ON this date in 1993 - South Africa's President F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress President Nelson Mandela were named winners of the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to end the apartheid system in South Africa.
Bun Man and Mr. Purple remember watching the news conference and seeing these two on stage w/ their 'forced smiles'.
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ON this date in 1997 - Patricia Ann Richardson filed suit against Snoop Doggy Dogg, his former manager Sharita Knight, and Death Row Records for allegedly tricking her into transporting packages of marijuana to a venue where Snoop Doggy Dogg was performing.
Actually, Snoop had made a deal w/ the Boyz but Bun Man always smoked all the good 'shit' before even getting the stuff to the Dogg, so they lost that gig and returned to the roadie crew.
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From 2016...
Quote from an NYT op-ed..."Most important, the Republican Party must recommit to a basic principle — character counts. The party that once impeached Bill Clinton for lying about an affair has defended a man who bragged about sexual assault. Character cannot be wedded to party politics, and the Republicans will have to make amends for defining deviancy down to defend the indefensible Donald Trump."
CHARACTER STILL DOES NOT COUNT IN THE GOP.
WHAT DOES get out the vote REALLY MEAN?
Ken-Dogger: Hey Puffer, why the long face?
Puffer: Went down to the polling station to vote, they wouldn't let me.
KD: Why? Didn't have picture ID?
Puffer: No Dude, I couldn't remember my street address...peeps knew me there as I had bit a couple in the past, but no vouching allowed.
KD: Damn, they know how to get out the vote don't they?
Puffer: Yea, but GET OUT to them has a whole different meaning...
CONSERVATION...Some don't see the value.
Morning,
Ken-Dogger: Charlemagne, you okay?
Chalemagne: Dude, come on, I’m fine…why you ask?
KD: You’re just up there and not moving.
C: I’m moving, I’m conserving.
KD: Really, you’re going with that?
C: Bro, that’s the trouble with conservation, peeps don’t see it, so they don’t think there is value in it.
KD: It’s just a matter of ensuring something’s left when you need it.
C: Hence, my conserving…
KD: Hence, my understanding.
Dwight D. - The Last Noble Republican
Historybook: President Dwight D. Eisenhower born (1890); Chuck Yeager becomes first person to fly faster than speed of sound (1947); Cuban Missile Crisis begins (1962); Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize (1964); American photographer Dody Weston Thompson dies (2012).
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Good morning. Today is Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples Day, which President Biden commemorated as a national holiday for the first time in 2021 and has become widely adopted around the US.
Depending on where you live, your state or city might honor one of the two holidays, both, or something else entirely (more than half of US states don’t recognize either day as an official state holiday).
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