January 25, 2007


A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.
Theodore Roosevelt



Of all
The drunks
Who drive on Sunday
Some are still
Alive on Monday
Burma Shave
1942


I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
Thomas Jefferson




BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 
  1782      Negotiates, with John Adams and John Jay, the
              Treaty of Peace with Great Britain
  1783      While in Paris, watches the Montgolfier brothers
              become the first men to fly in a balloon
  1784      Negotiates treaties with Prussia and other European countries
  1785      Returns to Philadelphia
  1787      Elected president of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting
              the Abolition of  Slavery;  Serves as delegate to the 
              Constitutional Convention
  1790      At age 84, Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia on April 17
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin


There is always a better way to do it . . . Find it!
Thomas A. Edison



PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
George Bush Bush, distantly related to Benedict Arnold and Marilyn Monroe, is also related to Presidents Pierce, Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Ford, and to Winston Churchill.
George Bush 1989-1993



Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. What am I?



The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.


Poverty, Poetry and new Titles of Honour, make Men ridiculous.
1736


I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.
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