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July 20, 2014

my favorite Maverick passed away. JAMES GARNER .... R I P

James Garner, the wry and handsome leading man who slid seamlessly between television and the movies but was best known as the amiable gambler Bret Maverick in the 1950s western “Maverick” and the cranky sleuth Jim Rockford in the 1970s series “The Rockford Files,” was found dead of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Saturday night, the police said. He was 86.

Mr. Garner, who smoked for most of his life, even after open-heart surgery in 1988, had suffered a stroke in 2008.

He was a genuine star but as an actor something of a paradox: a lantern-jawed, brawny athlete whose physical appeal was both enhanced and undercut by a disarming wit. He appeared in more than 50 films, many of them dramas — but as he established in one of his notable early performances, as a battle-shy naval officer in “The Americanization of Emily” (1964) and had shown before that in “Maverick” — he was most at home as an iconoclast, a flawed or unlikely hero.

An understated comic actor, he was especially adept at conveying life’s tiny bedevilments. One of his most memorable roles was as a perpetually flummoxed pitchman for Polaroid cameras in the late 1970s and early 1980s, in droll commercials in which he played a vexed husband and Mariette Hartley played his needling wife. They were so persuasive that Ms. Hartley had a shirt printed with the declaration “I am not Mrs. James Garner.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/movies/james-garner-actor-dies-at-86.html?_r=0

July 6, 2014

this is the MOST COOLEST, MOST NEATEST video

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=256771457802335&set=vb.138926556145948&type=2&theater

Great music, interesting effects!! I love how they helped show our animal friends at their best. Lots of humor! Please watch and share with your fam & friends.

May 23, 2014

Please DU you tube Wendy Davis attack add. Tell GOP to stick it

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/22/greg-abbott-star-wars-wendy-davis_n_5373300.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013 --- article on huff post

May 15, 2014

©2013 Jason Conger for U.S. Senate IS HARRASSING people in oregon

POLLRSRCH13 is phoning and phoning. the bad number coming up on caller id is 202-769-0477. 3 PHONE CALLS IN 1 HR. and I pushed the DON'T CALL ME ANYMORE button when they called me on tuesday (2 days ago)

©2013 Jason Conger for U.S. Senate P.O. Box 2058 Bend, OR 97709 (541) 317-5076(541) 317-5076 | Privacy - See more at: http://www.congerfororegon.com/contact/#sthash.bLZOXUNe.dpuf <~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ contact info for the GOP jerk.

April 16, 2014

REPAIR the US infrastructure NOW. More jobs & our country is falling apart.

REPAIR / cleaning up the US infrastructure.

America’s publicly owned infrastructure is falling apart. One in nine bridges in the United States is “structurally deficient.” There are 240,000 water main breaks each year. Thirty-two percent of America’s roads are in “poor or mediocre condition.” Amtrak’s Acela (which I am riding right now) is on time only 65.2 percent of the time, and runs at a top speed well below that achieved by fast trains overseas. Then there are the failings of airports like New York’s LaGuardia, which Vice President Joe Biden rightly likened last month to “some third-world country.” To add insult to injury, our long, harsh winter has only added to the long list of infrastructure repairs needed across the United States. So it’s not surprising that the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave the United States a D+ on its latest report card for America’s infrastructure.

The consequence of a fraying infrastructure is a less productive economy, which means fewer jobs and less wealth, and the hassle of taking longer to do less. It also slowly erodes the wellsprings of U.S. influence abroad. National power isn’t independent of the domestic economy; it rests on a vibrant economy. And the weakness of America’s infrastructure opens up the possibility of events that could dramatically change life as we know it. By some accounts, the destruction of as few as nine power substations could cause the entire U.S. electric power grid to collapse—and to stay down for months.

Repairing America’s infrastructure will cost billions. And as anyone who owns a house knows, putting the fix off only means a steeper final bill.

http://blogs.cfr.org/lindsay/2014/03/24/how-do-we-pay-to-repair-americas-decaying-infrastructure/

April 2, 2014