Celebration Excuse
More death and destruction courtesy of Mt. Vesuvius, the world’s worst episode of genocide since WWII, and a scandal that gives teapots a bad name: here’s why Mic Check doesn’t feel like playing dominoes today.
1827
John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match, making it that much easier for pyromaniacs to get a quick fix.
1906
Hercules is not pleased: Mount Vesuvius goes kablooey over Naples…again.
1922
Greasy politicians getting rich off of shady deals with the corporate world? Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall fulfills the stereotype and leases Teapot
Dome petroleum reserves to an oil company without competitive bidding.
1954
Ike incorporates wisdom from his childhood into foreign policy and gives the famous “domino theory” speech.
1994
The Rwanda genocide begins. 800,000 innocent Tutsi deaths later, imagine what a little international intervention could have done.
Eat Cake!
1915: Lady who sings the blues, Billie Holiday
1939: Director Francis Ford Coppola, famous for the Godfather trilogy and for having very, very successful Hollywood relatives
1954: Jackie Chan, actor who keeps the karate chop alive in movies
1964: Actor most women prefer in a toga, Russell Crowe
Daybook
Potus
Meets with small and mid-sized business owners on the Economic Stimulus Package and delivers remarks to the 2007 NCAA Football Champion Louisiana State University Tigers.
Stumpin’
DNC Chairman Howard Dean joins Oklahoma Democratic Party for a rally and fundraising reception and ABC and The Brookings Institution host an Opportunity 08 panel discussion on the future of the military featuring Donna Shalala and Kenneth Duberstein in Miami, Florida.
Congress
Senate
Meets for morning business and resumes consideration of H.R.3221, the vehicle for the housing bill.
10:00 a.m.
Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee: Hearing on “Restoring the American Dream: Solutions to Predatory Lending and the Foreclosure Crisis.”
House
Not in session.
10:00 a.m.
Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee: Hearing on the applications and benefits of
remote sensing data, especially in regards to helping public and private sector
users make decisions on important issues such as community protection, land use
and water resource planning.
TV
Tivo…
Oprah: Why Jamie Lee Curtis Posed Nude at 50
The View: Christina Applegate
Regis & Kelly: Brittany Snow, “American Idol” castoff Ramiele Malubay
Ellen: Sen. Hillary Clinton, Kylie Minogue, “American Idol” castoff Ramiele
Malubay, Maj. Brian Dennis
Martha: Helen “The Queen” Mirren, Animal Planet star Jeff Corwin
Stay up for…
Letterman: Kid Scientistrs, Natalie Portman, Kenna with Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo (R 2/27/08)
Leno: Thomas Hayden Church, Sig & Edgar Hansen, Jimmy Eat World
Ferguson: Bob Saget, Jennifer Esposito, Bell X1
Conan: Steve Harvey, badminton player Howard Bach, Hot Chip
Stewart: Nathan Lane
Colbert: former Minnesota governor Jesse “The Governing Body” Ventura
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