Tuesday, June 06, 2017

Terror in London, Director Comey before Congress & D-Day 1944




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Bernie: Do you really need $1 million to live?



bernie-sanders-donkeyhoteyTo be honest, I’d love to be a millionaire, too. Who wouldn’t love to sell thousands of books or get large amounts to express your opinion?    
To be honest, I’d love to be a millionaire, too. Who wouldn’t love to sell thousands of books or get large amounts to express your opinion?    
What a country! They don’t let you do that in Cuba or Venezuela or the old USSR where we hear that Bernie and wife spent their honeymoon. (By the way, we learned later that Mr. and Mrs. Sanders were there as part of his duties as Mayor of Burlington, VT.)
Unfortunately, this is not a story about a guy who started a business and created countless of jobs. This is the story of a man named Bernie Sanders:   
Thanks in large part to his successful foray into authorship, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made more than $1 million in 2016. That’s according to his latest U.S. Senate financial disclosure, which he filed Sunday after receiving a 20-day extension.
The most notable source of income: book royalties. Sanders received a $795,000 advance for his best-selling book, “Our Revolution.” He got another $63,750 for his forthcoming “Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution,” a book aimed at young readers co-authored with Kate Waters. And he took in $6,735 in royalties for his 1997 memoir “Outsider in the House.”
 
That’s more than $865,000 for peddling his working-class ideas. Not bad. 
Then there’s the $2,521 Sanders earned last year in royalties for his 1987 spoken-word folk album, We Shall Overcome
Overcome what Mr. Sanders? Your hysterical hypocrisy?    
Wonder if he opened an offshore account to protect his income from US tax laws?   
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D-Day 1944: Another day to remember my late great uncle’s history lessons


Over the last couple of years, I’ve told you about my great Uncle Joaquin.    He would always turn our visits to his home outside of Havana into history lessons, from President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to war stories.     “Tio Joaquin”, as we called him, was a judge, a teacher, an attorney and someone who was determined to pass on the great lessons of history.
D-Day and war stories were among his favorites.
As my Tio Joaquin would say, the World War II generation earned place in our hearts.   They were the young men who went to war against Hitler and liberated Europe. Over 400,000 died.
On D-Day 1944, thousands of US soldiers were killed landing at Normandy.
On that day, Pres. Roosevelt went on radio and spoke these words to the world:
“Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom. And for us at home — fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters and brothers of brave men overseas — whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them — help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice. Many people have urged that I call the Nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a countenance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.” (FDR’s D-Day Prayer)
Sadly, we are losing World War II veterans daily.    16 million served.    Most are in their 90’s today and at a rate of 372 a day.
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