[Ed Koch was Mayor of New York City]Ed Koch Commentary
April 12, 2010
TITLE: A Dangerous Silence
I weep as I witness outrageous verbal attacks on Israel. What makes these verbal assaults and distortions all the more painful is that they are being orchestrated by President Obama.
For me, the situation today recalls what occurred in 70 AD when the Roman emperor Vespasian launched a military campaign against the Jewish nation and its ancient capital of Jerusalem. Ultimately, Masada, a rock plateau in the Judean desert became the last refuge of the Jewish people against the Roman onslaught. I have been to Jerusalem and Masada. >From the top of Masada, you can still see the remains of the Roman fortifications and garrisons, and the stones and earth of the Roman siege ramp that was used to reach Masada. The Jews of Masada committed suicide rather than let themselves be taken captive by the Romans.
In Rome itself, I have seen the Arch of Titus with the sculpture showing enslaved Jews and the treasures of the Jewish Temple of Solomon with the Menorah, the symbol of the Jewish state, being carted away as booty during the sacking of Jerusalem.
Oh, you may say, that is a far fetched analogy. Please hear me out.
The most recent sacking of the old city of Jerusalem – its Jewish quarter – took place under the Jordanians in 1948 in the first war between the Jews and the Arabs, with at least five Muslim states – Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq – seeking to destroy the Jewish state. At that time, Jordan conquered East Jerusalem and the West Bank and expelled every Jew living in the Jewish quarter of the old city, destroying every building, including the synagogues in the old quarter and expelling from every part of Judea and Samaria every Jew living there so that for the first time in thousands of years, the old walled city of Jerusalem and the adjacent West Bank were "Judenrein" -- a term used by the Nazis to indicate the forced removal or murder of all Jews..
Jews had lived for centuries in Hebron, the city where Abraham, the first Jew, pitched his tent and where he now lies buried, it is believed, in a tomb with his wife, Sarah, as well as other ancient Jewish patriarchs and matriarchs. I have visited that tomb and at the time asked an Israeli soldier guarding it – so that it was open to all pilgrims, Christians, Muslims and Jews -- “where is the seventh step leading to the tomb of Abraham and Sarah,” which was the furthest entry for Jews when the Muslims were the authority controlling the holy place? He replied, “When we retook and reunited the whole city of Jerusalem and conquered the West Bank in 1967, we removed the steps, so now everyone can enter,” whereas when Muslims were in charge of the tomb, no Jew could enter it. And I did.
I am not a religious person. I am comfortable in a synagogue, but generally attend only twice a year, on the high holidays. When I entered the tomb of Abraham and Sarah, as I recall, I felt connected with my past and the traditions of my people. One is a Jew first by birth and then by religion. Those who leave their religion, remain Jews forever by virtue of their birth. If they don’t think so, let them ask their neighbors, who will remind them. I recall the words of the columnist Robert Novak, who was for most of his life hostile to the Jewish state of Israel in an interview with a reporter stating that while he had converted to Catholicism, he was still a cultural Jew. I remain with pride a Jew both by religion and culture.
My support for the Jewish state has been long and steadfast. Never have I thought that I would leave the U.S. to go and live in Israel. My loyalty and love is first to the U.S. which has given me, the son of Polish Jewish immigrants, so much. But, I have also long been cognizant of the fact that every night when I went to sleep in peace and safety, there were Jewish communities around the world in danger. And there was one country, Israel, that would give them sanctuary and would send its soldiers to fight for them and deliver them from evil, as Israel did at Entebbe in 1976.
I weep today because my president, Barack Obama, in a few weeks has changed the relationship between the U.S. and Israel from that of closest of allies to one in which there is an absence of trust on both sides. The contrast between how the president and his administration deals with Israel and how it has decided to deal with the Karzai administration in Afghanistan is striking.
The Karzai administration, which operates a corrupt and opium-producing state, refuses to change its corrupt ways – the president’s own brother is believed by many to run the drug traffic taking place in Afghanistan – and shows the utmost contempt for the U.S. is being hailed by the Obama administration as an ally and publicly treated with dignity. Karzai recently even threatened to join the Taliban if we don’t stop making demands on him. Nevertheless, Karzai is receiving a gracious thank-you letter from President Obama. The New York Times of April 10th reported, “…that Mr. Obama had sent Mr. Karzai a thank-you note expressing gratitude to the Afghan leader for dinner in Kabul. ‘It was a respectful letter,’ General Jones said.”
On the other hand, our closest ally – the one with the special relationship with the U.S., has been demeaned and slandered, held responsible by the administration for our problems in Afghanistan and Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. The plan I suspect is to so weaken the resolve of the Jewish state and its leaders that it will be much easier to impose on Israel an American plan to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, leaving Israel’s needs for security and defensible borders in the lurch.
I believe President Obama’s policy is to create a whole new relationship with the Arab states of Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt, and Iraq as a counter to Iran – The Tyrannosaurus Rex of the Muslim world which we are now prepared to see in possession of a nuclear weapon. If throwing Israel under the bus is needed to accomplish this alliance, so be it.
I am shocked by the lack of outrage on the part of Israel’s most ardent supporters. The members of AIPAC, the chief pro-Israel lobbying organization in Washington, gave Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a standing ovation after she had carried out the instructions of President Obama and, in a 43-minute telephone call, angrily hectored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Members of Congress in both the House and Senate have made pitifully weak statements against Obama’s mistreatment of Israel, if they made any at all. The Democratic members, in particular, are weak. They are simply afraid to criticize President Obama.
What bothers me most of all is the shameful silence and lack of action by community leaders – Jew and Christian. Where are they? If this were a civil rights matter, the Jews would be in the mall in Washington protesting with and on behalf of our fellow American citizens. I asked one prominent Jewish leader why no one is preparing a march on Washington similar to the one in 1963 at which I was present and Martin Luther King’s memorable speech was given? His reply was “Fifty people might come.” Remember the 1930s? Few stood up. They were silent. Remember the most insightful statement of one of our greatest teachers, Rabbi Hillel: “If I am not for myself, who is for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”
We have indeed stood up for everyone else. When will we stand up for our brothers and sisters living in the Jewish state of Israel?
If Obama is seeking to build a siege ramp around Israel, the Jews of modern Israel will not commit suicide. They are willing to negotiate a settlement with the Palestinians, but they will not allow themselves to be bullied into following self-destructive policies.
To those who call me an alarmist, I reply that I’ll be happy to apologize if I am proven wrong. But those who stand silently by and watch the Obama administration abandon Israel, to whom will they apologize?
April 16, 2010
Ed Koch on Obama's Israeli Policy
UC Berkeley and Israeli Divestment
story verified--from uc Berkley site---not passed yet---who knows may not happen but a 16-4 vote in favor by student government is scarry enough!!
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Opposing Groups Get Ready for UC Berkeley Israel Divestment Bill Showdown
By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 09, 2010
Pro and anti-Israeli groups are getting ready for the UC Berkeley Israel divestment bill showdown Wednesday.
Student senators are expected to vote April 14 on whether to override their president’s veto on the bill, which encourages the university to stop investing in companies doing business with Israel.
The bill also ensures that no student senate funds are invested in the two companies—General Electric and United Technologies— who provide the Israeli military with weapons.
Although a 16-4 vote of the Associated Students of the University of California cleared the bill March 18, it was struck down by ASUC President Will Smelko a week later.
Smelko said he disagreed with the narrow focus of the bill. “No matter what I do, large groups of people are going to be very mad and upset..” he said.
Emily Carlton, one of the ASUC senators who voted for the bill, said that the senate bylaws allow the president to veto any bill passed by the senate, and the senate can then override it with a two-thirds vote.
“Clearly, the bylaws are flawed,” Carlton said. “However, I am not sure that this was foreseeable, since I don’t think the ASUC has ever faced such a controversial bill—at least not that I have heard about. Essentially, [Smelko] vetoed it on the basis of it being divisive of the student body, and said that the ASUC is not meant to divide people.”
The passage of the bill sparked immediate controversy, with opponents of the bill trying their best to dissuade the ASUC to change its mind through letters and e-mail campaigns.
While the bill is titled “UC Divestment From War Crimes,” it focuses on the Middle East conflict and decries human rights violations by the Israeli Army in Gaza and the West Bank.
Its critics have denounced the singling out of Israel as unfair, anti-Jewish, and even anti-Semitic, given that war crimes and human rights violations take place in other countries as
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Opposing Groups Get Ready for UC Berkeley Israel Divestment Bill Showdown
By Riya Bhattacharjee
Friday April 09, 2010
Pro and anti-Israeli groups are getting ready for the UC Berkeley Israel divestment bill showdown Wednesday.
Student senators are expected to vote April 14 on whether to override their president’s veto on the bill, which encourages the university to stop investing in companies doing business with Israel.
The bill also ensures that no student senate funds are invested in the two companies—General Electric and United Technologies— who provide the Israeli military with weapons.
Although a 16-4 vote of the Associated Students of the University of California cleared the bill March 18, it was struck down by ASUC President Will Smelko a week later.
Smelko said he disagreed with the narrow focus of the bill. “No matter what I do, large groups of people are going to be very mad and upset..” he said.
Emily Carlton, one of the ASUC senators who voted for the bill, said that the senate bylaws allow the president to veto any bill passed by the senate, and the senate can then override it with a two-thirds vote.
“Clearly, the bylaws are flawed,” Carlton said. “However, I am not sure that this was foreseeable, since I don’t think the ASUC has ever faced such a controversial bill—at least not that I have heard about. Essentially, [Smelko] vetoed it on the basis of it being divisive of the student body, and said that the ASUC is not meant to divide people.”
The passage of the bill sparked immediate controversy, with opponents of the bill trying their best to dissuade the ASUC to change its mind through letters and e-mail campaigns.
While the bill is titled “UC Divestment From War Crimes,” it focuses on the Middle East conflict and decries human rights violations by the Israeli Army in Gaza and the West Bank.
Its critics have denounced the singling out of Israel as unfair, anti-Jewish, and even anti-Semitic, given that war crimes and human rights violations take place in other countries as
Check Fraud Growing
[From article]
"One fraud advisor at Citibank explained that "the gangs are turning from drugs to banks."[. . .]
For example, the Secret Service said it won't take a report unless the amount was above $60,000.The FBI said it won't investigate unless it is over $500,000.
The state police in New York, where I live, told me to report it to our local police.
Our local police said it was out of their jurisdiction and they don't have the resources to "investigate this kind of thing."[. . .]
Don't use your real mother's maiden name. Fraud experts say this information is easily found on the Internet through genealogy and family tree sites."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/check_fraud_victims_defenseless_OWBipWfGw7Gafxmt8Zh0tI
Check fraud victims defenseless
Last Updated: 4:33 AM, April 11, 20Medical Abuses (Book Excerpt)
"Well-intentioned but overzealous physicians and surgeons, profit-driven hospital administrators, aggressive pharmaceutical companies and a too-quick-to-believe public brought about, for the first time, the triad of unnecessary laboratory tests, ill-advised surgical operations, and uncontrollable health care costs."
[not posted online]
Ira Rutkow
Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America
(Book Excerpt)
New York Post
April 11, 2010
Page 31
[not posted online]
Ira Rutkow
Seeking the Cure: A History of Medicine in America
(Book Excerpt)
New York Post
April 11, 2010
Page 31
Obscuring Negligence and Crime
[From article]
"This is where famous and important people being grilled hide now: in boringness, in an opacity of language so thick that following them is actually impossible.
[. . .]
“Language served a different purpose inside the bond market than it did in the outside world. Bond market terminology was designed less to convey meaning than to bewilder outsiders. . .
[. . .]
“The subprime mortgage market had a special talent for obscuring what needed to be clarified.”
http://www.peggynoonan.com/
After the Crash, a Crashing Bore
The men behind the bailout take refuge in impenetrable jargon.
Peggy Noonan
The Wall Street Journal
April 9, 2010
"This is where famous and important people being grilled hide now: in boringness, in an opacity of language so thick that following them is actually impossible.
[. . .]
“Language served a different purpose inside the bond market than it did in the outside world. Bond market terminology was designed less to convey meaning than to bewilder outsiders. . .
[. . .]
“The subprime mortgage market had a special talent for obscuring what needed to be clarified.”
http://www.peggynoonan.com/
After the Crash, a Crashing Bore
The men behind the bailout take refuge in impenetrable jargon.
Peggy Noonan
The Wall Street Journal
April 9, 2010
Failure to Train Actionable
[From article]
"The Supreme Court has ruled that local governments can be held liable for failing to train officials in their constitutional responsibilities when the need is "obvious," as with teaching police officers the proper use of deadly force."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_bloody_scrap_that_saved_life_Zm4yMrWVsSl79cT6rqutcN
The bloody scrap that saved a life
By JACOB SULLUM
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:32 AM, April 10, 2010
Posted: 12:22 AM, April 10, 2010
"The Supreme Court has ruled that local governments can be held liable for failing to train officials in their constitutional responsibilities when the need is "obvious," as with teaching police officers the proper use of deadly force."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_bloody_scrap_that_saved_life_Zm4yMrWVsSl79cT6rqutcN
The bloody scrap that saved a life
By JACOB SULLUM
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:32 AM, April 10, 2010
Posted: 12:22 AM, April 10, 2010
Mass Health Care Sinking State
[From article]
"Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts' 2006 health-insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs for other people and small businesses."
[. . .]
And so the free lunch promised Massachusetts in 2006 devolves toward a fiscally beleaguered government setting prices and limiting care, exactly the downward spiral critics fear from ObamaCare. At least Romney can say he didn't know how his experiment would end. Obama has been warned, and still embraces Massachusetts as our national future."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mass_medical_mess_ZiIZrnAhrzlJ5lHoB6MSSK
Mass. medical mess
Romney's lessons for Bam
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:32 AM, April 10, 2010
Posted: 12:05 AM, April 10, 2010
Rich Lowry
"Thousands of consumers are gaming Massachusetts' 2006 health-insurance law by buying insurance when they need to cover pricey medical care, such as fertility treatments and knee surgery, and then swiftly dropping coverage, a practice that insurance executives say is driving up costs for other people and small businesses."
[. . .]
And so the free lunch promised Massachusetts in 2006 devolves toward a fiscally beleaguered government setting prices and limiting care, exactly the downward spiral critics fear from ObamaCare. At least Romney can say he didn't know how his experiment would end. Obama has been warned, and still embraces Massachusetts as our national future."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/mass_medical_mess_ZiIZrnAhrzlJ5lHoB6MSSK
Mass. medical mess
Romney's lessons for Bam
New York Post
Last Updated: 4:32 AM, April 10, 2010
Posted: 12:05 AM, April 10, 2010
Rich Lowry
NJ Teachers Union Prays for Governor's Death
[From article]
"The NJEA memo included a mock "prayer" suggesting Christie should suffer the same fate as Patrick Swayze, Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson and celebrity pitchman Billy Mays, all of whom recently died.
It was signed by NJEA field representatives and distributed to union members in Bergen County, The Record of Hackensack reported."
Unholy NJ death wishers
Fury as teachers 'pray to slay' Christie
New York Post
Last Updated: 9:00 AM, April 10, 2010
Posted: 2:43 AM, April 10, 2010
Wasting Money in Afghanistan
[From article]
"We refused to recognize how xenophobic Afghan tribal culture remains. Aid programs would fix everything . . .
We didn't have a clue. Our tens of billions in aid money merely enriched well-connected Afghans. The poor were left in the dirt, seething with envy."
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/karzai_new_low_JfRxe6UV6zXCjdEalGAsLM
Karzai's new low
We're stuck with no Plan B
New York Post
Last Updated: 12:59 AM, April 6, 2010
Posted: 12:47 AM, April 6, 2010
Ralph Peters
FBI Wastes Taxpayer Funds
If the FBI and Police would focus on persons with criminal intent and capabilities instead of people like me many violent acts could be prevented. Instead they watch people like me 24/7. What a waste of taxpayer funds.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.715a7668fe9975340c7a6290b761a373.01&show_article=1
Home-grown, solo terrorists as bad as Al-Qaeda: FBI chief
Apr 15 01:48 PM US/Easternhttp://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.715a7668fe9975340c7a6290b761a373.01&show_article=1
Home-grown, solo terrorists as bad as Al-Qaeda: FBI chief
AFP
Breitbart.com
GOP Official Beaten in New Orleans
http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/04/15/photo-released-of-gop-official-and-boyfriend-beaten-bloody/
PHOTO RELEASED of GOP Official and Boyfriend Beaten Bloody
by Jim HoftBigGovernment.com
April 15, 2010
April 14, 2010
Banks Want Secrecy on Taxpayer Funded Loans
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=ax8ulGXswn4E
Fed Shouldn’t Reveal Crisis Loans, Banks Vow to Tell High Court
Bloomberg
By Bob Ivry
April 14, 2010
Fed Shouldn’t Reveal Crisis Loans, Banks Vow to Tell High Court
Bloomberg
By Bob Ivry
April 14, 2010
History of Mental Illness Causes Violence?
Scesny’s lawyer said Scesny was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia--the catch-all illness. The lawyer added, he was previously hospitalized and was taking medication. Under what exception did the lawyer reveal medical records violating HIPAA laws and the MA state privacy statute? Why was this an issue for the arraignment? Useful idiot journalists persuaded readers, contrary to reason, that mental illness causes violence; and that medications prevent violence. But even the drug-company-controlled FDA requires a warning on drugs that they CAUSE violent thoughts. Readers KNOW that stopping taking medications causes violence. Gasp! Why start taking drugs if they cause violence when stopped? Readers sound like drug company lobbyists promoting more business. Where is evidence that mental illness causes violence? Where is evidence that mental illness has a pathology? Mental illnesses are created by consensus, not science. Psychiatry is personal opinion masquerading as science. Journalists keep people fooled. What happened to skepticism of these alleged information providers? Why do journalists believe what psychiatrists say?
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1247002
Son charged in stabbing death of mother in Leominster home
By O’Ryan JohnsonBoston Herald
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
April 13, 2010
Washington Spins Facts
[Unverified, but typical]
The Spin Zone
Judy Wallman, a professional genealogy researcher in southern California , was doing some personal work on her own family tree. She discovered that Congressman Harry Reid's great-great uncle, Remus Reid, was hanged for horse stealing and train robbery in Montana in 1889. Both Judy and Harry Reid share this common ancestor.
The only known photograph of Remus shows him standing on the gallows in Montana territory:
On the back of the picture Judy obtained during her research is this inscription: 'Remus Reid, horse thief, sent to Montana Territorial Prison 1885, escaped 1887, robbed the Montana Flyer six times. Caught by Pinkerton detectives, convicted and hanged in 1889.'
So Judy recently e-mailed Congressman Harry Reid for information about their great-great uncle.
Harry Reid:
Believe it or not, Harry Reid's staff sent back the following biographical sketch for her genealogy research:
"Remus Reid was a famous cowboy in the Montana Territory . His business empire grew to include acquisition of valuable equestrian assets and intimate dealings with the Montana railroad. Beginning in 1883, he devoted several years of his life to government service, finally taking leave to resume his dealings with the railroad. In 1887, he was a key player in a vital investigation run by the renowned Pinkerton Detective Agency. In 1889, Remus passed away during an important civic function held in his honor when the platform upon which he was standing collapsed."
NOW THAT's how it's done, Folks!
That's real POLITICAL SPIN
April 12, 2010
Liberals Threaten to Infiltrate Tea Party
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9F1PU2O0&show_article=1
Foes of tea party movement to infiltrate rallies
Apr 12, 2010 06:30 PM US/Eastern
By VALERIE BAUMAN
Associated Press Writer
Foes of tea party movement to infiltrate rallies
Apr 12, 2010 06:30 PM US/Eastern
By VALERIE BAUMAN
Associated Press Writer
Physician Exploits Vulnerable Patients
Only latest example of a doctor abusing his power to use humans with disabilities for experimental treatment. Persons accused of mental illness are the most abused group. Psychiatrists including but not limited to Presidents of the American Psychiatric Association and Harvard University administrators believe that although mental patients are incompetent they conveniently have lucid moments when they can provide informed consent for experiments. This is typical abuse by doctors who take advantage of others.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265438/Doctor-treated-vulnerable-MS-patients-stem-cells-meant-use-humans.html
Doctor 'treated vulnerable MS patients with stem cells not meant for use on humans'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:35 PM on 12th April 2010
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1265438/Doctor-treated-vulnerable-MS-patients-stem-cells-meant-use-humans.html
Doctor 'treated vulnerable MS patients with stem cells not meant for use on humans'
By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 4:35 PM on 12th April 2010
AARP Was a Good Idea
AARP sold out its members to Obama's criminal cartel. AARP supported the health care boondoggle which no one read in return for supporting AARP's private health care supplements. AARP was a good idea coopted like the ACLU by mercenary control freaks. Like the government it serves the leaders and just takes money from civilian members. And anyway people over forty don't know how to text and don't use iPods so what good are they? Few of them belong to Facebook. They are old parasites and useless eaters. Obama is right that old people should not use the scarce medical resources which should be only for youth.
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1246203
Boston Herald
Sunday, April 11, 2010
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1246203
BC forum: Don’t end life at 40
By Renee Nadeau AlgarinBoston Herald
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Exploiting Crises for Profit
Promoters of more mental health treatment sound like Rahm Emanuel "Let no crisis go to waste." Here is an opportunity to promote more funding for more psychiatry and more drug sales. Taxpayers willingly pay government psychiatrists to force chemicals into young people to make them more violent and less human. No father? More drugs. No job? More drugs? No religion? More drugs. Drugs will solve all problems and make the drug companies and the psychiatrists rich. Campaign contributions to legislative courtesans will result in laws to help make more zombies of young people. Who needs fathers? Who needs education? Drugs will teach them what they need to know.
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1246253
Boston Herald
Sunday, April 11, 2010
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1246253
Suicide prompts call for youth mental-health aid
By O’Ryan JohnsonBoston Herald
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Why Norman Thomas Stopped Running
Quote from 1944
This is not about any one in particular - it speaks of the sitting elected Congress, Senate and all the rest of the liberal idealists who have control of the Country, both Democratic, Republican and Independents. And if we want to continue to live in the United States of America that we grew up in and want our children and grandchildren to live in we need to act now before everything we know, have enjoyed and care about is taken away.
Too many people have their heads in the sand! Wake up America it is time to be heard and
stand up for the country. Children and grandchildren should have the same chance to grow up with individual rights and freedoms our fore fathers lived and died for.
45 Lessons
By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written." My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it..
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't s crew up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you, really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?
27. Always choose life.
28.. Forgive everyone, everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written." My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair, but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick.. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it..
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't s crew up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you, really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?
27. Always choose life.
28.. Forgive everyone, everything.
29. What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do.
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative - dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40. If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else's, we'd grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
Friends are the family that we choose for ourselves.
Cows, Constitution & Ten Commandments
Cows, The Constitution & The Ten Commandments
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately -- illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida.
Here are solutions for the problems.
* Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.
* Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.
Any other problems you would like for me to solve today?
Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
COWS
During the mad cow epidemic US government tracked a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
THE CONSTITUTION
Bureaucrats talk about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians ... it creates a hostile work environment.
It is time for America to speak up!
Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in this country lately -- illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida.
Here are solutions for the problems.
* Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border.
* Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees.
* Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.
Any other problems you would like for me to solve today?
Think about this:
1. Cows
2. The Constitution
3. The Ten Commandments
COWS
During the mad cow epidemic US government tracked a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.
THE CONSTITUTION
Bureaucrats talk about drafting a Constitution for Iraq .... why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians ... it creates a hostile work environment.
It is time for America to speak up!
Is SNOPES Pure Bull?
David and Barbara Mikkelson are the husband-and-wife duo behind the myth-busting Web site Snopes.com.
Guy Raz/NPR
[Attributed to Alan Strong]
Is SNOPES pure bull?
Snopes is often quoted as the be all and end all for Truth Verification on many sites.
Maybe we should believe nothing of what we hear and 1/2 of what we see??
About _SNOPES.COM_ (http://snopes.com/) '
Who watches the watchers?
For the past few years _http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/)
has positioned itself, or others have labeled it, as the 'tell-all final
word' on any comment, claim and email. But for several years people tried to
find out who exactly was behind _http://www.snopes.com/._
(http://www.snopes.com/)
Only recently did Wikipedia get to the bottom of it - kinda made you
wonder what they were hiding. Well, finally we know. It is run by a husband and
wife team - that's right, no big office of investigators and researchers,
no team of lawyers. It's just a mom-and pop operation that began as a
hobby. David and Barbara Mikkelson in the San Fernando Valley of California
started the website about 13 years ago - and they have no formal background
or experience in investigative research. After a few years it gained
popularity believing it to be unbiased and neutral, but over the past couple of
years people started asking questions who was behind it and did they have a
selfish motivation?
The reason for the questions - or skepticisms - is a result of
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) claiming to have the bottom line
facts to certain questions or issue when in fact they have been proven wrong.
Also, there were criticisms the Mikkelsons were not really investigating
and getting to the 'true' bottom of various issues.
A few months ago, when my State Farm agent Bud Gregg in Mandeville hoisted
a political sign referencing Barack Obama and made a big splash across
the internet, 'supposedly' the Mikkelsons claim to have researched this issue
before posting their findings on _http://www.snopes.com/._
(http://www.snopes.com/) In their statement they claimed the corporate office of State
Farm pressured Gregg into taking down the sign, when in fact nothing of the
sort 'ever' took place. I personally contacted David Mikkelson (and he
replied back to me) thinking he would want to get to the bottom of this and I
gave him Bud Gregg's contact phone numbers - and Bud was going to give him
phone numbers to the big exec's at State Farm in Illinois who would have
been willing to speak with him about it. He never called Bud. In fact, I
learned from Bud Gregg no one
[url=fromhttp://_www.snopes.
(http://www.snopes.com/][url=
ever contacted anyone with State Farm. Yet, _http://www.snopes.com/_
(http://www.snopes.com/) issued a statement as the 'final factual word' on the
issue as if they did all their homework and got to the bottom of things - not!
Then it has been learned the Mikkelsons are Democrats and extremely
liberal. As we all now know from this presidential election, liberals have a
purpose agenda to discredit anything that appears to be conservative. There
has been much criticism lately over the internet with people pointing out the
Mikkelsons liberalism revealing itself in their website findings. Gee,
what a shock?
So, I say this now to everyone who goes to _http://www.snopes.com/_
(http://www.snopes.com/) to get what they think to be the bottom line facts ...
'proceed with caution.' Take what it says at face value and nothing more.
Use it only to lead you to their references where you can link to and read
the sources for yourself. Plus, you can always Google a subject and do the
research yourself. It now seems apparent that's all the Mikkelsons do.
After all, I can> personally vouch from my own experience for their 'not'
fully looking into things.
_http://www.wikipedia.org/_ (http://www.wikipedia.org/)
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/)
I have found this to be true also! Many videos of Obama I tried to verify
on Snopes and they said they were False... Then they gave their Liberal
slant...!!! I have suspected some problems with snopes for some time now, but
I have only caught them in half-truths. If there is any subjectivity they
do an immediate full left rudder. Truth or Fiction's web-site
_http://www.truthorfiction.
for verification, in my opinion.
I have recently discovered that is _http://www.snopes.com/_
(http://www.snopes.com/) owned by a flaming liberal and this man is in the tank for
Obama. There are many things they have listed on their site as a hoax and yet
you can go to YouTube yourself and find the video of Obama actually saying
these things. So you see, you cannot and should not trust
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) for anything that remotely resembles
truth (SIC ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO LIBERAL vs CONSERVATIVE CONCERNS)! I
don't even trust them to tell me if email chains are hoaxes anymore.
A few conservative speakers on MySpace told me about
_http://www..snopes.com/_ (http://www..snopes.com/) a few months ago and I took it upon myself to do a little research to find out if it was true. Well, I found out for myself that it is true. Anyway just FYI, please don't use
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) anymore for fact checking and make your
friends aware of their political leanings as well. Many people still think
_http://www.snopes.com/_ (http://www.snopes.com/) is neutral and they can be
trusted as factual. We need to make sure everyone is aware that that is a
hoax in itself.
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Communist Goals Achieved?
The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals
From Greg Swank
April 12, 2010
You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out. I first ran across this list 3 years ago but was unable to attain a copy and it has bothered me ever since. Recently, Jeff Rense posted it on his site and I would like to thank him for doing so.
http://www.rense.com
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Note by Webmaster: The Congressional Record back this far has not be digitized and posted on the Internet.
It will probably be available at your nearest library that is a federal repository. Call them and ask them. Your college library is probably a repository. This is an excellent source of government records. Another source are your Congress Critters. They should be more than happy to help you in this matter. You will find the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto interesting at this point.
Webmaster Forest Glen Durland found the document in the library.
Sources are listed below.
Microfilm: California State University at San Jose Clark Library, Government Floor Phone (408)924-2770
Microfilm Call Number: J 11.R5
Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix Pages A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12
1963- The Year That Changed America
By Greg Swank
12-4-2
Over the years, I have shared in debates and discussions regarding the current state of affairs in the U.S., and the changing social climate of this great nation. Since the "baby-boomer" generation, society and its culture have become noticeably different than the way it was 50 years ago. From the late 50's to the 70's a series of events took place contributing to the way we are currently living. However, like anything else, there has to be a starting point at which the wheels are put into motion. Sometimes it can be a single event, such as war, but more often, it is a series of events, some intentional, some planned, others unpredictable. There is always a pivotal point when things begin to change. I believe that time was 1963.
For my generation, some of the following will certainly stir old memories. If you born later, this may serve as a brief history lesson into the times your parents traveled through.
By 1963 television was the leading sources of entertainment. The public enjoyed a different type of programming back then. Lessons on life could be viewed weekly on "Leave it to Beaver" or "My Three Sons." There were hero's back then that never drew blood, "The Lone Ranger" and "The Adventures of Superman." Cartoon series evolved, such as, "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons" without messages of empowering the children, using vulgarities or demeaning parental guidance. Family's could spend a weekend evening watching "Ed Sullivan," "Bonanza" or "Gunsmoke." For those who enjoyed thrill and suspense, we were blessed with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and the "Twilight Zone." 'My Favorite Martian," "Ozzie and Harriet," "Donna Reed" and "Sea Hunt" also kept viewers entertained weekly.
Movie theaters were not multiplex units with 15 screens, rather, one single, giant big screen with adequate sound and hard seats without springs. "Tom Jones" had won the Academy award for best picture. "How The West Was Won," "Cleopatra," "Lily of the Fields," "The Great Escape," "The Birds," and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" were all box office hits.
By years end, "The Beatles" had played for the British Royal Family and were laying the groundwork to conquer the U.S. the following year. Eric Clapton began his journey to fame with Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty and their band, "The Yardbirds." Out on the west coast the surf was beginning to rock'n'roll with "The Beach Boys" and their first song to reach the top ten list, "Surfin' U.S.A."
"Joys of Jell-O" recipes for quivering florescent foodstuff hit the stores. U.S. Postal rates went up to five cents for the first ounce. AT&T introduced touch-tone telephones. The Yankees played in the World Series again; but lost to the Dodgers in four straight. The government and NASA began the Apollo program.
This is just a brief snapshot of some things that were going on back in 1963. Remember?
While some of these events played an important role in the direction of change that affect us today, many of them were lost to much greater, more political events, that I believe put everything into motion.
On January 10, 1963, the House of Representative and later the Senate began reviewing a document entitled "Communist Goals for Taking Over America." It contained an agenda of 45 separate issues that, in hindsight was quite shocking back then and equally shocking today. Here, in part, are some key points listed in that document.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.
>13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
You can see the entire list on this web page -
http://www.truthtrek.net/politics/takeover.htm
Now, I am not saying that the U.S. is under some kind of Communist control, but what I do find frightening, is of the 45 issues listed, nearly all of them have come to pass. Remember this was in January 1963.
In 1963 the news media showed women burning their bras as the women's liberation movement took off with the publishing of "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan. Martin Luther King was jailed in April and civil unrest was being brought to the forefront. On August 28th the media brought us live coverage of the march on Washington and Dr. Kings famous "I had a dream" speech. The Cuban missile crisis found its way in to our homes and our nation was gearing up for conflict.
By September of 1963 we had lost some very influential people, Pope John XXIII, Robert Frost, and country legend Patsy Cline, to name a few. In the early hours of November 22nd we learned of the quiet passing of C.S. Lewis and hours later we were brought to our knees when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and our nation mourned.
So you see, while long since forgotten, 1963 could very well have been, one of the most important years since our founding fathers provided us with the Constitution of the United States. Which brings me to one final and extremely important decision that was made during this most provocative year.
On June 17, 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that any Bible reciting or prayer, in public schools, was deemed unconstitutional.
While American's have endured great prosperity over the past 40 years we have also lost our moral compass and direction. In reviewing the research, data supports 1963 as a focal point, demonstrating a downward slope in our moral and social decline through 2001.
Certainly, one would have to agree that all of these events have had a profound impact on the way our current social structure has been changed. Personally, if I had to choose one specific event that has demonstrated the demoralization of our country, it would have to be the decision of the U.S Supreme Court in June of 1963.
But there is always "hope." As always, I welcome your comments and can easily be reached. Thanks for the response to "Daddy, What's Fluoride?" My email is:
greg (at) truthtrek.net
Comment
From Founders' America
foundersamerica (at) hotmail.com
12-7-2
Jeff...adding a couple of my own numbers:
__ 46. Import anti-white racists from the Third World, via an open-borders policy, then force their integration to divide and conquer white Western civilization in North America.
__ 47. Feminize and disarm both the citizenry and military; especially disarm white males.
From Greg Swank
April 12, 2010
You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out. I first ran across this list 3 years ago but was unable to attain a copy and it has bothered me ever since. Recently, Jeff Rense posted it on his site and I would like to thank him for doing so.
http://www.rense.com
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Note by Webmaster: The Congressional Record back this far has not be digitized and posted on the Internet.
It will probably be available at your nearest library that is a federal repository. Call them and ask them. Your college library is probably a repository. This is an excellent source of government records. Another source are your Congress Critters. They should be more than happy to help you in this matter. You will find the Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto interesting at this point.
Webmaster Forest Glen Durland found the document in the library.
Sources are listed below.
Microfilm: California State University at San Jose Clark Library, Government Floor Phone (408)924-2770
Microfilm Call Number: J 11.R5
Congressional Record, Vol. 109 88th Congress, 1st Session Appendix Pages A1-A2842 Jan. 9-May 7, 1963 Reel 12
1963- The Year That Changed America
By Greg Swank
12-4-2
Over the years, I have shared in debates and discussions regarding the current state of affairs in the U.S., and the changing social climate of this great nation. Since the "baby-boomer" generation, society and its culture have become noticeably different than the way it was 50 years ago. From the late 50's to the 70's a series of events took place contributing to the way we are currently living. However, like anything else, there has to be a starting point at which the wheels are put into motion. Sometimes it can be a single event, such as war, but more often, it is a series of events, some intentional, some planned, others unpredictable. There is always a pivotal point when things begin to change. I believe that time was 1963.
For my generation, some of the following will certainly stir old memories. If you born later, this may serve as a brief history lesson into the times your parents traveled through.
By 1963 television was the leading sources of entertainment. The public enjoyed a different type of programming back then. Lessons on life could be viewed weekly on "Leave it to Beaver" or "My Three Sons." There were hero's back then that never drew blood, "The Lone Ranger" and "The Adventures of Superman." Cartoon series evolved, such as, "The Flintstones" and "The Jetsons" without messages of empowering the children, using vulgarities or demeaning parental guidance. Family's could spend a weekend evening watching "Ed Sullivan," "Bonanza" or "Gunsmoke." For those who enjoyed thrill and suspense, we were blessed with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and the "Twilight Zone." 'My Favorite Martian," "Ozzie and Harriet," "Donna Reed" and "Sea Hunt" also kept viewers entertained weekly.
Movie theaters were not multiplex units with 15 screens, rather, one single, giant big screen with adequate sound and hard seats without springs. "Tom Jones" had won the Academy award for best picture. "How The West Was Won," "Cleopatra," "Lily of the Fields," "The Great Escape," "The Birds," and "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" were all box office hits.
By years end, "The Beatles" had played for the British Royal Family and were laying the groundwork to conquer the U.S. the following year. Eric Clapton began his journey to fame with Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Jim McCarty and their band, "The Yardbirds." Out on the west coast the surf was beginning to rock'n'roll with "The Beach Boys" and their first song to reach the top ten list, "Surfin' U.S.A."
"Joys of Jell-O" recipes for quivering florescent foodstuff hit the stores. U.S. Postal rates went up to five cents for the first ounce. AT&T introduced touch-tone telephones. The Yankees played in the World Series again; but lost to the Dodgers in four straight. The government and NASA began the Apollo program.
This is just a brief snapshot of some things that were going on back in 1963. Remember?
While some of these events played an important role in the direction of change that affect us today, many of them were lost to much greater, more political events, that I believe put everything into motion.
On January 10, 1963, the House of Representative and later the Senate began reviewing a document entitled "Communist Goals for Taking Over America." It contained an agenda of 45 separate issues that, in hindsight was quite shocking back then and equally shocking today. Here, in part, are some key points listed in that document.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.
>13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
You can see the entire list on this web page -
http://www.truthtrek.net/
Now, I am not saying that the U.S. is under some kind of Communist control, but what I do find frightening, is of the 45 issues listed, nearly all of them have come to pass. Remember this was in January 1963.
In 1963 the news media showed women burning their bras as the women's liberation movement took off with the publishing of "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan. Martin Luther King was jailed in April and civil unrest was being brought to the forefront. On August 28th the media brought us live coverage of the march on Washington and Dr. Kings famous "I had a dream" speech. The Cuban missile crisis found its way in to our homes and our nation was gearing up for conflict.
By September of 1963 we had lost some very influential people, Pope John XXIII, Robert Frost, and country legend Patsy Cline, to name a few. In the early hours of November 22nd we learned of the quiet passing of C.S. Lewis and hours later we were brought to our knees when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and our nation mourned.
So you see, while long since forgotten, 1963 could very well have been, one of the most important years since our founding fathers provided us with the Constitution of the United States. Which brings me to one final and extremely important decision that was made during this most provocative year.
On June 17, 1963 the U.S. Supreme Court concluded that any Bible reciting or prayer, in public schools, was deemed unconstitutional.
While American's have endured great prosperity over the past 40 years we have also lost our moral compass and direction. In reviewing the research, data supports 1963 as a focal point, demonstrating a downward slope in our moral and social decline through 2001.
Certainly, one would have to agree that all of these events have had a profound impact on the way our current social structure has been changed. Personally, if I had to choose one specific event that has demonstrated the demoralization of our country, it would have to be the decision of the U.S Supreme Court in June of 1963.
But there is always "hope." As always, I welcome your comments and can easily be reached. Thanks for the response to "Daddy, What's Fluoride?" My email is:
greg (at) truthtrek.net
Comment
From Founders' America
foundersamerica (at) hotmail.com
12-7-2
Jeff...adding a couple of my own numbers:
__ 46. Import anti-white racists from the Third World, via an open-borders policy, then force their integration to divide and conquer white Western civilization in North America.
__ 47. Feminize and disarm both the citizenry and military; especially disarm white males.
What is Jewish Person?
As a general principle, Jewish holidays are divided between days on
which you must starve and days on which you must overeat.
Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year,
based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are
ritually purified, you definitely aren't.
Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring
light snacking.
Note: Unlike Christians, who simply attend church on special days (e.g.
Ash Wednesday), on Jewish holidays most Jews take the whole day off.
This is because Jews, for historical and personal reasons, are more
stressed out.
The Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays:
Rosh Hashanah ------- Feast
Tzom Gedalia ----------- Fast
Yom Kippur -------------- More fasting
Sukkot -------------------- Feast for a week +
Hashanah Rabbah ---- More feasting
Simchat Torah --------- Keep right on feasting
Month of Heshvan ----- No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on
yourself.
Hanukkah ---------------- Eat potato pancakes
Tenth of Tevet --------- Do not eat potato pancakes
Tu B'Shevat ------------ Feast
Fast of Esther ---------Fast
Purim --------------------- Eat pastry
Passover ---------------- Do not eat pastry for a week
Shavuot ------------------ Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes, etc.)
17th of Tammuz -------- Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes)
Tish B'Av ----------------- Serious fast (don't even think about
cheesecake or blintzes)
Month of Elul ------------ End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating
Disorders before High Holidays arrive again.
There are many forms of Judaism:
Cardiac Judaism ---------- in my heart I am a Jew.
Gastronomic Judaism --- we eat Jewish foods.
Pocketbook Judaism ----- I give to Jewish causes.
Drop-off Judaism --------- drop the kids off at Sunday School; go out to
breakfast.
Twice a Year Judaism -- attend service Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
You know you grew up Jewish when:
You did not respond to the teacher calling roll on the first day of
school because you thought your name was "Princess".
You've had at least one female relative who drew eyebrows on her face that
were always asymmetrical.
You spent your entire childhood thinking that everyone calls roast beef
"brisket."
Your family dog responds to complaints uttered in Yiddish.
Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your
grandparents.
You've experienced the phenomena of 50 people fitting into a 10-foot-wide
dining room hitting each other with plastic plates & forks trying to get
to a deli tray.
You thought pasta was the stuff used exclusively for kugel and kasha with
bowties.
You watched Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan every Sunday night.
You were as tall as your grandmother by age seven.
You never knew anyone whose last name didn't end in one of 6 standard
suffixes (-man,-witz, -berg, -stein, -blatt or -baum).
You grew up and were surprised to find out that wine doesn't always taste
like year-old cranberry sauce.
You can look at gefilte fish without turning green.
You grew up thinking there was a fish called lox.
You can understand some Yiddish but you can't speak it.
You know how to pronounce numerous Yiddish words and use them correctly
in context, yet you don't exactly know what they mean.
Is that Kenahurra or is that kaninehurra? (I say it's kenahurra)
You have at least one ancestor who is related to your spouse's ancestor.
You grew up thinking it was normal for someone to shout "Are you okay? Are
you okay?" through the bathroom door if you were in there for longer than
3 minutes. *MY # 1 LOL Favorite....!
You have at least six male relatives named Michael or David.
Your grandparent's furniture smelled like mothballs, was covered in
plastic and was as comfortable as sitting on sandpaper.
Baruch Hashem and G-d willing, may you have a day full of mazel and shalom! + GELT & GLICKLUCH!
Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year,
based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are
ritually purified, you definitely aren't.
Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring
light snacking.
Note: Unlike Christians, who simply attend church on special days (e.g.
Ash Wednesday), on Jewish holidays most Jews take the whole day off.
This is because Jews, for historical and personal reasons, are more
stressed out.
The Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays:
Rosh Hashanah ------- Feast
Tzom Gedalia ----------- Fast
Yom Kippur -------------- More fasting
Sukkot -------------------- Feast for a week +
Hashanah Rabbah ---- More feasting
Simchat Torah --------- Keep right on feasting
Month of Heshvan ----- No feasts or fasts for a whole month. Get a grip on
yourself.
Hanukkah ---------------- Eat potato pancakes
Tenth of Tevet --------- Do not eat potato pancakes
Tu B'Shevat ------------ Feast
Fast of Esther ---------Fast
Purim --------------------- Eat pastry
Passover ---------------- Do not eat pastry for a week
Shavuot ------------------ Dairy feast (cheesecake, blintzes, etc.)
17th of Tammuz -------- Fast (definitely no cheesecake or blintzes)
Tish B'Av ----------------- Serious fast (don't even think about
cheesecake or blintzes)
Month of Elul ------------ End of cycle. Enroll in Center for Eating
Disorders before High Holidays arrive again.
There are many forms of Judaism:
Cardiac Judaism ---------- in my heart I am a Jew.
Gastronomic Judaism --- we eat Jewish foods.
Pocketbook Judaism ----- I give to Jewish causes.
Drop-off Judaism --------- drop the kids off at Sunday School; go out to
breakfast.
Twice a Year Judaism -- attend service Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
You know you grew up Jewish when:
You did not respond to the teacher calling roll on the first day of
school because you thought your name was "Princess".
You've had at least one female relative who drew eyebrows on her face that
were always asymmetrical.
You spent your entire childhood thinking that everyone calls roast beef
"brisket."
Your family dog responds to complaints uttered in Yiddish.
Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting your
grandparents.
You've experienced the phenomena of 50 people fitting into a 10-foot-wide
dining room hitting each other with plastic plates & forks trying to get
to a deli tray.
You thought pasta was the stuff used exclusively for kugel and kasha with
bowties.
You watched Lawrence Welk and Ed Sullivan every Sunday night.
You were as tall as your grandmother by age seven.
You never knew anyone whose last name didn't end in one of 6 standard
suffixes (-man,-witz, -berg, -stein, -blatt or -baum).
You grew up and were surprised to find out that wine doesn't always taste
like year-old cranberry sauce.
You can look at gefilte fish without turning green.
You grew up thinking there was a fish called lox.
You can understand some Yiddish but you can't speak it.
You know how to pronounce numerous Yiddish words and use them correctly
in context, yet you don't exactly know what they mean.
Is that Kenahurra or is that kaninehurra? (I say it's kenahurra)
You have at least one ancestor who is related to your spouse's ancestor.
You grew up thinking it was normal for someone to shout "Are you okay? Are
you okay?" through the bathroom door if you were in there for longer than
3 minutes. *MY # 1 LOL Favorite....!
You have at least six male relatives named Michael or David.
Your grandparent's furniture smelled like mothballs, was covered in
plastic and was as comfortable as sitting on sandpaper.
Baruch Hashem and G-d willing, may you have a day full of mazel and shalom! + GELT & GLICKLUCH!
Pfizer Provides Millions to Doctors
Pfizer Pays Out Millions to Doctors
Source: New York Times, March 31, 2010
Pfizer, the world's biggest drug company, says it paid 4,500 doctors and other medical professionals about $20 million total in professional fees for services like consulting and speaking on behalf of the company, in just the last six months of 2009. During the same period, Pfizer also paid $15.3 million to 250 academic medical centers and other research groups for clinical trials. The payments to medical professionals were required by an agreement the company signed last August to settle a federal investigation into the illegal promotion of drugs for off-label use. Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline made similar disclosures. As part of the new health care reform legislation, starting in 2012, makers of drug and medical devices will have to disclose any payments greater than $10.00 made to doctors, with the first reports becoming available in 2013. The provision is called the Physician Payment Sunshine Act. Eric G. Campbell, lead author of a 2007 study of physician-industry relationships published in the New England Journal of Medicine said, "I think it's a good thing to do, but I put absolutely no trust in what drug companies voluntarily disclose to the public when those things are unaudited." Campbell said drug companies were making the disclosures to try and get ahead of a rising tide of public opinion in favor of disclosure.
Filibuster for Me But Not for Thee
[From article]
"24 Democrats including Leahy, President Obama and Vice President Biden all supported a filibuster of the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito to the Court."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36476
"24 Democrats including Leahy, President Obama and Vice President Biden all supported a filibuster of the nomination of Justice Samuel Alito to the Court."
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36476
04/12/2010
April 11, 2010
Obama's Bias Favoring Islam
http://bigjournalism.com/fross/2010/04/10/did-the-obama-administrations-new-approach-to-islam-begin-at-a-press-conference/
Did the Obama Administration’s New Approach to Islam Begin At a Press Conference?
Posted by Frank RossBigJournalism.com
Apr 10th 2010 at 7:05 pm in Mainstream Media,
Liberal Racism
http://biggovernment.com/mcrowley/2010/04/10/voicemails-expose-lefts-racism/
[Audio clips embedded]
BigGovernment.com
April 10, 2010
[Audio clips embedded]
Voicemails Expose Left’s Racism
by Monica CrowleyBigGovernment.com
April 10, 2010
Obama Favors Arabs for Nuclear Sciences
http://bigjournalism.com/pgeller/2010/04/10/msm-american-jews-looks-the-other-way-as-obama-wages-diplomatic-jihad-against-israel/
BigJournalism.com
Apr 10th 2010 at 11:48 am in Politics, journalism
MSM, American Jews Look the Other Way As Obama Wages Diplomatic Jihad Against Israel
Posted by Pamela GellerBigJournalism.com
Apr 10th 2010 at 11:48 am in Politics, journalism
Culture War Continues
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36428
The New Intolerance
04/09/2010
Obama Denies Visas to Israeli Scientists
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2010/04/08/breaking-obama-administration-denies-visas-to-israeli-nuclear-scientists/
April 8th, 2010 12:27 pm
Pajamas Media
UPDATED: Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear Scientists
April 8, 2010
MA Man Arrested for Texting While Driving in NH
http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=A+first%3f+Texting+while+driving+leads+to+arrest&articleId=b93e497f-3f11-4c1e-a4ef-25a46096f198
A first? Texting while driving leads to arrest
By DERRICK PERKINS
Union Leader Correspondent
Wednesday, Apr. 7, 2010
Diplomat Tries to Light Up In Flight
This diplomat allegedly tried to have a cigarette in the bathroom. When confronted he joked that he was trying to light up his shoe. Two jets scrambled. FBI said no charges would be filed. What about the cost of the jets? Is this one more example of no accountability for upper class elitist people?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100408/ap_on_re_us/us_plane_disturbance
AP source: Man on flight trying to sneak smoke
By IVAN MORENO and DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press WritersApril 8, 2010
April 7, 2010
Mexican Cartels Threaten US Police
[From article]
"Aztecas have been known to kill for as little as $100. Since 2006, drug violence across Mexico has claimed nearly 18,000 lives."
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/06/mexican-assassin-teams-target-law-enforcement/?test=latestnews
Updated April 06, 2010
Mexican 'Assassin Teams' May Target U.S. Law Enforcement, DHS Warns
By Joshua Rhett MillerFOXNews.com
The People Are Angry
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100407/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_pelosi_threats
AP sources: FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosi
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Apr 7, 4:26 pm ET
AP sources: FBI arrests man for threatening Pelosi
By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer
Wed Apr 7, 4:26 pm ET
NBA Vs NFL
| NBA versus NFL
|
How Old are You?
[Unknown source]
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you
were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down
together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate
I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I
had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood
if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set
foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.
The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we
never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds,
and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at
midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came
back on the air at about 6 a..m. and there was usually a locally produced
news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie..'
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid
off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's
still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party
line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people
you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
--my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a
paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His
favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the
change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be
home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly
produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most
anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren Just
don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my
daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or
something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board
to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11... TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels.... [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
'Someone asked the other day, 'What was your favorite fast food when you
were growing up?'
'We didn't have fast food when I was growing up,' I informed him.
'All the food was slow.'
'C'mon, seriously. Where did you eat?'
'It was a place called 'at home,'' I explained. !
'Mom cooked every day and when Dad got home from work, we sat down
together at the dining room table, and if I didn't like what she put on my plate
I was allowed to sit there until I did like it.'
By this time, the kid was laughing so hard I was afraid he was going to
suffer serious internal damage, so I didn't tell him the part about how I
had to have permission to leave the table.
But here are some other things I would have told him about my childhood
if I figured his system could have handled it :
Some parents NEVER owned their own house, never wore Levis, never set
foot on a golf course, never traveled out of the country or had a credit card.
In their later years they had something called a revolving charge card.
The card was good only at Sears Roebuck. Or maybe it was Sears & Roebuck.
Either way, there is no Roebuck anymore. Maybe he died.
My parents never drove me to soccer practice. This was mostly because we
never had heard of soccer. I had a bicycle that weighed probably 50 pounds,
and only had one speed, (slow)
We didn't have a television in our house until I was 19.
It was, of course, black and white, and the station went off the air at
midnight, after playing the national anthem and a poem about God; it came
back on the air at about 6 a..m. and there was usually a locally produced
news and farm show on, featuring local people.
I was 21 before I tasted my first pizza, it was called 'pizza pie..'
When I bit into it, I burned the roof of my mouth and the cheese slid
off, swung down, plastered itself against my chin and burned that, too. It's
still the best pizza I ever had.
I never had a telephone in my room.
The only phone in the house was in the living room and it was on a party
line. Before you could dial, you had to listen and make sure some people
you didn't know weren't already using the line.
Pizzas were not delivered to our home But milk was.
All newspapers were delivered by boys and all boys delivered newspapers
--my brother delivered a newspaper, six days a week. It cost 7 cents a
paper, of which he got to keep 2 cents. He had to get up at 6AM every morning.
On Saturday, he had to collect the 42 cents from his customers. His
favorite customers were the ones who gave him 50 cents and told him to keep the
change. His least favorite customers were the ones who seemed to never be
home on collection day.
Movie stars kissed with their mouths shut. At least, they did in the
movies. There were no movie ratings because all movies were responsibly
produced for everyone to enjoy viewing, without profanity or violence or most
anything offensive.
If you grew up in a generation before there was fast food, you may want
to share some of these memories with your children or grandchildren Just
don't blame me if they bust a gut laughing.
Growing up isn't what it used to be, is it?
MEMORIES from a friend :
My Dad is cleaning out my grandmother's house (she died in December) and
he brought me an old Royal Crown Cola bottle. In the bottle top was a
stopper with a bunch of holes in it.. I knew immediately what it was, but my
daughter had no idea. She thought they had tried to make it a salt shaker or
something. I knew it as the bottle that sat on the end of the ironing board
to 'sprinkle' clothes with because we didn't have steam irons. Man, I am old.
How many do you remember?
Head lights dimmer switches on the floor.
Ignition switches on the dashboard.
Heaters mounted on the inside of the fire wall.
Real ice boxes.
Pant leg clips for bicycles without chain guards.
Soldering irons you heat on a gas burner.
Using hand signals for cars without turn signals.
Older Than Dirt Quiz : Count all the ones that you remember not the ones you were told about. Ratings at the bottom.
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2.Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
5. Coffee shops or diners with tableside juke boxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
7. Party lines on the telephone
8 Newsreels before the movie
9. P.F. Flyers
10. Butch wax
11... TV test patterns that came on at night after the last show and were there until TV shows started again in the morning. (there were only 3 channels.... [if you were fortunate])
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S& H greenstamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with lever
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulb
20. Packards
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers
If you remembered 0-5 = You're still young
If you remembered 6-10 = You are getting older
If you remembered 11-15 = Don't tell your age,
If you remembered 16-25 = You' re older than dirt!
Cambridge MA Climate Emergency
http://www.redstate.com/vladimir/2010/02/13/this-is-the-gaian-workers-paradise-of-cambridge-welcome/
This is The Gaian Workers’ Paradise of Cambridge. Welcome.
'The City of Cambridge should plant more fruit and nut trees to be harvested by residents.' [Insert punchline here.]Saturday, February 13th at 11:30AM EST
2010 GM Car
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Muslim Protest in UK
Pictures from London ~ this is beyond scary...
Makes you wonder doesn't it...can you imagine having a Christian demonstration against Islam in downtown Baghdad ?
These pictures are of Muslims marching through the STREETS OF LONDON during their recent ' Religion of Peace Demonstration. '
Why would anyone think that we should be at war with such nice, peaceful Muslims?!
You need to forward this one to everyone! These pictures tell it all!
Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over!
These are pictures not shown on American TV or in American Newspapers, but were forwarded by a Canadian who thought all Americans ought to know!
Makes you wonder doesn't it...can you imagine having a Christian demonstration against Islam in downtown Baghdad ?
These pictures are of Muslims marching through the STREETS OF LONDON during their recent ' Religion of Peace Demonstration. '
Why would anyone think that we should be at war with such nice, peaceful Muslims?!
You need to forward this one to everyone! These pictures tell it all!
Muslims have stated that England will be the first country they take over!
These are pictures not shown on American TV or in American Newspapers, but were forwarded by a Canadian who thought all Americans ought to know!
Dog For Sale
Dog For Sale
Free to good home. Excellent guard dog. Owner cannot afford to feed him anymore, as there are no more drug pushers, thieves, murderers, or molesters left in the neighborhood for him to eat.. Most of them knew him as 'Holyshit!'
Human Experiments at U of Pennsylvania
Dr. Howard Kligman died in February 2010.
He was the main organizer of unauthorized human subject experimentation at the Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. The book, "Acres of Skin" refers to a statement made by Kligman, when asked why he did this illegal and unauthorized human subject experimentation at the Holmesburg Prison.
His answer was because I had, "acres of skin" before me.
There was also atomic energy department (AED) (now the nuclear regulatory commission NRC) testing at Holmesburg. Many of these inmate victims became infertile as a result of these experiments. There was documented MK Ultra experimentation performed in "Army tents" at Holmesburg during these years.
Kligman developed "retin A" as a result of these nonconsensual experimentations. He died a very wealthy man.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper was part of the group that exposed this shocking human experimentation. The Headline spoke of "human guinea pigs" at Holmesburg Prison.
He was the main organizer of unauthorized human subject experimentation at the Holmesburg Prison in Philadelphia. The book, "Acres of Skin" refers to a statement made by Kligman, when asked why he did this illegal and unauthorized human subject experimentation at the Holmesburg Prison.
His answer was because I had, "acres of skin" before me.
There was also atomic energy department (AED) (now the nuclear regulatory commission NRC) testing at Holmesburg. Many of these inmate victims became infertile as a result of these experiments. There was documented MK Ultra experimentation performed in "Army tents" at Holmesburg during these years.
Kligman developed "retin A" as a result of these nonconsensual experimentations. He died a very wealthy man.
The Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper was part of the group that exposed this shocking human experimentation. The Headline spoke of "human guinea pigs" at Holmesburg Prison.
Irreplaceable Michelle Obama
Replacing Michelle
At the top right hand corner of page 17 of the New York Post, January 24, 2009, was a column entitled, "Replacing Michelle " in the National Review, The Week.
Here it is, as it appeared, below:
"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run 'programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting'.
In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 - nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.
Her husband, Barak Obama, had just become a US Senator. He requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle !
Now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000 ?
Let me add that Michelle 's position was a part time, 20 hour a week job."
My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files?
I hope this is forwarded so many times that the media will HAVE to cover it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
Depression is when you lose your job.
Recovery is when Obama loses his job!
Here it is, as it appeared, below:
"Some employees are simply irreplaceable. Take Michelle Obama: The University of Chicago Medical center hired her in 2002 to run 'programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, volunteer recruitment, staff diversity and minority contracting'.
In 2005 the hospital raised her salary from $120,000 to $317,000 - nearly twice what her husband made as a Senator.
Her husband, Barak Obama, had just become a US Senator. He requested a $1 million earmark for the UC Medical Center, in fact. Way to network, Michelle !
Now that Mrs. Obama has resigned, the hospital says her position will remain unfilled. How can that be, if the work she did was vital enough to be worth $317,000 ?
Let me add that Michelle 's position was a part time, 20 hour a week job."
My thoughts: How did this bit of quid pro quo corruption escape the sharp reporters that dug through Sarah Palin's garbage and kindergarten files?
I hope this is forwarded so many times that the media will HAVE to cover it.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job.
Depression is when you lose your job.
Recovery is when Obama loses his job!
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