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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

November 20......

November 20 is the 324th (325th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 41 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Marriage "I learnt [sic] a long time ago that the only two people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it." — Hillary Rodham Clinton

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Let Then Eat Cake or Leave No Millionaire Behind "You and I are driving cars. Why should we pay for Amtrak?" — Rep. Jay Kim (R-CA), a member of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, objecting to the Clinton Administration transportation bill (the National Economic Crossroads Transportation Efficiency Act) for its provision to use some Highway Trust Fund money for Amtrak. Asra Q. Nomani, "Highway Bill's Amtrak Funds Upset Many," Wall Street Journal, 3-13-97.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "If a cricketer suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat—which he could do very easily—I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?" — Prince Philip, reacting to proposals to ban firearms

{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

Earthrise from Moon-Orbiting Kaguya


Credit & Copyright: SELENE Team, JAXA, NHK
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation


EVENTS

● 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor.

● 762 - Bögü, Khan of the Uyghurs, conquers Lo-Yang, capital of the Chinese Empire.

● 1194 - Palermo is conquered by Emperor Henry VI.

● 1407 - A solemn truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.

● 1490 - Joanot Martorell's book Tirant lo Blanc is published for the first time.

● 1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.

● 1700 - Great Northern War: Battle of Narva - King Charles XII of Sweden defeats the army of Tsar Peter the Great at Narva.

● 1789 - New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

● 1816 - First use of the term "scab," by the Albany (N.Y.) Typographical Society.

● 1817 - Attack by settlers on Florida Indians starts Seminole Wars, during which Gen. Andrew Jackson invades Spanish East Florida.

● 1820 - An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America (Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story).

● 1858 - Birth of Selma Lagerlif. In 1909 the first woman writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

● 1861 - Secession ordinance filed by Kentucky's Confederate government.

● 1884 - Birth of American socialist and CIA informant Norman Thomas, Marion, Ohio.

● 1894 - U.S. intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua to "protect U.S. Interests."

● 1896 - Birth of Rose Pesotta. Labor activist, the only woman on the General Executive Board of the International Ladies' Garment Workers (ILGWU) from 1933-1944, but returned to organizing, her real passion. Active in the defense of the anarchists Sacco and Venzetti.

● 1902 - Henri Desgrange and fellow journalist Géo Lefèvre dream up the idea of the Tour de France over lunch at the Café de Madrid in Paris.

● 1910 - Birth of Pauli Murray. Lawyer/author, also a powerful theologian and the first African-American woman priest to be ordained in the Episcopal Church.

● 1910 - Leo Tolstoy, 82, author, Christian, anarchist, pacifist (and Gandhi's inspiration) dies of pneumonia contracted when he flees from his wife of 48 years and heads for the Caucasus, accompanied only by his doctor and his youngest daughter Alexandra. Astapovo train station, Russia.

● 1910 - Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosi, denouncing President Porfirio Díaz, declaring himself president, and calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution. It is revolution of people against poverty and dictatorship.

● 1916 - James Guillaume dies. Anarchist militant and historian of the International.

● 1917 - Ukraine is declared a republic.

● 1917 - World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins - British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.

● 1923 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion Papiermark

● 1934 - Plan by Wall Street financiers to set up fascist regime in U.S. made public.

● 1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish Anarchist, shot in the lung yesterday, dies. Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over 200,000 people. All his belongings when he died were a few clothes, two pistols, sunglasses, and a pair of binoculars.

● 1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.

● 1940 - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.

● 1943 - World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins - United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.

● 1945 - Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.

● 1951 - W.E.B. DuBois, a chief advocate of the Stockholm Peace Appeal (to ban atomic weapons), tried unsuccessfully in U.S. federal court as a "foreign agent," is released.

● 1952 - Slánský trials - a series of Stalinist and anti-Semitic show trials in Czechoslovakia.

● 1955 - Bo Diddley becomes the first African American performer to appear on The Ed Sullivan Show. Apparently Sullivan was infuriated when Diddley sang his self-titled song instead of Tennessee Ernie Ford's hit, "Sixteen Tons".

● 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union's agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

● 1962 - U.S.-U.S.S.R. mutual withdrawal ends Cuban missile crisis.

● 1963 - United Nations issues declaration on ending racial discrimination.

● 1965 - Twenty thousand march against Vietnam War, Berkeley, California.

● 1968 - Vietnam War: Eleven men comprising a Long Range Patrol team from F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st Airborne are surrounded and nearly wiped out by North Vietnamese army regulars from the 4th and 5th Regiment. The seven wounded survivors are rescued after several hours by an impromptu force made of other men from their unit.

● 1969 - Alcatraz Island occupied by 78 Native Americans.

● 1969 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

● 1974 - The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T. This suit later leads to the break up of AT&T and its Bell System.

● 1975 - Francisco Franco, Caudillo of Spain dies after 36 years in power. He died, symbolically, on the 39th anniversary of the death of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera

● 1977 - Louis Mercier-Vega dies. Anarcho-syndicalist, propagandist, libertarian thinker who joined the movement at 16.

● 1978 - Guyanese troops found the bodies of over 900 people, mostly Americans, who, along with leader Jim Jones, committed suicide in a bizarre cult ritual.

● 1979 - Grand Mosque Seizure: About 200 Sunni Muslims revolt in Saudi Arabia at the site of the Kaaba in Mecca during the pilgrimage and take about 6000 hostages in the Kaaba. The Saudi government received help from French special forces to put down the uprising.

● 1983 - German opposition Social Democratic Party opposes Cruise missile. Meanwhile, back in England, the Cruise has just been deployed.

● 1983 - In the U.S., an estimated 100 million people watch the controversial made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting a nuclear war and its effects on the United States. {Most of the controversy is hype to get people to watch the program, the show is just so much fluff.}

● 1984 - SETI is founded.

● 1987 - SANE and FREEZE merge at their first combined convention in Cleveland, becoming the largest U.S. peace organization.

● 1989 - Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million.

● 1992 - In England, a fire breaks out in the Private Chapel room of Windsor Castle, rages for 15 hours, and seriously damages the northwest side of the building (an investigation found that the fire was ignited after a spotlight came into contact with a curtain over an extended period).

● 1993 - Alliance for Animals members protest at Wisconsin's Devils Lake State Park on the opening day of deer-hunting season. The activists spent part of last night hiking through woods in the area so their scent would scare deer away from the macho killing ritual.

● 1993 - An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashed near Ohrid, Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. On landing the aircraft crashed into Mount Trojani near Ohrid. All eight crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers were killed.

● 1993 - Savings and Loan scandal: The United States Senate Ethics Committee issues a stern censure of California senator Alan Cranston for his "dealings" with savings-and-loan executive Charles Keating. {Many forget McCain of Arizona is Keating stooge as well.}

● 1994 - The Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign the Lusaka Protocol in Zambia, ending 19 years of civil war (localized fighting resumed the next year).

● 1995 - Native Hawai'ian activist John Marsh is acquitted in Honolulu of tax evasion charges, using the defense that since the U.S. illegally colonized Hawai'i in 1898, the islanders' descendants are not legally subject to U.S. taxation.

● 1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

● 1998 - The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.

● 2001 - In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

● 2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.


BIRTHS

● 270 - Maximinus, Roman Emperor (d. 313)

● 1602 - Otto von Guericke, German physicist (d. 1686)

● 1620 - Peregrine White, first English child born in the Plymouth Colony (d. 1704)

● 1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer (d. 1682)

● 1625 - Paulus Potter, Dutch painter (d. 1654)

● 1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)

● 1750 - Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler (d. 1799)

● 1761 - Pope Pius VIII (d. 1830)

● 1762 - Pierre André Latreille, French entomologist (d. 1833)

● 1765 - Sir Thomas Fremantle, British naval captain (d. 1819)

● 1781 - Karl Friedrich Eichhorn, German jurist (d. 1854)

● 1839 - Christian Wilberg, German painter (d. 1882)

● 1841 - Victor D'Hondt, Belgian mathematician (d. 1901)

● 1841 - Wilfrid Laurier, seventh Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1919)

● 1851 - Queen Margherita of Italy (d. 1926)

● 1858 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)

● 1864 - Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Swedish writer (d. 1931)

● 1866 - Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American judge (d. 1944)

● 1869 - Clark Griffith, Baseball manager (d. 1955)

● 1880 - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)

● 1884 - Norman Thomas, American social reformer (d. 1968)

● 1886 - Karl von Frisch, Austrian zoologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1982)

● 1889 - Edwin Hubble, American astronomer (d. 1953)

● 1896 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer (d. 1977)

● 1900 - Chester Gould, creator of comic strips (Dick Tracy) (d. 1985)

● 1903 - Alexandra Danilova, Russian ballerina (d. 1997)

● 1903 - Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist (d. 1981)

● 1907 - Fran Allison, American , early television personality, (Kukla, Fran and Ollie) (d. 1989)

● 1907 - Henri-Georges Clouzot, French film director (d. 1977)

● 1908 - Alistair Cooke, British-born journalist (d. 2004)

● 1910 - Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (d. 1944)

● 1912 - Otto von Habsburg, Austrian royal

● 1913 - Judy Canova, American actress (d. 1983)

● 1914 - Emilio Pucci, Italian fashion designer (d. 1992)

● 1915 - Kon Ichikawa, iconic Japanese film director

● 1917 - Robert Byrd, American politician

● 1917 - Bobby Locke, South African golfer (d. 1987)

● 1919 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress

● 1921 - Jim Garrison, American district attorney and judge (d. 1992)

● 1921 - Phyllis Thaxter, American actress

● 1923 - Nadine Gordimer, South African writer, Nobel laureate

● 1924 - Benoît Mandelbrot, Polish-born French mathematician

● 1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (d. 1968)

● 1925 - Maya Plisetskaya, Russian ballet dancer

● 1926 - Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-born endocrinologist, Nobel laureate

● 1926 - Kaye Ballard, American comic actress

● 1927 - Estelle Parsons, American actress

● 1928 - Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor

● 1928 - John Disley, Welsh athlete

● 1932 - Richard Dawson, British actor and game show host

● 1936 - Don DeLillo, American author

● 1937 - René Kollo, German tenor

● 1937 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist (d. 2005)

● 1937 - Eero Mäntyranta, Finnish cross-country skier

● 1937 - Viktoriya Tokareva, Russian playwright

● 1939 - Dick Smothers, American comedian

● 1940 - Bob Einstein, American actor

● 1941 - Haseena Moin, Pakistani television drama writer and Urdu playwright

● 1942 - Joe Biden, American politician

● 1942 - Meredith Monk, American composer, performer, director, vocalist, film-maker, and choreographer

● 1942 - Norman Greenbaum, American singer

● 1943 - Veronica Hamel, American actress

● 1944 - Louie Dampier, American basketball player

● 1945 - Nanette Workman, American-born Canadian singer and actress

● 1945 - Rick Monday, Major League Baseball player

● 1946 - Duane Allman, American guitarist. (Allman Brothers) (d. 1971)

● 1946 - Greg Cook, American football player

● 1947 - Joe Walsh, American musician

● 1948 - John R. Bolton, American ambassador

● 1948 - Barbara Hendricks, American-born singer

● 1948 - Richard Masur, American actor

● 1949 - Thelma Drake, American politician

● 1951 - David Walters, American politician

● 1952 - John Van Boxmeer, National Hockey League player

● 1954 - Berit Andnor, Swedish politician

● 1954 - Steve Dahl, American radio personality

● 1956 - Bo Derek, American actress

● 1956 - Mark Gastineau, American football player

● 1959 - James P. McGovern, American politician

● 1959 - Sean Young, American actress

● 1961 - Dave Watson, English footballer

● 1961 - Tim Harvey, British racing driver

● 1963 - Timothy Gowers, British mathematician

● 1963 - Ming-Na Wen, Macau-born actress

● 1965 - Mike D, American musician (Beastie Boys)

● 1965 - Yoshiki Hayashi, Japanese musician (X Japan)

● 1966 - Kevin Gilbert, American musician (d. 1996)

● 1967 - Teoman, Turkish rock singer

● 1967 - Chris Childs, American basketball player

● 1969 - Callie Thorne, American actor

● 1970 - Matt Blunt, American politician

● 1970 - Delia Gonzalez, American boxer

● 1971 - Joey Galloway, American football wide receiver

● 1971 - Joel McHale, American actor and comedian

● 1972 - Sheema Kalbasi, Iranian born poet

● 1975 - Dierks Bentley, American singer

● 1975 - Davey Havok, singer (AFI)

● 1975 - J. D. Drew, American baseball player

● 1976 - Dominique Dawes, American gymnast

● 1976 - Theodoros Velkos, bandminton player

● 1977 - Josh Turner, American singer

● 1977 - Rudy Charles, American professional wrestling referee

● 1978 - Nadine Velazquez, American actress and model

● 1978 - Ryan Leslie, American singer/songwriter

● 1978 - Freya Lin, Taiwanese singer

● 1979 - Ericson Alexander Molano, Colombian gospel singer

● 1980 - James Chambers, English footballer

● 1981 - Kimberley Walsh, English singer (Girls Aloud)

● 1981 - Carlos Boozer, American basketball player

● 1982 - Margo Stilley, American actress

● 1984 - Ferdinando Monfardini, Italian racing driver

● 1984 - Justin Hoyte, English footballer

● 1985 - Juan Cruz Álvarez, Argentine racing driver

● 1986 - Aaron Yan, Taiwanese singer and actor

● 1986 - Jared Followill, American bassist (Kings of Leon)

● 1989 - Cody Linley, American actor

● 1999 - Princess Sofia of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family

● 1999 - Prince Umberto of Bulgaria, titular Bulgarian royal family


DEATHS

● 870 - King Edmund of East Anglia

● 1316 - King John I of France (d. 1316)

● 1437 - Thomas Langley, bishop of Durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)

● 1518 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier

● 1518 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer

● 1529 - Karl von Miltitz, papal nuncio

● 1591 - Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)

● 1612 - John Harington, English writer (b. 1561)

● 1651 - Mikołaj Potocki, Polish soldier (b. 1595)

● 1662 - Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands (b. 1614)

● 1695 - Zumbi, Brazilian runaway slave

● 1704 - Charles Plumier, French botanist (b. 1646)

● 1737 - Caroline of Ansbach, Queen of George II of Great Britain (b. 1683)

● 1742 - Melchior de Polignac, French diplomat (b. 1661)

● 1758 - Johan Helmich Roman, Swedish composer (b. 1694)

● 1764 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (b. 1690)

● 1778 - Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit scientist (b. 1726)

● 1856 - Farkas Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1775)

● 1894 - Anton Rubinstein, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1829)

● 1908 - Georgy Voronoy, Russian mathematician (b. 1868)

● 1910 (N.S.) - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist (b. 1828)

● 1925 - Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom (b. 1844)

● 1934 - Willem de Sitter, Dutch scientist (b. 1872)

● 1936 - Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist (b. 1896)

● 1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad. (b. 1903)

● 1938 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)

● 1945 - Francis William Aston, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1877)

● 1950 - Francesco Cilea, Italian composer (b. 1866)

● 1954 - Clyde Vernon Cessna, aviation pioneer (Cessna) (b. 1879)

● 1957 - Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, Russian-Lithuanian artist (d. 1875)

● 1973 - Allan Sherman, American comedian (b. 1924)

● 1975 - Francisco Franco, Head of State of Spain (1936-1975) (b. 1892)

● 1976 - Trofim Lysenko, Stalinist biologist (b. 1898)

● 1978 - Vasilisk Gnedov, Russian poet (b. 1890)

● 1980 - John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1900)

● 1983 - Marcel Dalio, French actor (b. 1900)

● 1994 - John Lucarotti, TV writer (b. 1926)

● 1995 - Sergei Grinkov, Russian Olympic and World Figure Skating Champion (b. 1967)

● 1997 - Dick Littlefield, baseball player (b. 1926)

● 1998 - Galina Starovoitova, Russian politician (b. 1946)

● 1999 - Amintore Fanfani, Italian politician and prime minister (b. 1908)

● 2000 - Mike Muuss, American computer programmer (b. 1958)

● 2000 - Kalle Päätalo, Finnish writer (b. 1919)

● 2003 - Robert Addie, British actor (cancer) (b. 1960)

● 2003 - David Dacko, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1930)

● 2003 - Eugene Kleiner, American entrepreneur (b. 1923)

● 2003 - Roger Short, British Consulate General (b. 1944)

● 2003 - Jim Siedow, American actor (b. 1920)

● 2003 - Kerem Yilmazer, Turkish actor (b. 1945)

● 2003 - Loris Azzaro, French fashion designer (b. 1933)

● 2004 - David Grierson, Canadian radio host (b. 1955)

● 2004 - Jenny Ross, English musician (Section 25) (b. 1962)

● 2005 - Manouchehr Atashi, Iranian poet (b. 1931)

● 2005 - Sheldon Gardner, American psychologist (b. 1934)

● 2005 - James King, American singer (b. 1925)

● 2005 - Chris Whitley, American musician (b. 1960)

● 2006 - Robert Altman, American film director (b. 1925)

● 2006 - Andre Waters, American football player (b. 1962)

● 2006 - Zoia Ceauşescu, Romanian mathematician (b. 1950)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agapius
● St. Ampelus
● St. Autbodus
● St. Bassus and Companions
● St. Benignus
● St. Bernward
● St. Dasius
● St. Edmund Rich
● St. Edmund the Martyr
● St. Eudo
● St. Eval
● St. Felix of Valois
● St. Francis Xavier Can
● St. Leo of Nonantula
● St. Maxentia
● St. Nerses
● Sts. Octavius, Solutor, and Adventor

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 7 (Civil Date: November 20)
● Holy 33 Martyrs of Melitene: Hieron, Hesychius, Nicander, Athanasius, Mamas, Barachius, Callinicus, Theogenes, Nicon, Longinus, Theodore, Valerius, Xanthius, Theodulus, Callimachus, Eugene, Theodochus, Ostrychius, Epiphanius, Maximian, Ducitius, Claudian, Theophilus, Gigantius, Dorotheus, Theodotus, Castrychius, Anicletus, Theomelius, Eutychius, Hilarion, Diodotus, and Amonitus.
● St. Lazarus the Wonderworker of Mt.
● Galesius near Ephesus.
● Martyrs Melasippus, Carina, their son Antoninus, and 40 children converted by their martyrdom, at Ancyra.
● Martyr Theodotus of Ancyra.
● St. Zosimas, abbot of Vorbozomsk.
● Translation of the Relics of St. Cyril, abbot of Novoezersk (Vologda).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Athenodorus.
● Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica.
● St. Gregory, brother of St. Gregory the Wonderworker.

● Anglican: Edmund the Martyr

● Brazil - Zumbi Day (since 1978)

● Brazil - Dia da Consciência Negra (Afro-Brazilian's Conscience Day)

● Mexico - Anniversary of the Revolution (1910)

● United Kingdom - wedding day of Queen Elizabeth II (1947), official flag day

● UNICEF - Universal Children's Day

● Vietnam - Teacher's Day (Ngày nhà giáo Việt Nam)

● Transgender Day of Remembrance (since 1999)



THIS IS AN ABBREVIATED POST FOR THIS DATE USING ONLY THE FOLLOWING SEVEN 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.

Roman Catholic Saint of the Day

Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar

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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