December 5, 2006


"It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory."



With glamour girls
You'll never click
Bewhiskered
Like a
Bolshevik
Burma Shave
1940


Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
-- Milton Friedman





THE REVOLUTION
  • January 3, 1781 - Mutiny among Americans in New Jersey as troops from Pennsylvania set up camp near Princeton and choose their own representatives to negotiate with state officials back in Pennsylvania. The crisis is eventually resolved through negotiations, but over half of the mutineers abandon the army.
  • January 17, 1781 - An American victory at Cowpens, South Carolina, as Gen. Daniel Morgan defeats British Gen. Tarleton.
  • January 20, 1781 - Mutiny among American troops at Pompton, New Jersey. The rebellion is put down seven days later by a 600-man force sent by Gen. Washington. Two of the leaders are then hanged.
  • March 15, 1781 - Forces under Gen. Cornwallis suffer heavy losses in the Battle of Guilford Courthouse in North Carolina. As a result, Cornwallis abandons plans to conquer the Carolinas and retreats to Wilmington, then begins a campaign to conquer Virginia with an army of 7500 men.
    • THE HISTORY PLACE


    If you try you may fail, if you don't try you're guaranteed to fail.
    Jesse Jackson



    PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Franklin D Roosevelt Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television.
    Franklin D Roosevelt 1933-1945



    Under what conditions would a rope be most likely to break?

    a. 20 men of equal strength with 10 pulling on each end.
    b. 10 of the same men pulling on one end and the other end being fastened to a tree.
    c. It makes no difference.



    Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.



    There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged.
    1735


    Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
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