Tuesday, October 9, 2007
[1635 - Roger Williams, religious dissident, banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony]
[1701 - Connecticut colonial legislature charters Collegiate School, Yale precursor]
[1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard awarded patent for the steam calliope]
[1873 - US Naval Institute Founded]
[1909 - Jacques Tati (Tatischeff), actor, Academy Award-winning director, born in Le Pecq, France]
[1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral Dome pierced by Nazi bomb in Battle of Britain]
[1974 - Oskar Schindler, German businessman who saved 1,200 Jews from Holocaust, dies at age 66]
We'd Settle For Sixpence
Sing a song of deficits,
Pockets full of IOUs;
Four and twenty tax cuts
We knew it was a ruse.
When the pie was divided,
The rich began to sing.
There wasn't any left for us
We got hardly anything.
Counting out his money;
Corporate Cronies in the parlor
Eating bread and honey.
The maid was in the garden,
Hanging out their clothes.
She was just a black bird
And that is how it goes!
William's Whimsical Words:
Some of us knew this before Katrina; now we all know it.
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