Posted in: Trump, Abe toast 'bromance' as two-day summit wraps up See in context
Actually, the Prime Minister of Japan who had the last laugh was Koizumi, not only because he was both invited to the White House and Graceland, but because Graceland is the home of the individual personally most responsible for the construction of precisely the only monument honoring the 1,177 sailors killed by the japanese Air Force on August 7, 1944. That person, Elvis Presley who was 9 years old during the attack, absorbed HIMSELF about 17% of the cost of the construction, and he did so in 1961, when the Pacific Commission had almost lost all hope of launching its construction.
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Posted in: Forbes: Michael Jackson top earning dead celebrity with $75 mil See in context
Of the list, the only three with a truly demonstrable and sustainable earning power in the United States, and not just a day, a week, a month, a year, a lustrum, or a decade, but at least three decades AFTER passing away, are those who are historical figures as well, namely Albert Einstein (6 full decades), Elvis Presley (4 full decades) and John Lennon (3 and 3/4 decades). And, of the three, the only one who was BOTH born and passed away in the United States is Elvis Presley.
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Posted in: How to get sick on the U.S. campaign trail: Little sleep, bad food, germs everywhere See in context
Was Mr. Steve SchmidtI aware that, before those pills he mentioned, that it was precisely Elvis Presley who, at age 21, was the prime mover for the exponential increase in the immuniazation level across America, from 0.6 to 80%, in a period of six months, when he agreed to go before the world's press, on the afternoon of 28 October 1956, and received the third version (still practically untried), of Jonas Salk's anti polio vaccine, By April of 1957, the Salk Institute announced that polio had been all but erradicated from US soil. And you can thank Elvis for that...
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Posted in: Jagger and Scorsese strum up rock 'n' roll in 'Vinyl' See in context
The only person who ONCE or TWICE rubbed shoulders with Elvis Presley (none of those mentioned were big enough, even in the early 70's) who could have influenced the scriptwriter into making us believe the character of the record label owner Richie Finestra rubbed shoulders with Elvis Presley was the recently deceased mega producer Jerry Weintraub. Presley was so "big" in 1972 that not even Andy Warhol who adored and had an obsession with him, and went to see him at the Garden, ever met him.
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Posted in: What Republicans are saying about Matt Gaetz's nomination for attorney general
There's a new sheriff in town. The DOJ needs a shake-up and the weaponization needs to end.
Posted in: What Republicans are saying about Matt Gaetz's nomination for attorney general
Posted in: Trump's team drawing up list of Pentagon officers to fire, sources say