Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Can You Place the State????
YOU!!!
Do You Know Your States???
Do you know how to draw a map of the U.S.? Can you put each state in its EXACT place on the map? Well, this is your lucky day!! There is a game called The 50 States, which I will give links to below. As each state pops up, you are to drag it on the US map EXACTLY where it goes. If you are off, you lose points. I will not bore you with the number of times I have attempted to get 100% but as of this writing I have as yet to receive 90%. OK, I can feel that you think this is very funny. Fine….I want you to give it a try and let me know how you are doing. Remember, you have to look at your score…so-o-o-o you can’t cheat. I take that back…I know some of you reading this can and will try to cheat.
Games…http://www.addictinggames.com/index.html
Click on Puzzle & Board Games
Click on 50 States…http://www.addictinggames.com/50states.html
Monday, February 2, 2009
Movie--Frost-Nixon
This was well worth my time.. Our papers gave it a 4 star and I suppose I would concur. Early in 1972, Nixon's team proposed to tap the telephones of the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate apartment complex in Washington, D.C. The attempt failed. I loosely followed the news during those years and never could understand why anyone would put their lives and careers on the line for this. Especially, when you think of the lives that were ruined and the onset of the first resignation of a US President. I had always thought Pat Nixon was extremely gracious and intelligent as were her daughters. In the movie, Frank Langella...who played Nixon, was superb!! Not long into the movie, I thought I was watching Nixon. During the trial in the 1970's I didn't get into the feelings and emotions of the first family. But...it would be hard not to feel something for them after seeing the movie. Nixon had such a wonderful family and I think he knew how he had disappointed, the Nation, his family and himself. When the movie was over there was no applause..just quiet with people still sitting in their seats looking at the screen. Because I wanted to know more about the first family I have included some facts below.
Nixon died from a blood clot to the heart while preparing to eat dinner at his home in NJ on Friday, April 22, 1994. He was 81 years old. I thought that he deserved at least a partial list of his accomplishments.
Succeeded in ending American fighting Viet Nam
Improved relations with the U.S.S.R. and China
Ended the draft
Revenue Sharing
New anti crime laws
His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons.
In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina.
During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R.
Pat Nixon was one of the most well traveled first ladies of the time. She traveled to 80 nations and was the first President's wife to visit a combat zone. One of her hobbies was collecting art for the White House and it is said that she collected over 600 pieces of art and furnishings. She suffered two strokes, one in 1976 and the other in 1983. She died of lung cancer at the age of 81 in 1993, a day after her 51st wedding anniversary.
I remember "Tricia" being a beautiful bride. It is always a spectacular event when a child of the President marries while in office. She married a Harvard man, Edward Finch Cox and was featured on the cover of a number of magazines.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who was born on July 5, 1948, is the second daughter of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and Pat Nixon. She is married to David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and a prominent military historian. They have three grown children, and live near Philadelphia. According to one article I read, she backed President Obama and is said to have donated $2,300 to his campaign which is the maxium for individuals
Nixon died from a blood clot to the heart while preparing to eat dinner at his home in NJ on Friday, April 22, 1994. He was 81 years old. I thought that he deserved at least a partial list of his accomplishments.
Succeeded in ending American fighting Viet Nam
Improved relations with the U.S.S.R. and China
Ended the draft
Revenue Sharing
New anti crime laws
His summit meetings with Russian leader Leonid I. Brezhnev produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons.
In January 1973, he announced an accord with North Viet Nam to end American involvement in Indochina.
During visits in 1972 to Beijing and Moscow, he reduced tensions with China and the U.S.S.R.
Pat Nixon was one of the most well traveled first ladies of the time. She traveled to 80 nations and was the first President's wife to visit a combat zone. One of her hobbies was collecting art for the White House and it is said that she collected over 600 pieces of art and furnishings. She suffered two strokes, one in 1976 and the other in 1983. She died of lung cancer at the age of 81 in 1993, a day after her 51st wedding anniversary.
I remember "Tricia" being a beautiful bride. It is always a spectacular event when a child of the President marries while in office. She married a Harvard man, Edward Finch Cox and was featured on the cover of a number of magazines.
Julie Nixon Eisenhower, who was born on July 5, 1948, is the second daughter of Richard Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, and Pat Nixon. She is married to David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight Eisenhower and a prominent military historian. They have three grown children, and live near Philadelphia. According to one article I read, she backed President Obama and is said to have donated $2,300 to his campaign which is the maxium for individuals
History...WWII Deserter Executed...First Since 1864
I recently found that during WWII we had executed men who had committed rape and murder but I did not know that President Eisenhower had signed the execution of a 25 year old. Desertion was punishable by firing squad but we had not carried out such a sentence since 1864. Pvt. Eddie Slovik wanted to be put in the stockade for the rest of the war but he was used as an example instead. In 1974 an NBC-TV movie entitled the Execution of Private Slovik, staring Martin Sheen, Ned Beatty, and Gary Busey, is available on video. The trailer can be viewed here. For those of you who are interested I have copied excerpts below.
There were thousands of ordinary criminals in ETO. Hundreds of them were caught, tried by court-martial, and sentenced to the stockade or, in the case of rape or murder, to death by firing squad. Sixty-five men were ordered shot. Eisenhower had to pass the final judgment. In sixteen cases he changed the sentence to life in the stockade; forty-nine men were shot. Desertion was also punishable by death by firing squad, but the U.S. Army had not carried out such a sentence since 1864.
One deserter only, Pvt. Eddie Slovik, went through the process from confession to court-martial to sentence to execution by firing squad. Slovik got to France as a replacement in August. On the 25th, he spent the night in a village, dug in with some other replacements. There was shelling. In the morning, when they moved out, he stayed behind. That afternoon, he hooked up with some Canadian infantry, with whom he spent the next six weeks. Then he was turned over to American MPs, who escorted him back to the company to which he had been assigned. Slovik told the CO he was too frightened of the shelling and swore, "If I have to go out there again I'll run away."
He later put that warning in writing, at the end of a written confession of desertion. The high command was looking to set an example. Slovik fit perfectly. He was found guilty and sentenced to execution. By the time Eisenhower gave the case its last review, on January 30, the Bulge had made desertion an even greater problem. Eisenhower did not intervene. On January 31, Slovik was executed. Slovik's case excited comment and controversy. There was a hue and cry about Army justice. Eisenhower never backed away from his decision. He thought the case about as clear-cut as one could get. But whatever the merits, it helps put the Slovik execution in some perspective to mention that during the course of the eleven-month campaign in Northwest Europe, when Eisenhower had one deserter put to death, Hitler had 50,000 executed for desertion or cowardice.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Adobe Photo
Just finished adding 7 layers to our cat Ceasar in the Christmas tree. I will see how it turns out on my site.
Blogo in the Pink!!
So-o-o-o even though our esteemed Illinois Governor Blagojevich…sorry…Ex-Governor…has been impeached, I have a few questions to ask. Why was the FBI bugging his private home and making tapes in the first place? I looked back on the timeline and still am having trouble seeing where the FBI started their probe on his administration.
Dec. 5: The Tribune reveals that federal investigators have secretly wiretapped Gov. Rod Blagojevich as part of a long-running probe of his administration.
Obviously he has been in their sites for quite awhile. My question is, when will we hear "the rest of the story"? Perhaps we have just begun to peal this onion! Have we heard about him being criminally prosecuted ?? AND…who says that he is finished? Perhaps politically...but... hasn’t he already been offered a radio host show in Chicago? Then wait and see if he doesn’t get a book offer and the prospect of a movie is already being tossed around! What is with this country? Where are we going…who are we following? How many will read the book and go to the movie? We are still enamored with Bonnie & Clyde and Jeffery Dahmer. Is this twisted or what?
Dec. 5: The Tribune reveals that federal investigators have secretly wiretapped Gov. Rod Blagojevich as part of a long-running probe of his administration.
Obviously he has been in their sites for quite awhile. My question is, when will we hear "the rest of the story"? Perhaps we have just begun to peal this onion! Have we heard about him being criminally prosecuted ?? AND…who says that he is finished? Perhaps politically...but... hasn’t he already been offered a radio host show in Chicago? Then wait and see if he doesn’t get a book offer and the prospect of a movie is already being tossed around! What is with this country? Where are we going…who are we following? How many will read the book and go to the movie? We are still enamored with Bonnie & Clyde and Jeffery Dahmer. Is this twisted or what?
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