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Today is the 4th day of the 38th week, the 20th day of the 9th month, the 263rd day of 2017, and:
- National Gibberish Day
- National Punch Day
- National Rehabilitation Day
- National School Backpack Awareness Day
- National String Cheese Day
ON THIS DAY:
622 – Muhammad and Abu Bakr arrived in Medina
1378 – Cardinal Robert of Geneva, called by some the "Butcher of Cesena", is elected as Avignon Pope Clement VII, beginning the Papal schism.
1498 – The 1498 Nankai earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
1519 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia.
1596 – Diego de Montemayor founds the city of Monterrey in New Spain.
1870 – Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia and complete the unification of Italy, ending de facto the temporal power of popes.
1893 – Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival is held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1973 - Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match.
1998 - After playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons, Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles sat out a game against the New York Yankees.
Word of the day: holus-bolus
Quote of the day:
Robert Greene’s 47th Law of Power: "Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop."
~ HT Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
The GOP in the Senate has once again decided that the rest of the country has more health care insurance coverage than it needs or deserves, so they are once more trying to ram through a repeal of the ACA [AKA Obamacare]. The GOP has a long history of making health care pricey and unavailable, neh? Richard Nixon saw to it back in 1973 that medical insurance agencies, hospitals, clinics and even doctors, could begin functioning as for-profit business entities instead of service organizations, making them more mindful of their bottom lines than the patients’ wellbeing because investors need to make money. Ronald Reagan warned repeatedly that “socialized medicine would curtail American’s freedom”. Today’s GOP, in an absolutely stunning triumph of Calvinism and Libertarianism, wants to make sure the wealthy do not have to give anything in the way of taxes to those less fortunate.
How about all of Congress – House and Senate – and the White House get the same exact coverage that they vote for the rest of the US? Let’s see how they handle the next catastrophic illness or accident in their family!
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