NCAA Championship game — March 23, 1957 — It took three overtimes, but North Carolina overwhelmed one of the game’s most dominant players, outlasting Kansas 54-53. Wilt Chamberlain, the Jayhawks’ sophomore center, averaged nearly 30 points and 20 rebounds during his career but was frustrated by the Heels’ triple-teams and held to 23 points. UNC’s Joe Quigg made key plays at the end, hitting two free throws and deflecting a pass intended for Chamberlain in the final seconds.
My sons, Hunter and Wilson, went to the Reagan Library on Thursday and went to see the Hollywood’s walk of fame yesterday.
(Picture from the Ronald Reagan Library, courtesy of the National Archives)
Picture of Ronald Reagan as a Lifeguard, Lowell Park, Illinois. (Circa 1927)
1980 Presidential Debate Reagan v Carter
Governor Reagan, you have an opportunity to rebut that.
GOVERNOR REAGAN
Yes, I’d like to respond very much.
First of all, the Soviet Union — if I have been critical of some of the previous agreements, it’s because we’ve been out-negotiated for quite a long time. And they have managed, in spite of all of our attempts at arms limitation, to go forward with the biggest military buildup in the history, of man.
Now, to suggest that because two Republican Presidents tried to pass the SALT treaty — that puts them on its side — I would like to say that President Ford, who was within 90 percent of a treaty that we could be in agreement with when he left office, is emphatically against this SALT treaty. I would like to point out also that Senators like Henry Jackson and Hollings of South Carolina — they are taking the lead in the fight against this particular treaty.
I am not talking of scrapping; I am talking of taking the treaty back and going back into negotiations. And I would say to the Soviet Union, we will sit and negotiate with you as long as it takes, to have not only legitimate arms limitation but to have a reduction of these nuclear weapons to the point that neither one of us represents a threat to the other. That is hardly throwing away a treaty and being opposed to arms limitation.
A man picks up trousers to see if it will fit him as volunteers work to distribute used clothings for evacuees at an evacuation center in coastal city of Rikuzentakata, Iwate prefecture, northeastern Japan, 19 March 2011. The number of estimated dead and missing person kept rising on 19 March, adding another fear to evacuees who have already been spending their days in dire conditions as they hopelessly wait for a good news on their loved ones whereabouts since a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit Japan on 11 March 2011. EPA/DAI KUROKAWA
My sons Wilson and Hunter are now climbing a mountain in the LA area. However, they will be helping Sherwood tonight at Santa Monica Promenade. Sherwood preaches and has question and answer sessions. Below a former muslim turned atheist debates Sherwood on the issue of evolution.
My sons will be attending church on Sunday at Grace Community Church where John MacArthur will be preaching. Here is a clip of him from “Larry King Live.”
Genesis is filled with Creation myths, myths that appear in one form or another and virtually every culture. Do you want your kid’s teacher talking about the myth of “Adam and Eve”? Leviticus is down right scary, but it is a good place to point out the inconsistencies in Bible and how contrary they are to our common life.
The Gospels? Like 5 blind men describing an elephant. What were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John thinking?
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I understand how skeptics love to take pot shots at the Bible, but let us take a look at some of the facts.
Archaeologists have unearthed the five porticoes of the pool of Bethesda by the Sheep Gate (John 5:2), the pool of Siloam (9:1-7), Jacob’s well at Sychar (4:5), the ‘Pavement’ (Gabbatha) where Pilate tried Jesus (19:13), and Solomon’s porch in the temple precincts (10:22-23)… Since then, discovery of an ossuary (bone-box) of a crucified man named Johanan from first-century Palestine confirms that nails were driven in his ankles, as in Christ’s; previously some skeptics thought that the Romans used only ropes to affix the legs of condemned men to their crosses. And less than five years ago, in 1990, the burial grounds of Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest, and his family were uncovered in Jerusalem. These and numerous other details create a favorable impression of the Gospel’s trustworthiness in the areas in which they can be tested.
Sir William Ramsay, famed archaeologist, began a study of Asia Minor with little regard for the book of Acts. He later wrote:
I may fairly claim to have entered on this investigation without prejudice in favor of the conclusion which I shall now seek to justify to the reader. On the contrary, I began with a mind unfavorable to it,… It did not then lie in my line of life to investigate the subject minutely; but more recently I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth.
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I wrote the famous atheist Anthony Flew a series of letters during the 1990’s and he was kind to answer several of them. I also sent him several cassette tapes and video tapes of Adrian Rogers messages. I will start a new series on this subject and post his responses. Below is a video clip filmed close to end of Dr Flew’s life.
My sons Wilson and Hunter are still getting in all the sites of California and Sherwood Haisty Jr. took them to Reagan’s presidential library in the afternoon after Sherwood finished his seminary work in the morning at the Masters Seminary. Wilson told me that Sherwood actually bought him a McArthur Study Bible that he wanted.
Below you will see a part of the Berlin wall and my two sons standing in front of it.
“If you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here, to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
Arguably one of Reagan’s best television moments, he urged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to stop the communist hold over East Berlin and allow the country to unify under a democracy. Two years later, it happened in the dark of night.
I remember walking in Austria in 1981 with an elderly man who did not know English but when I told him I was from the USA, he responded, “Jimmy Carter is no good, but Reagan is strong and will stand up to Russia.” He did not say those words in English but another student that was with me was able to interpret at least those words.
Also on the same trip, I got to visit 4 Communist countries and while in Hungry, I heard one of the saddest stories I had ever heard. Our tour guide (who knew 6 languages) spoke to a gentleman who met all of us. This poor man said (in German) that he was married in 1944 to a lady from Hungary who wanted to live by her relatives. He left his homeland of Austria and moved to Hungary. He said that he regretted moving to what would later become a communist country. His relatives in Austria had done really well but he was stuck in a communist country that basically caused everyone to live in poverty.
“I don’t want to say I never thought it would happen,” Bradley said. “It’s one of those things in the back of your mind you say, ‘There’s a chance.’ But then when you really think about it, it’s too good to be true. … It feels right. It fits.”
Mike Anderson was named the new basketball coach for the Arkansas Razorbacks. I got some trivia for you. Anderson’s wife, Marcheita Anderson, is from the Memphis area. His daughter Yvonne is a starter on the University of Texas basketball team. (Below is an article on her.)
Yvonne Anderson returns to Columbia as starter for Texas women’s basketball
COLUMBIA — Missouri basketball fans normally view Mike Anderson as a coach. It’s easy to forget that the leader of the men’s team is a father off the court.
Saturday the Missouri women’s basketball team will host Mike Anderson’s daughter Yvonne Anderson and the No. 22 Texas Longhorns in the Tigers’ first game of Big 12 Conference play. Mike Anderson says he supports his daughter’s decision to play for Texas.
Missouri has not defeated Texas since 2001. The Longhorns lead the series 9-1 entering Saturday’s game. Last year, the teams played each other twice. In the first round of the 2010 Big 12 Championship, Texas narrowly defeated Missouri 64-59. After leading by a point at the half, the Tigers were unable to hang on.
“It gave her a chance to get away and grow and be Yvonne, not coach Anderson’s daughter,” Mike Anderson said. “I thought that was the biggest thing. She gets to blaze her own path.
“I’m proud of her. She’s doing well in school, well on the floor. What more can you ask for? She’s growing, she’s becoming a young lady.”
Yvonne Anderson is in her third year at Texas, majoring in finance. She has found success academically in Austin, Texas, and has a 3.9 grade average. On the basketball court, the junior guard has the highest shooting percentage in her team’s starting lineup this season at 52 percent and has committed the fewest turnovers with 28.
“I’m proud of her because she’s worked hard. She’s gotten acclimated to the Division I level,” Mike Anderson said. “As I told her, it’s her time. I feel like she thinks she’s got the experience, so now it’s time to just go out and display that.”
Mike Anderson will not be in attendance Saturday to watch his daughter play against Missouri. Instead, he will be in Boulder, Colo., where his team opens conference play against the Buffaloes. Mike Anderson did have a chance to see Yvonne play against Tennessee on his birthday in December, though.
“I hate that we lost, but I love that he actually got to come watch me play,” Yvonne Anderson said.
Because Mike Anderson has an obligation to the men’s team, he is only able to talk to Yvonne Anderson about once a week. But the support that the Texas junior receives from her parents is appreciated.
“I’ve definitely needed their support to make it away from them, just to make it through those long instances when it’s just basketball and school,” Yvonne Anderson said. “In Austin, I don’t have any family there, so just working through those early years, I had to get used to it.”
According to her mother Marcheita Anderson, her daughter has relies on her now more than she did when she was a standout on the Hickman girls basketball team.
“She talks to me more now than when she was in high school,” Mrs. Anderson said with a laugh. “I think she believes I’m smart now. I was dumb when she was at home, but now I believe she thinks I’m smart.”
Marcheita Anderson had a chance to see her daughter Friday night when she invited the entire Texas team for dinner, which included an extensive menu that shaped up to be a “southern meal,” according to Marcheita Anderson. One dish in particular is special for Yvonne Anderson — spaghetti with baked chicken.
“It’s my favorite because it’s kind of healthy, but also it’s exactly like my mom’s, so it reminds me of home,” Yvonne Anderson said. “My teammates like it, too, so that’s great.”
Because her husband coaches at Missouri and her daughter plays for Texas, Marcheita Anderson has connections to both schools. Therefore, the names on the front of the jerseys will lose some of their meaning.
“I’m always for Yvonne. That’s my baby, I carried her for nine months,” Marcheita Anderson said. “I do want Missouri to do fantastic.”
Marcheita Anderson plans on wearing a burnt-orange shirt with a tiger print on it to the game on Saturday.
“I don’t wear orange until I wear it to her games,” Marcheita Anderson said.
My sons Wilson and Hunter are in California to help our friend Sherwood Haisty in his street preaching ministry in Santa Monica. However, they spent the last two days trying to get into Yosemite National Park after a landslide. They finally got in yesterday. They saw “Half Dome” yesterday.
Half Dome and El Capitan. Nevada and Bridal Veil Falls. These names conjure up so many different memories for the millions of people that have been lucky enough to visit Yosemite National Park.
There is a bill to put the issue of raising funds for Arkansas roads before the people. Let me take a look at what actually happened to that bill earlier this week.
Yet the bill got hung up for a while in the Senate Transportation Committee by Republican members, who compose a 5-3 committee majority and who either opposed the measure outright on a blanket anti-tax basis or insisted they wanted only to amend it in two particulars.
The first idea for an amendment was to cap the diesel tax for farm vehicles. The second was to authorize the governor to call only one such special bond election, not one over and over again until he and the highway industry wore voters down.
All this got gummed up in dramatic controversy and procedural trickery the other afternoon.
A special meeting of this Transportation Committee was called after daily adjournment of the Senate. Apparently with only four of the eight committee members present, state Sen. Linda Chesterfield of Little Rock, a Democrat and the chairman, declared a nonexistent quorum and speedily proclaimed the bill passed on a voice vote.
Four Republicans had not arrived, either thinking the meeting was to begin 10 minutes after adjournment instead of the very moment of adjournment or because they needed to go instead to a simultaneous meeting on proposed constitutional amendments.
The one Republican in attendance, Bruce Holland of Greenwood, could have insisted on a roll call vote that would have revealed the absence of a quorum, but did not.
Sen. Jake Files, Republican of Fort Smith and a committee member, stopped by the meeting, then headed to the other session on constitutional amendments where he was sponsoring one of the proposals.
He did so, he told me, secure in the belief that the bill would not be brought up because parties were still working in good faith, he thought, on those amendments.
It was sneaky and heavy-handed on the part of Democrats, thus par for the course. But it was naive and inept on the part of Republicans, too — also par for the course.
More on the diesel tax increase, which came out of Senate committee yesterday in a speedy voice vote. Since then, Republicans have been howling that Committee Chair Linda Chesterfield did them dirty by calling for a voice vote and declaring the bill approved with only four people in the room. All agree a quorum of five was present to hold the meeting, but Republican Sen. Jake Files soon absented himself and the voice vote was held without him.
That left only Republican Sen. Bruce Holland in the room when Chesterfield waved the bill out. I still believe the Republicans understood what was up. Republicans have five seats on the eight-member committee. They only have two in place when the meeting on a big tax increase starts and one quickly leaves the room? They make no objection to the voice vote? Senate rules are clear: It takes only ONE senator to question a quorum. It takes only ONE senator to ask for a roll call. Fireball Holland was in the room. He could have stopped the train but he didn’t. I don’t think it was an accident, though Republicans are all rushing to their favorite mouthpieces for sympathetic retelling of the tale of dirty ol’ Linda…
When it’s over, I’m betting the diesel tax will be extracted by majority vote as rules allow and pass the Senate. Republicans will vote against it and keep their anti-tax record clean. This should be accompanied by a decrease in the heated rhetoric about dirty tricks because it’s clearer than ever that some, if not all, committee Repubicans were up to their necks in the events they’re now moaning about. This is bad form. It also rolls downhill. Other side deals and hidden agendas are threatened if Republicans try to have their cake and eat it, too, on things like the diesel vote.
Special notice for the five Republicans on the eight-member Senate Transportation Committee.
Sen. Linda Chesterfield, the chair, has called a committee meeting immediately after adjournment. The House bill to refer to voters a 5-cent increase in the tax on diesel to back highway bonds is on the agenda.
Absences require a doctor’s excuse (Sen. Irvin, an independent physician, not your husband or Dr. Bledsoe), will be required). Homework-eating dog excuses are frowned upon. Water breaks after a quorum is declared are ill-advised. Vote or shut up.
The fallout continues from the shenanigans pulled yesterday in the Senate Public Health Committee. The meeting was hastily called after the full Senate adjourned where the chair of the committee – Sen. Linda Chesterfield (D-Little Rock) – quickly ruled that Speaker Moore’s proposed nickel increase on the diesel tax passed on a voice vote. She called it so fast that no one from the press had time to get to the room.
Sen. Bruce Holland (R-Greenwood) – who voted against the bill’s passage – tells me this morning that he was the only Republican present when vote was called along with the three Democrats on the committee.
“I was surprised that the bill was presented because we were working on an amendment and it was my understanding that it would not be run until the amendment was added,” said Holland this morning
NCAA Championship game, April 3, 1989 — If Ellison was cool in the clutch, Michigan’s Rumeal Robinson was ice cold against Seton Hall. The Wolverines’ junior wasn’t automatic from the free-throw line (64.2 percent during the season), yet he sunk two from the charity stripe with no time remaining to give them an 80-79 win. “I’ve been coming down and passing the ball and hiding a lot on last-second shots,” Robinson said. “This time I wanted it to be me.”
My sons Wilson and Hunter got into Yosemite National Park with Sherwood Haisty yesterday at 10 am and got to spend 3 hours there before heading back to LA. Below is a clip about Yosemite.
Yosemite National Park (pronounced /joʊˈsɛmɨtiː/ yo-SEM-it-ee) is a national park located in the eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in east central California, United States. The park covers an area of 761,266 acres or 1,189 square miles (3,081 km²) and reaches across the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain chain. Yosemite is visited by over 3.5 million people each year, many of whom only spend time in the seven square miles (18 km²) of Yosemite Valley. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. Almost 95% of the park is designated wilderness. Although not the first designated national park, Yosemite was a focal point in the development of the national park idea, largely owing to the work of people like John Muir and Galen Clark.
(Picture from the Ronald Reagan Library, courtesy of the National Archives)
Photograph of Ronald Reagan (with “Dutch boy” haircut) Neil Reagan (brother) and Parents Jack and Nelle Reagan. (Circa 1914)
In the movie “Santa Fe Trail” Reagan got his first big role. This movie did have a very interesting subject matter. It reminds me of a movie his co-star Olivia De Havilland starred in just one year earlier (“Gone with the Wind”). I will start a series on Reagan later dealing with this film “Santa Fe Trail.”
w Governor Reagan, you have the last word on that question.
GOVERNOR REAGAN
Yes. I have no quarrel whatsoever with the things that have been done, because I believe it is high time that the civilized countries of the world made it plain that there is no room worldwide for terrorism; there will be no negotiation with terrorists of any kind. And while I have a last word here, I would like to correct a misstatement of fact by the President. I have never made the statement that he suggested about nuclear proliferation, and nuclear proliferation, or the trying to halt it, would be a major part of a foreign policy of mine.
MR. SMITH
Thank you, gentlemen. That is the first half of the debate.
Now, the rules for the second half, quite simple. They’re only complicated when I explain them. [Laughter] In the second half, the panelists with me will have no followup questions. Instead, after the panelists have asked a question the candidates have answered, each of the candidates will have two opportunities to followup, to question, to rebut, or just to comment on his opponent’s statement.
Governor Reagan will respond, in this section, to the first question from Marvin Stone.
STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION
MR. STONE
Governor Reagan, arms control: The President said it was the single most important issue. Both of you have expressed the desire to end the nuclear arms race with Russia, but by methods that are vastly different. You suggest that we scrap the SALT II treaty, already negotiated, and intensify the buildup of American power to induce the Soviets to sign a new treaty, one more favorable to us.
GOVERNOR REAGAN
Yes.
MR. STONE
President Carter, on the other hand, says he will again try to convince a reluctant Congress to ratify the present treaty on the grounds it’s the best we can hope to get.
Now, both of you cannot be right. Will you tell us why you think you are?
GOVERNOR REAGAN
Yes. I think I’m right, because I believe that we must have a consistent foreign policy, a strong America, and a strong economy. And then, as we build up our national security, to restore our margin of safety, we at the same time try to restrain the Soviet buildup, which has been going forward at a rapid pace and for quite some time.
The SALT II treaty was the result of negotiations that Mr. Carter’s team entered into after he had asked the Soviet Union for a discussion of actual reduction of nuclear strategic weapons, and his emissary, I think, came home in 12 hours having heard a very definite nyet. But taking that one no from the Soviet Union, we then went back into negotiations on their terms, because Mr. Carter had cancelled the B-1 bomber, delayed the MX, delayed the Trident submarine, delayed the cruise missile, shut down the Minuteman missile production line, and whatever other things that might have been done. The Soviet Union sat at the table knowing that we had gone forward with unilateral concessions without any reciprocation from them whatsoever.
Now, I have not blocked the SALT II treaty, as Mr. Carter and Mr. Mondale suggest that I have. It has been blocked by a Senate in which there is a Democratic majority. Indeed, the Senate Armed Services Committee voted 10 to 0, with 7 abstentions, against the SALT II treaty, and declared that it was not in the national security interests of the United States — besides which, it is illegal, because the law of the land, passed by Congress, says we cannot accept a treaty in which we are not equal. And we’re not equal in this treaty for one reason alone: Our B-52 bombers are considered to be strategic weapons; their Backfire bombers areGovernor Reagan, you have the last word on that question.
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The perigee moon rises over a a severely damaged street in downtown Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on 19 March 2011. The picturesque fishing town of Kamaishi was devastated when the tsunami hit less than 15mins after the 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON
“In Christ Alone” music video featuring scenes from “The Passion of the Christ”. It is sung by Lou Fellingham of Phatfish and the writer of the hymn is Stuart Townend.
Is the Bible historically accurate? Here are some of the posts I have done in the past on the subject:
This clay tablet is a Babylonian chronicle recording events from 605-594BC. It was first translated in 1956 and is now in the British Museum. The cuneiform text on this clay tablet tells, among other things, 3 main events: 1. The Battle of Carchemish (famous battle for world supremacy where Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated Pharoah Necho of Egypt, 605 BC.), 2. The accession to the throne of Nebuchadnezzar II, the Chaldean, and 3. The capture of Jerusalem on the 16th of March, 598 BC.
King Hezekiah of Judah ruled from 721 to 686 BC. Fearing a siege by the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, Hezekiah preserved Jerusalem’s water supply by cutting a tunnel through 1,750 feet of solid rock from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam inside the city walls (2 Kings 20; 2 Chron. 32). At the Siloam end of the tunnel, an inscription, presently in the archaeological museum at Istanbul, Turkey, celebrates this remarkable accomplishment.
It contains the victories of Sennacherib himself, the Assyrian king who had besieged Jerusalem in 701 BC during the reign of king Hezekiah, it never mentions any defeats. On the prism Sennacherib boasts that he shut up “Hezekiah the Judahite” within Jerusalem his own royal city “like a caged bird.” This prism is among the three accounts discovered so far which have been left by the Assyrian king Sennacherib of his campaign against Israel and Judah.
In addition to Jericho, places such as Haran, Hazor, Dan, Megiddo, Shechem, Samaria, Shiloh, Gezer, Gibeah, Beth Shemesh, Beth Shean, Beersheba, Lachish, and many other urban sites have been excavated, quite apart from such larger and obvious locations as Jerusalem or Babylon. Such geographical markers are extremely significant in demonstrating that fact, not fantasy, is intended in the Old Testament historical narratives;
Most doubting scholars back then said that the Hittites were just a “mythical people that are only mentioned in the Bible.” Some skeptics pointed to the fact that the Bible pictures the Hittites as a very big nation that was worthy of being coalition partners with Egypt (II Kings 7:6), and these bible critics would assert that surely we would have found records of this great nation of Hittites. The ironic thing is that when the Hittite nation was discovered, a vast amount of Hittite documents were found. Among those documents was the treaty between Ramesses II and the Hittite King.
The Bible mentions that Shishak marched his troops into the land of Judah and plundered a host of cities including Jerusalem, this has been confirmed by archaeologists. Shishak’s own record of his campaign is inscribed on the south wall of the Great Temple of Amon at Karnak in Egypt. In his campaign he presents 156 cities of Judea to his god Amon.
The Moabite Stone also known as the Mesha Stele is an interesting story. The Bible says in 2 Kings 3:5 that Mesha the king of Moab stopped paying tribute to Israel and rebelled and fought against Israel and later he recorded this event. This record from Mesha has been discovered.
The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri, silver, gold, bowls of gold, chalices of gold, cups of gold, vases of gold, lead, a sceptre for the king, and spear-shafts, I have received.”
Sir William Ramsay, famed archaeologist, began a study of Asia Minor with little regard for the book of Acts. He later wrote:
I found myself brought into contact with the Book of Acts as an authority for the topography, antiquities and society of Asia Minor. It was gradually borne upon me that in various details the narrative showed marvelous truth.
9B Discovery of Ebla Tablets. When I think of discoveries like the Ebla Tablets that verify names like Adam, Eve, Ishmael, David and Saul were in common usage when the Bible said they were, it makes me think of what amazing confirmation that is of the historical accuracy of the Bible.
This cube is inscribed with the name and titles of Yahali and a prayer: “In his year assigned to him by lot (puru) may the harvest of the land of Assyria prosper and thrive, in front of the gods Assur and Adad may his lot (puru) fall.” It provides a prototype (the only one ever recovered) for the lots (purim) cast by Haman to fix a date for the destruction of the Jews of the Persian Empire, ostensibly in the fifth century B.C.E. (Esther 3:7; cf. 9:26).
The Bible mentions Uzziah or Azariah as the king of the southern kingdom of Judah in 2 Kings 15. The Uzziah Tablet Inscription is a stone tablet (35 cm high x 34 cm wide x 6 cm deep) with letters inscribed in ancient Hebrew text with an Aramaic style of writing, which dates to around 30-70 AD. The text reveals the burial site of Uzziah of Judah, who died in 747 BC.
The Pilate Inscription is the only known occurrence of the name Pontius Pilate in any ancient inscription. Visitors to the Caesarea theater today see a replica, the original is in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. There have been a few bronze coins found that were struck form 29-32 AD by Pontius Pilate
This beautifully decorated ossuary found in the ruins of Jerusalem, contained the bones of Caiaphas, the first century AD. high priest during the time of Jesus.
In June 1961 Italian archaeologists led by Dr. Frova were excavating an ancient Roman amphitheatre near Caesarea-on-the-Sea (Maritima) and uncovered this interesting limestone block. On the face is a monumental inscription which is part of a larger dedication to Tiberius Caesar which clearly says that it was from “Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Judea.”
Despite their liberal training, it was archaeological research that bolstered their confidence in the biblical text:Albright said of himself, “I must admit that I tried to be rational and empirical in my approach [but] we all have presuppositions of a philosophical order.” The same statement could be applied as easily to Gleuck and Wright, for all three were deeply imbued with the theological perceptions which infused their work.
NCAA Championship game, March 31, 1986 — Conventional wisdom had been that freshmen wilt under pressure. Louisville’s Pervis Ellison ended that talk with his play against Duke. He scored 25 points, grabbed 11 rebounds and hit two crucial free throws in the final seconds to cement a 72-69 win. Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski summed up the freshman’s day best: “Ellison was magnificent.”
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(Picture from the Ronald Reagan Library, courtesy of the National Archives)
Picture of Ronald Reagan’s (second row, first from the left) Third Grade Class Photo. (Circa 1919)
Elizabeth Taylor died today. (Below picture of Taylor). Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth Taylor were a famous couple. Eddie Fisher left Debbie Reynolds for Taylor.
1980 Presidential Debate Reagan v Carter
MS. WALTERS
Yes. Governor, the eyes of the country tonight remain on the hostages in Iran, but the question of how we respond to acts of terrorism goes beyond this current crisis. There are other countries that have policies that determine how they will respond. Israel, for example, considers hostages like soldiers and will not negotiate with terrorists.
For the future, the country has the right to know, do you have a policy for dealing with terrorism wherever it might happen, and what have we learned from this experience in Iran that might cause us to do things differently if this, or something similar, should happen again?
GOVERNOR REAGAN
Well, Barbara, you’ve asked that question twice. I think you ought to have at least one answer to it. [Laughter]
I have been accused lately of having a secret plan with regard to the hostages. Now, this comes from an answer that I’ve made at least 50 times during this campaign to the press. The question would be. “Have you any ideas of what you would do if you were there?” And I said, well, yes. And I think that anyone that’s seeking this position, as well as other people, probably, have thought to themselves. “What about this, what about that?” These are just ideas of what I would think of if I were in that position and had access to the information, in which I would know all the options that were open to me. I have never answered the question, however. Second — the one that says, “Well, tell me, what are some of those ideas?” First of all, I would be fearful that I might say something that was presently under way or in negotiations, and thus expose it and endanger the hostages. And sometimes, I think some of my ideas might involve quiet diplomacy, where you don’t say, in advance or say to anyone what it is you’re thinking of doing.
Your question is difficult to answer, because, in the situation right now, no one wants to say anything that would inadvertently delay, in any way, the return of those hostages if there is a chance of their coming home soon, or that might cause them harm.
What I do think should be done, once they are safely here with their families and that tragedy is over — and we’ve endured this humiliation for just lacking 1 week of a year now — then, I think, it is time for us to have a complete investigation as to the diplomatic efforts that were made in the beginning, why they have been there so long, and when they come home, what did we have to do in order to bring that about, what arrangements were made? And I would suggest that Congress should hold such an investigation.
In the meantime, I’m going to continue praying that they’ll come home.
MR. SMITH
Followup question.
MS. WALTERS
Well, I would like to say that neither candidate answered specifically the question of a specific policy for dealing with terrorism, but I will ask Governor Reagan a different followup question. You have suggested that there would be no Iranian crisis had you been President, because we would have given firmer support to the Shah. But Iran is a country of 37 million people who were resisting a government they regarded as dictatorial.
My question is not whether the Shah’s regime was preferable to the Ayatollah’s, but whether the United States has the power or the right to try to determine what form of government any country will have, and do we back unpopular regimes whose major merit is that they are friendly to the United States?
GOVERNOR REAGAN
The degree of unpopularity of a regime when the choice is total authoritarianism — totalitarianism, I should say, in the alternative government, makes one wonder whether you are being helpful to the people. And we’ve been guilty of that. Because someone didn’t meet exactly our standards of human rights, even though they were an ally of ours, instead of trying patiently to persuade them to change their ways, we have, in a number of instances, aided a revolutionary overthrow which results in complete totalitarianism, instead, for those people. And I think that this is a kind of a hypocritical policy when, at the same time, we’re maintaining a detente with the one nation in the world where there are no human rights at all — the Soviet Union.
Now, there was a second phase in the Iranian affair in which we had something to do with that. And that was, we had adequate warning that there was a threat to our Embassy, and we could have done what other Embassies did — either strengthen our security there or remove our personnel before the kidnap and the takeover took place.
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The stern of the grounded cargo ship Asia Symphony breaches the port wall and juts out onto a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on 19 March 2011. The picturesque fishing town of Kamaishi was devastated when the tsunami hit less than 15 minutes after the 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON
Today I was sad to hear Elizabeth Taylor died. My sons are in Los Angeles today and they said they will get copies of the LA Times tomorrow to bring home to give my wife. We both love Taylor’s performance in her movie “Giant” from 1956 with Rock Hudson. I also love the performance in that movie of Mercedes McCambridge. McCambridge played the supporting role of “Luz.” She was nominated for another Academy Award as Best Supporting Actress but lost to Dorothy Malone in “Written on the Wind.”
This clip below includes a great scene with “Luz.”
Unfortunately, a very sad chapter in her family’s life happened here in Little Rock.
McCambridge’s son, John Markle, a UCLA graduate, had a PhD in Economics.[5] After being fired from his position as a futures trader at Stephens and Company for mishandling funds, a $5 million lawsuit was filed against him and McCambridge. Although some of the mishandled funds had been handled under McCambridge’s name through Markle’s power of attorney, she was subsequently cleared of any wrongdoing.[4] Markle killed his family, wife Christina and daughters Amy (age 13) and Suzanne (age 9), and then himself in a murder/suicide in 1987.[4] He left a note taking responsibility for his crimes as well as a long, bitter letter to his mother.[5]
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Dr Price, who directs excavations at the Qumran plateau in Israel, the site of the community that produced the dead sea scrolls some 2,000 years ago, expertly guides you through the latest archaeological finds that have changed the way we understand the world of the bible. (Part 2 of 6 in the film series The Stones Cry Out) HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED………
Did the Patriarchs of the Bible actually live?
Have the legendary cities of Sodom & Gomorrah been discovered?
Did the walls of Jericho really fall down?
Was King David a man or a myth?
Can we locate the tomb of Christ today?
The Stones Cry Out allows you to see and hear archaeologists who have made some of the most significant discoverires of our time and how the ancient evidence they unearthed confirmed the historical persons and events of the bible. Filmed on location in Israel and Jordan, this fascinating porgram will enable you to appreciate the living message of the bible
From time to time you will read articles in the Arkansas press by such writers as John Brummett, Max Brantley and Gene Lyons that poke fun at those that actually believe the Bible is historically accurate when in fact the Bible is backed up by many archaeological facts. The Book of Mormon is blindly accepted even though archaeology has disproven many of the facts that are claimed by it. For instance, cattle and cows did not exist in North America when they said they did.
There are six references to cattle made in the Book of Mormon, including verbiage suggesting they were domesticated.[48] There is no evidence that Old World cattle (members of the genus Bos) inhabited the New World prior to European contact in the 16th century AD. Further, there is currently no archeological evidence of American bison having been domesticated.[49] It is widely accepted that the only large mammal to be domesticated in the Americas was the llama and that no species of goats, deer, or sheep were domesticated before the arrival of the Europeans to the continent.
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III was discovered by the late Henry Layard in 1845. The 7 foot black limestone monument was found in the ruins of the palace of Shalmaneser III at ancient Calah, near Nineveh.
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It contains many panels displaying the Assyrian kings exploits. The Black Obelisk is one of the most important discoveries in Biblical Archaeology because one of the panels depicts the Hebrew king Jehu, or possibly one of his servants, bringing gifts to Shalmaneser and kneeling at his feet. The inscription above it reads:
“The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri, silver, gold, bowls of gold, chalices of gold, cups of gold, vases of gold, lead, a sceptre for the king, and spear-shafts, I have received.”
Detailed Description of the Black Obelisk
Material – Black Limestone Obelisk
Neo Assyrian
Date: 858-824 BC
Height: 197.85 cm (77.8937008 inches)
Width: 45.08 cm (17.7480315 inches)
Depth:
Nimrud (ancient Calah), northern Iraq
Excavated by: Henry Layard 1845-1849
Location: British Museum, London
British Museum Excerpt
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III
Neo-Assyrian, 858-824 BC
From Nimrud (ancient Kalhu), northern Iraq
The military achievements of an Assyrian king
The archaeologist Henry Layard discovered this black limestone obelisk in 1846 during his excavations of the site of Kalhu, the ancient Assyrian capital. It was erected as a public monument in 825 BC at a time of civil war. The relief sculptures glorify the achievements of King Shalmaneser III (reigned 858-824 BC) and his chief minister. It lists their military campaigns of thirty-one years and the tribute they exacted from their neighbours: including camels, monkeys, an elephant and a rhinoceros. Assyrian kings often collected exotic animals and plants as an expression of their power.
There are five scenes of tribute, each of which occupies four panels round the face of the obelisk and is identified by a line of cuneiform script above the panel. From top to bottom they are:
Sua of Gilzanu (in north-west Iran)
Jehu of Bit Omri (ancient northern Israel)
An unnamed ruler of Musri (probably Egypt)
Marduk-apil-usur of Suhi (middle Euphrates, Syria and Iraq)
Qalparunda of Patin (Antakya region of Turkey)
The second register from the top includes the earliest surviving picture of an Israelite: the Biblical Jehu, king of Israel, brought or sent his tribute in around 841 BC. Ahab, son of Omri, king of Israel, had lost his life in battle a few years previously, fighting against the king of Damascus at Ramoth-Gilead (I Kings xxii. 29-36). His second son (Joram) was succeeded by Jehu, a usurper, who broke the alliances with Phoenicia and Judah, and submitted to Assyria. The caption above the scene, written in Assyrian cuneiform, can be translated
The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri: I received from him silver, gold, a golden bowl, a golden vase with pointed bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets, tin, a staff for a king [and] spears.
Height: 197.85 cm
Width: 45.08 cm
Excavated by A.H. Layard
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Room 6, Assyrian sculpture
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West Regional second round, March 19, 1995 — Tyus Edney did Ainge one better. Missouri led the tournament’s top seed 74-73 with 4.8 seconds remaining. The Tigers didn’t double-team Edney on the in-bounds, which allowed the UCLA point guard to catch the ball at full speed. He zipped down the court and swooped in for a score as time expired, saving the Bruins, who would go onto win their 11th national title.___________________________________________
Hollywood stars Ronald Reagan and Elizabeth Taylor applaud at a rally in support of former Navy Secretary John Warner’s bid for the U.S. Senate in Richmond, Virginia on September 28, 1978. (UPI Photo/FILE)
(Picture from the Ronald Reagan Library, courtesy of the National Archives)
Picture of newlyweds Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan cutting their wedding cake. (March 4, 1952)
May 31, 1987: President Reagan with ElizabethTaylor
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen life was often upstaged by her stormy personal life, died today at age 79.
My wife Jill and I love the movie “Giant” which is her finest movie in my opinion. I like the clip here where James Dean makes a move on Elizabeth Taylor and she tells him she will report it to her husband (Rock Hudson).
California travel expert Veronica Hill visits Yosemite National Park in this episode of “California Travel Tips.”
My sons Wilson and Hunter spent all day with our friend Sherwood Haisty Jr. trying to get into Yosemite National Park yesterday and they will try again today. However, there has been a landslide and several of the entrances have been closed. We will see if they are successful today. Read more about the landslide at my last posting.
1980 Presidential debate Reagan v Carter
MR. SMITH
Governor Reagan, you have a minute for rebuttal.
GOVERNOR REAGAN
Yes. The President talks of Government programs, and they have their place. But as Governor, when I was at that end of the line and receiving some of these grants for Government programs, I saw that so many of them were dead-end. They were public employment for these people who really want to get out into the private job market, where there are jobs with a future.
Now, the President spoke a moment ago about — that I was against the minimum wage. I wish he could have been with me when I sat with a group of teenagers who were black and who were telling me about their unemployment problems, and that it was the minimum wage that had done away with the jobs that they once could get. And indeed, every time it has increased you will find there is an increase in minority unemployment among young people. And therefore, I have been in favor of a separate minimum for them.
With regard to the great progress that has been made with this Government spending, the rate of black unemployment in Detroit, Michigan, is 56 percent.
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The stern of the grounded cargo ship Asia Symphony breaches the port wall and juts out onto a road in Kamaishi, Iwate Prefecture in northeastern Japan on 19 March 2011. The picturesque fishing town of Kamaishi was devastated when the tsunami hit less than 15 minutes after the 9.0 earthquake that rocked Japan on 11 March 2011. EPA/STEPHEN MORRISON
First Lady Nancy Reagan jokes with Elizabeth Taylor at the private White House inaugural reception celebrating the beginning of President Reagan’s second term • January 20, 1985
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