Friday, October 10, 2008
CAROLE'S POLITICS
Lieberman Calls Obama 'Naïve,' May Bolt Party
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:23 PMBy: Tim Collie and David Patten
“I believe he’s naïve to think that people like [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and Tehran will somehow become America’s friends by talking to them — a warm embrace and a cup of tea. It’s not going to work that way,” said Lieberman.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008 3:23 PMBy: Tim Collie and David Patten
Sen. Barack Obama’s “naïve” world view could embolden America’s enemies during one of the most dangerous periods for America since the 1930s, U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman told Newsmax in an exclusive television sit-down interview Tuesday.
Lieberman, visiting Fort Lauderdale, Fla., also told Newsmax that he is so disappointed with the Democratic Party, he will consider whether to bolt the Democratic Senate caucus next session.
“I believe he’s naïve to think that people like [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad and Tehran will somehow become America’s friends by talking to them — a warm embrace and a cup of tea. It’s not going to work that way,” said Lieberman.
McCain’s recent decline in the polls was “unfair” and “not rational,” Lieberman said, referring to the negative economic news that has impacted the McCain campaign.
The Connecticut senator suggested that many Americans don’t realize that the global economic crisis is also a security crisis—one that will require an experienced foreign policy hand like McCain to navigate.
“Frankly, he has to convince the American people that Barack Obama is not ready for prime time, that he’s not ready to be president of the United States,’’ Lieberman said. “Particularly not now, when we’re in two wars abroad and facing the most serious economic crisis we’ve faced since the Great Depression.”
“The very fact that the American people clearly trust John McCain more in a national security crisis is exactly the reason why they should have more confidence in him in an economic security crisis than Senator Obama,” said Lieberman.
In a wide-ranging interview, Lieberman also said:
• It’s important for the political process to question Obama’s ties to former Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers: “I think these are very fair questions and it’s now up to Senator Obama to answer them.”
• Barack Obama is clearly ‘not ready’ yet to be commander in chief, and the country’s adversaries, including Iran “will not fear him” if he were to become president.
• McCain should tout his economic plan that will emphasize tax cuts and job creation. He said it would be foolhardy to raise taxes in a recession, as Obama has promised.
• The Republicans must emphasize that his plan for energy independence will create “hundreds of thousands, I think millions of new jobs.”
Asked if he may leave his party and join with Senate Republicans, Lieberman said he had no immediate plans to make that move, but said he would consider it at a later date.
“The Democratic Party of today is not the Democratic Party that I joined in the '60s under my hero President Kennedy, and it’s not the Democratic Party of my dear friend Bill Clinton,” Lieberman said.
He introduced McCain's vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, to a Boca Raton audience at an event that raised more than $1 million.
CAROLE'S POLITICS
HERE IS A GERMAN EDITORIAL
If any of you still feel that this war on terror is a mistake, here is an opinion from an unexpected source. It's fascinating that this should come out of Europe. Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat.
This is a must-read by all Americans. History may well certify its correctness.
EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)
A while ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives, as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.
Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe, where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.
Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program.
And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic Fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany?
I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and declaring European "Peace in our time".
What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction.
It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness. Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for Anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.
His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against Democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed.
In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.
On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those "arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.
For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything.>
While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive".
These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor's house.
Appeasement?
Europe, thy name is Cowardice.
---God Bless America---
If any of you still feel that this war on terror is a mistake, here is an opinion from an unexpected source. It's fascinating that this should come out of Europe. Mathias Dapfner, Chief Executive of the huge German publisher Axel Springer AG, has written a blistering attack in DIE WELT, Germany's largest daily paper, against the timid reaction of Europe in the face of the Islamic threat.
This is a must-read by all Americans. History may well certify its correctness.
EUROPE - THY NAME IS COWARDICE
(Commentary by Mathias Dapfner CEO, Axel Springer, AG)
A while ago Henry Broder wrote in Welt am Sonntag, "Europe - your family name is appeasement." It's a phrase you can't get out of your head because it's so terribly true.
Appeasement cost millions of Jews and non-Jews their lives, as England and France, allies at the time, negotiated and hesitated too long before they noticed that Hitler had to be fought, not bound to toothless agreements.
Appeasement legitimized and stabilized Communism in the Soviet Union, then East Germany, then all the rest of Eastern Europe, where for decades, inhuman suppressive, murderous governments were glorified as the ideologically correct alternative to all other possibilities.
Appeasement crippled Europe when genocide ran rampant in Kosovo, and even though we had absolute proof of ongoing mass-murder, we Europeans debated and debated and debated, and were still debating when finally the Americans had to come from halfway around the world, into Europe yet again, and do our work for us.
Rather than protecting democracy in the Middle East, European Appeasement, camouflaged behind the fuzzy word "equidistance," now countenances suicide bombings in Israel by fundamentalist Palestinians.
Appeasement generates a mentality that allows Europe to ignore nearly 500,000 victims of Saddam's torture and murder machinery and, motivated by the self-righteousness of the peace movement, has the gall to issue bad grades to George Bush... Even as it is uncovered that the loudest critics of the American action in Iraq made illicit billions, no, TENS of billions, in the corrupt U.N. Oil-for-Food program.
And now we are faced with a particularly grotesque form of appeasement. How is Germany reacting to the escalating violence by Islamic Fundamentalists in Holland and elsewhere? By suggesting that we really should have a "Muslim Holiday" in Germany?
I wish I were joking, but I am not. A substantial fraction of our (German) Government, and if the polls are to be believed, the German people, actually believe that creating an Official State "Muslim Holiday" will somehow spare us from the wrath of the fanatical Islamists. One cannot help but recall Britain's Neville Chamberlain waving the laughable treaty signed by Adolph Hitler and declaring European "Peace in our time".
What else has to happen before the European public and its political leadership get it? There is a sort of crusade underway, an especially perfidious crusade consisting of systematic attacks by fanatic Muslims, focused on civilians, directed against our free, open Western societies, and intent upon Western Civilization's utter destruction.
It is a conflict that will most likely last longer than any of the great military conflicts of the last century - a conflict conducted by an enemy that cannot be tamed by "tolerance" and "accommodation" but is actually spurred on by such gestures, which have proven to be, and will always be taken by the Islamists for signs of weakness. Only two recent American Presidents had the courage needed for Anti-appeasement: Reagan and Bush.
His American critics may quibble over the details, but we Europeans know the truth. We saw it first hand: Ronald Reagan ended the Cold War, freeing half of the German people from nearly 50 years of terror and virtual slavery. And Bush, supported only by the Social Democrat Blair, acting on moral conviction, recognized the danger in the Islamic War against Democracy. His place in history will have to be evaluated after a number of years have passed.
In the meantime, Europe sits back with charismatic self-confidence in the multicultural corner, instead of defending liberal society's values and being an attractive center of power on the same playing field as the true great powers, America and China.
On the contrary - we Europeans present ourselves, in contrast to those "arrogant Americans", as the World Champions of "tolerance", which even (Germany's Interior Minister) Otto Schily justifiably criticizes. Why? Because we're so moral? I fear it's more because we're so materialistic, so devoid of a moral compass.
For his policies, Bush risks the fall of the dollar, huge amounts of additional national debt, and a massive and persistent burden on the American economy - because unlike almost all of Europe, Bush realizes what is at stake - literally everything.>
While we criticize the "capitalistic robber barons" of America because they seem too sure of their priorities, we timidly defend our Social Welfare systems. Stay out of it! It could get expensive! We'd rather discuss reducing our 35-hour workweek or our dental coverage, or our 4 weeks of paid vacation... Or listen to TV pastors preach about the need to "reach out to terrorists. To understand and forgive".
These days, Europe reminds me of an old woman who, with shaking hands, frantically hides her last pieces of jewelry when she notices a robber breaking into a neighbor's house.
Appeasement?
Europe, thy name is Cowardice.
---God Bless America---
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
CAROLE'S POLITICS
WHAT AUDACITY!
WHO IS THIS MAN WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE USA? QUALIFICATIONS?
Obama is hailed by the USA young people, who are finally old enough to vote, like celeberties. They seem carried away with the privilege ... without knowing or understanding what is really at stake here ... unsure of the seriousness of what we are really voting for. This is dangerous ... as their numbers are many. This is not class officer election ... THIS ELECTION WILL CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE UNIVERSE ... THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE WORLD. THIS IS THE PERSON WHO WILL PROTECT US AND KEEP US FREE. Do these young people realize the seriousness of their vote?
It is time the older generation, The Greatest Generation woke up and began to voice their opinions ... loud and clear. It is time for Senator McCain to take off the gloves and start swinging ... hard ... standing tough ... telling it like it really is ... revealing Barack Obama's shady backgroud, lack of experience, little accomplishments. We remember the devastation Hitler brought on Germany and what Castro did to Cuba ... how they both hoodwinked the people, then when in office, enslaved their people, putting them in chains and prisons, taking away their freedom, confiscating their property, murdered thousands, destroyed their homeland and its people.
We really know little about Barack Obama ... few ever heard of him before the election ... and what has he accomplished to be running for President of this great land? He hasn't even been in the Senate long enough to pass any legislation ... has been absent for most of the Senate votes, has spent most of his term raising money and running for office. How can a man with no record of accomplishments consider himself ready to lead our powerful nation? He grew rich in office hoarding illegal money, along with several of his colleagues. The USA carried him along, blessing him with privileges ... like ivy league educations ... it goes on and on. When our children had the grades and could afford finer colleges, they couldn't be admitted as their quota of international students were priority ... our students had to wait while places meant for our children were given to un-Americans. It is not fair. Our campuses are filled with international students. We sacrificed to send 5 children to college, paying our way ... even paying double when out of state. Many foreign students are receiving free educations, paid for by our taxpayers. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE PEOPLE?
Our country is suffering from apathy. We are spoiled, everything is too convenient. If we do not protect our country, this could all disappear. If we elect the wrong president, one who does not honor our American ways ... our flag ... our National Anthem ... our servicemen who are sacrificing their lives to keep us free, we could wake up one morning and find a very different country than we have today. While we sit blindly and idly by ...everything we know and love could just slip away. It is frightening to say the least.
I cannot believe what is happening to our country. Where is our pride and courage? As a child, we prayed every morning in school, said The Pledge of Allegiance, and sang patriotic songs ... it was wartime, WWII and all the children saved cans and paper, rubber and took turns standing in our lookout tower at school to search for strange planes. We grew victory gardens, rationed food, gas, sugar, coffee, most everything. Kids had little candy or gum. We shared our rations. We cared about each other, checked the Honor Roll daily to see who was new on the roster or missing ... or, God forbid, killed. The whole town suffered the losses ... we knew most of the boys.
To this day, I thank God for all our brave men who served our country well and fought to keep us free. When the old vets march by, I want to get down on my hands and knees and kiss the ground they walk on. They are the true heroes ... our servicemen and our astronauts. Obama said, in his book, if elected and things were not going well, his loyalties would be with the Muslims. Now what kind of man is that who wants to be President of the United States of America? WAKE UP PEOPLE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE OUR LEADERS WELL! GOD BLESS OUR TROUPS! GOD BLESS US ALL!
WHO IS THIS MAN WHO WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT OF THE USA? QUALIFICATIONS?
Obama is hailed by the USA young people, who are finally old enough to vote, like celeberties. They seem carried away with the privilege ... without knowing or understanding what is really at stake here ... unsure of the seriousness of what we are really voting for. This is dangerous ... as their numbers are many. This is not class officer election ... THIS ELECTION WILL CHOOSE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE UNIVERSE ... THE HIGHEST OFFICE IN THE WORLD. THIS IS THE PERSON WHO WILL PROTECT US AND KEEP US FREE. Do these young people realize the seriousness of their vote?
It is time the older generation, The Greatest Generation woke up and began to voice their opinions ... loud and clear. It is time for Senator McCain to take off the gloves and start swinging ... hard ... standing tough ... telling it like it really is ... revealing Barack Obama's shady backgroud, lack of experience, little accomplishments. We remember the devastation Hitler brought on Germany and what Castro did to Cuba ... how they both hoodwinked the people, then when in office, enslaved their people, putting them in chains and prisons, taking away their freedom, confiscating their property, murdered thousands, destroyed their homeland and its people.
We really know little about Barack Obama ... few ever heard of him before the election ... and what has he accomplished to be running for President of this great land? He hasn't even been in the Senate long enough to pass any legislation ... has been absent for most of the Senate votes, has spent most of his term raising money and running for office. How can a man with no record of accomplishments consider himself ready to lead our powerful nation? He grew rich in office hoarding illegal money, along with several of his colleagues. The USA carried him along, blessing him with privileges ... like ivy league educations ... it goes on and on. When our children had the grades and could afford finer colleges, they couldn't be admitted as their quota of international students were priority ... our students had to wait while places meant for our children were given to un-Americans. It is not fair. Our campuses are filled with international students. We sacrificed to send 5 children to college, paying our way ... even paying double when out of state. Many foreign students are receiving free educations, paid for by our taxpayers. WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE PEOPLE?
Our country is suffering from apathy. We are spoiled, everything is too convenient. If we do not protect our country, this could all disappear. If we elect the wrong president, one who does not honor our American ways ... our flag ... our National Anthem ... our servicemen who are sacrificing their lives to keep us free, we could wake up one morning and find a very different country than we have today. While we sit blindly and idly by ...everything we know and love could just slip away. It is frightening to say the least.
I cannot believe what is happening to our country. Where is our pride and courage? As a child, we prayed every morning in school, said The Pledge of Allegiance, and sang patriotic songs ... it was wartime, WWII and all the children saved cans and paper, rubber and took turns standing in our lookout tower at school to search for strange planes. We grew victory gardens, rationed food, gas, sugar, coffee, most everything. Kids had little candy or gum. We shared our rations. We cared about each other, checked the Honor Roll daily to see who was new on the roster or missing ... or, God forbid, killed. The whole town suffered the losses ... we knew most of the boys.
To this day, I thank God for all our brave men who served our country well and fought to keep us free. When the old vets march by, I want to get down on my hands and knees and kiss the ground they walk on. They are the true heroes ... our servicemen and our astronauts. Obama said, in his book, if elected and things were not going well, his loyalties would be with the Muslims. Now what kind of man is that who wants to be President of the United States of America? WAKE UP PEOPLE!
GOD BLESS AMERICA! GOD BLESS OUR PEOPLE TO CHOOSE OUR LEADERS WELL! GOD BLESS OUR TROUPS! GOD BLESS US ALL!
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO 1906
THE YEAR IS 1906
This is 1 year after my father, Leonard La Flamme, was born and 3 years before my mother, Anne Ballard La Flamme, was born. This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine! The year is 1906. One hundred years ago. What a difference a century makes! Here are some of the U.S. statistics for the Year 1906:
The AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY in the U.S. was 47 years old.
The AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY in the U.S. was 47 years old.
Only 14% of the HOMES in the U.S. had a BATHTUB.
Only 8% of the HOMES had a TELEPHONE.
A 3-min. call from DENVER-NEW YORK CITY cost $11.
There were ONLY 8,000 CARS in the U.S…and ONLY 144 mi. of PAVED ROADS.
The MAX. SPEED LIMIT in most cities was 10 MPH.
Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and Tennessee were each MORE HEAVILY POPULATED THAN CALIFORNIA.
With a mere 1.4 million people, California was only the 21st most populous state in the Union
The TALLEST structure in the WORLD was the EIFFEL TOWER!
The AVERAGE WAGE in the U.S. was 22 CENTS/ HR.
The AVERAGE U.S.WORKER made between $200 - $400 / YR.
A competent ACCOUNTENT could expect to earn $2000/ YR., a DENTIST $2,500 / YR., a VETERINARIAN $1,500/ YR., and a MECHANICAL ENGINEER about $5,000/ YR.
More than 95 % of all BIRTHS in the U.S. took place at HOME.
90% of all U.S. DOCTORS had NO COLLEGE EDUCATION! Instead, they attended so-called MEDICAL SCHOOLS, many of which were CONDEMNED in the press and the government as "SUBSTANDARD."
SUGAR cost 4-cents/lb. EGGS 14cents/doz. COFFEE 15 cents/lb.
Most WOMEN only WASHED their HAIR once/month, and used BOROX or EGG YOLKS for shampoo.
CANADA passed a law that PROHIBITED POOR PEOPLE from ENTERING into their COUNTRY for any reason.
5 LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH in the U.S. were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American FLAG had 45 stars.
Arizona, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Hawaii, and Alaska HADN'T BEEN ADMITTED to the Union yet.
The POPULATION of LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, was ONLY 30!!!
The POPULATION of LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, was ONLY 30!!!
CROSSWORD PUZZLES, CANNED BEER, AND ICE TEA HADN'T BEEN INVENTED YET.
There was NO MOTHER'S DAY or FATHER'S DAY.
2 OUT OF EVERY 10 U.S. ADULTS COULDN'T READ OR WRITE.
ONLY 6% of all Americans had GRADUATED FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
MARIJUANA, HEROIN, AND MORPHINE WERE ALL AVAILABLE OVER THE COUNTER AT LOCAL CORNER DRUGSTORES. Back then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach and bowels, and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health." (Shocking? DUH! )
There were about 230 reported MURDERS in the ENTIRE U.S.A.!
Now I forwarded this from someone else without typing it myself, and sent it to you and others all over the United States, possibly the world, in a matter of just Seconds!!!
Just TRY TO IMAGINE ... what it may BE LIKE IN ANOTHER 100 YEARS!!!
IT STAGGERS THE MIND!!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
CAROLE'S PERSONAL PAGE
Monday, October 18, 1937
[The Day I Was Born ... St. Joseph's Hospital ... Flint, MI ...
to Leonard & Anne Ballard La Flamme]
Top News Headlines This Week:
Oct 1 - Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Oct 2 - FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
Oct 10 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 1 in 34th World Series
Oct 15 - Ernest Hemingway novel "To Have & Have Not" published
Oct 18 - Leonard & Anne La Flamme announce the birth of
a daughter, Carole Anne La Flamme
Oct 21 - Franco-troops occupies Gijon
Oct 25 - Casey Stengel signs to manage Boston Bees
Top Songs for 1937
That Old Feeling by Shep Fields
Once In Awhile by Tommy Dorsey
It Looks Like Rain in Cherry Blossom Lane by Guy Lombardo
September In the Rain by Guy Lombardo
The Dipsy Doodle by Tommy Dorsey
The Moon Got In My Eyes by Bing Crosby
Sweet Leilani by Bing Crosby
Boo Hoo by Guy Lombardo
Goodnight, My Love by Benny Goodman
Whispers In the Dark by Bob Crosby
US President: Franklin D. Roosevelt
US Vice President: John N. Garner
1937 Prices
Bread: $0.09/loaf
Milk: $0.50/gal
Eggs: $0.56/doz
Car: $675
Gas:$0.20/gal
House: $6,622
Stamp: $0.03/ea
Avg Income: $1,789/yr
DOW Avg: 121
Academy Award Winners:
Best Picture:
The Life Of Emile Zola Produced by Warner Bros
Best Actor:
Spencer Tracy in Captains Courageous
Best Actress:
Luise Rainer in The Good Earth
People born on October 18
1889 - Fannie Hurst novelist (1019?)
1934 - Inger Stevens Stockholm Sweden, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter)
1939 - Lee Harvey Oswald JFK assassin, born
1971 - Bob Whitfield, NFL tackle (Atlanta Falcons)
1405 - Pius II, [Aenea S Piccolomini], Italian pope (1458-64) (Cynthia)
1925 - Melina Mercouri Athens Greece, actress/politician (Never on a Sunday)
1939 - Mike Ditka coach/tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL rookie year 1961)
1972 - James Stream Thurmond Jr, son of US senator Strom Thurmond
1937 - Carole Anne La Flamme Beighey (Author-Waddodle Series)
1811 - Hugh Thompson Reid, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1926 - Chuck Berry St Louis, rocker (Roll over Beethoven)
1958 - Jean-Claude Van Damme Belgium, actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat)
1818 - Edward Otho Cresap Ord, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1970 - Shane Bonham, NFL defensive linesman (Detroit Lions)
1831 - Frederik III NK of Hohenzollern, German Kaiser/king of Prussia
1951 - Pam Dawber Detroit, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam)
1890 - [Agathe] Henri‰tte [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
1902 - Miriam Hopkins, Bainbridge GA, actress (Becky Sharp, These Three)
1922 - Little Orphan Annie comic strip character
1919 - Pierre Elliot Trudeau (L) 15th Canadian PM (1968-79, 1980-84)
1956 - Martina Navratilova Prague Czech, tennis (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87)
1921 - Jesse Helms (Sen-R-NC) right-wing
1942 - Willie Horton baseball slugger (Detroit Tigers)
1926 - George C Scott Wise Va, actor (Patton, Bible, Taps, Hardcore)
1950 - Patrick L Swindall, (Rep-R-GA, 1985- )
Gary Hoyle (2nd Cousin)
Larry Murtha, Jr. (2nd Cousin)
Meg Harrington (Annie's Friend)
Hot New Toys in 1937
1936 - Monopoly
1936 - Scientific Football
1934 - Radio Flyer "Streak-O-Lite"
1934 - Parker Brothers' "Sorry!"
1930 - Mickey Mouse Dolls
1929 - Duncan Yo-Yo
1928 - Chinese Checkers
1924 - Tootsietoys
1919 - Pogo Stick
1917 - Radio Flyer "Liberty Coaster"
1916 - Lincoln Logs
1915 - Raggedy Ann
1914 - Tinkertoy
1913 - Erector Set
1903 - Crayola Crayons
1902 - Teddy Bear
1901 - Lionel Trains
1892 - Ouija Boards
1888 - Gund Soft Toys
1888 - Tiddledy Winks
1870 - Snakes and Ladders
1867 - Parcheesi
1865 - Cap Guns
Spinning Top
Rubber Baby Doll
Wooden Building Blocks
Top Books in 1937
1937 - U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos
1937 - Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen
1937 - Roller Skates by Ruth Sawyer
1936 - Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
1935 - The Studs Lonigan Trilogy by James T. Farrell
1935 - The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
1935 - The Strange Death of Liberal England by George Dangerfield
1935 - Dobry by Monica Shannon
1934 - I, Claudius by Robert Graves
1934 - Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
1934 - Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1934 - A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
1934 - Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
1934 - The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
1934 - Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women by Cornelia Meigs
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
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