For those of you (like me) who didn’t see this on NBC’s Meet The Press, here is the David Gregory interview this morning:

Produced By The National Park Service:

Specifically, the The Women’s Rights National Historical Park.

Women’s Rights National Historical Park tells the story of the first Women’s Rights Convention held in Seneca Falls, NY on July 19-20,1848.  It is a story of struggles for civil rights, human rights, and equality, global struggles that continue today.  The efforts of women’s rights leaders, abolitionists, and other 19th century reformers remind us that all people must be accepted as equals.

Here is a link to the Multimedia Presentations page, with links to the videos they have produced:  https://www.nps.gov/wori/photosmultimedia/multimedia.htm
This is what they are doing with your tax money. Of all the religions in the world, they chose to praise Islam for its contributions to women’s rights. This was not produced by Al Qaeda, but by the U.S. National Park Service.

I tried this one, and it is a toughie – name the capital of the states as they are asked – while racing against the clock:
Can You Name The US State Capitals?

Here’s a little bit of humor for our Saturday.  Of course, it’s funny because it’s true, so maybe not so funny  ……..

I feel in need of encouragement this morning, and ran across this video that Sharon uncovered a few months ago.  May it encourage you, as it does me:

The following video incorporates an audio recording that was made by a Detroit radio station, WOMC FM, in October 2001. It contains excerpts from two speeches – President Bush’s oval office speech the evening of September 11, 2001, and the one he gave before the joint session of Congress on September 20. The music is taken from a composition by James Horner for the 1989 movie, Glory. I believe the selections used are A Call To Arms, and An Epitaph To War.
I have always loved the audio, as it touched my heart and uplifted at a time when we all needed it very much. The photos are ones that I collected after Sept 11, 2001.

New York Post

Such a lovely idea.  I speak here as a person who has worked with many of the same people for more than forty years, and virtually “grew up” and “grew old” with them, many of them friends who have shared the important milestones of my life.
There is a poignant hidden significance to the placement of Cantor Fitzgerald names on the 9/11 Memorial.

 To an outside eye, the names appear in no logical way — not arranged in alphabetical order, and not identified by age or company.
But 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees — all killed in the Sept., 11, 2001, terror attacks at the World Trade Center — are inscribed in a very specific pattern on the bronze panels that wrap halfway around the north pool of the 9/11 Memorial.
Seemingly random but far from it, their names are surrounded by those dearest to them — not just co-workers, but close relatives, best buddies and, in one case, a cherished former baby sitter.
“They weren’t people who just worked together and went home. They made up the fabric of their lives,” said Danielle Gardner, who lost a brother in the attacks and has directed a new documentary about the financial-services firm’s staggering loss, “Out of the Clear Blue Sky.”

Continue reading to learn some of the stories behind the memorial.

On December 7, 2001, Peggy Noonan wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal with the title used for this post.  Here it is.
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Let me start by saying that I am enthusiastically in favor of using hydraulic fracturing to build a robust domestic energy program.  Until I saw this map, however, I never realized the huge potential in the United States:
My own state of Michigan is literally covered by the Michigan Basin and the Devonian aged Antrim shale deposits.
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Daily Caller (Patrick Howley):

The Daily Caller feels compelled to present our first, and hopefully last, review of the new version of CNN’s vaunted ‘Crossfire.’ For Review #1, we will focus on the show’s Monday debut starring President Obama’s 2012 deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, and guests Sens. Rand Paul and Bob Menendez.
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A loathsome creature like Stephanie Cutter, the roots jutting out from her blonde dye job as black as the recesses of her soul, can push her way onto national television to sit next to a former Speaker of the House and two sitting U.S. senators. A charmless, dead-eyed, tacky sociopath with no sense of ethics, an empty shell spewing her flat-throated bile without the slightest trace of self-awareness, can beat all of us to the front of the Darwinian line.
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