Wednesday, November 30, 2011
[1667 - Jonathan Swift, satirist, born in
Hoey's Court, Dublin]
[1835 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, (Mark Twain), humorist, author, critic, lecturer, born in Florida, Missouri]
[1874 - Sir Winston Churchill, Leader, Statesman, Orator, Writer, born in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England]
[1912 - Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks, photographer, poet, novelist, activist, director, born in Fort Scott, Kansas]
[1920 - Virginia Mayo (Virginia Clara Jones), actress, born in St. Louis, Missouri]
[1924 - Shirley Chisholm, politician, author, born in Brooklyn]
[1924 - Allan Sherman (Copelon), comedian, born in Chicago]
[1926 - Richard Crenna, Emmy Award-winning actor, born in Los Angeles]
[1931 - Bill (William Ernest) Walsh, Pro Football Hall of Fame San Francisco 49er coach, born in Los Angeles]
[1950 - President Harry Truman says that the USA might use the atomic bomb in Korea]
Some overzealous Airport Gestapo have taken to disrobing, patting down, ogling, and groping travelers whose only offense is trying to get on a regularly scheduled airline flight. When our nanny government gets to the point of subjecting your grandma to a full body cavity search before she can get on the bus to ride downtown to the senior center, we will know that this country is no longer fit for a free people to live in. Before it goes that far, we will surely have conceded victory in the so called "War on Terror" to al Qaida, because they will have succeeded in converting this formerly free nation into a totalitarian state. One sure hopes that we are not too far down that path already.
William's Whimsical Words:
We might tolerate these assaults on our persons and our dignity if it made us any safer, but it hasn't.
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