Will you quit playng with that flame?

Hey folks, regardless of how you feel about Darfur and Tibet, one needs to remember that China holds a LARGE amount of the U.S. outstanding debt. It could be an ugly day where that debt were called early

Here is your Today in History -


It's a bad day for rulers -

April 8, 217 -
Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoniius] Roman emperor (198-217), murdered while defecating.



April 8, 1143 -
John II Comnenus Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies when he was 'accidentally' shot with a poison arrow.



April 8, 1364 -
John II the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44 after a night of heavy drinking in London. You may ask why the King of France was drinking in London - that's another story.



April 8, 1498 -
Charles VIII King of France (1483-98), died of an accident - striking himself on the head while passing through a doorway, he succumbed to a sudden coma several hours later.




April 8, 1950 -
Vaslav Fomich Nijinsky, one of the most gifted male dancers in history - celebrated for his virtuosity and for the depth and intensity of his characterizations, died on this date.



April 8, 1973 -
Pablo Ruiz Picasso, one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work, died on this date.




April 8, 1991 -
Retired horse jockey Willie Shoemaker loses control of his Ford Bronco; the resulting crash renders him paralyzed from the neck down. Shoemaker is later arrested for drunk driving, but no charges are
ever filed.



April 8, 1992 -
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suffers only minor injuries after his airplane crashes into the Libyan desert. However, three others on board the craft are killed.



April 8, 1994 -
Kurt Cobain's body is found 3 days after committing suicide with a shotgun. That was probably not a pretty sight.



And so it goes