August 2, 2011 - Debt Ceiling Blogging

• Thoughts on the signing of the Budget Control Act


• Does congresses debates help put real thought into a political problem with real solutions or is it just politics?


• What impact will this debate have on you?


• What impact will this debate have on how you vote?


• If you live outside of the United States how do you interpret this event?


• Thoughts on personal debt - what if people had a debt ceiling?

February 16, 2011

• 6 years since the NHL (National Hockey League) canceled the 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs due to a labor dispute (2005)
  
• 11 years since Hezbollah is founded (1985)
  
• Rapper and actor Ice-T turns 53 (born 1958)
  
• Actor and Reading Rainbow host LaVar Burton turns 54 (born 1957)
  
• North Korean leader Kim Jong-il turns 70 (born 1941)

February 14, 2011 - Other Than Valentine's Day...

Want to talk about something other than Valentine's Day? Here are some other "observances" associated with February 14...

• Statehood Day in Arizona and Oregon.
• Communist Martyr's Day (observed by the Iraqi Communist Party)
• Actor Freddie Highmore's birthday (he turns 19, born 1992)
• Oscar nominated actress Meg Tilly's birthday (she turns 51, born 1960)
• Magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) celebrates his birthday (he turns 63, born 1948)
• New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg celebrate his birthday (he turns 69, born 1942)

February 4, 2011

• 109 years since the birth of Charles Lindbergh (he died 1974, born 1902)
• 105 years since the birth of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (he died a maryr in 1945, born 1906)
• 98 years since the birth Rosa Parks (she died in 2005, born 1913)
• 75 years since Radium (automic number 88) is made synthetically, making it the first radioactive element to be made in this way (1936)
• Famous Zombie director George A. Romero turns 71 (born 1940)
• 70 years since the USO (United Services Organization) is created to entertain American troops (1941)
• Former Vice President Dan Quayle turns 64 (born 1947)
• Musician Alice Cooper turns 63 (born 1948)
• Musician Clint Black turns 49 (born 1962)
• Boxed Oscar De La Hoya turns 38 (born 1973)
• Musician Natalie Imbruglia turns 36 (born 1975)
• Gavin DeGraw turns 34 (born 1977)
• 7 years since Facebook launched. It's initial launched and limited to students at Harvard (2004).

January 5, 2011 - Birthday Edition

• January Jones, famous for her role in the TV series Mad Men, turns 33 (I've always wondered if she was born in January, looks like she was) (born 1978)
• Marilyn Manson, the controversial musician turns 42 (born 1969) (Manson's birth name was Brian Hugh Warner)
• George Tenet, CIA director CIA director under Bill Clinton & George W Bush (1997-2004) turns 58 (born 1953)
• Actress Diane Keaton turns 65 (born 1946)
• American talk show host and journalist Charlie Rose turns 69 (born 1942)
• American actor Robert Duvall turns 80 (born 1931)
• Walter Mondale, Vice President under Jimmy Carter turns 83 (born 1928)