Blog Smith is inspired by the myth of Hephaestus in the creation of blacksmith-like, forged materials: ideas. This blog analyzes topics that interest me: IT, politics, technology, history, education, music, and the history of religions.
Wisconsin GOP Rep. Reid Ribble, who said he’s also been followed by a cameraman when shopping for groceries, said the home videos cross a line.
In Ribble’s case, a clip of his northeastern Wisconsin home appeared online June 18. The soundless video — which lasts 38 seconds — is taken from a car sitting just outside the house. The shot pans across the large home, showing it from several different angles.
On CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, Candy Crowley had some tough questions for Obama campaign advisor and former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs regarding a recent attack ad targeting GOP nominee Mitt Romney for outsourcing.
G. Mick Smith, PhD 10/17/2009 02:31 AM
Media misses the point regardless of Hannity. Jefferson argued for a wall of separation between church and state which we have achieved. We now need a wall of separation between mosque and Obama. No orthodox Jew has ever had a mediator with an American president to find out what Jews want in order to accede to their demands domestically or internationally.
If anything, American political discourse should center on the question of how Muslims will break sharia law in order to conform with the American Constitution.
"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free . . . " to follow American custom, and to practice religious freedom in conformity with existing American law.
The Blaze has a caption the photograph competition weekly, and IMHO, I should have won but I was the runner-up for the best caption to the statement of:
“Hey…Did you get your sandwich from Wawa’s, too?”
http://www.citi-habitats.com/viewlisting.php?adID=770813&scroll=1
Author David Maraniss claims Obama lived at 622 West 114th Street
610 West 112th, Obama's girlfriend and Bill Ayers attending college during this time.
Clearinghouse records indicate Obama was at Columbia only during the 1982-83 school year while Obama and Columbia’s spokesman have insisted he began attending the New York City school in the fall of 1981. there was a “computer error” in their system that has been corrected. Janine Greenwood, vice president and general counsel for the clearinghouse, stated there was a “computer error” in their system that has been corrected. She said she confirmed with Columbia that Obama was at the university for two academic years, not one. “All I know is [the record] was right originally, and somewhere along the line it went off the rails, and then it was right again,” she said. “We basically had two records running simultaneously, and it just depended on how you input the name and the other information as to which records you got.”
I wonder what the names were? Did inquirers input Barry Soetoro? Or, Barack Obama? She did not state. The two separate reports indicating Obama attended Columbia for only one year were generated in March 2011. One, obtained by lawyer Orly Taitz, was used in a court filing contesting Obama’s eligibility. The other found its way to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse investigating Obama’s eligibility for the presidential ballot in Arizona. Two paid inquiries – one with the name Barry Soetoro and the other with Barack Hussein Obama – were requested from the National Student Clearinghouse to confirm the previous reports. The clearinghouse acknowledged receipt of the inquiries but gave no further information.
Columbia’s top media spokesman, Robert Hornsby, was asked whether he had personally seen a transcript that would verify Obama attended classes during the 1981-82 school year, Hornsby said, “You’re looking for proof I cannot provide.”
Henry Franklin Graff, professor emeritus of history at Columbia for 46 years, has cast doubt on claims Obama attended classes at the New York City university.
“I have no recollection of Barack Obama at Columbia, and I am sure he never attended any of my classes,” Graff stated in a telephone interview.
“For 46 years, I taught political history, diplomatic history and one of the pioneering courses on presidential history, and every future politician of note who went through Columbia in those years took one or more of my classes – every one, that is, except Barack Obama.”
Graff added that no professor he knew could remember having Obama as a student at Columbia.
“Nobody I knew at Columbia ever remembers Obama being there,” Graff insisted.
An editorial titled “Obama’s Lost Years,” published in the Wall Street Journal Sept. 11, 2008, noted Fox News contacted some 400 students who were at Columbia from 1981 to 1983 and found no one who remembered him.
There is some evidence that Obama was in New York, but it may not have been to attend Columbia, it was to forge an alliance with his domestic terrorist friend, Bill Ayers.
Exclusive: Obama Lived 1/2 Mile From Bill Ayers’ College, May Have Shared Apartment
National Student Clearinghouse
Founded in 1993, the clearinghouse describes itself as “the nation’s trusted source for education verification and student educational outcomes research.” Participating colleges and universities provide the clearinghouse with enrollment and degree information on their students and authorize it to respond on their behalf for degree confirmation in conformity with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974.
September Song, Brook Benton, 3:13
Brook Benton was an American singer and songwriter who was a major factor in Rock, R&B, and popular music. His songs Endlessly and Its Just A Matter Of Time reached #3 and #1 on Billboard charts in 1959. He had a total of 16 top 10 hits between 1959 and 1963, with several others reaching the top 40. He is probably best known for his classic Rainy Night In Georgia which reached #1 in 1970. He wrote or co-wrote most of his songs, and also wrote numerous songs for other performers. This selection is from his album Songs I Love To Sing.
The Happenings - See You In September (filmed on Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis), 2:45 (1966)
The Happenings were a pop music group that originated in the 1960s. The group's major hits were "See You In September" (1966), which was originally recorded by the Tempos in 1959; a cover version of the George Gershwin/Ira Gershwin song, "I Got Rhythm" (1967), updated for the nascent pop/rock era; and "Hare Krishna," a cover version of a song from the musical Hair (1969). The group's "See You In September" and "I've Got Rhythm" were on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles charts for 14 weeks in 1966 and 1967, respectively, forming musical bookends for the 1966-1967 school year, and both peaked at number 3. Both disc sales exceeded one million copies, resulting in R.I.A.A. gold record awards by 1969.
Members of the original group, created in 1965, all hailed from Paterson, New Jersey and consisted of Bob Miranda, David Libert, Tom Giuliano and Ralph DiVito. In 1968, DiVito was replaced by Bernie LaPorta. Lenny Conforti also joined at this time to play drums in the touring band. Both LaPorta and Conforti took a hiatus from the Northern New Jersey band The Emerald Experience to play and tour with The Happenings. The band continued in this present configuration, performing mostly at colleges and universities until 1970, when Libert left the band to pursue other endeavors within the music industry. Libert went on to manage various bands, including George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic, Living Colour, Brian Auger, Vanilla Fudge, The Runaways (Cherie Currie, Joan Jett, Lita Ford), Mother's Finest, Alice Cooper and Evelyn "Champagne" King.
The group had nine Billboard Hot 100 Singles hits from 1967 to 1968, including covers of "Go Away Little Girl" (a #1 hit for Steve Lawrence in 1962) and the jazz song "My Mammy" (popularized by Al Jolson in the 1920s). Both songs peaked at number 13. They also both achieved sales in excess of one million copies, garnering the group another couple of gold records. According to Miranda, the group's original formula was to "take a song that's already proven it could be a hit and put our spin on it". They later wrote some of their own songs, including "Hare Krishna".
The band still exists and continues to perform with lead singer Miranda as the only remaining original member. They recently performed on the cruise ship Explorer of the Seas performing Frankie Valle songs and Run Around Sue.
LaPorta was a high-school music teacher in the North Arlington Middle School until the middle of the 2006-2007 school year, when he retired from his position.
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, "See You In September" was listed in a memo containing 150 songs that radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications suggested to be pulled from the airwaves - despite the fact that the song is about two lovers saying goodbye for the summer, and has nothing to do with terrorism.
Earth, Wind & Fire - September, 3:36
SEPTEMBER SONG - WILLIE NELSON, 4:33
Big Star - "September Gurls", 2:50
A tribute to a gorgeous bittersweet pop song by Big Star, "September gurls". It appears on their 2nd record, "Radio City" (1974). The song was rated #178 by Rolling Stone in their "top 500 songs of all time"
Fans of "That 70's show" should look for their songs "In the street" and "Thirteen", available on their 1st record, "#1 Record".
"I know firsthand about welfare and welfare dependency because of my own life, living seven years in and out," says Star Parker, founder and president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE).
Parker, also a syndicated columnist, explains what she thinks are the actual steps out of poverty and why our government should have no role in welfare in America.
Started as part of the Lyndon Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s, the War on Poverty has been anything but effective, according to Parker. "This whole notion that we should even have a 'war on poverty' dismisses the fact that individuals have a role in their own lives," she says.
Parker sat down with Reason.tv's Tracy Oppenheimer to talk about her own experiences with the welfare system, and how she wants to reform it, even beyond the historic changes to welfare in the 1990s.
About 8 minutes. Shot by Paul Detrick, Zach Weissmueller, and Sharif Matar; edited by Oppenheimer.
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