Saturday, October 5, 2013
"From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever."
[1877 - Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce Indians surrender to the U.S. Cavalry at Bear's Paw, Chinook, Montana]
[1882 - Robert (Hutchings) Goddard, rocket science pioneer, born in Worcester, Massachusetts]
[1902 - Larry Fine (Louis Feinberg), comedian, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]
[1902 - Ray Kroc, entrepreneur, McDonalds founder, born in Chicago]
[1908 - Joshua (Lockwood) Logan (III), producer, director, writer, born in Texarkana, Texas]
[1919 - Donald Pleasance, actor, born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England]
[1936 - Vaclav Havel, poet, writer, Czech government official, born in Prague]
[1947 - Harry Truman asks the American people via TV from the White House not to eat meat on Tuesdays, or poultry on Thursdays, to save grain for the starving in Europe]
[1950 - Jeff (Jeffrey Charles William Michael) Conaway, actor, born in Manhattan]
[1953 - Earl Warren is sworn in as the
14th Supreme Court Chief Justice]
[1957 - Bernie Mac (Bernard Jeffrey McCullough), comedian, actor, born in Chicago]
[1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer wins
Nobel Prize for literature]
The Occupy Wall Street phenomenon signaled a sea change in our country. It spread rapidly throughout the nation, and had all the earmarks of a grass roots movement that was yet to be hijacked by the power elite. The participants appeared dedicated to nonviolence mixed with some mild forms of civil disobedience to get media coverage. All this, while encouraging, was only a start. The danger with any revolution is not that it will fail, but that it will succeed in replacing the current structure with one that is worse. Only time will tell how this one will play out, but the smell of freedom was in the air and irresistible. The 'Arab Spring' may yet be followed by a USA Autumn. Autumn is a wonderful time of year.
For the outcome favored by william, look over the new website at: usreconstitution.net
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William's Whimsical Words:
Freedom smells delicious; oligarchy just smells.
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