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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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Today is Sunday, November 6th, the 310th day of 2022. There are 55 days left in the year. It is Saxophone Day and National Nachos Day.
On This Day
In 1854, composer John Philip Sousa was born in Reading, Pennsylvania.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president with 40 percent of the popular vote, defeating John C. Breckinridge, John Bell, and Stephen A. Douglas.
In 1869, Rutgers College defeated Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey) in the first official intercollegiate football game.
In 1900, President William McKinley was reelected.
In 1906, Teddy Roosevelt traveled to Panama, becoming the American president to make an official diplomatic tour outside of the Continental United States.
In 1947, Meet the Press, the longest running television program in history, made its debut.
In 1971, the United States tested the W71 warhead design for the LIM-49 Spartan anti-ballistic missile. The experiment, conducted in Alaska, was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.
In 1977, the Kelly Barnes Dam, located near Toccoa, Georgia, failed, killing 39 people.
In 1995, owner Art Modell announced that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
In 2012, Tammy Baldwin became the first openly homosexual politician to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
Today's Birthdays
Actress Sally Field is 76. Kennedy trustafarian Maria Shriver is 67. Actress Kelly Rutherford is 54. Actress and former model Rebecca Romijn is 50. Actress Emma Stone is 34.
The Links
Now the Woke Bigots Gang Up on Twitter to Try to Stamp Out All Opinions They Don’t Like (The Daily Sceptic)
“With such a powerful hegemony of Far Left woke ideas among major companies and institutions, the outlook for free speech is looking dire right now. The West has lost sight of the meaning of tolerance and the importance of respect for the free expression of ideas. Worst of all, with some of the recent prevailing woke notions — lockdowns, Net Zero, transgenderism — so disastrous for individuals and humanity, the relentless efforts of the woke herd to lock in their insane opinions by stamping out all dissent may spell serious consequences, unless enough of them can somehow be jolted into snapping out of it soon. Let’s hope Elon holds the line and prevails.”
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