CBC and 9-11. US oil deal with Venezuela. Democrats say bye bye to Piker. We remember Dolly Parton.

 

CBC and 9-11.  US oil deal with Venezuela.  Democrats say bye bye to Piker.  We remember Dolly Parton.....

The CBC goes Piker?

The CBC goes Piker?:

Canada is no longer the same country it was on September 11, 2001, and its recent memo about that grim day shows how far Canada has fallen.

Click to read:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/the-cbc-goes-piker/

August 1968: "Classical gas" and other great songs on the radio this week

Mason Williams & others had a big hit on the radio this week in August 1968:

  1. People Got to Be Free - The Rascals (Atlantic) 
  2. Classical Gas - Mason Williams (Warner Brothers)            
  3. Turn Around, Look at Me - The Vogues (Reprise)              
  4. Light My Fire - Jose Feliciano (RCA)                        
  5. Hello, I Love You - The Doors (Elektra)                     
  6. Sunshine of Your Love - Cream (Atco)                        
  7. Stoned Soul Picnic - The 5th Dimension (Soul City)          
  8. Hurdy Gurdy Man - Donovan (Epic)                            
  9. Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf (Dunhill)                    
 10. Dream a Little Dream of Me - Mama Cass (Dunhill)           
 11. Pictures of Matchstick Men - The Status Quo (Cadet Concept) 
 12. Love Makes a Woman - Barbara Acklin (Brunswick)            
 13. Soul-Limbo - Booker T. & the MG's (Stax)                   
 14. You're All I Need to Get By -                                
                            Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell (Tamla) 
 15. Journey to the Center of the Mind -                          
                                   The Amboy Dukes (Mainstream) 
 16. I Can't Stop Dancing - Archie Bell & the Drells (Atlantic) 
 17. Stay In My Corner - The Dells (Cadet)                      
 18. The House that Jack Built - Aretha Franklin (Atlantic)     
 19. Mr. Businessman - Ray Stevens (Monument)                   
 20. The Fool On the Hill - Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (A&M) 

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Happy # 76 Doug DeCinces (the man who replaced Brooks Robinson)

Doug DeCinces was born on this day in 1950.   Doug broke with the Orioles in 1973 and became a regular in 1976 replacing Brooks Robinson.   In 1977, DeCinces hit 18 HR and 28 HR the next season,    He was traded to the Angels and hit 30 HR in 1982.    We will always remember him as the man who replaced the legendary Robinson.

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1964: LEAVING CUBA 50-PLUS YEARS AGO WITH ORESTES MATACENA

We recorded this November 2014............ 

LEAVING CUBA AGO WITH ORESTES MATACENA....Listen in now at........

Listen to "Leaving Cuba 50 years ago with Orestes Matacena" on Spreaker.

We remember Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)

The beautiful and talented Ingrid Bergman was born on August 29, 1915 and died on the same day in 1982.   

Her film debut was David O. Selznick’s Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939).  In 1942, she made "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart.   Then came "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1943 and few others.  

Her movies were great!   Watch one today.

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US & Canada madness plus more

 

The US-Canada "trade war", as some are calling it, keeps getting sillier by the minute.  PM Carney should release the text and settle the matter.  The CBC is not saying that their reporters should not refer to 9-11 as terrorism.  We remember "I have a dream" speech 1963.......

Too much about Trump, not too much about Canada

Too much about Trump, not too much about Canada:

Canada may have its pride, but sometimes pride leads people to cut off their noses to spite their faces, and that seems to be its current trajectory with Trump.

Click to read: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/too-much-about-trump-not-too-much-about-canada/

Race before it went woke

(My new American Thinker post)

On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. touched a nerve with the following words:

"I have a dream....that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  I have a dream today."

We remember it today as the "I Have a Dream" speech delivered before 250,000 people at the March on Washington.  

A year later, we passed the Civil Rights Act and other legislation intended to eliminate discrimination based on race.  

Our family landed in the U.S. in the fall of 1964.  I can still remember my late father speaking in glowing terms about how the U.S. corrected its mistakes and brought everyone into the fold.   He would say something like "what other in the country has done anything like that?"

That was then, and this is now.  Have we made progress on race relations?  The easy answer is 'yes' but there is something in the air today that makes me wonder.    

For example, look at Brown University:   

Brown University has expanded eligibility for a teacher training class after initially restricting enrollment exclusively to racial and ethnic minorities.

The "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction" teacher training course at the Rhode Island-based Ivy League school had initially been restricted to "BIPOC" students. BIPOC is an acronym for black, indigenous, and people of color.

Translation: Whites can apply.   

Second, let's look at what's happening at American Express, a company that has apparently gone woke:   

A former American Express employee on Tuesday sued the credit card company, alleging that he was fired because he is white and objected to the company's "racially discriminatory" policies, Fox Business reports.

Brian Netzel, who lost his job in 2020 after 10 years at American Express, filed a class-action complaint against the credit card giant. He said he and other white employees faced discrimination because of the company's "diversity" efforts.     

American Express poured billions of dollars into "antiracism" policies in the aftermath of George Floyd's death in 2020. Earlier this month, the company pledged to devote an additional $3 billion to a "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan."

According to Netzel's lawsuit, American Express's implementation of these "antiracism" policies "gave preferential treatment to individuals for being black and unambiguously signaled to white employees that their race was an impediment to getting ahead in the company."

Executives were given monetary incentives to "decrease the percentage of white employees in their departments."

Once upon a time, we used to say that two wrongs don't make a right.  Honestly, I would not be surprised if we see more of these lawsuits in other companies.  I've heard about these "diversity training" programs and it's woke all the way.

Where are we so many years since Dr. King told us to focus on character rather than race?   We are focusing too much on race and that is wrong and poisonous.

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Mrs. Clinton & Democrats, US-Canada talks, Pres. Trump to Texas plus LBJ

 

Mrs. Clinton and what's going on with Democrats, US-Canada talks not moving forward, Pres. Trump to Texas plus we remember  the late President Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-73).