November 19, 2008
KQED coverage of the thirty-year anniversary of the Jonestown massacre.
This is the first lesson that must be learned. If you don’t think for yourself, somebody else will do your thinking for you. And whoever does your thinking will be your master, and you their slave.
Reverend Amos Brown
Third Baptist Church, San Francisco
Speaking at the 30-year anniversary memorial honoring the victims of the Jonestown massacre.
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November 14, 2008

It was clear to me that my Army experience was just going to be a two-year detour en route to my fitness profession. So when asked ‘Ann, did you ever think you were going to be a general officer, to say nothing about a four-star?’ I say, ‘not in my wildest dreams.’ There is no one more surprised than I - except of course my husband. You know what they say, ‘Behind every successful woman is an astonished man.’
Ann E Dunwoody
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October 1, 2008
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, urging Sarah Palin to drop out of the race:
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out the economy herself.
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