Thursday, February 20, 2014

'Green Acres' actress Mary Grace Canfield dies



 
MSN TV News   "SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Mary Grace Canfield,, a veteran character actress who played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show "Green Acres," has died. She was 89.

"Her daughter, Phoebe Alexiades, says Canfield died of lung cancer on Saturday at a hospice in the California coastal town of Santa Barbara.
Canfield had appearances on a number of TV shows during a four-decade career, including "General Hospital" and "The Hathaways".

"She was Harriet Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series "Bewitched."

"But she was best known for her role of Ralph Monroe in some 40 episodes of "Green Acres," which ran from 1965 to 1971.

"Monroe greeted folks in the town of Hootersville(sp) with a cheery "howdy doody," wore painters' overalls and was forever working on the Douglas family's bedroom with her brother, Alf."

Just kidding! Updates on gas prices.

Photo
Hat tip to cousin Joy Roeder of Garibaldi, Oregon.

 
An attempt to make an objective assessment/  

Heritage in 2011; In Pictures: Bush Vs. Obama On Gas Prices   "As Americans continue to feel the effects of President Obama’s anti-oil agenda at the pump, defensive liberals are circling back to a familiar line of counter-attack: blame Bush.  The media vacuum on gas prices has made this line of attack all the more promising with very little national coverage being given to the president’s destructive domestic drilling agenda. Unfortunately it misses an obvious point."

Frank Gaffney: Kerry’s Misplaced Warning

 
"Secretary of State John Kerry had to go to Indonesia to warn that climate change is one of the world’s greatest threats. “Climate change” is, of course, what used to be called “global warming.”
 
"Millions of Americans have been struggling for months with one of the worst winters in memory. Mr. Kerry’s contention that carbon emissions are making the sun overheat the planet is a hard sell at the moment.
 
"If you are going to worry about the sun doing something to the earth, focus on the biggest threat of them all: We know a massive solar storm is coming soon, one that will fry unprotected electric devices worldwide and create protracted blackouts, death and destruction here.
 
"Will John Kerry even acknowledge this danger – let alone exhort us to prevent the catastrophe it surely will unleash?"   Excerpt by Frank Gaffney
 
Originally posted at The Center For Security Policy

Hillary, Your Radical Marxist Roots are Showing

Hillary RodhamConservative Hideout 2.0  "Hillary is more of an outright Marxist than Obama." ....
 
"In 1971, twenty three year old Yale law student, Hillary Diane Rodham served a stint as a clerk for what was at the time, the nation’s most Communistic law firm, Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein. This law firm made no bones about it’s connection to the Communist Party*. Partner Doris Walker was a CP member at the time and another partner, Robert Treuhaft had left the CP in 1958 after being called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. They labeled him one of America’s most “dangerously subversive” lawyers. His firm made their name defending clients too radical for other lawyers. They defended Communists, draft-dodgers and even members of the militant group, The Black Panthers."
 
*"In an interview for her book, “Hillary’s Choice,” biographer and author, Gail Sheehy asked Treuhaft about Hillary’s tenure there. He said, “She did want to work for a left-wing movement law firm. Anyone who went to college or law school would have known our law firm was a Communist law firm,” Treuhaft told Ms. Sheehy in 1999."
 
Hillary Clinton's Radical Summer   "To this day, Mrs. Clinton's decision to work at the unabashedly left-wing firm is surprising, even shocking, to some of her former colleagues there and to those supporting her bid for the presidency. To the former first lady's enemies and political opponents, her summer at the Treuhaft firm is yet another indication that radical ideology lurks beneath the patina of moderation she has adopted in public life."

Politifact refutes all this   "There's not only no evidence Clinton was a communist sympathizer, Morris doesn't have his facts right (at least not in the version in the FrontPageMag.com article that made its way into a chain e-mail). Treuhaft was not head of the California Communist Party, nor was he a member when Clinton worked for his law firm. But she did intern for Treuhaft's firm. And he was, at one time, a member of the American Communist Party. So we rate the claim Barely True."

Obama’s Weaponization of Government

Intellectual Conservative   ... "There is a dangerous arrogance of power among the President and senior-level Democrats that should concern every American.

"Last week a senior United States Senator gave a speech stating that the IRS should be used to target and punish groups that disagree with the Democratic Party’s political agenda.  Sen. Chuck Schumer stated, “…there are many things that can be done administratively by the IRS and other government agencies — we must redouble those efforts immediately.”  Schumer was also one of a number of Democrat Senators who signed a 2012 letter to the IRS demanding they be more aggressive against conservative organizations"... 
 
 
New IRS Threats over ObamaCare    "Obama’s IRS is blackmailing businesses to protect Obamacare!   If medium-sized businesses are forced to lay-off employees because of ObamaCare costs, they’re not allowed to talk about it."  (Emphasis in the original) 

Photo: Obama’s IRS is blackmailing businesses to protect Obamacare. In fact, the IRS is threatening these companies with perjury charges if they blame ObamaCare for job layoffs!

"Share" if you think the IRS is out of control! Tell Congress to stop the IRS threats: http://bit.ly/1mhot1w

Kerry, Obama and the Flat Earth Society, standing together

The Unbeatable Foe

"Yes, such a group exists. It thinks the world is flat -- but also getting warmer."

 Politico; John Kerry’s Phony Climate War by Rich Lowry   "If climate change does not consider itself duly warned, it has only itself to blame. John Kerry has proven himself fully capable of supporting hostilities against dangerous enemies of the United States (that he then regrets, and campaigns against—but that’s another story)."

Even the Demophilic NY Times questions the climate change / global warming / drought connection:  Science Linking Drought to Global Warming Remains Matter of Dispute

McNider and Christy: Why Kerry Is Flat Wrong on Climate Change   "But who are the Flat Earthers, and who is ignoring the scientific facts? In ancient times, the notion of a flat Earth was the scientific consensus, and it was only a minority who dared question this belief. We are among today's scientists who are skeptical about the so-called consensus on climate change. Does that make us modern-day Flat Earthers, as Mr. Kerry suggests, or are we among those who defy the prevailing wisdom to declare that the world is round?" 

Shouldn't that be Bill Clinton's face on this package?

 
"Via NRO:
Meet the latest face of bootleg Pakistani Viagra: President Obama.
“Apparently a symbol of power and virility, Barack Obama is the unwitting face of contraband Viagra sold in this market in Peshawar,” according to a report from Agence France-Presse. The president is featured on a number of different forms of the drug."