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Aug 4, 2007

William Tell

The legend

William Tell from Bürglen was known as an expert marksman with the crossbow. At the time, the Habsburg emperors were seeking to dominate Uri. Hermann Gessler, the newly appointed Austrian Vogt of Altdorf raised a pole in the village's central square with his hat on top and demanded that all the local townsfolk bow before it. As Tell passed by without bowing, he was arrested. He received the punishment of being forced to shoot an apple off the head of his son, Walter, or else both would be executed.

Tell had been promised freedom if he shot the apple. On November 18, 1307, Tell split the fruit with a single bolt from his crossbow, without mishap. When Gessler queried him about the purpose of the second bolt in his quiver, Tell answered that if he had ended up killing his son in that trial, he would have turned the crossbow on Gessler himself. Gessler became enraged at that comment, and had Tell bound and brought to his ship to be taken to his castle at Küssnacht. In a storm on Lake Lucerne, Tell managed to escape. On land, he went to Küssnacht, and when Gessler arrived, Tell shot him with a crossbow bolt.

This defiance of the Austrian Gessler sparked a rebellion, leading to the formation of the Swiss Confederation.

NOT RIGHT NOW

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Somehow, World Survived 3 Hours of 'President Cheney'

"George W. Bush is awake again, if not alert, and “President” Dick Cheney is officially back to being the sinister power behind the throne. Oh, yes, and the polyps — so many polyps were extracted from the “real” president’s butt parts! Five, in fact. Five polyps.

All of the gruesome little growths will be “sent to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland,” and given cabinet-level political appointments.

Check this out:

He spoke to first lady Laura Bush — who is in Midland, Texas, celebrating her mother’s birthday — before and after the procedure, Stanzel said.

Ha ha, Laura hates him so much she won’t even stick around when her husband’s under anesthesia. “Sorry, Dorkus, goin’ to Texas!”

We may not know what Cheney did during his three-hour official reign for decades or even centuries — the government still hides JFK assassination files that probably show Cheney did that, too. But the story told to the media is creepy enough:

Cheney, meanwhile, spent the morning at his home on Maryland’s eastern shore, reading and playing with his dogs, Stanzel said. Nothing occurred that required him to take official action as president before Bush reclaimed presidential power."

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Nobel winner apologizes for Bush comment
Irish peace activist's speech at Dallas event gets standing ovation
12:30 PM CDT on Friday, July 13, 2007
By JAMES HOHMANN / The Dallas Morning News

Betty Williams

Nobel Peace Prize winner Betty Williams apologized Thursday for saying she could kill President Bush, remarks that drew scorn from Bush loyalists and shook up the International Women's Peace Conference in Dallas.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-peace_12nat.ART.State.Edition1.43b8067.html

Elle Maidens

THE ELLE-MAID NEAR EBELTOFT

A FARMER'S boy was keeping cows not far from Ebeltoft. There came to him a very fair and pretty girl, and she asked him if he was hungry or thirsty. But when he perceived that she guarded with the greatest solicitude against his getting a sight of her back, he immediately suspected that she must be an Elle-maid, for the Elle-people are hollow behind. He accordingly would give no heed to her, and endeavoured to get away from her; but when she perceived this, she offered him her breast that be should suck her. And so great was the enchantment that accompanied this action, that he was unable to resist it. But when he had done as she desired him, he had no longer any command of himself; so that she had now no difficulty in enticing him with her.

He was three days away, during which time his father and mother went home, and were in great affliction, for they were well assured that he must have been enticed away. But on the fourth day his father saw him a long way off coming home, and he desired his wife to set a pan of meat on the fire as quick as possible. The son then came in at the door, and sat down at the table without saying a word. The father, too, remained quite silent, as if every thing was as it ought to be. His mother then set the meat before him, and his father bid him eat, but he let the food lie untouched, and said that he knew now where he could get much better food. The father then became highly enraged, took a good large switch, and once more ordered him to take his food. The boy was then obliged to eat, and as soon as he had tasted the flesh he ate it up greedily, and instantly fell into a deep sleep. He slept for as many days as the enchantment had lasted, but he never after recovered the use of his reason. [a]