| Being a ManToday I had to suffer through the worst thing any man could suffer through. I had to sit between two middle-aged women who were complaining about their marriages. I felt like slapping both of them. |
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| ChurchTonight I am going to church. The Red Ribbon Fellowship. |
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| DyingMe and Raymond were talking about dying last night. We both agreed that the three of us Raymond, me and Barbara are going to die relatively young. There are just to many things going wrong for us to last long enough to make it to old age. And the way I feel today cements my feelings. |
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| Today's AlmanacToday is Thursday, July 9th, the 190th day of 2009. There are 175 days left in the year.
On this date...
1540: England's King Henry VIII had his six-month-old marriage to his fourth wife annulled.
1816: Argentina declared independence from Spain.
1850: The 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor, died after serving only 16 months of his term.
1896: William Jennings Bryan delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic national convention.
1918: The Distinguished Service Crosss was established by an Act of Congress.
1938: Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo died in Port Chester, N.Y., at age 68.
1947: The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.
1951: President Harry S. Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
1974: Former U.S. Chief Justice Earl Warren died in Washington at age 83.
1982: A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, La., killing all 143 people aboard and eight people on the ground.
2009: Tallman did shit all day.
Ten Years Ago: A jury in Los Angeles ordered General Motors Corporation to pay $4.3 billion to six people severely burned when their car exploded in flames in a rear end collision. (A judgelater reduced the punitive damages to $1.09 billion, while letting stand $107 million in compensatory damages; GM settled the lawsuit in July 2003 for an undisclosed amount.)
Five Years Ago: Paul Klebnikov, the American editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition, was gunned down near his Moscow office.
One Year Ago: Prosecutors cleared JonBent Ramsey's parents and brother in the 1996 killing of the 6-year-old beauty queen. |
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