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... ts baddest of the bad: "She moved her hips again and continued to fuck my lights out. I thought of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who, the story goes, knew the instant he heard the name Adolf Hitler that he had brushed up against the reason he was born." Comment?
Another Helping of FDR, Please
... on where Bush left off. Rather, he should be renewing the tradition of his boldest predecessor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Unlike most presidents, Roosevelt recognized the annual writing of the Thanksgiving Proclamation as much more than a ... Comment?
Today is a day to count our blessings
... his Thanksgiving proclamation. The day has been observed on the fourth Thursday in November since Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the tradition into law in 1941. In his proclamation, Obama noted that Americans arrived in this country from around ... Comment?
For Obama's White House, everything is 'unprecedented,' even when there's, well, precedent
... the National Journal pointed out. The magazine noted that Johnson, Harry S Truman and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had three Republicans serving in their Democratic administrations. Republicans Gerald Ford and Dwight Eisenhower had three Democrats ... 56 comments
David Frey: Happy socialist, big government Thanksgiving
... Jack is passed out on the sofa again, but that's just the way we are. It took another socialist, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to mark the date in stone as the fourth Thursday of November. Roosevelt had pushed the date ahead to give stores an extra ... Comment?
Obama WH hooked on 'unprecedented'
... the National Journal pointed out. The magazine noted that Johnson, Harry S Truman and Franklin Delano Roosevelt had three Republicans serving in their Democratic administrations. Republicans Gerald Ford and Dwight Eisenhower had three Democrats ... Comment?
Triple Crown for Pujols?
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... Crown was another Cardinal, Joe Medwick, who batted .374 with 31 homers and 154 RBI in 1937 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was in the White House.A Every spring, people make a big deal about the fact that there has not beenA a Triple Crown horse ... Comment?
... l Harbor, our economy. In this case, double apologies are due to the author of the original quote, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The usual apology for amendment. The additional one for associating it with something and someone so grubby. Comment?
Thanksgiving, Lions go hand in hand
... Guy Lombardo and Dick Clark on New Year's Eve. The Lions have been playing on Thanksgiving since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president (1934). Everywhere in America, you know it is Thanksgiving when kids sprinkle cinnamon on fried dough hot out of ... Comment?
... his life's work would be defined by his passion for agriculture and his friendship with neighbor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. As Secretary of the Treasury, Morgenthau worked to strengthen America's economy during the Great Depression, and to prepare ... Comment?
... was the first president to declare a day of Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt moved it forward a week in 1939, in an effort to extend the Christmas shopping season to stimulate the depressed economy! - ... Comment?
... and shortly before my twenty-third birthday, I exercised my franchise and cast my first vote - for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. We were still in the midst of the Great Depression, and the migration from the Dust Bowl had begun. At the time, painfully ... Comment?
Government gets its hands on millions of breasts
... force in between women and their doctors? You'd think that the most liberal administration since Franklin Delano Roosevelt would respect a woman's right to choose. Comment?
Loosing a Katyn Among the Pigeons:
... the project, the Soviet dictator deserves to be acknowledged alongside Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has he was an ally of the US after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. U.S. Honors Stalin on Hallowed Ground, Will Saddam ... Comment?
Bill Bell: Literary talents still flourish in Ye Friendly Towne
... is a 310-page, self-published novel based on a true story set largely during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Jan Lopez Wood and now-deceased O.A. McPeek were both students in Carl Nelson's writing class at the Whittier Senior Center. ... Comment?
Conservation Corps helped America survive the Great Depression
... from when the CCC camp operated there. America was in the grips of the Great Depression when Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Civilian Conservation Corps. One-fourth of the population was unemployed. Families struggled to put food on tables. ... Comment?
Dan Agin: How It Was: The Year After the Crash of 1929
... was so bad they threw him out in desperation and elected the leader of the opposition party--Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They threw Hoover out despite the pubic paranoia about socialism. In 2012, Barack Obama will have been in the White House four ... Comment?
AZ Journal: When is Thanksgiving, anyway?
... of attempting to fundamentally alter the American way of life. Not the least of which was when Franklin Delano Roosevelt decided to change the date of Thanksgiving, something Arizona resisted. It was 1939 - on the brink of turmoil in Europe - when ... Comment?
Governed by foxes and lions
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... fox characteristics (Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan) or a fox with some lion characteristics (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.) We currently have a fox residing in the White House. He is charismatic, has surrounded himself with a ... Comment?
... son, Henry Morgenthau Jr., would play a similar role on behalf of Jews as a close confidante of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served as his secretary of the Treasury during World War II. Robert Morgenthau is a war hero, former federal prosecutor, ... Comment?