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Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron Part 4

October 3, 2014 – 5:48 am

Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron

Published on Sep 29, 2014

Ed Orgeron speaks to the Little Rock Touchdown Club.

____________________________________

Coach O did a great job speaking at our luncheon on Monday.

Former USC, Ole Miss coach Ed Orgeron enjoys being with family after years on the road

Ed Orgeron, center, is happy to be back home with his family (Cody front left, wife Kelly front right, Tyler back left and Parker back right) on a consistent basis after the grind of coaching football. (Photo courtesy the Orgeron family)
By Pat Mashburn, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on June 15, 2014 8 a.m.

For those who are gritty enough to last more than 20 years in the football coaching profession with their sanity intact many likely will tell you it would not have been possible without family.

Yet, on one Saturday evening during the 2013 college football season Ed Orgeron was celebrating a triumphant moment in his career – without his family.

Orgeron has endured the rigors of the profession, experiencing it all, including being part of three national championship coaching staffs, and twice a college head coach. Most recently, he took over as interim head coach at USC after Lane Kiffin was let go three games into the 2013 season. Orgeron guided the Trojans to seven victories in nine games, including a 20-17 upset of fourth-ranked Stanford on national television.

As Orgeron reveled in the moment after the win over Stanford, perched high atop the ladder with a sword in his hand, leading the Trojan marching band in a postgame celebration, there was something missing – his family.

Orgeron leads the USC band after a 20-17 upset of fourth-ranked Stanford.(file photo)

His wife Kelly, and sons Tyler, Parker and Cody were back in Louisiana cheering him on. It was a bittersweet moment.

“When they weren’t at the games, it was a very empty feeling,” Orgeron said. “Going into the stadium, I always wanted them to be at the games. So, when they weren’t there, it was lonely.”

Despite Orgeron’s success, USC and athletic director Pat Haden opted to go in a different direction when the 2013 season concluded and hired another former USC assistant, then-Washington head coach Steve Sarkasian to lead the football program.

It may not have been a fairy tale-type ending for Orgeron at USC – a place he liked enough to join the staff twice in his career – but the silver lining seems to be a family-tale ending Orgeron desired.

Orgeron, a Louisiana native, is back with his family. He’ll still be off to the side watching football during the 2014 season, only it will be his son’s games.

The Grind

The consistencies of Orgeron’s coaching career have been his job mobility, success and USC.

Orgeron’s career began in 1981 with a three-year stint at Northwestern State as a graduate assistant-defensive line coach before shifting over to McNeese State. Before joining the USC staff for the first time in 1998, Orgeron had assistant coaching stops at Arkansas, Miami (Fla.), Nicholls State and Syracuse.

While at USC working under Pete Carroll, Orgeron was part of back-to-back national championship teams that featured Reggie Bush and Matt Leinhart.

Orgeron, who also was a standout recruiter for USC, took over the Ole Miss program in 2005 and coached the Rebels for three seasons. He and the family then moved back to Louisiana, where he took a position as defensive line coach with the Saints under Sean Payton. After one season with the Saints (2008), Lane Kiffin brought Orgeron with him to Tennessee, where they spent a year, before Kiffin headed back to take over the reins at USC and brought Orgeron with him again.

Ed Orgeron coached the Saints defensive line in 2008.(NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune file photo)

While coaching is by its nature a transient profession, the family decision was made to remain in one place when Kiffin was hired as the head coach at Tennessee. The family went into it with eyes wide open.

“Initially when we made the decision to live apart and keep the boys here in this community, we had the mindset that we were going to make this work,” Kelly said. “Each one of us made our own sacrifices and pulled our own load. It was hard at times, because especially, teenage boys need their father.”

As Orgeron thrived in his career the past several years, behind the scenes he battled inner conflict. He lived in hotel rooms while his family was miles away in another state. There were dinners alone many times, and the empty silence of a room at night. The career that brought the passion and fire of competition was balanced by the constant push and pull of the love and desire to be with family.

Regrouping

During the 2013 season, Kelly surprised Ed on October 19 in South Bend, Ind. at the USC game against Notre Dame, his second game as interim head coach. His sons were at the final game of the regular season, a 35-14 loss in the Coliseum to crosstown rival UCLA. Kelly stayed behind for an extra day while the boys flew back to Louisiana.

“That Sunday morning when we put Tyler, Cody, and Parker on the plane, I told Kelly that whatever happens, I don’t want those boys on the plane by themselves. I want our family back together. That’s enough separation.”

When USC made its decision about the future of its football program and it didn’t include Orgeron, the die was cast. Another major life transition was set in motion and it gave Orgeron and his family a much-needed break and an opportunity to evaluate their next move.

“I wanted us to regroup as a family and just take some time,” Orgeron said. “To spend five years in a hotel while at Tennessee and USC, it’s tough. You’re looking basically at 27 years of coaching, waking up at 5 a.m. and coming home at about 11 p.m.”

Back home

In what seems like a very short time in the few months since leaving USC, Orgeron’s days have not gotten any shorter, but he wouldn’t change it for the world. It’s also opened his eyes to what he wasn’t able to see while in California.

“By me being home for six months, it’s amazing the job Kelly did by herself,” he said. “Just thinking about everything that goes on on a daily basis, this is work, and the boys did a good job of listening to their mother. She played the role of mother and father, doing a tremendous job. No many women could do what she did. No way. She never complained, not one time.”

Things have definitely changed.

One of the more difficult parts in the past was the end of the summer, when Orgeron would leave his family and get back on a plane to go back to Knoxville or Los Angeles. Once he got back to football season, Orgeron and his family would get back into their separate daily routines.

Now the routines are aligned.

In the past, when college football season concluded, Orgeron got to see most of Cody’s tennis season at Mandeville High, because it was in the spring. That wasn’t the case when it came to seeing Cody’s twin brother Parker play football for the Skippers because that conflicted with college football season.

The longest the family went without seeing each other was two to three months, but texting, SKYPEing, and phone calls filled part of the void of being apart.

Now, that void no longer exists.

“He’ll help me stretch before a match,” Cody said, “but, he won’t coach me. He’ll just sit back and watch me play. It’s great just to have him there.”

Orgeron’s eldest son, Tyler, is well on his way to following in his father’s footsteps, currently serving as student assistant for player personnel and in the same capacity coaching receivers at LSU. Being the oldest, there were heavy expectations, and he delivered.

“Tyler was a great big brother to Cody and Parker when they were growing up,” Orgeron said. “He rose to the occasion, and I’m so proud of him.”

Being around the football culture growing up, it seemed only natural that he go in that direction, and didn’t need any nudging from his dad.

As much as he’d learned in his life, there is nothing like having his dad home again.

“Now, I have somebody to work out with,” Tyler said. “He’s got that old man strength and he whipped me into shape when we went across the street and did the rope wars. We’ve really missed him and we know he’s missed us.”

There is only a short time before football season starts, and this year, for the first time, he’ll get to see all of Parker’s games. Then, as the college season develops, there will be jobs that come open. As far as the future is concerned, there’s no need to rush.

“I think we’re in a good position because we’re about to see what jobs come open,” Orgeron said. “If there is interest in me becoming a head coach, that’s obviously an advantage. I’m not opposed to going back to college and being a defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator, and I’m not opposed to going to the NFL. I’m young (53) and I think things will work out for a reason.”

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Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron Part 3

October 2, 2014 – 5:40 am

Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron

Published on Sep 29, 2014

Ed Orgeron speaks to the Little Rock Touchdown Club.

____________________________________

I enjoyed hearing Coach Orgeron at luncheon this week.

  • Charlie Weis had barely been gone as head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks for 24 hours when former Ole Miss coach Ed Orgeron—who was the interim coach at USC last season after Lane Kiffin was fired—told a group in Little Rock, Ark., Monday that he’s interested in the gig.

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    Orgeron was speaking at the Little Rock Touchdown Club on Monday, exactly a year after he was named interim coach at USC, and made it clear he wants to coach again.

    “It’s a Power Five (job),” Orgerontold The USA Today. “(Mark) Mangino went 12-1 and went to the Orange Bowl. It’s in a great conference. His staff proved that you can do it.”

    Orgeron was head coach at Ole Miss from 2005-07, going 10-25 in three seasons, before going 6-2 as the interim coach with the Trojans last season. But he was let go when the school hired former USC assistant Steve Sarkisian away from Washington.

    “I can’t wait to be the boss of something again,” Orgeron told the crowd. “Somebody’s gonna listen to me—you married men understand what I’m talking about.”

    The 53-year-old, affectionately known simply as “Coach O,” got into coaching as an assistant strength coach at Arkansas in 1986.

    He was later defensive line coach at Miami (1988-92), linebacker coach at Nicholls State (1994), defensive line coach at Syracuse (1995-97) and assistant head coach and defensive line coach at USC (1998-04) before his stint at Ole Miss.

    After he was let go by the Rebels, he spent one season as the defensive line coach for the New Orleans Saints before returning to the college ranks as Kiffin’s assistant head coach at Tennessee in 2009 and followed him to USC in 2010.

    Weis was fired Sunday after a 23-0 loss in Lawrence to Texas in the Jayhawks’ Big 12 opener. Weis was 6-22 in two-plus seasons at Kansas after going 35-27 in five years at Notre Dame.

    But after going 19-6 with back-to-back BCS bowl appearances in his first two years with the Irish, Notre Dame was just 16-21 over his final three seasons.

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    Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron Part 2

    October 1, 2014 – 4:29 am

    Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron

    Published on Sep 29, 2014

    Ed Orgeron speaks to the Little Rock Touchdown Club.

    ____________________________________

    I always enjoy going to the Little Rock Touchdown Club and hearing Rex Nelson go through the SEC Roundup of the previous week is usually one of the highlights. He started off by saying:

    Coach O isn’t it great to be out of that Southern California scene where can go to a club and there everyone has had facelifts and they are eating Spinach salads. Now you here listening to a good ole fat southern boy with gravy on my sleeve. 

    Year off coaching enlivens Orgeron

    By Jeremy Muck

    Posted: September 30, 2014 at 2:27 a.m.

    In a photo provided by the University of Southern California, date not known, Ed Orgeron poses for a photo. USC fired Lane Kiffin as football coach early Sunday morning, Sept. 29, 2013, ending the coach's tumultuous tenure a few hours after the Trojans lost 62-41 at Arizona State. Orgeron was picked as USC's interim head coach by athletic director Pat Haden, (AP Photo/University of Southern California)

    Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS
    In a photo provided by the University of Southern California, date not known, Ed Orgeron poses for a photo. USC fired Lane Kiffin as football coach early Sunday morning, Sept. 29, 2013, ending the coach’s tumultuous tenure a few hours after the Trojans lost 62-41 at Arizona State. Orgeron was picked as USC’s interim head coach by athletic director Pat Haden, (AP Photo/University of Southern California)

    Ed Orgeron has gone from interim head coach to interim guest speaker.

    He’s looking for a full-time gig now, and he won’t be happy until he’s back coaching college football again, possibly as a head coach, and possibly as soon as next year.

    “There’s a lot of media out there,” Orgeron said Monday, after speaking to the Little Rock Touchdown Club at the Embassy Suites Hotel. “There’s a lot of projections.”

    Orgeron, 53, has been listed as a possible candidate for the vacant coaching positions at SMU and Kansas. June Jones stepped down at SMU on Sept. 9 while Kansas fired Charlie Weis on Sunday.

    But Orgeron, who is from Louisiana, said he has not been contacted by SMU or Kansas.

    “I do have an agent and once they contact my agent, we’ll see where it goes,” said Orgeron, who turned down the interim coaching position at FCS Nicholls State earlier this month shortly after Charlie Stubbs stepped down for health reasons.

    Whether it be SMU, Kansas or elsewhere, Orgeron said he’s hungry to get back on the field and plans on being in coaching next season.

    “Obviously, I’d like to be a head coach, but I’m not leaving it to where I have to be a head coach,” Orgeron said. “Perhaps I could be a coordinator or a d-line coordinator or a recruiting coordinator at a big school. It all depends what situation is best for me and my family.”

    Orgeron took over as interim coach one year ago and helped revitalize a Trojans team that had been blown out 62-41 at Arizona State, leading to head coach Lane Kiffin’s firing hours after the loss.

    He was 6-2 as Southern Calfornia’s interim head coach. His resume included a 20-17 victory over BCS No. 4 Stanford and he held out hope that he would be named the full-time USC coach.

    But Orgeron was not retained by Athletic Director Pat Haden, who later hired Washington’s Steve Sarkisian. Orgeron did not coach in the Las Vegas Bowl against Fresno State, a game that the Trojans won handily 45-20.

    Orgeron reflected on the 2013 season at USC, saying he appreciated the opportunity, which came five years after he was dismissed at Mississippi in his first head-coaching position.

    “I still believe today regardless of anything that it is the best place in the world to coach and go to school,” Orgeron said of USC.

    Orgeron coached defensive line and was the recruiting coordinator at USC under Pete Carroll before taking his first head-coaching position at Ole Miss in 2005. Orgeron was fired in 2007 after going 10-25, which included a 3-21 mark in the SEC.

    Orgeron worked withKiffin at Tennessee in 2008 and followed Kiffin to USC in 2010.

    A second chance as a head coach is what Orgeron is hoping for, and he said he hopes to draw on a conversation he had with his former boss, Carroll, about succeeding the second time around as a full-time head coach.

    “Coach is my mentor,” Orgeron said of Carroll, now coach of the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks. “He told me, ‘You know Eddie, you have to figure out what kind of coach you’re going to be. Sometimes it takes awhile.’ It took him until he got to USC.

    “You learn from adversity. You learn more from adversity than the wins. You can see the change and style I presented at USC. Hopefully, I’ll get a chance to improve on that.”

    Orgeron is known as one of college football’s top recruiters and defensive line coaches. Notable pupils include Arkansas native Cortez Kennedy, Russell Maryland and Warren Sapp at Miami, and Shaun Cody, Kenechi Udeze and Mike Patterson at USC.

    According to Orgeron, his best recruiting effort was meeting his wife Kelly, a Lake City native, before Syracuse, where he was coaching, defeated Houston in the 1996 Liberty Bowl in Memphis.

    “I’m going to talk a lot today about recruiting, but my No. 1 recruiting effort is my wife,” said Orgeron, who has three sons — Tyler, and twins Parker and Cody — with Kelly. “She’s from the state of Arkansas. I met her on a blind date and married her in two weeks. I said you’re going to find out about me later, let’s go. And we eventually had to make some adjustments.”

    Orgeron’s next adjustment might be at a new school in 2015.

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    Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron Part 1

    September 30, 2014 – 7:47 am

    Little Rock Touchdown Club Ed Orgeron

    Published on Sep 29, 2014

    Ed Orgeron speaks to the Little Rock Touchdown Club.

    ____________________________________

    I really enjoyed hearing Ed Orgeron speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club yesterday and Little Rock native George Schroeder got to interview him afterwards and his is the result below.

    Ed Orgeron, college football free agent, wants back in

    George Schroeder, USA TODAY Sports8:17 p.m. EDT September 29, 2014
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    LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The coach is roaring again. Ed Orgeron is expounding on his keys to running a successful college football program, pounding his fist for emphasis, when he comes to another important point:

    “Cookies!”

    Everyone laughs. But Orgeron is not kidding.

    “There weren’t any cookies on the menu,” he says. “I fed ’em cookies the first night — they ate 500!”

    In his mind, adding treats to the training table was an essential piece of changing the vibe at USC last season, a factor in the Trojans’ dramatic turnaround under his leadership after Lane Kiffin was fired.

    During an appearance Monday at the Little Rock Touchdown Club — coincidentally, exactly a year after Orgeron was named the Trojans’ interim head coach — he made it clear that he wants to coach again. His rambling speech, peppered with anecdotes, delivered in that familiar, gravelly Cajun drawl, could easily have served as a pitch to an athletic director or a search committee.

    Maybe because that’s essentially what it was.

    “You send a message out every time you speak,” Orgeron told USA TODAY Sports afterward.

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    The message then, with Kansas and SMU already open — with others sure to open soon — is this: Orgeron is available, a candidate with head-coaching experience, serious recruiting chops and the ability to fire up, well, just about anybody.

    “I have a lot of good stories to tell,” he says to the crowd, but then adds: “I’ve been out of work eight months, and somebody asks me, ‘Coach, I’ll bet you can’t wait to get back to work! What are you missing?’ I told him:

    “‘I can’t wait to be the boss of something again. Somebody’s gonna listen to me — you married men understand what I’m talking about.”

    And then, Orgeron launches into the story of how he caught his first big break, way back in 1986, with a phone call that came while he was “shoveling shrimp” back home in Louisiana. Did he want to become an assistant strength coach at Arkansas?

    “I threw that shrimp shovel into the bayou,” he says, “and then I asked, ‘Where’s Arkansas?’ ”

    A few minutes later, while explaining his philosophy on recruiting, Orgeron says: “You’ve got to recruit the mama — and I’m good at that.”

    Everyone laughs again. And over the next 40 minutes or so, it’s obvious the audience in the hotel banquet room understands what Orgeron is talking about.

    “Look, everything happens for a reason,” he says, referring to the USC job he wanted on a permanent basis, but didn’t get. “Right now I don’t know what that reason is, why I didn’t become a head coach. But I’ll soon find out. I believe that.”

    Kansas? You bet he’s interested.

    “It’s a Power Five (job),” he told USA TODAY Sports. “(Mark) Mangino went 12-1 and went to the Orange Bowl. It’s in a great conference. His staff proved that you can do it.”

    And if the program is mired at the bottom of the Big 12? So what?

    “It’s a challenging job,” he said. “But most jobs you get, there’s gonna be some things you’re gonna have to fix.”

    Until Orgeron gets that chance somewhere, he’ll wait, back home in Mandeville, La. He says it’s been good to be able to spend time with his wife and three sons, who have lived there since he spent the 2008 season with the New Orleans Saints. But the challenge has been to stay busy enough to avoid going stir-crazy.

    Take last weekend. Orgeron watched his son Parker play for Mandeville High — “eight receptions for 103 yards,” he notes. He got to the game really early, because he loves soaking up the atmosphere. But also because he misses the game.

    The offseason was the worst. After 27 years on a coach’s calendar — the majority of those as an assistant, with multiple recruiting trips — the free time was, well, “boring.” And if August, when preseason camps started and he didn’t, was tough, the season has been almost a respite.

    After the Friday night lights, Orgeron got in a workout Saturday morning, then grilled steaks for a family football feast. He flipped channels all day long, from one game to another. Late that night — he would not miss it — he watched USC’s win against Oregon State. Sunday, it was church, then the NFL. And then it was back to the weekdays.

    “Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday can get a little sluggish,” he says.

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    His three-year stint as head coach at Ole Miss from 2005-07 didn’t go well — 3-8, 4-8, 3-9, with only three SEC wins. But last season, after Kiffin’s departure, he led the Trojans to six wins in their final eight games.

    “We had an unbelievable turnaround,” he says, and it was so good, he sincerely believed he might get the job. When it went to Steve Sarkisian, Orgeron went home to Mandeville.

    “Really, not getting the job for me was like a divorce or a death in the family,” he says a few moments later. “It was something you’ve kind of just got to get over, you know? I am now, in a positive way — but it just took a little while.”

    Orgeron says he learned plenty from mistakes made his first time around as a head coach, when he went in with the hard-charging, ultra-aggressive mentality of a defensive line coach. The story might be apocryphal, but it’s been told often that in an early team meeting with the Rebels, he tore off his shirt.

    “I don’t do that anymore,” Orgeron says. “It was a little too much.”

    Instead, when Orgeron convened the players and staff at USC after Kiffin was let go, he had everyone play tug-of-war. Really. The offensive line squared off against the defensive line. Running backs against linebackers. Receivers against defensive backs. And then, the school’s administration took on the football coaches.

    Orgeron asked each group: “Who won?” And then he asked everyone to grab hold of the rope and pull in the same direction.

    For eight games, the Trojans seemed to do just that. After an upset of Stanford at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the crowd stormed the field.

    “I believe I put my résumé out on the TV those last eight games,” he says. “They know who I am and what I’ve done.”

    It was more than cookies. Orgeron says he’s learned to treat players like sons, and that he’s also determined to treat assistants with respect, loosening their schedules to allow for free time. There’s more, but his approach might best be distilled to three simple sentences: “Play with energy. Have fun. Loosen up.”

    While he waits, Orgeron seems to be living the message he’s preaching.

    “I’m 53,” he says. “I’m full of fire. I’m ready to go again.”

    Anybody listening is probably ready, too.

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    IRS not only hated Tea Party but also the Constitution!!!

    September 29, 2014 – 5:20 am

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    IRS not only hated Tea Party but also the Constitution!!!

    SEPTEMBER 23, 2014 11:57AM

    Targeting the Constitution

    By NICHOLAS QUINN ROSENKRANZ

    [Cross-posted from The Volokh Conspiracy]

    It is now well known that the IRS targeted tea party organizations. What is less well known, but perhaps even more scandalous, is that the IRS also targeted those who would educate their fellow citizens about the United States Constitution.

    According to the inspector general’s report (pp. 30 & 38), this particular IRS targeting commenced on Jan. 25, 2012 — the beginning of the election year for President Obama’s second campaign. On that date: “the BOLO [‘be on the lookout’] criteria were again updated.” The revised criteria included “political action type organizations involved in … educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.”

    Grass-roots organizations around the country, such as the Linchpins of Liberty (Tennessee), the Spirit of Freedom Institute (Wyoming), and the Constitutional Organization of Liberty (Pennsylvania), allege that they were singled out for special scrutiny at least in part for their work in constitutional education. There may have been many more.

    The tea party is viewed with general suspicion in some quarters, and it is not difficult, alas, to imagine the mindset of the officials who decided to target tea party organizations for special scrutiny. But federal officers swear an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” It is chilling to think that these same officials who are suspicious of the tea party are equally suspicious of the Constitution itself.

    What is most corrosive about this IRS tripwire is that it is triggered by a particular point of view; it is not, as First Amendment scholars say, viewpoint-neutral. It does not includeobfuscating or denigrating the Constitution; only those “involved in … educating on the Constitution” are captured by this criterion. This viewpoint targeting potentially skews every national debate about politics or government. And the skew in not strictly liberal; indeed, it should trouble liberals as much as conservatives. The ultimate checks on executive power are to be found in the United States Constitution. Insidiously, then, suppressing those “involved in … educating on the Constitution” actually skews national debate in favor of unchecked executive power.

    For example, this IRS tripwire would not be triggered by arguing that the NSA should collect the phone records of every American citizen. But it would be triggered by teaching that the Fourth Amendment forbids “unreasonable searches and seizures.” This tripwire would not be triggered by arguing that the president should unilaterally suspend politically inconvenient provisions of federal law, like ObamaCare. But it would be triggered by teaching that, under Article II, section 3, the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” This tripwire would not be triggered by arguing that the president should appoint NLRB members unilaterally. But it would be triggered by teaching that, under Article II, section 2, such appointments require “the Advice and Consent of the Senate.” This tripwire would not be triggered by arguing that the president should target and kill U.S. citizens abroad. But it would be triggered by teaching that, per the Fifth Amendment, no person shall “be deprived of life … without due process of law.” This tripwire would not be triggered by arguing that the president should declare war unilaterally. But it would be triggered by teaching that, under Article I, section 8, “Congress shall have Power … To declare War.” In short, the IRS was “on the lookout,” not for those who preach unlimited executive power, but for those who would teach about constitutional constraints.

    Even more to the point, perhaps, this IRS tripwire would not be triggered by arguing that the IRS should discriminate against the tea party. But it would be triggered by teaching that such discrimination constitutes unfaithful execution of the tax laws. And thus, alas, there is a perverse logic to targeting constitutional educators alongside tea party organizations. Political discrimination in the administration of the tax laws is not merely “outrageous,” as President Obama has said; it is an assault on our constitutional structure itself. For an official who has chosen to go down this road and target the tea party, there is an Orwellian logic to targeting constitutional educators as well. After all, they are the ones who might shed light on this very point.

    This is a new low for American government — targeting those who would teach others about its founding document. Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon went to great lengths to try to conceal the facts of his constitutional violations, but it never occurred to him to conceal the meaning of the Constitution itself, by targeting its teachers. Politicians have always been tempted to try to censor their political adversaries; but none has been so bold as to try to suppress constitutional education directly. Presidents have always sought to push against the constitutional limits of their power; but never have they targeted those who merely teach about such limits. In short, never before has the federal government singled out for special scrutiny those who would teach their fellow citizens about our magnificent Constitution. This is the new innovation of Obama’s IRS.

    “We the People” do not yet know who first decided to target “political action type organizations involved in … educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights.” But there is at least one person who does know. Ironically, though, Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Division of the IRS, is making full use of her own constitutional education: “I have been advised by my counsel to assert my constitutional right not to testify …. One of the basic functions of the Fifth Amendment is to protect innocent individuals, and that is the protection I’m invoking today.”

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    Ethel Merman and Bing Crosby Sing “You’re the Top” which is great song written by Cole Porter

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    Ethel Merman and Bing Crosby Sing “You’re the Top”

    You’re the Top

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    “You’re The Top” is a Cole Porter song from the 1934 musical Anything Goes. It is about a man and a woman who take turns complimenting each other. The best selling version was Paul Whiteman‘s Victor single, which made the top five.

    It was the most popular song from Anything Goes at the start with hundreds of parodies.[1][2]

    The lyrics are particularly significant because they offer a snapshot as to what was highly prized in the mid-1930s, and demonstrate Porter’s rhyming ability.

    Some of the lyrics were re-written by P. G. Wodehouse for the British version of Anything Goes.

    People and items referenced in the song

    The following is a list of many of the references made in the song:

    P. G. Wodehouse anglicised it for the British version of Anything Goes. Amongst other changes, he altered two lines from “You’re an O’Neill drama / You’re Whistler’s mama!” to “You’re Mussolini / You’re Mrs Sweeny“)[3][4]

    Versions of the song

    The “Washington vs. the Bunny” (season one, episode five) episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show features a version of the song performed for Laura Petrie (Mary Tyler Moore) by her very young son Ritchie. In that version, Ritchie mistakenly alters the lyrics from “You’re the Mona Lisa” to “You’re the Mommy Lisa”.

    The song played a major role in the M*A*S*H episode “The Joker Is Wild” whereupon the loser of a “jokeoff” in the 4077th had to sing the song without his bottoms (pants) in the mess hall. Alan Alda‘s character Hawkeye ultimately had to make good on said promise.

    Also sung as the introduction by Paul Jones and arranged by Richard Rodney Bennett for the ITV series The Charmer starring Nigel Havers. Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka did a version of the song at the 2011’s gala of The Trevor Project[5]

    A personalized version of this song was featured in season seven of Gilmore Girls, sung by Edward Herrmann and Kelly Bishop to their onscreen granddaughter played by Alexis Bledel in honor of her graduation from Yale. It features such lines as: “You’re the top/You’ve graduated. You’re the top/Your grandparents are elated.”

    Parodies

    Porter biographer William McBrien wrote that at the height of its popularity in 1934 to 1935 it had become a “popular pastime” to create parodies of the lyrics.[2] Porter, who himself had called the song “just a trick” the public would get bored by[2] was flooded with hundreds of parodies with one reportedly written by Irving Berlin.[2] Despite the “ribald” nature of some of the parodies, McBrien believes few, including a “King Kong” parody were written by Porter or Berlin.[6]

    References

    1. ^ Redmond, James (1981). Drama, Dance and Music. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-521-22180-1.
    2. ^ a b c d McBrien, William (1998). Cole Porter : a biography (1 ed.). New York: Knopf. pp. 169–171. ISBN 978-0-394-58235-1.
    3. ^ “Mayfair, the Duchess of Argyll and the Headless Man polaroids”. Another Nickel In The Machine. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
    4. ^ Hoge, Warren (16 August 2000). “London Journal; A Sex Scandal of the 60’s, Doubly Scandalous Now”. The New York Times. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
    5. ^ “NPH and David Burtka singing Your The Top At Trevor Live”. YouTube. Retrieved 13 February 2012.
    6. ^ Noah, Timothy (18 June 2005). “Farewell to Berlin”. Slate Magazine. Retrieved 13 February 2012.

    External links

     

    From the movie “De Lovely” about Cole Porter:

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    September 25, 2014 – 12:43 am

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    Over and over in Proverbs you hear the words “fear the Lord.” In fact, some of he references are Proverbs 1:7, 29; 2:5; 8:13; 9:10;14:26,27; 15:16 and many more. Below is a sermon by John MacArthur from the Book of Luke on 3 reasons we should fear the Lord.

    King Solomon’s Proverbs on “Strange Women”and the example of Samson Part 3

    The wisdom of Solomon is there for those who want it.

    Samson had something in common with the strange woman in Proverbs and it was that they both were raised by Godly parents who taught them the truth from the scriptures but they both forsaketh that guide from their youth and forgot the covenant they had with God.

    2:16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

    2:17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.

    9:16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,

    Samson was raised by the Godly teachers Zorah and Eshtaol but like he acted like the Simpleton in the Book of Proverbs and did not obey the teaching of his youth.

    5:12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;5:13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

    The birth of Samson was a miracle and his parents had prayed for him many times before he was even born. Furthermore, an angel visited his parents several times before he was born and his parents knew the Lord had a special plan for him.

    5:21For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

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    Judges 13

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    13 The Israelites sinned against the Lord again, and he let the Philistines rule them for forty years.

    2 At that time there was a man named Manoah from the town of Zorah. He was a member of the tribe of Dan. His wife had never been able to have children. 3 The Lord‘s angel appeared to her and said, “You have never been able to have children, but you will soon be pregnant and have a son. 4 Be sure not to drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food; 5 and after your son is born, you must never cut his hair, because from the day of his birth he will be dedicated to God as a nazirite.[a] He will begin the work of rescuing Israel from the Philistines.”

    6 Then the woman went and told her husband, “A man of God has come to me, and he looked as frightening as the angel[b] of God. I didn’t ask him where he came from, and he didn’t tell me his name. 7 But he did tell me that I would become pregnant and have a son. He told me not to drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food, because the boy is to be dedicated to God as a nazirite as long as he lives.”

    8 Then Manoah prayed to the Lord, “Please, Lord, let the man of God that you sent come back to us and tell us what we must do with the boy when he is born.”

    9 God did what Manoah asked, and his angel came back to the woman while she was sitting in the field. Her husband Manoah was not with her, 10 so she ran at once and told him, “Look! The man who came to me the other day has appeared to me again.”

    11 Manoah got up and followed his wife. He went to the man and asked, “Are you the man who talked to my wife?”

    “Yes,” he answered.

    12 Then Manoah said, “Now then, when your words come true, what must the boy do? What kind of a life must he lead?”

    13 The Lord‘s angel answered, “Your wife must be sure to do everything that I have told her. 14 She must not eat anything that comes from the grapevine; she must not drink any wine or beer, or eat any forbidden food. She must do everything that I have told her.”

    15-16 Not knowing that it was the Lord‘s angel, Manoah said to him, “Please do not go yet. Let us cook a young goat for you.”

    But the angel said, “If I do stay, I will not eat your food. But if you want to prepare it, burn it as an offering to the Lord.”

    17 Manoah replied, “Tell us your name, so that we can honor you when your words come true.”

    18 The angel asked, “Why do you want to know my name? It is a name of wonder.”[c]

    19 So Manoah took a young goat and some grain, and offered them on the rock altar to the Lord who works wonders.[d] 20-21 While the flames were going up from the altar, Manoah and his wife saw the Lord‘s angel go up toward heaven in the flames. Manoah realized then that the man had been the Lord‘s angel, and he and his wife threw themselves face downward on the ground. They never saw the angel again.

    22 Manoah said to his wife, “We are sure to die, because we have seen God!”

    23 But his wife answered, “If the Lord had wanted to kill us, he would not have accepted our offerings; he would not have shown us all this or told us such things at this time.”

    24 The woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The child grew and the Lord blessed him. 25 And the Lord‘s power began to strengthen him while he was between Zorah and Eshtaol in the Camp of Dan.

     THREE FINAL QUESTIONS:

    1. What kind of parents did Samson have?

    2. Is it a miracle that any of us are born and do we have a special purpose on this earth?

    3. What commitment did Samson make from his youth?

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    Predictions for SEC Games on Sept 27, 2014

    September 24, 2014 – 9:49 am

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    Arkansas vs. Texas A&M 2011

     

    My picks this week:

    Texas A&M 42-35 over Arkansas, Georgia 14-10 over Tennessee, and Ole Miss 35-21 over Memphis. All three winning teams do not cover the line but they win the game. Auburn beats LA Tech by 40, Kentucky beats Vandy 21-20, LSU 70-7 over New Mexico State and South Carolina 49-7 over Missouri.

     

    September 27 lineups announced

    Sep 16, 2014
    SEC Staff
    • PHOTO: SEC STAFF

    The SEC Office on Monday announced the start times and television networks that will televise its games of Saturday, September 27. The schedule features four conference games and three non-conference games, including a neutral site contest with Texas A&M and Arkansas squaring off in Arlington, Texas.

    The weekly SEC Network triple-header will feature Vanderbilt at Kentucky, Louisiana Tech at Auburn and New Mexico State at LSU.

    SEC Television Schedule for Saturday, September 27, 2014

    TIME (ET) EVENT NETWORK
    12:00 pm ET / 11:00 am CT Tennessee at Georgia ESPN
    12:00 pm ET / 11:00 am CT Vanderbilt at Kentucky SEC Network
    3:30 pm ET / 2:30 pm CT Texas A&M vs. Arkansas CBS
    4:00 pm ET / 3:00 pm CT Louisiana Tech at Auburn SEC Network
    7:00 pm ET / 6:00 pm CT Missouri at South Carolina ESPN
    7:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm CT New Mexico State at LSU SEC Network
    7:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm CT Memphis at Ole Miss FSN

    Ultimate SEC road trip 2014: Week 5

    May, 27, 2014

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    By Alex Scarborough and Greg Ostendorf | ESPN.com
    It’s going to be a slow week.The final Saturday in September won’t be a banner day for SEC football. With all due respect to matchups like Arkansas-Texas A&M, Louisiana Tech-Auburn and Vanderbilt-Kentucky, nothing there rises up to the level of true excitement. The games could very well be sellouts and the venues will likely be packed with tailgaters, but it’s not going to draw anyone’s national attention.

    We’re going to make do, though. SEC diehards will always find a way. There are only 14 weeks of regular-season football, so you have to make every one count.

    If you’re just now jumping on board, we at the SEC blog have been getting ready for the coming season by plotting out our top destinations every week. So far we’ve been to LSU, Alabama, South Carolina, Houston, Vanderbilt and Oklahoma. We’ve got four weeks down and 10 more to go.

    Let’s take a look at the best options for Week 5:

    Sept. 27
    Arkansas vs. Texas A&M (in Arlington, Texas)
    Louisiana Tech at Auburn
    Tennessee at Georgia
    Vanderbilt at Kentucky
    New Mexico State at LSU
    Memphis at Ole Miss
    Missouri at South Carolina

    Alex Scarborough’s pick: Missouri at South Carolina

    I might as well get a second office set up in Columbia. In playing our little road trip game here on the SEC blog, I chose stops at South Carolina in Week 1 and Week 2 of the season. And looking over the schedule for Sept. 27, I couldn’t in good conscience go anywhere else.

    This game should be a good one, if for nothing other than the rematch angle after last season’sepic double-overtime bash. There was no better game to exemplify quarterback Connor Shaw‘s illustrious career than when injured, he came off the bench in the fourth quarter to help score 17 unanswered points to tie the score. His 15-yard touchdown pass to Bruce Ellington on fourth-and-goal in the first overtime was a thing of beauty. His guts were on full display then, as was South Carolina’s defense, whose effort was somewhat lost in the comeback.

    The names and faces will be very different this time, but the stakes at play could be much the same. The SEC East is wide open, and both Missouri and South Carolina have reasons to believe they could make it to Atlanta. This could turn out to be a swing game in determining who wins the division.

    The Tigers will be a bit of a mystery entering Columbia with so few starters returning on both sides of the ball. But you have to like what you saw from Maty Mauk at quarterback last fall, and Markus Golden has the chance to be a star at defensive end. With games against South Dakota State, Toledo, UCF and Indiana to start the season, Missouri will have a chance to find itself without running the risk of losing a game.

    Meanwhile, I have high expectations for South Carolina. Steve Spurrier should have a strong offensive line, a plethora of weapons at receiver and running back, and a veteran under center, even though Dylan Thompson has never been a full-time starter. The Gamecocks will have the edge against Missouri with the game at home, but this should be a hard-fought contest.

    Greg Ostendorf’s pick: Tennessee at Georgia

    Missouri-South Carolina is a good pick, and as tempting as it would be to check out AT&T Stadium for the Arkansas-Texas A&M game, I’m going to stay in the East and head down to Athens for Georgia-Tennessee.

    Talk about a good game from 2013 — these two teams played aninstant classic last fall. Tennessee scored twice in the fourth quarter to take a 31-24 lead, only to see Aaron Murray throw a touchdown pass with five seconds left to force overtime. In the extra session, Tennessee’s Alton “Pig” Howard fumbled as he tried to stretch the ball over the end-zone pylon on the Vols’ first possession, which set up Georgia’s Marshall Morgan for a game-winning 42-yard field goal.

    Though Georgia escaped Rocky Top with a victory, it didn’t leave in one piece. The game was remembered more for the amount of devastating knee injuries suffered by the Bulldogs than the final outcome — and nobody wants to see that again.

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    More:
    • Georgia’s clubhouse page
    • ESPN.com’s SEC blog

    Instead, I want to see the combination of a healthy Todd Gurley and a healthy Keith Marshalltearing through SEC defenses. I want to see Justin Scott-Wesley and Malcolm Mitchell back and making plays in the passing game. If the Bulldogs are at 100 percent, they make a strong case for the best team in the SEC East and maybe the whole conference.

    With that said, I think this Tennessee team will be better than advertised. There will be plenty of question marks, including two glaring ones at quarterback and offensive line, but they’re a young, talented group with loads of potential. I want to see how this heralded recruiting class responds to its first SEC game. I want to see Marquez North because it doesn’t matter who’s throwing him the ball — he can go get it. The Vols are looking for their first winning season since 2009 and would love nothing more than to steal one on the road.

    And honestly, does it get any better than a traditional SEC rivalry between the hedges? It’s our first stop there this fall and likely won’t be our last.

    Alex Scarborough | email

    Alabama/SEC reporter

    • Covers Alabama and the SEC.
    • Joined ESPN in 2012.
    • Graduate of Auburn University.

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    Auburn/SEC reporter

     

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    September 24, 2014 – 9:24 am

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    I really enjoyed hearing Jerry Jones’ daughter speak at the Little Rock Touchdown Club this week.

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    Savvy Anderson graces Jerry’s Cowboys

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    By Wally Hall

    This article was published September 23, 2014 at 2:31 a.m.

    Looks like Jane, plays like Tarzan.

    Charlotte Jones Anderson looks and carries herself like a runway model, but almost every day she goes toe-to-toe and nose-t0-nose with corporate America as the Dallas Cowboys’ executive vice president and chief brand officer.

    Anderson came home Monday to speak to the Little Rock Touchdown Club luncheon in front of a crowd that required extra tables be set up.

    It was obvious from start to finish she is proud of her roots that run deep into Arkansas, and the two assistants she brought with her, Meredith Counce of Fayetteville and Holly Hilburn of Little Rock, were just a little of the proof.

    Anderson was the first female speaker in the almost 11-year history of the LRTDC, and she knocked it out of the park, which was no surprise.

    At least 100 of those who attended were females, including a ninth-grade teacher and now principal at Little Rock Central, Nancy Roussseau, but it would take the rest of this column to list all the friends and admirers who showed up to support Anderson.

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    There are 32 NFL teams and dozens upon dozens of executives, but Jones is one of three female NFL executives. But it was easy to see she transcends the world of male and female. She is just a smart, sharp businessman who more than holds her own in the world of professional football.

    She told the story of how her dad lured her away — temporarily — from a job in Washington D.C. to help stop the bleeding after he bought the Dallas Cowboys in 1989.

    The Cowboys were losing $1 million a month at the time.

    Anderson came in, looked at the books and worked to move training camp from California to Texas for 11 years, a move that saved hundreds of thousands of dollars before the Cowboys settled on alternating it between San Antonio and Oxnard, Calif.

    She took on other efforts that were losing money, and when she had them all fixed she told her dad she was going back to D.C.

    Jones, always the uncanny businessman, asked her to stay.

    She explained she knew nothing about the business of professional football, and his answer, “Neither do I, but I need people around me I can trust,” brought her to Dallas permanently.

    Anderson immediately started updating and upgrading the Cowboys brand, and, yes, she is over the cheerleaders. But that is just one of numerous duties, and when Dallas made the NFC Championship Game in 1993, it was her idea to have a pep rally to send the team off to San Francisco.

    It was free on a first-come, first-served basis. They sold out of food and beverages halfway through the pep rally.

    The Cowboys went on to beat the Buffalo Bills in the Super Bowl that year and the next and then won it again in 1996 against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

    “Those were glorious years,” Anderson said and then added with a laugh, “and too long ago.”

    Jones turned to Anderson for help in improving the Cowboys’ off-field image and she wasted no time getting meetings with the presidents of Frito Lay, NBC Sports Programming and the NFL. She convinced everyone to donate $15 million of advertising air time for a halftime show at the Cowboys annual Thanksgiving game to kick off the Salvation Army’s red bucket program.

    In 2010 she became chairman of the Salvation Army’s advisory board, the first woman to hold that position, and Monday she was the first woman to speak at the LRTDC and she looked like Jane and played like Tarzan.

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    MUSIC MONDAY Jim Morrison’s sad drug death was followed by Pamela Courson’s sad story!!!

    September 22, 2014 – 4:56 am

    Jim Morrison’s sad drug death was followed by Pamela Courson’s sad story!!!

    pamela courson/ jim morrison interview

     

    Interview with Jim Morrison’s father and sister

    Uploaded on Aug 9, 2010

    This interview is from “When You’re Strange” DVD bonus material.
    I do not own this video and own no rights to it!

    Pamela Courson

    Uploaded on May 9, 2009

     

    Had to, felt I should. She was very important in Jims life, and she’s so beautiful.

    Song: Mad world.

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    Pamela Courson

     

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    Pamela Courson
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    Born Pamela Susan Courson
    December 22, 1946
    Weed, California, USA
    Died April 25, 1974 (aged 27)
    Los Angeles, California, USA
    Nationality American

     

    Pamela Susan Courson (December 22, 1946 – April 25, 1974) was the long-term companion of Jim Morrison, singer of The Doors. After the deaths of Morrison and Courson, her parents petitioned an out-of-state court to declare that the couple had a common-law marriage.

     

     

    Early life and involvement with Morrison

     

    Courson was born in Weed, California. She was described as a reclusive young girl from a family that did not mix with the neighbors very much. She did well in school until junior high, when records show that her family was contacted about truancy. Courson hated high school, attending Orange High School, and her grades declined when she was sixteen. That spring, she left for Los Angeles, where she and a friend got an apartment. Rumor has it that Neil Young wrote the song “Cinnamon Girl” about her, as well as “The Needle and the Damage Done“, but both have been denied.[1]

     

    In his 1998 memoir, Light My Fire: My Life with the Doors, former keyboardist Ray Manzarek stated that Courson and Morrison met at a nightclub called London Fog on the Sunset Strip in 1965, while she was an art student at Los Angeles City College. Courson’s relationship with Morrison was tumultuous with loud arguments and repeated infidelities by both partners.

     

    Courson briefly operated Themis, a fashion boutique that Morrison bought for her.[2] Her death certificate lists her occupation as “women’s apparel”.[citation needed]

     

    Deaths of Morrison and Courson

     

    On July 3, 1971, Courson found Morrison dead in the bathtub of their apartment in Paris, France. The official coroner‘s report listed his cause of death as heart failure, although no autopsy was performed. Questions persist over the actual cause of death. Under Morrison’s will, which stated that he was “an unmarried person”, Courson inherited his entire fortune. Lawsuits against the estate would tie up her quest for inheritance for the next two years. Courson did not remain in contact with the remaining Doors members after she received her share of Morrison’s royalties.

     

    After Morrison’s death, Courson became a recluse in Los Angeles, using heroin and showing signs of mental instability. In his follow-up book to the seminal Jim Morrison biography, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Jerry Hopkins mentions that Courson might have prostituted herself after Morrison’s death, probably to keep up with the costly lifestyle she was used to, and was apparently pimped by a former Doors chauffeur. Doors historian Danny Sugerman became friendly with her in Los Angeles after Morrison’s death. Many years later he wrote in Wonderland Avenue that Courson’s heroin addiction progressed to the point that when she smuggled her drugs in her car she hid them in different-colored balloons.[3] She planned to swallow them if an officer pulled her over, and to “shit them out” upon returning home.[4]

     

    On April 25, 1974, Courson died of a heroin overdose on the living room couch at the Los Angeles apartment she shared with two male friends. A neighbor said she had talked about looking forward to seeing Morrison again soon. Her parents intended that she be buried next to Morrison at Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, and they listed this location as the place of burial on her death certificate, but due to legal complications with transporting the body to France, her remains were buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California, under the name Pamela Susan Morrison. Several months after her death, her parents, Columbus and Peny Courson, inherited Morrison’s fortune. Morrison’s parents later contested their executorship of the estate.

     

    Estate controversy

     

    In his will, made in Los Angeles County on February 12, 1969, Morrison left his entire estate to Courson, also naming her co-executor with his attorney, Max Fink.

     

    When Courson died, a battle ensued between Morrison’s and Courson’s parents over who had legal claim to Morrison’s estate. On his death, his property became Courson’s; on her death, her property passed to her next heirs at law, her parents. Morrison’s parents contested the will under which Courson and subsequently her parents had inherited their son’s property.

     

    To bolster their positions, Courson’s parents presented an unsigned document that they claimed Pam Courson had acquired in Colorado, apparently an application for a declaration that she and Morrison had contracted a common-law marriage under the laws of that state. The ability to contract a common-law marriage was abolished in California in 1896, but the state’s conflict of laws rules provided for recognition of common-law marriages lawfully contracted in foreign jurisdictions. Colorado was one of the 11 U.S. jurisdictions that still recognized common-law marriage. As long as a common-law marriage was lawfully contracted under Colorado law, it was recognized as a marriage under California law. However, neither Morrison nor Courson had signed the document, nor was there any proof that either of the deceased had even been aware of the document’s existence. Neither Morrison nor Courson was ever a resident of Colorado.

     

    Whatever the circumstances of the unsigned document, the court case, and the controversy surrounding it, the California probate court decided that Courson and Morrison had a common-law marriage under the laws of Colorado. The effect of the court ruling was to close probate of Morrison’s and Courson’s estates and to reinforce the Courson family’s hold on the inheritance.

     

    Fictional portrayals

     

    Courson was portrayed by Meg Ryan in Oliver Stone‘s 1991 film The Doors.[5]

     

    References

     

    1. Jump up ^ Davis, Stephen. Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend. New York: Gotham, 2005. ISBN 978-1-59240-099-7.
    2. Jump up ^ Butler 107
    3. Jump up ^ Sugerman, Danny. Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess. London, United Kingdom: Abacus, 1991. pg. 276.
    4. Jump up ^ Sugerman, Danny. Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess. London, United Kingdom: Abacus, 1991. pg. 276.
    5. Jump up ^ Kagan, Norman. The cinema of Oliver Stone. Continuum, 2000. p. 312. ISBN 0-8264-1244-0.

     

    Further reading

     

    • Butler, Patricia. Angels Dance and Angels Die: The Tragic Romance of Pamela and Jim Morrison. Schirmer Books, 2000. ISBN 978-0-8256-7153-1

     

    External links

     

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    Pamela Courson at Find a Grave

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