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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Man cuts off his arm to save his life

Hand was caught in machine as fire started

CAMDEN, S.C. (Winston-Salem Journal) -
A South Carolina man cut off his arm with a pocket knife when his hand got caught in a corn harvester, saving his life after the rusty machine had sparked a grass fire.

“I just told myself, ‘I’m not going to die here,’” Sampson Parker said yesterday on NBC’s Today Show.

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