Archive for the '1940s' Category

How many recall when the Roman Catholic Church was at the vanguard of the labor movement?

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

 When viewed against what passes for televised theology today,
Fulton J. Sheen was was Thomas Aquinas.

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Image: (Bishop Sheen) bishopsheen.excerptsofinri.com; (hot dog) deusterco.com;(SEIU) 2.bp.blogspot.com via thewhitedsepulchre.blogspot.com

A Trip In Time & Homage to Bruce McCall…

Saturday, August 8th, 2009

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Images: (1) via blog.modernmechanix.com; (2) via paleo-future.blogspot.com(3) via blog.modernmechanix.com(4) via dself.dsl.pipex.com; (5) via blog.modernmechanix.com; (6) via blog.modernmechanix.com;(7) via mediabistro.com; (8) & (9) via blog.modernmechamix.com

“Top of the World, Ma!!”

Sunday, May 10th, 2009

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Image: Top of the World, Ma via (White Heat) via doctormacro1.info

Hey, Kids!! Be the first on your block!!

Monday, August 4th, 2008

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Andy Manis for The New York Times
John Schwartz of The New York Times tested a jetpack with its inventor, Glenn Martin, left, and Ray Thomsen guiding him. The device was unveiled Tuesday at an air show in Wisconsin.
By JOHN SCHWARTZ
Published: July 29, 2008
OSHKOSH, Wis. — To rise off the ground wearing a jetpack is to […]

“Nothing like out-living all of your blacklisters . . .”–Vincenzo Kolchak

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

April 1, 2008
Jules Dassin, Filmmaker on Blacklist, Dies at 96
By RICHARD SEVERO
Jules Dassin, an American director, screenwriter and actor who found success making movies in Europe after he was blacklisted in the United States because of his earlier ties to the Communist Party, died Monday in Athens, where he had lived since the 1970s. He […]

From Ming the Merciless comes cutting-edge technology…

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

for only an $800,000 unit cost + shipping & handling. Tote bag is extra.

It stunned me and no one had to touch a battery.

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New Weapon Against Terror: A Flashlight?
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Brandi Hitt
LOS ANGELES (CBS13) ― It looks like a normal flashlight, but Homeland Security has paid close […]

New Duck-Billed Dino Discovered in Mexico–headline Live Science

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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Andrea Thompson
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com1 hour, 57 minutes ago
A new species of duck-billed dinosaur unearthed in Mexico is helping scientists fill in gaps in the fossil record of the Age of Dinosaurs.
The creature, dubbed Velafrons coahuilensis, was a massive plant-eater belonging to a larger group of duck-billed dinosaurs called hadrosaurs.
The dino’s species name comes from the […]

Sorry, Rudy. Maybe the Knicks will suddenly become competitive.

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Yankee Fans Hate Rudy
By: Jane Hamsher
Firedoglake
I understand the true volume levels didn’t make it on TV, but during the Yankee game on Monday night Rudy Giuliani was resoundingly booed by New Yorkers:
For years, George Steinbrenner and right wing nutcases running the New York Yankees have subtly and overtly attempted to turn a nonpolitical sporting event […]

Could this be the reason the Moveon.org ad drew such sharp rebuke from certain dunces in Congress?

Friday, September 14th, 2007

President Petraeus? Iraqi official recalls the day US general revealed ambition
By Patrick Cockburn
Published: 13 September 2007
The US commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, expressed long-term interest in running for the US presidency when he was stationed in Baghdad, according to a senior Iraqi official who knew him at that time.
Sabah Khadim, then a senior adviser […]

Thank goodness Great Britain and the USA won WWII. Imagine the gruesom experimentation had the Axis won?

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Military scientists tested mustard gas on Indians
In pictures: Porton Down experiments
· Hundreds of soldiers used in experiments
· Illnesses caused by carcinogen not tracked
Rob Evans
Saturday September 1, 2007
Guardian
British military scientists sent hundreds of Indian soldiers into gas chambers and exposed them to mustard gas, documents uncovered by the Guardian have revealed.
The Guardian understands that the British […]