Daily Archives: July 4, 2007

No Joy

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gaius

This is not something I take any pleasure in reporting. Al Gore III, the son of the former vice president and current climate Cassandra hysteric has been arrested for possession of drugs. He was arrested after getting caught screaming down … Continue reading →

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Vicksburg

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gaius

On July 4, 1863 Confederate Lt. General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi to Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant, effectively surrendering control of the Mississippi River. The Confederacy was cut in two. At 8 a.m. on … Continue reading →

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Bearing Bad News

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gaius

The warlords of the Animal Uprising™ are sending waves of bears to invade cities all across the country. Authorities in Fayetteville, Arkansas managed to capture one of them. FAYETTEVILLE — A black bear was tranquilized and captured by Game & … Continue reading →

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Kitty Genovese For The New Millennium

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gaius

Actually, this case from Wichita, Kansas makes the 38 witnesses to the Kitty Genovese murder look good. Those people did nothing while a madman stabbed Kitty Genovese to death. That's bad. But the witnesses in Wichita actually did something. That … Continue reading →

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Ethanol And Debt Slavery

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gaius

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said "Well, a-bless my soul" You load … Continue reading →

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When In The Course Of Human Events

Posted on July 4, 2007 by Gaius

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> < !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one … Continue reading →

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