does not recognize it.
* 1991 - The United States recognizes the independence of the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
* 1995 - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland, Ohio.
* 1998 - In Canada, pilots for Air Canada launch the first strike in company's history.
* 1998 - Swissair Flight 111 crashes near Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia. All 229 people on board are killed.
* 1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide.

Wow! That is indeed a new feature, Canada. I need to examine all those events more carefully, and one in particular.

Time for a station break:

This is cyberspace, WA2K radio

Letty, you must know that beautiful song. Go HERE to listen to a few seconds of it. It's Track #2.

Letty as you should know that it is quite natural for me to rise to my own defence when I am attacked FIRST by Dys...

I HAD more respect for you...

http://rexred.com/jimmyd.mp3

Here is a song

I wrote the words, played the guitar, programmed the synths, did the vocal, played the lap steel and made the recording...

I am still going to play a harmonica, mandolin, some drum rolls and cymbals I thought I would give you a preview...

You will need an mp3 codec on your computer to listen to it.

Rex

here is a WMA version if the mp3 won't play

http://rexred.com/jimmyd.wma

I just got (uncomfirmed) an email from a muscians group that Fats Domino was rescued by boat last night.

Hey, Tico. I need to call the doc's office before I do anything, but I will be back and listen.

Hey, Rex, I want to hear your song as well. It's neat to hear someone sing their own songs. Would you believe that I don't have one recording of my vocals? Grrrrrrr.

Dys, I think I already mentioned that here on our little radio.

Now I must call and wrangle with the receptionist about postponing a procedure.

Later, all.

Hey, all. I got things all sorted out with the receptionist who is really quite kind and helpful.

Tico, somehow your link took me to Amazon. Did I do something wrong? Probably.

Rex, I'm listening right this minute to your Jimmy Dean song.

dj, Pharoah Cleopatra? Odd, I thought that she was queen of the Nile. <smile>

Actually it is just Jimmy "D"... I hope you like... the "D" could stands for anything...

Rex, that was really, really good. Fantastic guitar, my friend, and you sang that haunting song with great depth of feeling, but in simple style. The idea that "the mountain took him" is eerie, and I like the line about frozen estuaries. Frankly, Rex, I would add nothing to your recording. The acoustic guitar is perfect. Bravo!

Yes, I listened to Rex's song and found it beautiful...

Indeed, Francis. Somehow, I was reminded of a dear friend of mine who played acoustic guitar. I miss him here, but I sense that all is well.

Now don't ask me why, but Glen Campbell and "Galveston" surfaced in my mind. Hey, folks, indulge me for a moment if you will.


Galveston
Glen Campbell


Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea winds blowin'
I still see her dark eyes glowin'
She was 21 when I left Galveston

Galveston, oh Galveston, I still hear your sea waves crashing
While I watch the cannons flashing
I clean my gun and dream of Galveston

I still see her standing by the water
Standing there lookin' out to sea
And is she waiting there for me?
On the beach where we used to run

Galveston, oh Galveston, I am so afraid of dying
Before I dry the tears she's crying
Before I watch your sea birds flying in the sun
At Galveston, at Galveston.

The last I read of Glen Campbell, was that he had been picked up for DUI. Such a pity, listeners.