HAPPY NEW YEAR! As a light-hearted start here’s a look at events that happened on New Year’s Day in the past.
1935 – The very first Orange Bowl pitted Bucknell University against the University of Miami. Bucknell won 26-0. Meanwhile the first Sugar Bowl saw Tulane defeat Temple 20-14.
1915 – With World War One raging a German U-Boat struck in the English Channel, sinking the ship the Formidable and killing 547 people.
1902 – In the first Rose Bowl game Michigan defeats Stanford 49-0.
1946 – Japanese soldiers at Corregidor learned from news reports that World War Two had ended months ago and finally came out of hiding to surrender.
1801 – The asteroid (now a dwarf planet) Ceres is discovered by the Italian Giuseppe Piazzi. Continue reading
Here are just a FEW of the latest blood-soaked actions committed by fanatics from the homophobic, xenophobic and misogynistic religion which continues to retard the rest of the world’s social progress.
I THINK THE DEMOCRATS HAVE FOUND THEIR 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE! Nobody will ever match the criminal career of the Hillarytron or get as many cops killed as Obama has, but hey! There is obviously a great farm system in the Party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, the Spoils System, Tammany Hall, Jim Crow, making police Public Enemy Number One, vote fraud, Cities of Illegal Immigrants and making death threats against members of the Electoral College! Democrats are so innovative!
The world mourns the passing of Mercury Astronaut and later Senator John Glenn, “the Clean Marine” himself! (No relation to the Spotless Spartan or the Hygienic Hoplite). 
As 2016 rapidly comes to a close I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention one of the most moving stories of the year: Kellyanne Conway becoming the first woman to successfully run a Presidential campaign in America. Conway’s work resulted in the election of Donald Trump, so congratulations to Ms Conway for shattering the glass ceiling! 
We recently passed the anniversary of last November’s attacks by Muslim fanatics in Paris. Enough days have gone by to go ahead and recall the insane fantasy scapegoats dreamed up by Left-Wing Archie Bunkers the night of the attacks. 
Shortly after the attacks I felt a renewed contempt for American Liberals as I read the comments they were leaving on Huffpo, Salon and all the other sites that are big with the left. The overwhelming majority of the commentors were insisting the attacks could not POSSIBLY be by Muslim fanatics.
YOU GO, BERNIE SANDERS! Sanders CONTINUED his assault on the coalition of the callous, the comfortable and the uncaring who supported Hillary “Bugsy” Clinton and Barack “Tony Ears” Obama. Can this hunka hunka Bernie Love become the conscience of the Democrats and straighten out bloated rich pigs like Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry and Al Gore? 
BERN TWO: Bernie Sanders has already encouraged far-left MSNBC’s Democrat-supporting Mika Brzezinski to join the growing chorus of corporate media shills openly discussing how Hillary’s thuggish campaign staff would – in Mika’s words – “bully” anyone trying to point out Hillary “No Billionaire Left Behind” Clinton’s countless weaknesses. “I experienced it myself” she testified.
ARTHUR R.”RAY” BROOKS – Captain Ray Brooks graduated from MIT in 1917 and immediately volunteered to serve in the World War that the U.S. had just entered. Brooks got his first 3 kills with the 139th Squadron and 6 more after transferring to the 22nd Aero Squadron. FOUR of Captain Brooks’ kills came in one dogfight as he tackled a squadron of 8 Fokker planes single-handedly. Seriously.
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