Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Summer reading: The sad story of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson

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Many of us learned the story of Shoeless Joe in the movie or book "Eight men out".    He was one of those White Sox banned from baseball.   It was a tragedy because Jackson had the second highest career batting average ever (.356) and an even more amazing on base pct. of .424!

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Tuesday, July 04, 2006

Happy birthday USA


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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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Happy 4th of July


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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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Happy birthday to the USA



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We take a minute today and say "happy birthday to the USA".


It turns out that Dr. Bill Krissoff lost a son in Iraq:
"Marine First Lt. Nathan Krissoff, was killed in Al Anbar Province in December 2006.

A Williams College grad, athlete and musician, he'd left for Iraq on the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

He was 25."
So Dr. Krissoff, at age 61, volunteered and went to Iraq.

It's a great story and it should be shared with everyone.

Like many of you, we plan to watch fireworks and just enjoy a nice day.

We will also remember the Krissoff family and their commitment to the country that they love so much!

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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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July 4, 2015: "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" with Frank Burke.................






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Happy July 4th and the men who signed The Declaration of Independence


This Is the Most Valuable Signature on the Declaration of Independence

Back in 1776, 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence.

The Declaration is forever known for this:
"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."
The signers understood the risk in putting their name on this document. This is how they concluded the declaration:
"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."
This is a list of the men who signed the document. Let's remember them today:

Delaware
•
George Read
• Caesar Rodney
• Thomas McKean

Pennsylvania
•
George Clymer
• Benjamin Franklin
• Robert Morris
• John Morton
• Benjamin Rush
• George Ross
• James Smith
• James Wilson
• George Taylor

Massachusetts
•
John Adams
• Samuel Adams
• John Hancock
• Robert Treat Paine
• Elbridge Gerry

New Hampshire
•
Josiah Bartlett
• William Whipple
• Matthew Thornton

Rhode Island
•
Stephen Hopkins
• William Ellery

New York
•
Lewis Morris
• Philip Livingston
• Francis Lewis
• William Floyd

Georgia
•
Button Gwinnett
• Lyman Hall
• George Walton

Virginia
•
Richard Henry Lee
• Francis Lightfoot Lee
• Carter Braxton
• Benjamin Harrison
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Wythe
• Thomas Nelson, Jr.

North Carolina
•
William Hooper
• John Penn
• Joseph Hewes

South Carolina
•
Edward Rutledge
• Arthur Middleton
• Thomas Lynch, Jr.
• Thomas Heyward, Jr.

New Jersey
•
Abraham Clark
• John Hart
• Francis Hopkinson
• Richard Stockton
• John Witherspoon

Connecticut
•
Samuel Huntington
• Roger Sherman
• William Williams
• Oliver Wolcott

Maryland
•
Charles Carroll
• Samuel Chase
• Thomas Stone
• William Paca

Happy July 4th! 

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Happy July 4th!

Let's take a minute from politics and remember July 4, 1776.

The US is the only country ever founded on an idea, as Jeff Jacoby reminds us:
"America was the first nation self-consciously founded as the embodiment of an idea — the “self-evident” truth that “all men are created equal” and endowed by God with an “unalienable” right to life and liberty. 
In a world that had always connected nationhood and citizenship to blood, soil, and ethnicity, the democratic republic born in 1776 presented a prospect that was revolutionary in the profoundest sense imaginable — and Americans from the outset were certain that their model of self-government was destined to radiate outward, shaping the course of human events."
It may sound a bit old fashioned now but those ideas were very revolutionary when they were written in 1776.

Happy July 4th:  Remember that today is about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!

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Monday, July 03, 2006

"Dead of night" from 1946 was a strange movie

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Not long ago, I came across "Dead of night" on the retro channel.   It is apparently a classic among British horror films.  

Frankly, it was very interesting but would like to watch it again to understand the plot better.

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2010: A chat with the late Joel Akerman (1938-2019)


Our friend Joel Akerman passed away July 2019.   This is a show that we recorded with him in 2010............

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