Jaromir Jagr Quotes
First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.
Carchidi, Sam. "Jagr defends decision to sign with Flyers over Penguins." The Philadelphia Inquirer, 15 Sept. 2011, p. D1.
The 113th Congress was the worst Congress in history in terms of hyperpartisanship, lack of comity, and ability to pass legislation. They passed less than 100 bills whereas a normal modern Congress passes 7 or 8 times that number. No Congress in history could only agree on less than 100 bills. The polls had Congressional approval down to single digits.
Three civil rights workers were kidnapped in Mississippi by members of the Ku Klu Klan in 1964 (Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney) and after a few days the FBI found the car in which they had been driving. He reported to the President that they had been probably been killed. The President asked Hoover why they could not have been kidnapped and taken to somewhere else and held there. This was his answer. He turned out to be right. They were brutally murdered. An all white jury acquitted the murderers, but in 2005 the leader was again tried for murder. The Southern-dominated Senate for years would not pass any anti-lynching legislation and thousands of blacks and some sympathetic whites were brutally tortured and killed. In 2005, the Senate passed a resolution 98-0 apologizing for the inaction over the years on lynching. The two missing senators who did not vote for the resolution were from Mississippi.
Towards the end of World War I, an expedition of 7,000 American troops was sent to Siberia with vague and confused instructions regarding the their role in the conflict between the "white" and "red" Russians:
Jaromír Jágr is a Czech professional ice hockey right winger for and the owner of HC Kladno of the Czech Extraliga (ELH), and at 33 seasons as of 2021, has played the most seasons in professional hockey history. He has previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Dallas Stars, Boston Bruins, New Jersey Devils, Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames, serving as captain of the Penguins and the Rangers. After leaving the Rangers in 2008, he played three seasons in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) with Avangard Omsk. He returned to the NHL in 2011 with the Flyers and remained in the league for seven more years before being assigned by the Flames in 2018 to HC Kladno.
