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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
September 16:
1994 - A federal jury ordered Exxon Corporation to pay
$5 billion in punitive damages to commercial fishermen, Alaska natives,
property owners and others harmed in the 1989 Exxon
Valdez spill.
September 17:
1992 - House votes 280 to 128 to give
FCC control of cable TV rates. Boy, if you've taken a good look at your
cable bill lately you can sure thank the FCC for keeping costs down!
September 18:
1793 - The conspiracy of The Man was
right out in the open .... President George Washington laid the cornerstone
of the north wing of the U.S. Capitol building, using a silver trowel
and marble-headed gavel to put the stone in place, in accordance with
Masonic ritual. (More
Info)
September 19:
1692 - Giles Cory, an 80 year old man, is pressed to death
in Salem, Massachusetts because he refused to enter a plea for the crime
of witchcraft. Stones were placed atop Cory for two days, until he died.
Robert Calef, who was a witness along with other townsfolk, later said,
"In the pressing, Giles Corey's tongue was pressed out of his mouth;
the Sheriff, with his cane, forced it in again."(More
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2002 - Reuters reported that Citigroup, the number one
financial services company agreed to pay $240 million to settle predatory
lending charges in the largest consumer protection settlement in the
history of the Federal Trade Commission. (More
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September 20:
1664 - Maryland enacts first anti-amalgamation law
to prevent widespread intermarriage of English women & black men.
1973 - Billie Jean King crushed Bobby Riggs 6-4, 6-3,
6-3 in a winner- take-all tennis match for $100,000. In an atmosphere
more suited for a circus than a sports event, the 29-year-old King ended
the saga of the 55-year-old hustler, who had bolted to national prominence
with his blunt putdowns of women's tennis and the role of women. (More
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September 21:
1780 - Benedict Arnold gives British Major Andre plans
to West Point. (More
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1983 - Secretary of Interior James Watt states in a speech
before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that his diversified committee was
made of "a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple". Watt resigned
after making many new friends. (More
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September 22:
1970 - President Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for
college campuses
September 23:
1990 - Saddam says he will destroy Israel.
September 24:
1991 - Only The Man could come up
with this story line: Doogie Howser loses his virginity
September 25:
1926 - Why did we give it up?... Henry Ford announces
the 8 hour, 5-day work week
September 26:
1986 - Hollywood works for The Man. Bobby (Patrick Duffy)
returns to Dallas, his death is attributed to his wife Pam's bad dream
(erases all of last season). Arrrrrgh!
September 27:
1964 - The Warren Commission Report released, confirming
that the single lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy.
Believe that and I'll bet you also believe that O.J. really didn't do
it. (More
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1967 - Antiwar sentiment increases with an advertisement
titled “A Call To Resist Illegitimate Authority,” signed
by over 320 influential people (professors, writers, ministers, and
other professional people), appears in the New Republic and the New
York Review of Books, asking for funds to help youths resist the draft.
(More
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September 28:
1939 - During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union
agreed on a plan to partition Poland.
September 29:
2000 - Israeli riot police stormed a major Jerusalem shrine
and opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim worshippers, killing four Palestinians
and wounding 175.
September 30:
1970 - The Presidential Commission on Obscenity and Pornography
issues a 646 page report concluding that all sexually explicit films,
books and magazines aimed at adults should be legalized. One publisher,
William Hamling, sold 100,000 copies of the report with 546 additional
"illustrations", for which he received four years prison time.
(More
Info)
1990 - Read My Lips? The Man will say anything to get
votes. After years of deriding Democrats as "tax and spend liberals,"
President George Bush proposed his own tax hike, to the tune of $134
billion over five years. In the wake of the proposal, Bush's campaign
pledge not to raise taxes came back to haunt him. Some outraged Republicans
refused to support their leader. A few party bigwigs, including Congressman
Newt Gingrich, were conspicuously missing from that day's official announcement
in the Rose Garden. Nor was the public particularly fond of the plan.
The president's once record-level approval rating plummeted as many
former supporters branded him a liar and betrayer. Two years later,
he was voted out of office.
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