Gail Collins: The Roots are Back (New York)
We've learned that both parties like God and moms, particularly moms with humble roots. They both have faith that people who work hard and play by the rules can overcome exposure to secondhand furniture while they're in college. Otherwise, it's just a matter of whether you want to raise taxes and balance the budget like Clinton, or cut taxes and plunge us into a hopeless sea of debt like Bush.
Connie Schultz: Working-Class Wannabes (Creators Syndicate)
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's dad grew up in poverty, served in the Army and then worked at the Breyers ice cream plant while using the GI bill - big government! - to put himself through college. He described watching his daughters march in a Labor Day parade and then went on to brag about how he took on the public-sector unions and dared to "speak the truth to the teachers union." "Teachers," he said, "don't need to become rich and famous." Quite the news flash for all those rich and famous teachers I've never met.
Henry Rollins: Summer Be Gone! (LA Weekly)
Late summer is fired, blasted winds, beginnings, middles and ends -- all ending. For some it's a parting wave to youth, love, conquest and deathless time. In the face of this destruction there is revelation, epiphany, agony and exhaustion. Empty pursuits on fruitless plains in search of lightning, or perhaps even nothing.
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In 1847, Ignaz Semmelweis, a Hungarian physician, offended the established scientific and medical community with a suggestion that was rejected, only to earn widespread acceptance years after his death. What did he recommend?
Who is the only person in the history of the two major U.S. political parties to have been his party's nominee for both President and Vice President, but was never elected to either office?
Robert Joseph Semore "Bob" Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an American attorney and politician. Dole represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996, was Gerald Ford's Vice Presidential running mate in the 1976 presidential election. Dole was the Republican Party presidential nominee in the presidential election of 1996, but he lost to incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton.
Dole is the only person in the history of the two major U.S. political parties to have been his party's nominee for both President and Vice President, but who was never elected to either office.
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Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.; July 14, 1913 - December 26, 2006) was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974. As the first person appointed to the vice-presidency under the terms of the 25th Amendment (after Spiro Agnew had resigned), when he became President upon Richard Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974, he became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President by the Electoral College.
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Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. (May 27, 1911 - January 13, 1978), served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States.
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Bob Dole
Baron Dave (""Only in Washington, DC, could a 73-year-old man announce his retirement... and have it be considered a bold move." -- Sen. Christopher Dodd, re Dole in 1996) said:
Hmm.... that would be Bob Dole, methinks.
Oddly enough, I had met his predecessor, Nelson Rockefeller. I shook Rocky's hand when he was Gov. of New York. Haven't met Dole. I'd love to meet Ryan and laugh at him.
Charlie wrote:
Robert Dole was Ford's VP candidate in 1976, and Clinton's opponent for President in 1996, and lost both times.
He'd have made a better President than any Repug since at least Eisenhower probably, though as Chomsky as noted, Nixon would be considered a dangerous radical these days.
BttbBob is communing with nature.
Maurice answered:
Hubert Humphrey
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Bob Dole
Marian replied:
Gerald Ford
Sally said:
I'm gonna say, that President Gerald Ford became the only President of the United States who was never elected President nor Vice-President (by the Electoral College).
Yes, we here remember Jerry Ford quite well...
PS: Well, as Christ was plied with palms a week before He was crucified, the cross is up for President Obama - because he has held the economy steady in the face of the overwhelming odds left by the, 'Trickle Downer, Big Corporation" Republicans - and not yet produced the 'Pot of Gold.' Be afraid, be very afraid readers...
Adam answered:
Gerald Ford?
Dale of Diamond Springs took the day off.
ekimtod responded:
Gerald Ford
Steve in Sacramento replied:
It's Gerald Ford. "Watch your head" Oops!
MAM wrote:
This answer has me somewhat stumped. I think it is Gerald Ford, but I am not really sure of that.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Big Brother', then a RERUN'The Good Wife', followed by a RERUN'The Mentalist'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Football', then pads the Left Coast with local crap and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC fills the night with all RERUN'Once Upon A Time' all night.
The CW here fills the night with the 'Chabad Telethon'.
Faux has an old 'King Of The Hill', followed by a RERUN'The Simpsons', followed by another RERUN'The Simpsons', then a RERUN'Family Guy', followed by another RERUN'Family Guy'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', followed by another old 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another old 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers
[7:00PM] 'Into the West' (Manifest Destiny) FRESH
[9:00PM] 'Hell on Wheels' (The Railroad Job) FRESH
[10:00PM] 'Hell on Wheels' (The Railroad Job)
[11:00PM] 'Breaking Bad' (Live Free or Die) FRESH
BBC -
[6:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 1 - Ep 3 - Walnut Tree
[7:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 2 - Giuseppi's
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH
[10:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 10 - Sante La Brea
[11:00AM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 3 - Ep 4 - Flamangos1
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 10 - Zeke's
[1:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 6
[2:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 13 - Episode 7
[3:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 1
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 18 - Episode 2
[5:30PM] CLASH OF THE TITANS
[8:00PM] ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
[10:00PM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 4 - The Empty Locket NEW
[11:00PM] COPPER-Season 1 - Ep 2 - Husbands and Fathers
[12:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 3 - In the Hands of an Angry God
[1:00AM] COPPER - Season 1 - Ep 4 - The Empty Locket
[2:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 2
[3:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 3
[4:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 4
[5:00AM] TOP GEAR - Season 15 - Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NYC', 'Real Housewives Of NJ', 'Real Housewives NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Wedding Crashers', followed by the movie 'Get Him To The Greek'.
FX has the movie 'Step Brothers', followed by the movie 'Date Night'.
History has 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', 'Ice Road Truckers', followed by a FRESH'Ice Road Truckers'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-``Weird Al'' Yankovic Wears a Hawaiian Shirt
[6:30AM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[8:15AM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[10:15AM] The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
[12:00PM] Arrested Development-Sad Sack
[12:30PM] Arrested Development-Afternoon Delight
[1:00PM] Arrested Development-Switch Hitter
[1:30PM] Arrested Development-Queen for a Day
[2:00PM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[2:15PM] Teaching Mrs. Tingle
[4:15PM] Kung Pow: Enter the Fist
[6:00PM] Buffy the Vampire Slayer
[8:00PM] The Exorcist
[10:45PM] Teeth
[12:45AM] The Exorcist
[3:30AM] The Rapture
[5:45AM] Whitest Kids U'Know (ALL TIMES EDT)
Sundance -
[6:00A] The New Tenants
[6:25A] Sorry, Thanks
[8:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Radenroro: Bad is Better than Boring (Episode 1, Season 1)
[9:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Kara Janx: That Dress is Great if You're Going to the Prom With Justin Bieber (Episode 2, Season 1)
[10:00A] ALL ON THE LINE - Between the Sheets (Episode 3, Season 1)
[11:00A] Love Lust & Lingerie
[12:00P] Mammoth
[2:15P] Of Time And The City
[3:30P] A Film With Me in It
[5:00P] Sorry, Thanks
[6:35P] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
[8:00P] The Crucible
[10:05P] The Name of the Rose
[12:20A] Zift
[1:55A] The Crucible
[4:05A] Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
[5:30A] MAN SHOPS GLOBE - Holland/Belgium (Episode 4, Season 1) (ALL TIMES EDT)
SyFy has the movie 'Quantum Of Solace', followed by the movie 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World's End'.
British musician Paul McCartney poses during a decoration ceremony photo session at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012. Hollande decorated the former Beatle with a Legion of Honor award, France's highest public distinction which has been awarded to the likes of actor Clint Eastwood and singer Liza Minnelli and Barbara Streisand.
Photo by Philippe Wojazer
South Korean movie "Pieta", an ultra-violent story of a loan shark confronted by a mysterious woman claiming to be his mother, scooped the Golden Lion award for best picture at the Venice film festival on Saturday.
The other big winner on the night was Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master", loosely based on the early days of Scientology, which earned him a Silver Lion for best director and a joint best actor award for Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix.
All three prizes will be popular on the Lido waterfront, where critics praised Pieta's visceral portrayal of a twisted story of love and revenge, difficult at times to watch but also absorbing and moving in equal measure.
Hoffman, playing a character based on Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and Phoenix as his troubled, volatile protege, were clear front runners for the acting prize and both are expected to be in the frame when Oscar nominations are announced.
Hoffman rushed back to Italy to accept the awards on his own and his colleagues' behalf.
Director Amy Berg (L) and Dixie Chicks' singer Natalie Maines pose at the gala presentation for the film "West of Memphis" at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival September 8, 2012.
Photo by Brett Gundlock
Hustler magazine publisher, and self-described free speech activist, Larry Flynt is offering $1 million for anyone who will provide him with Mitt Romney's financial records.
Flynt, 69, has purchased full-page ads in Sunday's Washington Post and Tuesday's, September 11 issue of USA Today.
"What is he hiding?" the ad text reads, "Maybe, now, we'll find out." The ad also includes a phone number and email address where anyone with information can contact Flynt.
Back during the impeachment trial of then-President Bill Clinton, Flynt made a $1 million offer for evidence of marital infidelity against Republican members of the House who were leading the trial against Clinton. That offer led to incoming House Speaker Bob Livingston resigning after evidence of his own affair was publicly revealed.
In 2007, Flynt offered a financial reward for evidence showing that Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter had cheated on his wife. Vitter has remained in office, even after the evidence was made public.
Mariah Carey was late to the BMI Urban Music Awards, where she was the guest of honor, but that didn't stop other artists from literally singing her praises.
Fantasia Barrino and Eric Benet were among those who serenaded the star with her own hits. Benet performed "One Sweet Day" and the former "American Idol" sang "Hero" during the private ceremony at the Saban Theatre, where writers, producers and publishers of the year's top urban hits were recognized Friday.
Barrino stepped off stage and stood right in front of Carey in the audience's front row as she wailed the final words of the song. When she finished, they embraced.
BMI chief Del Bryant presented Carey with the music-rights organization's Icon Award for her outstanding songwriting that has resulted in 18 No. 1 singles and more than 200 million albums sold.
U.S. actor Philip Seymour Hoffman holds the Coppa Volpi for the Best Actor in the movie "The Master" at the 69th Venice Film Festival in Venice September 8, 2012.
Photo by Tony Gentile
Scholars at Amherst College in Massachusetts believe a collector may have what would be just the second known photo of Emily Dickinson.
The college says the collector, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought the photo in 1995 in Springfield. He brought it to the college's archive and special collections staff in 2007, and they've been researching it since.
Last month, it was publicly shown during the Emily Dickinson International Society conference in Cleveland, Ohio.
Nearly 17 years after O.J. Simpson walked away from his Los Angeles murder trial a free man, a prosecutor at the center of the case has alleged that the lead defense lawyer tampered with a crucial piece of evidence.
Former Los Angeles deputy district attorney Christopher Darden on Thursday accused Simpson's defense lawyer, the late Johnnie Cochran, of "manipulating" one of the infamous gloves that the prosecution said linked Simpson to the grisly double murder of his former wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
After Simpson struggled to fit the gloves on his hands - in one of the defining moments of the racially charged trial that captivated the nation - Cochran famously admonished the jury, "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."
On Thursday, during a panel discussion about the trial at Pace Law School in New York City, Darden, a member of the prosecution team, declared: "I think Johnnie tore the lining. There were some additional tears in the lining so that O.J.'s fingers couldn't go all the way up into the glove."
Darden said in a follow-up interview on Friday that he noticed that when Simpson was trying on a glove for the jury its structure appeared to have changed. "A bailiff told me the defense had it during the lunch hour." He said he wasn't specifically accusing anyone, adding: "It's been my suspicion for a long time that the lining has been manipulated."
Actor Bryan Cranston attends a news conference to promote the film 'Argo' during the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, September 8, 2012.
Photo by Fred Thornhill
The pounding surf and currents from Hurricane Isaac on a remote spit of Alabama shoreline has again revealed the wreckage of a schooner that ran aground in 1923, delighting curious tourists and locals.
The schooner Rachel and her eight-man crew ran aground near historic Fort Morgan on Oct. 17, 1923, during a tropical storm. The men were headed to Mobile after a stop in Cuba. While the men aboard the Rachel survived, others on nearby schooners weren't so lucky.
"A tropical storm much like Tropical Storm Isaac that we just went through was hitting the Gulf Coast and a large number of these schooners were out in the Gulf. One was sunk just off Perdido Key and the crew was lost," said Michael Bailey, historian for the Fort Morgan Historical society.
Because the Rachel was so far onshore, its owners could not salvage her, Bailey said. The owners tried selling the wreck with no luck. Later, the Rachel was burned. Bailey isn't sure who burned the ship or ship or why.
Although The Rachel was a common ship for her time, the wreck provides a unique look at what life was like along the Gulf Coast almost 90 years ago, Bailey said. He likened schooners of that era to the semi-trucks that fill interstate highways today. The schooners supplied many of the region's industrial and commercial needs. Bailey believes The Rachel had a load of lumber of when she ran aground.
Actor Victor Garber speaks at a news conference to promote the film ' Argo' during the 37th Toronto International Film Festival, September 8, 2012.
Photob by Fred Thornhill
The search for the grave of English King Richard III has uncovered a garden said to hold a memorial to the medieval monarch.
University of Leicester archaeologists announced that they have found paving stones that may belong to the garden of Robert Herrick, a mayor of Leicester who built a mansion and garden over the church where Richard III was buried. In 1612, a man named Christopher Wren visited Herrick and reported that the garden contained a 3-foot (1-meter) tall stone pillar inscribed, "Here lies the body of Richard III sometime King of England."
"This is an astonishing discovery and a huge step forward in the search for King Richard's grave," Philippa Langley, a representative of the Richard III society, said in a statement. "Herrick is incredibly important in the story of Richard's grave, and in potentially helping us get a little bit closer to locating it."
Richard III ruled England from 1483 to 1485, until his death in battle during the War of the Roses. He was interred in Greyfriars Church in Leicester, but the location of both the church and the grave were lost.
The last known historical record is Wren's description of Herrick's garden memorial from 1612. In 1711, Herrick's descendents sold the mansion. It was torn down in the 1870s and replaced by municipal buildings, according to the University of Leicester. The garden area seems to have remained undeveloped until the 1930s or 1940s, when it was paved over.
Roma women decorate a roasted piglet during the traditional ethnic Roma festival in Costesti, 210 km (128 miles) west of Bucharest, September 8, 2012. Following their tradition, thousands of Roma from all over Romania, which has Europe's largest Roma community, gather every year to celebrate the birthday of St. Mary, to make wedding arrangements for their sons and daughters and to show off their wealth.
Photo by Radu Sigheti
Shangri La calls to mind a secluded paradise, an exotic place that evokes the mysteries of the ancient Orient.
For the late philanthropist and art collector Doris Duke, her 5-acre retreat in Honolulu was that place. She used the name of the mythical oasis for her earthly slice of Eden on the edge of the Pacific Ocean and filled it with the art and architecture of the Islamic world that enthralled her all her life.
A selection of the artifacts she assembled is being shown for the first time outside the estate at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. "Doris Duke's Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and Islamic Art" opened Friday to celebrate the year of her 100th birthday and runs through Jan. 6.
The exhibit is intended to give a wider audience a look at the interplay among Shangri La's modernist 1930s architecture, its oceanside Hawaiian locale and the tobacco heiress' Islamic art collection, said Deborah Pope, director of the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art, which acquired the title to Shangri La after Duke's death.
Duke created the foundation in her will to promote the study and understanding of Islamic culture; Shangri La serves as a center for Islamic arts and cultures and is open for public tours.
A giant balloon of Brussels' famous Manneken Pis statue floats past Belgian Parliament during the Balloon Day Parade in central Brussels September 8, 2012. Giant figures representing well-known comic strip and Belgian characters are parading along the downtown boulevards, as part of trhe "Belgium Comic Strip Festival"
Photo by Yves Herman
In 2009, a one-year-old named Liam received a stuffed blue monkey as a toy from his grandparents. Ah-ah, as the monkey was named, became the Nebraska boy's prized possession. But Liam misplaced his beloved toy monkey on a trip that summer to the Rocky Mountains National Park.
In a video posted to Hypervocal, Liam's father explains that his son was "absolutely devastated" by the loss. "My wife called every place we stopped at, frantically looking for that little blue monkey. No one had seen him."
But three years later, Liam's mom made a seemingly miraculous discovery when she stumbled across what looked like the very same toy on eBay.
In fact, Liam's mom wasn't even sure it was the same toy he had misplaced; maybe it just looked remarkably like his. But after purchasing the toy for $29.99 (plus shipping), she examined it in closer detail. As it turned out, the toy had the same clipped tag and a singe mark left by Liam years before.
After quizzing Liam to see if he remembers losing Ah-ah, his mom then declares, "Ah-ah came in the mail today," and delivers the toy to her shocked son, who instantly bursts into tears, clutching the toy monkey tightly and asking, "Where did you find him?"
An Indian white tiger mother named Suraya Bara takes care of her cubs at the zoo of Liberec, September 8, 2012. Three rare white tigers were born here on July 1, 2012.
Photo by Petr Josek
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