Paging Arthur Gilroy

MR. BROKAW:  And General Shinseki was right. Let me ask you, as we conclude this program this morning, about whether you and Michelle have had any discussions about the impact that you are going to have on this country and other ways besides international and domestic policies.  You are going to have a huge impact culturally in terms of the tone of the country. Who are the kinds of artists that you would like to bring into the White House?

PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA:  Well, you know, we have thought about this because part of what we want to do is to open up the White House and remind people this is--this is the people's house.  

There is an incredible bully pulpit to be used when it comes to, for example, education:  Yes, we're going to have an education policy; yes, we're going to be putting more money into school construction.  But ultimately we want to talk about parents reading to their kids.  We want to invite kids from local schools into the White House.

When it comes to science, elevating science once again, and having lectures in the White House where people are talking about traveling to the stars or breaking down atoms, inspiring our youth to get a sense of what discovery is all about. Thinking about the diversity of our culture and inviting jazz musicians and classical musicians and poetry readings in the White House so that once again we appreciate this incredible tapestry that's America.  

That, I think, is going to be incredibly important particularly because we are going through hard times, and historically what has always brought us through hard times is that national character, that sense of optimism, that willingness to look forward, that sense that better days are ahead, I think that our art and our culture, our science--you know, that's the essence of what makes America special, and we want to project that as much as possible in the White House.

Here hoping the Eagle humiliate the giants! Burress the gun toting juvenile can't hurt us today. We are going to key on Jacobs and shutdown the giants. Bet on it! ;)

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Courtesy of Heathlander. Jewish settlers are out of control and fully supported by the IDF. Religious zealots stealing land and attacking innocent Patestinians. Have a nice day.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

since it is headed-O&E, I will simply ask-- Does anyone think that it isn't necessary to at least "mention" the event that occured on this day awhile ago?

with special perversity, that repealed mistakes, such as the "fairness doctrine," should be repeated. That Orwellian name was designed to disguise the doctrine's use as the government's instrument for preventing fair competition in the broadcasting of political commentary.

Only money talks fairness is Orwellian. This shows how out of touch George will has become in his golden years. Will not the sponsors push their own politics without a fairness doctrine? Have we not watched drug addicts like Rush Limbaugh destroy weak minds? Maybe we can use some fairness. George Will has turned into an assclown. He used to have some intellect.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What Dec. 7, means to me.  Well first of all 12-7-41 is the day after my sister was born.  In my family we always said they found out she was born and attacked us.  Macabre humour I know.
So I was born 17 months later and my early life was lived in the shadow of that moment.  When I think of this day I think about the people I knew then, parents, grandparents, all assortment of relatives and friends and my own father leaving me a newborn to go off to the army and I was not to see him again till I was 3 or 4.  Didn't know who he was, this man, but I was awfully excited to meet him.  I do believe now in retrospect that my whole life was framed in some way by the lack of a father in the early years.  When he came home, it was as a divorced father and I rarely saw him for the next 6 or so years till I went to live with the virtual stranger and his wife.
I think too that as a result of that war, my mother and her mother were able to go out and start their own dress store and have their own business.  Something that was not often available or desirable before the 40's.
I also think about the rationing, the shortages, how people made do, the victory gardens, the mournful music and the uplifting movies like White Christmas.  That movie was made in the year of my birth, 43. the sharing within the community and the noticable absence of so many of our family and town off fighting.  Being of German descent, we even had our spy, who had to go and live in Germany and report back to the us.  Of course we didn't get the whole story until long after the war was over.
Oh and in reference to Manee's comment above, I do remember the bombs, remember seeing for the first time in the paper that horrible and terrible mushroom cloud and wondering then how that could be a good thing.
Anyway, hugs and warm greetings to all.


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