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This Just in from our College Station Correspondent, Don Arnold
retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 17, 2012 | Bryan TX

Don Arnold shared Support our troops or get the f-k out's photo.

via Sean M. Hanley who wrote - 'Been there. Done that.' and 'When we actually had to burn and stir shit in Iraq I was like no way we still do this!!!! Does keep you warm at night though. Lmao'

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  Don Arnold In the "Boy was I glad" category: When the US draft ended - Wiki says '... During the 1968 presidential election, Richard Nixon campaigned on a promise to end the draft.[53] He had first become interested in the idea of an all-volunteer army during his time out of office, based upon a paper by Professor Martin Anderson of Columbia University.[54] Nixon also saw ending the draft as an effective way to undermine the anti-Vietnam war movement, since he believed affluent youths would stop protesting the war once their own probability of having to fight in it was gone.[55] There was opposition to the all-volunteer notion from both the Department of Defense and Congress, so Nixon took no immediate action towards ending the draft early in his presidency.[54]
  
  Instead, the Gates Commission was formed, headed by Thomas S. Gates, Jr., a former Secretary of Defense in the Eisenhower administration.[54] Gates initially opposed the all-volunteer army idea, but changed his mind during the course of the 15-member commission's work.[54] The Gates Commission issued its report in February 1970, describing how adequate military strength could be maintained without having conscription.[53][56] The existing draft law was expiring at the end of June 1971, but the Department of Defense and Nixon administration decided the draft needed to continue for at least some time.[56] In February 1971, the administration requested of Congress a two-year extension of the draft, to June 1973.[57][58]
  
  Senatorial opponents of the war wanted to reduce this to a one-year extension, or eliminate the draft altogether, or tie the draft renewal to a timetable for troop withdrawal from Vietnam;[59] Senator Mike Gravel of Alaska took the most forceful approach, trying to filibuster the draft renewal legislation, shut down conscription, and directly force an end to the war.[60] Senators supporting Nixon's war efforts supported the bill, even though some had qualms about ending the draft.[58] After a prolonged battle in the Senate, in September 1971 cloture was achieved over the filibuster and the draft renewal bill was approved.[61] Meanwhile, military pay was increased as an incentive to attract volunteers, and television advertising for the U.S. Army began.[53] With the end of active U.S. ground participation in Vietnam, December 1972 saw the last men conscripted, who were born in 1952[62] and who reported for duty in June 1973. On February 2, 1972, a drawing was held to determine draft priority numbers for men born in 1953, but in early 1973 it was announced that no further draft orders would be issued. In March 1973, 1974, and 1975 the Selective Service assigned draft priority numbers for all men born in 1954, 1955, and 1956, in case the draft was extended, but it never was...'
  
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  end the draft.[53] He had first become interested in the idea of an all-volunteer army during his time out of office, based upon a paper by Professor Martin Anderson of Columbia University.[54] Nixon also saw ending the ...

mOOpIG mOVIE rEVIEWS -- FROST-X-NIXON, Ron Howard from Happier Days checks in

Frost \ Nixon 2008 directed by Ron Howard
by Pat Darnell | Bryan TX
All await reprisal for abuse of faith of our Fathers, I watched Ron's latest miracle work. Ron Howard has my attention almost all the time. Maybe it's because of a barefoot boy throwing stones across a fishing pond; or an anthem that could raise a face to pucker and whistle along.
Questions --
How did one become a suffix? How did Nixon become a suffix "-Gate" for every dysfunction in government? I am proud, it turns out, for Ron Howard never abandoning moral dilemma. The movie is not a "re-enactment."

Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time in office and the Watergate scandal that ended his presidency. [HERE; IMDb]

Ron Howard mentions this in our epilogue. He undoes what was did; and makes us believe. Believe what?

Deconstructed Nixon -- that's what --

"I should have been the visceral interviewer," says Nixon at curtain call, "and you, David, should have been the politician. Do you enjoy those parties you throw every year? It is a rare gift to like other people, and be liked in return. [paraphrased]"

One gets the gist of what turns out a working man duel. If I were the other working man, I would most likely be Nixon, in over my head, social misfit.

Only this time each cannot make a wide arcing detour around snobs. Faceless, nameless, "snobs" who would put it all to their special interests agency's, like trained dogs, out for a piece of flesh. People invented, or, real people -- never mind -- our protagonist thinks they exist, and are due a pound or two of his flesh.

Yes a piece of Nixon, in my humble calculations, would fetch a large sum on eBay today. It has for Ron Howard and crew, no?

Nixon blew the whistle on himself, as it turns out. He had a great deal of nerve, Nixon did. But his personality has him confess his betrayal of self, country and Americans. This is a great case for the unreal solution: "Wow, Dick, if only you had visited the future to see how bad it really is."

For this fortnight Richard Nixon is well-played by actor Frank Langella. There is no over the top comedian stuff going on. It is a broadside of crankiness we will well remember after the credits roll. Michael Sheen as David Frost? Eh. As for the rest -- Eh.

HOW TO MEASURE Happy Days?
Yow-zzzer Yow-zzzer Yow-zzzer says the red head, who was Opie. "Pop," goes the bottled soda; "Oops, darn it" slips the Mouth.
In the end ...
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger.... and the tale ends as a moral; with adjustments for loneliness, swollen faced despair, and haunted eyes. And one feels a million miles away, like a friend says steel on steel rides, only to find we have yet to leave the train station platform.
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I Gave them a Sword ...

Ferdinand the Bull
Adapted from the story by Munro Leaf
Play and lyrics by Karen Zacarias
Music by Deborah Wicks La Puma
Even the youngest children will be enchanted by this sweet tale of a Spanish bull that would rather take care of his flowers than fight! The score incorporates a variety of Spanish musical styles, including flamenco guitar, and the pun-filled dialogue includes lots of Spanish vocabulary words. In this fun and imaginative adaptation, including a pig named Cochina who wants to be a star, and a young matador who would rather be a dancer, everyone learns to be true to themselves.

MooPig has a severe boredom problem with what others are all talking about currently ... and in context of current events, nothing very much excites old MooP... It turns out MooPig, with Moo on the outside, spends most of his days grazing lazily on clover and pansies, picking a petal or leaf with a snuff from his big bull nose, saying, "She loves me ... she hates me... she loves me ... she hates  me."

As each petal disappears into the production of Bull Stuff, each new thought has origin in that rhythm of cutting, and pudding.

Next time you look at R M Nixon from the old days, after Watergate,  ... use the imprint of the old, lovesick, torn bull on the pasture, a stones' throw from the action, pining away the hours, ignoring the present.

Lost his will to fight, forever, retiring and growing older in the passing of hours.

Prez-dental De Bats, SurveyUSA and You

UFC: Ultimate Flagellating Campaigns, by Pat Darnell

The first general election presidential debate was held on September 26, 1960, between U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy, the Democratic nominee, and Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican nominee, in Chicago at the studios of CBS' WBBM-TV. See the picture in MooPig Header this week. That debate is well documented everywhere.

Had there been a reliable instant survey system in 1960 like there is today it would have been like this map: of course one has to reverse the colors for Party control. JFK was an overnight rock star...
Winning this debate has its drawbacks; MooPig will take you through the reason for not winning this talkie.

[Note: Debate on Sep 26, 1960 plus November 22, 1963: That's only 35 months before JFK was assassinated in Machiavellian context.]

This is what SurveyUSA says abou titself:
"...an independent, non-partisan, full-service opinion research firm that conducts scientific research for media, government, and private-sector clients. By many measures, SurveyUSA is the nation’s largest public opinion polling firm. As of 2002, 19 of the nation’s then 25 largest media companies had contracted with SurveyUSA to conduct opinion research.

SurveyUSA wrote software from 1990 to 1992 to make it possible for local TV news stations and others to order true random-sample research, of any geography, on a topic of local, national or international interest, at a moment’s notice, and, when methodologically appropriate, get back results the same day, in time for that night’s news deadline.

Prior to SurveyUSA, opinion research was slow and expensive, and only TV networks and the largest newspapers could afford to undertake them. SurveyUSA reduced the turnaround time and cost by an order of magnitude, without a sacrifice in quality.

SurveyUSA has published this map afterwards and now we have the Oedipus Effect...


A question comes to the frontal lobe of MooPig Editors: "Why again do we have a two party system government?"

This last map looks like a "good water versus bad water" map of the USA.

MooPig ran its own "fifty states" qualitative survey [not really] and came up with a more "descriptive" survey map of the whole world.

We then slyly included this little agrarian area of Italy, and they said: "Obama -- that's the Dego in Charge?"

So they all voted for McCain.









After all this exhaustive Surveying, MooPig has a final conclusive statement: "Whoever wins the Televised Prez-dental DeBate will die in an obvious Mobster-like Hit within 36 months after the debate.."

Part 3: Vacationing like the Kennedy's: One thing I have always wondered...

Are limericks part of Japanese Opera? Well, Sock it to Me, anyway !!


{---Photo: Nixon and Elvis but nothing could out-suave the Kennedy curve
"Sock it to me?" was 1968, and I couldn't believe it! The presidential campaign between former Vice President Richard Nixon and current Vice President Hubert Humphrey was on. It would be a very close contest. And there is Nixon, the politician with the omnipresent unshaven look, the man one wouldn't "buy a used car from" on Laugh In,..."
"Perhaps when Nixon asked us to "sock it" to him, he had in mind another politician. A politician who clearly "had" it. A politician who,who along with Nixon, arrived as a member of the House of Representatives in Washington in 1946. A politician whose rise was not quite as swift as Nixon's ascent to the Senate and then the Vice Presidency. But, a politician who had it all — wealth, boyish good looks, a stunning wife, and an easy going affability which masked a powerful ambition — John F. Kennedy. JFK. Even his initials bespoke a certain dash. Kennedy was cool as upstanding Nixon knew he could never be.

Presidential press conferences are a kind of performance art. President Nixon's were formal and often contentious. Kennedy's meetings with the press were polished performances, yet natural and, it seemed, unpracticed. Twice a month or so I watched Kennedy's suave sophistication as he tossed out bon mots and facts galore. He wowed us. He was cool. But he was also hot, like a pop star."

Carlini's Comments: Business leaders can learn from historical insights

James Carlini

August 18, 2006

Match the quote with the right person
Who do you think uttered the following quotations? While some of them had a huge impact, the sources mostly are forgotten. Hopefully, your own set of biases and personal experiences won't cloud your judgment. These quotes came from BrainyQuote.com, and the answers are at the end of this column.

1 Quotation: "Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, [and] until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact."

Who said it? Jesse Jackson Sr.? Malcolm X? Chris Rock? Henry Ford? Martin Luther King, Jr.? Lyndon B. Johnson? Spike Lee? Jon Stewart?

2 Quotation: "I would have made a good pope."

Who said it? Jimmy Swaggart? George C. Scott? Richard M. Nixon? Mother Theresa? Martin Sheen? Charleston Heston? Oliver Stone? George Carlin?

3 Quotation: "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."

Who said it? Teddy Roosevelt? Pat Buchanan? Dick Cheney? Harry S. Truman? Bill O'Reilly? Jay Leno? Al Sharpton? Clint Eastwood?

4 Quotation: “Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.”

Who said it? Teddy Roosevelt? Joseph P. Kennedy? Pat Buchanan? Dick Cheney? Harry S. Truman? Bill O'Reilly? Jay Leno? Al Sharpton? Clint Eastwood?

5 Quotation: "For if we stumble and fail, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin."

Who said it? Albert Einstein? Andrew Jackson? Lyndon B. Johnson? George W. Bush? Henry Cabot Lodge? Rudy Giuliani? George S. Patton? Condoleezza Rice? Bill O'Reilly?

6 Quotation: "It is no use… saying, `We are doing out best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Who said it? Rudy Giuliani? Winston Churchill? Ray Nagin? Al Sharpton? Jimmy Carter? Hillary Clinton? Patti Labelle? Douglas MacArthur? Donald Trump?

7 Quotation: "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."

Who said it? Hillary Clinton? Alec Baldwin? Johnny Cochran? Johnny Cash? Frank Zappa? F. Lee Bailey? H. Ross Perot? Johnny Depp?

8 Quotation: "Better to fight for something than to live for nothing."

Who said it? Malcolm X? Lech Walesa? George S. Patton? Osama bin Laden? John Wayne? Robert E. Lee? Tony Blair? Martha Stewart?

9 Quotation: “I have no political ambitions for myself or my children.”

Who said it? Teddy Roosevelt? Joseph P. Kennedy? Pat Buchanan? Dick Cheney? Harry S. Truman? Bill O'Reilly? Jay Leno? Al Sharpton? Clint Eastwood?

10 Quotation: "…but there are advantages of being elected president. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified top secret."

Who said it? Bill Clinton? Harry Truman? George W. Bush? Jimmy Carter? Ronald Reagan? Dwight D. Eisenhower?

11 Quotation: "A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hardcore unemployed."

Who said it? Woodrow Wilson? Donald Rumsfeld? George S. Patton? Trent Lott? Donald Trump? John F. Kennedy? Richard M. Nixon? Dick Cheney? Bill O'Reilly?

12 Quotation: "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."

Who said it? Ted Turner? Frank Zappa? Martha Stewart? Donald Trump? Henry Ford? Harry S. Truman? Joan Rivers? Ronald Reagan?

13 Quotation: "When they call roll in the U.S. Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer `present' or `not guilty.'"

Who said it? Newt Gingrich? Rush Limbaugh? Jon Stewart? Teddy Roosevelt? John Gotti? Dick Cheney? Jimmy Hoffa? J. Edgar Hoover?

14 Quotation: "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and white notes together."

Who said it? Steve Allen? Chuck Berry? Paul McCartney? Elton John? Richard M. Nixon? Dave Brubeck? Courtney Love? Alec Baldwin? Celine Dion?

15 Quotation: "The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity."

Who said it? Ulysses S. Grant? Yasser Arafat? Grover Cleveland? George S. Patton? Nikita Khrushchev? Charles De Gaulle? Dan Rather?

16 Quotation: "A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for us all."

Who said it? John F. Kennedy? Ronald Reagan? Nikita Khrushchev? George W. Bush? Margaret Thatcher? Donald Rumsfeld? Colin Powell?

How well did you score? Here are the answers: 1Lyndon B. Johnson; 2Richard M. Nixon; 3Teddy Roosevelt; 4Joseph P. Kennedy: 5Henry Cabot Lodge; 6Winston Churchill; 7Frank Zappa; 8George S. Patton; 9Joseph P. Dennedy; 10Ronald Reagan; 11John F. Kennedy; 12Frank Zappa; 13Teddy Roosevelt; 14Richard M. Nixon ; 15Grover Cleveland; 16Margaret Thatcher.

Carlinism: As Churchill once said: "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
(retrieved from here today: http://wistechnology.com/articles/3248/ )

Just look at those nicknames for the oldest pop culture politicians: almost like metal tags for players -- Teddy, Maggie, LBJ, Tricky Dick, Lion, FZ... huh?. mpw/pd