Washington Redskins: Happy Birthday to Sam Huff

Source:Washington Redskins– Hall of Fame linebacker Sam Huff.

“Fans we know it won’t take much for you to LIKE/SHARE this photo and help us wish #Redskins and football legend, Sam Huff a Happy 79th Birthday!”

From the Washington Redskins 

“Pro Football Hall of Fame linebacker Sam Huff comes in at number 93 on NFL Films’ “The Top 100: NFL’s Greatest Players” list produced in 2010.”

Source:NFL Films– Hall of Fame linebacker Sam Huff.

From NFL Films

Happy Birthday to Sam Huff, the greatest linebacker in Redskins history. A man who didn’t let the fact that he played on mediocre Redskins teams in the 1960s, with poor defenses, stop him from becoming one of the greatest linebackers in NFL history. Not just  one of the greatest inside linebackers or middle linebackers of all-time, but one of the greatest linebackers of all-time.

Sam Huff was not great as Dick Butkus ( but no one is ) and perhaps not Jack Lambert, but in the same class as a Chuck Bednarkik, ( Philadelphia Eagles ) Willie Lanier ( Kansas City Chiefs ) and many others. Someone who played both the run and the pass and played it very well. And a lot of times having to do that without much of a defensive line in front of him, like he had to do with the Redskins in the 1960s.

The Redskins were basically just a passing team in the 1960s, without much of a running game or defense to complement QB Sonny Jugensen and his great receivers. Even with all of that Sam was still one of the great linebackers not just of his era, but who still has ever played this game and there’s no wonder why why he’s in the Professional Football Hall of Fame today.

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History Comes to Life: Thomas E. Dewey- ‘Republican Campaign (1944)’

Source:History Comes To Life– Governor Thomas E. Dewey (Republican, New York) campaigning for President in 1944.

“Thomas E. Dewey superimposed over crowd scene, John Bricker superimposed over crowd scene, Dewey appears before outside crowd. Crowd applauding Dewey, Dewey speaks. Crowd scenes, white placards in crowd spell out D-E-W-E-Y, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey walk to platform, Dewey speaks, LS of Dewey on platform.”

From History Comes To Life

Tom Dewey was a master at giving great speeches without having much to say. And I mean that the way I put that which is to say he would tell you what he was in favor of and what he was against, but wouldn’t give a lot of details at least in his speeches and interviews, about how he would accomplish the things he was in favor of and stop the things he was against.

Tom Dewey was a slick politician in the sense that he knew who to appeal to while offending the least. And as a result he was almost elected President of the United States in 1948 against President Harry Truman.

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Genghis 711: 1971 World Heavyweight Championship- Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier: Full Fight

Source:Genghis 711– the corner of World Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier.

“Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier 1 “The Fight of the Century”
3/8/1971″

From Genghis 711

Definitely the greatest fight that Muhammad Ali ever lost, which also happened to be the greatest event he ever lost. Perhaps the biggest sports event at least up to that point in 1971 that had more of a Super Bowl atmosphere rather than a championship fight atmosphere. With all of the people who saw it on TV or close-circuit or were at the fight.

The fact that non-boxing fans or at least people who weren’t big boxing fans before this fight, who got into this fight, watched this fight and followed boxing especially the heavyweight division after this fight, of course the two fighters involved the top two heavyweights at least of the 1960s and early to middle 1970s in the challenger Muhammad Ali whose the top heavyweight of the 1970s (and in my opinion and many others who know more about boxing than me the top heavyweight of all time) against the best heavyweight boxer, at least to this point and would remain so after beating Muhammad Ali, at this Super Bowl of boxing event, until he lost the fight to George Foreman.

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CNN: Piers Morgan Tonight- Nicholas Kristof: ‘Vladimir Putin Exudes Hypocrisy in Op-Ed’

Source:CNN– New York Times left-wing columnist Nicholas Kristof.

“Nicholas Kristof talks about Vladimir Putin being a hypocrite in the New York Times Op-ed and the U.S. response to Syria. More from CNN at:CNN.”

From CNN

If President Putin was actually serious about ending the violence in Syria, he would stop arming the Assad Regime that is using the weapons against their own people. Just throwing out a thought there. But sometimes commonsense is needed because people run out of it or ignore it.

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PBS NewsHour: ‘What Legacy Does Michael Bloomberg Leave For The Next Mayor of NYC?’

Source:PBS NewsHour– welcome to The Big Apple.

“A day after the New York primary, Hari Sreenivasan takes a look at the legacy of long-term, outgoing Mayor Michael Bloomberg: a city budget in the black, reduced crime rates and a transformed cityscape. What challenges might the next city leader face?”

From the PBS NewsHour

“The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor[6] based in Arlington, Virginia. The PBS is a publicly funded[7] nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing series such as American Experience, America’s Test Kitchen, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Barney & Friends, Between the Lions, Cyberchase, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Downton Abbey, Wild Kratts, Finding Your Roots, Frontline, The Magic School Bus, The Kidsongs Television Show, Masterpiece Theater, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Nature, Nature Cat, Nova, PBS NewsHour, Peg + Cat, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Keeping Up Appearances, and This Old House.[8]

PBS is funded by a combination of member station dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, pledge drives, and donations from both private foundations and individual citizens. All proposed funding for programming is subject to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source.[9] PBS has over 350 member television stations, many owned by educational institutions, nonprofit groups both independent or affiliated with one particular local public school district or collegiate educational institution, or entities owned by or related to state government.”

From Wikipedia

I wouldn’t live in New York City for many reasons even though I acknowledge it is a great city. But when you think of big government, New York City and perhaps the State of New York more broadly have to be places you look at first and since this is about Mike Bloomberg I’ll focus there.

When I think of big government as a Liberal, I think of a government that believes it knows best how individuals should live their own lives. Better than them to the point it believes that it should protect people to the point of even protecting people from themselves. And I’ll take that a step further to stay that big governmentalist’s (which is not a real word) are statists who support big government to the point that they will not only try to protect people from themselves, but to the point that they’ll arrest people even for their own good to save people from themselves.

Prohibition perfect example of statism with the War on Drugs and War on Marijuana in New York. It might be a safe big city now but you still have thousands of people who are either in the New York City jails or New York state prisons because they were arrested for smoking or being in possession of pot or other illegal narcotics. Rather than being in jail for hurting innocent people. And then go to the War on Pornography in New York, (and I’m talking about adult pornography) go to stop and frisk where you can be stopped because you meet a certain racial criteria.

But there’s more with Mayor Bloomberg’s prohibition bonanza with the attempted prohibition of soft drinks from 2012 that was ruled unconstitutional this summer along with how NYC enforces stop and frisk. Had the soft drink ban gone through, what would be next, prohibition of junk food and tobacco, perhaps alcohol later down the road.

It looks like Mayor Bloomberg ran out of time to fully protect New Yorker’s from themselves. But these are just some of the issues as it relates to personal freedom.

New York is also one of the highest taxed cities in the country yet its unemployment and poverty levels are higher than the national average. And their education system isn’t very good either. So if I was a New Yorker the obvious question would be what are my tax dollars going to pay for: prohibition of unhealthy personal behavior and protecting adult New Yorker’s from themselves? Where does that budget of seventy-billion dollars go to?

There is a famous phrase from Professor Milton Friedman (and no, I’m not a Libertarian) Milton did have a good deal of common sense and one of his phrases was: you can’t have security without liberty. And in New York’s case where the city is more safe with less crime but where liberty is has been lost and where New Yorker’s have to look out for their own government. And must always be on their best behavior or risk being pulled over and stop. So safer from individual criminals but now having to look out for big government.

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CNN: ‘Anthony Weiner Apologizes With Wife At His Side’

Source:CNN– New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner with his wife Huma Abedin.

“Former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his wife, Huma Abedin, address the media amid recent reports of more sexual messages…

From CNN 

At risk of sounding too ethnic here: I can’t think of a worst last name for a politician, than Weiner: And then throw in this sexting scandal that Anthony Weiner put himself and his family through in 2011 and that just makes my point too clear.

Source:The Daily Times– can a last name determine one’s favorite foods?

Anthony Weiner has made it impossible for even Democrats to take him seriously and had basically looked like a very promising political career, with a bunch of self-inflicted wounds to his own feet to the point that people can only concentrate on his scandals rather than what he wants to do as a public official.

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CBS News: The Longines Chronoscope- U.S. Senator John Stennis (1953)

Source:Walter Dees– U.S. Senator John C. Stennis (Democrat, Mississippi) on The Longines Chronoscope.

“U.S. Democratic Senator from the State of Mississippi: John C. Stennis Interview”

From Walter Dees

Source:Public Resource– U.S. Senator John C. Stennis (Democrat, Mississippi) on The Longines Chronoscope.

“LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH JOHN C. STENNIS – National Archives and Records Administration – ARC 95919, LI LW-LW-343 – DVD Copied by J. Williams. Brought to you by Longines, World’s Most Honored Watch.”

From Public Resource

“U.S. Democratic Senator from the State of Mississippi: John C. Stennis Interview”

Source:The Film Archives– U.S. Senator John C. Stennis (Democrat, Mississippi) on the left. (Not ideologically)

From The Film Archives 

In 1952, Republican Party literally swept back into power, with Dwight Eisenhower winning The White House and Congressional Republicans winning back both the House and Senate. So even though Senator John Stennis was a Democrat, he was a Dixiecrat (right-wing, Neo-Confederate Democrat) and finding himself serving both in the opposition and minority in the Senate, in that Republican Congress.

Even though Senator Stennis was a Dixiecrat, he was an expert on foreign affairs and national security policy and had a lot of respect from both Democrats and Republicans when it came to those issues. Which is why CBS News interviewed him for this show.

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The Fiscal Times: Bruce Bartlett- ‘The Coming Revival of Liberalism’

Source:The Fiscal Times– now here’s a symbol of American liberalism. Not the left-wing, pop culture stereotype, of what liberalism is supposed to be.

“A new poll from Public Religion Research Institute shows growing support for a more liberal approach to policy that I think will gather steam in years to come.

For example, 63 percent of people support higher taxes on those making more than $250,000, with only 34 percent opposed. There is now majority support for allowing gays to marry versus 41 percent opposed.
Raising the minimum wage is supported by 73 percent of people, with just 25 percent opposed. And 54 percent of people favor legal abortion, with 42 percent wanting it to be illegal.

The poll also makes clear that people are becoming increasingly concerned about a lack of jobs, the growing gap between rich and poor, and the declining standard of living. They are becoming more receptive to government activism to deal with national problems and less confident that the private sector can fix them.

These are all issues on which the liberal approach to policy is more popular and the conservative position is weak. I think it is only a matter of time before liberal intellectuals begin articulating specific ideas that will find favor with the electorate–conservatives will be left with little to say except, “no.”

Source:The Fiscal Times 

“Bruce Bartlett Steps Into TYT” 

Source:The Young Turks– Bruce Bartlett on TYT.

From The Young Turks 

I guess my response to Bruce Bartlett’s piece would be: it depends on what you mean by liberal and liberalism. Apparently Mr. Bartlett’s idea of Liberals and liberalism falls into the mainstream media, left-wing, pop culture stereotype of what it means to be a Liberal, what Liberals believe in, and what liberalism, is that they’re just left-wing, Social Democrats or Democratic Socialists, who want to transform America into Scandinavia, or perhaps Cuba economically and politically. 

Socialism might be on the rise in America as far as it’s popularity, with U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and perhaps Senator Elizabeth Warren being the unofficial leaders for American Socialists. But apparently that’s who Mr. Bartlett is talking about when he’s talking about so-called Liberals. 

Perhaps this silly (no, I don’t believe that) but when I think of Liberals, I think of people who believe in liberal democracy, which is what Liberals actually believe in and what liberalism is actually based off. Liberals believe that the people should have the right to self-determination, which means personal autonomy, the freedom to act for ourselves and think for ourselves, to make our own decisions in life, instead of some big government (socialist, or otherwise) trying to run our lives for us. That’s my idea of liberalism, because that’s what liberalism actually is, the belief in liberal democracy.

If you polled Americans about whether they believed in the right to self-determination, both personal and economic freedom, limited responsible, government, and fiscal responsibility, liberalism would actually poll very well in America. And we would have lot of Liberals in this country, even though those folks probably wouldn’t be aware that they’re Liberals, thanks to our vast ignorance when it comes to political philosophy in this country. 

 

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George Carlin: Jon Stewart Interviews George Carlin

Source:George Carlin– being interviewed by fellow comedian and political satirist Jon Stewart, in 1997 or 99.

Source:The Daily Times

“Jon Stewart Interviews George Carlin from HBO 40 Years of Comedy.”

From George Carlin

What separates George Carlin from let’s call them other counter-culture satirists and comedians on the left (let’s say) who critique American society and culture, is that for one George Carlin is often more right than his other colleagues. But he also doesn’t have a political agenda that he’s pushing. He’s not trying to get government to do this or that for the country.

Also George Carlin’s satire is bipartisan, he doesn’t critique politicians in both parties just to look fair, but he critiques politicians that he disagrees with. No mater their political or ideological affiliations.

Carlin is a classical rebel in the sense that he’s against the establishment whoever it. Because he doesn’t have a political agenda of his own. His real political message (if he has one) is about education and that the people need to educate themselves and stop reelecting people that keep the same system in place and that we should take responsibility for our own lives.

Carlin didn’t believe in blaming people that we elect and reelect for giving us the system that we have or where we are in life, but the people who elect and reelect the politicians who give us and maintain the current system. It’s not Carlin’s consistency that I admire so much, but that he’s consistently right.

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Alicia Keys: ‘If I Ain’t Got You Music Video’

Source:Alicia Keys– “If I Ain’t Got You” great song and better video.

“Official Video for “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys
Listen to Alicia Keys:Alicia Keys.”

From Alicia Keys

My favorite Alicia Keys song and still one of the best love songs of all time. She pretty much sounds like a woman who is desperate to hang on to her man in this song and to sound harsh and this is my opinion, she sounds like someone who is pretty much obsessed with her boyfriend . And doesn’t she can’t manage to live without him. While her man for whatever reason or reasons and I don’t think the song makes it clear while he’s looking to move on, but he looks ready to move on.

If you watch those true crime shows on Investigation Discovery (great network) you see shows all the time about a woman who gets dumped and then takes that disappointment out on her man and his new woman. Alicia sounds like she might be a step away from that.

Alicia Keys showing in this beautiful song and great video, that you can have style, class and substance. Not you don’t have to go-out-of-your-way to show that you’re cool or awesome with an explosive personality and knack for catch phrases and wearing loud outfits and land your now reality show from that, but having nothing upstairs. Not real talent and intelligence to go with your style.

Alicia has everything as far as voice, the ability to write and deliver music, but also to look and sound great doing her music. She sings and plays the piano and she also writes. But she’s beautiful, adorable, sexy and stylish, as she’s performing all of these talents.

This is a great song as far as the lyrics, the voice, the message, but also the video. She looks incredible in those black Levi’s. Similar to how Janet Jackson basically looks like a fashion model every time she’s out and performs in her Levi’s, because of how great she looks in them.

Alicia is a beautiful singer, because she has a great voice, but is always beautiful singing her music. She’s a diva in the best sense of the word, because on her style, but also because she always has a  real message behind her beauty and always has something important and intelligent to say.

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