Showing posts with label American Values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Values. Show all posts

Sunday, September 18, 2011

nostalgia - '50s & '60s: You can go back even if for a short while. Fun Links

From: drude Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 Subject: Whatta wonderful Page!!!!!!!
Brings back …..of course SOME of you may not be old enough to recognize many of those below…..Enjoy! have fun....  Good One: Just click on a date...sit back and enjoy!!! This is awesome, pick out one of your favorites from below and give it a try...

1.  JACKIE GLEASON ON THE ROCKY MARCIANO SHOW THE MAIN EVENT
(1960)
2.  JAMES DEAN: HIS FINAL TV APPEARANCE
(1954) 
3.  ELVIS SINGS BLUE SUEDE SHOES
(1956) 
4.  A TRIBUTE TO ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING OF ROCK & ROLL
(1959-62) 
5.  THE EDSEL INTRODUCED ON NBC
(1957) 
6.  BOBBY DARIN'S "MACK THE KNIFE"
(1959) 
7.  WESTINGHOUSE DEBUTS HI-TECH "ADVANCED TV"
(1951)
8.  WILLIAM BENDIX AS LOVABLE CHESTER A. RILEY
(1956) 
9.  ICONS I: WHAT MADE 50'S TV GOLDEN
(COMPILATION, (1952-60) 
10.  THE PATTI PAGE SHOW
(1958)
11. BLOOPERS FROM THE HONEYMOONERS
(1957-58)
12.  THE CENSORED JERRY LEE LEWIS HERE UNCENSORED!
(1957-59)
13.  A TRUE 50's DOO WOP TV CLASSIC
(1958)
14.  FAMILY AFFAIR
(1966)
15.  ALAN FREED'S BIG BEAT DANCE PARTY DANCERS
(1959)
16.  THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW
(1957)
17.  The Inventor Of TV Sketch Comedy ERNIE KOVACS
(1954)
18.  THE RED SKELTON SHOW
(1959)
19.  ICONS: THE DELINQUENCY RAMPAGE!
(COMPILATION, 1957-60)
20.  FATHER KNOWS BEST
(1953)
21.  PETTICOAT JUNCTION
(1962)
22.  OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST BOB MATTHIAS
(1956)
23.  DANCES OF THE 1950's: THE HAND JIVE
(1957)
24.  GROUCHO MARX YOU BET YOUR LIFE
(1959)
25.  DRAGNET
(1959)
26.  THE IMMORTAL MUSICAL COMEDY OF VICTOR BORGE
1951
27.  EDDIE FISHER SINGS A MEDLEY OF HIS BIGGEST HITS
1953
28.  ABBOTT & COSTELLO: WHO'S ON FIRST?
1951
29.  MORE DANCES OF THE 1950's THE JITTERBUG
1958
30. THE HONEYMOONERS ... IN COLOR!
1969
31.  THE ORIGINAL FLASH GORDON SERIAL
theatres-1939; TV-1960's
32.  THE LONE RANGER
1955
33.  THE ENDEARING GRIMACES OF EDDIE CANTOR
1952
34.  BOBBY DARIN NERVOUSLY HOSTS A BEAUTY CONTEST
1957
35.  MORE DANCES OF THE 1950's: THE LINDY HOP
1959
36.  SHAKE, BABY, SHAKE!  IT'S THE KILLER AGAIN!
1958
37.  THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW
1958
38.  SID CAESAR: YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS
1957
39.  HERE COMES TOBOR!
1954
40.  THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN
1954
41.  THE ADVENTURES OF FLIPPER
1964
42.  SPIKE JONES
1951
43.  CAPTAIN VIDEO & HIS VIDEO RANGERS
1950
44.  THE LIBERACE SHOW
1952
45.  MEDIC
1954
46.  THE BIG VALLEY
1965
47.  THE ROOTS OF TV BASEBALL
1950-57
48.  Mc HALE'S NAVY
1962
49.  HOPALONG CASSIDY
1952
50.  DARK SHADOWS
1966
51. 
FADS & FANCIES OF THE 50s & 60s
52.  I LOVE LUCY
1952
53.  THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
1962
54.  THE BEATLES FIRST TELEVISION APPEARANCE
1963
55.  BAT MASTERSON
1958
56.  MARTY ROBBINS ON THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW
1964
57.  FRANK SINATRA SPEAKS CANDIDLY
1954
58.  PASSWORD
1962
59.  STAR TREK TV ON DEMAND
1966-present
60.  MORE DANCES OF THE 50's: THE SWINGBACK
1958
61.  THE LIVE TV FRIDGE COMMERCIAL CATASTROPHE
1954
62.  THE ARTHUR GODFREY SHOW
1957
63.   BUILDING THE 1958 DODGE
1957
64.  FIGHT CLASSIC: ROCKY MARCIANO vs. JERSEY JOE WALCOTT
1952
65.  AND MORE GREAT ICONS OF THE 50's VOL III
1952-59
66.  ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS
1959
67.  SATURDAY NIGHTLIVE~~ BEFORE SNL
1954-58
68.  FELIX THE CAT
1959
69.  THE DONNA REED SHOW
1958
70.  THE GOLDBERGS
1952
71.  LUCILLE BALL & CAROL BURNETT
1965
72.  THE LITTLE RASCALS
1955
73.  HIGHWAY PATROL
1956
74.  LOST IN SPACE
1966
75.  BEULAH
1951
76.  BEWITCHED
1966
77.  I DREAM OF JEANIE
1966
78.  SEA HUNT
1957
79.  DYNAMITE JOE RINDONE
1954
80.  THE MILTON BERLE SHOW
1957

"I had a dream" - How do you know who to vote for? (6m4s, "The Amos'n Andy Show" 1929) 

video/audio source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=16vmYLXKdn8

 

posted at: http://harrolds.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-do-you-know-who-to-vote-for-amos-n.html


George Kirby Narrates (1983)

An example from http://xoteria.com/OLDIESTV.html: "AMOS & ANDY."  Despite it's high ratings, CBS cancelled the show suddenly without giving a reason.  It's comedic merit equalled "The Honeymooners" and here is a sampling of the actors Alvin Childress & Spencer Williams as Amos'n Andy.  View " Amos 'n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy" series page at Hulu.com.  The CBS series is taken off the air in 1953 because of protests from civil rights?...alvinroycorrellredd at





Tuesday, July 19, 2011

o'we are not a Christian nation - "The Cost of Comfort" (Father Austin Mansfield, Yuma Padre, 2011)

From: rapa Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 Subject:  Yuma Padre
'Yuma Padre' is our parish Father Austin Mansfield -- A.

"The Cost of Comfort" by Father Austin Mansfield
Posted: 14 Jul 2011

     Roman Catholics were persecuted in England under Henry VIII (monasteries were looted, clergy executed for not declaring Henry was the leader of the Church over the Pope.)  Under his daughter Mary's reign, hundreds of protestant clergy were burned at the stake for heresy.  Some decades later, both were banned under the Puritan leadership of Oliver Cromwell.  When Charles II took the throne, liturgical Anglicanism grew back in favor.
     Against this historical backdrop, colonists sought freedom in the New World.  The persecution they and their ancestors had faced under a national religion in England prompted them to ensure this would not happen here.
      That's quite different from the secular revisionism foisted upon an unsuspecting public by our nation's atheistic fringe today.  The persecution our founders faced made them determined to ensure religious liberty and free public expression thereof.   That determination brought forth an endurance that eventually brought comfort and calm in the religious life of Americans in all our states, regardless of denomination.
     That comfort, however, soon led to complacency, which led in turn to various degrees of apathy.
     Our apathetic population began to seek commerce instead of Christ on Sundays, and Sunday mall shopping superseded worshipping.   The absence of parishioners led to a decline in personal responsibility, and an increase in government programs that soon replaced the role of church communities.
     As Christian communities became less relevant, their tax-free presence engendered more and more hostility.  We are now on the cusp of persecution, with Christians labeled as haters for disagreeing with any political group about issues or positions antithetical to biblical direction.
     I see the following historical pattern, and sense that things will get much worse for Christians before they get better.  The cycle seems to begin with comfort.
  •          Comfort leads to complacency
  •          Complacency leads to apathy
  •          Apathy leads to absence
  •         Absence leads to abandonment
  •          Abandonment leads to rejection
  •          Rejection leads to hostility
  •          Hostility leads to persecution
  •          Persecution leads to determination
  •          Determination leads to endurance
  •          Endurance leads to success
  •          Success leads to comfort
     Christians currently face the most intense persecution in Islamic and Communist nations.  Yet those nations are seeing Christianity flourish exponentially. As more Christian beliefs and practices become illegal, we will face even greater hostility at home for our beliefs.
     The only relief from this cycle is our hope in Jesus Christ and his grace.  Despite the best efforts of forces bent on the destruction of all that is holy, holiness continues to thrive in this world.
     A belief growing from the discovery of the empty tomb could have been easily snuffed out by producing the body.  The belief in Jesus' resurrection persists today, 21 centuries later, because neither the Romans nor the religious leaders in the 1st Century could show more than grave clothes without a body.
     Jesus will lead us through the coming tribulation, not just to it.  In all our difficulties, he is always there with us.  The days, months, or years ahead will test the mettle of American Christians.  We will continue as a nation only if we return to our Lord and turn away from our habit of calling good evil, and evil good.

Friday, June 24, 2011

Reaffirm - "We The People" (video 5m19s) [redux]

The Tea Party movement is under assault from unscrupulous pollsters on behalf of the political establishment who know that a political uprising like the Tea Party movement will remove them from their positions of power.  Many of these polls are patently absurd and have a long history of manipulating data.  In order to continue to disprove these attacks, we regularly update the results of the simple poll found below.  Click on "YES" or "NO."  Your vote is automatically counted as you click through.  No further action is required.  No ID information is tracked.  Thank you for participating. 
YES, I support the Tea Party movement. NO, I do not support the Tea Partymovement
TheTeaParty.net | 1717 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1025 | Washington, DC 20006


Tuesday, June 14, 2011

o'needs to read'n learn - Harry and Bess Truman take a Road Trip

Friday, April 23, 2010


Matthew Algeo, "Harry Truman's Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip"
Publisher: Chicago Review Press | 2009 | ISBN 1556527772 | PDF | 256 pages | 4.2 MB
online audio book preview by the author:
http://www.archive.org/details/MatthewAlgeoHarryTrumansExcellentAdventure
     On June 19, 1953, Harry Truman got up early, packed the trunk of his Chrysler New Yorker, and did something no other former president has done before or since: he hit the road. No Secret Service protection. No traveling press. Just Harry and his childhood sweetheart Bess, off to visit old friends, take in a Broadway play, celebrate their wedding anniversary in the Big Apple, and blow a bit of the money he'd just received to write his memoirs. Hopefully incognito.
     In this lively history, author Matthew Algeo meticulously details how Truman's plan to blend in went wonderfully awry.  Fellow diners, bellhops, cabbies, squealing teenagers at a Future Homemakers of America convention, and one very by-the-book Pennsylvania state trooper -- all unknowingly conspired to blow his cover.  Algeo revisits the Trumans' route, staying at the same hotels and eating at the same diners, and takes readers on brief detours into topics such as the postwar American auto industry, McCarthyism, the nation's highway system, and the decline of Main Street America.  By the end of the 2,500-mile journey, you will have a new and heartfelt appreciation for America's last citizen-president. 
values - Primer for Today's Politicians: "Harry & Bess Take A Road Trip"
From: drude Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010
WE WILL NEVER SEE THIS HAPPEN AGAIN.. and nothing even close to it!
     Harry Truman was a different kind of President.  He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him.  
     However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in  Independence, Missouri.  His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
     When he retired from office in 1952, his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year.  Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
     After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves.  There was no Secret Service following them.
     When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me.  You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me.  It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
     Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
     As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
     Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth.  Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices.  Political offices are now for sale.  (sic. Illinois)
     Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician.  And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!


----- Original Message -----
From: bb Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 Subject: Fw: Harry and Bess Truman
I look at Harry Truman as our last honest President.  He was certainly not loved while in office but history has told us how great he was.  We were blessed to have Harry when we needed him.  -- J
Harry & Bess Truman.
Hi Folks. Harry was my Commander and yes we need some one like him in there. God Bless us.
We will never see this again.
Thought you'd enjoy this!
     It's one you want your Children and Grandchildren to read.
     They won't believe this happened, but it DID.
Harry & Bess
(This seems unreal.)
     Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding our nation's history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.
     The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri . His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.
     When he retired from office in 1952 his income was a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72 a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and personally licking them, granted him an 'allowance' and, later, a retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.
     After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.
     When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined, stating, "You don't want me. You want the office of the President, and that doesn't belong to me. It belongs to the American people and it's not for sale."
     Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday, he refused to accept it, writing, "I don't consider that I have done anything which should be the reason for any award, Congressional or otherwise."
     As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.
     Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois ).
     Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, "My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!
     I say dig him up and clone him!
Never let anyone become your priority, while you remain only their option.


Thursday, June 2, 2011

Glenn Beck, We.1Jun11: Hamas, Hezbollah, and anti-semitism

"If Israel falls Western Civilization follows." -- rfh
Part 1 of 2, video source:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/971514857001/beck-banning-circumcision/
Part 2 of 2, video source:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/971428194001/beck-hezbollah-and-hamas/

Bekanntmachung of the German General Government in Częstochowa (Poland), 1942
NOTICE
Concerning: the Sheltering of Escaping Jews.
  There is a need for a reminder, that in accordance with paragraph 3 of the decree of October 15, 1941, on the Limitation of Residence in General Government (page 595 of the GG Register) Jews leaving the Jewish Quarter without permission will incur the death penalty.


  According to this decree, those knowingly helping these Jews by providing shelter, supplying food, or selling them foodstuffs are also subject to the death penalty.

  This is a categorical warning to the non-Jewish population against:
  1) Providing shelter to Jews,
  2) Supplying them with Food,
  3) Selling them Foodstuffs.

Częstochowa 9/24/42  
Der Stadthauptmann
Dr. Franke


notice sources: http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxP-Polish_Righteous_among_the_Nations.htm & Wikipedia