"Soldiers are gunning us down, should have been done long ago..."

I'm going to start using song lyrics as my subject lines, and it will be an
ongoing contest to see who can name the band/performer. word.

Today is National Candied Orange Peel Day and Renewal Day. Have fun with
those as you can.
And so you can celebrate bright and early tomorrow: Cinco de Mayo, National
Hoagie Day, and Oyster Day. I've never actually seen an oyster (please
don't kill me if you are one of those people who grew up thinking seafood is
normal. I'm trying to easternize myself, really)

I decided I'm going to crusade against the BYU Bookstore and drive them all
to poverty. I was just complaining to my mom about how the mangy curs
wouldnt buy back 5 of my books from winter semester and how they are always
being retarded about pretty much everything. And I decided that I'm going
to open a nice big bookstore just off campus and I will have lower prices
and higher buyback rates, and I won't set limits on how many books can be
bought back before turning people away. I will be fair and the BYU
Bookstore will suffer. I will buy back every book whether or not it is the
current issue, and I will buy them back even if they dont have the cd (which
half the time doesnt come with the book anyway) and I will buy those
loathsome little american heritage books that nobody wants to keep. My
bookstore will be ubercool and I invite any and all of you to help me combat
this egregious and nefarious debauchery that has crept into Provo. Every
day, thousands of students suffer through the emotional upheaval of shopping
at the BYU Bookstore. The students are already poverty-stricken and
penurious and it isn't fair to take advantage of their situation. We need
books and the Bookstore knows that nothing, not even high prices, will stop
us from buying the necessary books. We are being exploited and we need to
fight back. The BYU Bookstore is the vilest plague of the earth, and must
be shut down. Who's with me?

On a side-note, happy birthday to:
Abd-Allah Ansari, 1006 (STUD LIST, look up Monadjat)
Horace Mann, 1796
Joseph Whitaker, 1820
Julia Gardiner Tyler, 1820
Ramiro de Maeztu y Whitney, 1875 (tell me two of his books and get a prize)
Wilhelm Lehmann, 1822
Maurice "Moe" Purtill, 1916
Maynard Ferguson, 1928
Audrey Hepburn, 1929
Tyrone Davis, 1928 (Are you bein' serious?, actually the name of the song is
Are You Serious, but it reminded me of DT so i threw that in)
Ronnie Bond, 1942 (ok, so two Troggs birthdays in two days. a little creepy
if you ask me)
George Wadenius, 1945 (Name that band! its prize time)
Jackie Jackson, 1951 (Jackson 5)
Michael L Gernhardt, 1956
Matthew Barnaby, 1973 (STUD!!! He had an awesome fight a while back, and
now he's my hero. Well ok, maybe not hero, i've been told i use that word
too freely. hes a cool guy though.)

Happy deathday to:
Sherlock Holmes, 1891 (yah ok, so he didnt actually die, but this is the day
that Doyle said he died, so there)
Lodewijk Scharp, 1935 (I keep seeing these Flemish people in my search for
daily knowledge and I decided to find out stuff about the Flemish culture
etc., and I found that in order to be a Flemish citizen you only have to be
15 years old and speak Dutch. Pretty snazzy, eh?)
Georges Enescu, 1955
Alison Krause, 1970
Jeffrey Miller, 1970
Sandra Scheuer, 1970
William Schroeder, 1970
Moe Howard, 1975 (<==STUD)
Dennis Crosby, 1991 (son of Bing, committed suicide)
Karl Hattinger, 1994 (anyone seen The Onion Field?)
Vijayananda Dahanayake, 1997

And the fun and not so fun things of today's history:
Flemings conquers Middelburg, 1303 (Way to go Flemings! destroy the
accursed British!)
Indians sell Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth & buttons, 1626 (Good deal,
Indians...)
American Academy of Arts & Science founded, 1780
Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus, 1783
Michigan ends death penalty, 1846 (I'm a big fan of the death penalty, what
do you all think about it?)
Ulysses S Grant crosses Rapidan & begins his duel with Robert E Lee, 1864
Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House, 1878
Canadian parliament accept creation of Royal Canadian Navy, 1910 (consists
of a single canoe)
Arabs sack Tel Aviv, 1917
Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox 5-4, 1918 (Eat that,
Babe!)
Bloody street battles between nazis, socialist & police in Vienna, 1923
1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet, 1927
Lou Gehrig hits 3 consecutive HRs, 1929
Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway, 1953
Malcolm Ross & Victor Prather reach 34,668 m (record) in balloon, 1961
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games, 1969
National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio, 1970 (I listed them on my
deathday list. I could talk about this thing pretty much forever. Im a big
fan of civil rights etc., and not a big fan of violence, and i find myself
becoming more liberal as time goes by
Flyers 1-Isles 0-Semis-Flyers hold 3-0 lead-Isles held to 14 shots, 1975
Kiss performs their 1st concert, 1976

And now I'm going to give a little report on Tibet's campaign for freedom:
-On April 2nd three Tibetans began an indefinite hunger strike outside the
UN until their demands were met. This thing ended yesterday after one of
the strikers had some serious health issues. you know the kind that
sometimes happen when you go 31 days without food. So the kid passed out on
May 2nd and was taken to the hospital and then everyone said "hey you should
end your strike now" and they said "no way" so they kept it up for another
day, and then the UN made some good moves, and now they are all happy and
healthy.
-The Dalai Lama is currently in Canada and is returning to India tomorrow.
-The Chinese government has so far killed some 1.2 million Tibetans and has
subjected prisoners to slave labor and basically China is breaking all rules
of civility.
-Im selling t-shirts supporting the Free Tibet campaigns going on, and if
you want to support Mongolia or Xing Jiang too, that would be way cool too.
basically im only charging for the actual cost of printing and all that, im
not going for profit, and ive also got some flyers and stuff if you want me
to send those to you via email and you can hand them out. Seriously, those
Tibetans need us, help them out. The more public their problem is, the
harder it will be for China to opress them, so get on this!
Also, I like yaks and they're being driven to extinction because the farmers
are being hauled off and killed, so no one takes care of the yaks and yaks
are cool. I also have shirts supporting yaks, if you are interested.
Seriously they are way way way awesome, and pretty cheap, i dont know
exactly how much yet, but they wont be more than ten bucks. that would be
absurd. and seriously, yaks rock!

And now for the quotes of the day:
"Love is like war, easy to start, but very hard to stop" H.L. Mencken

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

Malcolm Forbes (1919 - 1990)

Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never
happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them
because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832)

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients
what is the matter-he's got to just know.
Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.
Henny Youngman (1906 - 1998)

Thats all for today, have a good one!
The Future President-King