Gene Healy writes about the tragedy that affected all Americans on December 30, 2006:
No mail delivery, closing the stock market, government shutdown (not that I mind that), security out the wazoo, shutting down major thoroughfares throughout the city
No, it wasn't because of a terrorist attack, It was because Gerald Ford's dead body was driven all over DC instead of letting the poor guy rest in peace. He was the president when I was born (but I was conceived during the Nixon Administration) and even though he opposed the latest Iraqi adventure he gave Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld jobs. He died peacefully which is good because it could have been a lot, lot worse:
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I know what you mean, Jason. The way that funeral was dragging on and they way they whisked him from place to place to place to place...I half expected a bunch of pallbearers to start toting him from door to door so people could say their goodbyes.
"If the Son hath made you free, ye shall be free indeed"
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