| August 30, 1963 A “hotline” telephone link was installed between the Kremlin in Moscow and the White House in Washington, D.C. The intention was to allow direct communication in the event of a crisis between the U.S. president and the leader of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). It had been agreed to following the Cuban Missile Crisis. |
| August 30, 1964 The Democratic Party National Convention refused to seat any delegates from the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). The Credentials Committee chose to seat the all-white delegation from Mississippi’s regular Democratic Party despite overwhelming evidence of the state party’s efforts to disenfranchise Mississippi’s Negro citizens. A proposed compromise of two non-voting guest delegates from MFDP was rejected by its leaders. The dispute, the political intrigue, and the long-term effects |
| August 30, 1967 The Senate confirmed the appointment of Thurgood Marshall as the first Supreme Court Justice of African-American descent. Marshall had been counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and had been the lead attorney in the Brown v. Board of Education case. He was appointed to the Court by President Lyndon Johnson after having served as Solicitor General of the U.S. for two years, and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for four.  Thurgood Marshall Who was Thurgood Marshall? NAACP |
| August 30, 1971 Ten empty school busses were dynamited in Pontiac, Michigan, eight days before a school integration plan was to begin. Following Federal Judge Damon Keith’s finding that Pontiac’s school board had “intentionally” perpetuated segregation, a plan was developed by the board that included bussing of 8700 children.  The bombers were later identified as leaders and members of the Ku Klux Klan, arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. |
| August 30, 1980 Striking Polish workers, their numbers approaching 150,000, won a sweeping victory in a battle with the Polish Communist government for the right to independent trade unions and the right to strike. Their lead negotiator was Lech Walesa, head of the union, Solidarnos´c´ (Solidarity).  Lech Walesa announces the deal to cheering crowds of shipyard workers. |
| August 30, 1999 Residents of East Timor voted for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored election. More about the East Timor election |
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It seems that all the positive ‘doings’ are slowly and thoroughly changing. We are under the thumb of a neo Nazi, and unless something miraculous happens, we could lose all of it. sigh. The curse is, “may you live in interesting times…”
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Yeah, I don’t know why on all the earth Republicans didn’t grab this away from the RWNJs back in the 90s when everyone could see this is the goal, but no. They let it be, and now here we all are, having to clean up Republican crime yet again. sigh If they let us this time.
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From what I can see, from a lifetime of this garbage, is that the Republicans want to change stuff, just because they can. And the Dems spend their time in office picking the glass shards out of the frosting, spend a lot of money trying to deal with what the Republicans broke, and get dumped because they are the big spenders and time wasters. It’s like being part of a family where Mom wants to wall paper every damn room and Dad says, ‘we did that last year” and Mom says, yeah, but it needs new paper. now.
In the process they often destroy perfectly good stuff and replace it with expensive things that cost way too much money and never get used properly.
In other words, you nailed it. In a few years the Dems will be back in office, repairing the leaks and cracks and then they’ll be voted out again for wasting tax payers money on things that didn’t need fixing.
There are days when I long for the sanity of Canada.
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