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2009-03-31 
Good morning
Posted by Fred 2009-03-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ]  Top

#1 Happy Birthday: March 31st

César Chávez - died 1993 (66) "Co-founded the National Farm Workers Association" (Now)

Richard Chamberlain - 75 "Doctor Kildare" (Now)

Shirley Jones - 75 "Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Elmer Gantry" (Now)

Herb Alpert - 74 "The Tijuana Brass" (Now)

Michael Savage - 67 "The Savage Nation - Borders, language, and culture." (Now)

Rhea Perlman - 61 "Cheers - Mrs Louis DePalma" (Now)

Al Gore - 61 "Invented Internet - Global Warming Hoax" (Now)

On this day in history: March 31st
1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra decree , ordering her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
1854 - Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
1889 - The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated.
1917 - The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
1930 - The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.
1968 - President Lyndon B. Johnson announces he will not run for re-election.
1992 - The USS Missouri (BB-63), the last active United States Navy Battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
1998 - Netscape releases the code base of its browser under an open-source license agreement; the project is given the code name Mozilla and would eventually be spun off into the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-31 00:21||   2009-03-31 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 And so we continue down Memory Lane. What next, Penny Lane?



Rudy Vallee, White Tie and a Satin Doll

Mr and Mrs America we come to you high atop the Hollywood Hotel in Sunny Southern California.

A fluffy Kitten

Daily Gam shot

She had plenty of her own satin outfits

Rosemary and Bogey do Morticia and Gomez?


Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-31 01:21||   2009-03-31 01:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Rosemary stars with Bogey

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-03-31 01:47||   2009-03-31 01:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks to César Chávez, I have today off. It's a California state holiday. Heh, heh. The man couldn't have been all bad to pull off something like that even if it is nothing but PC bullcrap.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2009-03-31 12:07||   2009-03-31 12:07|| Front Page Top

#5 I'll betcha Bogey mailed that one in. Yeeeesh...
Posted by tu3031 2009-03-31 13:39||   2009-03-31 13:39|| Front Page Top

#6 got the day off as well. Thought it was for Julio Cesar Chavez, who was a helluva boxer. Now I find that drinking California wine and eating table grapes might be a faux pas? Oh well.

Nom nom nom.
*sip*
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-31 13:47||   2009-03-31 13:47|| Front Page Top

#7 GB missed one, but TMZ has his back:

Happy 69th birthday Barney Frank.

The comments are priceless.
Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-31 20:50||   2009-03-31 20:50|| Front Page Top

#8 gee, thx, Sea

*ugh*
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-31 21:01||   2009-03-31 21:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Anytime, Frank. I am here for you.
Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-31 21:34||   2009-03-31 21:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Not nice to hit TMZ like that when he's not around to defend himself.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-03-31 21:37||   2009-03-31 21:37|| Front Page Top

#11 Damn. Your eyes are fearsome sharp, NS. I was hoping you wouldn't catch that.
Posted by Seafarious 2009-03-31 21:45||   2009-03-31 21:45|| Front Page Top

#12 I was hoping you wouldn't catch that.

Our motto? "We see all. We catch a few some"

kinda like the MSM
Posted by Frank G 2009-03-31 21:50||   2009-03-31 21:50|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Emmaline 2009-03-31 22:00||   2009-03-31 22:00|| Front Page Top

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