How Hillary Can Help the Hungry

Hillary could help the hungry by dropping out of the democrat primary election in West Virgina. It's a really poor state, as Senator Robert Byrd (KKK; Democrat-W. VA) will tell you. Hillary thinks she needs West Virginia, though, and her colossal ego won't let her quit, even though canceling the election would save that downtrodden state megabucks. Hillary and Bill have always depended upon the ignorance of their constituencies, and this time is no different. Hillary's last bastion just might be the KKK in W. VA.

~~M-J

L'Avion Uses Boeing Planes

L'Avion, the little, low-priced luxury airline that flies between Orly and New York/Newark, uses Boeing planes.

The Best YouTube Election Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lstkiexhc

Boeing's Poseidon 737 Sub Hunter

Article in Seattle Times

It's a Misconception that "Misnomer" Means "Misconception"

Ever since I heard Rush Limbaugh misuse the word, "misnomer" in 1991, when he really meant "misconception", I've been hearing other people doing the same. I wrote to Mr. Limbaugh about it in 1991, to no avail. His misuse of the word has spawned a plague on the English language.

Misnomer: a name or term used wrongly; the wrong use of a name or term.

When people are being paid to speak, they ought to "get it right"!

Cabbie Finds Valuable Violin in His Car and Returns It

Mr Khalil, Heroic Cab-Driver Who Returned a Lost, and Found, Stradivarius

MEASLES IS SPREADING

Measles ImmunizationInformation

Goya's Ghosts

Above: Don Manuel Osorio de Zuñiga, by Goya

We've just seen the 2006 movie, Goya's Ghosts, by Milos Forman. It is very well-done, historically accurate, and tasteful in its portrayal of the Spanish Inquisition, and its effects on the life of Don Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, popularly known as Goya. It is a tragic story, about which I shall not comment here, because the film, Goya's Ghosts, is a voyage of discovery, and I avoid spoiling the adventure for prospective viewers. Now that Goya's Ghosts is available on Pay-per-View, your chances of seeing it are good. For more than a year, I attempted to purchase it.
Here is a video about it Goya's Ghosts
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes is my favorite painter. In the late 1980s, I saw a show of his political drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Through watching this film, I discovered more about just what a fine person he was: an altruistic, humane gentleman.

Armenians Remember 1915 Genocide

Reuters Article, Thursday

President Sarkozy Reminds Us that Turkey is Not a Part of Europe...

...and therefore opposes its joining the European Union.

On the 24th of April, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France reaffirmed his opposition to Turkey joining the European Union, and said he would order a referendum on Turkish membership if necessary.
The president's comments came a day after his government said that it would scrap an amendment to its constitution that requires France to hold a referendum on any expansion of the EU.
"I have always been opposed to the entry of Turkey" into the EU, he said in a television interview. "Turkey is not in Europe," Mr. Sarkozy declared.
President Sarkozy said that if Turkey's proposed membership in the EU became a serious issue while he was president he would call a referendum.
But Nicolas Sarkozy is against holding automatic referendums each time a new member joins the EU. The cabinet approved plans yesterday to change the constitution so that France does not have to hold a public vote each time a new European country wants to join the EU.
"If tomorrow the Swiss want to come into Europe, we are not going to contest the fact that they are Europeans" and hold a referendum, President Sarkozy said.
"You cannot have a France that tells its 26 European partners 'excuse us, we cannot decide anything because of the referendum.'"
Sarkozy has often said that Turkey, a country what has begun having talks with the EU about joining, "does not belong in Europe", arguing that most of its land mass is in Asia. Polls indicate that the majority of French citizens support President Sarkozy's position.

Turkey, which does a lot of business with Europe, has historically been considered the Near East or Asia Minor ("mikrasia" in Greek).

Health-Care Solution

Want to get the U.S. "health-care" system out of critical condition?
Don't force people to buy "health insurance"--a misnomer if there ever was one; it's more aptly called health gambling--like Hillary Clinton proposes to do.
Simply send the whole notion of health insurance to the ash-heap of history!
Start over from there.