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3DHS / Re: Caroline Kennedy? Thanks But No Thanks
« on: December 09, 2008, 11:16:27 AM »
Well, she has done some stuff.

From Wiki:

Kennedy is an attorney, editor, writer and member of the New York and Washington, D.C. bars. She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually since 1990 to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.[4]

From 2002 to 2004, Kennedy worked as chief executive for the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education. During this time, she helped raise more than $65 million for the city’s public schools. [5] She currently serves as the Vice Chair of The Fund for Public Schools, a public-private partnership founded in 2002 to attract private funding for public schools in New York City. [6]

In addition, Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation,[3] a director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.

Kennedy has represented her family at the funeral services of former Presidents Ronald Reagan in 2004 and Gerald Ford in 2007, and at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in 2007. She also represented her family at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock, Arkansas in November 2004.

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3DHS / Re: this movie is harmful
« on: December 09, 2008, 11:14:05 AM »
just to show my vampire knowledge
check out anno dracula
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Dracula_(novel)

pretty good book it even has chinese vampires in it

I'll check it out.  Thanks!

Anne Rice had one Chinese vampire, I think, name Pandora.


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3DHS / Re: It starts at home...
« on: December 09, 2008, 11:13:10 AM »
Could you find enough likeminded persons to make this really happen?

People don't really need Barn raisins , quiltin bees , corn shuckins and the like anymore , but the social occasion went away when the chore went away.

There are a lot of little old ladies that arn't rakeing their leaves because they can't , but they might bake some cookies for the party that followed a neighborhood rakein.

I toy with that idea sometimes.  The thing that I can't figure out is how to go to the door and ask if they want their yard raked for free.  If someone did that to me, I'd immediately be suspicious of that person.  Not only that, what if that person is offended by the offer?

In the spring, I'm going to spend more time talking to the people I don't know on my street, maybe it will grow from there.

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3DHS / Dem Governor of IL ARRESTED
« on: December 09, 2008, 11:09:44 AM »
Is it possible that Obama blew the whistle?  I think so.



http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/source-feds-take-gov-blagojevich-into-custody.html

Updated at 9 a.m.: Blagojevich is slated to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nan Nolan today at a time that has not yet been scheduled, according to Randall Samborn of the U.S. attorney's office.

Updated at 8:57 a.m.: On the issue of the U.S. Senate selection, federal prosecutors alleged Blagojevich sought appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the new Obama administration, or a lucrative job with a union in exchange for appointing a union-preferred candidate.

Blagojevich and Harris conspired to demand the firing of Chicago Tribune editorial board members responsible for editorials critical of Blagojevich in exchange for state help with the sale of Wrigley Field, the Chicago Cubs baseball stadium owned by Tribune Co.

Blagojevich and Harris, along with others, obtained and sought to gain financial benefits for the governor, members of his family and his campaign fund in exchange for appointments to state boards and commissions, state jobs and state contracts.

"The breadth of corruption laid out in these charges is staggering," U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald said in a statement.
"They allege that Blagojevich put a 'for sale' sign on the naming of a United States senator; involved himself personally in pay-to-play schemes with the urgency of a salesman meeting his annual sales target; and corruptly used his office in an effort to trample editorial voices of criticism."

 Updated at 8:48 a.m.: Gov. Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff John Harris were arrested today by FBI agents on federal corruption charges.

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Culture Vultures / Re: Classic films in December-Week 4
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:33:16 AM »
Just an arbitrary comment.

Casablanca has to be one of, if not the, most perfect movie ever made.

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Culture Vultures / Re: I miss this
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:31:58 AM »
I've always enjoyed Star Trek but never been a full-blown Trekkie.  Watched New Generation but not much after that but I have to say, I'm really looking forward to this new prequel-type file coming out by JJ Abrams of Lost fame.

Looks very exciting.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrek/

Brass

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Culture Vultures / Re: Meet John Doe *Possible Spoilers Herein*
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:29:00 AM »

I've seen MJD a few times and love it.

What's your question?

The ending is great, imo.  I love Walter Brennan and "hEE-Lots".


Ever since the first time I saw it, I have felt the ending is a bit forced and somewhat a cop out. He gets up to the roof, and just when I feel he should do the daring thing and jump, his pals show up and give a corny speech, and he walks away. I know Capra et al had trouble with the ending, but this just sort of feels like they wanted a way to keep John Doe from dying and the grabbed the first idea they could think of.

Why do you think it works?


The obvious answer, of course, is that it IS Capra and no one wants to see Gary Cooper die at the end of a movie but I think also, it is about having hope and trying to trust people.

Every time I see that movie, I want to go door to door in my neighborhood and introduce myself.  I generally know all the people in the houses around me but I would want to go even further.  I've never done it but after seeing the movie, I am usually more open to waving at folk as they drive by.  (Maybe I should rent it soon or watch it more often!  lol)

The movie is corny, in some ways, but there is some real truth to it.  The Brennan character is exactly the way I see one of my friends.  He has a disdain for all things "normal".  He's a real anarchist.

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3DHS / Re: It starts at home...
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:24:24 AM »
My neighborhood would probably benefit from some upkeep ordinances.  I spent last weekend ranking my yard, cleaning my curbs where leaves had collected (I also went ahead and edged and mowed my yard though it has already started winter browning). 

An hour after I was done, the boy and I headed out to run an errand and the curbs had already collected fresh leaves from the high winds clearing neighbors' yards.

I often daydream while mowing and edging and planting in my own yard that if I ever won the lottery, I would quit working and, among other dreams, in the summer, I would maintain a team of landscapers who I would take door to door in my neighborhood offering to generally upkeep and improve everyone's yards.  I would even start a fund to keep it going after I died.


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3DHS / Re: this movie is harmful
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:18:09 AM »
As someone who was obsessed with the Anne Rice vampire novels, I can't say I blame anyone for enjoying vampire tales in general but it is kind of annoying how that Twilight is unknown to me and seems to be all the rage with the kids these days.

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3DHS / Re: Caroline Kennedy? Thanks But No Thanks
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:16:13 AM »
I really could go either way.  I'm torn between my disdain of dynastic appointments in government and the idea of another Kennedy generation in politics supporting President-elect Barack Obama.  There is a certain delicious symmetry to it.

Hillary has gotten all the political juice she can from the NY seat.  It was really just a resume' job for her. 

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3DHS / Re: circumlocution
« on: December 08, 2008, 10:13:25 AM »
?12 Days of Holiday?? What does that even mean?

Twelve Days of Holiday:
(1) Black Friday
(2) Christmas Eve
(3) Christmas Day
(4) Channukkah
(5) Three Kings Day
(6) Epiphany
(7) Kwanzaa
(8) Festivus

Surely someone can come up with four more.

(9) Cyber Monday
(10) December 26th (Returns Day)
(11) New Year's Eve (?)
(12) New Year's Day (Hangover Day) (?)

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Culture Vultures / Re: Meet John Doe *Possible Spoilers Herein*
« on: December 05, 2008, 08:07:14 PM »
Anyone here seen the film "Meet John Doe" and want to talk about it? The ending in particular.

I've seen MJD a few times and love it.

What's your question?

The ending is great, imo.  I love Walter Brennan and "hEE-Lots".

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3DHS / Re: Reid: We won't smell the tourists anymore
« on: December 04, 2008, 03:27:53 PM »
Reid is utterly worthless.

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3DHS / Re: It starts at home...
« on: December 03, 2008, 01:46:47 PM »
Absolutely outrageous.

I really think there must be more to the story.

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3DHS / Re: Yes We Can?
« on: November 30, 2008, 08:08:10 PM »
Speaking of avoidance do you want to explain how Bush is responsible for the current financial "crisis"?

I've never said that he was.  You INFERRED that I did but I did not mean to imply that he did or I would have said so directly.

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