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Thursday, July 04, 2024

Maybe this is why people are not watching

Maybe this is why people are not watching: Once upon a time, one could watch Johnny Carson and be entertained. The viewer counted on Carson to crack jokes both ways. On the other channel, you had the Dick Cavett option, a bit more serious but no one….

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Maybe this is why people are not watching - American Thinker https://t.co/MdIXT2po10
— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) July 4, 2024

July 4, 1939: Lou Gehrig said goodbye to baseball

MLB First Basemen Reenact Lou Gehrig Farewell Speech | Metsmerized ...

Along with Independence Day, we celebrate another anniversary on July 4: Lou Gehrig's farewell speech.

Starting in 1925, Lou played in 2,130 consecutive games. His career numbers were awesome: A .340 batting average, 494 HR, 1888 RBI in 2,164 games. Along the way, he drove 100 home runs in 13 straight seasons, led the AL in HR four times, RBI five times, on-base percentage five times and batting average once. Lou finished among the league’s top three hitters in batting average seven times and eight 200-plus hit seasons.

Gehrig took himself out of the line-up early in the 1939 season and headed to the Mayo Clinic for a check-up. Sadly, the baseball world learned of his advanced state of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis(ALS), also known as Motor Neurone Disease(MND) or what many also call today "Lou Gehrig's disease."

He did not play again and was honored at Yankee Stadium on this day in 1939. His farewell speech spoke volumes about the man, his integrity and love for the game:

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ball parks for seventeen years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.
“When you look around, wouldn’t you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such a fine looking men as they’re standing in uniform in this ballpark today? Sure, I'm lucky. Who wouldn't consider it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrow? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky.
"When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat, and vice versa, sends you a gift -- that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies -- that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter -- that's something. When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body -- it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed -- that's the finest I know.
"So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for. Thank you."

Amazing for a man who knew he was dying. He died in 1941 at age 37.

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July 4, 1826: John Adams & Thomas Jefferson died on the 50th anniversary of The Declaration…

As a kid growing up in Cuba, we were blessed with Uncle Joaquin, who was fanatical about U.S. history, especially the Gettysburg Address. I don’t know of anyone else who could recite the speech in English and then translate it into Spanish. He was a very well-educated man who taught at the law school and served as a judge around the area where the U.S. base is located in Guantanamo. He and my aunt stayed in Cuba and died in the 1970s. Who knows what happened to his nice home?

It was Uncle Joaquin who used to tell us stories about the U.S. One of them was how John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

They died within a few hours of each other, neither aware that the other was dying. Jefferson was in Virginia and Adams in Massachusetts. Adams’ last words were, “Thomas Jefferson survives,” while Jefferson’s were, “This is the Fourth of July.”

They were among the last American revolutionaries who stood up to the British empire and created what we celebrate today.

They also spent the last few years of their lives exchanging some great letters.

An amazing story and something to share with your kids today, especially if they are going to college.

Happy July 4th and show your flag today. I have a funny feeling that Uncle Joaquin is up in heaven cheering that I’m sharing this story with you today.

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Happy birthday USA

Today, our message is very simple:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Happy July 4th.

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'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' with Frank Burke

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'Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' with Frank Burke 07/03 by Silvio Canto Jr | Politics Podcasts:

Guest: Frank Burke, businessman, contributor to American Thinker and co-author of 'A law unto themselves', joins me for a discussion of The Declaration of Independence.......what inspired these men to sign such a revolutionary document?........what does 'life, liberty and pursuit of happiness' mean.............John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, or the 50th anniversary of the declaration........

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