NFL Films: NFL 1978- Week 12- Philadelphia Eagles @ New York Giants: Miracle at The Meadowlands

Source:NFL Films- Eagles DB Herman Edwards, running in the fumble recovery for the Eagles winning TD.

Source:The Daily Press

"Miracle at the Meadowlands (New York Giants - Philadelphia Eagles 1978)"

From NFL Films

One of the interesting things about this game is that both the Eagles and Giants were still in the NFC Playoff race at this point. This was week 12 in the NF, but Giants only won one more game in 1978 finishing 6-10. The Eagles made the NFC Playoffs in 1978 for the first time since 1960, but they were a 9-7 wildcard team that won some games that they shouldn’t of, like this one being an obvious example of that. And perhaps lost some games they shouldn’t have. And without this victory, the Eagles miss the playoffs again in 1978.

The obvious facts here are the Giants shouldn’t have ran the ball at all. They already had a kneel down play with QB Joe Pisarcik falling down on the ball on first down and then for some reason they ran the ball for an eleven yard gain on second down. But Pisarcik falls down on the ball two more times and the ball game is over, because the Eagles didn’t have any timeouts left. This is a game that makes or breaks a team’s season, especially if they are a borderline playoff team or even a borderline winning team. Like the Eagles and Giants were in 1978.

Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Raquel Welch (2010)

Source:The Late Late Show- Hollywood Goddess Raquel Welch, all cracked up on Craig Ferguson.

Source:The Daily Press

“Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson 4/7/2010

Guests: Raquel Welch, Anna Torv, Brian McFadden.”

From The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson 

Raquel Welch, really is a true goddess. A woman now in her early seventies is still this hot, cute and sexy. Who is also a hell of an actress and entertainer in general, who is not just about her hot sexy looks. But had made a great career with her looks, but ability to act and entertain as well. She’s someone who was born with goddess looks and features, which probably got her in the door in Hollywood and got her a lot of work early on.

But I sort of her look at her like I look at a great talented athlete who gets noticed real quickly, but then takes full-advantage of that and make a great career for them self. Raquel, is a very good actress whose used her physical talents, let’s say to get herself parts and work, because directors want to work with her and use her. Because they know she’ll sell their movies and projects. But then does a great job in the roles that she gets. Because guys simply want to see her, but then they also can see that she can act, sing and make people laugh as well.

Raquel Welch, has truly made a great life and career for herself as a Hollywood goddess. Showing women of all sorts of backgrounds that if they work hard and take care of themselves and are responsible, they too can make a great career and life for themselves. Perhaps not age as gracefully as Raquel, but age well and not have to look like a senior citizen even if they already are one in years. The old cliche, “age is only a number”, could have been written for Raquel.

She’s not someone who was discovered in her twenties, but then burned out in her thirties, or dead in her thirties. She’s someone if anything is doing better now in her seventies than she did in her thirties. In some ways perhaps even sexier with great curves now. A woman at her age whose still a sexy baby, a hot baby-faced adorable women, in her seventies. Who can probably make women young enough to be her granddaughter jealous.

Only a goddess, or some made up Hollywood figure could still have that at this point in their life. But Raquel is the real thing who fully taken advantage of all of her abilities. 

Associated Press: Mark Hamrick: 'US Economy Adds 171K Jobs, Rate Rises to 7.9 Pct'

Source:Associated Press- looks like a woman applying for a job.

"U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and hiring was stronger over the previous two months than first thought. The unemployment rate inched up to 7.9 percent." 

From the Associated Press

The last jobs report before the 2012 general elections. A bad jobs report would've probably made President Obama's chances of getting reelected very difficult, even with the momentum he's built up since the Hurricane Sandy this week, with his poll numbers looking better in Virginia and. Florida. A bad jobs report would've looked like 50K jobs or even a bit more than that, with unemployment going back up to 8%. Especially if it were to go up in these swing states, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin. 

A good jobs report like today, 171K jobs created in. October, are the best number in like thirty months. This jobs report doesn't guarantee that President Obama will be reelected, but it builds on the momentum that he built this week and probably makes Ohio and Virginia look better. And make it more difficult for Mitt Romney to pull out Ohio or pickoff Pennsylvania, Michigan or Wisconsin. And this is just the politics of the jobs report.

The economics of this report are that it's another positive sign, along with the economic growth picking up last quarter, consumer confidence picking up as well, which means Americans are ready to spend money again, which means we'll probably see a boost in economic growth in the next quarter. Especially with the holiday season coming up. So it looks like 2013 could look very good economically for the United States when it comes to economic and job growth, whoever the President is.

CBS News: Bulletin- JFK Assassination Coverage :11/22/1963

Source:Britanica- with a newspaper article about the JFK assassination.

Source:The Daily Press 

"Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner." 

From Britannica 

"This video footage from the late morning - early afternoon of Nov. 22nd 1963 was taped live from CBS. As is often the case with such events, the initial reports prove to be the most accurate... 

Source:CBS News- longtime anchor Walter Cronkite, about to announce the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

From PIDMR Documentaries

CBS News had just gotten the word from either one of their correspondents that President John F. Kennedy had died from bullet wounds that he received from the assassin that shot him in Dallas, Texas, on this horrible November day in 1963. And their number one news anchor and the number one news anchor Walter Cronkite was about to announce it and was emotional in doing that.

Source:CBS News- longtime anchor Walter Cronkite, about to announce the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

You hate to have something like a presidential assassination, or any assassination really have to be the test of the quality of your news coverage or not. But unfortunately greatness only tends to come in times of tragedy and when you’re tested. Times of war and being under attacked, when riots are going on, a death in the family, someone being out of work like your father, or another close relative and you don’t know what the future is going to look like and you fear for it. But unfortunately that is how humans tend to operate. When we’re not tested we tend to be somewhat lax and go back to our everyday normal activities.

And I think our network coverage from CBS News, perhaps especially as they were our biggest news operation back then and NBC News and even the much smaller ABC News, they were all really tested without precedent in how you cover a tragedy like this. 

No precedent in how you cover a presidential, or any other assassination in the electronic age of broadcast news and network news. All they had is the training and resources that they had to work with when. Which was make sure their people are on the story and getting the information needed and make sure the network executives are giving you the network air time to cover the story.

The JFK assassination is not the only reason why Walter Cronkite is America’s newsman and why we haven’t seen a network news anchor as good since. But it is certainly a reason, because you really got to see how professional and great he was and had to be and couldn’t afford any mistakes. 

You also got to see his human side especially when he announced the death of President John F. Kennedy. And you got to see how hard of an announcement it was for him to make. 

Cronkite, personally knew Jack Kennedy and personally liked him. So it must have been announcing the death of one of your friends on live on national TV. With millions of people watching you and he did it as well as it could’ve been done.

VOA News: Ethan Chorrin- 'What Next for Libya'

 

Source:VOA News- "Voice of America (VOA) is a U.S.[1] multimedia agency which serves as the United States government institution for non-military, external broadcasting. It is the largest U.S. international broadcaster. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 47 languages which it distributes to affiliate stations around the globe. It is primarily viewed by foreign audiences, so VOA programming has an influence on public opinion abroad regarding the United States and its people." 

From Wikipedia

"WHAT NEXT FOR LIBYA"

After the murder of U S Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi, Libya, will Western governments "respond by disengaging, retreating or focusing only on the extirpation of radical elements?" That's the question asked by Ethan Chorin in a New York Times op-ed.  He's author of a new book "Exit the Colonel"  about the Libyan revolution and the last days of Moammar Gadhafi.

GUEST: Ethan Chorin: Author of the book, "Exit the Colonel." 

From VOA News

At risk of sounding corny, this is not the time to abandon Libya. Yes, the United States lost an Ambassador there and that of course is a tragedy, but that wasn't a result of the Libyan Government that now has a responsible government, but the fact that America didn't have adequate security there for the embassy. And the fact that the Libyan Government doesn't have adequate security yet, to avoid tragedies like this. 

What Libya needs now is for  America and Europe, as well as the Arab League to continue to work with the Libyan Government to help them get that economy going and give them military aid, as well as governmental aid so they can build up their government so Libya has the resources to able to govern and protect itself, so we can avoid tragedies there again. 

The last thing that Libya and the West needs is to see a failed State in a country thats as physically large as Libya and to see Libya become a terrorist state.

ABC News: Good Morning America: 'Gas Prices in America Expected to Plunge After Reaching Record Highs'

Source:ABC News- with a piece on gas prices in America.

"Mark Greenblatt reports lower prices at the pump are expected soon." 

From ABC News

A couple reasons why gas prices have been volatile, going up and down, mostly up lately, have to do with the economy going up and down and we are importing a lot of foreign oil. If we produced more of our own energy, across the board including in oil and gas, we could bring down our gas prices and keep them down, because we would be able to produce all of the energy that we would need to power our economy and country. We already produce plenty of energy on our own, but we could be doing a lot more with all the natural resources that this, huge, vast, great country, of 315 million people, that we have. 

ACLU: 'A Victory For Love: Federal Appeals Court Declares DOMA Unconstitutional'

Source:ACLU- Edith Windsor talking about her Federal court case.

"On October 18, 2012, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the so-called "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA) unconstitutionally discriminates against married same-sex couples. The law had been challenged by Edith "Edie" Windsor, who sued the federal government for failing to recognize her marriage to her partner Thea Spyer, after Spyer's death in 2009. Windsor and Spyer, a couple of 44 years, were married in Canada in 2007 and were considered married by their home state of New York." 

From ACLU

The so-called Defense of Marriage Act (which is really just the stop gay people from marrying act) is clearly unconstitutional. And for the life of me, I can't figure out why President Bill Clinton signed this damn law in 1996, other than that the 1990s were a little different from what they are today and even the 2000s politically and culturally and President Clinton wanted to get reelected and was worried that if he vetoed this law, it would hurt him with Independents. 

I'm not a lawyer, (obviously) but DOMA is unconstitutional because it violates the 14th Amendment Clause of the U.S. Constitution. And supporters of this law would say that gays don't have a constitutional right to get married. Well, neither do straights and at least lawyers on the Christian-Right movement, already know that. 

DOMA not only violates the 14th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause, because it creates two classes of Americans, gays and straights and says under law and according to the U.S. Government, straight people are more deserving of their constitutional rights, than gay people. Which is also clearly unconstitutional.