Wednesday, September 2, 2009

[1885 - White coal miners attack and massacre Chinese co-workers in Rock Springs, Wyoming]

[1917 - Laurindo Almeida, Grammy Award-winning composer, guitarist, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil]

   
[1917 - Cleveland Amory, writer, animal activist, born in Nahant, Massachusetts]

[1918 - Allen Drury, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist,
born in Houston, Texas]

[1945 - President Truman proclaims V-J Day as Japanese sign surrender instrument aboard USS Missouri(BB-63)]

   
[1946 - Billy Preston, musician, songwriter, singer, born in Houston, Texas]

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.

William's Whimsical Words:

Compassionate Conservatism inaction.

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