Frank and JFK: "Everyone Wants to Back Jack!"

Frank and JFK, at the latter's inauguration, January 1961.

Frank recorded a campaign song for JFK, to the tune of "High Hopes". Unfortunately, I couldn't find a video of it, just an audio. But it's rather catchy. If I had been a voter then (I wasn't alive), I think it would have won me over.

Sinatra and Jobim

Need I say more?

When the CBC Isn't Anti-American and Anti-Israeli Enough for You...

...where do you go? Why Al-Jazeera, of course! Tony Burman follows Avi Lewis.

Frank Sinatra: Stardust

From 1943, Frank on "Your Hit Parade". There is an ad for Lucky Strike tobacco first (ah, how times have changed...). Enjoy. How can you not?

Bush's Comments in Israel

I don't know why everyone seems to assume Bush's comments about talking to certain enemies were a swipe at Obama. Bush has made these same kinds of comments for years, and they seem particularly appropriate before the Knesset, on Israel's 60th anniversary.

Frank Sinatra

It has been ten years since Frank died. This week I shall pay tribute to the Chairman, starting with this, The House I Live In. Yes, it is rather dated, but keep in mind, when you watch, that it was made in 1945. Significant, and as usual, that voice. (The video is about ten minutes long.)

FYI, Turner Classic Movies is paying tribute to Frank all month.

Tarek Fatah...

...had this to say about the female law students and their performance on TVO last week:

Fatah claims that the females on the panel, Muneeza Sheikh and Naseem
Mithoowani, deferred to their male counterpart Khurrum Awan when answering many
questions — an indication of where they were coming from, religiously.

If you read my post on the matter, that is a point I was getting at, as well (towards the end of the post). I mentioned this to someone who said he thought the students were -- using Steyn's description -- "Trudeaupian", but I disagree. Whatever the flaws of Trudeaupian ideals, and there are many, they do not include bowing to Islamist views of womanhood.
Fatah also said this:

"...These twits have to be confronted and their real agenda needs to be exposed.
The notions of armed jihad, Sharia law and wanting an Islamic state
weren’t being addressed, even in the debate on TVO. As a Western
society, we have no clue what’s happening.”

(Emphasis mine.) I think, on some level, these kids are not so far from believing some Islamist nonsense is justifiable.
Fatah's quotes are taken from this article.

Irena Sendlerowa

Speaking of great ladies, and we were, Irena Sendlerowa -- who saved 2,500 Jewish children during World War II -- died this week in a Warsaw hospital, at the age of 98. What a great face!

With the rest of her team of 20, she rescued the children between 1940 and 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, condemning its residents to death.
In October 1943 she was arrested and tortured by the Gestapo, but refused to give up the names of the children.
She was saved on the day of her scheduled execution after the Polish underground bribed her SS guards...
The BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw says Irena Sendlerowa hated the term "hero", and said her conscience was troubled because she had done so little.

Read the story.

(H/T, Laurel.)

Mom's Birthday...and Bea Arthur's

Happy birthday to my mom!

...and I would add, virtually everything else I've tried. Ah well...
Mom shares a birthday with the wonderful Bea Arthur. In 2002 I saw Bea Arthur's one-woman show in Toronto. It was fabulous (Arthur was 80 at the time). Here she is in 1982, at the Kennedy Center, singing "Hey, Look Me Over".

I think the generation that produced my mom and Arthur was the greatest, as Tom Brokaw says. Boomer women are spoiled and whiny. As for my generation...argh..."lacklustre" is a generous word for us. Perhaps the youngsters -- all those Kylies and Megans and Jennas -- will be redemptive. I shan't hold my breath, however.

I Fail to See the Problem Here

The U.S. military has, since 2001, cremated some of the remains of American service members killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere at a Delaware facility that also cremates pets, a practice that ended yesterday when the Pentagon banned the arrangement.

Seriously, why end that practice? What was the problem? It isn't as though the remains ever got mixed up or anything.
The story is here.

Sarcasma

Hmm...I wonder why someone thought I might need like this?
Ignore the spelling errors -- it is funny, regardless. (And of course, you can click on it to enlarge.)

(H/T, Laurel.)