kurtster wrote: 
How about we just acknowledge that the founders were actually Diests and really did intend to create a government separate and independent of the church?  

History is a mixed bag. We get good and bad all the time, and often it's difficult to tell which is which until we get some soak time on the decisions. It's important to remember where we made the changes along the way in case we find that they aren't working so well.  I'd say that evangelical devotion has been a net negative for the last several decades and would like to go back to the place where our government didn't support or impede any religion that was in compliance with our laws. But I see that as making America Stronger, not weaker. So we obviously have differing opinions here. 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Right, we should be chanting deth to merica instead ... 

 

 islander wrote: 
One bad thing at a time, okay?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Does not include the words "under god", for another 64 years. 

1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
I'm really not a football fan, but this reminded me of something from way back in my misspent youth.   It was when Woody Hayes was coaching at Ohio State and by his own admission later in life taking football far too seriously.  IU on the other hand traditionally  looked at football as something that just got in the way of basketball and was very rarely anywhere near the top of the Big Ten.  At the time Lee Corso was coaching here and I always thought he was the perfect fit for such a program.  His after game TV shows were a riot.  One year when the Buckeyes were in town for the formality of recording their win by some miracle IU managed to score first.  Corso immediately called a timeout so he could assemble the entire team in front of the scoreboard and take a picture.   Woody was absolutely livid.   I thought he might stroke out right on the spot.  It was probably the most entertaining thing I've ever seen in a football stadium.  The second string never came in that day.  They ran the score up absurdly high, but not nearly that.  I got to wonder what instigated it here.

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
That one's probably still going strong. My understanding is all the gears and moving parts in it were metal. By the mid-80s, other brands had come out with their plastic-geared junk. The price was a lot lower, sure, but my friend was a repair guy who got a lot of work out of those. He took a Sony apart to see why they didn't break down.

1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

1982:

The Hoffa hit, 40 years later

 kurtster wrote:
Strange how stuff like that happens - I guess the world looked pretty small to Neil and Buzz that day too.  That day I was out playing with my friends and we went into a neighborhood deli to get a soda or something.  The owner had a little TV which was showing the preliminary "circling" from the window of the module.  We ran home to watch it - it was on all 7 channels.

 Proclivities wrote: 
I was surfing in Ocean City, NJ that Sunday day.  It was a cool and windy day for July there and we retreated to my friends parents beach place and went upstairs and watched it on a good old standard issue B & W 19" portable on a cart.  About 10 years ago I met a guy out in the water at Hatteras in the OBX while waiting for waves and in the course of talking about things we talked about the moon landing somehow and discovered that we were both in OC that day surfing way back when.  Small world got smaller that day.

1969

 meower wrote: 
Did you see this bit in RS about U2's set, thinking they'd blown their big chance? Bono went away from the setlist and they wound up doing a 12-minute version of Bad, and they didn't have enough time to play their hit. The minute-by-minute breakdown starts out kind of stupid but got pretty interesting toward the middle.

30 years ago today.......   

June 26, 1905: Moonlight Graham appears in one inning of one MLB game.

Living up to his nickname “Mr Excitement”, Jackie Wilson whipped a Port Arthur, Texas nightclub crowd into a frenzy on this day, June 25th in 1966. He was arrested for inciting a riot for refusing to finish the show after cops ordered him to stop.
The charges were later dropped to public drunkenness and he was fined $30.

Greatly outnumbered Scottish forces, led by King Robert I (Robert the Bruce), rout the English army, led by King Edward II, in the Battle of Bannockburn, 1314.