Birthday Greetings To Jimmy Carter: Happy 98th to our 39th!

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Saturday October 01, 2022 · 7:10 AM PDT

2022/10/01 · 07:10

Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter receives a kiss from his wife Rosalynn Carter after a press conference in Plains, GA, 11 October, 2002 where he talked about receiving the Noble Peace Prize. A commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering was not only a guiding principle of his single, four-year term as 39th president of the United States, but the cornerstone of The Carter Center he founded 20 years ago to pursue his vision of world diplomacy. AFP PHOTO Steve SCHAEFER (Photo by STEVE SCHAEFER / AFP) (Photo by STEVE SCHAEFER/AFP via Getty Images) — President and Mrs. Carter

Former US President Jimmy Carter and former First lady Rosalynn Carter work on an model house for the benefit of Jimmy Carter Work Project 2001 in Asan 130 Km south of Seoul 6 August 2001. The Habitat humanity Jimmy Carter Work Project 2001 is leading a project dubbed World Leaders build, where 10 000 local and international volunteers will build 136 homes in six sites around South Korea. AFP PHOTO/Youn JAE-WOOK (Photo by YOUN JAE-WOOK / AFP) (Photo by YOUN JAE-WOOK/AFP via Getty Images)

James Earl Carter. Better known to the world as Jimmy. The 39th president of the United States of America and global humanitarian. Today this man celebrates his 98th birthday.

President Carter was something of a rarity in office in that he was among the very few presidents who was willing to tell the country what it decidedly did NOT want to hear.

He has also been the only former POTUS to use his notoriety to use his life outside the White House to serve humanity. In addition he is far and away the most published former president ever, with more than thirty books including one novel (a first for a former president) and a children’s book.

It is difficult to think of a president, certainly since the end of World War II, who drew a worse hand than President Carter, yet in so many ways he has been proven right. Just on energy alone it is staggering how on target he was.

So, let us wish our 3pth president to joys of a great birthday and celebration, and I will close this diary with a few photos of him, often with his lovely wife and life partner, our former FLOTUS,

Rosalyn at his side, doing the types of things that long

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put other former US presidents to shame.

Rock on, Mr. President, thank you for your service, and have a well deserved happy bi

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rthday!

LAGRANGE, GA - JUNE 10: Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalyn attach siding to the front of a Habitat for Humanity home being built June 10, 2003 in LaGrange, Georgia. More than 90 homes are being built in LaGrange; Valdosta, Georgia; and Anniston, Alabama by volunteers as part of Habitat for Humanity International's Jimmy Carter Work Project 2003. (Photo by Erik S. Lesser/Getty Images)

Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter building homes with Habitat for Humanity

Happy 74th Anniversary to Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

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Tuesday July 07, 2020 · 9:12 AM PDT

2020/07/07 · 09:12

Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter celebrate the news that the hostages will be released just minutes before Carter's presidency ends. January 20, 1981. — Our 39th President and his lovely wife and life partner in the Oval Office

This will be a short, but I hope very sweet, diary. Today, July 7, 2020 marks the 74th wedding anniversary of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. They are the longest married presidential couple in US history, and a firm testament to REAL family values!

Let us also not forget their years of dedicated service to humanity, and that President Carter is the earner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Just a few photos of this amazing couple who serve as a reminder of a time when decency and integrity lived at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Happy anniversary, President and Mrs. Carter!

Rosalynn Carter (L) , Former President Jimmy Carter (R)

VIOLET, LA - MAY 21: Rosalynn Carter (L) speaks as her husband, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter smiles after raising the wall on the 1,000th and 1,001st homes to be built by Habitat for Humanity on the Gulf Coast May 21, 2007 in Violet, Louisiana. Carter made waves May 19 when he said that the Bush administration "has been the worst in history", in an interview published in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

Former President Jimmy Carter and wife Rosalynn wave to the crowd at the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, on August 25, 2008. The Democrats formally opened their convention to crown Barack Obama as the first black presidential election nominee. The DNC is held 25-28 August. The DNC is held 25-28 August. AFP PHOTO Robyn BECK (Photo credit should read ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)

R.E.M. Trumps the World Leader Pretend

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Sunday February 17, 2019 · 12:08 PM PST

2019/02/17 · 12:08

If you went to college in the 80’s you probably listened to R.E.M.

For those of us who did go to college in the 80’s and were NOT chug-a-luging the Reagan Kool-Aid R.E.M. was something of a lifeline. For us the band from Athens, Georgia, were kind of the Generation X’s Beatles. Rushing out to buy the new R.E.M. album (albums, remember those?) was a ritual in our college years and into our post collegiate era.

And it was in the songs. They took a stand against the Reagan hype machine.

"Talk About The Passion," "Fall On Me,” "Cuyahoga," Exhuming McCarthy," "Finest Worksong," "Orange Crush" "World Leader Pretend." The list goes on.

"Welcomg To The Occupation" was a song against Reagan policy in Central America. Nearly 20 years later I was listening to the song and realized it could just as easily be about Bush policy in Iraq, but I digress a mite.

Unfortunately the band broke up in September 2011 and have left something of a void for us Gen Xers. But while the band no longer makes music together they are still fighting the good fight..

Yesterday t***p in his ongoing obsession with Twitter tweeted a video mocking many of his opponents accompanied with R.E.M.’s 1992 hit "Everybody Hurts."

The members of R.E.M. responded in kind. “World Leader PRETEND!!! Congress, Media–ghost this faker!!! Love, R.E.M.” tweeted the band’s official account. Added bassist Mike Mills, “So the meme’s fair use. I LOVE the 1st Amendment! Meme away, folks. But that takes nothing away from what a fraudulent con man @realDonaldTrump is. #WorldLeaderPretend.”

After filing a complaint on copyright violation, R.E.M. succeeded in getting the video removed from twitler’s feed.

Yes, in the grand scheme of things it is only a small victory, but sometimes these little ones need to be take one at a time.

So, I’ll let band member Mike Mills have the last word on this incident.

Winning? https://t.co/At7Hx4lFS4
Ã¢ÂÂ Mike Mills (@m_millsey) February 16, 2019

Sad News For Britcom Fans: Clive Swift Has Died

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Friday February 01, 2019 · 10:26 AM PST

2019/02/01 · 10:26

It is a sad day in Brticom land. Actor Clive Swift , best know as Richard Bucket, the long suffering husband of Hyacinth Bucket on the show "Keeping Up Appearances" has died. He was 82.

The show about a suburban, English wannabe snob, “Keeping Up Appearances” ran from 1990-1995 and has remained a staple of PBS stations everywhere across the United States. To date it has been the BBC’s most successful export around the world running in almost every country on earth.

So we say goodbye to “our Richard.” Farewell, Mr. Bucket, and enjoy those never ending brews with Onslow.

Turkish Referendum Discussion

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Sunday April 16, 2017 · 9:09 AM PDT

2017/04/16 · 09:09

There does not appear to be much in the way of discussion on the referendum underway in Turkey which will decide whether or not to grant Erdogan sweeping new powers. The latest results are extremely close:

#Turkey #referendum2017 unofficial results from #Istanbul
YES: 49.96%
NO: 50.04%
Ballots opened: 88.35%https://t.co/pCgJ7oPKXj pic.twitter.com/ngNdwIHu88
Ã¢ÂÂ ANADOLU AGENCY (ENG) (@anadoluagency) April 16, 2017

The results will have great reverberations in Turkey and throughout Europe. It would be interesting to get the thoughts of those here, particularly anyone with personal insight into Turkey and the situation there.

Eighty Plus Years of Presidential Quotes (with poll)

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Sunday February 12, 2017 · 12:09 PM PST

2017/02/12 · 12:09

Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, GHW Bush, Nixon, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama and Trump

One quote each from our last 14 presidents:

"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself." -- F.D.R.

"The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all. -- Harry Truman

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone.It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.” —Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." — JFK

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose." -- Lyndon Johnson

"The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker." -- Richard Nixon

"My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over." -- Gerald Ford

"America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America." -- Jimmy Carter

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." -- Ronald Reagan

"We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America." -- George H.W. Bush

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America." -- Bill Clinton

"America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life." -- George W. Bush

"There is not a red America or a blue America, there is only the United States of America." -- Barack Obama

"My daughter Ivanka has been treated unfairly by Nordstrom." -- Donald Trump

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Which of the above presidental quotes is your favorite?

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Which of the above presidental quotes is your favorite?

F.D.R

6 votes

Truman

0 votes

Eisenhower

16 votes

Kennedy

8 votes

Johnson

3 votes

Nixon

1 vote

Ford

1 vote

Carter

2 votes

Reagan

0 votes

George HW Bush

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Clinton

7 votes

George W Bush

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Obama

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Trump

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Que? Andrew Sachs -- Manuel of Fawlty Towers Dies: The Latest Finger From 2016

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Friday December 02, 2016 · 3:58 PM PST

2016/12/02 · 15:58

The late, great Johnny Cash gives us his impersonation of 2016.

2016 has not been kind and gives us the finger The list of legends it has taken from us is long and now it has taken Andrew Sachs — best known as the waiter in the BBC “Britcom” Fawlty Towers — from us after being diagnosed with vascular dementia in 2012.

There’s not much else to say. Fans of “Fawlty Towers” know what a loss this is. Let us pay tribute to out beloved Manuel here. He was from Barcelona, you know.

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