Thursday, October 29, 2009

[1740 - James Boswell, author, biographer, born in Edinburgh, Scotland]

[1837 - Harriet Powers, folk artist, quilter, born in Clarke County, Georgia]

[1891 - Fanny Brice (Borach), actress, comedienne, born in New York City]

[1899 - Akim Tamiroff, actor, born in Tiflis(now Tbilisi), Georgia]

[1921 - Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist, born in Mountain Park, New Mexico]

[1929 - The Great Crash of the stock market]

[1962 - Top-level Cuban Missile Crisis Meeting]

[1983 - Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart ends four weeks at #1 on the pop charts]

Faith-Based Initiative

No Evangelical Christian Church Left Behind.

If pure religion is the criterion to [decide upon] candidates, those who make a noise about it must be rejected; for their wrangle about it proves that they are void of it. Let honesty, talents and quick dispatch characterize the men of your choice.

Baptist pastor John Leland
Independence Day oration 1802

US GOVERNMENT PROPERTY?

William's Whimsical Words:

Never let government entwine itself with organized religion. These two massive institutions can barely function separately. Put them together and you have a combined bureaucracy that will be incapable of serving anyone.

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