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Re: The Great Crusade: A MOD NN AAR
23:06 8-Oct-09
[Replies: 517, Views: 37534]
By: danielshannon
Roosevelt died and the cause he represented and led was nearing the conclusive phase of success..Government officials representatives of the membership of both houses of Congress heads of foreign missions and friends of the family.. Roosevelt's appearance and manner had brought anxiety to many regarding his health and there had been increasing speculation as to the effects his death would have on the national and world situation the fact stunned the Government and the citizens of the capital.. No President of the United States has died in circumstances so triumphant and yet so grave. The War of the States had been won by the Union when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and though the shadow of post-war problems hung heavy and dark the nation's troubles were internal
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Re: The United States: 'Prophets of a New Order'
01:50 4-Feb-10
[Replies: 663, Views: 57089]
By: TC Pilot
Carlisle quickly fell back into British hands and only a last minute holding action by Bradley's I. Corps north of the Lake District gave Stillwell the time to regroup and with the assistance of reinforcements rushed in from other sectors finally stop the British attack..Roosevelt and his generals the benefit of the doubt; America after all could not realistically be expected to win every battle.. A stalemate was precisely what Roosevelt wished to avoid
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The Accountable Presidency [Long]
22:19 3-Feb-10
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By: Midnight Toker
During the century from the end of the Civil War to the middle of the Vietnam war liberals in the United States mostly supported and conservatives mostly opposed a powerful presidency.. these were the tenets of the executive power that guided progressive thinking from Theodore Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson not only in domestic affairs but also in military and foreign affairs..Roosevelt and anticipating his own attitude in office..Constitution to grave perils
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Re: Wirral Thread
19:10 21-Oct-09
[Replies: 1765, Views: 85503]
By: Paul D
We visited the spot and the street being empty could imagine the sailors appearing from round the corner as though the intervening years had simply not happened.. Bulloch spent most of the war and many years after as a resident of Liverpool and we were able to visit his grave. He never made it back to his beloved Confederate states since many of his kind had to wait until it was safe to return after indulging in espionage- style activities.. It was also interesting to learn that he was related to Theodore Roosevelt who spent time with him when he visited the UK as President..Lane) where we searched for the grave of Alan Stuart Hanckel
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Re: Hypocrisy of Socialism
21:20 4-Feb-10
[Replies: 94, Views: 533]
By: natas206
Instead the Reagan administration backed Britain helping it carry out a massacre of virtually defenseless conscripts abandoned by the junta on the freezing south Atlantic islands.. The humiliating defeat signaled the dictatorship s downfall.. Nicaragua In the 1980 s a glaring example of our national posture is still reflected in the words of Franklin D. Roosevelt when he said Somoza (Nicaragua s legendary dictator) is a son-of-a-bitch but he is our son-of-a-bitch.. were also raped and murdered their bodies found in a collective grave at a dumpsite
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Week in Music Sept 24-30
17:35 1-Oct-09
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By: yarstruly
September 24 2009 DJs Make History The Killer Lives Up To His Name Miles Moves On This is the week that was in matters musical 1953 in what is now considered the golden age of vocal groups seven of the R&B chart's Top 10 positions are occupied by doo-wop acts including The Orioles The..Wilson's estate the singer will be laid to rest in an unmarked grave the Wilson family is haunted by tragedy son Jackie Jr.. Russian composer Dimitri Shostakovich (1906) Erik Darling of The Rooftop Singers (1933) bluesman Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes (1936) Ian Tyson of folk duo Ian and Sylvia (1933) Joseph Russell of The Persuasions (1939) Wade Flemons of Earth Wind and Fire (1940) co-founder of Love Bryan MacLean (1946) Italian rocker Zucchero (1955) actor and hip-hop artist
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Bookmark this shit.
22:44 20-Aug-09
[Replies: 17, Views: 1]
By: SlowDownFast
Then he proceeds - along with our congress - to give Hank Paulson 800 billion fucking dollars to the banks that made bad deals to people who didn't read the fine print..The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity." - Julius Barnes head of Hoover's National Business Survey Conference Mar 16 1930 ".... the outlook is favorable..." - HES Apr 19 1930 15. "While the crash only took place six months ago I am convinced we have now passed through the worst - and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover..Nov 15 1930 19. "Stabilization at levels is clearly possible." - HES Oct 31 1931 20. "All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed.... Roosevelt 1933
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Obama s politics aren t anti-democratic
16:25 5-Feb-10
[Replies: 0, Views: 8]
By: purple unicorn
Our political debates our public discourse on current economic and domestic issues too often bear little or no relation to the actual problems the United States faces.. If so he said it could not be the case that our Constitution had disabled us from meeting a grave threat to the general welfare and potentially to constitutional government itself
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An American Neocon defends the NHS
12:57 19-Aug-09
[Replies: 6, Views: 41]
By: OldGit
Even the sight of my mother in intensive care before her death had not prepared me for this.. All the while the vast unit hummed away the good-natured nurses and youthful doctors taking turns attending patient after patient in various stages of near-demise.. Dee was in critical near grave condition and I was told This is as bad as it gets by one weary nurse.. In the ensuing days Dee s condition remained grave and though she had been stabilised by the intensive care unit her family and I had begun to talk about funeral arrangements.. Harry Truman resented the election of Attlee and was obdurate about a postwar healthcare scheme but had Franklin Delano Roosevelt lived he would have seen the post-war British model brought to the USA
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Round 7: The Long March (1070-1265 A.D.)
01:42 4-Feb-10
[Replies: 216, Views: 25003]
By: Neal
Replaceable Parts and Chemistry though would boost our production significantly in the coming years.. Peter found that the world had changed while the Mother Country reorganized: Alexander had decided to enforce a peace between the cruel Americans and the pastoral Iberian Mongols..Concepcibirk threatening to go native and adding rice noodles to their borscht was grave news indeed.. The shoe's on the other foot now isn't it Monty? Of course with Roosevelt on the wrong side of a continental religious Buddhist lovefest I can't promise that he'll do well in this little skirmish but it's good to see him taking the initiative Less happily the Inca continue to dominate the Wonders game though that does happily
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The Black Hole
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Re: Health Care Debate
17:28 30-Aug-09
[Replies: 613, Views: 10065]
By: WakeUp
As a result there is a grave danger that the death toll of 522 [http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm#MortalityData] from the disease in the United States alone may rise.. We need health insurance reform now to provide for the nearly 46 million Americans who currently lack coverage.. This has been a goal of reform efforts since President Theodore Roosevelt included universal coverage in his 1912 Presidential campaign platform
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Re: What would have happened if we did not drop the Nukes on Japanese Cities in WW2?
04:39 25-Sep-09
[Replies: 483, Views: 24220]
By: ovcatto
I'm rather two faced on this issue. On one hand if Japan hadn't started the war there wouldn't have been a need to drop the bomb in the first place so tough.. "During his recitation of the relevant facts I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to him my grave misgivings first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment.. - Ike on Ike Newsweek 11/11/63 ~ADMIRAL WILLIAM D. LEAHY (Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman) "It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan
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Re:
00:00 12-Oct-07
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By: RockStar
Imagine the famous speach by President Roosevelt to Congress December 8th 1941. Then replace all mention of Japan with Israel and the date December 7th 1941 with June 8th 1967. Mr.. There is no blinking at the fact that our people our ships and our interests are in grave danger
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Mens Health
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Re: Unions
16:31 20-Aug-09
[Replies: 60, Views: 1]
By: FriscoEd
quote: Originally posted by SundanceKid: The old plea that collective action by all the people through the State or by some of them through a union or other association is necessarily hostile to individual growth has been demonstrated to be false.. This need of collective action is in part supplied by the unions which although they have on certain points been guilty of grave shortcomings have nevertheless on the whole rendered inestimable service to the working man.. ~ REPUBLICAN Theodore Roosevelt 1911 Things were different in 1911. But I will say the biggest reason that unions are the problem they are now is that management of the corporations turned total chicken and allowed the unions to fork em straight up the pooper
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Re: Unions
16:31 20-Aug-09
[Replies: 60, Views: 1]
By: FriscoEd
quote: Originally posted by SundanceKid: The old plea that collective action by all the people through the State or by some of them through a union or other association is necessarily hostile to individual growth has been demonstrated to be false.. This need of collective action is in part supplied by the unions which although they have on certain points been guilty of grave shortcomings have nevertheless on the whole rendered inestimable service to the working man.. ~ REPUBLICAN Theodore Roosevelt 1911 Things were different in 1911. But I will say the biggest reason that unions are the problem they are now is that management of the corporations turned total chicken and allowed the unions to fork em straight up the pooper
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Re: Unions
15:58 20-Aug-09
[Replies: 60, Views: 1]
By: SundanceKid
The old plea that collective action by all the people through the State or by some of them through a union or other association is necessarily hostile to individual growth has been demonstrated to be false.. This need of collective action is in part supplied by the unions which although they have on certain points been guilty of grave shortcomings have nevertheless on the whole rendered inestimable service to the working man.. ~ REPUBLICAN Theodore Roosevelt 1911
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Re: Liverpool Railway Revolution
22:37 29-Aug-09
[Replies: 1941, Views: 105559]
By: Evertonian
I hadn't read this before. Interesting.... Quote: Originally Posted by Tony McDonough LIKE Lazarus the grandiose Merseytram scheme rises from the grave - or almost.. The town is also linked with the city centre via the 17 19 20 and 21 bus routes..Roosevelt the US President who spent billions of dollars of taxpayers' cash on employment schemes following the Great Depression
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Re:
00:00 17-Sep-08
[Replies: 137, Views: 1]
By: SharonD
11dimensionsandcounting wrote: <quoted text> - FYI Sharon are you aware that the upper income tax rate after WW2 was 90%.. As a result the biggest and most prosperous middle class was built.. How high? In 1942 only a few months after Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent top marginal tax rate.. At a time of grave national danger the president advised that April no American citizen ought to have a net income after he has paid his taxes of more than $25 000 a year.. Roosevelt was proposing in effect what amounted to a maximum wage at an income level that would equal in our contemporary dollars about $300 000. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/shared_sacri..
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00:00 17-Sep-08
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By: 11dimensionsandc ounting
SharonD wrote: <quoted text> That's pretty narrow Mike on more than one level: the obvious one that you are concerned about taxes only as they affect you immediately; and the less obvious one that you seem unable to even imagine that not everyone has such a narrow view.. How high? In 1942 only a few months after Pearl Harbor President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a 100 percent top marginal tax rate.. At a time of grave national danger the president advised that April no American citizen ought to have a net income after he has paid his taxes of more than $25 000 a year.. Roosevelt was proposing in effect what amounted to a maximum wage at an income level that would equal in our contemporary dollars about $300 000. http://www.tompaine.com/articles/shared_sacri..
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Re: SUV owners are parasites vampires and cannibals
19:52 17-Jan-08
[Replies: 547, Views: 1]
By: JB
Just buying most of the food you eat from farmers within a hundred miles or so of your home greatly cuts down energy waste eco damage and the loss of money to overseas markets.. Teddy Roosevelt an REAL conservative took them on. He got shot. Nothing has changed.. I bought a fixer upper for a home and busted my ass from saving it from going into the grave. Water was pouring in from above termites from below. I did and do most of my remodeling using shit that other people put into the trash. Floor tiles in my living room? Oh those would be some 1940s vintage
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53. Roger Ebert:
07:25 3-Oct-09
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By: GreenTea
The loudest voice in Michael Moore's latest film speaks to us from the grave. It belongs to Franklin Delano Roosevelt less than a year before his death calling for a Second Bill of Rights for Americans.. Too ill to deliver his State of the Union address to Congress in person Roosevelt delivered it on the radio and then invited in Movietone News cameras to film additional footage in which he advocates for the Second Bill of Rights
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My response to a right-wing nutjob column in Ben Nelson's (NE) hometown newspaper
03:11 21-Aug-09
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By: Maru Kitteh
Obama has indicated his long time goal of single source government health insurance latest iteration "public option " may be off the table.. I suspect that Senator Nelson has been working behind the scenes to keep his independent health care insurance industry viable.. <snip> Somehow in my reading of the Constitution I can't find any provision for cradle to grave federal government managed healthcare..Roosevelt Democrat
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Re: NAACP vows stronger Confederate flag fight in S.C.
16:27 6-Feb-10
[Replies: 1507, Views: 1]
By: Barros Serrano
I will challenge you once again - what education or work experience do you have that makes you any sort of expert on the economy? You talk like someone who has never worked a day in their life or is flipping burgers and hates the world because of it.. Too bad Booby Kennedy didn't live long enough to enable government to be your cradle-to grave-nanny.. well then you're a Nazi ok? I mean if I'm a Soviet comrade then you're a goddam superior Aryan Nazi no? FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT..
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Re: U.S. Entry way too early - is it just me?!
12:58 6-Feb-10
[Replies: 61, Views: 1674]
By: womble
post10746915] ... the AI player for the United States is able to join the Allies in 1939 before Germany even attacks Poland.. Quote: I really don't think this is realistic in the least - the British were very heavily influencing the Americans and the Roosevelt admin was very pro-intervention historically.. Many people agree and yes this has been beaten to death resurrected beaten raised beaten and lies still unquiet in its grave. Some mods may do something about it
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Tribute to My Grandfather (wonderful song)...
14:59 4-Feb-10
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By: Racingfreck
We had this song played at his funeral yesterday. Had never heard it before. But this was him. The whole song was him.. And of course he was everything else described in the song.... I could hear you cheerin' when we won state and you held my hand at Grandma's grave. And I'll always be thankful that you never sold the farm.. You still swear Roosevelt was the best
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