1917 - J. Edgar Hoover gets job on ministry of Justice

1964 - Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, '2001' shows that what some people call 'god' is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don't understand, they call 'god' . . . . I chose to do Dr. Clarke's story as a film because it highlights a critical factor necessary for human evolution; that is, beyond our present condition. This film is a rejection of the notion that there is a god; isn't that obvious?"
-- Stanley Kubrick

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1661 - Parliament confirms Navigation Act

1888 - Philip Pratt unveils 1st electric automobile

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ. . . . To rely on the evidence of the senses and of reason is heresy and treason.
. . . . Thus the effectiveness of a doctrine should not be judged by its profundity, sublimity or the validity of the truths it embodies, but by how thoroughly it insulates the individual from his self and the world as it is. What Pascal said of an effective religion is true of any effective doctrine: It must be 'contrary to nature, to common sense and to pleasure.'"
-- Eric Hoffer

1775 - US Postal system created

1929 - President Herbert Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

"Children are our most valuable natural resource."
-- Herbert Hoover

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1957 -US performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site

1965 -Beatles "Help" is released in UK

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
-- Ronald Reagan, speaking from the grave on the current administration.

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1306 - King Phillip the Fair, orders expulsion of Jews out of France

1938 - 3d Reich issues special identity cards for Jewish Germans.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories ... And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
George W. Bush

1873 - Jesse James and his gang pulled off the first train robbery in the U.S. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express.

2004 - White House officials were briefed on the September 11 commission's final report. The 575-page report concluded that hijackers exploited "deep institutional failings within our government."

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.
-- Joseph Stalin

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1872 - Mahlon Loomis patents wireless radio

1969 - Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"It is natural that people should differ most, and most violently, about the unknowable. . . . There is all the room in the world for divergence of opinion about something that, so far as we can realistically perceive, does not exist."
-- E. Haldeman-Julius, speaking on christianity

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1848 - The first women's rights convention, called by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia C. Mott, was held in Seneca Falls, New York.

1870 - The Franco-Prussian war began.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"In the early days of woman-suffrage agitation, I saw that the greatest obstacle we had to overcome was the bible. It was hurled at us on every side."
-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, at Seneca Falls, 1848

From the CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

64 - Rome burned on this day -- while Nero fiddled, literally.

1918 - Battle of Marne begins

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"It's not dying for your faith that
is hard; it's living up to it."
-- William Thackery

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1920 - Sinclair Lewis finished the now-famous novel, "Main Street".

1986 - The largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history took place as LTV Corporation asked for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"The church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down."
-- Robert Green Ingersoll

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1935 - The first parking meters were installed in Oklahoma City.

1969 - Apollo 11 took off on the first manned flight to the moon.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"Truly religious people are resigned to everything, even to mediocre poetry."
-- Oscar Wilde,

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1958 - The army of Iraq overthrew the monarchy.

2003 - Jerry Springer officially filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
No one is safe from religious ideas and confessional phenomena. . . . We can fall victim to them when we least expect it. It's like Mao's flu, or being struck by lightning. . . . You were born without purpose, you live without meaning, living is its own meaning. When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms."
-- Ingmar Bergman

From the Church of Ineffable Stupidity:

1865 - Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man.

1945 - 1st atom bomb explodes in New Mexico

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

In this world, things are complicated and are decided by many factors. We should look at problems from different aspects, not just from one.
-- Mao

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY

1960 - The first Etch-A-Sketch went on sale.

1977 - 1st free flight test of space shuttle Enterprise

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1810 - Peter Durand invents the tin can.

1985 - The use of Zippers in lieu of stitches was announced by Dr. H. Harlan Stone. He used zippers on 28 patients whom he thought might require additional operations because of internal bleeding following initial operations

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

"This young fellow, who was possessed of most violent passions, which he with great difficulty can command, and of unbounded ambition, which he conceals perhaps, even to himself, has been seduced into that bigoted, illiberal system of religion, which, by professing vainly to follow purely the dictates of the Testament, in vain contradicts the whole doctrine of the New Testament, and destroys all the boundaries between good and evil, between right and wrong. But, like all the followers of that sect, his practise is at open variance with his theory.
-- John Quincy Adams

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1866 - Edison P. Clark of Northampton, MA patented his indelible pencil.

1962 - The Telstar communications satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, FL.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

 [quote] "The kind of fraud which consists in daring to proclaim the truth while mixing it with a large share of lies that falsify it, is more widespread than is generally thought."
-- Marcel Proust, posthumously discussing the Bush Administration

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel of Thomaston, Me.

1979 - Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
-- H. L. Mencken

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY:

1693 - Uniforms for police in New York City were authorized on this day.

1987 - Lt. Col. Oliver North became a daytime TV star, pulling in more viewers than many game shows and soap operas. He, his glitzy, tailored uniform, and his ribcage plastered with medals captured center stage as the Iran-Contra hearings were televised throughout the U.S.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Quote:
"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
-- George Santayana

"America is becoming wise."
--Pastor Agnostic

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY: