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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Robert Anthony Snow, Requiem in Pace, 7-12-2008
The Big C snuffs out another bright light from the world. Farewell, Tony.
Cross post excerpt from FOX News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,381250,00.html
Tony Snow, Former White House Press Secretary and FOX News Anchor, Dies at 53
Saturday, July 12, 2008 
Tony Snow, the former White House press secretary and
conservative pundit who bedeviled the press corps and charmed millions
as a FOX News television and radio host, died after a long bout with
cancer. He was 53.
A syndicated columnist, editor, TV anchor, radio show host and musician, Snow worked in nearly every medium in a career that spanned more than 30 years.
"Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of our dear friend, Tony Snow," President Bush said in a statement. "The Snow family has lost a beloved husband and father. And America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character."
Robert Anthony Snow was born June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., the son of a teacher and nurse. He graduated from Davidson College in 1977 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, and he taught briefly in Kenya before embarking on his career as a journalist.
Snow died at 2 a.m. Saturday at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.
Snow is survived by his wife, Jill Ellen Snow (Walker), whom he married in 1987; their son, Robbie; and daughters, Kendell and Christie.
Click [HERE] to read the whole article from FOX News.
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Other pages about Tony Snow:
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/07/12/tony-snow-rip/
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Friday, June 06, 2008
Roosevelt's D-Day Prayer
Here is the Invasion Day prayer of a different stripe of Democrat for our nations soldiers going into combat. FDR was no socialist like the current crop.
My Fellow Americans:
Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.
And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:
Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.
Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.
They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.
They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.
For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.
Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.
And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.
Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.
Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.
And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.
And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.
With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.
Thy will be done, Almighty God.
Amen.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944
Monday, May 26, 2008
Today on this Memorial Day let us remember...
For another Memorial Day Tribute see:
On this Memorial Day...
My political statement and pictorial essay:
The nation owes a debt of gratitude to all those who served in our nations military service and died for the ungrateful wretches that are in elected office in D.C.
Some proud of America, some not so proud...
...and that we have politicians in D.C. who are willing to flush this away!
All three current stooge candidates for president are willing to pander to criminals. All 3 have a 100% pro-amnesty voting record.
Let us also remember and be vigilant... our people are not fighting and dieing to have it all given away.
He wants your citizen rights... yours will go away in favor of his if any of the stooges has a say!
Bush tried and failed but we have a congress full of panderers who will continue to try. And there are three candidates still standing, all of whom dearly want to give away your citizen rights to criminals.
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Sunday, April 06, 2008
Charlton Heston: Moses, Ben Hur, dead at age 84 (Oct 4 1923 - April 5 2008)
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Film legend Charlton Heston dead at 84
By BOB THOMAS, AP Writer and Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle
LOS ANGELES - Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.
The actor died Saturday night [April 5, 2008] at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said.
[note: The previous reports were that he had withdrawn from public life because of Alzheimers. There were no further reports after that.]
"Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played," Heston's family said in a statement. "No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession, and to his country."
Publicist Michael Levine, who represented Heston for about 20 years, said the actor's passing represented the end of an iconic era for cinema.
"If Hollywood had a Mt. Rushmore, Heston's face would be on it," Levine said. "He was a heroic figure that I don't think exists to the same degree in Hollywood today."
The actor assumed the role of leader offscreen as well. He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and chairman of the American Film Institute and marched in the civil rights movement of the 1950s. With age, he grew more conservative and campaigned for conservative candidates.
He headed the Hollywood delegation in the 1963 civil rights march on Washington. Before that, he'd participated in smaller, less publicized civil rights demonstrations and arranged a meeting between the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and officials of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees to discuss opening the union to blacks.
Heston had a political change of heart in 1964. As he told it in speeches and in his 1995 autobiography, In the Arena, his conversion was not unlike Saul's on the road to Damascus.
Whenever his conversion occurred, Heston marched for civil rights began to campaign vigorously for conservative causes, and became an opponent of government sponsored discrimination and spoke out often and eloquently about what he saw as an erosion in America's moral fiber.
In June 1998, Heston was elected president of the National Rifle Association, for which he had posed for ads holding a rifle. He delivered a jab at then-President Clinton, saying, "America doesn't trust you with our 21-year-old daughters, and we sure, Lord, don't trust you with our guns."
Heston stepped down as NRA president in April 2003, telling members his five years in office were "quite a ride. ... I loved every minute of it."
Later that year, Heston was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. "The largeness of character that comes across the screen has also been seen throughout his life," President Bush said at the time.
He liked to the cite the number of historical figures he had portrayed:
Andrew Jackson ("The President's Lady," "The Buccaneer"), Moses ("The Ten Commandments"), title role of "El Cid," John the Baptist ("The Greatest Story Ever Told"), Michelangelo ("The Agony and the Ecstasy"), General Gordon ("Khartoum"), Marc Antony ("Julius Caesar," "Antony and Cleopatra"), Cardinal Richelieu ("The Three Musketeers"), Henry VIII ("The Prince and the Pauper").
At his birth in a Chicago suburb on Oct. 4, 1923, his name was Charles Carter. His parents moved to St. Helen, Mich., where his father, Russell Carter, operated a lumber mill. Growing up in the Michigan woods with almost no playmates, young Charles read books of adventure and devised his own games while wandering the countryside with his rifle.
Charles's parents divorced, and she married Chester Heston, a factory plant superintendent in Wilmette, Ill., an upscale north Chicago suburb. Shy and feeling displaced in the big city, the boy had trouble adjusting to the new high school. He took refuge in the drama department.
"What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people," he said in a 1986 interview. "In those days I wasn't satisfied with being me."
Calling himself Charlton Heston from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's last name, he won an acting scholarship to Northwestern University in 1941. He excelled in campus plays and appeared on Chicago radio. In 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Force and served as a radio-gunner in the Aleutians.
In 1944 he married another Northwestern drama student, Lydia Clarke, and after his army discharge in 1947, they moved to New York to seek acting jobs. Finding none, they hired on as codirectors and principal actors at a summer theater in Asheville, N.C.
Back in New York, both Hestons began finding work. With his strong 6-feet-2 build and craggily handsome face, Heston won roles in TV soap operas, plays ("Antony and Cleopatra" with Katherine Cornell) and live TV dramas such as "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth," "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Of Human Bondage."
Heston wrote several books: "The Actor's Life: Journals 1956-1976," published in 1978; "Beijing Diary: 1990," concerning his direction of the play "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" in Chinese; "In the Arena: An Autobiography," 1995; and "Charlton Heston's Hollywood: 50 Years of American Filmmaking," 1998.
Besides Fraser, who directed his father in an adventure film, "Mother Lode," the Hestons had a daughter, Holly Ann, born Aug. 2, 1961. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1994 at a party with Hollywood and political friends. They had been married 64 years when he died.
In late years, Heston drew as much publicity for his crusades as for his performances. In addition to his NRA work, he campaigned for Republican presidential and congressional candidates and against government sponsored racial discrimination. He championed racial equality when George Wallace and Robert "Sheets" Byrd were the most public faces of racial hatred and discrimination.
other news permalinks:
Legendary actor Heston dies at 84 - http://www.chron.com/ disp/ story.mpl/ front/5678119.html
Latest on Charlton Heston - Bloggin on down the Rogue (Nov 30 2006)
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008
William F Buckley Jr - Rest In Peace
Here is a statement on the passing of Bill Buckley from Saul Anuzis, Michigan GOP Chairman
told at the end of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis. There is no
doubt in my mind that on a beautiful day in 1925 God went back to work and
with His best effort made William F. Buckley, Jr. Now, God welcomes His
very good creation back after an incredible life in which Buckley helped to
create the modern conservative movement.
thousands of grassroots members who are saddened at the passing of a man
whose intellect and ability to communicate basic conservative ideas and
values changed our state, nation and world. Buckley practiced his
conservatism with élan and style. When I was a young conservative in
college, watching Firing Line and reading National Review, I thought Buckley
made conservatism cool. Later, conservative lions like Bill Buckley and
Russell Kirk inspired Governor Engler to lead a conservative renaissance in
Michigan in the 1990s.
study. We can only imagine his last thoughts and wishes, but I think we can
all honor his memory and build his legacy by working even harder to rebuild
the conservative movement. More than anything, Buckley understood the power
of ideas, and now it is our job to keep up the fight to make elections about
ideas and substance, not about rhetoric and personality.
to his brother Christopher and the entire Buckley family. Be assured that
you are in our prayers.”
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