GMT

Posting from Columbus Ms.

Groggy from Benadryl this AM. I kicked a piece of pipe that was full of bumblebees.

They stung the crap out of me. About fifteen times before I could finish what I was doing. When the itching started I thought I would scratch my skin off.


Today is going to be a beautiful day.



Today in History


1298
An army under Albert of Austria defeats forces led by Adolf of Nassau.
1625
The Spanish army takes Breda, Spain, after nearly a year of siege.
1644
Oliver Cromwell crushes the Royalists at the Battle of Marston Moor.
1747
Marshall Saxe leads the French forces to victory over an Anglo-Dutch force under the Duke of Cumberland at the Battle of Lauffeld.
1776
The Continental Congress resolves with the Declaration of Independence that the American colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States."

1822
Denmark Vesey is executed in Charleston, South Carolina, for planning a massive slave revolt.
1858
Czar Alexander II frees the serfs working on imperial lands.
1863
The Union left flank holds at Little Round Top during the Battle of Gettysburg.
1881
Charles J. Guiteau fatally wounds President James A. Garfield in Washington, D.C.
1926
Congress establishes the Army Air Corps.

1937
American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart disappears in the Central Pacific during an attempt to fly around the world.
1961
Novelist Ernest Hemingway commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho.
1964
President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law.
1967
The U.S. launches Operation Buffalo in Vietnam.
1976
North and South Vietnam are officially reunified.
1980
President Jimmy Carter reinstates draft registration for males 18 years of age.



Joke of the Day.

Beer Bottle: You break me, you get 1 year of bad luck!

Mirror: You kiddin' me? You break me, then y'all get 7 years bad luck!


Condom: Hahaha... (Condom walks off laughing)