Poor William's Almanack, January 19, 2009, No Shame

Franklin bifocals Monday, January 19, 2009 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Martin Luther King Day

[1736 - James Watt, engineer, inventor, born in Greenock, Firth of Clyde, Scotland]

[1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher, born in Montpellier, France]

[1807 - Robert E. Lee, Civil War Confederate General, born in Stratford, Virginia]

Poet & Writer Edgar Allan Poe
[1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, writer, poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts]

The Bessemer Converter for making steel
[1813 - Sir Henry Bessemer, inventor, born in Charlton, Hertfordshire, England]

[1943 - Janis Joplin, singer, born in Port Arthur, Texas]

Justice William O. Douglas
[1980 - William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice, dies at age 81]

No Shame

President Bush surveys Katrina damage from Air Force 1

Dear Mr. President,

There is no shame in being wrong.
There is no glory in it either.
As you exit Washington,
The Nation gets a breather.

William's Whimsical Words:

If you and Vice President Cheney would just give up on trying to put positive spin on the eight years of hell you have put my country through, perhaps you might salvage a kind word or two from the citizenry.

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