ABC News: ‘Everett Dirksen’s Washington (1968)’

Source:C-SPAN- ABC News anchor Howard K. Smith, interviewing U.S. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, in 1968.

Source:The Daily Post

“Everett Dirksen’s Washington

January 2, 1968

A tour of the U.S. Capitol with Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen and ABC’s Howard K. Smith.”

From Documentary Fan 

When was the last time that a Congressional leader was loved and respected by both parties? That is how much Congress has changed since Everett Dirksen was there because he was loved and respected by both parties when he was in Congress and when he was the Senate Republican Leader. But now Republicans and Democrats in Congress tend to look at each other as enemies and not colleagues or even opponents.

Not many people being more familiar with how Congress worked than Everett Dirksen, who served a total of thirty-four years in Congress. Both in the House of Representatives and Senate. House from 1933-49 and the Senate from 1951-69. And was also Senate Minority Leader from 1959-69.

You might be able to say that Minority Leader Dirksen had all the power in the Republican Party in Washington in the 1960s. Excluding 1960 with President Dwight Eisenhower and 1969 with President Richard Nixon. You might be able to say that from 1961-69 Minority Leader Dirksen was the Washington power structure for the GOP. Because Democrats held the White House and both chambers of Congress from 1961-69 in this period. Huge majorities in both the House and Senate from 1961-67. Which meant for Congressional Republicans to get anything done in this period or to stop legislation that the Congressional Democratic Leadership was pushing, they needed both Leader Dirksen and the Southern Caucus of right-wing Democrats in Congress.

The 1960s was also a much different time as far as Washington politics and Congressional politics. Not all Democrats were liberal or progressive. (At least in the classic sense) The Democratic Party had the right-wing Southern Caucus in the House and Senate. The Democratic Party leaned Left, but had a large right-wing faction.

In the 1960s, not all Congressional Republicans were conservative, but certainly leaned right. And they had a progressive faction in the Northeast. Which meant for either President Jack Kennedy or President Lyndon Johnson to get things done in Congress, especially in the Senate, they needed Minority Leader Dirksen’s help to cutoff filibusters from Conservative Republicans and right-wing Democrats. And to bring along some of his Progressive Senators.

Similar to Senator Robert Byrd and Everett Dirksen was sort of the Bob Byrd of him time, but if neither one of them weren’t in Congress for so long, they could’ve both been Congressional historians. And of course a lot of the knowledge they picked up about Congress had to do how long that they were in Congress. Both serving in the House and Senate, but also because they both served in the Congressional Leadership.

So when you hear Everett Dirksen talk about Congress, you know you’re hearing from someone who actually knew what they were talking about. Someone who was not just respected, but loved by both Republicans and Democrats and someone who represents the best of our Congress and its two chambers.

Malcolm X Network: James Baldwin On Malcolm X (1963)

Source:JD Productions LLC- Nation of Islam Minister Malcolm X & I believe Bayard Rustin.

Source:The Daily Post 

"Malcolm X Debate with James Baldwin September 5, 1963" 

From JD Productions LLC 

Nation of Islam Minister Malcolm X's message here, is that integration by itself, should never be the goal of the African-American community. The goal should be freedom, whether they're living and working, as well as socializing, shopping, with European-Americans, or not. 

Minister X believed that Africans have the exact same amount of freedom and responsibility under law and under the Constitution, as European-Americans and that those rights and freedom should be enforced now. And that Africans shouldn't wait for Europeans to give them their rights and freedom, since they already have them under law and the Constitution.

Governor Mike Pence: 'Delivers Weekly GOP Address On How Obamacare Hurts Jobs'

Source:GOP Weekly Address- Governor Mike Pence (Republican, Indiana)

Source:The FreeState

"In the Weekly Republican Address, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana discusses how Obamacare is "costing jobs, discouraging investment, and making the future bleak for too many families" nationwide.  Unlike the Washington-knows-best mandates in Obamacare, Gov. Pence explains how his state has "lowered costs and improved outcomes" by "letting freedom and personal responsibility work together" through "a nationally--recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan."

From GOP Weekly Address

Again with ObamaCare, because that is all Republicans have to talk about. As well as some guy named Barack Obama. (Whoever the hell he is. I heard he’s the President of some country)

When you don’t have an agenda and policies of your own, at least an agenda you’re proud enough to talk about, you go on the negative to make the other side look worst than you are. “Hey, I know you don’t like us. But the other guy is worst, so you should dislike them more.” 

Governor Mike Pence, which is a good thing for Washington and Congress that he is no longer a U.S. Representative, is the perfect example of this. All the guy has in this short video is, “ObamaCare is bad” and his GOP talking points about cutting spending and regulations, taxes and everything else. Without being able to lay out what he’s actually done. How he’s cut spending, waste, and taxes.

National Review: Ana Navarro to U.S. Representative Steve King: ‘Get Therapy’

Source:National Review- Republican political strategist Ana Navarro on NBC News Meet The Press.

Source:The FreeState

“Republican strategist Ana Navarro had harsh words for controversial Iowa congressman Steve King on Sunday, telling the GOP lawmaker to “get some therapy for his melon fixation.”

King made headlines last month when he said of the children known as DREAMers — kids brought to the United States illegally — that “for every one who’s a valedictorian, there’s another 100 out there that — they weigh 130 pounds and they’ve got calves the size of cantaloupes because they’re hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert.”

Navarro continued her assault, arguing that King is “a mediocre congressman with no legislative record” and “the only time he makes national press is when he comes out and says something offensive about the undocumented or Hispanics.”

King returned the hostility, telling NBC’s David Gregory that his remarks applied only to drug smugglers, not to Hispanics at large. “If Ana understands the language, she should know that.” Navarro, who is Hispanic and served as the national Hispanic co-chair of the McCain campaign in 2008 and of Jon Huntsman’s campaign in 2012, retorted, “I’m not undocumented. I vote, congressman.”

From the National Review

The more Representative Steve King talks about immigration, the worst off Tea Party Nationalist Republicans and people with mental issues look in America. And perhaps people who smoke too much pot or drink too much and are struggling to keep a strong base with reality.

By trying to make Latino immigrants look like invaders or something that are Un-American and do not deserve to be in America and, the Steve King’s of the world look like very hateful, escaped mental patients. And as a result the better the chances for immigration reform in America because of how loony these Tea Party Nats look.

The more Republicans who are interested in immigration reform listen to people about it who are not on the Far-Right in the modern Republican Party or the rest of the country, the better the chances of immigration reform in America.

What you see in this video with Ana Navarro who is a Republican political strategist, who works for Republicans, (naturally) and Representative Steve King, who if he wasn’t in the U.S. House, would probably be a mental patient somewhere, what you see is Ana Navarro in touch with immigration and what needs to be done. With Representative King doing nothing, but repeating Far-Right talking points.

House Republicans: Weekly Republican Address 8/17/13- U.S. Representative Shelley Moore Capito

Source:House GOP- U.S. Representative Shelly M, Capito: R, West Virginia.

Source:The FreeState

"In this week's address, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) urges the President and Senate Democrats to support the bipartisan, House-passed delay of the individual mandate in the president's health care law. You and your family deserve the same relief the President recently gave to big businesses by delaying their employer mandate - it's only fair."

From House GOP

House Republicans, clearly know what they are against when it comes to healthcare reform. But haven’t figured out what they are for. Which will be a big problem for them as they consider shutting down government over defunding the Affordable Care Act. Or run against it next year when they are questioned about what they would do instead. Where’s the so-called party of ideas when it comes to health care reform?

Or maybe the House GOP loves the old health care system with how expensive it was more than the current system. And are just saying: “ObamaCare is bad and let's just go back to the old system. Where people can lose their health insurance simply because they need it.” But people don’t sign up for health insurance, simply in order to pay insurance companies. That they actually expected to be able to take out what they paid into once they actually needed it. Which is what insurance is about: putting money down, so you can have it and use it when you actually need it. Regardless for whatever it is that you are insuring.

Hoover Institution: George P. Schultz: 'Drugs, The War With No Winner'

Source:Hoover Institution- with a look at the so-called War On Drugs.

Source:The FreeState

"Former Nixon and Reagan cabinet member George Shultz offers compelling analyses on the topics of governance, the economy, energy, drugs, diplomacy, and nuclear security. In this how-to guide, Shultz charts a path to a better future for the United States and the rest of the world.

In Part 6 of an 8 part series, George Shultz points out that forty years of the failed war on drugs should be enough to stimulate debate on alternate approaches to this serious problem.

For more information visit:Hoover Institution." 

From the Hoover Institution

It’s good to hear a Republican and a Conservative, who worked for both President Richard Nixon, when the War on Drugs was declared and President Ronald Reagan, when the Drug War was escalated in the 1980s, like George Schultz, talk about the failures of the so-called War On Drugs. 

Listen to what Secretary Schultz says here. “We have forty years of experience and we know that the War on Drugs doesn’t work. That it’s a failure, that we have more people who use illegal narcotics than other developed countries and have higher rates of illegal drugs use than our competitors.” 

Now, George Schultz, was Secretary of Treasury for President Nixon and then Secretary of State for President Reagan. And even though he might be the best Secretary of State the United States has ever had, he’s not directly responsible for the War On Drugs.

But Schultz, was a very trusted member of both President Nixon’s and President Reagan’s cabinet and knew about the War on Drugs and saw reports about them. And is someone who is very interested in current affairs, especially as they relate to America. And has thought and researched a lot about issues other than economic and foreign policy. He knows about our high incarceration rate and how many of those people in prison are there for something relating t the War On Drugs. And that a lot of those people are there for simple usage, or possession. He knows what our narcotics issue was pre-War on Drugs and where we are forty years later.

So to hear someone with the depth of knowledge, intelligence, and experience as a George Schultz, who was a cabinet officer in both Richard Nixon’s and Ronald Reagan’s administration’s, who also happens to be a Conservative Republican, say the War On Drugs has failed and he was part of two administration’s where the War on Drugs was pushed real hard, is very refreshing. 

It is also very refreshing to hear someone of the background of a George Schultz, say we can do better. There are better ways and policies in how we deal with narcotics in America. That we shouldn’t be promoting narcotics usage, but at the same time we shouldn’t be holding people criminally responsible and sending them to prison as convicted felons, simply for using narcotics.

Cuiro Phile: ‘Unknown Biker Babe- in Head to Toe Leather’

Source:Cuiro Phile- the unknown biker chick.

Source:The Daily Post 

“Unknown babe in top to toe biker leather”

From Cuiro Phile 

I have no idea what show this is and it does look like a show and not a movie. But base on the accents I have to say this is German TV. 

Which is a shame and not that it is perhaps German TV, but that it is unknown and that the actress, the biker chick on this show and in this video is unknown. Because she plays a great looking biker chick head to toe in biker leathers.

The black leather jacket, the black leather jeans all laced up. A very sexy biker chick leathered up in biker leathers with the jacket, jeans and boots. Would’ve been nice to see her on her bike and riding the bike. As well as getting off her bike in her leathers. 

But still a very sexy leather biker babe. And just one example why I lover biker women, because they wear and love leather jeans and biker women tend to be very healthy and sexy. And look great in leather jeans and boots.