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And you thought Roland was pissed at Rush Limbaugh before?! He’s got a whole new reason to rant after Limbaugh and 700 Club’s Pat Robertson made some crazy statements regarding the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. See what Roland had to say.
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Noel Coward by Edward Sorel
Coward is well known as the creator of such stage classics as Hay Fever, Private Lives, Cavalcade, Design for Living and Blithe Spirit, many of which were adapted for film, and as the composer of such timeless songs as “I’ll See You Again,” “Mad About the Boy” and “Mad Dogs and Englishmen.” “Star Quality” will be the first exhibition to show the full extent of Coward’s talents as a director of plays and movies, a stage and film actor, songwriter, cabaret artist, wartime patriot, painter and patron of charitable causes.
Noel Coward and stage partner Gertrude Lawrence 1936
Noel Coward and Judy Garland 1951
Stephen Fry, Michael York and Pat York attend the opening of the exhibition Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward presented by The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences at the Academys Fourth Floor Gallery in Beverly Hills on Friday, January 22, 2010
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A Brief History Lesson on Haiti and the Louisiana Purchase
On October 1, 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul of France, concluded the Treaty of San Ildefonso with Spain, which returned Louisiana to French ownership in exchange for a Spanish kingdom in Italy.
Napoleon’s ambitions in Louisiana involved the creation of a new empire centered on the Caribbean sugar trade. By terms of the Treaty of Ameins of 1800, Great Britain returned ownership of the islands of Martinique and Guadaloupe to the French. Napoleon looked upon Louisiana as a depot for these sugar islands, and as a buffer to U.S. settlement. In October of 1801 he sent a large military force to retake the important island of Santo Domingo, lost in a slave revolt in the 1790s.
Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, was disturbed by Napoleon’s plans to re-establish French colonies in America. With the possession of New Orleans, Napoleon could close the Mississippi to U.S. commerce at any time. Jefferson authorized Robert R. Livingston, U.S. Minister to France, to negotiate for the purchase for up to $2 million of the City of New Orleans, portions of the east bank of the Mississippi, and free navigation of the river for U.S. commerce.
An official transfer of Louisiana to French ownership had not yet taken place, and Napoleon’s deal with the Spanish was a poorly kept secret on the frontier. On October 18, 1802, however, a strange thing happened. Juan Ventura Moralis, Acting Intendant of Louisiana, made public the intention of Spain to revoke the right of deposit at New Orleans for all cargo from the United States. The closure of this vital port to the United States caused anger and consternation, and commerce in the west was virtually blockaded. Historians believe that the revocation of the right of deposit was prompted by abuses of the Americans, particularly smuggling, and not by French intrigues as was believed at the time. President Jefferson ignored public pressure for war with France, and appointed James Monroe special envoy to Napoleon, to assist in obtaining New Orleans for the United States. Jefferson boosted the authorized expenditure of funds to $10 million.
Meanwhile, Napoleon’s plans in the Caribbean were being frustrated by Toussaint L’Ouverture, his army of former slaves, and yellow fever. During ten months of fierce fighting on Santo Domingo, France lost over 40,000 soldiers. Without Santo Domingo Napoleon’s colonial ambitions for a French empire were foiled in North America. Louisiana would be useless as a granary without sugar islanders to feed. Napoleon also considered the temper of the United States, where sentiment was growing against France and stronger ties with Great Britain were being considered. Spain’s refusal to sell Florida was the last straw, and Napoleon turned his attention once more to Europe; the sale of the now-useless Louisiana would supply needed funds to wage war there. Napoleon directed his ministers, Talleyrand and Barbe-Marbois, to offer the entire Louisiana territory to the United States – and quickly.
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If you’d like to see what the country looked like before the Louisiana Purchase, please click on the map below to enlarge.
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Check out A Tribute to Haitian Soldiers for Heroism in the American Revolution 1797
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Pat Buchanan
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I guess the most important question to be asked is this. Does MSNBC know that it has a ‘Pat Buchanan problem’? Just like Fox has a ‘Glenn Beck problem’ and CNN has a ‘Lou Dobbs’ problem’. How many times does Buchanan get to go off the deep end of American politics and still keep his job? I know MSNBC thinks that Buchanan is ‘Uncle Pat’, a lovable old curmudgeon who does and says crazy things at every family reunion. Everybody laughs and shakes their heads, and then he goes away with his antics until next years reunion.
This time its being a ‘Hilter Sympathiser’. Last time it was his xenophobic and racist rant on The Rachel Maddow Show talking about Supreme Justice Sonia Sotomayer. Before that? Just type his name in Google and you will find an avalanche of his other diatribes. I mean, come on now, this is the same guy who helped Nixon develop the Southern Strategy. So what do you expect?
As posted at TPM:
To mark the 70th anniversary of the Nazi invasion of Poland, Buchanan, a frequent commentator on MSNBC, has written a syndicated column entitled “Did Hitler Want War?”
According to Buchanan, Hitler’s invasion of Poland — which led to Britain’s declaration of war on Germany, and the start of World War II — was motivated merely by Germany’s desire to regain the city of Danzig, which had been given to Poland in the Versailles Treaty. Had Poland simply negotiated with Hitler, war could have been averted. In fact, Hitler wasn’t bent on world, or even European, domination. He would have been happy with just Danzig, Austria, and the Sudetenland, you see. Hitler “wanted to end the war in 1940, almost two years before the trains began to roll to the camps.” It was only thanks to the aggression of Britain, Russia, and the U.S. that the conflict was expanded. So, goes the implication, any deaths that occurred after 1940 — including the 6 million that comprised the Holocaust — are on the Allies’ heads.
In fact, the column is just a bite-size version of an argument Buchanan made last year in book form.
An MSNBC spokesman did not respond when asked by TPMmuckraker about the network’s decision to continue to showcase a Hitler apologist.
If past is prologue, MSNBC will keep Buchanan under wraps and off the air, until the outrage dies down in a couple of weeks, and then he will be right back on your TV.
Everyday someone on MSNBC brings up the subject of whether President Obama is losing his progressive base. What MSNBC really should concentrate on… is whether they are losing their progressive base by continuing to employ Pat Buchanan…
***UPDATE: You are not going to believe this one. This morning TPM tells us:
But it turns out the network actually has Buchanan’s revisionist column up on its own site, marked “commentary” — as if this were a piece about, say, health-care reform, or Sonia Sotomayor.
That’s right. Supposedly liberal MSNBC now has a column on its site that argues, essentially, that Hitler was a man of peace — a point of view usually relegated to the fringiest of neo-Nazi newsletters.
Hard to know what more to say.
****UPDATE PART II
MSNBC has since taken the piece down, after pressure from the National Jewish Democratic Council. Here’s a statement from David A. Harris, NJDC’s President: “MSNBC took the responsible action and removed Pat Buchanan’s column defending Adolf Hitler from their website, but no worthy news organization should employ and promote a commentator who engages in such vile fiction.”
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