December 19, 2006


"There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell"
Edgar Allan Poe



Don't stick
Your elbow
Out so far
It might go home
In another car
Burme Shave
1941


Situation comedy on television has thrived for years on "canned" laughter grafted by gaglines by technicians using records of guffawing audiences that have been dead for years.
Russell Baker




THE FRAGILE NATION
  • October 20, 1786 - Congress authorizes Secretary of War Henry Knox to raise a an army of 1340 men over concerns of the safety of the federal arsenal at Springfield, Mass.
  • December 26, 1786 - Shays assembles 1200 men near Worcester, Mass. and heads toward Springfield. Massachusetts Governor, Bowdoin, then orders mobilization of a 4400 man force.
  • January 26, 1787 - Shays' rebels attack the federal arsenal at Springfield but are unsuccessful. Revolutionary War hero, Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, then arrives with reinforcements from Boston to pursue the rebels.
  • February 4, 1787 - Gen. Lincoln's troops attack Shays' rebels at Petersham, Massachusetts, and capture 150 rebels. Shays flees north to Vermont.
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    Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Jefferson When he was sworn in as President, he returned to his boarding house for dinner. Every seat was taken, and no one stood to offer him a seat. After awhile, the wife of a Kentucky senator offered him her seat. Jefferson politely declined.
    Thomas Jefferson 1801-1809



    In cubic feet, how much dirt is in a hole 3 feet long, 3 feet deep, and 3 feet wide?



    Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.



    He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.
    1736


    Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
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