Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 06:26:22 -0800 From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com> Subject: Daily Bleed: 11/8 DOROTHY DAY Daily Bleed, full Ballot, http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/1108.htm Excerpts: For friendship make a chain that holds, to be bound to others, two by two, a walk, a garland handed by hands that cannot move unless they hold. ---Robert Creeley (b. 1926) http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/creeley/ http://www.levity.com/corduroy/creeley.htm NOVEMBER 8 DOROTHY DAY The Roman Catholic church will never name her a saint. We do. DUNCE DAY. Tunisia: TREE FESTIVAL. FEAST OF PAMPHLETEERS. http://roswell.fortunecity.com/angelic/96/probcaus.htm 1789 -- Bourbon Whiskey, first distilled from corn, by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Kentucky. Taken sanely & in moderation whisky is beneficial, aids digestion, helps throw off colds, megrims & influenzas. Used improperly the effect is just as bad as stuffing on too many starchy foods, taking no exercise, or disliking our neighbor. --- Charles H. Baker, Jr., The Gentleman’s Companion, 1939 1897 -- Dorothy Day, pacifist anarchist, Catholic Worker founder, lives. DOROTHY DAY Catholic Worker founder, anarchist. Oddly, Roman Catholic church will never name her a saint. Daily Bleed's Saint for the Day, 1997. Repeat offender 1999. http://www.tomah.com/dorr/ HTTP://www.awadagin.com/cw/index.html http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/ddbiography.cfm Armed Nuns: http://www.tomah.com/dorr/Smalnuns.jpg 1932 -- Socialist Norman Thomas wins almost 900,000 votes for President. Later becomes a CIA informant (during the '60s). GRAPE - SHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American socialism. ---Ambrose Bierce 1960 -- US: Washington state voters refuse to repeal "Alien Land Law" provision of the state constitution barring Asians from owning property. 1965 -- Vanguard electronic composer Edgard Varese dies, New York City. Vanguard composer of electronic dissonance, Daily Bleed Saint 1998. http://www.zappa.com/MUSIC/varese.html http://picasso.cslab.wesleyan.edu/~jfei/varese/index_text.html 1974 -- (or '75?) In a federal court, charges are dropped against eight Ohio National Guardsmen for their role in the deaths of four antiwar protestors at Kent State University. "Even conceding all the mitigating or extenuating circumstances, the Guardsmen literally appear to have gotten away with murder." 1974 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Lt. William Calley is paroled after serving about three years in "prison" (under house arrest in his apartment) for overseeing the murder of Vietnamese civilians (possibly as high as 500 or more) at My Lai. 60 or 70 U.S. infantrymen had entered My Lai early one morning & destroyed its houses, its livestock & all the inhabitants that they could find in a brutal operation that took less than 20 minutes. When it was over, the Vietnamese dead totaled at least 100 men, women & children, & perhaps many more. Only 25 or so escaped, because they lay hidden under the fallen bodies of relatives & neighbors. http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/mylai1.html 1990 -- Beloved & Respected Comrade Leader Georgie Bush doubles American troop commitment to Persian Gulf two days after being elected. 1994 -- Eye of a Newt?: Republicans gain control of US Congress using witchcraft. Update 98: No newts is good newts. Update 1999: Ditto. 2000 -- US: In election day aftermath only Martin Sheen, in the West Wing, seems to be the only sure president the country has...as the electoral college is poised to prove nobody's vote counts. “One thing you can’t hide, Is when you’re crippled inside.” --- John Lennon "WARNING: Tipping this machine or any other unstable object weighing in excess of 1000 pounds onto yourself can result in serious bladder injury or death." NEVER, EVER, TRY TO GET A FREE DRINK BY ROCKING THE MACHINE. http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~seckel/JPEG/trident.jpg ---anti-RockingTheMachine 2000
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