She lived to a good old age, and working almost to the end. She will be missed by me, for sure, and by many others. In recent years we became reacquainted with her in the Harry Potter films and in Downton Abbey, as the Dowager Countess Violet Crawley.
Yes, she has one, and President Trump has called it out.
The left has been trying to tie President Trump to Project 2025, a once-every-four-years publication put out by the Heritage Foundation. It has been published since 1980, and has nothing to do with any Presidential candidate. I didn’t know this. Did you?
This article from Issues & Insights explains it:
Project 2025 was never a Trump plan. The book Democrats keep parading around is called “Mandate for Leadership,” which the conservative Heritage Foundation has published every four years since 1980.
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NOTE: President Trump has two events scheduled today – stay tuned!
President Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America, will deliver remarks to the press in New York, New York on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. ET.
Tucker Carlson Live Tour in Fort Worth, TX.
NOTE: Includes interview with James O’Keefe.
One of my favorite chefs, cooking one of my favorite foods – several ways. Which do you think would be your favorite?
By the way, last Thanksgiving I tried a new way to do make-ahead mashed potatoes. Mine have, in years past, been an afterthought, done haphazardly at the last minute. Hint: the potatoes are baked, not boiled, and mashed in my KitchenAid. They turned out great!
If he were alive, today would be his 106th birthday. He was born Jacob Gershwine on September 26, 1898 in New York City.
As an American composer and pianist, his compositions included popular, jazz and classical works. Among his best-known compositions are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), “Swanee” (1919), “Fascinating Rhythm” (1924), “Embraceable You” (1928), “I Got Rhythm” (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit “Summertime”.
Sadly, this musical genius died of a terrible illness at age 38. He fell into a coma and had emergency surgery to remove a large brain tumor, believed to be a glioblastoma. He died on July 11, 1937 in Los Angeles.
Can you imagine how many more songs, operas and orchestral pieces he might have produced had he lived a full life?
In his honor (and for your own pleasure) listen to Leonard Bernstein (another musical giant) play Rhapsody In Blue with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
The term Trojan horse has come to refer to subversion introduced from the outside.
From Britannica:
The Trojan horse, a huge hollow wooden horse constructed by the Greeks to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. The horse was built by Epeius, a master carpenter and pugilist. The Greeks, pretending to desert the war, sailed to the nearby island of Tenedos, leaving behind Sinon, who persuaded the Trojans that the horse was an offering to Athena (goddess of war) that would make Troy impregnable. Despite the warnings of Laocoön and Cassandra, the horse was taken inside the city gates. That night Greek warriors emerged from it and opened the gates to let in the returned Greek army.
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