Saturday, September 2, 2006
[1885 - White coal miners attack and massacre Chinese co-workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming]
[1918 - Allen Drury, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, born in Houston, Texas]
[1945 - President Truman proclaims V-J Day as Japanese sign surrender aboard USS Missouri(BB-63)]
Indelible Images
As New Orleans drowns, President Bush stays the course with his original schedule, and goes off to sell his incomprehensible prescription drug plan to incredulous seniors.
As the poor folks await rescue in the lower levels of New Orleans, President Bush descends from the heavens in Air Force One to peer at them.