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Wednesday, December 04, 2024
World War II : Rommel, the Desert Fox with Barry Jacobsen.
Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Pardon me if I'm angry and confused
Pardon me if I'm angry and confused: Well, I am somewhere between angry and confused. Angry because this pardon is such an abuse of presidential powers. Confused because he could have called out the weaponization of justice against Trump and then pardoned his son. Instead, Hunter gets….
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) December 3, 2024
Well, I am somewhere between angry and confused. Angry because this pardon is such an abuse of presidential powers. Confused because he could have called out the weaponization of justice against Trump and then pardoned his son. Instead, Hunter gets pardoned for everything going back to 2014 and walks away.
So rather than merely pardoning his son for the gun crimes for which he was convicted and the tax crimes for which he pleaded guilty, the president’s pardon covers all “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in” from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024. That language mirrors the language in Ford’s pardon of Nixon, which did not merely cover the Watergate scandal but extended to “all offenses against the United States” that Nixon “has committed or may have committed” between Jan. 20, 1969, and Aug. 9, 1974 — the exact span of Nixon’s presidency.
The starting date of Jan. 1, 2014, in the Biden pardon was surely not chosen randomly: Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company, in April 2014, while his father was vice president. Republicans have accused the younger Biden of illegally profiting off his position on that board.
A pardon that goes back a lifetime, as some may conclude. The comparison to Nixon is unfair. He was a president who resigned in disgrace and never made a dime out of the Watergate affair. Hunter Biden is an opportunist who rode on his father’s plane to make money off his official duties.
So we will survive another “Bidenism” and the country will bounce back. I cannot say that about the Biden presidency, which is one step closer to the bottom of the list of worst presidents.
And last, but not least, there can’t be a lot of happy anti-Trumpers or Democrats who told us that Biden was a man of character. It won’t be pretty for those who made excuses for Biden until he takes that helicopter to Delaware in 60 days.
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December 3, 1968: Elvis and the TV special
Elvis returned to TV with a great special on this day in 1968. It was his first TV show in years. He also introduced a new song, "If I can dream". Elvis followed this show with several concerts in Las Vegas and Hawaii. The king was back, as they said back then.
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1818: Illinois joined the Union as the 21st state
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1961: The day that Fidel Castro said: “Yo soy un Marxista Leninista”!
For much of the first two years of the so called “revolution,” Fidel Castro denied that he was a communist. In fact, he did it on “Meet the Press” when he visited the U.S. in 1959. Nevertheless, there were many people who had serious doubts, from Vice President Richard Nixon to many Cubans in the island.
On this day in 1961 Fidel Castro made it official:
“”I am a Marxist-Leninist and shall be one until the end of my life.”He went on to state that, “Marxism or scientific socialism has become the revolutionary movement of the working class.”He also noted that communism would be the dominant force in Cuban politics:“There cannot be three or four movements.””
And that was it! It happened about seven months after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and ended any hopes of a multiparty election or restoration of the freedoms that the regime had eliminated by executive decree.
Last, but not least, Cubans were thrown in jail or executed in 1959-61 for calling Castro un “comunista.” None of those people were ever released after Castro confirmed that he was “un communista.” They stayed in prison, along with thousands of others.
As my late father used to say, communists lie and then lie so more!
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1823: The Monroe Doctrine
It all started as a message to Congress and became one of the most important foreign policy doctrines in US history. We know it as The Monroe Doctrine.
The declaration, drafted by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams intended to keep European powers from colonizing territory in Central and South America. The US was also looking westward and did not want to compete with Europeans in North America.
"America for Americans" was the message. Naturally, it had its critics and supporters over the years. On balance, it worked well and kept European powers out of America, from North to South.
The declaration, drafted by Secretary of State John Quincy Adams intended to keep European powers from colonizing territory in Central and South America. The US was also looking westward and did not want to compete with Europeans in North America.
"America for Americans" was the message. Naturally, it had its critics and supporters over the years. On balance, it worked well and kept European powers out of America, from North to South.
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The story of World War I, part 2, with Barry Jacobsen
The story of World War I, part 2, with Barry Jacobsen.....Listen in now at http://t.co/KsUi8Lkx1e. #BlogTalkRadioP.S. You can listen to my show. If you like our posts, please look for ”Donate” on the right column of the blog page.
Monday, December 02, 2024
Hug a South Korean
Hug a South Korean: Over the Thanksgiving break, I didn't think a lot about politics. Nevertheless, I found this story fascinating. After all, we are talking about South Korea, a country that we've been protecting for decades. Check this out:
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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) December 2, 2024
Over the Thanksgiving break, I didn’t think a lot about politics. Nevertheless, I found this story fascinating. After all, we are talking about South Korea, a country that we’ve been protecting for decades. Check this out:
South Korea’s fertility rate, already the world’s lowest, continued its dramatic decline in 2023, as women concerned about their career advancement and the financial cost of raising children decided to delay childbirth or to not have babies.
The average number of expected babies for a South Korean woman during her reproductive life fell to a record low of 0.72 from 0.78 in 2022.
As they say, I didn’t see that one coming. I had no idea that South Korea was doing this to itself. At this rate, we may have more troops on their border than South Koreans to protect.
It gets more interesting. Check this out:
South Korea’s leader on Thursday said he plans to create a new government ministry to tackle the “national emergency” of the country’s infamously low birth rate as it grapples with a deepening demographic crisis.
In a televised address, President Yoon Suk Yeol said he would ask for parliament’s cooperation to establish the Ministry of Low Birth Rate Counter-planning.
“We will mobilize all of the nation’s capabilities to overcome the low birth rate, which can be considered a national emergency,” he said.
Not sure how you mobilize people to have more babies. Tax credits or something like that?
So hug a South Korean and tell them how much you appreciate them. Truthfully there may not be a lot of them to hug in a few decades.
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1973: The day that Gerald Ford became VP
On this day in 1973, Representative Gerald Ford became Vice President of the US following the resignation of VP Agnew.
David Shribman wrote an article reminding us of just how fortunate we were that Gerald Ford was the man who assumed the office.
Put me down as one of those who believes that President Ford was a great president. He did not fight a war or deal with an economic depression. He did restore the presidency and that's no small achievement.
As President Carter said after taking the presidential oath:
"For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.."
Yes, we should all thank President Ford for healing the nation. It was no small task.
World War II: The great military leaders with Barry Jacobsen
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World War II: The great military leaders with Barry Jacobsen 07/23 by Silvio Canto Jr | History Podcasts:
Guest: Barry Jacobsen, military historian and blogger.......we will remember the Allied and Axis commanders: Ike, MacArthur, Nimitz, Monty, Zukov; and on the Axis side, Von Manstein, Guderian, Rommel, Kesselring, Adm. Yamamoto, General Yamashita.......and other stories of the war............
Sunday, December 01, 2024
CANTO TALK podcasts from last week
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1824: Presidential election went to the House.....and John Quincy Adams won
On December 1, 1824, the unresolved presidential election of 1824 went to the US House. It was required by the US Constitution because no candidate had a majority of the Electoral College.
John Quincy Adams won eventually…………here it goes:
In the November 1824 election, 131 electoral votes, just over half of the 261 total, were necessary to elect a candidate president.
Although it had no bearing on the outcome of the election, popular votes were counted for the first time in this election.
On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544 popular votes; John Quincy Adams–the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States–received 84 electoral and 108,740 popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and Representative Henry Clay of Virginia won 37 electoral votes.
As dictated by the Constitution, the election was then turned over to the House of Representatives.
The 12th Amendment states that if no electoral majority is won, only the three candidates who receive the most popular votes will be considered in the House.
Representative Henry Clay, who was disqualified from the House vote as a fourth-place candidate, agreed to use his influence to have John Quincy Adams elected.
Clay and Adams were both members of a loose coalition in Congress that by 1828 became known as the National Republicans, while Jackson’s supporters were later organized into the Democratic Party.
Thanks to Clay’s backing, on February 9, 1825, the House elected Adams as president of the United States.
And we think that our politics is crazy.
It was not pretty but the candidates were willing to abide by the rule of law. In other words, no one was happy with the outcome but the opposition accepted the results and the country moved on.
Four years later, Andrew Jackson easily defeated President Adams to become the 7th president of the US.
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Happy # 56 to Larry Walker
Let's wish a very happy birthday to Larry Walker, arguably the best Canadian hitter ever. He won 3 batting titles: .363 in '98, .379 in '99, and .350 in '01.
He also won 7 gold gloves, an MVP ('97) and member of the 30/30 club.
He retired with a .313 batting average, 383 HR's and 1311 RBI's
Why isn't Larry Walker in the Hall of Fame?
Some say because he played in Colorado. It's true that he did play 8 years there and that's where he put up some amazing numbers: a .334 average, 258 HR, 848 RBI in 1,170 games!
He also played in Montreal for 6 seasons where he hit .281 in 674 games! And he finished in St. Louis: .286 in 144 games.
He should be in the HOF!
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1990: They started digging "The Chunnel"
After workers drilled that final hole on December 1, 1990, they exchanged French and British flags and toasted each other with champagne. Final construction took four more years, and the Channel Tunnel finally opened for passenger service on May 6, 1994, with Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II and France’s President Francois Mitterrand on hand in Calais for the inaugural run.Still sounds incredible many years later!
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The story of World War II with Barry Jacobsen, part 1
The story of World War II with Barry Jacobsen, part 1.......click to listen ... https://t.co/vmmbADft09— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) May 20, 2016
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