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Friday, September 01, 2023
Friday's podcast: Afghanistan, the migrant crisis in our cities plus consumer loan with Rick Moran
Guest: Rick Moran, blogger and political commentator....
Friday's video: Rick Moran, blogger and political commentator...
Guest: Rick Moran, blogger and political commentator....We spoke about Afghanistan, the migrant crisis in our cities plus consumer loan delinquencies and other stories........
Thurmond denies knowing Biden in 1964
(My new American Thinker post)
The book of Biden stories has a new chapter. According to Biden's memory, he convinced the late Sen. Strom Thurmond to vote in favor of the Civil Rights Act. It sounds heroic except that the law was signed in 1964 and Biden didn't get to Washington until 1972. What's eight years? Doesn’t everybody confuse events separated by almost a decade?
Well, it turns out that the AP got hold of Senator Thurmond and he denied knowing a guy named Biden at that time. Joe who?
This is the story:
Biden had not yet been elected to the U.S. Senate when the landmark law was passed in 1964, and Thurmond was among the prominent southern Democrats to vote against the bill. A White House spokesperson confirmed the president misspoke in his remarks. He said Biden intended to refer to his efforts in the 1980s to get Thurmond and other Senate Republicans to vote for legislation renewing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Fair enough. Biden made a mistake. The problem is that this is a pattern of President Biden going off script and letting his imagination running away with him like The Temptations sang about. Last week, it was a kitchen fire that did not really happen as described. The week before was this or that. In other words, this is not an honest mistake, but rather the words of someone who can't think for himself or maybe should be out of politics telling his grandchildren about the time he struck out Joe DiMaggio when he was doing his World War II service.
One more point. Biden has apparently such a bad memory and keeps confusing decades. So can we trust what he is saying about Hunter?
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Happy # 66 Gloria Estefan
We say happy birthday to Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García who was born in Cuba in 1957. We know her as Gloria Estefan. She and her husband Emilio founded The Miami Sound Machine and the rest is music history.
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Happy # 77 Barry Gibb
Today, we say happy birthday to Barry Gibb, one of our very favorite songwriters and performers of the pop/rock era. Barry was born in 1946.
We add that Barry and Linda were also married on this day in 1970. Happy anniversary to them!
Barry, and his younger brothers (Robin & Maurice), composed and recorded some of the greatest songs of the last 40 years! The Bee Gees sold over 200 million records during their remarkable musical career.
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Happy # 84 Rico Carty
We remember Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty who was born in 1939 in San Pedro de Marcoris in The Dominican Republic.
We know him as Rico Carty who broke with the Milwaukee Braves in 1963. A year later, Rico hit .330 with 22 HR & 88 RBI. It was good enough to come in second to Richie Allen in the 1964 NL Rookie of the Year vote.
Rico had a lot of injuries but did win the 1970 NL batting title with a .366 average, 25 HR & 101 RBI. He spent much of the 1970's as a DH with Oakland, Cleveland and Texas.
Carty retired with a .299 average, 204 HR & 890 RBI. We can only wonder what his numbers would have looked like without the injuries.
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