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— Silvio Canto. Jr. (@silvio_canto) November 30, 2024

 

1980: John Lennon's "Double Fantasy" released in the US

John Lennon released "Double Fantasy" on this day in 1980.  It turned out to be his last LP because John was killed a few weeks later.    I guess that I must be getting old because I remember the new LP and the night he was killed like it was yesterday.

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We remember Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Samuel Clemens was born in Florida, Missouri, on this day in 1835.   We know him as Mark Twain.    

In 1875, he published "Tom Sawyer".   He followed with "Life on the Mississippi" in 1883 and "Huckleberry Finn" in 1885.

A great American writer.   A true American original.   He died in 1910.

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1963: The UK version of "I want to hold your hand" was released by The Beatles

In late November 1963, "I want to hold your hand" was released in the UK.   A few weeks later it was heard in the US.   

By mid-January, the song was # 1 on Billboard and "Beatlemania" was off and running.     The group appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9th and you know the rest of the story.

In the UK, the B-side was "This boy".   In the US, it was "I saw her standing there".    

A few weeks later, "Meet the Beatles", the first Capitol LP was also released.  

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We remember Dick Clark (1929-2012)

We remember Richard Wagstaff Clark who was born in Mt. Vernon, NY, on this day in 1929.   On April 18, 2012, Dick Clark died of a heart attack.  He was 82.

Dick Clark's American Bandstand was on the air until the late 1980s.  He went from one generation to the other, from Elvis to U2.  I guess that he connected so well because he never "aged".  He looked as young in 1987 as he did in 1967 when we used to watch those Saturday shows.

Dick Clark was great and we thank him for all of the memories.  I used to love that "rate the record" segment and the interviews.

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Darkest Hour: A good movie

On Wednesday, we went to see Darkest Hour, a movie about Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the U.K. in 1940.  I assume that the movie will soon be available online, but we went the old-fashioned way: a big box of popcorn and a large screen.

A few weeks ago, I learned of the movie from reading a review by Professor Victor Davis Hanson:

Within days of Churchill taking office, all of what is now the European Union either would be in Hitler’s hands or could be considered pro-Nazi “neutral.”

“Darkest Hour” gets its title from the understandable depression that had spread throughout the British government.  Members of Churchill’s new War Cabinet wanted to sue for peace.  Chamberlain and senior conservative politician Edward Wood both considered Churchill unhinged for believing [that] Britain could survive.

Both appeasers dreamed that thuggish Italian dictator Benito Mussolini might be persuaded to beg Hitler to call off his planned invasion of Great Britain.  They dreamed [that] Mussolini could save a shred of English dignity through an arranged British surrender. 

Not Churchill.

The movie does have a bit of fantasy: the subway ride, when P.M. Churchill meets constituents who are in no mood to surrender or cut deals with Hitler.  While it did not happen that way, the British willingness to fight and defend their homeland was no fantasy.  It became clear when P.M. Churchill spoke to the Parliament.

Let me leave you with a few other impressions.

First, you will love Mrs. Churchill.

Second, I was reminded of recent examples of presidential leadership, from President Bush going against conventional wisdom and doing the surge in Iraq in 2007 to President Reagan overruling his diplomats and calling on “Mr. Gorbachev” to “tear down this wall.”

Third, do you think the modern U.K. would recognize the fighting spirit of its great grandparents in 1940?  I don’t think so.  That may be the most depressing part of the story. 

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Nov 30, 1874: Winston Churchill was born!

We remember today one of the great men of the 20th century:

"Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, is born at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England."   (History)

Churchill was the man at the right time for the UK in World War II.   

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Churchill and socialism

Here is a great quote by Winston Churchill:

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

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Shades of Churchill's 'Iron Curtain Speech'

(My American Thinker post)

It was a remarkable speech. PM Netanyahu spoke clearly, forcefully, and eloquently about the nuclear deal. This is one of those "must-watch speeches" that comes along once a generation.

It reminded us of another statesman who came to the U.S. many years ago. It was on March 5, 1946 that the then former PM Winston Churchill of the UK spoke to the American people about the Soviet threat. Mr. Churchill did not speak to a joint session but the impact was awesome:

"Churchill, who had been defeated for re-election as prime minister in 1945, was invited to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he gave this speech. 
President Harry S. Truman joined Churchill on the platform and listened intently to his speech. 
Churchill began by praising the United States, which he declared stood “at the pinnacle of world power.” 
It soon became clear that a primary purpose of his talk was to argue for an even closer “special relationship” between the United States and Great Britain -- the great powers of the “English-speaking world” -- in organizing and policing the postwar world. In particular, he warned against the expansionistic policies of the Soviet Union. 
In addition to the “iron curtain” that had descended across Eastern Europe, Churchill spoke of “communist fifth columns” that were operating throughout western and southern Europe. 
Drawing parallels with the disastrous appeasement of Hitler prior to World War II, Churchill advised that in dealing with the Soviets there was “nothing which they admire so much as strength, and there is nothing for which they have less respect than for military weakness.”

Like Mr. Churchill, the prime minister of Israel praised the alliance between the two countries, thanked the U.S. for its sacrifices in World War II, and explained the threat in exquisite detail.   

Of course, President Obama was not there and VP Biden was down in Uruguay at a presidential inauguration. There were several Democrats missing, a rather silly display of political pique.

It once again makes you wonder about President Obama's instincts or the people that he listens to.

What if President Obama had taken advantage of this opportunity to make his case for the nuclear deal?What if President Obama had embraced the visit? What if he did a joint press conference with the prime minister and assured this deal was good for all, especially Israel?

Instead, President Obama looks small and petty. He looks like a man who was avoiding the debate or hiding the truth of the deal with Iran.

My guess is that the nuclear deal is dead. You can delete another "legacy item" from President Obama's accomplishments.

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Churchill 1874-1965: The Battle of Britain 1940 with Barry Jacobsen

 

We remember PM Winston Churchill, 1874-1965.

We discussed The Battle of Britain 1940 with Barry Jacobsen.........

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1874: Winston Churchill was born

We love “leadership” and great leaders to run our countries.   Today, we remember Winston Churchill, one of the giants of the 20th century who was born on this day in 1874:

“Churchill came from a prestigious family with a long history of military service and joined the British Fourth Hussars upon his father’s death in 1895. During the next five years, he enjoyed an illustrious military career, serving in India, the Sudan, and South Africa, and distinguishing himself several times in battle. In 1899, he resigned his commission to concentrate on his literary and political career and in 1900 was elected to Parliament as a Conservative MP from Oldham. In 1904, he joined the Liberals, serving in a number of important posts before being appointed Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911, where he worked to bring the British navy to a readiness for the war he foresaw.

In 1915, in the second year of World War I, Churchill was held responsible for the disastrous Dardanelles and Gallipoli campaigns, and he was excluded from the war coalition government. He resigned and volunteered to command an infantry battalion in France. However, in 1917, he returned to politics as a cabinet member in the Liberal government of Lloyd George. From 1919 to 1921, he was secretary of state for war and in 1924 returned to the Conservative Party, where two years later he played a leading role in the defeat of the General Strike of 1926.

Out of office from 1929 to 1939, Churchill issued unheeded warnings of the threat of German and Japanese aggression.

After the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Churchill was called back to his post as First Lord of the Admiralty and eight months later replaced the ineffectual Neville Chamberlain as prime minister of a new coalition government. In the first year of his administration, Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany, but Churchill promised his country and the world that the British people would “never surrender.” He rallied the British people to a resolute resistance and expertly orchestrated Franklin D. Rooseveltand Joseph Stalin into an alliance that eventually crushed the Axis.

In July 1945, 10 weeks after Germany’s defeat, his Conservative government suffered an electoral loss against Clement Attlee’s Labour Party, and Churchill resigned as prime minister. He became leader of the opposition and in 1951 was again elected prime minister.

Two years later, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his six-volume historical study of World War II and for his political speeches.

In 1955, he retired as prime minister but remained in Parliament until 1964, the year before his death.”

There are several lessons from Churchill’s life:

1) Failure is a part of life.  Mr Churchill failed but never gave up;

2) “Call out evil”, as he did over and over again when he spoke about Hitler in the 1930’s; and,

3) Take time for your hobbies, from writing to painting.  

Winston Churchill was a giant of a man.  I hope that the young people are reading about his life and how he used words.

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The great Churchill fell in love with Cuban cigars in 1895

We remember Winston Churchill was born on this day in 1874.  He passed away in 1965 at age 90.  

Churchill loved Cuban cigars.  We know now that he met his first Cuban cigar during a visit to the island circa 1895.  My late father once told me that the Cuban embassy in London would often deliver Mr. Churchill a complimentary box of cigars.  Furthermore, those long cigars came to be known as “Churchill”.

According to H.P. Klepak, author of “Churchill Comes of Age, Cuba 1895“, the young Churchill spent 18 days in Cuba. 

He was there on loan from the British army to observe colonial Spain’s defense against independence fighters, as Klepak said in an interview: 

History previously recorded that Churchill saw combat in Cuba and discovered the siesta, which would later help him keep long hours as British prime minister during World War Two.

But Klepak, a former Canadian military officer, argues previous works overlooked how influential the Cuban venture was, including the months of maneuvering Churchill needed to land his assignment.   

With his Cuba experience he became a war correspondent, political analyst, strategist and liaison with a foreign army, all for the first time. His writings start to show legendary humor. He discovers rum and Cuban cigars’ breadth and quality.

Inspired by observations from local historian Lourdes Mendez, Klepak believes he became the first to scrutinize and cross-check the Cuban, British and Spanish archives, discovering for example that Churchill was fired upon by no less than Antonio Maceo and Maximo Gomez, two of Cuba’s greatest independence leaders.

“Very quickly when I looked at it from a historical perspective it was pretty obvious that this was an amazing story which for some reason had never been told,” Klepak said.

Neat story.  This is also a book that you may want to pick up when you need a break from Speaker Pelosi.  It is another chapter in the amazing life of one of the most important figures of the 20th century.

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We remember Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Today, we say Happy Birthday to Sir Winston Churchill:

"He was born on November 30th, 1874. We remember him as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Churchill was one of the most important leaders in modern British and world history."

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"The Cubans" by Fernando Hernandez

Cubans are such great story tellers.  I guess that's because we have so many good stories to tell!

 

Why is that?  What makes Cubans such good storytellers?

Maybe it's our Spanish heritage or something about the island that just brings out the "storyteller" in all of us.

 

My friend Fernando Hernandez just published a book about Cubans in the US.   

 

It is a wonderful collection of stories about Cubans, like you & me, who settled in the US and made something out of ourselves: 

"In this new book the reader will discover how in 1930 a Havana bandleader traveled to New York City, recorded a million-copy hit that kicked-started a Cuban music craze throughout the United States.
Science fiction lovers will learn that a Cuban-American was the writer, producer, and story editor of many Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. An author born in 1865 in Brooklyn, New York of Cuban origin began his career at age 12, becoming a prolific boys’ fiction writer earning the nickname the American Jules Verne.
History buffs will enjoy reading about three sisters who became Confederate spies during the Civil War, and thanks to their bravery, a Union warship was captured.
New Yorkers and those who visit the Big Apple will read of the work of a structural engineer, born in Havana of immigrant Lithuanian Jews, who was known as “Mr. New York” for his engineering of the city’s skyscrapers, including the 70-story Trump World Tower.
Read about a surgeon who in 2012 led a team of 150 doctors, nurses, and others in Maryland in the most extensive face transplant surgery ever performed in the world.
The book also profiles those who serve the less fortunate, including the co-founder of Florida’s largest free clinic serving migrant workers, the working poor, the sick, and families who fall between the cracks of America’s social system.
This is a book that transcends ethnic, national, racial, gender and religious barriers and bears witness to what Cubans, both political refugees and immigrants, have accomplished in a country where liberty and freedom abound.
This is the story of the Cuban-Americans, and the footprints they have left on their path across the United States."

What's the best part of the book?  They are all real CUBANS!    Everyone of these stories is about a CUBANO who beat the odds in the US.

 

This is a fun book.  It is inspirational.  Some stories will make you laugh, like "las cubanitas" in the US Civil War, and others will touch your heart.

 

Here is an idea:  Give this book to your kids or grandchildren if you have any.  Tell them that this is what Cuban heritage is all about.  Last, but not least, Fernando has quite a story too.  He was one of the 14,000 Pedro Pan children who came to the US in the early 1960's.

 

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Get the book!

Check my interview with Fernando!

World War II: The great military leaders with Barry Jacobsen

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......

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We remember Rob Grill (1943-2011)

If you recall Top 40 AM radio then you probably purchased a few 45's by The Grass Roots.

We remember Rob Grill who was born in Los Angeles on this day in 1943.  He died in 2011.   He was the founder, composer and lead vocalist.

The Grass Roots had a great sound and a dozen Top 40 hits, from "Let's live for today" to "Midnight confessions".

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World War II: The winter of 1942-43, Manstein's Miracle in Russia, and Patton

Guest: Barry Jacobsen, military historian and blogger.............we will continue our series of World War II episodes... Today we will look back at the winter of 1942-43, Manstein's Miracle in Russia, and the Rise of Patton ....plus other stories from the front pages such as North Korea and Afghanistan.........and 'Light my fire' was the # 1 song in the country this week in 1967..................

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World War II : Rommel, the Desert Fox with Barry Jacobsen

World War II : 

Rommel, the Desert Fox with Barry Jacobsen

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"Pedro Pan": The story of how 14,000 Cuban children were sent to the US!

Time flies and we celebrate another anniversary of the Cuban-American experience.  The picture above shows parents saying goodbye to their children and putting them in a plane headed to Miami.  

We remember another anniversary this week:

"It hardly seems possible, but it’s been 50 years since Operation Pedro Pan began the airlift that eventually that brought 14,000 unaccompanied children from Cuba to this country." (Babalu Blog)

The Pedro Pan program touched every one of us in a very special way.

We salute the wonderful people who led this program.  

We remember the late Father Walsh and all of the wonderful nuns who cared for the children.  It was indeed a work of love!

How do you say "thank you" or "gracias" to so many people?  I think that you say "thank you" by standing up for freedom and remembering the sacrifice that our parents made for us.

P.S. In a previous show, we spoke with Carlos Eire, the wonderful Cuban American author, who was one of these kids.  Carlos discussed his book "Learning to die in Miami":

We remember Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso: (1925-2015)

We remember Orestes “Minnie” Miñoso.  He was born in Cuba on this day in 1925 and died in Chicago in 2015.

As a boy growing up in Cuba, and later in the US, I remember hearing Miñoso stories from my father .  Orestes, as he was known in Cuba, played for Marianao and was a top draw in the Cuban winter leagues.

We say thank you to Minnie Miñoso.    He was more than a baseball player for his fans in Latin America.

He retired with a .298 average, 186 HR, 1,963 hits & 1,023 RBI in 1,835 games.  His best years were in Chicago: 304 in 12 seasons with the White Sox.

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We remember C S Lewis (1898-1963)

Clive Staples Lewis was born in Belfast, Ireland, on this day in 1898.     He died on November 22, 1963 or the same day that President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.

We know him as C S Lewis, the author of many books like "The Screwtape Letters", "The Chronicles of Narnia", and "The Space Trilogy".    The "Narnia" books have sold over 100 million copies and been transformed into three major motion pictures.

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"Young Winston" is a must for anyone who wants to learn more about Winston Churchill

On Friday's show, Barry Jacobsen and I rememberd "Young Winston" with Simon Ward and Anne Bancroft playing his mother.    It is a great movie.   It will introduce to Churchill who was born in 1874.

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November 1981 and still talking about Natalie Wood's death

How did Natalie Wood die or drown?   Was she killed or what?

It's a great mystery but some people are still looking for clues.

See this headline:  "Natalie Wood's bruises were consistent with her being 'the victim of assault,' says detective on star's death"!

Will they re-open the case?   Can they re-open case?   We will follow the story.

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We remember Louisa May Alcott (1832-88)

Louisa May Alcott was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1832.    She died in 1888.

We remember her book "Little women", a best selling story about the March sisters from 1869.      She followed up that successful publication with "Little Men" (1871).    

In the 20th century, her book was turned into a very popular movie in 1949 and later in 1994.

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1967: "She's A Rainbow" by The Rolling Stones

At the end of 1967, The Rolling Stones gave us  "Their Satanic Majesties Request", a bizarre album that sounded nothing like the band that released "Satisfaction", "Ruby Tuesday" and "Paint it black".   

It was a crazy LP with a few good tracks, such as "Citadel", "2,000 man", the absolutely hysterical "On with the show" and "She's a rainbow", the only 45 released in the US.    

I like "She's a rainbow" and the piano bits plus those silly lyrics that mean actually nothing.    It was clearly a song for 1967!

The bad news is that they tell me that The Rolling Stones were trying to do their own Sgt.  Pepper with a crazy cover as well.   The good news is that they followed all of this with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "Honky Tonk Women".  It was nice to see the band recording great songs again.

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We remember Vin Scully (1927-2022)

We remember Vin Scully who was born in The Bronx, New York on this day in 1927.  He died in 2022.

Back in 1950, the Brooklyn Dodgers hired a young sports announcer named Vin Scully.   He joined Red Barber and Connie Desmond in one of the most important radio networks in baseball history.   

Vin replaced Ernie Harwell who went to work with the New York Giants but is better known for all of those great years calling Detroit Tigers' games.

Over the years, I've lived in cities with good announcers like the late Chuck Thompson (Orioles) and Mark Holtz (Rangers).     I never heard Scully on a daily basis but did pick him up in post season games.    He was great and very elegant.

We remember Vin Scully, the legendary voice of the LA Dodgers.

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We remember H. Wayne Huizenga (1937-2016)

We learned in 2016 that H. Wayne Huizenga passed away.   

He was 80 and a very accomplished businessman.   At one time, he owned every professional team in the Miami area:  Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers and Florida Marlins!     

Huizenga was born in the Chicago suburb of Evergreen Park on this day in 1937.   His businesses included "Blockbuster" and "Auto Nation".

He was a very successful businessman:

The Making of a Blockbuster: How Wayne Huizenga Built a Sports and Entertainment......... https://t.co/hJKYQAVvlF via @amazon

— Silvio Canto, Jr. (@SCantojr) March 23, 2018

Recounts and a party that doesn’t understand why it lost

(My new American Thinker post)

Back in 2000, we spent 30 days arguing about the election until VP Al Gore finally accepted that George W. Bush had won Florida. In other words, the election night Florida call stood but most of his supporters still think that Mr. Bush stole election. That’s what nasty recounts do! Results don’t usually change and bad feelings just get worse.

It won’t take 30 days in 2016, but the hard feelings will continue.    

Our good friend Richard Baehr believes this is all about making Mr. Trump illegitimate, especially in the minds of liberals who just can’t believe how the movie ended at 2 A.M. when Pennsylvania spoiled it. After all, some of them were apparently popping champagne on their way to the Clinton headquarters.   

The real problem with recounts is that they don’t change results or explain the sorry state of the Democrat Party. In short, the Democrats are on the verge of irrelevancy, unless you live in a minority district that they win without opposition.

The party is probably going to be in the minority for a while, as Amber Phillips points out in the Washington Post:

November was a tough election cycle for Senate Republicans, who were defending 24 of the 34 seats up for grabs, many in states that Obama won twice.

It will basically be the reverse in 2018. Democrats are defending 10 seats in states that Trump won, sometimes by double-digit margins. Midterms are normally kind to the party not in power, but this map shows serious head winds for Democrats.

Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.) and Jon Tester (Mont.) are running for reelection in states that voted for Trump over Clinton by 19 points or more. (In West Virginia, Trump won by 42 points.) If these Democratic-held seats and a few others fall to Republicans in 2018, it’s possible the GOP’s 52-seat majority becomes a 60-seat supermajority. 

At the very least, it looks likely Republicans will pick up a few seats.

More bad news for Democrats: Some political analysts think that if Republicans turn seats in red or red-leaning states, such as West Virginia, Indiana and Missouri, those seats could stay Republican for a long time. Especially if 2016’s presidential election is any indication.

My colleague Philip Bump calculated there were 27 counties that had supported the Democratic candidate consistently for at least 40 years that switched to Trump in this year’s election. Those counties were clustered in states such as Indiana and Michigan, where Democrats will be defending Senate seats.

We don’t like writing party obituaries because parties have many lives. After all, have we not been reading for 20 years that demographics would doom the GOP?     

Nevertheless, Democrats have problems. They seem to be talking over the heads of most Americans who don’t live in San Francisco or the East coast.    

They’ve focused too much on defending abortion rather saving jobs from moving overseas. They would rather fight for same-sex marriage than accept a Nativity scene during the holidays. They would rather say “I don’t want to offend anyone” than Merry Christmas.    

They are so invested in political correctness that they speak a foreign language that most Americans can’t understand.

So go ahead and recount. It won’t change the results.   

My first advice to the Democrats is to come to terms with reality. Simply put, most Americans would rather talk about jobs than climate change.

My second bit of advice is to remember VP Nixon from 1960. In a mature democracy, the loser should concede and put the nation first. Of course, it starts with the candidate who must tell his or her supporters that the election is over and we have a president-elect.

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