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Former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell apologized for tweeting that she was “rooting” for Hurricane Dorian to hit U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach.

Today's Quotefall Puzzle features a quote by Kim Campbell. Click puzzle (or click here) for full size rendition, then use your browser's print command to print puzzle. Note: While I post quotes from current and contemporary constitutionalst-minded individuals, sometimes I post notable quotes from total idiots, as I'm a firm believer in Rush's tactic, "illustrating absurdity by being absurd." Enjoy! Kim Campbell was Canada's Prime Minister for just a little over four months in the early nineties. In that time period, she completely revamped the ministerial levels to allow progressive (communist) inroads into the federal system. Puzzle note: Some words indicate a place...

Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell said Thursday that she wished for Hurricane Dorian to make a “direct hit” on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The strengthening storm churned over the warm, open waters of the Atlantic on Thursday as forecasts showed Dorian tracking toward Florida’s east coast — prompting Trump to warn Dorian “will be BIG!” Forecasters believe the storm will strengthen into a Category 3 hurricane by Friday, and stay well east of the southern and central Bahamas before making a turn toward Florida by Sunday afternoon. At that time, the latest NHC forecast is for the...

Three years after Air Force Capt. Kim Campbell earned the Distinguished Flying Cross in Iraq, the San Jose native is earning points in a different arena: public speaking. Campbell, 30, a fighter pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan, shared her story with the Tennessee Ernie Ford Air Force Association Chapter 361 at lunch Friday in Santa Clara and then spoke to a class at Piedmont Hills High School, her alma mater. After receiving a standing ovation at the Biltmore Hotel after her luncheon speech, Campbell posed for photographs with fans and patiently signed every program brought to her. Her eyes lit...

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom that it must steal in upon them by degrees and must disguise itself in a thousand shapes in order to be received. --David Hume, Of the Liberty of the Press, 1742...Mr. Carter, having staked his "observer" reputation on this ridiculously lopsided game, sealed the fate of the Venezuelans when he rushed to anoint Chávez as the winner and advised Mr. Powell to do the same. This betrayal of a neighboring democracy may one day leave ugly...

A-10 Pilot Wows Smithsonian Crowd by Senior Master Sgt. Rick Burnham Air Force News March 30, 2004 WASHINGTON -- The Iraqi republican guard may have had luck on their side that miserable Baghdad day, but they did not know who was flying the A-10 Thunderbolt II they had just hit with a rocket. It was April 7, 2003, and an elite unit of Iraqis had U.S. forces pinned down along the Tigris River, firing rocket-propelled grenades into their position, not far from the North Baghdad Bridge. The word from the forward-air controller on the ground with the U.S. forces indicated...

<p>COLORADO SPRINGS - Seventy-three seconds into the launch of the Challenger, the shuttle exploded in a violent fireball. The crew of seven was incinerated.</p> <p>The horrifying images numbed a nation. But for one 10-year-old girl in San Jose, the tragedy inspired a lifelong sense of purpose and determination that would serve her well 17 years later when she, too, confronted mortality, in the cockpit of a warplane over Iraq.</p>

The last picture shows the pilot that brought the bird back (female pilot)

<p>Large chunks of her plane shot away, the hydraulic control system dead, Air Force Capt. Kim Campbell pushed and pulled at a backup set of manual controls, struggling to keep the anti-tank aircraft from crashing as it limped away from an ambush over Baghdad.</p>

<p>Air Force Capt. Kim Campbell assigned to the 23rd Fighter Group was flying over Baghdad in her A-10 Warthog fighter jet when it was hit by enemy ground fire.</p> <p>Large chunks of her plane shot away, the hydraulic control system dead, Air Force Capt. Kim Campbell pushed and pulled at a backup set of manual controls, struggling to keep the anti-tank aircraft from crashing as it limped away from an ambush over Baghdad.</p>