NOVEMBER 30

30 -- [BC] Cleopatra, Egyptian queen, commits suicide. Typical for a feminazi.

1216 -- Pope Innocent III orders Jews to wear a special badge.

1554 -- Roman Catholicism briefly restored to England under the reign of Mary Tudor. "Bloody Mary" had Thomas Cranmer, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley & nearly 300 other Protestant leaders burned at the stake.

1624 -- Richard Cornish executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law.

1854 -- Call an abortionist! "Fighting Mary" Eliza McDowell born, feminazi, union organizer. Helped organize the first women's local union of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters in 1902.

1900 -- Homo commie Oscar Wilde 46, dies in Paris, France, going straight to HELL.

1914 -- Anselmo Lorenzo, Spanish anarchist, dies, goes straight to HELL.

1930 -- Rabble-rouser, labor activist Mother Jones dies, age 100, Silver Spring, Maryland. Goes straight to HELL.

1939 -- Patriotic USSR invades Finland over a border dispute.

1948 -- Baseball's Negro National League disbands. Enough special treatment already.

1950 -- US President Truman threatens China with atom bomb. Democrats need to learn that mere threats are not enough

1961 -- Obese teenager Lowell Andrews, the "Nicest Boy in Woolcott, Kansas" who shot his parents & sister so he could inherit the family farm, hanged, Leavenworth, Kansas. Gods wraith for estate taxes.

1969 -- Simon & Garfunkel's first TV special airs. Sponsor AT&T backs out when they learn that the duo plan to show footage of Bobby Kennedy's funeral march & clips of the Vietnam War - free speech can only go so far, you know.

1971 -- Tanker breaks in half off Japan, spilling 6,258,000 gallons of oil. Gods wraith for enviromentalists.

1980 -- Death of Dorothy Day, anarchist, pacifist, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City. Goes straight to HELL.

1981 -- Reagan, speaking to a GOP fundraiser ($2500 a plate) claims to have received a letter: "He wrote in Braille to tell me that if cutting his pension would help get this country back on its feet, he'd like to have me cut his pension." The letter-writer's identity is not revealed.

1982 --President Reagan invokes executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing subpoenaed Environmental Protection Agency documents. Reagan later states that he would never use executive privilege that way, but his staff soon explains that he didn't mean that the way it sounded, and the documents in question will be only selectively revealed.

1987 -- Reagan denies that he resents Mikhail Gorbachev's popularity. "Good Lord, I starred with Errol Flynn once."

Also today, Michael Deaver's book BEHIND THE SCENES is excerpted in LIFE magazine. In one anecdote, the Reagans are participating in a communion service. "Mike," hissed Nancy, "Are those people drinking out of the same cup?" Then she accidentally dropped her wafer into the chalice. Ron had had been told to follow her lead so he dropped his in too, and left "satisfied that the service had gone quite well."

Also, James Baldwin dies. Black novelist, dramatist, essayist, Civil Rights activist, gay. Goes straight to HELL.

1988 -- Dan Quayle says that one lesson he has learned in the campaign is that "Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things."

1999 -- US: WTO (World Trade organization) shut down. Cops beat the crap out of hippies, the way God likes it.

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