August 30, 2022
QUOTE
Sure we’ll have Fascism here, but it will come as an anti-Fascism movement.
Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They’ve got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.
The only difference I ever found between the Democratic leadership and the Republican leadership is that one of them is skinning you from the ankle up and the other, from the ear down.
If Fascism comes to America it would be on a program of Americanism.
One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government – and they aren’t going to like it.
--All from Huey Long
BIRTHDAYS
1716 – Capability Brown, English landscape architect
1893 – Huey Long, Lawyer and politician, 40th Governor of Louisiana
1898 – Shirley Booth, Actress and singer
1908 – Fred MacMurray, Actor
1930 – Warren Buffett, Businessman and philanthropist
IN MEMORY
526 – Theodoric the Great, Italian ruler
2003 – Charles Bronson, Actor and soldier
2006 – Glenn Ford, Actor and producer
2015 – Wes Craven, Director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
2019 – Valerie Harper, Actress and writer
IN ON THIS DAY
70 – Titus ends the siege of Jerusalem after destroying Herod’s Temple.
1791 – HMS Pandora sinks after having run aground on the outer Great Barrier Reef the previous day.
1813 – Creek War: Fort Mims massacre: Creek “Red Sticks” kill over 500 settlers in Fort Mims, north of Mobile, Alabama.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
1936 – The RMS Queen Mary wins the Blue Riband by setting the fastest transatlantic crossing.
1962 – Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.