Happy Independent Florida Day ?

January 10
Only 355 days left in 2007 !
Happy Birthday to...
1883 Francis X.Bushman(actor)starred in "The Ghost in The Invisible Bikini"(wonder if it's on DVD ?)
1945 Rod Stewart(blonde Scottish himbo)
1949 Linda Lovelace(need I say more?)
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1861 Florida seceded from the United States(fireworks tonight Joe?)
1918 Women got the right to vote in both Britain and USA (hear us roar)
1929 First Tintin comic ,The Red Sea Sharks,was published today.
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Mervyn Obst has been predicting the weather for years by closely watching native trees and he has tipped the month of May might be more than merely merry with Rain.
Might buy the lad a beer or 20 when I'm next up his way ;)
Cattlemen are getting the heave ho from the Barmah forest,despite little evidence of damage to vegetation, just as Mountain Cattleman Phil Maguire continues to fight for his legally licenced right to graze cattle on the Bogong High Plains.
Coastal communities could be facing the bushfires within 48 hours,CFA captains were predicting last November this fire would only stop once it reached Bass Strait.
Yesterday it was Black Sea dolphins trying to drown a drunken swimmer,today it's a whale sinking a sailors' yacht(he wasn't a drunken sailor as the Black Sea piddled paddler more than made up for it.)