Petition: Denmark wants to buy California
February 12, 2025
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Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
--Charles Darwin (Wikipedia link)
(More Charles Darwin quotes on the KGB Quotations Database)
Knee Deep in the Hoopla
A joke petition asks for signers to help Denmark buy California as Trump eyes Greenland. “Have you ever looked at a map and thought, ‘You know what Denmark needs? More sunshine, palm trees, and roller skates,’” the petition asks. “Well, we have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make that dream a reality. So far, 200,000 people have signed on.
This, alas, is no joke: Senate confirms Gabbard as Trump’s director of national intelligence after Republicans fall in line
Yes, Trump rebuked Obama in 2012 for 'constantly issuing executive orders'. By mid-February 2025, Trump had signed 279 executive orders (220 in first term, 59 in second), surpassing Obama's 276 over two terms.
Keep your scorecard up to date… Here are all the agencies that Elon Musk and DOGE have been trying to dismantle so far.
As DOGE hammers away at the US government, Republicans stir with quiet objections. One by one, in public statements and private conversations, Republican lawmakers are beginning to speak up to protect home-state interests, industries and jobs that are endangered by President Donald Trump’s executive actions and the slash-and-burn tactics erupting across the federal government by billionaire Elon Musk ‘s DOGE.
Marbury v. Madison: why it’s so important. Courts decide the law, but have no independent method of enforcement.
Corporations face backlash for ending DEI initiatives while using Black celebs for advertising.
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Among other things, today is- in no particular order of importance-
Hug Day, International Darwin Day, Lincoln’s Birthday, NAACP Day, National Freedom to Marry Day, National Lost Penny Day, National Plum Pudding Day, Oglethorpe Day (Georgia Day), Paul Bunyan Day, and Safety Pup Day.
Some persons born on this date with quotable quotes (Click on link after name for quotes):
1809 – Charles Darwin, English geologist and theorist (d. 1882)[
1809 – Abraham Lincoln, American lawyer and statesman, 16th President of the United States (d. 1865)
1893 – Omar Bradley, American general (d. 1981)
1926 – Joe Garagiola, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 2016)
1930 – Arlen Specter, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician (d. 2012)
1948 – Ray Kurzweil, American computer scientist and engineer
Other birthdays:
1877 – Louis Renault, French engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault (d. 1944)
1880 – John L. Lewis, American miner and union leader (d. 1969)
1915 – Lorne Greene, Canadian-American actor (d. 1987)
1919 – Forrest Tucker, American actor (d. 1986)
1934 – Bill Russell, American basketball player and coach (d. 2022)
1936 – Joe Don Baker, American actor
1950 – Michael Ironside, Canadian actor, director, and screenwriter
1954 – Phil Zimmermann, American cryptographer and programmer
1956 – Arsenio Hall, American actor and talk show host
1965 – Brett Kavanaugh, American lawyer and jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1968 – Josh Brolin, American actor
1980 – Christina Ricci, American actress and producer
On This Day:
1733 – Georgia Day: Englishman James Oglethorpe founded Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, by settling at Savannah.
1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded.
1914 – "The Squaw Man", first feature-length film shot in Hollywood was released.
1945 – A devastating tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama killed 45 people and injured 427 others.
1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard was severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he lost his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanized the civil rights movement and partially inspired Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
1963 – Construction began on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
1967 – Promotional films (music videos) for the Beatles' forthcoming single "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields" debuted on the Ed Sullivan Show in the US
1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, was exiled from the Soviet Union.
1993 – Comedy fantasy film "Groundhog Day" entered wide release in the US.
1994 – Four thieves broke into the National Gallery of Norway and stole Edvard Munch's iconic painting The Scream.
1999 – United States President Bill Clinton was acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
2004 – The city of San Francisco began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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