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Sunday, October 14, 2007

October 14......

October 14 is the 287th (288th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 78 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Government "You can't say you love your country and hate your government." — Bill Clinton

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Treaties No, New Nukes Yes "What we know from intelligence is that there are a lot of other nations in the world that know one thing: If you get deep enough underground with enough concrete and steel above your head, they can't get you. That is exactly the kind of facility being built by our potential enemies today. There is only one way to get those, and that is through a precise low-yield nuclear weapon. The design of those weapons is certainly in the mind of our scientists. And if they are allowed to think about this, to do some research on it, we think at least we would be prepared, should the Pentagon decide it wants to ask the Congress for the authority to go forward with the program, to be able to do so. The point has been made adequately, this does not authorize anything. This merely removes a self-imposed prohibition on the United States. No other country in the world is suffering under this prohibition {Yeah right—we would just sit back and let anybody do research on this type of weapon, what an idiot!!}. . . . It has also been noted that they could be very useful in the destruction of chemical and biological agents or weapons which are not easily destroyed by conventional weaponry and in any event where the fallout can be more dangerous than the weapons just sitting there on the ground. If you put a large conventional explosion on top of chemical or biological agents, you could end up dispersing those agents in a very dangerous way over a far greater area than if the enemy actually tried to use the weapon. But with a precise low-yield nuclear weapon, you might well be able to destroy that biological or chemical agent or weapon. In this new world there may well be reasons to have these weapons. For somebody to suggest it is nuts is simply an uneducated approach to this very serious issue . . ." — Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ). Congressional Record S6677, 5-20-03. {This is one of my three Congress Critters, runs in lockstep with the war criminal Bush.}

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "Bill Weld will not tiptoe around Washington, D.C. on bended knee." — William Weld, Massachusetts governor

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}


NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

NGC 3132: The Eight Burst Nebula


Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 1066 - Norman Conquest: Battle of Hastings - In England on Senlac Hill, seven miles from Hastings, the forces of William the Conqueror defeat the Saxon army and kill King Harold II of England.

● 1322 - Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence.

● 1582 - Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

● 1586 - Mary I of Scotland goes on trial for conspiracy against Elizabeth I of England.

● 1644 - Birth of William Penn.

● 1656 - Massachusetts enacts the first punitive legislation against the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). The marriage of church-and-state in Puritanism makes them regard the ritual-free Quakers as spiritually apostate and politically subversive.

● 1758 - Austria defeats Prussia at the Battle of Hochkirk

● 1773 - The first recorded Ministry of Education, the Komisja Edukacji Narodowej (Polish for Commission of National Education), is formed in Poland.

● 1773 - American Revolutionary War: The United Kingdom's East India Company tea ships' cargo are burned at Annapolis, Maryland, two months before the "Boston Tea Party."

● 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.

● 1806 - Battle of Jena-Auerstädt France defeats Prussia

● 1812 - Work on London's Regent's Canal starts.

● 1814 - Birth of Thomas Osborne Davis, Mallow, County Cork. Irish writer/politician. Co-founder of the weekly "Nation," his writings become the gospel of the Sinn Fein movement.

● 1834 - In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.

● 1834 - Henry Blair is the first African American to obtain a US patent. The patent was for a corn planter.

● 1835 - John Templeton, John Moore, Stanley Cuthbart and Ellen Ritchie were charged in Wheeling, Virginia with illegally teaching blacks to read.

● 1840 - Maronite leader Bashir II surrenders to the British forces and goes into exile in Malta.

● 1843 - The British arrest Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell for conspiracy.

● 1859 - Ravachol lives, Saint Chamond (the Loire), France. Anarchist bandit and advocate of "propaganda of the deed," the subject of popular myth and song ("La Ravachole, sur l'air de la Carmagnole").

● 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Bristoe Station - Confederate General Robert E. Lee forces fail to drive the Union Army out of Virginia.

● 1864 - The first African-American daily newspaper, the "New Orleans Tribune," begins publishing, in both French and English.

● 1867 - The 15th and last Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan.

● 1876 - France - Birth of Jules Bonnot, Pont-de-Roide (Doubs). Auto mechanic, vegetarian, teetotaler, anarchist "illegalist" -- the most famous of the "bandits tragiques."

● 1882 - French anarchist Toussaint Bordat, Chassenard (Allier) arrested; to be tried and convicted as part of the enormous "Trial of the 66" the following year, and sent to prison for four years.

● 1882 - University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.

● 1883 - Two-day congress held, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founding of the International Working People's Association. Marks the beginning of the anarchist-trade union movement in the United States.

● 1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film.

● 1888 - Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene.

● 1906 - Political philosopher Hannah Arendt lives, Hanover, Lower Saxony.

● 1910 - English aviator Claude Grahame-White lands his Farman biplane on Executive Avenue (now Pennsylvania Avenue) near the White House.

● 1912 – Former Pres. Theodore Roosevelt is shot and seriously wounded in Milwaukee by anarchist William Schrenk while greeting the public in front of the Hotel Gilpatrick. Schrenk's .32 caliber bullet, aimed directly at Roosevelt's heart, is slowed by a bundle of manuscript (his evening speech) in the breast pocket of Roosevelt's heavy coat. With the bullet still in him, Roosevelt still delivers his scheduled speech.

● 1913 - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, which claimed 439 lives.

● 1914 - German troops occupy Bruges.

● 1916 - Sophomore tackle guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refuse to play against an African-American.

● 1920 - Italy - Demonstrations held in support of the Russian Revolution and to demand the release of the political prisoners. In Bologna, where the anarchist Malatesta appears, police open fire on demonstrators, killing several.

● 1920 - Part of Petsamo province is ceded by Soviet Union to Finland.

● 1925 - Anti-French uprising in Damascus (French inhabitants flee)

● 1928 - First television wedding is held.

● 1933 - Nazi Germany withdraws from The League of Nations.

● 1939 - German U-Boat U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak.

● 1942 - A German U-boat sinks the ferry SS Caribou, killing 137.

● 1942 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field.

● 1943 - Japan declares Philippine Independence.

● 1943 - Prisoners at the Sobibor death camp in Poland revolt, resulting in the death of 11 SS. About half of the camp's 600 prisoners escape; about 50 survive the war.

● 1943 - U.S. 8th Air Force loses 60 B-17 Flying Fortresses during an assault on Schweinfurt.

● 1944 - Allied troops land in Corfu.

● 1944 - British troops march into Athens.

● 1946 - Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire.

● 1947 - Chuck Yeager flies a Bell X-1 faster than the speed of sound, the first man to do so in level flight.

● 1949 - Eleven Communist Party members found guilty, after a nine-month trial, of conspiring to advocate overthrow of the U.S. government. Ten of the defendants get five years each in prison; the eleventh gets only three years.

● 1949 - Chinese Red Army occupies Canton (Guangzhou).

● 1952 - First General Assembly meeting in new United Nations headquarters, New York City.

● 1953 - Pres. Eisenhower promises to fire and brand as a "Red" any federal worker taking the 5th amendment. {Yeah that constitution was quaint even in 1953.}

● 1958 - Anshai Emath Reform Jewish Temple in Peoria, Illinois is damaged by a crude bomb.

● 1958 - The U.S. conducts an underground nuclear weapon test at the Nevada Test Site.

● 1958 - The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.

● 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis begins: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed.

● 1964 - Leonid Brezhnev becomes general secretary of the CPSU and leader of the Soviet Union, ousting Nikita Khrushchev.

● 1964 - American civil rights movement leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. King is the second African-American to receive the prize.

● 1966 - The city of Montreal inaugurates the Montreal Metro.

● 1967 - Florence Beaumont burns herself to death in protest of Vietnam War.

● 1967 - Vietnam War: Folk singer Joan Baez is arrested in a blockade of the military induction center in Oakland, California.

● 1968 - Twenty-seven Presidio (San Francisco) soldiers arrested for peaceful protest of stockade conditions; long prison sentences are later reduced to two years.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: The United States Department of Defense announces that the United States Army and United States Marines will be sending about 24,000 troops back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours. {My oldest sibling, a Marine, having served an 18-month tour at this time was given his choice: 1. Get a 12-month rest Stateside and then another full 18-month tour back in Vietnam. OR 2. Extend for 13 months for a total of 31 months in country with a guarantee of no further tours. He chose the second and still came back a broken and changed person.}

● 1968 - First live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft Apollo 7.

● 1968 - A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby.

● 1969 - The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of the decimalisation of the currency in 1971.

● 1973 - Thailand's University Students protest for a democratic government; 77 are killed and 857 injured.

● 1976 - General strike in Canada. 189,000 workers participate in a National Day of Protest called by the Canadian Labour Council against wage controls and excessive commercialization of Hockey Night in Canada.

● 1978 - First TV movie from a TV series--"Rescue from Gilligan's Island." At the end, they were somehow marooned again, but no sequel was ever made. {Thank whatever god you worship for this small miracle.}

● 1979 - The first Gay Rights March on Washington, D.C. demands "an end to all social, economic, judicial, and legal oppression of lesbian and gay people," draws 200,000 people.

● 1981 - Citing official misconduct in the investigation and trial, Amnesty International charges the U.S. government with holding Richard Marshall of the American Indian Movement as a political prisoner.

● 1981 - Dock workers in Darwin, Australia, begin seven-day strike, refusing to load uranium on board "Pacific Sky" for eventual use by U.S. military. After a week, the ship is forced to leave without its cargo.

● 1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak is elected President of Egypt one week after Anwar Sadat was assassinated. {He ran unopposed, which is no election at all.}

● 1982 - England - Lancashire County Council bans hunting on its land.

● 1982 - Direct Action blows up Litton Systems plant in Toronto, Canada.

● 1982 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

● 1985 - Mass demonstration against nuclear power, Bonn, West Germany.

● 1988 - 500 arrested in a blockade of Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Rockville, Maryland, to protest delays and underfunding in AIDS research.

● 1991 - Burmese opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi wins Nobel Peace Prize. Deposed by a brutal, genocidal military regime after winning the presidency in a democratic election, she was, and remains, under house arrest.

● 1994 - Loyalist paramilitaries begin ceasefire, Northern Ireland.

● 1994 - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

● 1996 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.62 to 6,010.00, closing above 6,000 for the first time ever.

● 1998 - Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with 6 bombings including the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, Georgia.


BIRTHS

● 1257 - King Przemysl II of Poland (d. 1296)

● 1493 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (d. 1568)

● 1499 - Claude of France, wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)

● 1574 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1619)

● 1630 - Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony (d. 1714)

● 1633 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (d. 1701)

● 1643 - Bahadur Shah I, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1712)

● 1644 - William Penn, English founder of Pennsylvania (d. 1718)

● 1687 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)

● 1712 - George Grenville, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1770)

● 1726 - Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, English sailor and politician (d. 1813)

● 1733 - François Sebastien Charles Joseph de Croix, Count of Clerfayt, Austrian field marshal (d. 1798)

● 1784 - King Ferdinand VII of Spain (d. 1833)

● 1801 - Joseph Plateau, Belgian physicist (d. 1883)

● 1806 - Preston King, U.S. Senator from New York (d. 1865)

● 1842 - Joe Start, American baseball player (d. 1927)

● 1861 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (d. 1944)

● 1869 - Joseph Duveen, British art dealer (d. 1939)

● 1873 - Ray Ewry, American athlete (d. 1937)

● 1873 - Jules Rimet, president of FIFA (d. 1954)

● 1882 - Eamon de Valera, Irish politician and patriot (d. 1975)

● 1882 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (d. 1959)

● 1888 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (d. 1923)

● 1890 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. general and 34th President of the United States (d. 1969)

● 1892 - Sumner Welles, American diplomat (d. 1961)

● 1893 - Lillian Gish, American actress (d. 1993)

● 1894 - E. E. Cummings, American poet (d. 1962)

● 1900 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer (d. 1970)

● 1902 - Learco Guerra, Italian cyclist (d. 1963)

● 1904 - Christian Pineau, French World War II resistance fighter (d. 1995)

● 1906 - Hannah Arendt, German political theorist and writer (d. 1975)

● 1906 - Imam Hassan al Banna, Egyptian founder of the Muslim Brotherhood (d. 1949)

● 1908 - Ruth Hale, American playwright and actress (d. 2003)

● 1908 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (d. 1992)

● 1909 - Bernd Rosemeyer, German racecar driver (d. 1938)

● 1909 - Dorothy Kingsley, American screenwriter (d. 1996)

● 1910 - John Wooden, American basketball player and coach

● 1911 - Le Duc Tho, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1990)

● 1914 - Raymond Davis Jr., American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2006)

● 1914 - Dick Durrance, American skier (d. 2004)

● 1914 - Harry Brecheen, American baseball player (d. 2004)

● 1916 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General

● 1918 - Marcel Chaput, French Canadian politician (d. 1991)

● 1926 - Bill Justis, American saxophonist and composer (d. 1982)

● 1927 - Roger Moore, English actor

● 1928 - Frank E. Resnik, American business executive (d. 1995)

● 1929 - Yvon Durelle, Canadian boxer (d. 2007)

● 1930 - Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire (d. 1997)

● 1931 - Nikhil Banerjee, Indian classical musician (d. 1986)

● 1932 - Anatoly Larkin, Russian-American physicist (d. 2005)

● 1932 - Enrico di Giuseppe, American tenor (d. 2005)

● 1935 - La Monte Young, American composer

● 1938 - John W. Dean III, Watergate figure

● 1938 - Empress Farah Diba of Iran

● 1938 - Ron Lancaster, American-born Canadian football player and coach

● 1939 - Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer

● 1939 - Rocky Thompson, American golfer

● 1940 - Perrie Mans, South African snooker player

● 1940 - Cliff Richard, English singer

● 1940 - Christopher Timothy, British actor

● 1941 - Art Shamsky, American baseball player

● 1944 - Udo Kier, German actor

● 1945 - Colin Hodgkinson, English musician (Whitesnake)

● 1946 - Justin Hayward, English musician (Moody Blues)

● 1946 - James Robert "Radio" Kennedy, American football coach

● 1946 - Craig Venter, American biologist

● 1946 - Al Oliver, American baseball player

● 1946 - Dan McCafferty, Scottish musician (Nazareth)

● 1947 - Lukas Resetarits, Austrian cabaret artist

● 1948 - Harry Anderson, American actor

● 1948 - David Ruprecht, American game show host

● 1949 - Katy Manning, English/Australian actress

● 1949 - Katha Pollitt, American writer

● 1952 - Nikolai Andrianov, Soviet gymnast

● 1953 - Shelley Ackerman, American astrologer, writer, singer

● 1954 - Carole Malone, English newspaper columnist

● 1957 - Michel Després, Quebec politician

● 1958 - Thomas Dolby, English musician

● 1960 - Steve Cram, English athlete

● 1961 - Isaac Mizrahi American fashion designer

● 1962 - Jaan Ehlvest, Estonian chess player

● 1963 - Yim Jae-beom, South Korean singer

● 1963 - Lori Petty, American actress

● 1964 - Olu Oguibe, American artist

● 1964 - Joe Girardi, American baseball player

● 1964 - Jim Rome, American sport talk show host

● 1965 - Jüri Jaanson, Estonian rower

● 1965 - Constantine Koukias, Australian composer

● 1965 - Steve Coogan, English actor

● 1965 - Karyn White, American singer

● 1967 - Pat Kelly, American baseball player

● 1967 - Sylvain Lefebvre, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1967 - Stephen A. Smith, American sports journalist

● 1968 - Matthew Le Tissier, English footballer

● 1968 - Johnny Goudie, American musician

● 1969 - David Strickland, American actor (d. 1999)

● 1969 - P.J. Brown, American basketball player

● 1970 - Jim Jackson, American basketball player

● 1970 - Daniela Peštová, Czech supermodel

● 1970 - Jon Seda, Puerto Rican actor

● 1971 - Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer

● 1971 - Antonios Nikopolidis, Greek footballer

● 1974 - Natalie Maines, American musician (Dixie Chicks)

● 1974 - Jessica Drake, American porn star

● 1974 - Joseph Utsler, American musician

● 1975 - Floyd Landis, American cyclist

● 1975 - Shaznay Lewis, English singer (All Saints)

● 1976 - Nataša Kejžar, Slovenian swimmer

● 1976 - Henry Mateo, Dominican baseball player

● 1976 - Ben Pridmore, World Memory Champion

● 1977 - Kelly Schumacher, Canadian basketball player

● 1977 - Bianca Beauchamp, adult model

● 1977 - Jonathan Kerrigan, English actor

● 1978 - Justin Brannan, American musician, writer

● 1978 - Ryan Church, American baseball player

● 1978 - Paul Hunter, English snooker player (d. 2006)

● 1978 - Usher, American singer and actor

● 1978 - Javon Walker, American football player

● 1979 - Stacy Keibler, American professional wrestler

● 1980 - Terrence McGee, American football player

● 1980 - Paul Ambrosi, Ecuadorian footballer

● 1983 - Vanessa Lane, American porn star

● 1984 - LaRon Landry, American football player

● 1985 - Digão, Brazilian footballer

● 1985 - Daniel Clark, Canadian actor

● 1985 - Sherlyn González, Mexican actress

● 1985 - Alexandre Sarnes Negrão, Brazilian racing driver

● 1986 - Tom Craddock, English footballer

● 1986 - Skyler Shaye, American actress

● 1988 - MacKenzie Mauzy, American actress

● 1988 - Max Thieriot, American actor


DEATHS

● 1066 - Harold Godwinson, King of England

● 1092 - Nizam al-Mulk, Persian vizier (b. 1018)

● 1256 - Kujo Yoritsugu, Japanese shogun (b. 1239)

● 1318 - Edward Bruce, High King of Ireland

● 1552 - Oswald Myconius, Swiss Protestant reformer (b. 1488)

● 1565 - Thomas Chaloner, English statesman and poet (b. 1521)

● 1568 - Jacques Arcadelt, Flemish composer

● 1610 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)

● 1619 - Samuel Daniel, English poet (b. 1562)

● 1637 - Gabriello Chiabrera, Italian poet (b. 1552)

● 1660 - Thomas Harrison, English Puritan soldier (b. 1606)

● 1669 - Antonio Cesti, Italian composer (b. 1623)

● 1703 - Thomas Hansen Kingo, Danish poet (b. 1634)

● 1711 - Tewoflos, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1708)

● 1758 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (b. 1696)

● 1831 - Jean-Louis Pons, French astronomer (b. 1761)

● 1911 - John Marshall Harlan, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1833)

● 1944 - Erwin Rommel, German field marshall (b. 1891)

● 1958 - Douglas Mawson, Australian Antarctic explorer (b. 1882)

● 1959 - Errol Flynn, Australian actor (b. 1909)

● 1960 - Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist (b. 1880)

● 1961 - Paul Ramadier, French politician (b. 1888)

● 1961 - Harriet Shaw Weaver, English political activist (b. 1876)

● 1967 - Marcel Aymé, French novelist and playwright (b. 1902)

● 1973 - Edmund A. Chester, American broadcaster and journalist (b. 1897)

● 1976 - Dame Edith Evans, English actress (b. 1888)

● 1977 - Bing Crosby, American singer and actor (b. 1903)

● 1983 - Willard Price, Canadian author and naturalist

● 1984 - Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics (b. 1918)

● 1985 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (b. 1916)

● 1986 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (b. 1916)

● 1990 - Leonard Bernstein, American composer and conductor (b. 1918)

● 1997 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (b. 1915)

● 1998 - Cleveland Amory, American writer and animal rights activist (b. 1917)

● 1998 - Frankie Yankovic, American musician (b. 1916)

● 1999 - Julius Nyerere, Tanzanian politician (b. 1922)

● 2002 - Norbert Schultze, American composer and songwriter (Lili Marleen) (b. 1911)

● 2003 - Patrick Dalzel-Job, English soldier and inspiration for James Bond (b. 1913)

● 2006 - Freddy Fender, American musician (b. 1937)

● 2006 - Jared Anderson, American death metal bassist (b. 1975)

● 2006 - Gerry Studds, Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts (b. 1937)

● 2006 - Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (b. 1919)

● 2007 - Big Moe, American Rapper (b. 1974)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Angadrisma
● St. Pope Callistus I

● French Republican Calendar - Navet (Turnip) Day, twenty-third day in the Month of Vendémiaire

● Chişinău's (Republic of Moldova's capital) - national holiday (known as "Hramul Oraşului" by locals).

● Teachers' Day, or National Education Day in Poland



THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING FIVE SOURCES. A COMPLETE POST IS PLANNED AS SOON AS TIME ALLOWS.

Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.

Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.

Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004

Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004


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