Chris Tingle Features Historic Moments in Television
By SusanUnPC on March 28, 2009 at 3:20 PM in Chris Matthews, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights
Many of you are too young to know a world without television. I remember our first TV vividly, and the one channel (NBC) that we could get, until late in my high school years, we also got ABC. I watch Hardball for research purposes (and for occasional great guests like this author) but regardless of what you think of Matthews, this is very memorable video:
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Nowadays, the demagoguery comes from the hard leftists who aim to censor and silence all of us who dare to disagree. Only nodding heads will satisfy them. Here at NoQuarter, we prefer an eclectic mix of opinions and ideas, and most especially we like the company of all kinds of people, from all kinds of backgrounds, professions, educations, and experiences. How else does one truly learn? Sadly, being a leftist means that one obeys the rule by the elite leftists who tell them what to think and believe and, most alarmingly, what to say and write.
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Susan, if we go to amazon thru a link on NQ but buy something not advertised does NC still get credit? IF so I’ll try to remeber to stop here before I go to Amazon.
also OT but Here is a pretty interesting article about Barky, scarey but interesting http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/03/is_obama_a_prince_among_men.html
When seeking office, the aspirant must pretend to be what he is not. After seizing power, he should impose his agenda quickly and ruthlessly before his subjects realize what he is doing and have time to react.
Sound familiar? It might, but this approach was designed 500 years before the Barack Obama campaign in 2008.
Niccolò Machiavelli, a 16th century Florentine diplomat and bureaucrat, was the author of The Prince, a treatise on ruling successfully through the pragmatic exercise of power. Because Machiavelli had no concern for morality, but rather counseled ruthless pragmatism, his name has become a synonym for cunning political manipulation and deceit. However, Machiavelli’s clear-eyed understanding of human nature and political behavior, has made his work a classic. In the course of his expensive education at top schools, could Barack Obama have failed to read it?
Those who wonder at the speed with which Obama, aided and abetted by the congressional Democrats, is moving away from traditional American ways need only read The Prince, in which Machiavelli advises,
“For injuries ought to be done all at one time, so that, being tasted less, they offend less; benefits ought to be given little by little, so that the flavor of them may last longer.”
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Absolutely! As long as you stay in that “session,” we will get a percentage.
When I buy something, I make sure to log out at Amazon from the No Quarter account, and then log in as myself. Then I pop into No Quarter, and click on any Amazon ad — it doesn’t matter which one — then I search for what I’m buying (usually cat food, heh!). I also buy food items in bulk, such as that California-grown rice (Lundberg) and the most fresh, tasty organic walnuts I’ve found (Good Sense) and Paul Newman’s items, such as his organic raisins. I’ve also gotten Bob’s Red Mill products in bulk.
BTW: A lot of grocery items right now are on DEEP discount. I need to get that link up.
P.S. My testimony about Beauty Bridge is 100% accurate. I think i got my package in about 3 business days. And the shipping is free. They carry only the best brands. L’Occitane is exquisite — and all the ingredients come from a province in France (no Chinese adulterated products — tragically, almost all drug store lotions and make-up are now made in China and are contaminated with all kinds of impurities, including LEAD in lipstick.
Thanks I’ll do that and tell my husband to too. I love Loccicotainne, especially the pure Shea butter.
Susan, I have bought things from Amazon through NQ, bought the Calphalon Pan, and Endless is one of my favorite shoe shops online to buy from, so I will buy from here from now on.
Thanks for providing a place where we can express ourselves openly, freely without (much) dissent amongst ourselves.
Thank you SO much. And I’m glad to hear you like Endless! I was very put out that Zappo’s rejected our application — many stores have a “no blogs” policy for some reason. I wrote a letter of appeal, mentioning how many shoes my family has bought from them, but didn’t even get a reply. Then I got an e-mail from Amazon about Endless, which has ALL of the same promises — including up to a year to return the shoes — and put up their ad. I haven’t bought shoes from them yet, but your experience makes me feel confident that I’ll have a great experience with them.
http://thirdbasepolitics.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-much-for-your-promises.html Good video about another one of Obama’s broken promises (altho we know they were out right lies)
This week America was finally clued into yet another of Obama’s broken promises — and this one was a doozie.
Middle class tax cuts were one of the centerpieces of Obama’s Presidential campaign. Well, it turns out even centerpieces have expiration dates.
It was a centerpiece only while he was trying to make them believe he was setting the table for the People.
Now that he has changed dinner plans, and is having CEO’s and bankers to his table, that tawdry little populist centerpiece had to go.
So on point and true.
My first memory of TV was the day JFK was killed. I can still remember I had the high top white walking shoes on, a pink stiff dress. I was standing in my playpen and was only about a year old. My mother had on high heels and black dress. I can only see her from the waist down. I can see myself then sitting and hear myself crying. I can’t remember what her face looked like or anything else. My next memory/memories after that begins when I am 5.
I’ll ditto Fed Up. One of the things I love most about NQ is we do get Republicans, Independents, Democrats all coming together without attacking each other all the time. We may not always agree on everything, but that’s OK we recognize each other’s individuality without trying to make ourselves some sort of Borg society. We don’t fear that we’ll be attacked repeatedly, called names, when we don’t agree with the majority.
That’s why I visit here as well. I see LOTS of comments that make me cringe a little from time to time, because they are far from my personal views, but that can be a GOOD thing. Why are people so afraid of that?
At least it’s not a complete echo chamber, and “the herd” doesn’t seem to feel the need to hurry and “correct” every person who strays from the “orthodoxy”, because there ISN’T an orthodoxy here.
My parents actually got married the day Kennedy was shot. Great omen. It lasted less than a year.
I spent most of my life with my head buried in the sand about politics. Never again. Even though we come from very different points of view sometimes here, I have become educated beyond belief about what does on in DC and the world from being here. Many times, I wish I would have kept my head down, ignored the truth, and gone on my ignorant merry way. Guess that would have made me an Obot.
nicely said.
Yes, I like the diversity so much too. The other night, when we had a chat — the Rachel Maddow chat, which we tired of after the Hillary interview — LatinaFreedomFighter, whose video I’d put up that day, responded to my invitation and joined our chat! She’s an all-the-way Republican. In my invitation e-mail to her, I told her I’m a “Hillary Democrat.” No problem. She came. We played her video, and asked her a number of questions. She is lovely. She has quite a background in finance, having worked for Bear Stearns, etc. She is doing the Tea Party on April 15th in Phoenix.
I’m going to check out the site for the Tea Parties — surely if I search, I should be able to find it.
I’ll be attending a teaparty here in San Antonio. The video for it is KILLER:
Without Hillary as POTUS, our only chance to stop this madness right now is for the American people to get angry enough that the bastards begin to fear us. And I mean all of us - Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, whatever.
This takeover by the oligarchy and bankrupting of our nation is too big a danger to this country to worry at this time about our other differences, real and important as they may be.
I plan to be attending the protest Tea Party here in San Antonio on April 15th. And yes, I may have to stand shoulder to shoulder with everything from rabid pro-lifers, to global-warming deniers, to crazy total free-marketers, to Ron Paul loonies. But I will. Because it’s important.
Here’s the promo for the event here in San Antonio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXGrQ9uiLSo
It’s no longer about party. It’s about the survival of our country. Maybe there will be a silver lining in this cloud - that by bonding together to stop the destruction of our country, party lines start to blur. We have to eventually be all about America and not about social issues that divide us IMO.
it helped me to think back to the Iraq War protests. I had moderate Republican and Libertarian friends who were just as apalled with that war, and how it was being conducted as I was. But none of them ever attended a protest. Why?
Because all the protests were organized by the far Left. And even though they agreed with our stand, they felt really uncomfortable standing around hearing Republicans in general being trashed along with the war. At the time, I remember thinking, “How asinine! How selfish! How short-sighted! People are dying! Bush is grabbing power hand over fist, and they KNOW it!”
But now the shoe is on the other foot, and the country I love is in danger. Now the same type of choice is MINE. Will I not join hands with whatever resistance I can find, in this time of peril? I’ve decided that I will. In hopes that in the days and years to come, I may once again be arguing with them, and railing against some of their policies. Because if I DON’T, we may not have a country left to argue over. Because if I don’t, I am really no different from the good sensible Republicans who sat silent while Bush began the destruction that Obama looks set to finish.
Tingles and 0lbamann in the same five minutes would be just too too much for me. Especially after so much Brazilla in the past two days. A girl just has to draw a line in the sand. SAY NO to the people who brought this to pass!
Woohoo! Excellent post, Susan.
i love N.Q.visit every day.thanks Susan
Susan–I particularly like noquarter because individual commenters don’t slam people they disagree with and I don’t detect any cliques. The more gentle response is helping me re-think some old beliefs.
Diana–I enjoyed reading about your memory as a baby of that fatal day. I was a high school senior. When a student came up to us and said “President Kennedy has been shot”, I said you shouldn’t be saying stuff like that. Then when we heard the report, we cried and felt that our world had come to an end. At a reunion, a classmate said that the world changed our senior year and hasn’t been the same since.
I really miss Uncle Walter (Walter Cronkite). At the end of his broadcast, he would give viewers a body-bag count (Vietnam fatalities). Even though our family had an Air Force pilot who was MIA, we still thought the public should be informed of the war’s realities and ultimate sacrifices.
It doubly pains me that greedy, self-interested Americans are attempting to take us down and may succeed. Are younger generations aware of what we may lose?
I was having that argument, about the younger generations, with a friend of mine this week. He called me and stated “what an amazing job his man Obama was doing.” He also told me he just had a new baby, and his young son just turned 2. I told him that “his man” Obama had just inflicted nothing but a crap lifestyle on his baby son and daughter, and generations thereafter. I don’t get what these people base this “he’s doing a great job” crap on. My friend is an AA and works in Hollywood, but still. By now it’s clear to even a rat with a lobotomy that generations to come will pay for Obama’s
idiocy“Presidency.”I don’t believe they do and it saddens me. I saw one of the video’s and how many young women had no idea what Roe V Wade was. So I did my own little experiment here. I asked my daughter and her friends, and my daughter in law and her friends. Only one of them, my daughter, knew what it was. You wouldn’t believe some of the answers I got, even from the ones that didn’t believe in abortion. Those that didn’t understand that there are some circumstances where there is no other choice.
I think I should have added the reason I believe that memory stayed in my mind was it was most likely the first traumatic experience I had in life. I remember my mother dropping the dish and it breaking. Her screaming. Then running in the room where I was. I was too young for it to really have an impact on me, but I remember the impact it had on my mother. It changed her forever. I’m sorry you had to experience that, I know he was deeply respected and loved by many.
Walter Cronkite-the best. And it looks like all the generations since, can’t produce any thing close.
Getting Weary Barry elected shows how far we’ve dropped. A facade, empty, greedy, selfish and mean society cannot do anything meaningful for others. Or, shall I say, won’t. And that is the point.
Thank you Suzanne. There are some very memorable moments on that video.
If Matthews voice could be masked and an X placed over his face, it would be even better.
Thank you Susan for the excellent post. I am probably the oldest poster on this site because I can remember all of what was on the video. I was in sixth grade when TV came to my rural area of southern Oregon. Our first TV was, I believe, a Motorola and had the oval screen. The TV wasn’t turned on until the evening hours and I vividly remember the McCarthy hearings.
My parents and their friends all gathered in front of our TV every night to watch the hearings. I remember the paranoia that these hearings caused. My parents and their friends were no exception to this paranoia. Anyone who dared disagree with anything McCarthy was testifying to was labeled a “Pinko” and everybody became suspect. I, of course was of a young age, and I couldn’t understand what all the hysteria was about.
Ahh, with age comes wisdom. I guess because my parents were such rigid Republicans, I just had to rebel and register as a Democrat. Now even though I am still a registered Democrat, I can’t identify with either party.