Ex-VP Alben Barkley’s poignant final words and fatal collapse while giving speech

Alben W. Barkley was the senior senator from Kentucky who later became Truman’s VP.  When Truman decided not to run again, he successfully ran and became the junior senator of Kentucky.

It’s not often the entire public gets to hear the final words of an elected official, but for a Christian, he did pretty well.

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Bag of Randomness

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  • This Halloween in the Dallas area you’ll see a whole lot of hazmat and Ebola referenced costumes.  Almost all of these folks will think they came up with something totally original.
  • A joke I heard in church: During the Sunday morning worship service the children all come forward for children’s part of the service where the pastor speaks directly to them.  He asks if any of them have heard of the resurrection, and one boy replied, “I know if you have one for four hours that you have to go see the doctor.”
  • I wish Southwest would have gotten more attention for the expiration of the Wright Amendment yesterday, but the media was pretty focused on Ebola, the Cowboys, and the very windy weather.  It was pretty cool seeing Gary, Herb, and Colleen helping with boarding passes.
  • I’m quite certain I can beat Kim Jong-un in a footrace, but I’m not so sure about Putin.
  • Such a great Cotton Bowl moment between a then powerful Rice and Alabama, and he blamed it on being too full of Alabama – Tommy Lewis, tackler in infamous 1954 Cotton Bowl off-bench play, dies –  It makes me wonder if someone came off the sidelines to tackle a player enroute to a touchdown, how would it be called today?
  • This Woman Sees 100 Times More Colors Than The Average Person
  • This is probably a repost, but here’s a fun little site where you plug in your date of birth and it gives you all sorts of fun related times.
  • Yup, I bought and downloaded the new U2 album last night, which is the same one that was provided for free but with extra tracks and alternate versions.  I still love that “Song for Someone”, it just pulls me in everytime.  It makes me want to remarry my wife and make it our first dance song.
  • Backpacker brings back three-inch leech from Vietnam – up her nose
  • GIF – Dogs use teamwork to get ball out of a pool
  • GIF – A dog uses a float to get a ball out of a pool
  • The end of the Internet.
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