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by Charley James
“So Sambo beat the bitch!”
This is how Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin described Barack Obama’s win over Hillary Clinton to political colleagues in a restaurant a few days after Obama locked up the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
According to Lucille, the waitress serving her table at the time and who asked that her [...]
Posted on 29 August 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: african american, Allis-Chalmers, Charley James, Democratic Convention, democratic party, Dr. King, enemies list, Harley-Davidson, Johnson Motors, mile high stadium, Milwaukee, negroes, nomination acceptance speech, obama, Richard Nixon
by Charley James
In Ken Burns’ landmark documentary The Civil War, the first episode opened with writer Shelby Foote saying, “You can’t understand America without understanding the Civil War and the role race has played throughout our history.” In watching Barack Obama’s acceptance speech in Denver last night, my mind drifted back to my childhood when [...]
Posted on 13 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 60, 99, arteriosclerosis, Boris Yeltsin, developed the roller pump in 1932, Dr. Christian Barnard, Dr. George Noon, Dr. Jeremy Morton, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Dr. Salk, Duke of Windsor, enemies list, fatty acid build-up in arteries, greatest obsession, heart, heart bypass, heart surgery, heart-lung bypass machine, innovation, Johnson and Nixon, King Hussein of Jordan, LA Times, never believed cholesterol alone was the key determinan, Nicaraguan Leader Violetta Chamorro, Nixon Administration, noted heart surgeon and Debakey student, Once you incise the skin, organ transplants, pioneered technology, polio, Presidents Kennedy, Shah of Iran, Soviet Union, the greatest surgeon of the 20th century, The New York Times, Turkish President Turgut Ozal, ultimate disappointment, you find that they are all very similar
Millions of heart ailment sufferers may owe their lives to Dr. Michael DeBakey’s dedication to innovation. The man who would not quit finally had his body quit on him two months shy of his 100th birthday, passing away late Friday. Dr. Debakey developed the roller pump in medical school in 1932 to keep pumping and re-circulating a patient’s blood [...]
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