ABC News: Video: Good Morning America: New Jersey Judge Rules in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Erik Schneider

.
This post was originally posted at FRS FreeState on WordPress

Governor Chris Christie should just layoff of this same-sex-marriage case for a couple of reasons. One of them political and the other practical. The political one being that he’s the only Republican that may be able to win New Jersey and other states in the Northeast. And big states in the Midwest if he were to run for President in 2016. But he takes a hard stand against same-sex-marriage that would hurt him in his home state and the Northeast. Even if it helps him with the Christian-Right. The other being a practical one that he would probably lose an appeal in the New Jersey Supreme Court that probably has either a lot of Democratic appointees, or Republicans who are open to same-sex-marriage. There’s nothing for him to gain in pushing opposition to same-sex-marriage except for maybe fundamentalist Christians in the Bible Belt. That probably do not like him anyway because he’s Catholic and from New Jersey and perhaps even that he’s Italian. So he should just drop it.

Same-Sex Marriage

Same-Sex Marriage

Posted in News | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Bob Parker: ABC News 45-85- Post-World War II

Posted on September 28, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Ted Koppel
This post was originally posted at FRS Daily Press Plus

It would be another thirty-years until I was born when World War II was officially over in 1945. So it’s not like I can talk about post-World War II America with any personal experience. I’m going off of what I’ve learned about it from books, publications and documentaries. But this was a time when America came back and came back stronger than it ever was, at least to this point. The Great Depression was finally over and America was moving again. Emerging as the economic, diplomatic and military power of the world. Russia was obviously a major competitor to us from both a military and diplomatic perspective. But America was the power because of what we stood for.

America transitions from a depressing time of economic depression and war, to a period of peace at least abroad, but not at home. To where we were the military and economic power of the world. And where we could influence any part of the world that wanted what we already had. Peace, freedom an independent and developed economy. We rebuild Europe after Europe destroyed themselves. We rebuilt Japan after they attacked us and we practically destroyed them to end that war with them. America had it all from an economic and military perspective and were prepared to use it to further our interests around the world. When Harry Truman became President of the United States in 1945, he really was inheriting a powerful great giant of a country. That had never been stronger.

America was not just moving again, but moving to not just be as strong as we can at home, but abroad as well. Neoconservatives I think love this time, because America was fighting to expand democracy and freedom around the world. Not just in Europe, but in the Orient in Japan and the later Korea. America perhaps overestimating their strengths and power and underestimating China’s and Communist Korea by trying to unite all of Korea under a democratic system. And as a result we left Korea deadlocked between a communist North and a democratic South in the 1950s. But South Korea thanks to America, is one of the strongest countries in the world today as well. This was an incredible time when America almost seemed invincible.

Posted in American History | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

PBS NewsHour: Judy Woodruff: Mark Shields & Ramesh Ponnuru On Government Shutdown & Iran

Posted on September 27, 2013 by kireschneider

PBS_ NewsHour- Judy Woodruff_ Mark Shields & Romesh Ponnuru Discuss Government Spending Showdown, Iran _ The Daily TimesSource:PBS NewsHour– syndicated columnist and PBS NewsHour political analyst Mark Shields.

Source:The Daily Times

“Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor at The National Review, join Judy Woodruff to discuss the week’s top news, including the standoff in Congress over a federal spending bill, consequences of a government shutdown, warming U.S. relations with Iran’s president and a UN breakthrough on Syria.”

From the PBS NewsHour

“The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.[6] It is a nonprofit organization and the most prominent provider of educational television programming to public television stations in the United States, distributing series such as American Experience, America’s Test Kitchen, Antiques Roadshow, Arthur, Barney & Friends, Between the Lions, Cyberchase, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Downton Abbey, Elinor Wonders Why, Finding Your Roots, Frontline, The Magic School Bus, Masterpiece Theater, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Nature, Nova, the PBS NewsHour, Reading Rainbow, Sesame Street, Teletubbies, Keeping up Appearances and This Old House.”

From Wikipedia

The question in the House Republican Conference right now is whose in charge: the father (meaning Speaking John Boehner) or some of his little children the Tea Party Caucus. And right now it looks like the Boehner little children are in charge. And unless Speaker Boehner takes charge of his children, the Federal Government will shutdown next week.

Democrats will never agree to defund or repeal the Affordable Care Act just to do what the Federal Government is supposed to do every year that every other organization in the country has to do, which is pass an annual budget and pay their debts.

The Tea Party Caucus which seems to be running the House Republican Conference right now, has decided to try a last stand to repeal the Affordable Care Act. And put the rest of government at risk as a result.

Posted in Shields & Brooks, The Daily Times | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

CBS Sports: NFL 1986-NFC Final-Washington Redskins @ New York Giants: First Half

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Ederik Schneider

Source:Real Life Journal

I think the Redskins-Giants rivalry was my favorite NFC East rivalry of the 1980s. Because they were both Super Bowl contenders at the same time. Both big tough physical teams on both offense and defense, both very good on both sides of the ball. And both teams simply disliked each other, but also respected each other to the point that they always gave the other team their best effort which is all you can hope for a great rivalry. Which is what Redskins-Giants was back then and of course still is today.

As far as this game the Redskins defense played well enough for them to win only giving up seventeen-points. But when you don’t score anything, you can’t beat anyone and the Redskins had some opportunities on offense. Like dropping some deep passes down the field that probably would’ve resulted in touchdowns. WR Gary Clark comes to mind, but the Giants simply outplayed the Redskins in this game and deserved to win it.

I think home field advantage is overrated in the NFL, but Giants Stadium was a different story when the Giants were good. Because they were a powerful team on both sides of the ball and I’m talking about physically. And they were very good as well and size and strength plays very well in brutal cold weather. Especially when it is windy and you play on a really hard field like the Giants Stadium Astroturf. And then you throw in the fact that the Giants knew how to play with the weather in that stadium.

Posted in Real Life Journal, Redskins Classic | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The Onion: Senator Ted Cruz Fills Few Hours of Marathon Speech With Rousing Pro-ObamaCare Argument

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Erik Schneider

.
Source:The Daily Press

Only The Onion would report that Ted Cruz spoke in favor of so-called ObamaCare. Otherwise Senator Cruz could be both drunk and high and awake for seventy-two hours straight at the Guantanamo Bay Prison. And even forced to take truth serum and still find away to be against ObamaCare. Actually, maybe Senator Cruz’s speech happened at Guantanamo Bay Prison on one of his visit’s there after visiting his relatives in Cuba. And decided to stay back and give his big speech there, instead of flying back to Congress to speak on the Senate floor.

Or maybe Senator Cruz just ran out of things to say. That even phone books have a limited amount of pages that you can go through and read. And he was starting to fall asleep reading the phonebook, or got tired of listening to the presiding officer snore in their chair. Or perhaps the Senator just lost his train of thought. But actually he doesn’t much have much of a train of thought to begin with, because he keeps missing that train. And decided after going into every single thing that he doesn’t like about the Affordable Care Act, including a lot of the stuff that is actually not in the law, he would then go through what he actually likes about the law.

Me personally, every time I see a story from The Onion, I gotta take it with at least one train of thought. I realize they report more facts than Fox News even and perhaps are the most trusted news organization for Millennial’s. But hear them report that Senator Cruz, whose perhaps the most prominent Tea Party member in Congress, come out in favor of the Affordable Care Act, would be like hearing Rick Santorum come out on favor of prostitution and bigamy, in the same speech. But again you give a twenty-hour speech and anything can happen, including finally running out of stuff to say and saying things you don’t believe.

Posted in The Daily Press, The Onion | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

TSFF: Insight Prison Project

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Prison education is essential if we want inmates to be able to be successful on the outside. And not commit any further crimes and not hurt any further any innocent people because now they know. There’s no successful future for them as criminals that they are hurting themselves and their families while in prison. As they and their families are much better off with them on the outside living successful productive lives staying out of trouble.

Posted in Crime & Punishment, Originals | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Bret G 78: Video: NBC News: Nightly News-12/02/69: Hippie Cult Arrested

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Hippie Cult?

Hippie Cult?

← Back

Thank you for your response. ✨

NBC News: Nightly News-12/02/69: Hippie Cult Arrested – YouTube.

As it turned out even though some of the members of the Manson Family were hippies at least at the time. Before they grew up, this was really a crime family and one of the worst or successful depending on how you look at crime families ever. As far as all the people they murdered because they murdered and beat a lot of innocent people and did a lot of damage. In the Los Angeles area.

Posted in Mind of Manson | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Aileen Wuornos: ‘Aileen Wuornos on Death Row Gone Insane’

Posted on September 27, 2013 by Erik Schneider

Aileen Wuornos gone insane_ (2007) - Google Search

Source:Aileen Wuornos– on death row in 2002 or 2003.

“Interviewed one day before my execution, taken from the documentary “Life and Death of a Serial Killer” (2003) by Nick Broomfield”

From Aileen Wuornos

It is hard for me to tell if Aileen Wuornos was already crazy and had already lost it. Because she did murder seven men and had a horrible life where she was constantly abused her whole. Like a horrible childhood where she was a homeless teenager and was probably raped as a teenager. And this is just one last outburst before she was finally left to rest hopefully in peace after living in hell while she was alive. I believe she was already long gone here and just giving people one last outburst before she was put to death.

Posted in Originals, True Crime | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

CBS Sports: NFL 1986-Week 14-New York Giants @ Washington Redskins: Pat Summerall Intro

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Ederik Schneider
1986 Week 14 Giants at Redskins part 1

Source:NFL on CBS– The Giants and Redskins: Week 14 1986 at RFK Stadium. 

Source:Real Life Journal

“In a battle of two 11-2 teams the Giants beat the Skins 24-14 on their way to winning the NFC East and ultimately Super Bowl XXI.”

From NFL on CBS

One of the classic games in the great Giants-Redskins rivalry with the Giants winning at RFK 24-14. Breaking a trend in the rivalry where both teams would win at home every year. As well as the Giants sweeping the series. But the 1986 Giants were special and accomplished things they hadn’t accomplished in while like winning an NFL Championship for the first time since 1956. As well as sweeping the Redskins and beating the Redskins in Washington. And beating the Redskins in the NFC Final in a 17-0 shutout.

But this post is really about the Pat Summerall intro: he was the master at that and is no secret why he was the number one play-by-play NFL announcer at CBS Sports for what twenty-years. Because of his voice, his delivery and his simple great knowledge of not just the NFL, because he played himself, but because of his knowledge of the New York Giants, Redskins and NFC East more broadly, because he and John Madden did so many NFC East games together. Because they were the number one NFC broadcast team at CBS Sports and the NFC East was a great division back then.

Posted in Redskins Classic Games | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

NBA-TV: Video: NBA 1975-NBA-Finals-San Francisco Warriors vs Washington Wizards: Feature

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Ederik Schneider

.
This post was originally posted at FRS Real Life Journal on WordPress

The 1975 NBA Finals and perhaps the 1978 NBA Finals are two Finals the Bullets would love have to have back. Because they both cost them opportunities to be the NBA team of the 1970s. And being able to win three NBA Finals in that decade, instead of just the lone championship in 1978. When they lost to the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1971 Finals, I believe at least they lost to a better team. But in 75 and 79, they were the clear favorites going in and could’ve won both Finals in five games.

The 1975 San Francisco Warriors as I called them, I guess they could now be called the Oakland Warriors since they play in Oakland, but the 75 Warriors were a very good team. Great player in Rick Barry, sort of like the Larry Bird of the 1970s with his ability to shoot, pass and handle the ball at the small forward position. A great head coach in Al Attles and a very good supporting case around Barry. But the Bullets had the better team and better players, but were simply beat in this series.
Oakland Warriors

Posted in Wizards Classic | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment