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The Characters referenced in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (Part 2 Cole Porter)

June 15, 2011 – 7:40 am

The song used in “Midnight in Paris”

I am going through the famous characters that Woody Allen presents in his excellent movie “Midnight in Paris.”  By the way, I know that some of you are wondering how many posts I will have before I am finished. Right now I have plans to look at Fitzgerald, Heminingway, Juan Belmonte,Gertrude Stein, Gauguin, Lautrec, Geores Brague, Dali, Rodin,Coco Chanel, Modigliani, Matisse, Luis Bunuel, Josephine Baker, Van Gogh, Picasso, Man Ray, T.S. Elliot and several more.

Cole Porter, composer and songwriterBornJune 9, 1891(1891-06-09)
Peru, Indiana, U.S.DiedOctober 15, 1964(1964-10-15) (aged 73)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.SpouseLinda Lee Thomas (m. 1919–1954) «start: (1919)–end+1: (1955)»”Marriage: Linda Lee Thomas to Cole Porter” Location: (linkback:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cole_Porter)(her death)

Born:June 9, 1891 in Peru, Indiana, America

Died:October 15, 1964, Santa Monica, California, AmericaNationality:AmericanEra:Twentieth CenturyMain genre:Broadway and Popular MusicMain works:

Broadway Musicals:
Gay Divorce (1932)
Anything Goes (1934)
Kiss Me, Kate (1948)
Can Can (1953)
Silk Stockings (1954)
Popular Songs:
Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall In Love (1928)
Love For Sale (1930)
Night and Day (1932)
You’re The Top (1934)
Don’t Fence Me In (1934)
I Concentrate On You (1935)
Begin The Beguine (1935)
It’s De-Lovely (1936)
I’ve Got You Under My Skin (1936)
I Get A Kick Out Of You (1940)
I Love Paris (1953)
What Is This Thing Called Love? (1929)

A tender homage to Cole Porter.

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 October 15, 1964)

written by JX Bell

Cole Porter’s name derives from the surnames of his parents, Kate Cole and Sam Porter. Kate’s father, James Omar (known as J. O.), was an influential man both in the community and in Cole’s early life. J.O. started from humble beginnings as son of a shoemaker, but his business savvy and strong work ethic made him the richest man in Indiana. Despite J.O.’s obsessive drive for making money, he took time off to marry Rachel Henton, who had several children with him.

Kate Cole was born in 1862, and was spoiled during her youth as she was throughout her life. Kate always had the best clothes, the best education, and the best training in dancing and music. Kate’s father expected to marry her off to a man with a strong business background, a strong personality, and the potential for a good career. As it is for many filial presumptions and expectations, Kate married someone who was quite the opposite — a shy druggist from their small town of Peru, Indiana.

The couple married without the full consent of J.O., but he financially supported their wedding and subsidized the couple. As one of the richest men in Indiana, he thought his daughter should be seen doing and wearing the right things without financial fears. These subsidies from J.O. financed the rest of Sam and Kate’s life, as well as that of their son born on June 9th, 1891: Cole Porter.

Cole’s Early Years
Cole learned piano and violin at age six. He became very good at both, but he disliked the violin’s harsh sound and so his energy turned to the piano. During his formative years, he played piano two hours per day. While Cole practiced, he and his mother would parody popular tunes on the piano in order to increase Cole’s patience with such long practice sessions. ( http://www.coleporter.org/bio.html )

Biografia de Cole Porter em português: http://www.100anosdemusica.com.br/jazz_coleporter.htm
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Thank You for The Music Lyrics
(Songwriters: Andersson, Benny Goran Br; Ulvaeus, Bjoern K.)
ABBA

Here”s another review:

Woody Allen‘s Midnight in Paris, the director’s 41st film, opened the Cannes Film Festival today. Starring unlikely Allen hero Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams, Marion Cotillard, Michael Sheen, Kathy Bates, Adrien Brody, Léa Seydoux, Alison Pill, and Gad Elmaleh, and featuring Carla Bruni in a cameo as a museum tour guide, Midnight in Paris has been greeted by mostly positive — though not necessarily enthusiastic — (English-language) reviews.

The film revolves around a modern American abroad who revisits Allen’s idealized Paris of the 1920s, when the city was host to a remarkable segment of the American cultural elite: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In fact, for a movie set in Paris, Midnight in Paris sounds like a very US-centered affair. Apart from Marion Cotillard, the only French stars featured in Allen’s ode to the French capital are Léa Seydoux and Gad Elmaleh.

Midnight in Paris opened in France today. It opens in the United States on May 20.

Midnight in Paris, also, is helped by its unashamed sense of fairytale fantasy. Owen Wilson, playing the Allen alter-ego Gil Pender, is indulging in a dream-life of literary American expats in 1920s Paris. (Allen even gets a reference in to the utterly obscure lesbian novelist Djuna Barnes.) Allen, with his unswerving adoration of old-time showtunes and unfettered veneration of Manhattan’s interwar nightclub scene, has always seemed a man out of time. Maybe he’s finally found his place. (Andrew Pulver in The Guardian.)

The film is good. Not a radical change in direction or form. But good. It rides on a familiar but clever and expansive central idea that sustains Allen’s interest, and ours. And that’s something that can’t be said of more than two or three Allen pictures from the last 20 years. (Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune.)

As beguiling as a stroll around Paris on a warm spring evening ­ something which Owen Wilson’s character here becomes very fond of himself ­ Midnight in Paris represents Woody Allen’s companion piece to his The Purple Rose of Cairo, a fanciful time machine that allows him to indulge playfully in the artistic Paris of his, and many other people’s, dreams.  A sure-fire source of gentle amusement to Allen’s core audience but unlikely to connect with those with no knowledge of or feel for the Paris of the Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Picasso… (Todd McCarthy in The Hollywood Reporter.)

From this movie’s opening postcard-view montage of Paris — familiar in a number of ways — it’s clear the French capital is to be added to the list of cities that Woody Allen adores, and idolises all out of proportion. His new movie was an amiable amuse-bouche to begin the Cannes festival feast: sporadically entertaining, light, shallow, self-plagiarising. It’s a romantic fantasy adventure to be compared with the vastly superior ideas of his comparative youth, such as the 1985 movie The Purple Rose of Cairo, in which it was possible to step through the silver screen, or his 1977 short story “The Kugelmass Episode,” in which it was possible to enter the world of Madame Bovary. (Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian.)

Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris — for my money, the best Allen movie in 10 years, or maybe even close to 20 — is all about that idea: Reckoning with the past as a real place, but also worrying about the limits of nostalgia. Allen, as an artist and as a person, has always liked old stuff: Old movies, old books, old jazz recordings — you could even say that it’s often been hard for him to live in the present. But instead of just reaffirming how great the old days were, Midnight in Paris — in ways that are sometimes delightfully silly and other times strangely, deeply moving — grapples with something more complicated and elusive. (Stephanie Zacharek in Movie Line.)

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The Characters referenced in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (Part 4 Ernest Heminingway)

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The Characters referenced in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (Part 3 Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald)

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The Characters referenced in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (Part 2 Cole Porter)

The song used in “Midnight in Paris” I am going through the famous characters that Woody Allen presents in his excellent movie “Midnight in Paris.” This series may be a long one since there are so many great characters. De-Lovely – Movie Trailer De-Lovely – So in Love – Kevin Kline, Ashley Judd & Others […]

The Characters referenced in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” (Part 1 William Faulkner)

Photo by Phill Mullen The only known photograph of William Faulkner (right) with his eldest brother, John, was taken in 1949. Like his brother, John Faulkner was also a writer, though their writing styles differed considerably. My grandfather, John Murphey, (born 1910) grew up in Oxford, Mississippi and knew both Johncy and “Bill” Faulkner. He […]

I love Woody Allen’s latest movie “Midnight in Paris”

I love the movie “Midnight in Paris” was so good that I will be doing a series on it. My favorite Woody Allen movie is Crimes and Misdemeanors and I will provide links to my earlier posts on that great movie. Movie Guide the Christian website had the following review: MIDNIGHT IN PARIS is the […]

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Solomon, Woody Allen, Coldplay and Kansas (Coldplay’s spiritual search Part 6)

Here is an article I wrote a couple of years ago: Solomon, Woody Allen, Coldplay and Kansas What does King Solomon, the movie director Woody Allen and the modern rock bands Coldplay and Kansas have in common? All four took on the issues surrounding death, the meaning of life and a possible afterlife, although they all came up with their own conclusions on […]

Insight into what Coldplay meant by “St. Peter won’t call my name” (Series on Coldplay’s spiritual search, Part 3)

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Book of Mormon is not historically accurate, but Bible is (Part 28)

June 15, 2011 – 5:48 am

The Book of Mormon vs The Bible, Part 2 of an indepth study of Latter Day Saints Archeology

The Book of Mormon verses The Bible, Part 2 of an indepth study

With the great vast amounts of evidence we find in the Bible through archeology, why is there no evidence for anything writte in the Book of Mormon?

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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, wheels and chariots did not exist in North America when they said they did.

Rick Deem wrote the article, “Archaeology/Anthropolocical Problems in the Book of Mormon,” and in it he asserted:

The Book of Mormon claims to be a record of the inhabitants of the Americas during the period from 2000 B.C. to 400 A.D. It makes many claims about the history and anthropology of pre-Columbian American cultures. Unfortunately, the author of the book, Joseph Smith, had little or no knowledge of pre-Columbian American civilizations. Borrowing and adapting many stories from the Old and New Testaments, Joseph Smith was unaware that the earlier Native American peoples were part of stone-age civilizations that were significantly less advanced than Hebrew and other Middle Eastern cultures of biblical times.

Crops and Agriculture

The Book of Mormon describes the agriculture of the Americas as being similar to that found during biblical times in the Middle East. However, most Native American cultures were hunter-gatherers. The kind of crops grown in the Americas did not utilize plow agriculture that is required for crops such as wheat12 and barley13 that are described in the Book of Mormon. Foods known to have been used in ancient America, such as chocolate, lima beans, squash, potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, etc. are not included in the Book of Mormon.

The Old and New Testaments present a rich description of biblical peoples, places and cultures. Archeology of the Middle East has revealed the cities, weapons, crops, animals, coins, writings, and references to biblical characters found in the Bible. However, none of the cities mentioned in the Book of Mormon have ever been identified by qualified archeologists. In addition, many Book of Mormon references to metals, weapons, crops, animals, articles of clothing are known to have not been present in the Americas during the time period claimed in the Book of Mormon.

Archaeological Evidence verifying biblical cities

by Matt Slick

There is very little doubt in anyone’s mind about the reality of so many of the Old and New Testament cities mentioned in the Bible. Therefore, it is hardly necessary to document their existence. Nevertheless, following is a partial list of some of the cities mentioned in the Bible that have been found and excavated by archaeologists. This is simply more evidence that the Bible describes actual locations that can be verified. This means that at the very least, the Bible accurately reflects the locations and cities of ancient times.

Remember, this is only a partial list. There are hundreds of biblical cities that have been verified in archaeological digs.

  • Gaza
    1. Acts 8:26, “But an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, “Arise and go south to the road that descends from Jerusalem to Gaza.”
      1. Gaza was was excavated by W. J. Phythian-Adams in 1922.10
  • Gezer
    1. Joshua 16:10, “But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer…”
      1. R.A.S. MacAlister “directed the Palestine Exploration Fund for many years and conducted extensive excavations at Gezer (1902–1909).”11
  • Hazor
    1. Joshua 11:1, “Then it came about, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph.”
    2. Jer. 49:28, “Concerning Kedar and the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon defeated. Thus says the Lord, “Arise, go up to Kedar and devastate the men of the east.”
      1. “This large Canaanite and Israelite city in upper Galilee was excavated under Yigael Yadin’s direction from 1955 to 1958 and from 1968 to 1970.”12
  • Hesbon
    1. Josh. 12:2, “Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon…”
      1. Excavations were undertaken by Andrews University from 1968 to 1976.13
  • Jericho
    1. Num. 22:1, “Then the sons of Israel journeyed, and camped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan opposite Jericho.”
      1. “Jericho was the oldest inhabited and fortified city ever excavated.”14
      2. “The city of OT times is represented today by a mound 70 feet high and 10 acres in area…The ancient city was excavated by C. Warren (1867), E. Sellin and C. Watzinger (1907-09), J. Garstang (1930-36), and K. Kenyon (1952-58).”15
      3. “The first scientific excavation there (1907-9) was by Sellin and Watzinger (Jericho, 1913).”16
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Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part 32)

June 15, 2011 – 3:17 am
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Shriver and family – “The Longest Yard” Los Angeles premiere, May 19, 2005  

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California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, his son Christopher, 9, and his wife Maria Shriver hold hands as they walk to their vehicle after voting inthe U.S. midterm elections at the Crestwood Hills Recreation Center in Los Angeles, California, in this November 7, 2006 file photo. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has acknowledged that he fathered a child more than ten years ago with a member of his household staff, the Los Angeles Times reported on May 17, 2011. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok/Files

Schwarzenegger fathers a love child

Maria Shriver Asks – How Do You Handle Transitions in Your Life?

Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted to his wife several months ago that he had fathered a child about 10 years ago with a member of their household staff. Maria moved out, but has not filed for divorce. In the you tube clip above she comments:

“Like a lot of you I’m in transition: people come up to me all the time, asking, what are you doing next?” she said, adding: “It’s so stressful to not know what you are doing next when people ask what you are doing and they can’t believe you don’t know what you are doing.”

“I’d like to hear from other people who are in transition,” she said. “How did you find your transition: Personal, professional, emotional, spiritual, financial? How did you get through it?”

Mrs. Shriver has asked for spiritual input and I personally think that unless she gets the spiritual help that she needs then she will end up in the divorce court. I am starting a series on how a marriage can survive an infidelity. My first suggestion would be to attend a “Weekend to Remember” put on by the organization “Family Life” out of Little Rock, Arkansas. I actually posted this as a response to Mrs. Shriver’s request on you tube.

I found this article below very helpful:

Dr. Bill Maier on Forgiveness and Restoration

Dr. Bill Maier addresses the issues of forgiveness and restoration

What if I Can’t Forgive?

Dear Dr. Bill: I’ve heard you talking about forgiveness on this program and I wonder if you can help me. I’m having trouble forgiving my husband for his adultery. I discovered the truth back in February and kicked him out of the house. Now he wants to reconcile but how can I stay married without losing my self-respect? Maybe I can forgive my husband, but I don’t think I can love him like before. And if I divorce him and lose my house, it would feel like I was being punished for something I didn’t do. What do you think?

Kendra, I’m very sorry to hear about your husband’s affair. I’m sure the past 10 months have been very difficult for you, and that you’ve experienced feelings of shock, anger, sadness, and betrayal.

If your husband is truly repentant, I believe you should give reconciliation a chance. You may find it hard to believe, but many couples whose marriages were devastated by adultery have been able to put the pieces back together and go on to have a fulfilling, loving relationship again.

Every one of those couples will tell you the process involved a lot of hard work, and that the feelings of love didn’t return overnight. But some would tell you that their marriage is healthier now than it was prior to the affair.

If you are willing to at least consider reconciliation, I’d encourage you to find a Christian therapist who is experienced in working with marriages impacted by adultery. Our Focus on the Family counseling department may be able to help you locate a therapist in your area.

Also, let me recommend an excellent book that I know you’ll find helpful. It’s titled Unfaithful: Rebuilding Trust After Infidelity. The authors are Gary and Mona Shriver, a couple whose own marriage survived an affair. We recently aired their story on the Focus on the Family daily broadcast.

Benefits of Attending a Weekend to Remember

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Senator Pryor asks for Spending Cut Suggestions! Here are a few!(Part 62)

June 15, 2011 – 12:01 am

Senator Mark Pryor wants our ideas on how to cut federal spending. Take a look at this video clip below:

Senator Pryor has asked us to send our ideas to him at cutspending@pryor.senate.gov and I have done so in the past and will continue to do so in the future.

On May 11, 2011,  I emailed to this above address and I got this email back from Senator Pryor’s office:

Please note, this is not a monitored email account. Due to the sheer volume of correspondence I receive, I ask that constituents please contact me via my website with any responses or additional concerns. If you would like a specific reply to your message, please visit http://pryor.senate.gov/contact. This system ensures that I will continue to keep Arkansas First by allowing me to better organize the thousands of emails I get from Arkansans each week and ensuring that I have all the information I need to respond to your particular communication in timely manner.  I appreciate you writing. I always welcome your input and suggestions. Please do not hesitate to contact me on any issue of concern to you in the future.

Therefore, I went to the website and sent this email below:

Here are a few more I just emailed to him myself.

Senator Rand Paul on Feb 7, 2011 wrote the article “A Modest $500 Billion Proposal: My spending cuts would keep 85% of government funding and not touch Social Security,” Wall Street Journal and he observed:

Here are some of his specific suggestions:

End TARP: Saves $4.5 billion
Originally described as a $700 billion bailout, TARP never approaches the capped price. Following the Dodd-Frank
Wall Street Reform Act, TARP was restructured. Within this restructuring, the cap was lowered to $475 billion, and
the Secretary of the Treasury no longer had the authority to reuse paid back TARP funds or sold assets.
The September 2010 Outlay of TARP funds report put out by Treasury comparing committed amounts and actual
disbursements, shows a $87.39 billion savings if no more money was disbursed.

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Social Security makes 8 billion in improper payments in 2009

June 14, 2011 – 5:56 pm

 

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, June 14, 4:35 PM

WASHINGTON — The Social Security Administration made $6.5 billion in overpayments to people not entitled to receive them in 2009, including $4 billion under a supplemental income program for the very poor, a government investigator said Tuesday.

In all, about 10 percent of the payments made by the agency’s Supplemental Security Income program were improper, said Patrick P. O’Carroll Jr., the inspector general for Social Security. The program has strict limits on income and assets, and most of the overpayments went to people who did not report all their resources, O’Carroll said.

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Error rates were much smaller for retirement, survivor and disability benefits, which make up the overwhelming majority of Social Security payments, O’Carroll told a congressional panel.

“By any standard, the scope of these problems is considerable,” said Rep. Charles Boustany, R-La., chairman of the House Ways and Means Oversight subcommittee. “Regardless of whether a payment occurs because of simple error or outright fraud, improper payments harm Social Security programs in the long term, jeopardizing benefits for those who may need them in the future. They also cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year.”

Social Security also made nearly $1.5 billion in underpayments, raising the total amount of improper payments to $8 billion in the 2009 budget year, O’Carroll said.

With lawmakers working to reduce soaring budget deficits, efforts to reduce improper government payments are getting attention in Congress and the White House. In 2009, President Barack Obama directed federal agencies to reduce improper payments, and last year, Congress set a goal of reducing the payments by $50 billion by 2012.

Throughout the federal government, improper payments totaled $125 billion last year, up from $110 billion in 2009, O’Carroll said. In 2009, only two other agencies — the Departments of Health and Human Services, and Labor — had more improper payments than Social Security, he said.

On Tuesday, two Ways and Means subcommittees held a joint hearing on overpayments by Social Security. The agency has improved the accuracy of its payments in each of the past three years and is working on more improvements, Carolyn W. Colvin, the agency’s deputy commissioner, said at the hearing.

“We pay nearly 60 million Americans who deserve to receive their benefits timely and accurately, and we deliver on that responsibility in nearly all cases,” Colvin said. “We are committed to minimizing improper payments and protecting program dollars from waste, fraud and abuse. In keeping with President Obama’s vision, we are also open and transparent about our improper payment situation and our efforts to improve that situation.”

Colvin said Social Security has been increasing the number of reviews it completes each year to make sure beneficiaries still meet income and medical requirements. The agency also has stepped up the use of technology to make sure recipients don’t exceed income or asset limits.

Social Security’s finances face regular scrutiny because the trust funds that support the massive retirement and disability program are projected to run out of money by 2036, unless Congress acts to shore up the program. At that point, Social Security would collect enough in payroll taxes to pay about 75 percent of benefits.

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Another Myth about Social Security (Part 2) (Walter Williams discusses Social Security Myth)

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Another Myth about Social Security (Part 1) (Milton Friedman discusses Social Security Myth)

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Brummett: Social Security is fine (part 3)

My sons Wilson and Hunter (on left) visited Yosemite National Park with Sherwood Haisty Jr.  (on right) March 21 to March 27th.   In his article “Harry let us down,” (Arkansas News Bureau, April 4, 2011) John Brummett observes: The liberal is correct when he says Social Security is a separate insurance program that is solvent. […]

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Paul Ryan on Social Security Reform (Part 1)

  My sons Wilson  and Hunter  (on left) went to California and visited Yosemite National Park with our friend Sherwood Haisty Jr. (Sherwood on right) They were there from March 21 to March 27. Here you can see all the snow they had to deal with. In his article “Harry let us down,” (Arkansas News Bureau, […]

 

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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s response to Mildred’s revelation, “Cool!”

June 14, 2011 – 4:11 pm

A month after it was revealed that she fathered a love child with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Sperminator’s low-key housekeeper is finally talking.

In a sit-down with Hello! magazine, Mildred Baena said that when she first told her now-13-year-old son that his real dad was none other than Schwarzenegger, his response was short and sweet: “Cool!”

You get the feeling there’s a part for him in the next Terminator film ?

MORE: Arnold and His Mistress: A Timeline of a Scandal

The Guatemalan-born domestic worker also set the record straight about when she first realized Schwarzenegger was the father and how estranged wife Maria Shriver found out about thei extramarital affair .

“It was as [my son] grew and I started to see the resemblance that I wondered—but it became more apparent as time went on,” said Baena, a mother of three who was married at the time she and Schwarzenegger were getting it on. She divorced shortly after her son’s birth.

Baena, who worked in the Schwarzenegger household for 20 years and had a close relationship with the family, said that when she brought her son to the Schwarzenegger home one summer, a number of people commented on his resemblance to Arnold, but it was finally Shriver who broached the subject of her betrayal and her hubby pumping a little more than iron.

“She would say things like, ‘I’m here if you need to talk.’ I sensed something was up. I have so much love and respect for Maria,” Baena said. “Finally, she asked point blank.”

At that point, Baena broke down and confessed, but to her shock and amazement, instead of anger, she recalled that her boss was surprisingly compassionate—especially given Shriver was pregnant with her and Schwarzenegger’s son Christopher at the same time Mildred was pregnant (the two boys were born three weeks apart).

“She was so strong. She cried with me and told me to get off my knees. We held each other and I told her it wasn’t Arnie’s fault, that it takes two,” Baena said.

Schwarzenegger has since taken responsibility, buying Baena and her son a house in Bakersfield and helping them financially.

After the scandal broke, the illegitimate baby mama remained tight-lipped about their affair and went into hiding. But now that their secret is out, a contrite Baena has nothing but sympathy for Schwarzenegger.

“He’s a good man and I know he’s suffering too. He loves Maria. I hope with time they work things out,” she said.

Better late than never

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Transcript and video of Republican Debate June 13, 2011 New Hampshire (Part 3)

June 14, 2011 – 2:26 pm

Republican Presidential Debate In New Hampshire pt.3

From left, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and businessman Herman Cain stand on stage before first New Hampshire Republican presidential debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H., Monday, June 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Jim Cole)

Governor Pawlenty, the possibility exists that New Hampshire could soon become the 23rd state to pass right to work legislation. Unions don’t like it because they feel it making membership volunteer. We can organize labor, you know, you’ve seen the protest in your home state of Minnesota.

My question is, where do you fall on right to work and would you support a federal right-to-work law?

PAWLENTY: We live in the United States of America and people shouldn’t be forced to belong or be a member in any organization. And the government has no business telling you what group to be a member of or not. I support strongly right-to-work legislation.

(APPLAUSE)

PAWLENTY: Like I said, for much of his life my dad was a teamster truck driver. My brothers and sisters, many of them are in unions, I was in a union. We grew up in a blue-collar town. I understand these issues.

My family were Reagan-Democrats, now most of them listen to Rush Limbaugh actually. But the point is, I understand these issues, but we don’t have a government tell us what organizations or associations we should be in. We tell the government what to do.

KING: Mr. Speaker, I assume you agree. And as you come into the conversation, one of the criticisms — you tell me whether it’s fair or not. One of the criticisms has been, as you watch some of these governors deal with this issue across the country, that some people say there’s a tone about it. That they seem to be trying to demonize public employees or union workers.

GINGRICH: Well, that’s a totally different question. The question that’s asked was right to work. And one of the things the Congress should do immediately is defund the National Labor Relations Board which has gone into South Carolina to punish Boeing, which wants to put 8,000 American jobs in South Carolina by fundamentally eliminating right-to-work at the National Labor Relations Board.

That’s a real, immediate threat from the Obama administration to eliminate right to work. And I think that it is fundamentally the wrong direction. I hope that New Hampshire does adopt right-to-work. I frankly keep it at the state level because as each new state becomes right to work, they send a signal to the remaining states, don’t be stupid.

Why you want to be at California’s unemployment level when you can be Texas’s employment level? Or North Dakota’s?

And I think, Kevin (ph), that if you believe in the 10th Amendment, we ought to — let the states learn from each other. And the right-to-work states are creating a lot more jobs today that they heavily unionized states. The public employee union question is a totally different issue.

KING: All right. Maybe we’ll come back to that.

Mr. Cain, I will let you in quickly on this one. As a businessman who says your strength in this campaign is someone who’s created jobs, the question of right-to-work?

CAIN: Yes. I do believe that the states should have the right. I believe in right-to-work, and I hope that New Hampshire is able to get it passed. And I agree with the speaker and the others who believe that if the federal government continues to do the kinds of thing that this administration is trying to do through the back door, through the National Labor Relations Board, that’s killing our free market system, and the free market system is what made this economy great. And we have to keep the free market system strong.

KING: A lot more ground to cover with our candidates. We’re about to take our first break of the evening. We will have several. A lot more ground to cover. A lot more domestic policy, a lot of foreign policy. We want to see who you might want as your next commander in chief should you choose to make President Obama a one- term president.

One of the other things we want to do, though, is to learn a little bit more about these candidates and their personalities. So I’m going to borrow something from my sports fan experience. Every time we go to break or come back from break, I’m going to ask the candidates one at a time a question I’ll call this or that. I give them a choice. These are not serious political issues. It’s just to show a little bit of the personal sides of our candidate.

Senator Santorum, I want to start with you.

SANTORUM: Thank you.

KING: Of course.

(LAUGHTER)

KING: Leno or Conan?

SANTORUM: Probably Leno. But I don’t watch either. Sorry.

KING: All right. That’s all right. That’s the answer — the answer is the answer.

And for those of you watching at home, remember, the Facebook, Twitter, send us questions, send us your analysis. A little bit later we’ll also give you a chance for some exclusive content. Get your smartphone ready. I’ll explain that a little bit ahead. We’ll be right back at Saint Anselm College in just a moment.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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Jon Huntsman to run for President

June 14, 2011 – 2:21 pm

Jon Huntsman to enter presidential race next week

By Rachel Rose Hartman rachel Rose Hartman 2 hrs 58 mins ago

Former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman will announce his campaign for president June 21 at Liberty State Park in Jersey City, N.J., sources tell multiple news outlets.

NBC notes that Liberty State Park–home to the Statue of Liberty–is the where President Ronald Reagan made his first post-nomination speech during his 1980 White House run. Huntsman worked as a staff assistant in the Reagan White House.

Huntsman served as Utah governor from 2005 to 2009, leaving to become U.S. ambassador to China in the Obama administration. When he left his ambassadorship at the end of April, he immediately touched off widespread speculation that he was preparing a 2012 presidential campaign. He has since taken a series of steps–such as creating a campaign-style website and earlier this month landing financial support–that pointed to a 2012 bid.

Huntsman did not participate in last night’s GOP presidential debate in New Hampshire.

Huntsman’s ties to Obama could potentially prove to be valuable assets in a general election as he tries to woo swing voters. Still, his primary opponents will likely use the connection against him in the GOP primaries.

His relationship with the Democratic president already caused a stir in April when a handwritten note was leaked to the press that showed Huntsman praising Obama.

Following his announcement next week, Huntsman is reportedly planning to travel to New Hampshire and Florida– the large swing state where Huntsman has revealed he may based his campaign— then to his home state of Utah and the early caucus state of Nevada.

Huntsman revealed last week that he does not plan to participate in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus–noting he does not support ethanol and other subsidies that are popular in the agricultural state.

(Photo of Huntsman, center: Elise Amendola/AP)

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Mildred Baena speaks out about her child

June 14, 2011 – 1:45 pm
Arnold Schwarzenegger Reunites with His Sons (VIDEO)
June 3, 2011 picture

Mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lovechild speaks out

The mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s lovechild has spoken out about the scandal for the first time, confirming her son was fathered by the actor.

The Terminator star stunned fans by splitting from his wife of 25 years, Maria Shriver, last month and subsequently revealing he has a son with a member of their household staff from a tryst 13 years ago.

The housekeeper was named as the star’s longtime help Mildred Baena, who went into hiding when the news broke, but she has now opened up about the affair, insisting Schwarzenegger was unaware her son, Joseph, was his because she kept the news a secret.

Baena tells Britain’s Hello! magazine, “I never told him. I never told anyone except my mother. So much has been written about how he kept this secret of betrayal from his wife all these years – and how he kept me in the house with his family knowing Joseph was his. That is not true. Never have I told him Joseph was his son, never did he ask me, and never did we talk about it.”

Baena reveals she got pregnant with Joseph around the same time that she also became intimate with her ex-husband Rogelio, and initially believed he was the boy’s father.

She adds, “So at the time, I lived life as if Rogelio was the father and he abandoned me. That’s what I believed. It wasn’t until later as Joseph grew and I started to see the resemblance that I wondered – but it became more apparent as time went on. I knew Arnold was the father, and maybe as Joseph got older and began to look like him, he (Arnold) wondered. But he never said anything to me.

“The truth is we were intimate many years ago and it was me who kept the secret, not him.”

Baena reveals the real identity of Joseph’s father only emerged after Shriver became suspicious at the boy’s likeness to her husband.

I have written many times about Arnold Schwarzenegger before. Here are just a few of the times:1. President Reagan having a photo taken with Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Republican National Convention in Dallas, Texas. 8/23/84.2.Here is a video clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger using an Airlight
Broom as a prop for “cleaning house” in the California Recall
Election as seen on CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, ect in 2003. The
Airlight Broom is manufactured by Little Rock Broom Works.3. I heard John Fund of the Wall Street Journal speak in Little Rock on April 27, 2011 and in his speech he mentioned the struggle that Arnold Schwarzenegger had with the envirnomentalists in California. I took time to repeat a lot of the facts about that in my blog post that day.4. At that same luncheon on April 27th that I mentioned earlier, one subject that John Fund brought up was the red tape that Arnold Schwarzenegger had to deal with in California. I wrote about that too.5. St. James Palace has confirmed  that Kate Middleton and Prince William – or, more officially, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge – will be visiting California from July 8-10 this summer. Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is expected to greet the Royals as they touch down.6. Which is better for setting up a business: California or Texas? Arnold Schwarzenegger is mentioned in this post too.7. Arnold Schwarzenegger is fond of quoting Milton Friedman but he rejected fiscal conservative idea to cut spending.8. Pictures of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver through the years. Video clip of them at Ronald Reagan’s funeral.

9. I wrote a post on American Exceptionalism and put in a video clip of Arnold Schwarzenegger doing the introduction to an episode of “Free to Choose.”

10. Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of  infidelity? I hope so (Part 1).

11. Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part 2)

12. Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part 3 )

13. Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part  4)

14. Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part  5)

15. Will Maria Shriver’s marriage survive Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission of infidelity? I hope so (Part  6)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver: Dr. Gary Chapman offers hope

June 14, 2011 – 12:58 pm

 

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver: Dr. Gary Chapman offers hope

  • By Radell Smith, Atlanta Pop Culture Examiner
  • May 19, 2011 10:39 am ET
 

With over four million copies of his bestseller “The Five Love Languages” under his belt, Dr. Gary Chapman went on to write other popular books as well, and one of them can help “Terminator” action star Arnold Schwarzenegger and his politically-connected wife Maria Shriver to find some measure of hope in what appears by most media accounts to be a hopeless situation. In fact, Chapman’s books could help you or someone you know who is in a similar troubled marriage.

“Maria hasn’t decided if she wants to end her marriage,” CBS reported, citing a source quoted in People Magazine. That means the Schwarzeneggers may still reconcile. Given Arnold’s penchant for beating odds few other men have mastered, it wouldn’t be prudent to write him off at this stage.

Arnold and Maria Shriver’s current marital problems highlight a recurring theme in Hollywood, politics and everyday life: a cheating spouse. So what’s the situation to this universal problem? Do you chuck a marriage when it hits rough spots like this or do you stay for the long haul?

Fox News medical A-team member Dr. Keith Ablow, a New York Times bestselling author too and psychiatrist concurs with Dr. Gary Chapman regarding cases of infidelity like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver:

“As surprising as this news is to some, I doubt it can come as a complete shock to Ms. Shriver and I believe it need not signal the end of her marriage.”

Ablow emphasizes that “Marriage is a terrifically difficult journey for the vast majority of those who commit to it. Passion wanes, often ending entirely.” Most Americans can emphatize with those words and attest to their validity.

This famous couple, like others around the country, stand on a precipice right now that threatens their marriage and the relationships they share with their children. And odds are you know someone who has betrayed a spouse or been the one betrayed within your circle of family and friends or business associates, too.

According to Reuters, as the cheating spouse, Arnold continues to take a bashing in the media for his fall from grace, including being the butt of comedienne’s jokes. A cheating spouse tends to get that response, and few question it. But the fact remains that while Maria Shriver has hired a divorce attorney, she is still undecided about whether this infidelity will end her marriage or not.

Dr. Gary Chapman’s “The Four Seasons of Marriage” offers hope and direction to couples like the Schwarzeneggers (and yes, even in that kind of public pressure cooker marriage there is still hope).

Chapman’s book offers hope to the average couple as well, and it even broaches the topic of divorce, since there will be some marital situations that go in that direction, regardless of efforts made to resurrect it (Sandra Bullock and Jesse James come to mind).

Biblically, since Chapman is a Christian author, advice from the nationally-recognized marriage therapist adheres to reconcilation if at all possible. And CBS says that Maria hasn’t ruled out reconciliation as an option. But scripture does teach that instances of infidelity can be grounds biblically for the termination of a marriage, and Maria has hired an attorney who specializes in that.

It remains to be seen whether Maria Shriver will consider her marriage worth saving or go the way of Sandra Bullock and Elin Nordegren by seeking divorce from her husband. But for those in Georgia who are experiencing the same difficulty, or fear your marriage is heading in that direction, you might want to check out Dr. Gary Chapman’s The Four Seasons of Marriage to see what you can do about it before it ends up in divorce court.

 
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