Poor William's Almanack, September 2, 2010, Indelible Images

Ben Franklin's bifocals Thursday, September 2, 2010

Rock Springs Chinese massacre of 1885
[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]

USS Missouri(BB-63) - Japanese Delegation
USS Missouri(BB-63) - Japan signs surrender
USS Missouri - Fleet Admiral Nimitz signs
USS Missouri(BB-63)in Tokyo Bay day of signing
[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]

[1948 - Christa McAuliffe (Sharon Christa Corrigan), teacher, astronaut, born in Boston, Massachusetts]

Indelible Images

New Orleans Rooftop SOS

President Bush selling Medicare drug program while New Orleans drowns

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.

President Bush sees Katrina from his sky box

New Orleans roof scene 2005

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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