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A picture is worth a thousand lies

05 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Uncategorized

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This should be seen. Barack Obama is the President of the United States. Under the current circumstances, he has succeeded in improving the lives of countles Americans, despite obstructionism.

drugsandotherthings

 

Ok, I can’t even begin to count how many times I’ve debunked this one. But the non-partisan Annenberg Foundation Fact Check has finally gotten around to debunking it here

 

So here you go, with references and all. Please save this and repost it in reply every time you see tyhis nonsense.

 

This is an example of mostly old baloney in a new casing. It mainly recycles years-old falsehoods and insinuations, most of which we covered long ago, in connection with an earlier viral email.

But with President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign heating up, this new graphic has appeared on countless anti-Obama websites and in viral emails like the one we’ve reprinted here. Very little that it contains is new, and the old falsehoods have not improved with age.

Nothing ‘Sealed’

The idea that any Obama record is “sealed” is a falsehood, to start. The word…

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The Music of Frederick the Great & the News

05 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Art, Music

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Frederick the Great, Henri Fantin-Latour, Le Devoir, Le Monde, National Post, New York Times, WordPress

Frederick the Great plays the flute at Sanssouci, by Adolph Menzel*

*Adolph Menzel (8 December, 1815 –  9 February 1905)
C.P.E. Bach is at the harpsichord and J.J. Quantz, Frederick’s teacher, leaning on the wall to the right.
Frederick the Great (24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786)
Henri Fantin-Latour (14 January 1836 – 25 August 1904)
with permission from Art Resource, NY
 

A few comments

The News are today’s News. The following paragraph has probably lost its meaning.

As for this blogger, she loves Ella Fitzgerald and could spend the entire day listening to Summertime.  How interesting that this music should have been composed by George Gershwin (26 September 1898 – 11 July 1937): a Russian, a Ukrainian and a Jew (on his Ukrainian side).  So what is Mitt Romney doing when he states that as an “anglo-saxon,” he would have a better relationship with the UK than President Obama (The Daily Beast, 26 July 2012).  Has his ethnicity harmed President Obama’s relationship with the UK?

The News

English
The Montreal Gazette: http://www.montrealgazette.com/index.html
The National Post: http://www.nationalpost.com/index.html
The Globe and Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://mondediplo.com/ EN
 
CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/
CTV News: http://www.ctvnews.ca/
 
French
Le Monde: http://www.lemonde.fr/
Le Monde diplomatique: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/
Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
German
Die Welt: http://www.welt.de/
 

The Music of Monarchs: Frederick the Great

However, the music of the day was composed by a monarch:  Frederick the Great (24 January 1712 – 17 August 1786), King of Prussia.  Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643), King of France, was also a composer but he will be featured in another post.

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