“We have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big important issues that matter to the American people without vitriol, without name calling, without the assumption of the worst in other people’s motives.”
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Barack Obama, accepting Joe Wilson’s apology. Since Obama is boringly reasonable about this sort of thing, I pretend that Rahm Emmanuel breaks a kneecap now and again when the press isn’t looking. (via squashed)
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC). The incident has already made his Wikipedia page, along with the link to the section of H.R. 3200 titled “No Federal Payment For Undocumented Aliens.”
[I find it] just inconceivable and truly incorrigible that in the midst of the war, the Democratic leaders would be conducting guerrilla warfare on American troops
James Luther “Jim” Dickinson, who was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and who died on August 15, at age sixty-eight, was a personality and talent of epic proportions. Read more and listen here. Photograph courtesy of Ardent Recording Studios, Memphis.
I love this photo. No really. Something about furniture outside makes me smile.
