01Aug11

Restaurant Patron (crossly)- “Waiter, what are those black specks in my milk?”
Waiter-“I dunno, suh—unlessen dey’s some ob dem vitamins dey’s talkin’ so much about,”


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1920, Mahatma Gandhi begins national campaign to rally the population of India to use passive resistance and disobedience against the occupying British colonialist government. He embarks on a trip to urge disobedience with courts, schools, government, and military service, and advocates boycotting of foreign goods. The action is prompted by an earlier massacre of Indians and is also a protest against strict British laws clamping down on political activities. During Sept, 4-9, the nationalist Indian Congress, inspired by Gandhi’s popular actions, commits itself to fighting for home rule.

1966, Charles Whitman takes a stockpile of guns and ammunition to the observatory platform atop a 300-foot tower at the University of Texas and proceeds to shoot 46 people, killing 14 people and wounding 31. A fifteenth died in 2001 because of his injuries. Whitman, who had killed both his wife and mother the night before, was eventually shot to death after courageous Austin police officers, including Ramiro Martinez, charged up the stairs of the tower to subdue the attacker.

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Ah Monday, and everybody is still waiting to see what Congress is going to do about the debt ceiling!!
What a joke.
The taxpayer no longer fears that Congress will let him down; he just hopes it will let him up.

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Here is another story about Abraham Lincoln past President of the United States

Douglas once thought to score off Lincoln by relating how,
when he first knew him, Lincoln was a "grocery-keeper," selling
among other things whiskey and cigars. "Mr. L.," said Douglas, "was
a very good bartender!" But the laugh was on the other side when
Lincoln made the following reply:
"What Mr. Douglas has said, gentlemen, is true enough;
I did keep a grocery, and I did sell cotton, candles and cigars,
and sometimes whiskey; but I remember in those days that
Mr. Douglas was one of my best customers. Many a time have
I stood on one side of the counter and sold whiskey to
Mr. Douglas on the other side, but the difference between
us now is this: I have left my side of the counter, but
Mr. Douglas still sticks to his as tenaciously as ever."