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Thursday, January 10, 2008

January 10......

January 10 is the 10th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 355 (356 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

Day of the week in surrounding years:
1977,1983,. . . .,1994,2000—MON—2005
1978,1984,1989,1995,. . . .—TUE—2006
1979,. . . .,1990,1996,2001—WED—2007
1980,1985,1991,. . . .,2002—THU—2008
. . . .,1986,1992,1997,2003—FRI—. . . .
1981,1987,. . . .,1998,2004—SAT—2009
1982,1988,1993,1999,. . . .—SUN—2010

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Women & Men "What is now called the nature of women is an eminently artificial thing—the result of forced repression in some directions, unnatural stimulation in others." — John Stuart Mill

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Clouded Crystal Ball "David Asman, Host: But, Rich, you don't want—you don't want to do these make-work programs, these phony government programs where they manufacture jobs.

Rich Karlgaard, Forbes Publisher: No. No. No. I'll tell you exactly what I would do. You know, when a white collar person loses his or her job, they become a consultant. So what I would do is give massive tax breaks to people who are establishing home offices and trying to become consultants. This is what we need to do . . .""Forbes on Fox," Fox News Channel, 9-6-03.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From the world of Sports "A nickel isn't worth a dime today." — Few sports figures—and indeed, few figures of any endeavor—have achieved the verbal notoriety of Lawrence "Yogi" Berra, former catcher of the New York Yankees. This is one of the indescribable utterances of Hall of Shame member #6.

{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.}


MOON PHASE

Berkeley, California—Times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)
Jan 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 6% Rise: 9:01 AM Set: 7:38 PM
Surprise, Arizona—Times are Mountain Standard Time (MST)
Jan 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 4% Age: 6% Rise: 9:13 AM Set: 8:03 PM
Iowa City, Iowa—Times are Central Standard Time (CST)
Jan 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 3% Age: 6% Rise: 9:05 AM Set: 7:21 PM
Cambridge, Massachusetts—Times are Eastern Standard Time (EST)
Jan 10, 2008 2:00 AM Name: Waxing Crescent Percent of Full: 3% Age: 6% Rise: 8:43 AM Set: 6:54 PM

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Active Galaxy Centaurus A


Credit: X-ray - NASA, CXC, R.Kraft (CfA), et al.; Radio - NSF, VLA, M.Hardcastle (U Hertfordshire) et al.; Optical - ESO, M.Rejkuba (ESO-Garching) et al.
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation



EVENTS

● 49 B.C.E. - Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.

● 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.

● 738 - The final (sixth) phase of the Ball Court at Copan is dedicated by Mayan ruler 18-Rabbit.

● 1072 - Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.

● 1475 - Stephen III of Moldavia defeats the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Vaslui.

● 1645 - Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London

● 1776 - Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" published, anonymously.

● 1806 - Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.

● 1855 - The remaining 88 people in the Clackamas band sign a treaty trading the best timberland in Oregon Territory for $500 and some food.

● 1859 - Birth of Spanish educator, anarchist, Francisco Ferrer, Alello, Spain. Murdered in a ditch by Spanish police.

● 1861 - American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.

● 1863 - The London Underground, the world's oldest underground railway, opens between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.

● 1870 - Against unanimous opposition of his cabinet, President Grant proposes to Congress that the Dominican Republic be annexed by the United States.

● 1880 - Funeral of Norton I, Emperor of the United States, in the Masonic Cemetery in San Francisco; the funeral cortege was two miles long -- between 10,000 and 30,000 people were reported to have attended.

● 1886 - Capt. E. Crawford's scouts surround and destroy Geronimo's camp at Nacori near the Aros River in Sonora, Mexico; Geronimo escapes.

● 1901 - The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.

● 1905 - First revolutionary strike of workers in St. Petersburg, Russia.

● 1914 - Labor organizer/folk singer Joe Hill allegedly kills two men during a grocery store hold-up; he will be hanged for the crime amid much controversy over being framed, Salt Lake City, Utah.

● 1917 - Congressional Union begins vigil for women's suffrage at the White House. The following summer, 97 women are jailed; some stage hunger strikes in jail.

● 1919 - Germany - Arrest of anarchist Erich Muhsam and 11 other radicals.

● 1920 - By a vote of 328-6, the House of Representatives refused to seat Victor Berger, duly elected Representative from Wisconsin, because he was a Socialist who vigorously opposed U.S. participation in World War I.

● 1920 - The League of Nations holds its first meeting and ratifies the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I.

● 1922 - Arthur Griffith, the founder of Sinn Fein and one of the architects of the historic 1921 peace treaty with Britain, is elected president of the newly established Irish Free State. With the outbreak of World War I, the British government delayed further discussion of Irish self-determination, and Irish nationalists responded by staging Dublin's Easter Uprising of 1916. In 1918, with the threat of conscription being imposed on the island, the Irish people gave Sinn Fein a majority in national elections and the party established an independent Irish parliament--Dail Eireann--which declared Ireland a sovereign republic.

● 1923 - Four years after the end of World War I, Pres. Warren G. Harding orders U.S. occupation troops stationed in Germany to return home.

● 1923 - Lithuania seizes and annexes Memel.

● 1933 - Spain - Rioting, bombings, and gunfighting continue throughout the country as the revolution spreads to the southern cities. Anarchists and syndicalists seige Barcelona.

● 1941 - Lend-Lease is introduced into the US Congress.

● 1941 - World War II: The Greek army captures Kleisoura.

● 1946 - The first General Assembly of the United Nations opens in London. Fifty-one nations are represented.

● 1950 - Clovis-Abel Pignat (alias "Tschombine Pategnon") dies. Anarcho-syndicalist, militant with FOBB (federation des ouvriers du bois et du betiment, en Suisse Romande).

● 1957 - Bombings of four Montgomery, Alabama, churches and two Negro leaders' homes.

● 1957 - Harold Macmillan becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom.

● 1961 - First black students enroll at Univ. of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, leading to riots the following day.

● 1962 - Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster. It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched every Apollo moon mission.

● 1967 - Lester Garfield Maddox, a restaurant owner who made national headlines for his opposition to desegregation, is sworn in as governor of Georgia. Maddox, a high school dropout, achieved notoriety in 1964 when he employed violence to drive African Americans from his Pickrick Restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia. In defiance of federal civil rights legislation calling for desegregation of restaurants and other public places, he passed out ax handles to white customers at his eatery to prevent its integration. Later in the year, he closed the establishment rather than be forced to serve African Americans.

● 1971 - Peoples' Peace Treaty between the peoples of U.S. and Vietnam endorsed by 130 organizations. Several million North Americans later sign.

● 1972 - Police kill four Black Muslims during gun battle in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

● 1984 - The US and the Vatican establish full diplomatic relations after 117 years.

● 1989 - Cuban troops begin withdrawing from Angola.

● 1992 - 29,000 bath toys owned by the American company First Days Inc. are washed overboard in the Pacific Ocean.

● 1994 - U.S. Supreme Court lets stand implementation of North American Free Trade Agreement despite lack of Environmental Impact Statement.

● 1995 - The World Youth Day was held in the Philippines.

● 1996 - Three thousand demonstrate and twelve arrested in protest of Newt Gingrich fundraising visit, Westin Hotel, Seattle. The protest is the first of what becomes a succession of protests at Gingrich appearances around the country, and marks the beginning of Newt's end.

● 1998 - Over 20,000 villagers from the Narmada Valley of central India occupy the partially built site of the new, World Bank-funded Maheshwar Dam.

● 1999 - A large piece of the chalk cliff at Beachy Head collapses into the sea.

● 2001 - Wikipedia starts as part of Nupedia. It becomes a separate site five days later.

● 2005 - A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, CA, killing 10 people, injuring many more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.

● 2005 - Eyre Peninsula Bushfire in South Australia kills nine and injures 113.

● 2008 - Unix time turning 1200000000 at 10:20PM - New Century in Unix World.


BIRTHS

● 1480 - Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands (d. 1530)

● 1538 - Louis of Nassau, Dutch general (d. 1574)

● 1573 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)

● 1607 - Isaac Jogues, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1646)

● 1628 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (d. 1687)

● 1638 - Nicolas Steno, Danish geologist (d. 1686)

● 1644 - Louis François, duc de Boufflers, French marshal (d. 1711)

● 1654 - Joshua Barnes, English scholar (d. 1712)

● 1702 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (d. 1762)

● 1715 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (d. 1775)

● 1721 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (d. 1740)

● 1729 - Lazzaro Spallanzani, Italian biologist (d. 1799)

● 1738 - Ethan Allen, American Revolution military leader (d. 1789)

● 1769 - Michel Ney, French marshal (d. 1815)

● 1797 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)

● 1810 - Jeremiah S. Black, American statesman (d. 1883)

● 1812 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)

● 1815 - Sir John Alexander Macdonald, First Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1891)

● 1828 - Herman Koeckemann, German Catholic prelate (d. 1892)

● 1840 - Louis Nazaire Bégin, French Canadian archbishop and cardinal (d. 1925)

● 1843 - Frank James, American outlaw (d. 1915)

● 1849 - Francisco Ferrer Guardia, Spanish free-thinker (d. 1909)

● 1836 - Charles Ingalls, father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1902)

● 1850 - John Wellborn Root, American architect (d. 1891)

● 1858 - Heinrich Zille, German illustrator and photographer (d. 1929)

● 1864 - Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia, son of Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich (d. 1931)

● 1865 - Mary Ingalls, sister of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d. 1928)

● 1869 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (d. 1916)

● 1873 - George Orton, Canadian athlete (d. 1958)

● 1873 - Jack O'Neill, Irish-born baseball player (d. 1935)

● 1883 - Francis X. Bushman, American actor (d. 1966)

● 1883 - Aleksei Nikolaevich Tolstoi, Russian writer (d. 1945)

● 1887 - Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d. 1962)

● 1890 - Grigory Landsberg, Russian physicist (d. 1957)

● 1903 - Barbara Hepworth, British sculptor (d. 1975)

● 1903 - Voldemar Väli, Estonian wrestler, Olympic medalist (d. 1997)

● 1903 - Violet Wilkey, American actress (d. 1976)

● 1904 - Ray Bolger, American actor/dancer (d. 1987)

● 1908 - Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (d. 1993)

● 1908 - Bernard Lee, British actor (d. 1981)

● 1912 - Maria Mandel, Camp leader at Auschwitz (d. 1948)

● 1913 - Gustáv Husák, President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1991)

● 1913 - Mehmet Shehu, Albanian politician (d. 1981)

● 1914 - Yu Kuo-hwa, former Premier of Taiwan (d. 2000)

● 1916 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004)

● 1916 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1917 - Jerry Wexler, American record producer

● 1918 - Arthur Chung, President of Guyana

● 1920 - Max Patkin, American baseball player (d. 1999)

● 1920 - Georges Marchal, French actor (d. 1997)

● 1921 - Rodger Ward, American race car driver (d. 2004)

● 1924 - Ludmilla Chiriaeff, Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer and director (Les Grands Ballets Canadiens) (d. 1996)

● 1924 - Max Roach, American percussionist, drummer, and composer (d. 2007)

● 1927 - Gisele MacKenzie, Canadian singer (d. 2003)

● 1927 - Johnnie Ray, American singer (d. 1990)

● 1927 - Otto Stich, Swiss politician

● 1928 - Philip Levine, American poet

● 1930 - Roy Edward Disney, American film executive

● 1931 - Peter Barnes, English writer (d. 2004)

● 1932 - Elaine Devry, American actress

● 1933 - Anton Rodgers, British actor (d. 2007)

● 1934 - Leonid Kravchuk, Ukrainian politician

● 1935 - Ronnie Hawkins, American musician, pioneering Rock And Roll Rockabilly Hall of Fame

● 1935 - Sherrill Milnes, American baritone

● 1936 - Stephen Ambrose, American historian (d. 2002)

● 1936 - Robert Woodrow Wilson, American physicist and radio astronomer, Nobel laureate

● 1937 - Thomas Penfield Jackson, American judge

● 1938 - Donald Knuth, American mathematician and computer scientist

● 1938 - Willie McCovey, American baseball player

● 1938 - Frank Mahovlich, Canadian ice hockey player and Canadian Senator

● 1939 - William Levy, Dutch writer

● 1939 - Sal Mineo, American actor (d. 1976)

● 1939 - Bill Toomey, American athlete

● 1939 - Scott McKenzie, American singer

● 1939 - Jared Carter, American poet

● 1940 - Guy Chevrette, Quebec politician

● 1940 - Ntare VI of Ankole, Omugabe of Nkole

● 1942 - Walter Hill, American film director

● 1943 - Jim Croce, American singer (d. 1973)

● 1944 - Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer

● 1944 - Rory Byrne, South African racing car designer

● 1944 - Bernard Derome, French Canadian news presenter (Le Téléjournal)

● 1945 - Jennifer Moss, English Actress (d. 2006)

● 1945 - Rod Stewart, Scottish singer

● 1945 - Edward Wiskoski, American professional wrestler

● 1947 - Afeni Shakur, mother of Tupac "2Pac" Shakur, member of the Black Panther Party

● 1948 - Donald Fagen, American keyboardist, singer and songwriter (Steely Dan)

● 1948 - Teresa Graves, American actress and singer (d. 2002)

● 1948 - Mischa Maisky, Latvian cellist

● 1948 - William Sanderson, American actor

● 1948 - Bernard Thévenet, French cyclist

● 1949 - George Foreman, American boxer

● 1949 - James Lapine, American stage director

● 1949 - Linda Lovelace, American pornographic actress (d. 2002)

● 1952 - Scott Thurston, American musician, songwriter

● 1953 - Pat Benatar, American singer

● 1953 - Dennis Cooper, American author

● 1953 - Bobby Rahal, American race car driver and race team owner

● 1955 - Michael Schenker, German guitarist (UFO)

● 1956 - Shawn Colvin, American singer

● 1956 - Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanish writer

● 1957 - Greg Walden, GOP U.S. House Of Representatives, Oregon

● 1958 - Anatoly Pisarenko, Soviet weightlifter

● 1959 - Fran Walsh, New Zealand screenwriter

● 1960 - Benoît Pelletier, Quebec politician

● 1961 - Evan Handler, American actor

● 1961 - Janet Jones, American actress; wife of Wayne Gretzky

● 1962 - Michael Fortier, Canadian politician

● 1963 - Mark Pryor, American politician

● 1964 - Brad Roberts, Canadian singer (Crash Test Dummies)

● 1965 - Butch Hartman, American animator

● 1970 - Marcus Bagwell, American professional wrestler

● 1970 - Alisa Maric, Serbian-American chess grandmaster

● 1972 - Thomas Alsgaard, Norwegian cross-country skier

● 1972 - Brian Lawler, American professional wrestler

● 1973 - Ryan Drummond, American voice actor

● 1973 - Glenn Robinson, American basketball player

● 1974 - Steve Marlet, French footballer

● 1974 - Hrithik Roshan, Indian actor

● 1974 - Akari Kaida, Japanese composer

● 1974 - Jemaine Clement, New Zealand actor

● 1975 - Jake Delhomme, American football player

● 1976 - Adam Kennedy, American baseball personality

● 1980 - Matt Roney, American baseball player

● 1981 - Brian Joo, Korean-American singer

● 1982 - Josh Ryan Evans, American actor (d. 2002)

● 1983 - Danilo Dirani, Brazilian racing driver

● 1983 - Li Nina, Chinese aerial free-style skier

● 1986 - Saleisha Stowers, American model

● 1987 - Anna Gorovits, Female Model/ American Singer


DEATHS

● 681 - Pope Agatho

● 976 - John I Tzimiskes, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 925)

● 1094 - Caliph Al-Mustansir of Cairo (b. 1029)

● 1276 - Pope Gregory X (bc. 1210)

● 1645 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1573)

● 1698 - Louis-Sébastien Le Nain de Tillemont, French historian (b. 1637)

● 1707 - Philibert, comte de Gramont, French writer (b. 1621)

● 1754 - Edward Cave, English editor and publisher (b. 1691)

● 1761 - Edward Boscawen, British admiral (b. 1711)

● 1775 - Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian rebel

● 1777 - Spranger Barry, Irish actor (b. 1719)

● 1778 - Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish botanist (b. 1707)

● 1794 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)

● 1811 - Marie-Joseph Chénier, French poet (b. 1764)

● 1828 - François de Neufchâteau, French statesman and intellectual figure (b. 1750)

● 1833 - Adrien-Marie Legendre, French mathematician (b. 1752)

● 1851 - Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)

● 1862 - Samuel Colt, American inventor (b. 1814)

● 1866 - Pyotr Pletnyov, Russian poet (b. 1792)

● 1883 - Dr Samuel A. Mudd, American medical doctor (b. 1833)

● 1895 - Benjamin Godard, French composer (b. 1849)

● 1904 - Jean-Léon Gérôme, French painter and sculptor (b. 1824)

● 1905 - Kārlis Baumanis, Latvian composer (b. 1835)

● 1917 - William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, American frontiersman (b. 1846)

● 1934 - Marinus van der Lubbe, Dutch communist accused of setting the Reichstag fire (b. 1909)

● 1941 - Frank Bridge, English composer (b. 1879)

● 1941 - Sir John Lavery, Northern Irish artist (b. 1856)

● 1941 - Joe Penner, Hungarian-born comedian and actor (b. 1904)

● 1949 - Erich von Drygalski, German geographer, geophysicist, and polar scientist (b. 1865)

● 1951 - Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)

● 1951 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)

● 1957 - Gabriela Mistral, Chilean writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1889)

● 1960 - Jack Laviolette, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1879)

● 1961 - Dashiell Hammett, American writer (b. 1894)

● 1970 - Pavel Belyayev, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1925)

● 1971 - Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (b. 1883)

● 1972 - Aksel Larsen, Danish politician (b. 1897)

● 1976 - Howlin' Wolf, American musician (b. 1910)

● 1978 - Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal, Nicaraguan journalist (b. 1924)

● 1980 - Hughie Critz, American baseball player (b. 1900)

● 1980 - George Meany, American labor leader (b. 1894)

● 1980 - Bo Rein, American college football coach (b. 1945)

● 1981 - Katherine Alexander, American actress (b. 1898)

● 1981 - Richard Boone, American actor (b. 1917)

● 1981 - Fawn M. Brodie, American historian (b. 1915)

● 1982 - Paul Lynde, American comedian (b. 1926)

● 1985 - Anton Karas, Austrian zither player and composer (b. 1906)

● 1986 - Jaroslav Seifert, Czech writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1901)

● 1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer and actress (b. 1919)

● 1987 - Sir David Robinson, British philanthropist and entrepreneur (b. 1904)

● 1989 - Herbert Morrison, American radio reporter (b. 1905)

● 1992 - Roberto Bonomi, Argentine racing driver (b. 1919)

● 1997 - Elspeth Huxley, British journalist and writer (b. 1907)

● 1997 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, and director (b. 1907)

● 1997 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907)

● 2000 - Sam Jaffe, American producer (b. 1901)

● 2002 - W.A. Criswell, American (Baptist) preacher (b. 1909)

● 2004 - Spalding Gray, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1941)

● 2004 - Alexandra Ripley, American author (b. 1934)

● 2005 - Gene Baylos, American comedian (b. 1906)

● 2005 - Margherita Carosio, Italian soprano (b. 1908)

● 2005 - Joséphine-Charlotte, Grandduchess of Luxembourg (b. 1927)

● 2005 - Metropolitan Wasyly Fedak, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (b. 1909)

● 2005 - James Forman, American civil rights leader (b. 1928)

● 2005 - Kalevi Hämäläinen, Finnish cross country skier (b. 1932)

● 2005 - Erwin Hillier, British cinematographer (b. 1911)

● 2005 - Gordon John "Jack" Horner, American sports journalist (b. 1912)

● 2007 - Carlo Ponti, Italian film producer (b. 1912)

● 2007 - Bradford Washburn, American explorer (b. 1910)


HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic:
● St. Dermot
● St. John Camillus the Good
● St. Marcian
● St. Nicanor
● St. Peter Orseolo, Doge of Venice
● St. Petronius
● St. Saethryth
● St. Thomian
● St. William of Bourges

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for December 28 (Civil Date: January 10)
● Afterfeast of the Nativity of Christ.
● The 20,000 Martyrs of Nicomedia, including: Glycerius and Zeno.
● Apostle Nicanor the Deacon.
● St. Ignatius, monk of Lomsk (Vologda).
● St. Simon the Myrrh gusher, founder of Simonopetra Monastery on Mt. Athos.
● St Babylas of Tarsus in Cilicia.
● New Martyr Nikodim, Bishop of Belgorod (1918).

● Greek Calendar:
● Martyr Secundus.
● Repose of Blessed Cornelius, monk of Krypets Monastery in Pskov (1903).

● Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic Church:
● St. Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa. Brother of St. Basil the Great

● Coptic Church:
● St. Obadiah

● Falkland Islands - Margaret Thatcher Day



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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