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Saturday, January 19, 2008
[1736 - James Watt, engineer, inventor, born in Greenock, Firth of Clyde, Scotland]
[1798 - Auguste Comte, philosopher, born in Montpellier, France]
[1807 - Robert E. Lee, Civil War Confederate General, born in Stratford, Virginia]
[1809 - Edgar Allan Poe, writer, poet, born in Boston, Massachusetts]
[1943 - Janis Joplin, singer, born in Port Arthur, Texas]
[1980 - William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice, dies at 81]
No Shame
Dear Mr. President,
There is no shame in being wrong.
There is no glory in it either.
William's Whimsical Words:
We are still waiting for you to clean up the mess you created in Iraq, the corruption in Washington, and the damage in New Orleans.
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