Showing posts with label State of Ohio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label State of Ohio. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Musings on American Independence Day #241

On this Fourth of July, Independence Day #241, so much to be grateful for, including among others things:

 High-flying friends who think of me and tweet me from the most-unlikely of places... like an SAS Airbus 330













I also think of lost-dead ancestors who, when it mattered most, stepped-up and did what what was needed in order to make that dream they had for a free and independent nation, a living reality.




 On IndependenceDay, I always think about a particular paternal ancestor of mine who was a spy for Gen. Washington during the American RevolutionaryWar, and think about all the problems and the daily peril he knowingly put himself in, to serve, knowing that he'd be killed if caught by the #British Redcoats.




When they were both younger, this same ancestor had marched with George Washington 21 years before under British Gen. Edward Braddock from Alexandria, Virgina to Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) to fight in The #FrenchandIndianWar, 1755.


Having survived that living hell, and many years of being a Revolutionary War spy, he lived to see the Thirteen Colonies full of vary different cultures and traditions become one free nation.

He was the first of many ancestors of mine who were to live in Ohio over the next 200-plus years, living there on bounty-land he was given by Congress as partial payment for his services during the war effort. 

 He was in Ohio even before it became a state in 1805, and was then part of the Northwest Territory, the Ohio Territory, settling in an area north of Steubenville, where the U.S. land grant office was established.

 And there he lived right near the Ohio river, an hour southwest from Pittsburgh and the general area where he had witnessed firsthand wholesale bloodshed of a sort that he never saw before and never wanted to see afterwards.



@HamiltonQuotes: There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism. #Hamilton

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Friday, December 16, 2016

What America and the world lost when we lost John Glenn: A genuinely heroic man of unquestioned bravery, character and integrity -who thought his wife was the real hero.

                                 
What America and the world lost when we lost John Glenn: A genuinely heroic man of unquestioned bravery, character and integrity -who thought his wife, Annie, was the real hero.

 One of the highlights of my 15 years living and working in the Washington, D.C. area from 1988-2003 were those handful of opportunities, usually outside on Capitol Hill between the Supreme Court and the Senate Office buildings to the north, to speak one-on-one for a few minutes with one of the bravest and most-famous Americans then-alive, Senator John Glenn of Ohio.


“We tend to think of heroes as being those who are well known,” he wrote, “but America is made up of a whole nation of heroes who face problems that are very difficult, and their courage remains largely unsung. Millions of individuals are heroes in their own right.”





 But anyone who lives to be 95 years old doesn't do so without some mis-steps along the way, and certainly John Glenn wasn't immune to this fact, since he was not without his ideological blind spots.
As best-selling historian Victor Davis Hanson noted in a 2005 column on the then-current parlor game in Washington and other urban areas of the U.S. among many prominent members of the Democratic Party and its friends in the news media of comparing President George W. Bush to Hitler because of his administration's policy of keeping Guantanamo open  -instead of closing it and moving the prisoners to the U.S., which would have been against the POV of the majority of the American people- Glenn claimed "It's the old Hitler business"

Jewish World Review 
Hitler, Hitler, everywhere 
By Victor Davis Hanson
June 23, 2005

Then again, even at age 89, he still had the power to speak for many Americans upset at a diminished space exploration program when he openly criticized President George W. Bush's policy of ending the U.S. shuttle program, and instead, paying Russia to launch American astronauts to the International Space Station. 
"Operating Atlantis, Discovery and Endeavour until successors are ready might end up being cheaper than buying seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft, the retired senator said. Flying the shuttles beyond their planned retirement may also be the best way to maximize return on taxpayer investment."
This is but the tip of the iceberg in a fact-filled defense of keeping faith with the origins of the U.S. space program.

Statement of Senator John Glenn (ret.) Regarding NASA Manned Space Flight
  • Posted Monday, June 21, 2010


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Friday, November 5, 2010

When you're already fighting tradition in your Congressional re-election race, OH-16, there's never enough time. Boccieri vs. Renacci


Politics: Bowled Over by a Wave Election by Ben Werschkul of the New York Times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIem-m5MSsA

First-term U.S. Rep. John Boccieri (OH-16), representing rural and small-town Ohio across the Ohio River from Pennsylvania, loses his seat in Tuesday's GOP tsunami to businessman and former Wadsworth mayor Jim Renacci, despite enthusiastic visits by Bill Clinton.

An example of the humorous comparative ads run against him.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LweEMzEaSg

So was it his record of voting for nearly every aspect of the Obama economic agenda, or was he always more liberal than his district was, and simply an anomaly swept-in because due to Obama's popularity in 2008, and now, two years later, sent packing because he was always a bad fit?

Well, two years ago, Boccieri became the first Democrat to represent that House seat in almost 60 years, so he was always fighting tradition. On Tuesday, tradition came roaring back in the Buckeye State.

See also TimesCast | Voter Mood in Ohio
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/politics/1194811622221/index.html


If you haven't already heard of it, please bookmark The Washington Post's helpful website to make sense of who is who in the new Washington called, simply, Who Runs Government, at http://www.whorunsgov.com/

http://video.nytimes.com/
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNewYorkTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/
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