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Why Barack Obama Is not a Modern-Day Theodore Roosevelt!
The faux populist Obama is at it again. Yesterday, trying to echo Theodore Roosevelt's famous talk in Osawatomie, Kansas, in 1910 — when the former president laid out his call for a "New Nationalism." Barack Obama said yesterday: "This country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share and when everyone plays by the same rules." Assuming the stance of an anti-Wall Street crusader, the president, who made a deal with Big Pharma on the drug issue and the Big Insurance Firms to gain their support for ObamaCare, pandered to the OWS crowd and tried to echo their cries about the injustice to the 99 percent of the people oppressed by Wall Street.
As A.G. Sulzberger put it in the New York Times:
Infusing his speech with the moralistic language that has emerged in the Occupy protests around the nation, Mr. Obama warned that growing income inequality meant that the United States was undermining its middle class and, "gives lie to the promise that's at the very heart of America: that this is the place where you can make it if you try."
Channeling TR, President Obama, as the Wall Street Journal reported, "cited health-insurance companies, mortgage lenders and financial firms. For too many Americans, he said, hard work no longer pays off, while those 'at the very top' have grown wealthier than ever before. The president has periodically bashed Wall Street before, but Tuesday's speech was more sweeping and went beyond any one industry to say that the middle class as a whole was being left behind in part due to corporate greed and wrongdoing." As most people know, the president has been the best friend of the insurance companies, financial firms, and the mortgage lenders, who, following liberal policies, proceeded to engage in sub-prime loans to those who could not afford them.
We understand why Obama is taking this stance. Having stood by the wayside after bailing out the banks and the auto companies, and letting the economy worsen, the president found his base wavering in their enthusiasm for him, and he desperately needs their support and their legwork for his 2012 campaign. Talking Left while cooperating with the very titans he attacks is the only move he has left. So he now attacks "breathtaking greed" and uses the OWS slogans as his own; much as LBJ did with the civil rights movement when he talked to Congress and ended his speech with the words "we shall overcome."
But LBJ did introduce a civil rights bill, while Obama is all hat and no cattle. Of course, Obama said his concern was with "the nation's welfare," and that he was not engaging in "class warfare." The TR 1910 speech, to which he referred many times, according to the Times reporter, "touched on many of the same themes — often in similar language — like concentration of wealth and the need for government to ensure a level playing field. Central to progress, Mr. Roosevelt said, was the conflict between 'the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess.'" Leaving it with these quotes, it certainly sounds to those not so familiar with TR that Obama was indeed carrying on TR's old cause.
But a more substantive look at what Roosevelt really argued belies his argument. As Ben Soskis correctly notes at TNR.com, "there was another stratum of meaning in TR's speech at Osawatomie — a more conservative one that has received less attention." Roosevelt, he points out, "did not mean for his speech … to be a statement of radical beliefs. He had initially hoped that by championing progressive principles, he could take control of the potentially irresponsible insurgent forces within the GOP and orchestrate a reconciliation with the party's more conservative wing. In fact, in the address itself, he did not merely define himself as a crusader against special interests; he also signaled his resistance to the excesses of radicalism as well."
Indeed, he continues: "A few days later, Roosevelt published another version of the speech, more conciliatory toward the forces of concentrated wealth, that he wrote himself." Condemning the violence engaged in by John Brown [the speech was a memorial to Brown and a park named for him in honor of an 1856 battle Brown waged in Osawatomie) and making it clear that Brown's contemporary successors were the socialists, Roosevelt wrote that Brown's "notion that the evils of slavery could be cured by a slave insurrection was a delusion analogous to the delusions of those who expect to cure the evils of plutocracy by arousing the baser passions of workingmen against the rich in an endeavor at violent industrial revolution."
67 Comments, 28 Threads
1. Clare Spark
Excellent essay by Radosh comparing the historic T.R. with his utter distortion by POTUS. I revised a prior essay taking account of Obama's bizarre notion of "class" as a ladder (in his 12-6-11 speech). His hatred of "the money power" is not only classically Jeffersonian and populist, but he had the nerve to cite a "billionaire" who pays 1% taxes (see "Jewish" avarice and un-Christian hatred of charity), as if such a person exists, or that his ilk is typical. The antisemitism in this speech is poorly disguised. The link to my essay is here: http://clarespark.com/2010/09/11/is-wall-street-slaughtering-the-middle-class/.
December 7, 2011 - 12:17 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"The antisemitism in this speech is poorly disguised."
Not only is the anti-Semitism disguised, it's also nonexistent. In fact, loony charges like this by right wingnuts (including RR's agreement with Libertyship that Obama is a socialist) will help ensure that the Jewish vote stays overwhelmingly in the Democratic column.
December 7, 2011 - 6:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
You mean like the fact if people and businesses don't have the Obamacare they go to jail and the fact he is slowly *Keywords* slowly killing the coal industry putting many families out of work when we need to not be depending on other nations for what we have right under our feet?
What about ignoring the millions of CO2 that is being put out in China in record levels and the lack of human rights in the working industry there? Not to mention unsafe factories like Fox Con that makes parts for your pretty IPOD and other Apple Inc products.
Or how about the record amounts of ammunition being bought for the US Military and Department of Homeland Security and all those spy planes?And how about the fact CNN and other news are being controlled to tell you what they want you to hear?
January 1, 2013 - 10:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
Progressives like to hijack words, like "progressive" and make that word unfit for any other application. Progressive thinking now means the spread of socialist ideology rather than making any form of progress. The opposite is implied in the term so that the opposition must be regressive and not conservative.
TR wanted to make the U.S. a world power, Obama, not so much.
Another aspect of TR that is busily being eroded is "conservation" which made it way from TR's national parks to a massive federal land grab. If Obama wants to truely emulate TR after his presidency, then Obama would go to Africa and shoot 435 lions as did TR.December 7, 2011 - 2:20 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
3. dakotadude
Thanks for another excellent essay.
BTW: While driving across the North Central Great Plains on I-90 enroute to Rochester, Minnesota, a couple weeks ago both my wife and I noticed that the cars that passed us weren't sporting any Obama bumper stickers. Not a single Obama sticker in nearly 1000 miles of interstate driving. Am curious if anyone else has noticed a similar trend and what it might portend?December 7, 2011 - 2:24 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Maybe there's no campaign happening?
Did you see any clinton stickers? How about stickers supporting GWB?
December 7, 2011 - 10:45 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
I live in Maryland and unfortunately the appearance of Obama stickers is still a daily experience. Maryland has more government employees per capita then any other state and believe me they haven't forgotten that they need that job.
December 8, 2011 - 4:24 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Likely many were destroyed in the Cash for Clunkers program.
They may be back when the time comes.
December 8, 2011 - 5:13 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Huck Folder
Does "Cash for Clunkers" apply to a man-boy?
December 9, 2011 - 5:20 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Now Now. Don't be sexist or the politically correct police may come a knocking on you're door. Actually forget the knocking. They'll just demand entry without a warrant as that's what the mainstream Liberals want.
January 1, 2013 - 10:47 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
I am getting a little sick and tired of socialists like Obama trying with whip out Teddy Roosevelt every time they want to escalate the class warfare issue here in the United States. I am also tired of people like Glenn Beck dumping on Teddy Roosevelt, claiming that he was the root evil of the Progressive movement in this country, and therefore should be hated as one should hate Lenin or Stalin. All of these people are wrong, wrong, and WRONG, because they are judging an early 20th Century politician by holding him up to 21st Century standards.
Life for the average working man was NOT that hot in 1900, or even in 1910 for that matter. When Teddy Roosevelt came into office, you probably had almost the purest form of democracy in our Republic, with huge businesses creating an industrial revolution in this nation but with almost NO federal oversight or intervention. Therefore, huge business tycoons like the Morgans, or the Vanderbilts, or the Carnegies could pretty much treat labor any way they wanted to and run their businesses any way they wanted to, so long as they made a huge profit in the process. Sounds good to Beck and his followers, but in reality it was a living hell for the average working man or woman in 1900 or 1910.
I have just started reading Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and that novel gives you a bird's eye view of what life was like working as an average person in Chicago's meatpacking industry at the turn of the century. The working AND health conditions were so scandalous that Teddy Roosevelt demanded an official investigation, which eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Laws, laws that stopped people from eating tainted or even poisonous food. Now, to Glenn Beck and his followers, was this a huge Federal intrusion into big business, or was it a sensible law that saved a lot of lives?
Many of the Tycoons, like J.P. Morgan, created giant "trusts" or cartels that almost destroyed our free-market system and literally placed whole businesses in the hands of one or two people. Roosevelt broke up these trusts. Now was he abusing his power, or was this a good thing for free enterprise in this nation, giving more opportunities to more companies that were not part of these trusts?
Roosevelt was also the first president to even think about conservation. The buffalo was almost extinct from over hunting and coal companies were destroying large tracts of land throughout the country. So was Roosevelt's desire to preserve our land a sinister statist land grab, or a desire to preserve our land for future generations of our nation?
America at the turn of the century had some severe problems for the common worker, and people were actually living in a time when workers were taking radicals like Eugene V. Debs seriously. We had just come out of depression (or Panic) from the early 1990s where people in some parts of the country literally starved to death because there was no government welfare system at the time to at least feed them. And with no labor laws to have to deal with, large companies (especially the coal companies) could treat workers any way they wanted to and the conditions they had to work under were horrible, especially for children. So who spoke out for these people? Who would fight their fight against company owners who didn't care if they lived or died on the job so long as they made a profit?
Teddy Roosevelt did. He was the first politician to give their anger and their dispair a voice. And he was the first president to take their plight seriously. This was a new concept at the turn of the century and one that prevented even greater labor riots from taking place than the ones that did.
Roosevelt certainly was not perfect. He even had some strange ideas (like the ones on racial purity). Granted, at times he seemed like a blatant racist. But no one should take any of his accomplishments away from him at a time when nobody was paying much attention to the plight of the average worker. He may have been a progressive, but at least he tried to improve the working conditions for millions of Americans at a time when we really, really, needed it.
Let me add that I'm as conservative as they come. The people reading my comments on this blog will know that. But I'm tired of people like Beck slamming Teddy Roosevelt and people like Obama trying to twist what Roosevelt did to fit their socialist ends. Teddy Roosevelt was one of our greatest presidents and nobody should judge this icon of the early 20th century by the far-left standards of the 21st century.
OK, anybody can start yelling at me if they want to, but I know I'm right. Look it up if you want to.
December 7, 2011 - 2:25 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Ron Radosh
I usually don't deal with comments because I have little time to do that. But I want to thank Libertyship46- whomever he is- for his insightful remarks, and note that I agree with him completely. We no longer live in the early 20th Century, and as he points out, conditions were different back then than they are now. As historians like James Weinstein and Gabriel Kolko- two historians of the Left- pointed out decades ago, progressive reform like the Pure Food and Drug Act, Workmen's Compensation and the like were supported by large corporations, who wanted social reform to provide stability, prevent labor unrest, and stabilize the system.
So again, Kudos, Liberthyship46!December 7, 2011 - 2:44 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
David Thomson
The owners and managers of the large corporations were also thrilled that these new laws and regulations effectively destroyed many of their smaller competitors. Crony capitalism inevitably damages small to mid size businesses. Top business executives love Progressive politicians of both parties. Today most of their political contributions go to Barack Obama and the Democrats. Teddy Roosevelt, FDR, Herbert Hoovers, and all the Democratic Party leaders in the last 80 years have advocated on behalf of crony capitalism—even if they lack the ability to realize it.
December 7, 2011 - 3:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
That phenomenon is called "regulatory capture".
December 8, 2011 - 10:17 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
And don't forget, guys, before our right-wing Supreme Court declared corporations people, TR said (in 1910), "There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."
December 7, 2011 - 7:36 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I have read the Citizen's United decision, and nowhere in it can I find a declaration by the Supreme Court that "corporations are people", nor lists this poppycock as their basis for overturning the campaign finance law. It is abundantly clear, however, that the Court found the McCain/Feingold law infringed upon the freedom of speech, which, btw, contains no qualification that the speaker be a "person". Take your baseless left-wing propaganda to some other site, Patriot, where the readers are gullible enough to believe your nonsense.
December 7, 2011 - 9:34 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
" Take your baseless left-wing propaganda to some other site, Patriot, where the readers are gullible enough to believe your nonsense."
Tsk, tsk, such nasty talk. "Left-wing propaganda"? I was quoting TR directly. Oh, well, I guess a true-to-form wingnut like you labels everything as such that you don't agree with.
December 9, 2011 - 10:52 am Link to this Comment
I don't have a problem not letting corporations have a say "as a person" as long as unions also don't have a say "as a person". As it was prior to this ruling, unions were the only players to have this kind of power. Now the field is leveled. Either both have that status or neither; but not one and not the other.
December 8, 2011 - 9:24 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Great comments Libertyship! Enjoyed the article and your comments…
December 7, 2011 - 3:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Just thought I'd throw in that we didn't really have a middle class until after WWII
December 7, 2011 - 4:31 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
The Depression had pretty much wiped it out. There has always been a middle income group, just not named "Middle Class."
December 8, 2011 - 9:26 am Link to this Comment | Reply
Libertyship46 -
You very accurately describe the plight of the average American worker during the time of Theodore Roosevelt (he hated being called Teddy by anyone who wasnt family), or Colonel Roosevelt as he most prefered. But I dont think you quite get Theodore Roosevelt's ideology (though I dont even know if Thoedore Roosevelt understood what he believed). Theodore Roosevelt believed in equality and fairness, industriousness (in both work and family size), and in general Anglo-Saxon-Dutch values. Theodore Roosevelt wasnt "racist", more "culturalist". Theodore Roosevelt was the first President to invite a Black man (Booker T Washington) to the White House as a guest of the state (which incited white racists). Roosevelt kept a personal corrispondance with Booker T Washington and (I believe it was) Holt Collier, a poor Black man who couldnt read or write (but had friends read to him and write his replies), among dozens of other various people. Roosevelt felt that the American society was the best, and those that were much like it (England, Germany, and some of the Latin-American), but it didnt matter if you were Black, Hispanic, or Asian. Sometimes his oft fiery rhetoric he would make statements that today would be viewed as "extremist" or "racist". But that is sometimes the problem with trying to apply todays view-points to the past (or past situations, like work conditions, to todays life). I enjoyed Edmond Morris' three books on Theodore Roosevelt – The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and The Colonel. They are expansive (500+ pages each), well researched, detailed, and descriptive.
December 7, 2011 - 5:01 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
Menachem Ben Yakov
Thought these two might be enjoyed-
December 7, 2011 - 5:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
5. David Thomson
"He did not favor an attack on the so-called "greed" and profits of the wealthy, which he believed they had earned, and long as it worked for the benefit of the community as a whole."
Who decides what benefits the "community as a whole"? What right do have to their money. Moreover, the wealthy who earned their wealth are constantly investing in various businesses either directly or indirectly. Teddy Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover failed to take their utopian theories to their logical conclusion. They wanted to be merely a little bit pregnant. These two Progressive Republican presidents foolishly opened the door to the excesses of the Democratic Party.
December 7, 2011 - 2:46 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
6. jd
July 4 1776 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – John Hancock signs the Declaration of Independence.
December 6 2011 – Osawatomie, Kansas – Barack Obama makes the Declaration of Dependence
December 7, 2011 - 2:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Steve DeMarcus "Real electrician/data technician"
Good one and probably should be engraved in stone as an aside to the worst President of the United States of America, along with that the first President ever to have the credit rating rating due to his unscrupulous spending for projects that accomplished negative returns on investment and massive unemployment along with near zero GDP growth, along with any negative economic indicator.
Do not mention horrible foreign policy and running of any conflict or war or as he refers to it a kinetic action (Libya) yep he is a real Teddy (Bear) isn't he.
The only thing I hope he does like Teddy Roosevelt is to decline to run for re-election! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
December 7, 2011 - 4:29 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
P.S. The "Panic" I referred to was in the 1890s, NOT the 1990s. That was a typo. We really could use a edit function on this blog.
December 7, 2011 - 2:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Steve DeMarcus "Real electrician/data technician"
They did have such a feature a year or so ago but only in certain articles, as well as automatic avatars but all that seems to be gone, it seems to me that after submitting your comment you had about 2 or 3 minutes to edit your typos I kinda wonder what happened with that!
December 7, 2011 - 4:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
8. Forgotten man
The current POTUS could be compared with A E Newman, but with the tooth. Mr. Obama couldnever be compared to a Statesman.
December 7, 2011 - 3:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Steve DeMarcus "Real electrician/data technician"
Now he should be more like Moe Howard the leader of wheat became known as The Three Stooges http://www.threestooges.com/bios/
December 7, 2011 - 4:57 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
9. Dan
Obama is using class warfare to demonize the rich all the while saying the income gap is growing using the CBOs numbers that only include data up to 2007. Since that time the gap has narrowed. See the following wall Street Journal article.
December 7, 2011 - 4:27 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Dems have been preparing for a run against Romney and fomenting this class warfare to oppose them (they have to have something to run on). Romney was born into wealth and ran a company that bought companies and either fixed them or sold them (putting people out of work) for a profit. This is why they desperately want him to be the nominee. Romney will not be able to stand up against this class warfare they are trying to split the country with.
December 8, 2011 - 9:30 am Link to this Comment | Reply
10. Robbins Mitchell
"I took Panama and let Congress debate about"
~Theodore Roosevelt~
By contrast,for the last 3 years,whenever Congress was debating something,Barokeydoke usually took a vacation
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11. pfsm
I'd like to point out here that Barack 0bama never once, until he became President, had a job in which it made any difference whether he showed up for work or not. Even Jimmy Carter came up through the US Navy Nuclear Power Program under Hyman Rickover, who was no one's idea of an easy man to work under, so we know that at one point in his life he was competent at something. We still don't know that about 0bama.
December 7, 2011 - 4:48 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Forgotten man
Sorry, but Jimmy Carter got discharged before finishing the program. He never went to sea in a sub. His father died and he got out of the Navy to run the peanut farm.
December 7, 2011 - 5:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
12. tanstaafl
"Obama is all hat and no cattle."
An apt description. All he has left in his quiver is engendering class warfare in pursuit of being allowed a continuance of his personal fiefdom, aka the Presidency of the United States.
Talking Left while cooperating with the very titans he attacks is the only move he has left.
If Obama cared about anything at all besides himself and his egomaniacal ideology, he'd resign right now.
As for the desperate speechifying in Osawatomie, it's just his latest attempt to hang on the coattails of some other President & justify himself. He has been through quite a few earlier Presidents, looking for some footing, some identification with what has come before.
There is no precedent for this President.
Another apt Texas expression:
"Don't piss on my boots and tell me it's raining."
December 7, 2011 - 4:50 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"If Obama cared about anything at all besides himself and his egomaniacal ideology, he'd resign right now." Truer words have never been spoken, but
Obummer's behavior is simply the narcissistic obsessive maniac who begs to
be praised. And, he threatens all who do not bow down to his overarching
supreme brain.December 7, 2011 - 6:27 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
13. SteveB/Colorado
#4 Libertyship46: you and I don't often agree; we have differing views of what it means to be conservative in these times. Having said that, I applaud your summary about TR. He indeed was one of the country's greatest presidents. There is good reason that he is one of the 4 on Mt. Rushmore.
I agree that Glenn Beck and some of his fellow travelers have it wrong about regulation. What's needed is not over-regulation or excess regulation; but rather smart regulation.
#2 Jed: what massive federal land grab are you referencing?
December 7, 2011 - 5:56 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
For one, under the Hertiage Act, Clinton "set aside" 5 million acres for non-use and roadless. Since TR we have had the Forest Service and BLM controlling many millions of acres under the guise of protection, which limits grazing, mining,drilling,and logging. TR started the park system and later presidents contributed mightly to claiming federal land within state's boundaries. Find a map of federal lands in the US and see that it is disproportion to the west.
December 7, 2011 - 7:02 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
My feelings exactly. Well put, though Toosevlt has his flaws.
December 7, 2011 - 7:03 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
14. Bodman
I love this stuff. Thanks for a good article. On our current Mr. President, I have never in my life waited ever so long so that I could cast my vote. Every painstaking day goes ever so slowly by. My family no longer has any form of television, and I prefer to receive my news via internet and radio.
Call me a loon or a dreamer but I'm ready to try Ron Paul. He actually gets people like me who are unwilling to negotiate with those who kill the unborn. Not freakazoid violent, just unwilling to negotiate that one. He gets that and has a healthy dose of financial sense to go with it. Pound for pound he can also give Gingrich a history lesson, which I hope more people will see as Iowa gets closer. I'm not falling for the smoke and mirrors next November. btw, saw the John Adams miniseries from HBO and loved it. Maybe we could get back to having a few good men run for the office of Commander in Chief, just… maybe
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15. Maxtrue
"On the world stage, Roosevelt's policies were characterized by his slogan, "Speak softly and carry a big stick". Roosevelt was the force behind the completion of the Panama Canal, sent the Great White Fleet on a world tour to demonstrate American power, and negotiated an end to the Russo-Japanese War, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize.[5] Roosevelt was the first American to win the Nobel Prize in any field."
Obviously, there are many dissimilarities between Obama and Roosevelt. And yes, things were very different back in his day. To compare those protesting on the steps of City Hall in NYC to the ipod crowd at OWS is a false comparison.
No one I know denies the growing divide between the wealthy and Middle Class. No one denies tuition has gone up 300% in the last few decades. No one denies that crony capitalism and the primacy of shareholders has gotten out of hand. However, the rational solutions to fixing our mess before it becomes irreversible is being clouded over by a class warfare pitch which is also a cover for the administrations rather lame economic corrections.
One thing that bothered me about the Roosevelt unvealing was Obama's stating his mom was very optimistic about America. In fact, she was glad to leave the Mid West and after her time on the West coast thrilled with the more subversive teachers departed for Hawaii and eventually traveled the world rather than to live in the country she was so thrilled about. Not sure anyone caught that…….
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16. Patriot493
Yep, Obama isn't TR. Neither is he Washington, Jefferson or Lincoln. But compared to the bozos vying for the GOP nomination, he's right up there with the Mt. Rushmore crowd.
PS – Since Romney can't even handle a Fox interview ("This isn't going well!), it looks like it might be Gingrich. And since, according to the man himself, he's prone to do nasty things when in the grip of excessive patriotic zeal, we'd all better watch out!
December 7, 2011 - 7:05 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
But Gingrich can look Obama in the eye and tell him what he is. Romney will pander and try to "look more presidential". This is not going to work. Obama is going into gutter politics and playing nice, a la McCain, will not beat the street-fighting, rabble-rousing, community agitating Obama.
December 8, 2011 - 9:34 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
"But Gingrich can look Obama in the eye and tell him what he is."
After lambasting Clinton for having sex with an aide while he himself was doing the same thing, and after saying with a straight face that he wasn't a lobbyist and that Freddie gave him 1.6 mil for sharing his knowledge of history, I wonder how Newt can look himself in the eye.
December 9, 2011 - 10:43 am Link to this Comment | Reply
17. slider
"Obama is all hat and no cattle."
When comparing BO to TR, I think what you meant to say was "Obama is all Bull and no Moose".
December 7, 2011 - 7:22 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
That one had me literally laughing out loud. "All Bull and No Moose." Love it.
December 9, 2011 - 11:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply
18. Dr. Frank Lippenheimer
Obama gassed: "This country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share and when everyone plays by the same rules." Yes. No. And Yes.
Yes, America was based (and we hope that it is still based) on the right of the individual to choose his own path, and to succeed or fail thereon by his own efforts, and by God's will — which is not to say that we turn away from our fellows, sometimes our loved ones, who fail in their dreams, but that we put the rights of individuals above all else, and that includes the right of individuals to fail trying, or to fail simply by the kismet of one's fate. Obama and his ilk want to take the whole "trying" thing out of the equation, and in doing so they would rob us of our personal dignity, and our instinct to make the most out of the life we are given — one that is given by a source far greater than the Federal Government, I might add. So, in short, we already have the "fair shot" as our birthright, vouchsafed to us by our forebears and all who have fought and struggled before us, as Americans. We do not need Barry to give that to us. We have it already, and we have had it for as long as our nation has existed.
No, NOT when "everybody does their fair share" — that is NOT in our founding documents and the reason why is that it makes no human sense whatsoever. That is, it makes no sense if one believes in the concept of free will. In the real world, some individuals do more of their "fair share" while others do less, and that is a permanent feature of mankind. Government can do nothing to change that, but it sure as hell can make things worse for all of us in that regard. Some people care, others do not, and all the degrees in between. There is no absolute fairness in human affairs and there never, ever will be. And Obama knows that. He cares nothing of fairness. His only purpose in stuffing this phrase in is to instill a sense of "unfairness" within a populace that enjoys more freedoms and opportunities to live the life of their dreams than any other that has ever occupied this planet. We already have the best of all possible worlds: freedom of opportunity. To hell with fairness. There is no fairness in this world, but by the grace of God.
And, yes, we ALREADY understand, and have long understood, that we must all play by the same rules. HENCE, America is a nation of LAWS. The problem with leftist Alyinskyites like Obama is that it is not the rule of law as it exists that he/they would have us live by (c.f., U.S. immigration law), but rather the rule of law that they are currently cooking up for us — a brand new set of laws based upon a "living" liberal-progressive Constitution that ordains whatever the hell they want it to ordain.
This one sentence, that "This country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share and when everyone plays by the same rules" distills perfectly the lies and manipulations that define the Obama presidency.
"Fairness" is the key word here — and Obama has been pounding on consistently. It is a word that is rich in positive connotations. But in the hands of a liar and a demagogue it is a word of enslavement.
…. As for comparing BHO to TR, can anyone actually imagine Barry charging up San Juan Hill at the fore of his Rough Riders? It is to laugh. Obama is a soft, pencil-necked metrosexual — Colonel Roosevelt he is not.
December 7, 2011 - 10:49 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"Fairness" is the key word here — and Obama has been pounding on consistently. It is a word that is rich in positive connotations. But in the hands of a liar and a demagogue it is a word of enslavement.
The key words underlying attempts to wrap the power-mongering, soul-killing agenda in soft, fuzzy cotton are "fairness" and "justice". Justice pops up everywhere, climate justice, even food justice.
A picture painted with a brush that deceives.
There is nothing just in any of this cabal's plans for America.
At some point, Americans have to stop looking for rational sense in this attack on the country and acknowledge exactly what is moving through their backyards on those slow trains in the dead of night, heading for the concentration camps.
December 8, 2011 - 6:51 am Link to this Comment | Reply
19. ApolloSpeaks
After failing to be the new Abe Lincoln (the great uniter), the new JFK (the irresistible charmer), the new FDR (the optimistic inspirer), and the new Bill Clinton (the moderate triangulator) Obama now wants to be the new Teddy Roosevelt (the patriotic, America first nationalist)? Can you imagine this moral weakling leading the charge up San Juan Hill, or hunting lions in the wilds of Africa or negotiating a peace between Russia and Japan(Obama lacks negotiating skills)? Teddy Roosevelt is Obama's last desperate ploy to seem greater than he is, more presidential than he is, more truly and patriotically American than he is and deceive his way to a second disastrous term.
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20. nickel
The more I watch the pathetic policies of Barack Hussein Obama fail to either restart the economy or even pacify his rather radical base, the more I wonder just how did such a boob get to this position. As we all know he is a creation of those behind him who are pulling the strings and ordering the speeches that he reads from his teleprompter. But my question is really deeper than that, it is how did George Soros,the public sector unions, and the rest of the Democratic array of leftists fall for this guy to lead the country into a socialist utopia. Well, of course there is the reality that most of the so called Democrats are really just crooks looking to loot the US Treasury and this empty suit appears to have been very successful in allowing that to happen. And most of the really radical Alynskites who launched Obama's rocket like career from Chicago activist to US President, must have been impressed by what Joe Biden summed up as a clean, black fellow who speaks articulately. Frankly, that is about all I see now. And since every other phrase out of him is a bold faced lie, I don't really think too many of the great unwashed citizenry are too interested in listening much longer.
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I too have the 'hand to forehead response' when seeing this boob read his speeches and swiveling his head Mussolini-like though more robotic.
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Obama got to this position because in 2007-2008 he ran as an antiwar candidate, and that's what the peacenik Dem base wanted. They couldn't forgive Hillary for voting in favor of the Iraq War.
Still despite everything, the polls taken after the 2008 GOP convention showed that McCain still had a 50-50 chance of being Obama (and the Dems were starting to get nervous).
But in September 2008, the financial markets collapsed on Bush's watch (just 3 months after he had assured the G-8 nations that the U.S. had "turned the corner" on the economy). McCain seemed flummoxed as to what should be done about it. And the voters walked away from the GOP after that.
Hope that helped.
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But in September 2008, the financial markets collapsed on Bush's watch (just 3 months after he had assured the G-8 nations that the U.S. had "turned the corner" on the economy).
Given the outrageous encouragement of government related entities (Fannie & Freddie at the helm) to make bad loans and the banks and mortgage companies profiting from the corruption, bundling worthless mortgages and selling them around the world, the predictable housing collapse was well timed for the rise of The One™.
A cynic would say that was intentional.
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21. Patriot493
Btw, since you GOPers are so obsessed by voter fraud, you might be interested in this:
PS – I have to post this here, since I'm blocked on the rest of PJM. You gotta credit RR, he's open to all comers!
December 8, 2011 - 10:36 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Marc Malone
Maybe they block you, because you post off-topic, hmm? Do you not understand that this site is not a place for you to pursue your own agenda, that it is not okay for you to try to hijack the conversation. How would you like it if I went to one of your favorite let-wing sites, and tried to change the subject, so that I could air the "truth" about Democrats, even if what I were saying were actually the truth?
You do it, because you are self-righteous. You think you are above the rules, because you are 'right' (which is what self-righteous means).
The owners of this site set the agenda, the discussion. If you do not like it, just go somewhere else. I certainly do not waste my time trying to post on HuffPo. I am sure I would get banned very quickly. They do not tolerate strong Conservative voices there.
Just for the record, I followed your link. The guy who did this was not a Republican. He was a professional political operative who had worked both sides of the aisle. He did not stand for anything but winning by whatever means, fair or foul.It was not a racist deal. It was pure demographics. The district was heavily liberal, because blacks are mostly liberal. It was not about skin color, but voting habits. The political operative does not care about skin color. He cares only about winning. Skin color as a voting block is just another factor in his bloodless equation. It is not personal. He was just working the numbers, because that is what political operatives do.
They are not ideologues or racist or anything else. They do not stand for anything except winning. They will happily work for either side. It is what they do for a living. They cannot afford to exclude half of the employers. In your bias, you overlook this very basic fact of life. You read something into it that was not there.
So, you have had a response. Are you happy now? Now, please stop posting here, if you cannot play by the rules.December 8, 2011 - 4:35 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
"The guy who did this was not a Republican. He was a professional political operative who had worked both sides of the aisle. He did not stand for anything but winning by whatever means, fair or foul."
Nope. He's a Republican, with a long history in Republican politics. But you're right – he'd do anything to win, "fair or foul." But what's the difference? GOPers have a long, still continuing history of suppressing the vote.
"Maybe they block you, because you post off-topic, hmm?"
Sorry, wrong again, Marc. Most of my responses were blocked after I responded to an anti-Islamic (NOT anti-Islamic radical) slur by Roger Simon. I wrote something to the effect of, "It's particularly despicable for a Jew to malign another religion."
"How would you like it if I went to one of your favorite let-wing sites, and tried to change the subject…."
I'd love it! Anything you posted, on or off-topic, would only confirm what a bunch of schmegeggies you wingnuts are.
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22. Dr. Shalit
#17 Dr. Frank -
NO! I could NOT see President Obama doing a San Juan Hill charge or other TR kind of stuff.
SARAH PALIN on the other hand I COULD.December 8, 2011 - 11:28 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Dr. Frank Lippenheimer
Ha! You got that right. Too bad she didn't stay in. She could have strolled into the nomination.
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She may be back at some point in the future.
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23. David R. Zukermn
A populist does not go around the country seeking campaign gifts i/a/o $35,800 per person or couple from millionaires and billionaires. A populist would cite the first half of Federalist No. 57 as a basis for political reform relevant to 21st century America. Indeed, a populist would proudly affirm that our founding legacy remains as relevant to 21st century America as to 18th century America. I regret that people who consider themselves conservatives do not see points of reforming observations in the OWS movement that are not at all discordant with Tea Party concerns. In any event, I am a populist; I believe I can recognize the populist spirit. Borrowing, with variation, a well-known observation at a vice presidential debate, some years ago, let me assure you, President Obama is no populist. BUT — how many establishment conservatives would shrink in horrow from a candidate who endorsed populism, in general, and Madison's counsel in Federalist No. 57, in particular?
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24. Michael DeLong
With all due respect, Mr. Radosh, the statement that Theodore Roosevelt would not object to the Citizens United decision allowing unlimited political spending by corporations is wrong. In the New Nationalism speech he stated:
"There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains…
We must have complete and effective publicity of corporate affairs, so that the people may know beyond peradventure whether the corporations obey the law and whether their management entitles them to the confidence of the public. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced. Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs."There is no middle ground here. TR clearly stated that he wanted laws passed to ban corporations using their funds to promote political objectives, so Mr. Radosh, your statement is incorrect. You are entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts.
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Ron Radosh
I stand corrected, and have changed my text to indicate that, with credit to your alert.
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25. Patriot493
"Assuming the stance of an anti-Wall Street crusader, the president, who made a deal with Big Pharma on the drug issue…."
Ah, yes, we all know how GOPers would never make deals with Big Pharma – except, of course, when W gave us the budget-busting Medicare Part 4 in a bill that forbade Medicare to negotiate with the drug companies
From Wikipedia:
"Former Congressman Billy Tauzin, R-La., who steered the bill through the House, retired soon after and took a $2 million a year job as president of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), the main industry lobbying group."December 9, 2011 - 10:10 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
26. jojo
A far better model for Obama than a dead white male is a living, current, head of government. A "brother in arms" with a "Dream From The Father", who gained his hold on the nation he "leads" with much the same manouevres as Obama of the Chicago School of Politics.
With similar psychological, political baggage and supporters/army as Obama and his Csars/Tsars. Take a look and compare his practices since getting power how many decades ago? – and his chance to practice whatever mechanisms drive him with those of Obama. AND the effects of his hold on the nation to which he was given the HOPE to CHANGE to fulfill his "dream".
Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, erstwhile head, along with Libya, of the Human Rights Council of that paragon of rectitude, competence and compassion the UN.
The UN to which American politicians apply for decision affecting American citizens/taxpayers. Who underwrite in both money and blood Extra-national bodies accountable to Americans ONLY through interested politicians. Politicians in agreeing to membership in the UN CEDED American INDEPENDENCE,economic and political/defense, the foundation of the nation, to extra-nationals accountable to Americans ONLY indirectly through self-interested politicians. Do Americans care?
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The most ardent of Ron Paul's followers think the US government is too big when it has more people than the secret number Ron Paul has written on his magic anti-alien hemp underpants.
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28. Kyle
FDR actually took credit for a lot of things Hoover started.
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/hoover/hooverbio.htmHere is an excerpt.
Hoover had hoped to govern in the progressive tradition of Theodore Roosevelt; he devoted the first eight months of his presidency to a variety of social, economic, and environmental reforms. However, following the stock market "crash" of October 1929, the president became increasingly preoccupied with the collapse of the American economy. In response to the crisis, Hoover established several new agencies and also funded public works projects in the hope of stimulating the economy and getting the nation back to work.End Quote.
The Stock Market Crash was actually just a bad recession but many of the wealthy folks panicked and rushed the banks making it worse then it really was and our Depression happened when Hoovers Mr Fix It policies were failing.
Speculators panicked and stopped lending shares and the reason why FDR was popular was like Obama he was a good speaker and could sway the crowd with whatever he wanted.
If FDR and Obama wanted people to believe Santa Clause would come if a deal was signed these Presidents had the right personality to get them to believe……until Santa Clause didn't show up then these Presidents would start making bogus excuses and fake apologizes.
In the 30s FDR took things a step further and bailed out a lot of businesses that were going under instead of letting the free market take care of itself.
Most of the time the reason why businesses close is because of bad management in the higher ups that eventually effects customers and like in 2008 so called Crisis the governments offered bailouts instead of just letting the people take care of themselves.
Remember Cash For Clunkers program and how well that turned out for our economy?
Does Anybody find it funny that Europe's Great Depression only lasted a few years dropping very sharp but then rose steadily ending it by the mid 30s.
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Follow-up to this article which was originally written when it was announced that Obama had won the peace prize.
It is safe to say the Nobel committee wishes it had never given the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama.
They were deservedly ridiculed worldwide for awarding it to a guy who did nothing to earn it.
He refused to participate in the various award ceremony activities that other winners traditionally have gratefully participated in namely,
He used his speech to talk down to the Nobel committee as if they did not know that evil exists, diplomacy is not always enough, that their awarding him the prize did not have any effect on his willingness to surge the war in Afghanistan.
Normally, such an aceptance speech would be interrupted by applause repeatedly. I believe Obama was only interrupted by applause once at the Nobel ceremony: when he reminded the audience of his pledge to close Guantanamo. He did not remind them that he reneged on that pledge. Gitmo was supposed to close 12/31/09. It will not. It is the best, newest American prison. The inmates themselves probbaly would prefer to be there than in any oter U.S. prison.
That applause line also included condemnation of America for torture and patting himself on the back for ending it, but he did not mention continuing rendition or shipping prisoners to countries who have no qualms about torturing prisoners.
In short, his response to being awarded the prize was to bite the hand that fed it to him and poke a stick in their eye. Explain to me again how this guy is a great politician. He has a gift, Harry, it's a gift for pissing off his supporters while simultaneously keeping his opponens as pissed off at him a they always were.
Should not have been a surprise
In my book How to Manage Residential Property For Maximum Cash Flow and Resale Value, I talk at length about firing employees. One important point I made is that it should never come as a surprise to the person being fired.
If they commit an egregious offense, that calls for one-strike-and-you're-out firing, like being drunk on duty, the fact that such an offense was one-strike should have been made known to the employee when they were hired.
If, on the other hand, they are being fired for an accumulation of substandard performances, they should have been warned privately that their performance needed to be improved or they were going to get fired. I had a salaried leasing agent once who never rented an apartment. My other leasing agent was leasing apartments. I warned that non-leaser than although she was not on commission, a zero batting average was unacceptable. She did not improve it and I fired her, which she deemed "unfair."
Nobel prizes should not come as surprises
The same is true of Nobel prizes. The announcement of a winner should not surprise anyone who is reasonably well informed.
The announcement that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize did surprise everyone, including Obama himself.
The reason it came as a surprise is that Obama did virtually nothing that would have caused anyone to speculate that he might get it.
To his credit, Obama said he did not deserve the prize. I agree. Although, I could have done without the humility angle on the did-not-deserve comment. He did not deserve it because he did nothing to earn it, not because of his general unworthiness to be in the company of the other prior winners.
The Nobel Committee seemed to say they awarded it to him because of his various speeches advocating world peace. So award it to the Miss America Pageant. Their contestants all advocate world peace (and ending hunger) every year.
Nominated in February
Obama was nominated for the prize on February 1, 2009. Obama was inaugurated on January 20, 2009.
The implication is that he was nominated for the prize for his actions during an 11-day period right after inauguration. What? Announcing that he was going to close Guantanamo by the end of the year—a promise since withdrawn?
Based in part on explanatory statements by the Nobel committee, they gave him the award to help him succeed in future peace efforts. So the Nobel Prize committee is like the U.S. media: in the tank for Obama and trying to propagandize the public to supporting their guy.
Limbaugh also said they seem to be trying to influence him to run American foreign policy hereafter in accordance with the wishes of the leftist intellectuals who vote on the prize.
Both explanations seem reasonable. He sure as heck did not get it for anything he has done which is the only proper criterion for such an award
Past winners
Nobel prizes awarded in the hard sciences have a well-deserved stellar reputation. However, the Nobel prizes awarded in soft subjects, like economics, peace, and so on, are subjective and political. Here are some other Nobel Peace Prize winners
Peace Prize winner | John T. Reed comment |
Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Climate change is a fraud and in any event it is unrelated to peace; obviously just a political statement by leftist intellectuals
U.N. and Kofi Anan
The U.N. should either win it every year or never. Peace is their job description. Kofi Anan was thoroughly corrupt and no one can name anything he did related to peace that was extraordinary or effective. He was just another empty suit U.N. secretary general.
Yasser Arafat
For what? Most improved terrorist?
Desmond Tutu
Nice guy but they said it was for his work against Apartheid, that's civil rights not peace
Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho
These guys were the U.S. and North Vietnam delegates to the peace talks on the Vietnam war; The Nixon Administration was trying to extricate itself from the war and not look too bad in the process; Tho was trying to win the war by military force and just using the peace talks as a ruse to accomplish that; Tho refused to accept the prize; the world was generally outraged that Kissinger was awarded and accepted it because he had been part of the escalations of the war previously
Tighten the criteria
I am not suggesting they abolish the Nobel Peace Prize. Rather, they need to tighten the criteria for awarding it. Some years, they have not awarded it to anyone. They need to do that more often. In 1906, they awarded it to Teddy Roosevelt who hosted the peace talks and drew up the peace agreement that ended the war between Russia and Japan. That was an appropriate award. Jimmy Carter, who is a horse's ass in general, should have gotten it in 1978 for doing what Teddy did only between Egypt and Israel. Carter did get it later in 2002 as a sort of lifetime achievement award. My take on him is that he never got over losing the 1980 election to Reagan and has since spent his life trying to prove the American people were wrong to reject him. His greatest success while president was arguably the Egypt peace agreement, so he keeps trying to reprise that event like has-been actress Norma "All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up" Desmond in the 1950 movie Sunset Boulevard.
We have elected a president of the United States who is a sociopath with narcissistic personality disorder. I fear he will get us into World War III either by weakness or by falling prey to a need to prove his manhood because of his total lack of military or foreign policy experience. Michelle Obama said her husband is overconfident. He seems to think he can schmooze and mediate all of the bad guys in the world into behaving. He can't. He wasn't even successful with a Harvard professor and a Cambridge cop. The Nobel Committee is encouraging him to continue believing that. The awarding of the Nobel Prize to him is not useful and is likely to encourage him in his dangerous delusions and encourage him to be biased against sometimes necessary military action in dealings with deadly enemies.


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quote:DM: Marouane Fellaini
quote:I haven't watched too many Everton matches this season, but isn't Fellaini basically playing forward for them?
quote:No, he's playing attacking midfielder...but he wouldn't play there at other clubs.
quote:he also plays as a target man in that #10 role
quote:Friend of OBUDan
quote:The only matches I've watched he's played 'in the hole'. He definitely has the size and physicality to boss at any position though.
quote:Any shot that Juve would unload Pogba? Would love him as a Gunner.
quote:Any shot that Juve would unload Pogba?
quote: pray that they won't. Talk about someone that we could've freaking used this season.
quote:Pogba didn't like SAF, thought he should've gotten more PT than he was getting...especially with the aforementioned lack of depth at the position.
quote:That kid has serious talent.


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Annual Meeting
March 14, 2015 | Washington Hilton | Washington, District of Columbia
The American Council on Education's 97th Annual Meeting will be held March 14-17, 2015 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, DC.
March 14, 2015 | Boston University Medical Campus | Boston, Massachusetts
With the support of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the 2012 Sloan award-winning Medical Schools and the New England Network of Faculty Affairs will host an exciting national conference, that will take place on March 14–15, 2015 in Boston University School of Medicine to provide opportunity for a deeper, more impactful focus on work/life flexibility critical to the continued intellectual vitality of faculty and the fiscal health of medical schools and academic medical centers.
April 07, 2015
Join panelists from both two-year and four-year institutions to hear how they engaged their colleagues in building strong CPL practices and products that serve students effectively and engage their colleagues consistently.
April 08, 2015 1:00 PM
College and University Partnerships (CUP) work to advance greater awareness, acceptance, and application of credit for prior learning as a key element for increasing postsecondary participation and completion. Find out how CUP can assist your organization through the College and University Network, CEAI Resource Center, Regional Liaisons, postsecondary pathways, and other initiatives.
April 16, 2015 2:00 PM
As colleges and universities consider their place in an ever-globalizing world, international joint and dual degrees can help institutions move beyond individual faculty and course-level collaborations to establish on-going, multidimensional partnerships with counterparts abroad. ACE's Center for Internationalization and Global Engagement invites to you join an interactive discussion of international joint and dual degree programs.
April 27, 2015 | Scottsdale Marriott at McDowell Mountains | Scottsdale, Arizona
The ACE Spectrum Aspiring Leaders Program is designed to advance mid-level leaders from diverse backgrounds into senior leadership ranks of higher education.
February 20, 2015 9:30 AM | Washington, District of Columbia
A discussion of two new papers by Blackboard and the Centers For Education Attainment and Policy Research and Strategy at ACE.
February 14, 2015 8:00 AM | Washington, District of Columbia
The goal of the 2015 ACE/AIEA Internationalization Collaborative is to help leaders broaden and strengthen the international curriculum on their campuses. In order to increase the proportion of students who graduate with an international experience, institutions must address a number of organizational and demographic challenges.
February 12, 2015 1:00 PM
This webinar provided important updates to stakeholders on the Joint Services Transcript. Participants learned about recent changes and future initiatives impacting the JST and ACE Military Guide.
December 03, 2014 | Arlington, Virginia
This interactive program, held in June and December, fosters discussions with women presidents and executive search consultants who help participants develop effective search strategies.
November 20, 2014
Dr. Kathy Snead, SOC Director, provided in-depth information about the new endeavors and modified program changes in which SOC will focus its efforts during the 2015 fiscal year.
November 18, 2014 | Washington, District of Columbia
The Leadership Network for International Education is an annual meeting of college and university presidents, chief academic officers, and chief international officers.


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GIS managers at North American botanical gardens and zoos have joined together as the Alliance of Public Gardens GIS (APGG) to design a GIS data model for mapping facilities and plant collections. The ArcGIS Public Garden Data Model is available at www.APGG.org.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded the data model's development, and the group is open to any garden, zoo, or campus that uses its landscape for teaching or research. Current partners include


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HEP > SEC Filings for HEP > Form 8-K on 14-Feb-2014 | All Recent SEC Filings |
Change in Directors or Principal Officers
On February 13, 2014, Matthew P. Clifton notified the Board of Directors ("Board") of Holly Logistic Services, L.L.C. (the "Company") that he will retire from his position as Executive Chairman, and as an employee of the Company, effective as of February 28, 2014. In connection with his notice, the Board appointed Mr. Clifton as Chairman of the Board, effective upon his retirement. Mr. Clifton will continue to serve as the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board. The Company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HollyFrontier Corporation and the general partner of HEP Logistics Holdings, L.P., which is the general partner of Holly Energy Partners, L.P.


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How to Live Forever (Or Almost)
Surprisingly simple moves to keep you looking great, feeling young & staying healthy
By Denise Foley
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This Old Mouse
Eating a very-low-calorie diet can keep lab animals going like the Energizer bunny, though it doesn't do much for their personalities. The question now: Will caloric restriction do the same for you?
He lived 70% longer than the average normal lab mouse, and when he died at age 4 in 2004, Yoda was reputedly one of the longest-lived mice in the world. A lifelong resident of the University of Michigan, Yoda probably owed his longevity to a genetic mutation. Being a mutant or having your genes scientifically manipulated is one of the ways that mice and rats achieve longevity in the lab.
The closest researchers have gotten to "try this at home" is with calorie restriction, which can boost mouse life span 40%. Still, some experts are now questioning the idea that severely limiting calories will gain humans an equivalent number of birthdays (cutting back moderately to reach ideal weight is a different matter). "As mice eat less and less, they get this huge payoff in terms of life span. Humans, however, don't seem to. Even the people in Okinawa, who consume an average of 1,900 calories per day, live only 18 months longer than men in Tokyo, who are consuming 2,300 calories a day," notes Jay Phelan, Ph.D., an evolutionary biologist at UCLA.
There's another reason Phelan thinks that calorie restriction is not such a great idea: When you deprive mice of food, he has found, they get agitated. "You open their cage, and they will try to run away. Or, as soon as you pick them up, they will bite you." Do you really think, he asks, "it's worth being miserable so that you can live a year and a half longer?"
Can the Glass Be Too Full?
Thinking positively may extend your years provided you don't take it too far
Plenty of studies have reported that optimists live longer than pessimists. And while it's true that looking on the bright side may be a pleasant way to pass your years, an eight-decade study of 1,500 children found that you can go overboard on optimism. The cheerful, fun-loving kids in the Terman Study call them cockeyed optimists lived shorter lives on average than their diligent and prudent cohorts who dotted every "i" and crossed every "t."
It turns out that the happy-go-lucky ones, who figured that everything was always going to be fine, took too many risks with their health, while their conscientious fellows were more likely to check out that funny-looking mole or worry a little more about that odd pain in their side, explains Howard Friedman, Ph.D., distinguished professor of psychology at UC Riverside and coauthor of The Longevity Project: Surprising Discoveries for Health and Long Life from the Landmark Eight-Decade Study. "We found that being dedicated to others, to work, and having good relationships was what produced good health," Friedman says. "And while you always hear that if you work too hard and get stressed, you'll get sick, we found it was the people who took on increasing responsibility who thrived."
If you're worried that being conscientious is going to turn you into that dull, dour classmate who never let you see her math homework, Friedman has good news: The diligent children in the Terman Study grew up to be happy, too. "Their behavior actually produced positive moods," he says. And they weren't boring at all. "They were the people who had the most interesting lives, with many going on to leadership positions. You don't advance to become a CEO, general, or governor by being a screwup," says Friedman.
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Dambusters: 'Lost' faces of the squadron revealed
- Dambusters: From despair to hope
- In pictures: Dambusters flypast
- Dambusters 70th anniversary honoured
- Dambusters: Death and glory
- Dambusters raid: Retrace the daring journey
- 'Lost' Dambusters photos revealed
- See all of the men who took part
- Dambusters: Triumph and tragedy
- How effective was the Dambusters raid?
Photographs of all the men who took part in the Dambusters raid have been published for the first time.
The operation, on 16 May 1943, saw RAF bombers break two large dams in Germany using experimental "bouncing" bombs.
A 1955 film cemented its place as one of the most famous episodes of World War II.
Started as part of the 70th anniversary of the attack in May, the online gallery has been put together by the BBC, helped by Dambusters enthusiasts.
George 'Johnny' Johnson DFM
"My first reaction on seeing the Dambusters photo montage was one of both amazement and the realization I was looking at faces of colleagues I last saw previously at RAF Scampton at 'All Crews' briefing on the afternoon of 16 May 1943.
"Having viewed numerous publications on the Dambusters down the years, I must record this [is] the first time I have actually seen photos of all 133 crew who took part in 'Operation Chastise', including 53 brave colleagues who sadly perished on the raid."
The dams of the Ruhr Valley were selected for attack as it was hoped the resulting flood would swamp the numerous factories downstream.
Flying from Lincolnshire across occupied Europe at tree-top height, 19 planes of the newly formed 617 Squadron, with seven-man crews, braved anti-aircraft fire, power cables and mountainous terrain to drop the extraordinary four-tonne skipping depth charge.
But eight planes were lost, 53 men died and three were captured. Another 32 died in later operations.
True storyGeorge 'Johnny' Johnson, one of three surviving Dambusters, thanked the BBC for its work on the online gallery but said any account of the raid would not be complete without the names of Roy Chadwick, who designed the Lancaster bomber used in the attack, and Sir Barnes Wallis, the engineer behind the bouncing bomb.
The original idea was to show the human face of a story which is now close to mythology.
It is easy to talk about the cost of the raids and the youth of the crews but to see the faces, to almost look into their eyes, really brings home their sacrifice and bravery.
My thanks goes out to all the families and organisations across the globe who have allowed us to publish this lasting tribute to those who took part in one of the most famous and fascinating events of World War II.
Mr Johnson added: "It is a great privilege for me to add these words of appreciation and thanks, for in bringing together again all 133 men of the Dambusters, 70 years on from the raid, this photo montage and site is a fitting dedication to all who took part in Operation Chastise on 16/17 May 1943, particularly those who gave their lives and failed to return."
David Robertson, chairman of the 617 Squadron Association, said: " We believe this is the first time that there has been such a record of the crews who flew on Operation Chastise.
"It is a most fitting commemoration of the men whose skill, courage, determination and airmanship has gone down in the annals of air warfare as one of the most remarkable operations of World War II."
John Sweetman, author of The Dambusters Raid and The Official Dambusters Experience, said wartime secrecy and the "simplified" story told in the film had led to many myths springing up about the operation.
"But research has made some of the story clearer," he explained. "The inexperience of some crews, the group effort to make the bombs work, the impact on the German war industry.
"Even now, there is lots we don't know, particularly in the frantic last days and hours leading up to the raids, when crucial decisions were made.
"The story, hopefully, will continue to be discovered."
Among the surprises, and challenges, encountered by the project were the large gaps in the official photographic archives.
Curator of photographs at the Imperial War Museum (IWM) Ian Carter explained that 125,000 men flew with the RAF and many lasted just a matter of weeks.
"All this meant that very few individuals were actually recorded by the official RAF photographers," he said.
"Of course, some men took unofficial snaps on their own cameras, and we have examples within IWM's collection, but many more remain in private hands.
"Researching their whereabouts is a far more difficult and lengthy process, as the BBC researchers have found out."
'Terrible danger'Peter Elliott, head of archives at the Royal Air Force Museum, added that even when photographs were taken, many were lost.
"At the end of the war bases were closing and men were leaving or dead and a lot must have seemed pointless to store.
'So exciting'
When I was asked to help with the gallery I thought it was a great idea.
It was a chance to collect the pictures we knew were out there and perhaps find those which were missing.
I knew we could get about 90% of the pictures but the rest were likely to be tricky. So when the last of the photos were located I was just so pleased, it was so exciting.
Having read the names of these men so often, suddenly they had faces.
"It's always good to be able to put a face to a name, especially if it's something notable like the Dambusters and people ought to be able to commemorate those involved properly.
"But it happens the other way too - many museums have countless pictures with no names to go with them. I've see many, many images of young men, standing next to their aircraft and we have no idea who they were, which is rather sad."
Douglas Radcliffe, secretary of the Bomber Command Association, recalled Dambuster pilot David Shannon was keen to put the raid in context.
"He would talk about the dams but would then slide the conversation towards all the other raids he took part in, some immensely costly.
"And it is important to remember all those other crews, who took part in less famous raids, who also served and also deserve our respect."
Mike Gibson, the nephew of Guy Gibson, who won the Victoria Cross for leading the dams raid, felt the public attitude towards bomber crews had seesawed from admiration to cynicism and back again.
He added: "People have come to appreciate what these men went through, living on bases knowing they would have to fly into terrible danger again and again and again, that the odds were against them. Who could sustain that today?
"To some extent I think the Dambusters have come to represent all of the men who flew. It's hard to envisage the thousands who went out in hundreds of planes but the men of the dams raid can be related to.
"And now we can see them all."


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Here's a very nice painting of pike. It is signed by a local artist Erica Brooke Ciraldi, dated 1995. It measures 24" by 40". Price includes shipping, insurance and handling except to Alaska and Hawaii. No international shipments.
I'm not sure how old this item is, but it would make a great gift for a golf enthusiast. It is 6" long by 3 3/8" wide.
This is a vintage split willow fishing creel with leather trim and front leather accessory pocket. The closing strap and buckle are no longer attached. The leather pocket is intact but very dry. It measures 12" across and 9" tall. Circa - late 1940's. View pictures for condition.
This galvanized bait pail would be a very nice addition to your collection.The pail measures 7" high by 6" wide.It is missing some paint and is scratched some.


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