January 8, 2007


Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
Warren Buffett



Pa likes the cream
Ma likes the jar
Both like
The price
So there you are
Burma Shave
1942


Advertising is legalized lying
H. G. Wells





ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  • 1857 - June 26, in Springfield, Lincoln speaks against the Dred Scott decision.
  • 1858 - In May, wins acquittal in a murder trial by using an almanac regarding the height of the moon to discredit a witness. June 16, nominated to be the Republican senator from Illinois, opposing Democrat Stephen A. Douglas. Gives "House Divided" speech at the state convention in Springfield. Also engages Douglas in a series of seven debates with big audiences.
  • 1859 - Illinois legislature chooses Douglas for the U.S. Senate over Lincoln by a vote of 54 to 46. In the Fall, Lincoln makes his last trip through the 8th Judicial Circuit. December 20, writes a short autobiography.
  • 1860 - March 6, delivers an impassioned political speech on slavery in New Haven, Connecticut. Also in March, the 'Lincoln-Douglas Debates'published.
    Nominee for president - 1860
  • May 18, 1860 - Nominated to be the Republican candidate for President of the United States. Opposes Northern Democrat Stephen A. Douglas and Southern Democrat John C. Breckinridge. In June, writes a longer autobiography.
    The first by Mathew Brady - February, 1860
    • THE HISTORY PLACE


    "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
    Pablo Picasso



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Benjamin Harrison When North and South Dakota were admitted to the Union, Harrison covered the tops of the bills and shuffled them so that he could only see the bottom. He signed them and we will never know which state was the 39th or the 40th!
    Benjamin Harrison 1889-1893



    It stands on one leg with its heart in its head.

    What is it?



    "You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left."



    None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
    1736


    Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
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