At the White House in October 1963, six weeks before his assassination, JFK and a model of the National Cultural Center, later renamed the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts:
On 9/11, two unarmed F-16 pilots from Andrews Air Force Base were ordered to stop Flight 93 before it reached Washington.
1st Lt. Heather “Lucky” Penney and Lt. Col. Marc Sasseville had no missiles - there wasn’t time to load them. Their plan was to ram the airliner: Sasseville into the cockpit, Penney into the tail.
They launched around 10:30 a.m. Flight 93 had already gone down in Pennsylvania 25–30 minutes earlier after the passengers fought back. The two pilots never intercepted it.
Most people know what the passengers did.
Almost no one knows two fighter pilots were already in the air ready to die doing the same job.
All the brilliant, capable, intelligent, YOUNGER people in this country and we’re stuck with this drowsy, sleepy, old, miserably corrupt, fucking geriatric child molesting asshole for our “president?”
Come on America, we can do sooooo much better.
.@BarackObama to @briantylercohen: "I don't want us to simply duplicate the behavior of the other side … But that doesn't mean we have to get punked or be saps."
BREAKING: Former Ohio Republican Governor and presidential candidate John Kasich EXPLODES over killing by ICE in Minneapolis, WARNS Americans against Trump and his administration, and says Republicans will pay a huge price in the midterms: “What’s happening in Minnesota is waking up the whole country. It’s bothering us because we don’t see justice and fairness, It’s tearing the country apart but it’s also raising the consciousness of Americans who are saying enough is enough, Republicans may pay a HUGE price for this.”
Violence has no place in America. Michelle and I are praying for the servicemembers shot in Washington, DC today, and send our love to their families as they enter this holiday season under the most tragic of circumstances.
Governor Andy Beshear: "If this big ugly bill passes, American children and American seniors are going to go hungry. They're going to have that pain in their stomachs and throughout their body when they're trying to go to bed or when they're waking up in the morning."