We remember Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)

We remember Humphrey Bogart who was born in New York on this day in 1899.  He died in 1957.  

Over the years, Bogart became one of the legendary actors of Hollywood, from "Casablanca" and "The treasure of Sierra Madre".   

A great actor!

P.S.  You can listen to my show (Canto Talk).  If you like our posts, click send drop a dime here.

---

Tags: We remember Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957) To share or post to your site, click on "Post Link". Please mention / link to the My View by Silvio Canto, Jr. Thanks!

President Bush and historians

Historians will eventually look back at President Bush.  Frankly, we don't know what they will write.

Of course, I voted for Pres. Bush in 2000 and 2004.

Pres. Bush correctly identified an enemy and fought back.

In my view, Pres. Bush will be remembered as the Winston Churchill of our times, the man who told us what we did not want to hear!

Also, Pres. Bush shares a quality with our great presidents. He was not afraid to make unpopular decisions. This was a sharp contrast with Pres. Clinton who had polls for breakfast every morning.

You may recall that a liberal Democrat supported Pres. Bush's re-election in 2004. Take a look at Why President Bush is a Hero By Ed Koch:

"George Bush is a hero to me because he has courage. The President does what he believes to be in the best interest of the United States. He sticks with his beliefs, no matter how intense the criticism and invective that are directed against him every day."

Koch was right.  My guess is that historians will agree with Mr. Koch.

 P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.

October 2004: Our first blog post

How about a little history?

We started this blog on October 29, 2004 by predicting the reelection of Bush 52-47% and about 300 electoral votes. It turned out 51-48% and 286 EVs. I was wrong about New Jersey. I thought that New Jersey would flip for Bush because of all of the corruption and Democrat scandals in that state.

Keep reading the blog.   I don’t offend anyone but I tell you where I stand.   Again, we thank you for your support!    

P.S.  You can listen to my show (Canto Talk).  If you like our posts, click send drop a dime here.

My first post from 2004: Bush will win

(This is my first post from the blog)

Bush will win.

The popular vote will be 52-47. It may be closer, such as 50-49, if Kerry wins California and New York by over 15 points.

New Jersey is a Bush surprise. Gore won NJ by over 15 points!

Add Pennsylvania to that surprise list.

The electoral college will put Bush at around 300 votes.

P.S. The final vote was 51-48% and President Bush got 286 Electoral votes.    So I was pretty close!

September 2004: CBS and the fake Bush documents

We remember September 2004 and one of the biggest media blunders in recent memory.  

During the 2004 election, CBS broke a story about George W. Bush’s military service.  Eventually, they had to retract it and apologize because the story was wrong.

And that was it.  Dan Rather was finished and a massive hit on President Bush blew up in their faces.  Rather could never recover and moved on.

P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.

We remember Bobby Avila (1924-2004)

Roberto Francisco (Gonzales) Avila was born on this day in Veracruz in 1924.     

We remember him as Bobby Avila, the first Mexican to win a major league batting title.  

Bobby broke with the Indians in 1949 and became Cleveland's regular second baseman in 1951:   .304 average, 10 HR & 58 RBI.

In 1954, Bobby led the AL in batting (.341) and was a key part of the Cleveland team that won 111 games but lost to the Giants in the World Series.

Overall, he hit .284 in 10 seasons with the Indians with 1,236 hits in 1,207 games.   

After baseball, Bobby went back to Veracruz, ran a baseball team and was elected Mayor in 1982.

He was ranked # 26 among the 100 greatest Indians ever.      He died in 2004.

P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.

---

Spain's 3-11, many years later

We remember the day that terrorism came to Spain or when 191 people were killed and 2,000 injured. 

Some call it "3-11" or "11 de Marzo".  It happened when 10 bombs exploded in the busy morning rush hour.

Within hours, candidate Rodriguez-Zapatero of the left was running around blaming Prime Minister José María Aznar and the Spanish government’s support of the Iraq war.  Zapatero, as we known him the West, took a shot at everybody but said little about the criminal terrorists who set off the bombs. 

Three days later, the left was back in power with a plurality of the vote.

Today, there are no Spanish troops in Iraq.  We can not say the same about terrorist cells in Spain!     

 

P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.

2004: How Dan Rather got lots of us to start blogging

Back in September 2004, many of us were trying out to figure out this new medium of “blogging”.   Finally, it was Dan Rather and that awful story about President George W. Bush that got me started for good.

During the ’04 election, I warned my liberal friends outside of Texas to avoid the Bush military service story. 

As I told them on the phone, or even some media people who called for interviews or reactions, the story surfaced in 1994 when George W. Bush challenged incumbent Governor Anne Richards. 

It came out during the campaign and Bush answered some questions. Richards dropped it, in the same way that Al Gore killed it in 2000. 

I warned my liberal friends to stay away from this story, because it was not a story.  It was a lot of nonsense promoted by people with an anti-Bush agenda rather than reporting the truth.

I said: Don’t fall for this garbage.   

But my liberal friends are bad listeners. They should listen to me more often. 

The liberals of 2004 could not avoid "the red meat" of an anti-Bush story.

They fell for it like a bunch of suckers eating out of Karl Rove’s hand. 

And so they learned the hard way that the story was nonsense, as many of us had warned them!  

Eventually, they had to admit that the documents could not verified. 

I was so angry at that CBS story back in 2004 that I decided to “blog post” my opinions. 

Thank you, Dan Rather!

 P.S.  Check out my blog for posts, podcasts and videos. If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.