Good Morning GFY
 

'morning all. I guess Tala should be close to getting home by now, should see her posting again soon.


It's another scorcher out there today...

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We really should all be at the beach today. :winkwink:



ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:


1606 The painter Rembrandt was born in Leiden, Netherlands.


1870 Georgia became the last of the Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.


1916 The Boeing Co., originally known as Pacific Aero Products, was founded in Seattle by William Boeing.


1948 President Harry S. Truman was nominated for another term by the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.


1964 Sen. Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona was nominated for president at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco.


1971 President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People's Republic of China to seek a ''normalization of relations.''


1976 A 36-hour kidnap ordeal began for 26 schoolchildren and their bus driver as they were abducted near Chowchilla, Calif., by three gunmen and imprisoned in an underground cell. The captives escaped unharmed.


1979 President Jimmy Carter delivered a speech in which he lamented what he called a ''crisis of confidence'' in America. Though he didn't use the word, it became known as the ''malaise'' speech.


1992 Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton claimed the Democratic presidential nomination at the party's convention in New York City.


1996 MSNBC, a 24-hour all-news network, made its debut on cable TV and the Internet.


1997 Fashion designer Gianni Versace was shot to death outside his home in Miami; suspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan was found dead eight days later.


1999 The government acknowledged for the first time that thousands of workers were made sick while making nuclear weapons and announced a plan to compensate many of them.


2004 Retired Air Force Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, who piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, died at age 84.


actor Jan-Michael Vincent is 61 today.

Linda Ronstadt is 59

both Marky Ramone and guitarist Joe Satriani are 49 today

model Kim Alexis is 45

Willie Aames, actor from "Eight is enough" is 45 today

Forest Whitaker is 44

Brigitte Nielsen turns 42 today


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Have a great day all. :D

wow .i like fact threads...morning..been up for hours, construction sucks

Just got a message from Tala, she's in Amarillo. Worried about keeping her dogs cool, guess it's a scorcher there too. Sounded like she was going to get a room (hopefully an air-conditioned one) and spend the day there.

Looks like she won't be back in Tennessee for another day or two yet.

Its not too bad here. High of 92 today. Nice beach weather until it storms in the afternoon..

Morning CDSmith :)

Tough Trivia question coming soon, stay tuned for it.

There will be more than one winner today :D

Morning Tim.

Anyone else drinking coffee? I'm about to fire up my second pot.... heh :D

bump for those just waking up


wake up!

good morning CD... just had my coffee too & im ready to kick some ass :winkwink:

good morning

morning to all.....

Good morning to you too.

I definitely need a shower....

:D

i love mornings like this..

Morning/Afternoon all !!! :pimp

good morning to ALL :winkwink:

have a great day ahead.. :)

goodmorning to you :)

Good morning GFY :)