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Going into this delivery, I was completely blind. I had never photographed a live childbirth nor had ever seen one in real life and, oh my goodness, was I in for an amazing experience!
Courtney gave birth to a beautiful baby boy on Saturday, July 23rd at 10:01am with her sweet husband, Ryan, at her side. The wonderful midwife, doctors, and nurses who helped mama with a smooth delivery deserve all the praises and high-fives for doing their jobs so well and wonderfully. Soon after Courtney gave birth, the room was flooded with hugs, love, and pure joy as family members and close friends trickled in to meet baby Parker for the first time.
I don't think I have ever experienced something so wonderful and so mesmerizing in my life. Not only did I bawl like a baby (no pun intended) through the whole thing, but my heart felt overwhelmed with joy for these precious parents. Being present as this precious baby was brought into the world was an honor and a joy to photograph. Thank you so much, Courtney and Ryan, for entrusting me with this incredible opportunity. I absolutely look forward to capturing more births in the future!


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Stalin Statue Removed in Telavi
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 31 Dec.'13 / 19:42
This statue of Stalin stood at a memorial to soldiers fallen in the World War II on a hill overlooking town of Telavi in Georgia's eastern region of Kakheti before it was removed on December 31. It was sprayed with orange paint soon after it was erected in September; while the statue was washed, graffiti reading "down with Stalinism" remained on the wall behind the statue. Photo: Eana Korbezashvili/Civil.ge
A statue of Stalin was removed in the town of Telavi in the Kakheti region on December 31, four months after it was erected.
The statue, which stood at the World War II memorial on a hill overlooking Telavi, was unveiled on September 1 upon an initiative of a local Stalin society, which received a permit to erect the statue in April 2013 from then head of the local administration.
Shortly after it was erected the local authorities said that the move was not legal and after the local Stalin society ignored local authorities' order to remove the statue, the local administration announced public tender to select an entity to implement removal works.
The Foundation for Civic Education, co-founder of the Tbilisi-based Tabula media outlet, which was the only bidder in the tender, implemented removal works.
Photos: Stalin in His Hometown and Beyond
On December 25 Parliament approved with its third and final reading amendment to the Liberty Charter aimed at actual enforcement of measure to prevent public display of symbols of totalitarian communist regime.
The bill, according to one of its co-sponsors MP Levan Berdzenishvili from the Georgian Dream parliamentary majority group, was prompted by several cases of restoration of Stalin monuments in the provinces.
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the audacity of hype
Posted in Environmentalists, Green activism, Evolution, Leftists, Science and Junk Science, tagged Biden, McCain, Obama, Palin, presidential election on August 31, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Thomas Sowell has a great piece up on "Change in Politics" -regarding Obama and why the "change" rhetoric is merely repeating the failures of FDR regarding the economy, but points out that at least FDR had the sense to be strong on national security.
Obama doesn't have FDR's sense, although he shares the love for social programs.
Obama's minions have been busy creating obfuscations regarding Sarah Palin, which is a good sign. LGF pointed out the connection to "Fight the Smears" and anti-Palin websites, which seems to indicate that "fightint the smears" involves inventing smears against political opponents. Their hysteria has involved a number of insults to McCain, as well.
Obama doesn't have any women in his organization, he didn't chose a woman as veep, but what his campaign has been fighting for was to prevent Hillary Clinton from getting into the Oval office, and now to prevent another woman from having a role in this, -Sarah Palin.–with women's votes.
The Obamanazis have been searching for a picture of Sarah Palin in a bikini. Why they think that would be disparaging, I don't know – she was formerly at one time Miss Alaska; a beauty queen. But as see-dubya has pointed out, they tried that same bikini schtick with Michelle Malkin, and it didn't work.
But they don't realize that their disgusting ploys rarely work; it just goes to show that they're bereft of class and civility.
Take a look at this post again and notice how many insults there are in it – without a shred of evidence or fact; it's complete spin!
Mooseburgers for Everyone to Celebrate Palin, McCain's VP Pick!
By Tracy DC ☮DC T☮ YesWeDid – Aug 30th, 2008
McCain chooses Sarah Palin for VP spot (after meeting her once) to woo disgruntled Hillraisers, to get financial support from his heretofore unexcited conservative base who was gonna vote for him anyway, as an attempt to reignite his fading image as a maverick, and because he fantasizes what the former beauty queen looks like when the hair comes down and the glasses come off.
That part about the hair coming down and the glasses coming off has been edited out if you go there now. The depiction of conservatives' being disgusted with McCain up until this point, though, is completely true. But it's about the only shred of truth in this blog posting at myobama.com
Moreover, I'm sure McCain is trying to figure out if she can be paid less for being a VP than his other strung-along would-be male picks since he's against equal pay for women. The above must be the reasons since Palin's experience does not qualify her to potentially be a heartbeat away from being the Leader of the Free World, even more troubling, when you consider whose 72 year old little off beat heart we're talkin' about, here.
He's against equal pay for women – what? Where's the proof of this? Palin's experience is similar to that of Obama's in years, and if you're going to compare the two and call Palin inexperienced, then you'll have to admit that Obama is, too. In fact, Obama's veep choice Joe Biden, demonstrates Obama's insecurity on the 'experience' issue, but also demonstrates that Obama is about politics as usual because Biden has a breathtaking 30 year career in the Senate – having accomplished a number of things during that period which are hardly items to brag about – such as defending the agents that murdered the people at Waco and a young boy, Sam Weaver. and a young mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Vicki Weaver.
All this while completely disregarding Cindy McCain who is very accomplished in her own right, this person depicts McCain as a man who would not treat Palin equally, despite the fact that McCain – not Obama – chose a young woman running mate. Obama was fighting Hillary, and now he'll be attempting to use women's votes against Palin. Democrats don't REALLY believe in 'equality' that's why they have different rules for different groups. And the attack on Palin's experience reflects this individual's disconnect from reality, since although Palin's inexperience is comparable to Obama's, she has 7 years of executive experience, and being the governor of a state that is flanked by two foreign countries, Canada on the one side and Russia on the other. So she has an awareness of the threat that Russia poses moreso than Biden or Obama, despite Biden's 30 years of politics as usual. That's not to mention Biden being a barrel of gaffes. (Recall "you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." and "I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." )
They're making points for the other side with this stuff.
To end on a positive note with regard to Palin, you can't deny her superwoman status–three days after giving birth to her son with Down Syndrome (now 5 months), she was back in the office trying to make sure that polar bears aren't considered an endangered species, that BIG OIL rules, that incest and rape victims do not have a right to abortion, and that creationism will be taught in school, that is, if one can't home-school.
No worries about missing dinner for her big family of 7, she's got that handled too. She's a moose hunter and has enough frozen microwavable mooseburgers to feed an army stored up for a year! Can't wait to debate her myself!
quite a bit of stereotyping going on there, heh?
Polar bears are not an endangered species. Palin is not about "big oil" but about energy alternatives. Taking our dependence off of foreign oil is something we should be actively seeking – and of course we won't see the benefits of doing it for at least 5 years; that's a given. We should also take proactive measures in order to activate dormant refineries.
How many incest and rape victims are impregnated by rape? She should examine her statistics. And what is wrong with creationism being taught in schools when there is no evidence of evolution in the fossil record, and evolution has never been witnessed? There is certainly more evidence for creation than there is for evolution; what that individual is doing is railing against Christianity as most 'scientific' socialists do. The problem is when you look at the science, science backs up the biblical version of how the earth came into being; and is extremely scientific.
I would look forward to Palin debating this moonbat, that post demonstrates how moonbattery involves no rational thought.
As a commenter said in my comments section–at Obama rallies, they're yelling O-ba-ma! And at McCain rallies, they're chanting U-S-A! That's about all you need to know about the two campaigns; one is to coronate a socialist dictator, the other is for service to our country. One is for strangling the taxpayer with blinding taxation, the other is for cutting the pork and special interests and returning us to representative government.
Should that happen, I can see the ancient carreers of people such as Dick Durbin and Joe Biden going by the wayside. I'd like to see a change in the rules for representatives – in that they have limited terms, and would not be allowed to behave as though they've been given a lifetime appointment.
Sarah Palin is about REAL CHANGE. She's fought for it within her own party. She represents all that is good, and is a mother of five children, a lifetime NRA member, hunts and fishes, and loves moose stew.
She is refreshing and as Uncle Jack said in this post, Palin is turning the conservative base who was formerly disgusted by McCain, –around to voting for him.
Obama "a thin-skinned, pathological authoritarian"
Posted in Leftists, tagged abortion, authoritarian, Black Liberation Theology, Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Che Guevara, democrats, Dreams of My Father, Frank Marshall Davis, killing babies, marxist, Obama, Petreaus, Trinity United Church of Christ, wright on August 27, 2008| Leave a Comment »
I got an email from Americans for Limited Government today.
August 27th, 2008—Americans for Limited Government president Bill Wilson today strongly condemned Sen. Barack Obama for "attempting to censor free speech and creating a pathology of oppression that threatens to gut the First Amendment."
Wilson's comments came in response to efforts by the Obama campaign to ban a commercial critical of Obama from the airwaves. The commercial, which reveals the close relationship between Obama and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, is sponsored by an independent organization known as the American Issues Project. Obama has intimidated several major TV networks into refusing to air the ad and has pushed the Department of Justice to "investigate and prosecute" the organization.
"Mr. Obama has now established an undeniable, indelible image of himself as a thin-skinned, pathological authoritarian," Wilson said. "Time and again since he first declared himself a candidate for the presidency, he has first denied charges against him and then, when the truth came out, viciously attacked those who dared to tell the truth. He has shown utter contempt both for the facts of the matter and freedom of speech."
Wilson cited numerous examples of Obama's "pathological authoritarian" behavior that, according to Wilson, "call into question his fitness to hold any position where he can suppress dissent and oppress those who dare to offer it":
o	When the story first broke of Jeremiah Wright's racist attacks from the pulpit of Obama's church, the Senator first denied such attacks occurred. Then, after the release of videos, the Senator, in his "racial reconciliation" speech, lashed out at the past racism of white Americans, including his own grandmother.
o	When asked about abortion in the Saddleback Forum, Obama denied that he had ever supported the killing of babies who had survived the abortion procedure. After the debate, when questioned about his response by CNS reporters, Obama lashed out at his accusers, labeling them "liars." Subsequently, the Obama campaign was forced to issue a statement confirming Obama's support for post-birth abortion.
o	When unflattering elements of his past record in both the Illinois state senate and U.S. Senate were exposed by independent groups supporting Democrat primary candidates Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, Obama first vehemently denied the accusations. When the groups stood by their charges, Obama called for criminal investigations and prosecutions of the groups' donors.
o	When Obama wrote his book Dreams from My Father, the senator conspicuously — and some have charged, deceptively — left out the full name of his acknowledged mentor, "Frank." When Jerome Corsi exposed the mentor to be communist party member Frank Marshall Davis, Obama lashed out at Corsi with a 40-page screed attacking the journalist's integrity. The Corsi revelation proved to be true.
o	When Obama went to Iraq, and Gen. David Petraeus explained to him why the surge had been successful, Obama – despite being presented with the facts on the ground – continued to deny the success of the surge. Then, when pressed on the evidence presented, the Senator lashed out at Petraeus, telling Fox News, "My job is to make the decisions about the national security issues … Their job is just to get the job done."
"And now," Wilson said, "we have Obama is once again exhibiting the same chilling cycle of defraud and defame. Obama knows he has maintained a close friendship with Ayers, and he knows that Ayers remains proud of his terrorist attacks upon the people of the United States. So, instead of admitting his own frightening lack of good judgment, Obama once again viciously attacks those who dare to expose the truth."
Wilson pointed out that according to those in attendence at the cocktail reception thrown by Ayers to launch Obama's state senate bid in 2005, Ayers played a pivotal role in pushing the Obama candidacy. According to attendee Maria Warren, "They were launching him — introducing him to the Hyde Park community as the best thing since sliced bread."
And Ayers, according to Wilson, didn't merely sit on the board of the Woods Fund of Chicago with Obama, as the Senator has contended; it was Ayers who helped Obama secure the board position.
But it isn't only in these instances that he has avoided the truth, lied about it, and attacked the people asking questions. And in quite a few instances, he has sent some very challenged individuals out to do his bidding and silence the opposition.
Too bad it hasn't worked.
In Cuba, they'd just shoot you. And wasn't it the Obama democrats who show Che's image as an image of socialist revolution and change; as someone to be looked up to? A murdering sociopath who bound and and gagged his captives before he shot them in front of their relatives?
Posted in Leftists, tagged Joe Biden, religion and guns, Ruby Ridge, Waco on August 26, 2008| 5 Comments »
Some may have forgotten what happened at Waco. But some of us remember. On February 28, 1993, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms raided the Branch Davidian compound and demonized David Koresh, quickly militarizing the situation. Innocents, women and children died a horrible death in fire and smoke.
Joe Biden wholeheartedly supported the actions of federal agents in the Waco standoff, and visibly sneered at witnesses at the Senate hearings who questioned and/or criticized the agents' acts. Biden was a key proponent of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act in 1994, which banned some kinds of semiautomatic rifles, with a sunset provision that allowed these weapons to become legal again ten years later. The law also allocated substantial funds for construction of new prisons, established boot camps for delinquent minors, and brought the death penalty for crimes related to drug dealing, civil-rights related murders, murder of a Federal officer, and acts classified as terrorism.
The Waco fire burned up 86 members at the compound of the Branch Davidians (including 24 children, 17 of whom were younger than age 10), and has kept eight survivors rotting in prison ever since, serving long sentences denounced by the jury that heard the evidence. (Eagle Forums)
Renos Avraam 31 British 40 years
Brad Branch 35 American 40 years
Jaime Castillo 24 American 40 years
Graeme Craddock 31 Australian 20 years
Livingstone Fagan 35 British 40 years
Paul Fatta 35 American 15 years
Ruth Riddle 31 Canadian 5 years
Kathryn Schroeder 35 American 3 years
Kevin Whitecliff 33 American 40 years
Supposedly, Waco was the inspiration for the OK City Bombing; according to the media and the Clintons, but to me, these are separate events with completely different players. What the OK City bombing did was to perpetuate the notion that began with Ruby Ridge and Waco; that people who believe in God, who entertain conspiracy theories about our government – deserve not only to be watched, but deserve our scorn.
Senate hearings were held with the usual pro government results. Senator's Orrin Hatch and Joe Biden concluded that the officers that harassed and caused the deaths of these 80 or so Davidians (including women and young children) were not guilty. The supervisors were praised for their service to our country, promoted, given a pay raise, and sent on vacation, while the grieving families of the dead victims were trying to make funeral arrangements.
Guns at Waco: stacked neatly against the wall among burned ruins; not cocked in the charred hands of the dead women and children
The message sent from this 1960's war protestor, anti American cultured administration was clear: Religious groups, and lawful gun owners, were now put on the endangered species list.(Rick Biesada, Federal Observer)
We saw this fairly recently where hundreds of children were taken from their mothers, because they belonged to a "West Texas polygamy" group – a group the press calls The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
David Koresh, as you may recall, was also accused of child molestation, and so was Warren Jeffs. It's a case of damage control when they're reaching for reasons to go in and nuke families, small children and mothers breastfeeding infants. They'd rather have you believe they've stockpiled weapons, and have a veritable arsenal at their disposal, but the evidence afterwards shows that was hardly the case.
There is a frightening pattern of behavior here.
Randy Weaver holding a picture of his son, Sammy, shot in the back by the feds
Vicki and Sammy Weaver, along with Sammy's dog that he'd raised from a puppy, died at Ruby Ridge in Idaho in 1993, as the result of same type of sloppy government work. They put pressure on Randy Weaver to become a snitch on the Aryan Nation and when he refused, they quickly ratcheted up this pressure to a frenzied pitch until there were military vehicles and 400 guys in camouflage gear spying on their little cabin in the mountains. While the media reported that they lived in a 'compound', they had a little place where the government agents were able to come within 15 feet of the house.
Randy Weaver, holding a picture of his wife who was killed by the Feds while holding her baby
The complaints about people who have religion and own guns, or in some cases, are gun dealers, is that they 'stockpile weapons'. But a gun dealer sells guns, and what one person might fearfullly call a 'stockpile of weapons', another person would call 'inventory' for his business.
Religion and guns are to be feared, apparently – instead of just left alone. Randy Weaver was a decorated soldier who was approached to spy on the Aryan Nation. Because he refused, they set him and his young family up, but the situation spiraled out of control and a young boy, his dog and his mother ended up dead.
What amazes me is the far-out ideology of leftists like Joe Biden; I find it horrifying that someone like Biden is Obama's veep choice, as if Obama himself isn't frightening enough.
Rick at the Federal Observer:
[Biden] is a political stooge who's career almost ended over plagiarism when he ran for the presidency in 1987.
But political stooges are running amock these days, as the plagiarized speeches of Barack Obama from Malcolm X and David Axelrod clients have gone unnoticed.
You have to wonder why Biden wasn't vocal about the violent deaths of the Branch Davidian women, or the violent murder of Vicki Weaver at Ruby Ridge, shot by the reptilian FBI sniper, Lon Horiuchi, for merely cradling an infant child in her arms. Instead, Biden and Senator Orrin Hatch, covered up these crimes and engaged in homicidal hypocrisy.
I suppose Biden's greatest moment came as he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, and presided over the appointment of Uncle Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court over allegations of Thomas's proclivity for pornographic movies, and placing pubic hairs on the top of soda pop cans, emulating a court jester.
Joe Biden, why would we like to see him as the number two executive of the United States?
He, just like Obama, George Bush, and John McCain, are traitors to the United States Constitution as they discriminate against American citizens.
Biden voted Yes on allowing illegal aliens to participate in social security.
He Voted NO on declaring English the official language of the U.S. Government.
Biden voted Yes on establishing a guest worker program and voted Yes on giving guest workers a path to citizenship.
Joe Biden voted NO on limiting welfare for immigrants.
This guy, like Obama, is anti American… but he is also greedy.
This is what brings us to the selection of his vice presidency.
Biden, who had under gone two brain surgery operations, still remembers how to scheme. He wants to insure himself a golden parachute retirement package for all of those years of covering up the dirt that Barack Obama claims that our country is guilty of. the Federal Observer
Federal Observer contributing columnist Rick Biesada hosts Perspectives On Our Heritage – The Angry White Male Hour over Radio Station WJJG 1530 AM, Chicago's Hometown station, Wednesdays from 4:00 to 5:00 PM Central Time. Rick is co-founder of The Chicago Minuteman Project.
Rick has also written a book called –Angry White Male and The Horse He Rode In On. It can be special ordered through most book stores, or through the publisher at wholesale price off of the Angry White Male web site at www.angry-white-male.com
This is the video I watched. It's quite long; but it sure is interesting. My heart goes out to to the surviving Weavers and the memories they have to live with.
As a kid, my dad took us out to visit a guy who was a gun dealer who was being stalked by the feds. He was just a gun dealer, with old-fashioned values and a nice wife, and sweet little kids.
And they would get shot at by the FBI as they went from the house to the barn, and they had dogs tied up outside in order to alert them if someone got too close.
This stuff is no joke; it's for real.
Paul Carlson, RIP
Posted in News, tagged anti-communist, Hillary Clinton, Park Ridge, Park Ridge Historical Society, Paul Carlson on August 26, 2008| 1 Comment »
I am proud to say I knew him, proud to say he influenced me as I was growing up. He was a friend and classmate of my dad's. Paul Carlson passed away on August 19, 2008. He was a conservative activist and a longtime resident of Park Ridge. My dad said no other Maine East alumni attended his funeral except him, which is a shame. He had a very short battle with pancreatic cancer, from what I gather they had to stop chemo because he got an infection, and after they stopped cancer treatment, the cancer went wild, spread into his bones, etc. May God bless this wonderful man and his family.
Paul Carlson, in fact, was Hillary Clinton's history teacher at Maine East High School. (And he is one of the people who inspired my own politics, outside of my father, Tedis Zerins, Reverend Wurmbrand and others.) From Growing Up Rodham at the Washington Post:
By ninth grade at Maine Township High, she was on every virtually committee in the student government and was enthralled by a fiercely anti-communist history teacher named Paul Carlson. Schoolmate John Peavoy recalls that during the 1960 presidential election, 30 students were assigned to watch the Kennedy-Nixon debate. All but two, "a couple of oddballs," declared themselves Nixon supporters. (When Nixon lost, Hugh was convinced that Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley stole the election for Kennedy, and Hillary rode a bus downtown to check for fraudulent voter addresses.)
It was Carlson who gave Hillary a copy of Barry Goldwater's "The Conscience of a Conservative," and she consumed it, struck by the javelin-like power of sentences such as "The Conservative looks upon politics as the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order." She wrote a 75-page term paper on it.
Carlson was her unchallenged mentor until a day in 1961 when Don Jones blew into town, in a red Chevy Impala convertible.
Don Jones was a socialist methodist minister at the First Methodist Church in Park Ridge (where I went to Sunday School; our family left the church because of the social doctrine that crept in). From Hillary's book:
Don once remarked that he and Mr. Carlson were locked in a battled for my mind and soul. Their conflict was broader than that, however, and came to a head in our church, where Paul was also a member. Paul disagreed with Don's priorities, including the University of Life curriculum, and pushed for Don's removal from the church. After numerous confrontations, Don decided to leave First Methodist after only two years for a teaching position at Drew University, where he recently retired as Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics.
Later, she became a hard core leftist activist with Tommy the Commie as her mentor at Yale, and worked as a student activist to-among other things-free The New Haven Nine.
Teacher Paul Carlson – who died Aug. 19 – stood beside his photograph in Maine East's Wall of Honor in 2007, next to his former student, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, shortly before retiring after a 50-year career. (Rene Edde/for Pioneer Press)
Wall-of-Fame History Teacher Paul Carlson
His life was one well lived by the effect he had on those around him…his students, friends and family are a true legacy never to be forgotten. He will be sorely missed and I was graced to know him and call him my friend .
Chicago Tribune Obituary:
R. Paul Carlson, age 73, a lifelong resident of Park Ridge, a devoted and dedicated teacher for 50 years at Maine East High School, at home with his Lord Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2008, beloved husband of Nancy; loving father of Thomas (Nancy) and Robert (Marcy) Patterson; beloved son of the late Walter and Eunice; cherished grandfather of David, Adam, Katie, Leah and Caroline; dear brother of Joyce Smith and Phyllis Allman; fond uncle, great-uncle and cherished friend to many. Visitation Thursday 3 to 9 p.m. at the Nelson Funeral Home, 820 Talcott Rd. (at Cumberland), Park Ridge. Family and friends will meet Friday from 9 a.m. until time of Funeral Service 10 a.m. at The Park Ridge Presbyterian Church. A Memorial Service for Paul will be held on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008 at 3 p.m. at The Park Ridge Presbyterian Church, 847-823-4135, 1300 W. Crescent Ave. (2 Blks south of Touhy 1 Blk west of Greenwood). Should friends desire, memorials in Paul's name can be made to Wounded Heros Foundation Inc., Two Prudential Plaza, 180 N. Stetson Ave., Suite 4525, Chicago, IL, 60601 or Season's Hospice, 606 Potter Rd., Des Plaines, IL, 60016. Info: 847-823-5122 or http://www.nelsonfunerals.com
"One of the Best"
"He was one of the best guys Park Ridge has every [sic] produced," said Friel. "He was a great man."
Carlson, known as a staunch Republican, was friends with many followers of local and national politics including many Democrats. He was a teacher and friend to Hilary Rodham Clinton when she lived with her family in Park Ridge in the 1960s. He also taught former state representative Penny Pullen who grew up in Park Ridge.
Last year, Carlson was honored for his 50 years of teaching at Maine East with a large reception attended by hundreds of friends and well-wishers. He taught history and government at Maine East. He retired from teaching in June of 2007. Besides his teaching, Carlson was a member of the Park Ridge Morning Kiwanis Club.
He was also a longstanding member of the Park Ridge Historical Society.
Sign the guestbook that was attached to his Chicago Trib Obit.
There will be a memorial service for him in December – I think the date I heard was December 7. I'll update this post with more detail as I get it.
Supposedly Hillary might attend.
Vets for Freedom take on the DNC
Posted in Military, tagged democratic national convention, democrats, Iraq, stay the course, Vets for Freedom on August 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Through email I received this cool information:
Vets for Freedom at Democratic National Convention
Back from their Iraq trip, VFF credentialed in Denver
WASHINGTON, DC – Vets for Freedom (VFF) announced earlier this month that eight Iraq war veterans who are members of the organization would return to Iraq to assess conditions on the ground and analyze policy options for future U.S. military involvement. Having returned last week, the VFF Chairman Pete Hegseth and Vice Chairman David Bellavia will be at the Democratic National Convention informing delegates, key lawmakers and the American people about what they saw and the importance of commitment to completion of the mission in Iraq.
Both Hegseth and Bellavia will have media credentials for the Convention, and will be available for media requests to provide their informed, 'boots on the ground" understanding of the mission in Iraq and the best future course for the United States.
Obama and Biden: the killing babies ticket
Posted in Leftists, tagged abortion, abortionists, Biden, Born Alive Infant Protection Act, Catholic, Obama, Pelosi, pro life on August 26, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Biden Pro-abortion Stance Will Cost Obama Election
Catholic group denounces Obama's pick of Biden for V.P
Not to worry, though, the democrats are so clueless that Nancy Pelosi doesn't know what Catholics oppose abortion.
PELOSI DENIES CATHOLICISM OPPOSES ABORTION
I'll bet that denial is insulting to catholics in America…
Catholic League president Bill Donohue responded as follows:
"Here is what the Catechism of the Catholic Church says: 'Human life must be respected and protected absolutely from the moment of conception.' It also says, 'Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable.' Looks like Pelosi didn't study the subject long enough. But not to worry: We are sending her a copy of Catholicism for Dummies today (the Catechism is like maybe a bit advanced).
"Whether Joe Biden is as ignorant of what his religion teaches remains to be seen. What is not in doubt is the enthusiasm which NARAL showed when he was selected to join the ticket. The radical pro-abortion group was delighted, as were the radical pro-abortion delegates to the Democratic convention: as reported in today's New York Times, 64 percent of Americans reject abortion-on-demand, yet only 23 percent of the delegates do. It is only fitting, then, that NARAL's president will speak today at the Convention and Planned Parenthood's president will speak tomorrow.
"So there we have it: the man running for president on the Democratic ticket supports selective infanticide, his running mate is a pro-abortion Catholic, the delegates are wildly out of step with Americans on abortion and the Speaker of the House hasn't a clue what her religion teaches on the subject."
Pelosi and Biden both claim to be catholics, but as was mentioned previously regarding Biden's involvement in getting the agents involved at Ruby Ridge and WACO excused for their crimes, it would appear that Biden doesn't have any respect for life, family, or those people who cling to 'religion and guns'.
Better that than worship government and expect it to save you.
We have–exactly how many government programs that are bankrupt now..? And they're talking about making our health care system government-controlled and run? And putting the world on welfare (with Obama's global poverty act) Are these people out of their minds?
Biden might be a pro abortion guy, but there is nobody who is as extreme on the issue as our presidential candidate the dems have standing at the podium; Barack Hussein Obama.


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132 years of Coca-Cola: The Birth of a Refreshing Idea
By: Journey Australia Staff | 02/01/2012
Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local Atlanta pharmacist, created the syrup for Coca-Cola in 1886.
The product that has given the world its best-known taste was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on May 8, 1886. Dr. John Stith Pemberton, a local pharmacist, produced the syrup for Coca-Cola®, and carried a jug of the new product down the street to Jacobs' Pharmacy, where it was sampled, pronounced "excellent" and placed on sale for five cents a glass as a soda fountain drink. Carbonated water was teamed with the new syrup to produce a drink that was at once "Delicious and Refreshing," a theme that continues to echo today wherever Coca-Cola is enjoyed.
Thinking that "the two Cs would look well in advertising," Dr. Pemberton's partner and bookkeeper, Frank M. Robinson, suggested the name and penned the now famous trademark "Coca-Cola" in his unique script. The first newspaper ad for Coca-Cola soon appeared in The Atlanta Journal, inviting thirsty citizens to try "the new and popular soda fountain drink." Hand-painted oilcloth signs reading "Coca-Cola" appeared on store awnings, with the suggestion "Drink" added to inform passersby that the new beverage was for soda fountain refreshment. During the first year, sales averaged a modest nine drinks per day.
Dr. Pemberton never realized the potential of the beverage he created. He gradually sold portions of his business to various partners and, just prior to his death in 1888, sold his remaining interest in Coca-Cola to Asa G. Candler. An Atlantan with great business acumen, Mr. Candler proceeded to buy additional rights and acquire complete control.
Jacobs Pharmacy in Atlanta, USA
This story was originally published on 01/01/2012
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by Carol E. Lee, Jay Solomon and Michael R. Crittenden
http://dubowitz.pundicity.com/16825/obama-sets-fight-over-iran-sanctions
"It's very unusual for a head of state to acknowledge lobbying the U.S. Congress," said Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank that advises Congress on Iran sanctions. "It shows how the U.K. has been to the left of the U.S. on Iran policy."
Preisdent Obama and U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to aid Europe in wake of recent terror attacks. Truman National Security Project fellow Bob Stasio joins Sara Murray with analysis.
Mr. Obama said the chances of reaching a deal are still less than 50-50, but the next several months of negotiations will determine "whether or not Iran can get to 'yes.'"
If a deal isn't reached, he said he would ask Congress to pass additional sanctions.
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From Cowichan, loggers, farmers, navvies, sawmill workers, bank clerks, merchants and volunteer firemen, all were off to Victoria to enlist.
Tom Paterson
The camp at Valcartier camp was deluged with men hopeful of joining the Canadian military contingent that would go overseas to fight in the First World War.
News that Great Britain, hence Canada, was at war in August 1914 shouldn't have come as a real surprise to anyone who'd been following international and national news.
For years, Great Britain and Germany had been vying to build the largest, most powerful navies. For years, from as far back as 1911, the Canadian Parliament had been bitterly divided over the so-called 'Naval Question': whether Canada should build its own navy for its own defence and as an ally of the mother country, or simply contribute money to construction of Royal Navy dreadnoughts.
Politically, the blustering and posturing had already provoked other international crises before the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo and the ever-volatile Balkans remained a powder keg of conflicting ethnicity, religion, politics and nationalism. National prides and political positions had hardened. War, at the very least a European war, had become inevitable.
In late July 1914 as the ultimatums and declarations of hostilities by Russia and smaller states escalated, Canadians followed the news as best they could. In The Lost Diary, privately published in 1941, Victoria journalist Sandham Graves recalled how citizens had "milled around the bulletin-boards of the newspapers all day long; reading flashes of tense developments that came in swift succession every few hours".
Rather than be alarmed as the situation between the world's greatest powers worsened, the crowds grew increasingly excited, even eager to see the might of the world's greatest empire brought down on the German upstart.
The Royal Navy would sink the German fleet in "one crack," said some; the Russian bear would pass over Germany like a steam-roller, said others. Official word that war had been declared between Britain and Germany was greeted not with expressions of regret or sorrow or misgiving or apprehension but with cheers of jubilation. Men dropped everything in their rush to join the colours, so convinced were they that they must enlist now if they were to play a part because the war would be over by Christmas. Sandham Graves captured that euphoria in his memoir:
"On to Valcartier!" The words swept over Canada in a night. From Halifax to Victoria, from trap-lines in the Yukon, south to the International Boundary-Line, men began besieging recruiting offices.
"They volunteered in battalions and by townships, in groups and by clubs; some trekking alone out of the wilderness, to answer the Lion's call."
When Sam Hughes the erratic and excitable Minister of Militia called for a single division to be trained on Valcartier Plain outside Quebec City, twice that many — 36,000 — responded. Six thousand, "bitterly disappointed," were turned away. When a detachment of the Fifth Regiment, Canadian Garrison Artillery, left Victoria for active service in August, the community joined to give them a tumultuous send-off.
Graves: "The 50th Gordon Highlanders…and the 88th Victoria Fusiliers…fully mustered and impatient to be off, turned out to pay the respects of their arms. The Fifth Regiment band, playing the regimental march, 'The British Grenadiers,' 'The Girl I left Behind Me,' and old favourites of the day, played the detachment through the city, across the Causeway, and to the boat. Thirty thousand people jammed the harbour front. For once…Victoria cast off its reserve, and cheered."
Came the turn of the 50th Gordons, the 88th Fusiliers, the Corps of Guides and the Canadian Signal Corps, Graves was one of the 600-odd young men and older veterans of South Africa who marched from the newly-built Bay Street Armoury through downtown Victoria to board a CPR steamship in front of the Parliament Buildings. To the strains of bagpipes the Gordons in their kilts "swung through the streets…
"As long as I live I shall never forget that day. Remember, for the most part we were youngsters; many who had never been away from home before. As…the last man in the parade I marched through Victoria in a warm kind of a daze. Victoria had turned out to the last man, woman and child. Even the dogs were there, marching… The cheers swelled into one constant roar, echoing and reverberating along the canyon walls of the business district. The crowd flooded in behind, in a great surging wave… Attempts to keep ranks were futile. Pipes and brass bands and cheers intermingled in one flat roar of sound."
So it was in Victoria, so it was, on a smaller scale, in Duncan where men, young, middle-aged and older, came out of the woods, out of the fields and out of the stores to converge on the train station to go to Victoria to enlist. Logger, farmer, navvy, sawmill worker, bank clerk, merchant and volunteer fireman, they were off to Victoria or, while impatiently awaiting their enlistment to be accepted, drilled in farmers' fields and at the Cowichan Mound with borrowed or simulated rifles. Military cadets, just boys still in school, some of whom were contemplating lying about their age, stepped up their drilling and training in the hope that the war would go on long enough for them to share in the excitement and the glory.
Sadly, it did.
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