This past weekend witnessed a trifecta of momentous anniversaries.  Katrina happened 5 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” on the Washington Mall 47 years ago, and Mother Teresa was born a century ago.

Monday:  Katrina;  Tuesday:  “I Have a Dream;”  Today:  Mother Teresa

After spending a great deal of time on and devoting a good deal of space to the two previous subjects in this series on recent anniversaries, 2005′s devastating Hurricane Katrina and the world-changing 1963 “I Have a Dream” speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I had looked forward to … Read the rest

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This past weekend witnessed a trifecta of momentous anniversaries.  Katrina happened 5 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” on the Washington Mall 47 years ago, and Mother Teresa was born a century ago.

Yesterday:  Katrina;  Today:  “I Have a Dream;”  Tomorrow:  Mother Teresa

   Forty seven years ago, on August 28th, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered what must stand as one of the most quoted speeches in American history and one of the most important speeches of the twentieth century.

Tens of thousands remembered and commemorated that address on Saturday with a … Read the rest

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This past weekend witnessed a trifecta of momentous anniversaries.  Katrina happened 5 years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his “I Have a Dream Speech” on the Washington Mall 47 years ago, and Mother Teresa was born a century ago.

  It is already five years since August 29th, 2005, since the incredibly devastating Category 3 hurricane Katrina, the costliest storm in our history,  the deadliest storm to strike the United States in 83 years, all but wiped out much of the City of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward as well as laying waste to vast other areas of the Gulf … Read the rest

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  “V-A-See-A-T-I-O-N, we’re on vacation, we’re gonna have a ball!” (Connie Francis)

It may be antiquated and not “with it” today but a popular back-to-school, first week assignment to get kids back to the grind used to be to have them write about how they spent their summer vacations.  Most kids could write at least something on that easy topic.

If little Barry Obama were heading back to classes following summer vacation 2010, he would have a lot to write about.  If he included where and how he spent this year’s vacations, to date, he could almost literally write volumes.

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  As thousands of mortgagors, many of whom wouldn’t qualify for mortgages in the real world, line up to be bailed out by the feds, as the nation’s recession birth rate falls to 2.7%, the lowest in a century, as Joint Chief of Staffs Chairman Mike Mullen warns that the national debt is endangering national security, President Nero Obama fiddles away, chows down on shrimp and lobster, golfs, parties with the other rich and famous on Martha’s Vineyard, and generally enjoys the hell out of his sixth vacation this year.

Is anyone minding the ranch?  It certainly isn’t our vice president … Read the rest

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The following is an admittedly ineffectual effort to come to an understanding of the meaning behind prevailing anti-Obama sentiment as revealed in two pictures.  Since the pics are not visible on all websites, I’ll also attempt to provide sufficient detail about them so that the reader knows what he’s missing.

A)  The first photo depicts a fairly attractive, blond woman in her thirties or forties possibly attending an anti-Obama rally while sporting a white print on a black tee shirt that clearly reflects her political feelings: It reads in bold lettering: ”OBAMA SUCKS.”

Absent a confirmed statement by the wearer, … Read the rest

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(Received as an e-mail and slightly modified)

  For those that don’t know anything about history, the following is a condensed version:  Humans originally existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunters/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains during the summer and would go to the coast and live on fish and lobster in the winter. 

The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented to get man to the beer. These were the foundations of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for … Read the rest

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Perhaps I shoudn’t ask the question, “What’s a mother to do?” since I’m a father not a mother.  However, a male colleague used to ask that question not as a query but as an expression of frustration as to what anyone can do in response to the conditions and state of the world today.

The short answer is that a mother, or father, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, cousin, can’t do very much if anything but it’s nevertheless fulfilling to speculate on what we should do under certain sets of circumstances.

Would that we average joes and josies could do things, … Read the rest

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“Police say it’s ‘very possible’ attacks near [the Iowa State] fairgrounds had racial overtones:” Tom Alex, “public safety reporter,” DesMoinesRegister.com

That classic example of contemporary journalism’s and contemporary journalists’ lack of backbone is characteristic of how the mainstream media deals with certain racial incidents and criminal activities in America’s and President Obama’s apocryphal post-racial atmosphere.

  Following stabbings on August 14th, last weekend two cops were injured as were an unspecified number of civilians, three people were arrested, and a number taken into custody and later released after groups of marauding teenagers and young adults, males and females, caused havoc in … Read the rest

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I’m about as sick of writing about mosques, Muslims, Sharia, Islam, Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, and Muhammad as readers are sick of reading and hearing about them.   

Yet to suspend attention to them at what might be the most critical juncture in America’s history is to surrender to those forces dedicated to the defeat and dismantling of America as we know it.

Symbolized by the Ground Zero Monster Mosque, Muslims and Islam, with Rauf acting as their commander, are intent on capitalizing on their victory of September 11th, 2001, defeating America in our decades-long war on terror, and subjugating Americans … Read the rest

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