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Interesting facts about the White House

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:40:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Who was the White House’s strangest guest?
Roger Clinton and Billy Carter put together probably couldn’t top the weirdness of Winston Churchill’s 1941 visit to the White House. Churchill stayed for 24 days, wore a one-piece jumpsuit most of the time and was often found lounging in the nude by servants who went to his room to serve him brandy.

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How big is it?
The White House, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., has 132 rooms (including 35 bathrooms), 412 doors, 147 windows, 28 fireplaces, 8 staircases, and 3 elevators spread out over six floors, which have a combined area of 55,000 square feet. The house is 170 feet wide, not including the porticos, and 70 feet tall at its highest point. It takes 570 gallons of paint to cover the outside surface. It is owned by the National Park Service.

• Wheelchair accessibility modifications made during Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency.

• A telephone, added during Rutherford B. Hayes presidency, was rarely used because there were so few telephones in Washington (for a while, the White House telephone number was “1.”)

• Jimmy Carter took a baby step toward going green when he installed solar heating panels on the roof of the West Wing, which were later removed.

United States bank holiday history

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:13:07 GMT

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Clip Source: en.wikipedia.org

United States bank holiday

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The United States Bank Holiday of the Great Depression took place in 1933 when Franklin D. Roosevelt closed the banks from March 6 to March 10 to keep depositors from bankrupting the banking system by withdrawing all their money.

Banks were allowed to reopen when they could prove that the money in their reserves was greater than or equal to the money that had been deposited in. If the banks were unsound they would stay closed or could apply for a government loan in order to keep from declaring bankruptcy.

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Inspired by Sarah Vowell

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 05:25:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sarah Vowell was on the Daily Show and talked about how she couldn't read the paper so she started writing the Fireside Chats of FDR. She's the best

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Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt

On the Bank Crisis.
Sunday, March 12, 1933

On the Currency Situation
Sunday, October 22, 1933

Tags: fdr, roosevelt, fireside chats, collection, 1930s

Fake realtor rents out home he does not own

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:27:32 GMT

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Clip Source: www.azcentral.com

NEW YORK - A Long Island, N.Y., family thought they got a good deal when they found a rental house for $1,000 a month - until the owner showed up and asked what they were doing there.

Nassau County police arrested Gregory Garvin on Wednesday for posing as a real estate agent and renting out the house in the hamlet of Roosevelt. Garvin was charged with grand larceny and fraud.

Police say Garvin also collected a $1,000 security deposit from the couple. The family was living in the house about two weeks when the real owner showed up.

motivate from failing

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:33:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: quote from Theodore Roosevelt on motivation

Clip Source: www.binaryturf.com

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

-Theodore Roosevelt

The Debate: I Learn Something New Every Day

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:19:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Apparently 95% of us will need to sacrifice by enjoying Barack's tax cut and new health care plan but some will sacrifice by paying more in taxes. Raising taxes to battle a recession - well, you can't say Obama lacks for original ideas.

THE OBAMA DOCTRINE: Obama asserts that America has a moral obligation to intervene with force in certain foreign circumstances and cites the Holocaust. His gist - if we could have intervened effectively to prevent the Holocaust we should have. Hmm - many have argued that the rail lines to Auschwitz were within range of US bombers yet Roosevelt did nothing. Both George Bush and George McGovern think Roosevelt erred -

$79 BILLION: Obama was wrong about the Iraqi budget surplus at the last debate and he is still wrong.

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Barack Obama tells us that he wrote letters to both the Treasury Secretary and the chairman of the Federal Reserve warning them of a housing bubble two years ago, yet nothing happened. Geez, maybe Obama should have gotten himself a blog. Well - until I learned that correspondence was the way to get things done I had the silly idea that Senators made things happen by holding hearings, introducing legislation and giving speeches.

As to the notion that the Fed chairman was unaware of a housing bubble until Barack was kind enough to point it out to him, please. Here are some stories from three years ago telling us the Fed was noodling the problem of a housing bubble. Didn't seem to help.

STILL LEARNING: McCain wants to send the Treasury Secretary out to buy houses? Kidding? I need to see the transcript.

SHARED SACRIFICE: Obama explains that we will all have to share some sacrifices in order to revive the economy.

Tags: mccain, obama, fed reserve and treasury secretary, energy, national security, health care, social security, taxes

I've Always Wanted a Library

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:10:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: me too

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"Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker's library.

Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects—on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor—the room occupies about 3,600 square feet on three mazelike levels. Is that a Sputnik? (Yes.) Hey, those books appear to be bound in rubies. (They are.) That edition of Chaucer ... is it a Kelmscott? (Natch.) Gee, that chandelier looks like the one in the James Bond flick Die Another Day. (Because it is.) No matter where you turn in this ziggurat, another treasure beckons you—a 1665 Bills of Mortality chronicle of London (you can track plague fatalities by week), the instruction manual for the Saturn V rocket (which launched the Apollo 11 capsule to the moon), a framed napkin from 1943 on which Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined his plan to win World War II. In no time, your mind is stretched like hot taffy."

Branded: Who You Callin' A Maverick

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:12:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The real Mavericks have an interesting family history. Read the article to learn more.

Sam Maverick’s grandson, Fontaine Maury Maverick, was a two-term congressman and a mayor of San Antonio who lost his mayoral re-election bid when conservatives labeled him a Communist. He served in the Roosevelt administration on the Smaller War Plants Corporation and is best known for another coinage. He came up with the term “gobbledygook” in frustration at the convoluted language of bureaucrats

Fontaine Maury Maverick lost his bid for re-election in 1938. Notice how the Liepublicans called him a "communist." Notice how their dirty lying tricks haven't changed: Obama - terrorist, socialist, Marxist, black nationalist, and on and on ad naseum.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

to those who know the history of the word, applying it to Mr. McCain is a bit of a stretch — and to one Texas family in particular it is even a bit offensive

“I’m just enraged that McCain calls himself a maverick,” said Terrellita Maverick, 82, a San Antonio native who proudly carries the name of a family that has been known for its progressive politics since the 1600s, when an early ancestor in Boston got into trouble with the law over his agitation for the rights of indentured servants

BRAND Samuel Augustus Maverick

Considering the family’s long history of association with liberalism and progressive ideals, it should come as no surprise that Ms. Maverick insists that John McCain, who has voted so often with his party, “is in no way a maverick, in uppercase or lowercase.”

“It’s just incredible — the nerve! — to suggest that he’s not part of that Republican herd

“He’s a Republican,” she said. “He’s branded.”

McCain's Stones and Glass Houses

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:15:57 GMT

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McCain's Stones and Glass Houses

Sarah Palin's first foray into politics in the 1980's was as a supporter for Patrick J. Buchanan's bid for the Presidency. Most Americans are unaware that Pat Buchanan recently authored a book on World War II in which he suggested that Hitler was simply misunderstood. In her Republican Nominating Convention acceptance speech, Sarah Palin quoted a man who once called for the assassinations of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Robert Francis Kennedy; a man so radical he was thrown out of the ultra-conservative John Birch Society. And in her debate last week, Sarah Palin sadly lamented that Dick Cheney hadn't expanded the powers of the Vice Presidency enough. If Dick Cheney had expanded the powers of the Vice Presidency any further he would have been, in effect, a co-President, and George W. Bush would have been relegated to a figurehead. Sarah Palin is no maverick. Sarah Palin is a radical, rightwing fascist.

Tags: mccain, palin, obama, ayers, pat, buchanan, hitler, john, birch, society

The day Americans went broke

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:52:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Other than that, everything is just fine and dandy.

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As it happened 75 years ago

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The Bank Holiday of 1933

Over 9,000 banks failed in the US during the 1930s.

By 1933, over $140 billion in depositors' money went up in smoke. This was in an era when you could buy a luxury car for less than $1,000 and a mansion for $20,000.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) first took office in 1993, his first act as President was to declare a "Bank Holiday," the closing of all banks throughout the nation.

Three interesting things about this talk:

1. It's coherent and detailed.

2. The government at the time seemed to have the capacity to rapidly evaluate the soundness of banks throughout the nation

3. The currency sent to replenish bank supply was, according to FDR, backed by sound assets.

Folks, by this this standard, we're in worse shape than in the 1930s.

Today we have idiots in the White House who can't string two sentences together that make sense; the government not only can't seem to examine banks, it doesn't seem to feel a responsibility to

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quotes, ecademy,

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:48:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.ecademy.com

"When you row another person across the river, you get there yourself."

-- Fortune Cookie (?)

"If you always do what you always did, You'll always get what you always got!"
- Author Unknown

"If you don't know where you are going - you will never get there"
- Author Unknown

"Whether You Think You Can or Can't, You're Right"

- Henry Ford

"I'd rather get paid 1% of 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own!"

- J. Paul Getty

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Americanism

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:03:49 GMT

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Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood -- the virtues that made America.
- Theodore Roosevelt, 1917

Tags: americanism, virtues, teddy

Keep your Palin facts straight

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:15:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Though I am anti-Palin, I wanted to post this - Obama supporters need to be able to speak to this intelligently.

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List catalogs books banned from the Wasilla, Alaska, public library by Mayor Sarah Palin.

Photographs show Sarah Palin posing in a U.S. flag bikini while holding a rifle.*

Letters written by Alaskans offer viewpoints of Sarah Palin.*

Editorials by public figures offer viewpoints of Sarah Palin.*

E-mail reproduces quotes from Sarah Palin news interviews.

Upon learning that Barack Obama had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination over Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin exclaimed, "So Sambo beat the bitch!"

List presents similarities between Theodore Roosevelt and Sarah Palin.

Video shows a young black man who fathered Bristol Palin's child.

Photographs show women at an anti-Palin rally held in Anchorage, Alaska.

Transcript reproduces portion of a Katie Couric interview with Sarah Palin.

WHO is Gaffe Prone?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:14:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Parody.

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

Journalists continue to ask, “What was John McCain thinking in selecting the gaffe-prone Gov. Sarah Palin?”

Recently, for example, in an exclusive interview with news anchor Katie Couric, Palin gushed, “When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, ‘Look, here’s what happened.’ ” Apparently the former Alaskan beauty queen failed to realize that in 1929 there was neither widespread television nor was Franklin Roosevelt even President.

For example, Palin — who has had past associations with reactionary groups — caused a storm earlier when she characterized Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama in seemingly racialist terms: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

Mitt Romney is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America.

Tags: palin, biden

Biden and Couric: Idiots Together

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:41:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's amazing how often I see some sort of joke being made of Sarah Palin "seeing Russion from her home" yet only Ann has pointed out this idiocy from the other side...

Amazing, and sad.

Clip Source: www.anncoulter.com

Being interviewed by Katie Couric on the "CBS Evening News," Biden said: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television

For those of you who aren't hard-core history buffs, Biden not only named the wrong president during the 1929 stock market crash, he also claimed a president who wasn't president during the stock market crash went on TV before Americans had TVs.

Other than that, the statement holds up pretty well.

Here is Couric's full response to Biden's bizarre outburst about FDR (a) being president and (b) going on TV in 1929: "Relating to the fears of the average American is one of Biden's strong suits."

Tags: politics