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[VIDEO] CNN Compares the Trumps to the Kennedy CamelotPosted: January 20, 2017 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Camelot, CNN, fashion, Glamour, Jack Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, media, news, video Leave a comment
Kennedy Space Center Displays Suit Worn By Buzz Aldrin While Lobbying For NASA FundingPosted: May 5, 2016 Filed under: Humor, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Cape Canaveral, Countdown, Curiosity (rover), Dragon (spacecraft), Earth, Elon Musk, Florida, International Space Station, Kennedy Space Center, Mars, NASA, Neil Armstrong, SpaceX, United States Leave a comment
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL—Expressing their excitement to share the historic item with visitors, Kennedy Space Center officials confirmed Thursday that the suit worn by Buzz Aldrin on February 24, 2015 when he lobbied the Senate to increase NASA funding was now on display for public viewing. "We are honored to add to our collection the actual jacket and trousers Dr. Aldrin wore that fateful day when he stepped out into room 253 of the Russell Senate Office Building and uttered the immortal words 'I wish to thank the committee for the opportunity to speak with you about the future of American human spaceflight,'" the facility's associate director, Kelvin Manning, said of the charcoal single-breasted suit, which was displayed together with the crisp button-down shirt, mission patch–patterned tie, and various lapel pins the former astronaut donned as he made the case for expanding the U.S. space program through strategic investments…(more)
[PHOTO] President and Mrs. Kennedy with the 1961 White House Christmas TreePosted: December 25, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, White House | Tags: 1960s, Christmas, Christmas tree, Jackie Kennedy, JFK, John Kennedy 1 Comment
Vintage Toy: Kennedy Space Center AstronautPosted: December 3, 2015 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Space & Aviation | Tags: 1960s, Astronaut, Dolls, Kennedy Space Center, NASA, toys, vintage Leave a comment
Destination Moon: Preparing to Launch the Apollo Manned Spacecraft at Cape KennedyPosted: November 28, 2015 Filed under: Education, History, Science & Technology, Space & Aviation | Tags: Apollo program, Cape Kennedy, Illustration, Moon Mission, NASA, Rocket, Spacecraft Leave a comment
Ted Kennedy: National Lampoon, 1974Posted: March 30, 2015 Filed under: Comics, Entertainment, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: 1970s, Chappaquiddick, Iowahawk, Mary Jo Kopechne, National Lampoon, satire, Ted Kennedy, Twitter, Volkswagen 1 Comment
What Obama said about Ted Kennedy today wasn't just outrageously idiotic; It was enraging [photos]Posted: March 30, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere Leave a comment
Here are some absolutely BRUTAL reminders of the real reasons Ted Kennedy should be called a 'lion'Posted: March 30, 2015 Filed under: Mediasphere Leave a comment
Why the GOP Should Emulate John F. Kennedy in the 2016 White House RacePosted: February 3, 2015 Filed under: Politics, Think Tank, White House | Tags: A Time for Choosing, Bush family, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney, National Review, Rand Paul, Republican Party (United States), Ronald Reagan, Ted Cruz 2 Comments
It's time for the Republican Party to nominate a JFK-style conservative for president
Ira Stoll writes; The most influential figure in the Republican presidential contest just may be a Democrat who died more than 50 years ago, John F. Kennedy.
When Fox News commentator Charles Krauthammer recently predicted Marco Rubio as the eventual 2016 winner, Krauthammer praised the senator from Florida with a label encapsulating political vigor, pro-growth ideas, and a robust foreign policy of peace through strength: "Kennedyesque."
The former governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, another Republican with eyes on the White House, is, as Kennedy was, a Catholic from a wealthy and politically active family with bases in both New England and Florida. Jeb Bush even wrote a book, Profiles in Character, with a title that is a conscious imitation of JFK's Profiles in Courage. Bush and Kennedy also both wrote books extolling immigration; Bush's was Immigration Wars, Kennedy's was A Nation of Immigrants.
And don't forget Ted Cruz, the senator from Texas. Cruz's Senate Web site hosts a video featuring Fox News's Neil Cavuto and a historic clip from Kennedy under the headline "The Success of President John F. Kennedy's Tax Cut." On the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's assassination, Cruz published a remarkable piece in National Review Online crediting Kennedy with laying the foundation for Ronald Reagan's tax cuts and Cold War victory.
[Ira Stoll's book "JFK, Conservative" is available at Amazon]
At a forum last month with Jonathan Karl of ABC News that was sponsored by the Freedom Partners Chamber of Commerce, Senator Cruz placed Kennedy with Reagan and Calvin Coolidge in the pantheon of conservative tax-cutters: "Every single time in our history that we have simplified taxes, reduced the burden, reduced the compliance cost, simplified regulation …. We've seen an economic boom, we've seen people climb out of poverty into prosperity. That was true in the 1920s, it was true in the 1960s, it was true in the 1980s."
When another Republican presidential candidate, retired neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, spoke to me about his opposition to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he said he would have responded instead to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, with "a Kennedy-esque moment," launching a "national project" to become petroleum independent. Read the rest of this entry »
Big Water-Cooler: Fox Business To Replace 'The Independents' With 'Kennedy'Posted: January 15, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News | Tags: Academy Award, Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, Jamie Colby, Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery, Reality television, Television, Television program, Variety Magazine Leave a comment
Lisa "Kennedy" Montgomery will be the host of "Kennedy," which will launch January 26 at 10 p.m., after the conclusion of an episode of the network's new" Strange Inheritance" reality series that night. "Kennedy" will feature an opening monologue from the host, followed by interviews and discussion segments. Fox Business is billing the program as focused on "big water-cooler discussion topics."…(read more)
[PHOTO] President and Mrs. Kennedy with the 1961 White House Christmas TreePosted: December 25, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, History, White House | Tags: Blue Room, Boston, Christmas, Christmas tree, Jackie Kennedy, JFK, John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, North Pole, Photography, Robert Knudsen, Santa Claus 2 Comments
13 December 1961 President and Mrs. Kennedy with the 1961 White House Christmas Tree. White House, Blue Room. Photograph by Robert Knudsen, Office of the Naval Aide to the President, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Great Moments: Kennedy, Cuba and CigarsPosted: December 17, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Diplomacy, History, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Army–Navy Game, Chief petty officer, Cuban Cigars, Jack Kennedy, JFK, John F. Kennedy, tobacco, United States, United States Navy, United States Secretary of the Navy Leave a comment
Pierre Salinger, Autumn 1992: Cigars have been a part of my life. My smoking habit began in my youth, helped me write my own adult history, and now, cigars are in my dreams. Even though the world is rising against smoking, and particularly against cigars, I still feel they are part of my daily world and I have no incentive to stop smoking them.
My cigar smoking started when I was young. I entered the United States Navy in the early days of World War II and when I reached the age of 19 I became commanding officer of a submarine chaser in the Pacific Ocean. But to run a ship that had 25 sailors and two other officers, all older than me, posed a deep psychological problem . How could I convince them that I was a man of authority? Even if the quality of those big cigars was mediocre, they accomplished their purpose–they made a 19-year-old boy really look like the commander of the ship.
When I returned to San Francisco after the war, I went back to a job at a daily newspaper where I had briefly worked before entering the Navy. I kept on smoking my cigars while I wrote articles. But the cigars were still bad cigars, and they obviously smelled bad. There was a wonderful woman journalist working for the newspaper who hated the smell. She decided to take up a collection among my fellow workers. She handed me $19.32 and told me it was her contribution for a better quality of cigars. Better cigars, better smell.
Despite the self-interested largess of my colleagues, I still did not advance to the cream of available cigars in those days, the imports from Cuba. Actually, I would have to wait until I was almost 35 years old before I started to work for a rising young American politician named John Kennedy, who liked to smoke Petit Upmann Cuban cigars. Working around him, I felt I had no choice but to upgrade my smoke of choice to a Cuban. I've smoked them ever since.
Shortly after I entered the White House in 1961, a series of dramatic events occurred. In April, 1961, the United States went through the disastrous error of the Bay of Pigs, where Cuban exiles with the help of the United States government tried to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. Several months later, the President called me into his office in the early evening.
"Pierre, I need some help," he said solemnly.
"I'll be glad to do anything I can Mr. President," I replied.
"I need a lot of cigars."
"How many, Mr. President?"
"About 1,000 Petit Upmanns."
I shuddered a bit, although I kept my reaction to myself. "And, when do you need them, Mr. President?"
"Tomorrow morning."
I walked out of the office wondering if I would succeed. But since I was now a solid Cuban cigar smoker, I knew a lot of stores, and I worked on the problem into the evening.
The next morning, I walked into my White House office at about 8 a.m., and the direct line from the President's office was already ringing. He asked me to come in immediately.
"How did you do Pierre?" he asked, as I walked through the door.
"Very well," I answered. In fact, I'd gotten 1,200 cigars. Kennedy smiled, and opened up his desk. He took out a long paper which he immediately signed. It was the decree banning all Cuban products from the United States. Cuban cigars were now illegal in our country.
The embargo complicated my life. The only time I could get a few Cuban cigars was when I traveled abroad with the President to countries like France, Austria and Great Britain. But then, in late May 1962, I went alone to Moscow for the first time. I met for two days with Nikita Khrushchev, talking face to face with the Soviet leader. As our meeting came to end, Khrushchev turned to me. Read the rest of this entry »
Kennedy Announces Blockade of Cuba During the Missile Crisis: October 22, 1962Posted: October 23, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, War Room, White House | Tags: Cuba, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet, Soviet Union, United Nations, United States Leave a comment
In a dramatic televised address to the American public, President John F. Kennedy announces that the Soviet Union has placed nuclear weapons in Cuba and, in response, the United States will establish a blockade around the island to prevent any other offensive weapons from entering Castro's state. Kennedy also warned the Soviets that any nuclear attack from Cuba would be construed as an act of war, and that the United States would retaliate in kind.
Kennedy charged the Soviet Union with subterfuge and outright deception in what he referred to as a "clandestine, reckless, and provocative threat to world peace." He dismissed Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's claim that the weapons in Cuba were of a purely defensive nature as "false." Harking back to efforts to contain German, Italian, and Japanese aggression in the 1930s, Kennedy argued that war-like behavior, "if allowed to grow unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. Read the rest of this entry »
This Day in History: The First 1960 Kennedy/Nixon Presidential DebatePosted: September 27, 2014 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Chicago, Howard K. Smith, John F. Kennedy, NBC News, richard m nixon, Richard Nixon, Sander Vanocur, Stuart Novins Leave a comment
On September 26, 1960, John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon held the first televised debate in presidential campaign history. The program originated in Chicago and was carried by all of the major radio and TV networks.
It was one of four debates. Howard K. Smith served as the moderator and questions came from Sander Vanocur, NBC News; Charles Warren, Mutual News; Stuart Novins, CBS News; and Bob Fleming, ABC News.
The Other Kennedy Assassination: Media Narrative Avoids Palestinian Terrorist Motive in RFK MurderPosted: November 25, 2013 Filed under: Crime & Corruption, History | Tags: Black September, James Earl Ray, Jerusalem Post, Palestinian political violence, RFK, Robert F. Kennedy, Sirhan, Volokh Conspiracy 3 Comments
Oswald and Sirhan were troubled men of radical politics who wanted to murder their ideological enemies, Oswald on behalf of Castro and Sirhan on behalf of the Palestinian cause
Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, David Bernstein writes: While fifty years later, much of the MSM still refuses to acknowledge that JFK's assassin was a Communist loser, somehow it's also apparently not cricket to point out that his brother RFK was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.
So let's review. Sirhan Sirhan was a Palestinian refugee with Jordanian citizenship. He murdered Kennedy because the latter promised to send advanced fighter planes to Israel. The PLO terrorist group Black September demanded his release in exchange for hostages in 1973, recognizing that he was "one of theirs."
Yet of 5755 hits for "Sirhan Sirhan" in the ALLNEWS database on Westlaw, only four of them refer to him as a "Palestinian terrorist" or "Palestinian extremist;" three of these sources are the Jerusalem Post, and one is the New York Jewish Week. In mainstream publications, you actually get phrases like this, "Black September terrorists who kidnapped the Western diplomats in a failed plot to free Palestinian terrorists in European jails and Sirhan Sirhan, the killer of Robert F. Kennedy," as if Sirhan Sirhan, a terrorist and a Palestinian, on the same "trade of for hostages list" as other Palestinian terrorists, was somehow not a "Palestinian terrorist." An even better one, from the Huffington Post: "[RFK] was gunned down in a hotel kitchen by a 24-year-old Palestinian whose motives have never been determined." (Ironically, sources from the Arab world (e.g.,) seem more likely to acknowledge the real dynamic, though with the message that the U.S. and assumedly RFK got what was coming to it and him for supporting Israel).
Johnny Raincloud: Americans think John F. Kennedy was one of our greatest presidents. He wasn't.Posted: November 23, 2013 Filed under: History, Politics, Reading Room, White House | Tags: Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban Missile Crisis, E.J. Dionne, John F. Kennedy, John Lewis Gaddis, Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Nikita Khrushchev, Ronald Reagan, Soviet 4 Comments
I meant to wrap up our multi-volume series on Kennedy yesterday, but a this one caught my eye. It fits in with the contrarian view–a reality check on Kennedy myth–to counter the Kennedy inflation that characterized much of the coverage of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination this month. If you're a Kennedy skeptic, this is for you. If you're a Kennedy admirer, the Washington Posts's WonkBlog's Dylan Matthews is here to rain on your parade.
Dylan Matthews writes: Fifty years ago Friday, Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. The assassination was a tragedy — and it turned the target into something of a secular political saint. There are few modern presidents about whom The Post's own George Will and E.J. Dionne can agree, but JFK appears to be one.
"It tells us a great deal about the meaning of John F. Kennedy in our history that liberals and conservatives alike are eager to pronounce him as one of their own," Dionne notes. A Gallup poll last week found that Americans rate him more highly than any of the other 11 presidents since Eisenhower. A 2011 Gallup poll found that he came in fourth when Americans were asked to name the greatest president of all time, behind Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, and Bill Clinton, but ahead of George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, and Thomas Jefferson.
Some of that reputation is hard to argue with. Kennedy was a brilliant rhetorician who inspired a generation of young Americans, and his death left a lingering scar on the American psyche. But it's important that his presidency be evaluated on its actual merits. And on the merits, John F. Kennedy was not a good president. Here are six reasons why.
1. The Cuban Missile Crisis was his fault
Historians disagree on what exactly lead to the October 1962 crisis that almost ended in a nuclear exchange. But basically every interpretation suggests that, had the Eastern Seaboard been wiped out that month, it would have been the result of Kennedy's fecklessness.
Media: 6 Reasons the Left Refuses to Let the Kennedy Assassination GoPosted: November 22, 2013 Filed under: History, Mediasphere | Tags: Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Dealey Plaza, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald 2 Comments
1. Camelot. The brief Kennedy years represent for many in the media their own golden moment. JFK was their royalty, their idol, their ideal, their handsome and rich young war hero. Jackie Kennedy was their queen. And then it was all cut short, like a Shakespearean tragedy or fairy tale. The mythic Camelot fell to lust. The American Camelot fell to an assassin. For those of us who grew up after JFK, it's all so much history. I grew up around Dallas and heard about the assassination any time I visited anywhere else as a child, and later on I visited the Sixth Floor Museum. It's haunting but it's history. For many in that generation, which was mostly born after World War II and then ended up losing Vietnam, JFK provides a meaningful anchor point, or at least a point that they have infused with meaning. Don't bring up his womanizing or how the Kennedy patriarch behaved toward the Nazis. None of that has any place in the myth.
2. It provides them a chance to bash handy villains they already hate: Dallas, Texas, and the South. Not a JFK anniversary goes by without the New York Times publishing at least one piece blaming the assassination on Dallas, and more broadly on Texas and the South. The fact is, while Dallas had its share of mainstream Kennedy-haters, none of them fired a shot. Texas went narrowlyfor Kennedy in 1960. Dallas citizens actually turned out on November 22, 1963, to greet the Kennedys warmly. Even the horrible Zapruder film shows happy, cheering crowds lining the streets in Dealey Plaza just to get a glimpse of the First Couple.
One lone nut can change all that, and did, which is unsettling to the point of horror. But Dallas was not and is not to blame, any more than Ford's Theater is to blame for Abraham Lincoln's killing. Texas is not to blame. The South is not to blame. But many on the left would rather blame their preferred villains than look at the truth.
3. The truth is more horrible than the fiction. The truth is, the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the killing of one of life's genetic lottery winners by a small-time loser. If JFK was larger than life, his killer was much smaller than life. The JFK assassination could have been a conspiracy, but it probably wasn't. The evidence points directly at one man whose ideology, coupled with his combination of grandiosity and mediocrity, led him to kill the president in order to elevate himself.
10 rules for writing about the 50th anniversary of the day John F. Kennedy was shot.Posted: November 22, 2013 Filed under: Education, History, Mediasphere, The Butcher's Notebook | Tags: Arlington National Cemetery, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, JFK, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Peace Corps, United States 3 Comments
Useful suggestions from Althouse. On reflection, I have violated least half of these rules–did I mention that I was in Dallas in 1963? While true, perhaps Althouse is right and it's become a cliche–and will probably violate a few more by the time November is over. But since it's Friday Nov. 22, and I've included a lot of coverage of Kennedy this month, Althouse's list of 10 rules is a welcome addition.
Althouse writes: It's coming up next Friday, and I'd like to help with that op-ed or blog post you might have in the works.
1. Don't repeat the cliché that everyone who was around at the time remembers where he was and what he was doing when he heard the news.
2. Don't tell us — especially don't tell us as if it were not a big cliché — what youhappened to have been doing and how you've always remembered that. After 50 years, can you not finally see that it doesn't matter?
3. Don't even attempt to say that the assassination had a profound effect on people. There is no new way to say that. We know!
4. Don't make up alternate histories of what would have happened if Kennedy had not been killed. Everything would have been different; we would all have been different. If you're American and under 50, you can assume that you would never have been born.
5. Don't recount the conspiracy theories. Here's Wikipedia's article on the subject. If you're into that sort of thing, enjoy it some day in your spare time, but don't lard your 50th anniversary writings with that. It's tawdry and undignified, and we've heard it all a thousand times. And by "all," I don't really mean all. What's the one about the Federal Reserve? I just mean, if that's what you've found to talk about, just shut up.
6. Don't connect the story of JFK to Obama. I know it seems as though everything is about Obama, but resist. It's cheap and inappropriate.
7. Don't tell us about other Kennedys. Don't drag in the recent news that Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg's son Jack appears to have reached adulthood in nonugly form and has grown a large head of hair and is therefore presumptive presidential material. That's annoying and off-topic.
8. Don't commemorate murder. A man managed to kill the President. He's already gotten far too much press. He doesn't deserve our endless attention. I'm sick of "celebrating" a death day. We don't make anything of Lincoln's death day. We celebrate his birthday, like Washington's, because he was such a great President. We don't celebrate JFK's birthday — I don't even know what it is — because he was not great enough. We celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday, not the day he was assassinated. Why? Because of his greatness, and because we don't want to direct our attention toward his murder. So why do we focus on Kennedy's death day? It must be because he was not great enough, and because of points #1, #2, and #3, above. It's about ourselves. A man died and we morbidly relive it annually, for some reason that must make little sense to those under 50.
9. Do write to end the annual ritual of death commemoration. Nail down the coffin lid and give the dead President some peace. Inspire us to move on to modest acknowledgements of the date at 10 or 25 year intervals up until 2063, when we — those of us who survive — can go big for the centennial.
10. Do make it — if not original — short.
JFK Mythology and Reality: Baby Boomers Remember Kennedy and Inflate his LegacyPosted: November 21, 2013 Filed under: History, Politics | Tags: Alessandra Stanley, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Baby boomer, Berlin Wall, Fidel Castro, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy 3 Comments
Christopher Harper writes: The media coverage of the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination has overwhelmed the American public, with books, documentaries, made-for-television dramas and journalistic memorials.
"Many of these specials, and there are dozens, are as preoccupied with the images and bereavement of baby boomers as they are with the slain president," Alessandra Stanley of The New York Times wrote recently.
I couldn't agree more. We baby boomers like to revel in our story. Nearly all of us remember precisely where we were when we got the news. But more and more Americans — those born after 1963, which is generally considered the last birth year of the baby boomer generation — have little interest in the Kennedy legacy. Most of this exhaustive media coverage failed to note Kennedy was a mediocre president. His record of less than three years provides little support for his place in many polls as one of the best presidents in history. A recent survey ranked Kennedy as the most popular president in the past 50 years.
Within a month after Kennedy's assassination, his widow, Jacqueline, started to sculpt the myth in cooperation with author Theodore White, who wrote a glowing article in Life magazine comparing the Kennedy administration with the Camelot of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table.
A Back Story to the Kennedy KillingPosted: November 19, 2013 Filed under: History, Reading Room | Tags: Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, New Orleans, Oswald, Quin Hillyer, Warren Commission 1 Comment
Two lives change forever after a brush with Lee Harvey Oswald
Quin Hillyer writes: One of the few men who ever interviewed Lee Harvey Oswald ended up renting my old room for about four years. Another man, one of the few innocents who lost their jobs due to the Kennedy assassination, wrote feature stories for me when I was managing editor of the New Orleans weekly Gambit. The reverberations from that assassination a half century ago altered not only the course of a nation but also the course of numerous private lives, in ways poignant and deep.
For the two men I knew, Ed Butler and Jesse Core, August 16, 1963, was a fateful day. It was then that Lee Harvey Oswald was passing out leaflets for the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, outside the International Trade Mart in New Orleans. Core was the Trade Mart's publicist; as Oswald started causing a commotion, Core tried to shoo him away to avoid bad publicity for the Trade Mart. Core promptly reported the incident to the FBI. Five days later, Butler, as the head of an anti-Communist outfit called the Information Council of the Americas (INCA), joined a Cuban exile and two local reporters on WDSU radio to interview, or debate, Oswald.
Hauntingly, it is one of only two readily available recordings of Oswald before the assassination. It was Butler who helped goad Oswald into proclaiming that he was a Marxist — an admission that the late U.S. representative Hale Boggs, who served on the Warren Commission and who greatly admired INCA, thought was highly important in establishing Oswald's motives. Read the rest of this entry »
[Slide Show] John F Kennedy's WomenPosted: November 18, 2013 Filed under: History, Mediasphere, White House | Tags: Daily Caller, History, JFK, John F. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Kennedy, President, United States 1 Comment
Leave it to The Daily Caller to bring us a slide show of JFK's conquests. From strippers to interns and Swedish aristocrats, President John F. Kennedy (allegedly) knew his way around the ladies.
Check out their slideshow of just a handful of Kennedy's consorts
How Jackie Kennedy Invented the Camelot Legend After JFK's DeathPosted: November 13, 2013 Filed under: Education, History, White House | Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Camelot, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy family, King Arthur 1 Comment
While the nation was still grieving JFK's assassination, she used an influential magazine profile to rewrite her husband's legacy and spawn Camelot
Few events in the postwar era have cast such a long shadow over our national life as the assassination of President John F. Kennedy fifty years ago this month. The murder of a handsome and vigorous president shocked the nation to its core and shook the faith of many Americans in their institutions and way of life.
Those who were living at the time would never forget the moving scenes associated with President Kennedy's death: the Zapruder film depicting the assassination in a frame-by-frame sequence; the courageous widow arriving with the coffin at Andrews Air Force Base still wearing her bloodstained dress; the throng of mourners lined up for blocks outside the Capitol to pay respects to the fallen president; the accused assassin gunned down two days later while in police custody and in full view of a national television audience; the little boy saluting the coffin of his slain father; the somber march to Arlington National Cemetery; the eternal flame affixed to the gravesite. These scenes were repeated endlessly on television at the time and then reproduced in popular magazines and, still later, in documentary films. They came to be viewed as defining events of the era.
Why so many Americans believe Kennedy assassination conspiracy theoriesPosted: November 12, 2013 Filed under: History, Think Tank, U.S. News, White House | Tags: Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Conspiracy theory, Dallas, John F. Kennedy, Joseph Parent, Oxford University Press, United States, University of Miami 3 Comments
More Americans believe that a shadowy conspiracy was behind a president's death 50 years ago than know who Joe Biden is
This is a guest post by University of Miami political scientists Joseph Uscinskiand Joseph Parent. This article is based on portions of their forthcoming book "American Conspiracy Theories" (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Conspiracy theories are conquering the country, leading us into a dark age of cynicism. Americans are bombarded by a growing barrage of outlandish tales, aided and abetted by a polarizing media, and amplified by the echo chamber of theInternet. While all sides indulge in conspiracy theories, Republicans andconservatives are particularly prone to them. Such inflamed rhetoric divides nations and destroys deliberative democracy.
Actually, there is not much truth in any of the above. Journalists have been quick to proclaim a "new age of conspiracy theories." The only problem is that "new age" is typically just a synonym for "now." For example, see 2011, 2010, 2004, 1994,1991 and 1964. Fortunately, we have a much better sense of where conspiracy theories come from and why so many people believe them.
John Kerry, Kennedy Assassination TheoristPosted: November 11, 2013 Filed under: Diplomacy, History, U.S. News | Tags: David Gregory, JFK, John F. Kennedy, John Kerry, Kerry, Lee Harvey Oswald, NBC 2 Comments
Jesse Walker writes: Last week I mentioned that a majority of Americans thinks it likely that a conspiracy killed John F. Kennedy. One member of that majority turns out to be Secretary of State John Kerry. Politico reports:
Pressed in an interview aired Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" to explain his beliefs that JFK's death was part of a bigger plot, Kerry said: "I just have a point of view. And I'm not going to get into that. It's not something that I think needs to be commented on, and certainly not at this time."
"I'm not going to go into it. It's just inappropriate, and I'm not going to do more than say that it's a point of view that I have. But it's not right, or worthy, or appropriate for me to comment further," Kerry told host David Gregory.
Kerry said in a recent interview with NBC, as the 50th anniversary of the assassination approaches, he doubts the official story.
"To this day, I have serious doubts that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone," Kerry said about the suspect arrested in the 1963 assassination.
Hat tip: Bryan Alexander. As for me, I think the most persuasive account of Kennedy's death and life is this one:
The Kennedy CursePosted: November 6, 2013 Filed under: Education, History, Politics, White House | Tags: Bill Clinton, Democrats, Great Society, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Johnson, Kennedy, Larry Sabato, Ronald Reagan, Sabato 2 Comments
For a half-century, John F. Kennedy has mesmerized Democrats.
Robert Costa writes: It's a black-and-white picture we've all seen before: an earnest, 16-year-old Bill Clinton shaking hands with President John F. Kennedy. It was snapped in July 1963 in the Rose Garden, soon after Kennedy addressed a group of Boys Nation delegates. Ever since, and most notably during his 1992 presidential campaign, Clinton has recalled the moment. For him, it was more than a brief encounter; it was an experience, and one so powerful that Clinton once said it caused him to have "arthritis of the face."
Clinton's deeply felt connection to Kennedy is hardly unique. Memories of Kennedy's presidency, from his inaugural address to the horror of Dallas, live on in the American imagination. But they linger particularly with Democrats, and for the past 50 years, generations of them have venerated JFK as their party's tragic hero. Democrats may have long ago abandoned the Kennedy program, but JFK's flame flickers elusively in their hearts.
Kennedy's 'Moon Speech' 50 Years LaterPosted: October 27, 2013 Filed under: History, Space & Aviation, White House | Tags: Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Cold War, Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy family, United States 1 Comment
On September 12, 1962, President Kennedy proclaimed "we choose to go to the Moon in this decade," setting in motion the race to land humans on the Moon. But no one has gone back in 4 decades.
John F. Kennedy in Oval Office with Kids in Halloween CostumesPosted: October 24, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Costume, Halloween, JFK, JFK Jr. Caroline Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Oval Office, Presidential History, White House Leave a comment
The Kennedy Assassination Right-Wing Blame GamePosted: October 17, 2013 Filed under: History, Politics, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas, Dealey Plaza, Edwin Walker, George Packer, JFK, Soviet Union, Ted Cruz, United States 1 Comment
Readers know this is subject I'm covering, and will continue to cover, in the weeks leading up to the historic anniversary of JFK's assassination. In the wake of the resurgence of left-wing propaganda about Dallas in 1963, its a topic that deserves honesty, legitimate pushback, and clarification. Stay tuned for updates. , I welcome The Weekly Standard's Mark Hemingway commentary, and include it here.
Mark Hemingway writes: The fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy is nearly upon us, so one would expect America's public intellectuals to be gearing up to present a series of sober and illuminating reflections about the tragedy's cultural and political legacy.
Of course, that's not going to happen. Any misty-eyed resonance that can be wrung out of JFK's death is already being exploited by our elite media gatekeepers to advance a political agenda.
To start things off, the New Yorker's George Packer has filed a dispatch about the "the potent brew of right-wing passions, much of it well organized and well funded—Bircher anti-Communism, anti-Catholicism [and] racism" that is apparently to blame for JFK's death. This is nonsensical on many levels. Racism is, of course, described as a "right-wing passion" though it is conveniently forgotten that at the time of JFK's assassination this odious legacy was exploited and enforced primarily by the Democratic party. And yes, Dallas may have been suffused with "Bircher anti-Communism" but that seems very much at odds with the identity of JFK's assassin who had spent time in the Soviet Union under mysterious circumstances.
Book: John F. Kennedy, ConservativePosted: October 15, 2013 Filed under: History, Reading Room, Think Tank | Tags: Albert Gore Sr., Albert Jay Nock, Ira Stoll, John F. Kennedy, Kennedy, Kennedy family, Peace Corps, Soviet Union 1 Comment
The columnist Ira Stoll has managed to obtain a hard-to-get interview with the author Ira Stoll, whose new book, JFK, Conservative, is being published this week by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. An edited version of the exchange follows.
Q. Why did you write this book?
A. A lot of my conservative friends were contemptuous of the whole Kennedy family. I wanted to set them straight. And a lot of my left-of-center friend admired Kennedy, but for all the wrong reasons. I wanted to set them straight.
Q. Why does it matter now what people think of Kennedy? He's been dead for nearly 50 years.
A. The same issues that Kennedy grappled with — economic growth, tax cuts, the dollar, free trade, peace through strength, immigration, welfare reform — are still with us today. I think he had some ideas that can inform our current debates over politics and policy.
Q. Oh, come on. When Kennedy wanted to cut taxes the top marginal rate was 91 percent. And when he built up the military we were in a global conflict with the Soviet Union. It was a totally different situation than the one we face today.
A. Well, read the book. You may be surprised by how similar some of the arguments then were to the arguments today. Al Gore Sr., the Democratic senator from Tennessee who was the father of Bill Clinton's vice president, was denouncing tax cuts as a bonanza for fat cats. John Kenneth Galbraith, the Keynesian Harvard economist, opposed tax cuts and preferred, instead, more government spending. The top long-term capital gains tax rate in the Kennedy administration was 25 percent, and Kennedy wanted it lowered to 19.5 percent. In 2013, if you include the Obamacare tax, the top long-term federal capital gains tax rate is 23.8 percent.
Q. Why is the title of the book JFK, Conservative and not JFK, Libertarian?
A. There's a lot in the book that will probably resonate with libertarians. Kennedy was likely influenced by a libertarian writer called Albert Jay Nock. Early in his political career, JFK gave some amazing speeches about the individual versus the state. On January 29, 1950, at Notre Dame, he said, "The ever expanding power of the federal government, the absorption of many of the functions that states and cities once considered to be the responsibilities of their own, must now be a source of concern to all those who believe as did the Irish Patriot, Henry Grattan: 'Control over local affairs is the essence of liberty.'" And the Inaugural Address line "Ask not what your country can do for you" was a call for self-reliance and an attack on the welfare state. Other parts, like Kennedy's foreign policy and his stance on some social issues, libertarians might find less attractive.


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Though the Galactic population is made up of a rich cross-section of humanoid and not even vaguely humanoid creatures, the officer class of the Empire is dominated by humans who appear (judging by their accents) to have been educated exclusively at Oxford or Cambridge. This lack of diversity could lead to group-think, project an exclusive mindset to the galactic population at large, and may lead to senior officers hosting port and cheese parties when they should be directing attacks on ice planets.
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Freddy Adu may not yet officially be a player of Brazilian club Bahia, but that did not stop him from talking about the potential move and how good a fit he thinks it could be for him when he arrived to the South American country on Thursday.
Adu turned up in Salvador, Brazil ahead of his meeting with Bahia's team officials and tour of the club. The 23-year-old midfielder was able to talk briefly to Brazilian media about the impending transfer from the Philadelphia Union that will see him and Brazilian midfielder Kleberson swap teams, saying the Brazilian Serie A was an ideal location for him to land in.
"The way I play, I never thought of myself as playing as a quote unquote an American style," Adu told Brazilian media. "I always based my game on the Brazilian style because I love that. I love being able to express yourself and here you're allowed to express yourself, you're allowed to play, you're allowed to enjoy football so this, I think would fit my style really well."
Adu was also adamant in expressing that the deal was not yet done. The well-traveled midfielder admitted that he would like the move to be finalized so he could get back to playing soccer, but also said he was taking a tour of the club and becoming familiar with the facilities and staff to ensure that Bahia was the right fit for him.
"It has to be the right situation," said Adu. "For me personally, I've been in teams where I've been used in different positions that I'm not used to. This has to be the right situation for me and for Bahia and I just wanted to get a feel for the place before anything gets done.
"It's important for me, because I've never done that before, signing with other teams. This is the first time I'm actually visiting to get a feel for the place, to check out the team, to meet the staff, so this was important for me to do."
Adu even shared with reporters which Brazilian players he enjoyed watching as a kid – Ronaldo and Ronaldinho were among them – as well as some of his recently-gained knowledge about the club that might soon be his new home.
"I know Bahia is two-time Brazilian champions and I know the fans," said Adu. "I did my research. I'm pretty familiar with the team. Now I'm here to check out the city, meet the staff, meet the team and hopefully everything goes well and we're able to get something done as soon as possible."
Old School
""The way I play, I never thought of myself as playing as a quote unquote an American style, Adu said."
What exactly is the "American style"?
4-4-2, through yourself in front of the ball, kick it as far away from goal as possible, run after it, kick it at the goal. Repeat as necessary.
*throw, mental lapse there.
Josh D
Only thing that was forgotten was run really fast, bunker, and counter.
Old School
Allow an early goal, too?
or allow a goal in just before the half in extra time…
Also add: instead of soccer cleats , lace on bricks, watch ball after every clutzy, pre-meditated, easily intercepted pass you make, DO NOT, repeat DO NOT run to open space and anticipate a give-and-go or make decoy runs, or support your teammate by providing an open passing lane – ball watch and over-commit to the opponent when they settle the ball, fixate on their ass, chase them, continue to chase the ball madly and tire yourself out so that the opponent can then deftly string together 3-4 passes and penetrate your area, dig ball out of net, look disgusted, prepare to do all of what Chazcar 2 said, three dozen times more, before actually stringing more than two passes together in your opponents end, repeat ad infinitum, ad naseum = American style
He just wants to play as a #10 with no defensive reponsbilities. It's not so much an "American" thing as a soccer thing in general. In modern tactics, unless you are Ronaldo, Messi, or Robben, you are expected to contribute to team defense.
Todd Marsch
Pretty much this. Freddy wants to be a #10 around which the team builds its offense (the role he excelled with the US youth teams), but at the pro-level, you have to provide more than this unless you're truly a world-class player.
It's not "unless your'e truly a world-class player" now pretty much everyone has defensive responsibilities. Certainly Messi, Xavi, and Iniesta play defense. So does Wayne Rooney. The Robbens of the world are a very small minority, and quickly disappearing.
Have you never actually watched Messi play? He contributes MORE than his fair share on defense. Heck, sometimes he's running around on defense as if he's a fullback…
Fair point. Barcelona press well as a team.
I think the larger issue with Adu isn't the lack of defense. There have been all number of fine #10's (in MLS…like Christian Gomez and Valderama, and internationally like Juan Roman Romalque) who didn't play defense and weren't great athletically. But they always showed for the ball, they were always available, they were a factor throughout the match. Adu drifts in and out of the match. He disappears in many matches for 10-20 minutes at a time…stops moving, makes poor decisions off the ball, reads the game poorly so puts himself in positions where he isn't going to see the ball. It's not about ocnditioning. But it means that suddenly your #10 is a out of the match, a non-factor. If your #10 can play defense or win balls, than maybe you can live with that. But if he's there to be a vulcrum for the attack, you can't have him disappear for chunks of the match.
Very accurate comment.
I'd like to see him assert himself, but I'm not sure his overall soccer intelligence is up to the job. If you watch the last Gold Cup, he did play defense, but it was more than I've ever seen him work. He needs to do more of that
American style is hoof it forward. We also teach our forwards that the most important part of play is when their backs are to the other team's goal! doh!
Ah, it is the style, or the club, or the situation that explains it.
I'm rooting for Freddy, but personal responsibility still seems to elude him.
I would tend to agree. He has taken responsibility in the press before, but since this keeps happening to him at every single stop, you have to think the Freddy is mostly paying lip service. Let's hope some lessons have sunk in, though.
He is a little Prince. Without his mom to clean up after him, to cook for him, launder, press and fold his undies – he is helpless. (That's often how he plays soccer too.)
I do though, pray mightily that the kind of midfield attacking play he manifested in the 2007 U-20s World Cup gets all growed up and kic-a** and holds the world's attention at a major tournament, for the full USMNT – Stars and Stripes forever.
Josh D
A mature statement by Adu. His style does fit Brazil and hopefully they can help refine his abilities. Adu isn't going to become the winger or two-way midfielder people want him to become. So let's hope, in the home of attacking midfielders, he's able to develop into a player that's impossible to ignore.
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well said
With his great touch and passing ability I don't really think we can blame his career on every other team his been on. He's played in a ton of places. My God he's played in PORTUGAL. He's played all over the globe. Stop the excuses. He's immensely talented in some ways but I'm starting to think he just doesn't have the mental fortitude and focus to become a great player. Some players don't have it physically, some mentally. He has no more excuses to me.
He actually played quite well in Portugal. The problem was that they churned through way too many managers in a short period of time. He was a young player and managers brought in other players and stuck with other more experienced players to try and keep their jobs.
He is a Gemini. Therefore nuts, split personality, dual nature, also incredibly psychic and prescient when he focuses, madly creative, and never alone, and neither is he.
Split personality – just like Demarcus Beasley. Demarcus finally grew up and learned to tell the shit scared little boy inside of him, the whiney kid that says, "I don' wanna, I can't, they're ganging up on me and you're not being nice to me, whine, whine whine…" to STFU and sit down and watch Demarcus, THE MAN, play UEFA Champions League style football, WC football, Mexican first division, flowing, creative football. One day Freddy Adu will decide to tell the whiney little prima donna, fragile Prince of this World inside him, to sit down, and shut up and watch how a MAN, a lord of the sphere, a box to box, untiring trooper plays USMNT creative, modern, total football.
This is dual Gemini nature, this is at the heart and soul of his problems fitting in with other teams. He gets to wrapped up in himself, and over thinks the situation, gets way too grandiose and self-important and forgets to play with his heart and soul, for the greater good of the team he is on.
We have our Fingers crossed man…….his dribbling ability, ball control and flare that is looked down on and considered selfish/show boating here in the US is welcomed with open arms in Brazil.
Jimmy Conrad hosted Jozy Altidore on his show and during some RAPID FIRE questions Jimmy asked him "who is the BEST PLAYER you have EVER played with?" …..Altidore said "Honestly, talent wise FREDDY ADU…….WOW.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1TYU6ANXXg (move to 5:02)
Coming from one of our most talented Strikers, a regular on the USMNT, in the mist of Dempsey, Donovan, Bradley, Howard…..didn't call any of his current teammates, says a lot about Adu……very impressive
Wow… that's a pretty incredible statement by Altidore.
I think there likely IS an element missing w/ Freddy that probably has much to do w/ his misguided development. A part of his growth was stunted. He never had the chance to be an integrated cohesive part within a group in a locker room or within a team. Under any circumstances, a 16 year old is going to have a very difficult time fitting in with full grown professional men. You have nothing in common and are sorely lacking the maturity and tools to do so. A 16 year old, no matter how talented should NEVER be put into the position of being viewed as the savior of a team, let alone a league, let alone the entire sport for an entire nation. We humans need to "belong" and that is one of the amazing things about being a true member of a T E A M… fighting through hardship and becoming successful with a group of brothers. Dude has always been an outsider. Freddy has been shamefully exploited, but the only way to dig out of it is to put that in the past, take 100% ownership and responsibility for his own life, career and play on the field. For his sake alone, I hope he does that and can maximize his remarkable talent into being a remarkable teammate and player.
Dude, well said
Freddy Adu has been shamwfully exploited…that may be the case but to whom much is given much is expected. He has been paid millions by the "exploiters" and shown that 7 years later he still cant fit into a team. In another Jimmy Conrad podcast he said that during a Jan. Camp all of the 30players at the camp had to take a running test and that Adu was by far the worst behind the defenders and keepers. He was like 21 at the time he should have been able to run all day. People, he got the money too early and now he lacks the drive to become all he can. See Albert Haynesworth
By your reply I take it you didn't truly understand what whoop was trying to say…..secondly I didn't find anything about Jimmy Conrad's comments about Adu's fitness a YEAR and 3 months ago. He was talking about his improper development in response to our top US forward complementing Adu for being the most talented player he's ever played with (MAY 13 2013)…….
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2011-05-23/sports/35232332_1_situations-at-different-levels-count-in-different-situations-rizespor (a little of Bob Bradley on Adu, )……
Yup… what's good for our bank account is often vastly different from what's best for our development as a player and/or human being.
Mr. whoop,
Try 14 years old.
Someday Brian Strauss should investigate Freddy's "people", manager or whoever it is that lets him sign with teams before researching them first. He won't be the first athlete who was let down by his "handlers".
Yeah, figured 16 was a good conservative age to use… in addition to being a good preemptive defense vs, birth-certificaterererers. Honestly, I can't imagine myself at that age being put into that position.
Sebastian morales
Call me old fashioned but I would like to see some evidence for these assertions about Adu. How do you know that he's not capable of working with a team and all the rest?
I hear you Sebastian,
Hey, I don't pretend to know…. merely doing what 90% of forums do… for the sake of discussion, am speculating based on rumors, innuendo, my personal experience, sprinkled with some basic facts we do know about the history. I didn't state it as a fact, but an opinion starting my statement with: "I there think likely…"
I never stated he wasn't capable of working with a team. I'm certain he is capable. It has been a problem commonly assertion in the past. I was merely pointing out my view that he has a history of being put in a difficult position where this was made extra difficult to do, particularly at a crucial time when these skills need to be developed.
I wish him luck and see no reason he can't succeed. Ultimately, it will be up to Freddy… hopefully with the assistance of an environment that compliments his strengths and weaknesses.
What's the over/under on how long he lasts on this team? I do hope he is successful at some point.
Dan M
I think Brazil needs more overhyped 32 year olds in their leagues. So, this will be a great fit.
Old School
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got a birther over here…
Dan M
Hey, if Obama was born in Ghana, then I would be a true birther, but I am not. Regarding Freddie, Ghana is so rife with fraud that I think their constitution is a forgery. Freddy's diminutive stature made it easy for him to fool people during his adolesence but the "hype to performance" disconnect is just too great and the circumstantial support of his age is less than convincing. You really have to be of the birther mentality to actually believe Freddy is his recognized age.
Gary Page
I see this every so often, but he has played in numerous youth world cups. This means he has had to fool FIFA officials on many different occasions. I find it difficult to believe he could have carried out a deception like this for about 8 years ( age 14 for the U-16 to the U-23).
initially Freddy said his favorites Brazilian players growing up were Pele and Garrincha, but corrected himself quickly and the reporters edited that part out….
Benny Dargle
I don't think the choice of Brazil is coincidental. If you wanted to play your way back into the USMNT picture, it wouldn't hurt to go to a place with a style of play that suits you and that also just happens to be the site of the next World Cup. He has a big mountain to climb to even get back on the radar screen, but it never hurts to have someone who is already in the area and knows the playing surfaces, environment, etc. Of course, you would prefer a player in top form in a top league, but if his other major choice was South Korea, this could tip the balance in favor of Brazil's Serie A.
hoping this works out, it seems like the perfect spot for him.
Clyde Frog
Salvador is one of the most beautiful and fun cities on Earth. I think he'll like it.
Lost in Space
"It's important for me, because I've never done that before, signing with other teams. This is the first time I'm actually visiting to get a feel for the place, to check out the team, to meet the staff, so this was important for me to do."
To me this statement was the most eye opening thing said. The fact he has never met with team/staff/etc…before moving/transfering to a club sheds a lot of light on his past situations.
Hopefully has has finally learned his lesson and will have a chance to develop into a consistent player. He has skill….but the knock against him has always been his attitude and/or work ethic.
Seriously Philly will get 35 year old Kleberson? what kind of "trade" is this? Its a joke and this leagues credibility wont grow until teams quit signing old worn out players, it seems like a necessity to include an old wash up in each team nowadays…
Union has talented youngsters. There is no doubt they will benefit from playing with a world cup winner like Kleberson. I think this looks like a very good move for all concerned.
I'm a Freddy fan and I really hope this works out for him. I've seen no evidence that he's a bad guy. He's just a kid who got too much attention too fast, and who thus didn't develop some key soccer and interpersonal skills.
That aside, I'm worried that the Bahia thing is a bad move. He's an amazing dribbler and passer by American standards, but he's certainly not Neymar…or Ronaldinho, or Kaka, or [insert Brazilian name here]. People talk about Brazil being a great fit for him, but I wonder if his technical ability is going to be better than the literally thousands of Brazilian players who spent every second of their childhoods dribbling a soccer ball, ball of clay, rock, tin can, ball of string, wad of paper, etc…. He's not the quickest or the strongest, so if his technical ability doesn't stand out in Brazil, what are we left with? What we might find is that Freddy is not so much of a standout in the one area that's always made him stand out.
I hope I'm wrong and that he really is the dribbling wunderkind he once appeared to be. He is the most entertaining American player when he's on, and it's not even close… I would just once love to see a USMNT lineup someday that has all of our most technical players on the field at the same time, just to see what would happen: Freddy, Jose Torres, Bradley, Benny, Joe Corona, etc.
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Much is made of Adu's career in Europe — so many teams and so on. Folks have been quick to conclude that something must be wrong if Adu went out on loan so often. Nonetheless if you check you will find that lending young players is standard practice for big European clubs. As we speak Benfica has 17 players out on loan, nearly all of them young players with several years left on their contracts. Sound familiar ? Not to be out done AC Milan has, count them, 36 players out on loan. Not all of them are youngsters but most are. Europe is literally awash with young players with resumes not unlike Adu's. Should we conclude that they are all character deficient as well?
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Sigh, maybe one day…
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He's too small and not strong enough to play #10. Too many players around the #10 to be push him off the ball. His best spot is withdrawn forward. He needs to isolate players one on one, cause danger in the box and draw penalty kicks.
Does anyone divide American fans more than Freddy? Fans either thing he is a spoiled, lazy, who is allergic to tracking back or talent wasted by a league that has no interest in skillful players.


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Mon., July 18, 2011, 10:37 p.m.
Indians drop Hawks with dramatic comeback in ninth
Spokane Indians designated hitter Brett Nicholas had never seen anything like it.
The Indians, down by four in the bottom of the ninth inning, staged an improbable five-run rally to overtake the Boise Hawks 8-7 in front of 3,273 Monday at Avista Stadium.
The victory moved Spokane to 16-15 and into a first-place tie with Tri-City in the Northwest League East Division standings. Boise slipped to 15-16.
"I've never been part of a game like that," said Nicholas, whose two-run single tied it at 7. "We looked pretty bad for eight innings. To be able to get a big win like that, you can't ask for anything more. They gave me a fastball and I was able to find a hole and help the team out."
Indeed, it was an unsightly eight innings for the Indians before their remarkable comeback, which provided another reminder to early-exiting fans that it's never over 'til it's over. Much like the Spokane Shock arena football team, which won on a Hail Mary pass in the final seconds Saturday night, the Indians provided a dramatic comeback victory.
In the ninth, Drew Robinson walked, Jorge Alfaro singled and Ruben Sierra walked to load the bases against pitcher Colin Richardson. Bryce Shafer replaced Richardson, but he hit Rougned Odor with a pitch and then threw a wild pitch as Spokane pulled within 7-5.
After a strikeout, Zach Cone walked to load the bases and Nicholas, the team leader with 29 RBIs, singled to right to even the score. Trever Adams lined a single to center to deliver the game-winner.
"We had other opportunities where we could have been a lot closer than four in the ninth, but you know what, I'll take it," Indians manager Tim Hulett said. "With just (seven) games (until the end of the first half of the season), to come back and get that win against a Boise team that we're right in it with was big."
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In a review of Acura's second-generation TSX sports sedan a couple of years ago, I congratulated Honda's luxury division on sticking to a four-cylinder engine and long-held company precepts of balancing power and economy.
But I also noted that "dropping a six in" must have been tempting to make it an easier sell against the competition. My words have proven to be less prophetic than premature.
Acura obviously had a V-6-powered TSX in mind from the start and the TSX V-6 joined the division's lineup last fall with a motor that pushes out almost 80 more hp and some 80 lb-ft more torque than the four-banger.
This is a game changer in performance terms. The 201-hp, four-cylinder TSX, equipped with an automatic transmission, can accelerate to 100 km/h in an entertaining-enough seven-plus seconds. More than quick enough to be fun. But the V-6 TSX can knock an impressive second off that time, getting down into the low sixes. With the insertion of the V-6, the TSX has become a very quick automobile.
The V-6 car also gains sportier suspension tuning, revised steering and 18-inch clear-coat finished alloy wheels shod with P235/45R18 tires vs the 17-inchers on the four-cylinder.
Acura looked in the corporate parts bin to find the new motor for the TSX, coming up with the 3.5 litre V-6 from the TL. This motor has i-VTEC variable valve timing, dual-stage induction through a magnesium intake system and makes 280 strong horsepower at 6,200 rpm and 254 lb-ft of torque, which is available over a fairly broad band and tops out at a very high 5,000 rpm.
A little disappointing in this high-performance oriented TSX is that the only available transmission is a five-speed automatic. Albeit it's a Sequential Sportshift unit that delivers crisp up-shifts and has ratios you can select manually, with fairly prompt response, via steering-wheel-mounted paddles.
This transmission works well when you're getting on with things, but in around-town and highway driving, when you just want to add a little more power, a touch on the throttle often unlocks the torque converter letting the revs soar, which I found a little irritating. And with all the power available this somewhat-abrupt step up in its delivery can momentarily overwhelm the traction control system on slippery surfaces if you're a bit ham-footed.
The TSX V-6 weighs in at 1,672 kg or some 85 kg more than the four-cylinder car, which contributes to fuel economy ratings of 11.3 L/100 km city and 7.4 highway versus 9.6 city/6.5 highway for the four.
On the road, the TSX V-6's tauter suspension, with firmer springs and damper settings plus those meatier lower-profile tires, delivers sharp-ish turn-in and flat cornering.
But with the engine being responsible for a good bit of that additional weight just mentioned, the TSX becomes a little more nose-heavy. Understeer becomes more of an issue the harder you push things - and which version would be quicker through a corner would be interesting to find out.
The electric steering was revised to improve on-centre feel, which it does, and has a firmly natural feel. The brakes have been upgraded and pedal feel improved.
A downside to this sportier level of handling is a ride that those contemplating buying the TSX V-6 with prestige and luxury in mind rather than performance might find a little hard. I'd spend some time driving one, and also having a significant other driver spend some time behind the wheel, to make sure you'll be happing living with it on a day-to-day basis.
On the TSX's rather stylish outside, the only thing that differentiates the V-6 model from its four-cylinder sibling is the badge on the deck lid and, if you look closely, those bigger wheels.
It is virtually identical inside, too, which means a pleasantly open and airy cabin with enough separation between the two front-seat occupants and a rear compartment that will hold three if necessary, backed by a not-too-generous 357-litre trunk.
Efforts have been made to reduce noise/vibration/harshness and the V-6 comes with Acura's Active Sound Control System, which works to reduce unwanted high frequency noises. The optional navi screen in both models has been enlarged and changes made to the display.
Acura pitches the TSX as a luxury sports sedan, so it doesn't lack for features, which include the usual safety and electronic control systems, HID headlights, moon roof, four- and eight-way power/heated/leather seats, compass, dual-zone climate control, auto headlights, remote entry, tilt-and-telescope wheel, hands-free voice activation and Bluetooth and sultry blue ambient lighting.
Four-cylinder-engined TSXs start at $32,990 with the Premium package-equipped version going for $36,290 and the top-of-the-line Technology edition for $39,290. These models offer virtually all the same equipment as the V-6 versions, along with plenty of performance and a bit better economy.
So if you're going to buy a V-6, it will mainly be for the added prestige this engine is perceived to bring compared to the four, which many still associate with economy models. And that's going to cost you. The V-6 starts with the premium edition priced at $39,790, with the Technology version tested - which ads navi, a reversing camera and an Acura/ELS Premium sound system - listing at $42,790. Add an additional $1,895 in delivery charges to all those prices, incidentally.
While there's no denying the six's extra power makes the TSX a flyer, a driver really intent on enjoying a sporty driving experience would be better off buying a four-cylinder with six-speed manual gearbox.
Type: Luxury sports sedan
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Transmission: Five-speed automatic
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Fuel economy (litres/100 km): 11.3 city/7.4 highway; premium gas
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The applicability of embedded fiber-optic sensors for the determination of fracture parameters is demonstrated. A Mach-Zehnder interferometric setup is used and mode-1 stress-intensity factors are obtained by embedding single-mode fibers in single-edge-notched specimens fabricated from Plexiglas. Optical fibers are embedded in-plane to measure axial strains at various depths and also in the transverse direction to measure the transverse strains, from which stress-intensity factors are determined. In both cases the experimental results compare well with the theoretical predictions.
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Scientists are set to treat depression and headaches by implanting electrodes into people's brains which alter the function of brain tissue by using electroconvulsive therapy to "reboot" the mind.
"The more neurologists and surgeons learn about the aptly named deep brain stimulation, the more they are convinced that the currents from the technology's implanted electrodes can literally reboot brain circuits involved with the mood disorder," reports Scientific American.
Is this a potential scientific success story or the first step towards psychopharmacological dictatorship?
Hacker Barnaby Jack warned that medical implants like pacemakers could be remotely accessed by hackers and governments to "commit mass murder."
Jack was found dead just a week before he was set to present his research at a conference.
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