Andrew Tobias: AND SPEAKING OF DEMOCRATS
Here's one I love, Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth. Watch her shame a phony disabled vet sucking off the teat of the government. She does not mention it, but I checked him out on Opensecrets.org. Sure enough: judging from the $2,500 he gave Mitt Romney, he's a Republican. I mean - really? You've got to watch.
NEETZAN ZIMMERMAN: Tammy Duckworth Does Not Suffer Phony Disabled Vets Gladly (Gawker)
"I'm so glad that you would be willing to play football in prep school again to protect this great country," Duckworth responded. "Shame on you, Mr. Castillo. Shame on you. You may not have broken any laws … but you certainly broke the trust of this great nation. You broke the trust of veterans. Iraq and Afghanistan veterans right now are waiting an average of 237 days for an initial disability rating. It is because people like you who are gaming the system are adding to that backlog that young men and women who are suffering from post-traumatic stress, who are missing limbs cannot get the compensation and the help that they need."
Marc Dion: The Old Reporter and Trayvon Martin (Creators Syndicate)
I wrote about a guy once. A kid, really. Nineteen, I think. He had some trouble with people who wore another set of gang colors. He walked over to his girlfriend's house one night, a cold night, and when he got up on her porch, a gun barrel came out of a car window, and they shot the kid three times in the back, which killed him.
Connie Schultz: Still Remembering James Gandolfini (Creators Syndicate)
In the endless cycling that has all but overtaken my profession, if you had anything to say about actor James Gandolfini's death, you were supposed to write it, post it and move on within 24 hours of his passing on June 19.
Lenore Skenazy: Drowning in Safety (Creators Syndicate)
At some of the YMCAs around the country, a rule for free swimming is now this: If a child is under a certain age - sometimes as high as 11 - and has not yet passed a swim test, a parent must be in the water with him at all times, not more than an arm's length away, in the shallow end.
Scott Burns: The Ever-Increasing Value of Parsimony (AssetBuilder)
We're in a bull market for parsimony. Maybe even a parsimony bubble. Parsimony, which is a polite way to talk about penny-pinching, has never been a more valuable habit. Even with investment yields up from their recent lows, I think it is safe to predict that parsimony is well on its way to becoming a high art.
The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. The Republican Party nominated incumbent Vice-President Richard Nixon, while the Democratic Party nominated John F. Kennedy, Senator from Massachusetts. The incumbent President, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not eligible for re-election after serving the maximum two terms allowed by the Twenty-second Amendment. Kennedy was elected with a lead of 112,827 votes, or 0.17% of the popular vote, giving him a victory of 303 to 219 in the Electoral College, the closest since 1916. This was the first election in which all fifty of the current United States participated.
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Charlie was first, and correct, with:
I checked to make sure there wasn't some technicality, but since Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states in 1959, It pretty much had to be 1960.
Alaska went to Nixon, and Hawaii to Kennedy. I was way too young to vote, but my parents voted for Kennedy (Nix on Nixon, Dodge Lodge, my father said).
Alan J wrote:
1960, Kennedy & Nixon
Sally said:
1960 was the first presidential election in which all fifty of the current United States participated. I know this because it was my first time to vote, and although a Kennedy voter, I remember all the hype about this particular election.
I was SO proud when I was issued my card (like this one) and, by the mid 60's I had become a 'Poll watcher!'
If I knew then, what I know now...
PS: @JoeS, I got out my magnifying glass and found the red 'X; on your photo. My question is, if you looked out your front door, could you see the other side of the lake?
That is a large body of water, but doesn't it get stagnant without tides? Thanks for the picture, Joe.
Adam answered:
Um...1960.
John I from Hawai'i says,
"The 1960 election between Kennedy and Nixon."
Marian replied:
1960
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
My guess is 1964.
Vic in AK wrote:
Being so self centered I kinda haff to go Schmidt Mien birfyear of 1960 and the 44th Quadrennial ! With Tricky Dicky by a Nose...errrrr LANDSLIDE!
DANG, Like Sal-Pal uttered It's been downright TROPICAL up here!!! setting and smashing all kinds of records and cassettes and stuffs!
Dale of Diamond Springs, Norcali answered:
I remember it well-1960. Yeah - Kennedy beat him, but the motherfucker just wouldn't go away.
Helen Douglas lost Senate race via Dick's smear campaign!!
By the way the real Fleetwood Mac was Peter Green, Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, Mick Fleetwood, and John McVie, with an assist by Christine Perfect after Peter Green left. Basically what you have left is Buckingham/Nicks Band plus three.
BttbBob answered:
I'd have to say 1960 - JFK vs RMN... Alaska and Hawaii having been admitted to our "more perfect union" in 1959.
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Memo to Charlie: Oh, you bet Lindsay Buckingham was great! I love the album that he and Stevie did together in '73 before they joined Fleetwood Mac. Here it is for those that haven't heard it - Buckingham Nicks [Full Album] - YouTube
The song it starts out with, "Crying in the Night" (Great tune! Play it LOUD!) proved to me that Stevie coulda been a country star had she chose to. Her Grampa was a country singer, dontcha know? (Lindsay is justa banging those acoustic strings on it!) The second piece "Stephanie" is a nifty acoustic instrumental number by Lindsay which is very, very nice. 10 tracks in all. Lots of fine Buckingham guitar work throughout. That and their vocal harmonies are fabulous! Stevie solos at her finest. This album, while not a commercial success, got them invited to join 'Mac'. It has never been released on CD, although 'Rumors' have it that it might be soon ;) I hope so. I wore out the two vinyl discs I owned and lost the cassette I had it recorded onto. So, for now I have to settle for this... Oh, and my second daughter, Sarah, her middle name is Lindsay. Guess where that came from? Yep... I wanted to have it as her first name, but the wife said no. We compromised... IMO, Buckingham is a vastly under-rated guitarist... and I adore Stevie Nicks... then and now! P.S. If'n ya do listen to it, you'll see the comment I made about it 'seconding' another's praise... This album is on my 'Top Ten' fa-vo-rites of all time. Fact!
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Memo to JoeS: Do you know how much time and effort I've spent; the bazillions of links and personal anecdotes of being a Great Lakes mariner I've sent to our dear E! pal, SallyP, in the, so far, vain attempt to make her understand the vastness and power of the "Big Ponds"? Gad, I don't think she'll ever 'get it'...That's ok, though... We all have our failings. Me? Of course I do... I don't 'get' the big deal with tofu...
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Link Comment - If'n ya didn't take the time to view the "Ancient Greeks in Modern Hipster Attire" yesterday, I recommend that you do so now... It's way cool... and visually very surprising! Take the time to read the commentary, too.
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Link Comment II - The "Famous Barbarians" thing? Ha! Not one of 'em were named "Badtothebone... whatever"... 'Nuf said...
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Born this day:
(1912-1967) His land is our land...
(1918-2007) "Probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera." - Woody Allen
(1927-1996) NBC's 'Walter Cronkite'. I liked him just as well... Had the same 'Gravitas'...
MAM wrote:
1960 ~ Contenders were: John F. Kennedy/Richard Nixon
And, Joe S replied:
No poem. Too bummed.
The year was 1960, I was 16 years old. I was sure Nixon would win the election until I saw him debate Kennedy on TV. He didn't look presidential. My cousin Art knew Kennedy would win because he had the good-lookin' wife.
Not as hot, but the kind of humidity that makes you wish you had gills.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'The Good Wife', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'America's Got Talent', followed by a RERUN'L&O: SVU', then a FRESH'Crossing Lines'.
ABC begins the night with a RERUN'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Celebrity Wife Swap', then a FRESH'Whodunnit?', followed by a RERUN'Castle'.
The CW fills the night with what passes for local news and other fluffery.
Faux has a RERUN'The Cleveland Show', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', then another RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by a RERUN'Bob's Burgers', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by a RERUN'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another 'Big Bang Theory'.
A&E has 3 hours of old 'Duck Dynasty', 'Storage Wars', and another 'Storage Wars'.
AMC offers the movie 'Casino Royale', 'The Killing', and another 'The Killing'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 2
[7:00AM] TOP GEAR: BEST OF 05-06 - Episode 3
[8:00AM] CROCODILE: SMILING PREDATOR
[9:00AM] HAMMERHEAD
[10:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 1
[11:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 2
[12:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 3
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 3 - Episode 4
[2:00PM] DANGERMAN: THE INCREDIBLE MR. GOODWIN - Season 1 - Episode 1
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 12 - Episode 8
[4:30PM] TIME BANDITS
[7:00PM] MASTER & COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
[10:00PM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 4 - I Defy Thee To Forget NEW
[11:00PM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Aileen Aroon
[12:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 3 - The Children of the Battlefield
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 2 - Ep 4 - I Defy Thee To Forget
[2:00AM] MASTER & COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR TOP 40 - Episode 6 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of New Jersey', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of New Jersey', then a FRESH'Princesses: Lawn Guyland', and 'Real Housewives Of New Jersey'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'I Love You Man', followed by the movie 'Grandma's Boy', 'Futurama', and 'Tosh.0'.
FX has the movie 'Just Go With It', followed by the movie 'Grown Ups'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', 'Pawn Stars', 'Mountain Men', followed by a FRESH'Mountain Men', then a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Out There-Frosty King
[6:30AM] Out There-Enter Destiny
[7:00AM] Dilbert-The Return
[7:30AM] Dilbert-The Virtual Employee
[8:00AM] Dilbert-The Pregnancy
[8:30AM] Dilbert-The Delivery
[9:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Hal Sleepwalks
[9:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Lois Battles Jamie
[10:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Malcolm's Car
[10:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Billboard
[11:00AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Opera
[11:30AM] Malcolm in the Middle-Living Will
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Motherboy XXX
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Immaculate Election
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-The Sword of Destiny
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Meet the Veals
[2:00PM] Arrested Development-Spring Breakout
[2:30PM] Arrested Development-Righteous Brothers
[3:00PM] Arrested Development-The Cabin Show
[3:30PM] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
[7:15PM] The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
[11:00PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Andy Samberg Wears a Plaid Shirt and Glasses
[11:30PM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Zach Galifianakis Wears a Blue Jacket & Red Socks
[12:00AM] Scream 3
[2:30AM] Dance of the Dead
[4:15AM] Dance of the Dead (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Man Shops Globe-Turkey
[6:30AM] A'mare
[6:45AM] The Man With Two Brains
[8:15AM] Strange Brew
[9:45AM] Some Kind of Wonderful
[11:30AM] The Man With Two Brains
[1:00PM] Strange Brew
[2:30PM] Push Girls-Strange Love
[3:00PM] Push Girls-Betrayed
[3:30PM] Push Girls-Surprising News
[4:00PM] Push Girls-Tipany's Missing Sister
[4:30PM] Push Girls-Tipany's Missing Sister
[5:00PM] Push Girls-Sex Ed
[5:30PM] Push Girls
[6:00PM] Clay Pigeons
[7:45PM] Marathon Man
[10:00PM] The Dirty Dozen
[12:45AM] The Quiet American
[2:30AM] Marathon Man
[4:45AM] Nick Nolte: No Exit (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Batman Forever', followed by the movie 'Batman & Robin'.
The platform used for the opera "Die Zauberfloete" by Austrian musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is seen on a giant floating stage at Lake Constance during a photo rehearsal in Bregenz July 12, 2013. The opera, directed by British directorDavid Pountney, will premiere on July 17 at the annual Bregenz festival.
Photo by Dominic Ebenbichler
Family planning, higher education and quality time with loved ones are priorities for people around the world, according to a new global Nielsen survey focusing on lifestyle values released on Friday.
The Nielsen poll of more than 29,000 people in 58 countries also showed that most people think women should have a say in important household issues, but opinions diverged on how the roles of wife and mother are perceived.
Family planning, or deciding on how many children to have, was a top issue, with 77 percent of people saying it was important, particularly in Latin America.
In largely Catholic countries such as Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico, 90 percent or more agreed that it was crucial, compared to 45 percent of Norwegians and more than 50 percent of Danes and French.
The rating for higher education was similar around the world, with 78 percent of people globally saying it was a priority.
Russian artist Vasily Slonov drives his "LaptiMobil", a car in the form of traditional Russian bast shoes called "Lapti", at the "World of Siberia" International festival of folk music and crafts in the village of Shushenskoye, some 480 km (298 miles) south of Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, July 12, 2013. The three-day outdoor festival showcases native music and folk traditions around Russia, as well as attracting performers from 15 countries including Switzerland, Italy, India, France, Brazil, Thailand, Spain, Chile, Denmark and Ecuador.
Photo by Ilya Naymushin
A Democrat probing Internal Revenue Service scrutiny of conservative "Tea Party" groups released documents on Friday suggesting that "Occupy" and other liberal-leaning groups received extra attention as well.
Representative Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives' Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said the documents suggested that liberal key words such as "Progressive" and "Occupy" were used by IRS staff to sift through applications for added review, in addition to conservative key words "Tea Party" and "Patriot."
Cummings blasted the chief of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, or TIGTA, who issued a report two months ago that said the agency unfairly singled out conservatives when reviewing applications for tax-exempt status.
"This investigation ... has been characterized by one-sided and partial information leading to unsubstantiated accusations with no basis in fact," Cummings said in a letter to Republican Representative Darrell Issa (R-Has A Pension, Do You?), the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman.
Construction work in eastern Mexico exposed an ancient settlement, including 30 skeletons and the ruins of a pyramid, believed to be up to 2,000 years old, archaeology officials announced.
At the site of the graves in the town of Jaltipan, southeast of Veracruz, archaeologists also found clay figurines, jade beads, mirrors and animal remains, according to the National Anthropology and History Institute, or INAH.
Researchers believe the settlement was occupied from around the first century A.D. until A.D. 600 or 700. Little is known about the people who lived there. The skeletons are set to be analyzed so that researchers can learn about how they were treated for burial.
Deer antlers and bones that may belong to dogs, coyotes, deer, fish and birds were buried with the bodies, perhaps as animal companions for the underworld, the researchers said. There's also evidence that the inhabitants of the site were fossil collectors; among the numerous prehistoric remains were the fossilized teeth of a long extinct Megalodon-type shark.
The artifacts found at the site represent more than one culture. Some figurines and brickwork look Mayan, while there was also pottery that looks like it came from ancient city of Teotihuacan, the researchers say.
Women in yukatas, or casual summer kimonos, look at paper lanterns during the Mitama Festival at the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, July 13, 2013. Over 30,000 lanterns light up the precincts of the shrine, where more than 2.4 million war dead are enshrined, during the four-day festival. The festival goes on till July 16.
Photo by Toru Hanai
A rare 19th century 55-carat diamond has gone on temporary view at New York's American Museum of Natural History.
The Kimberley Diamond gets its name from the mine in South Africa where it was found sometime before 1868.
It was cut from a 490-carat crystal. It was turned into a 70-carat gem in 1921 and recut to its present form in 1958 to improve its brilliance and proportions.
The champagne-colored, emerald-cut diamond will be on display through the end of June 2014.
Walt Disney Co's Lucasfilm Ltd and Pixar units have settled a lawsuit accusing them and other technology companies of conspiring not to poach each others' employees, resolving their part in a case that involves some of Silicon Valley's biggest names.
The settlement was disclosed in a Friday court filing that did not elaborate on terms of the deal. Disney was not immediately available for comment.
The case has been closely watched by Silicon Valley, with much of it built on emails among top executives, including the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs and former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt.
The plaintiffs claim the companies' agreement to refrain from recruiting each others' employees drove down wages in Silicon Valley.
Other defendants in the case include Adobe Systems Inc, Intel Corp and Intuit Inc.
An author who saw his self-help business crash after he led a sweat lodge ceremony that left three people dead was paroled from prison on Friday after serving nearly two years for negligent homicide convictions.
James Arthur Ray, 55, was freed from the state prison in Buckeye, near Phoenix. Nothing in his conditions of release prohibits him from holding self-help seminars or conducting another sweat lodge ceremony, but his brother said Ray has no immediate plans to resurrect his business.
A jury acquitted him of more serious manslaughter charges and convicted him of negligent homicide. He served 85 percent of the concurrent two-year terms for each of the deaths. Ray has appealed the convictions, alleging that errors by the prosecution tainted the case.
Ray has acknowledged that he was responsible for the deaths but offered no excuses for his lack of action as the chaos unfolded at the sweat lodge. He and his attorneys said Ray would have stopped the ceremony had he known people were dying or in distress.
For 163 years, lives across the vast Indian nation have been upended by the knock of the khaki-clad postal worker armed with a telegram.
Families used them to announce births and deaths, the government used them to post job openings, young lovers sent them to tell their folks that they had eloped.
On Monday, the state-run telecommunications company will send its final telegram, closing down a service that fast became a relic in an age of email, reliable landlines and ubiquitous cellphones.
The fact that the telegram survived this long is a testament to how deeply woven it is into the fabric of Indian society. In much of the rest of the world, telegrams long ago were relegated to novelty services used by people who wanted to indulge in a bit of nostalgia.
In this photo taken Friday July 12, 2013, a ''Toro de Fuego'', is carried through the old city, at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona northern Spain. Revelers from around the world arrive to Pamplona every year to take part in some of the eight days of the running of the bulls glorified by Ernest Hemingway's 1926 novel "The Sun Also Rises."
Photo by Alvaro Barrientos
The departure of U.S. actress Leah Remini from the Church of Scientology this week raised new questions about the relationship top leaders assume with their high-profile Hollywood members and their ability to retain them.
The New York Post, which first reported Remini's defection on Thursday, said the actress chose to leave after "being subjected to years of 'interrogations' and 'thought modification' for questioning leader David Miscavige's rule," citing an unnamed source.
Remini, 43, best known for her role as Carrie Heffernan in the CBS comedy "King of Queens," released a statement thanking supporters on Thursday, but both she and her representatives declined to comment on her reasons for leaving the church.
The New York Post linked Remini's falling out with the church to the 2006 wedding of Cruise and Katie Holmes, when Remini reportedly asked about Miscavige's wife, who was not present.
Thousands of Wild West artifacts, collected by a former mayor for a museum that never materialized, will be auctioned off next week by the capital city of Pennsylvania to help pay down more than $300 million in debt.
The long-awaited auction is part of Harrisburg's efforts to recoup some of the city funds spent by former Mayor Stephen Reed to acquire the rare artifacts for a tourist-drawing Wild West museum. Featuring items ranging from the very valuable to knick-knacks, it is scheduled to start Monday and continue through the week.
Bidders will see a warehouse packed to the rafters with vintage Wild West artifacts and other items related to the 19th Century conquest of the American West and figures like Buffalo Bill Cody, Wyatt Earp, Jesse James and Doc Holliday.
There also are artifacts from Native American tribes, a collection of pieces relating to the Battle of Little Big Horn and more than 500 vintage firearms, as well as a Stetson hat belonging to former President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Other historical items to go on the block include Teddy Roosevelt's three-barreled rifle, hand-written notes from George Washington and John Hancock and the uniform worn by General George Patton in World War Two.
The average American man's penis is 5.6 inches (14.2 centimeters) long when erect, a new survey of 1,661 men finds.
The study, published online July 10 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, is relatively consistent with the results of prior surveys of penis size.
Penis size has been the subject of dozens of studies, as well as countless urban legends, myths and spam emails. For many men, the idea of not measuring up can cause a great deal of anxiety.
But whether penis size truly matters to a man's sex partner is up for debate. Some research shows that women who experience vaginal orgasms do so more consistently with men of bigger girth.
Other work suggests bigger isn't always better: One study found that ideal penis size depends on a person's height, and another showed that girth matters more than length to most women.
Though the sun is currently in the peak year of its 11-year solar weather cycle, our closest star has been rather quiet over all, scientists say.
This year's solar maximum is shaping up to be the weakest in 100 years and the next one could be even more quiescent, scientists said Thursday (July 11).
"It's the smallest maximum we've seen in the Space Age," David Hathaway of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., told reporters in a teleconference.
About every 11 years, the sun goes through a cycle defined by an increasing and then decreasing number of sunspots. Solar Cycle 24 has been underway since 2011 and its peak was expected in 2013, but there have been fewer sunspots observed this year compared with the maximums of the last several cycles.
A red-bellied Lemur licks a vegetable ice lolly, specially prepared by the zoo keepers at Anna's Welsh Zoo, St Florence, in Tenby, West Wales July 13, 2013. The Met Office said on its website that the hot and sunny weather is due to continue throughout the weekend, with Saturday being the hottest day of the year.
Photo by Rebecca Naden
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