Thursday, December 30, 2004

Martin Dihigo, Cuban American success story



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Guest: Fernando Hernandez, author of "The Cubans".  We discussed the life and times of Martin Dihigo, Cuban baseball player and member of the Baseball Hall of Fame..........

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Tuesday, December 28, 2004

A couple of recent presidents who died on this day



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We remember two amazing men of the Midwest who died on this day.   

President Truman died in 1972:

Truman served as president for two terms from 1945 to 1953, when he and his wife Bess happily retired to Independence, Missouri, where he referred to himself jokingly as “Mr. Citizen.” He was hospitalized on December 4, 1972, with lung congestion, heart irregularity, kidney blockages and failure of the digestive system. He died on December 26. A very subdued and private funeral, fitting for the down-to-earth Truman, was held in Independence according to his and his family’s wishes.

I remember the day that he died.   I recall the news flash on the radio.   It was not a surprise since Mr. Truman had been very ill for days.   

President Ford died in 2006 very late in the day in California.    Most of his obituaries were actually published on December 27.   Like me, most people I did not hear about it until the next day:

Thrust by Mr. Nixon’s resignation into an office he had never sought, Mr. Ford occupied the White House for just 896 days. 
But they were pivotal days of national introspection, involving America’s first definitive failure in a war and the first resignation of a president. 
It was Mr. Ford’s uncommon virtue to have presided with a common touch.

Mr. Ford had been out of the public view for a long time.  I do remember him at the 2000 GOP convention.   In 2004, President Bush paid him a visit during the campaign.

As we mentioned above, VP Truman became president when President FDR died in 1945.  He was not well known and it must have been quite a task to follow a political giant of the 20th century.  

Nevertheless, It was President Truman who made the decision to drop nuclear bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.  He also gave us The Truman Doctrine, CIA, NATO, The Marshall Plan and a few other things that left his footprint on US history in the 20th century.

VP Ford became president when President Nixon resigned in 1974.  He is the only man never elected to the office.  

In 1976, Governor Carter ran as the outsider in "a change election".  We must point out that Mr. Ford made quite a comeback that year and it ended up a lot closer than anyone predicted that summer during the conventions.  

President Ford served about 30 months but did much to restore confidence in the presidency after Watergate.  

His pardon of Nixon was vindicated over time, a profile in courage!   It was the right thing to do as he always said when asked about it.

They were both Midwestern men, of great integrity and character.    

They also did not aspire to be president but rather took over and performed to the best of their abilities.   

And I say often, I was very proud to cast my first vote for president for President Ford in 1976.

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Saturday, December 25, 2004

We remember Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)


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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!

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Thursday, December 23, 2004

Dec 23, 1783: George Washington resigned as commander in chief of the Continental Army



Friday, December 17, 2004

President Bush and historians

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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.

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Sunday, October 31, 2004

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!    

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Friday, October 29, 2004

My first post from 2004: Bush will win

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(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!




Sunday, September 19, 2004

September 2004: CBS and the fake Bush documents

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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.
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Saturday, June 05, 2004

June 5, 2004: President Reagan died

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Thursday, March 11, 2004

Spain's 3-11, many years later

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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!   
 
 
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Sunday, January 11, 2004

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

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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!
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