<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" > <channel><title>Comments on: Thursday Open Thread</title> <atom:link href="http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/</link> <description>A black bourgeoisie perspective on U.S. politics</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:30:42 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1</generator> <item><title>By: Acai Berry Selelct</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-578850</link> <dc:creator>Acai Berry Selelct</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 04:56:43 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-578850</guid> <description>&lt;strong&gt;Ask the hosting company. Not all free web hosts give you a database....&lt;/strong&gt;Download XAMPP and install and then install wordpress Local host (on your pc )and u Download XAMPP from here www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html and then Download Wordpress and Install Wordpress get Backup from your nonwordpress server ,,my sql...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Ask the hosting company. Not all free web hosts give you a database&#8230;.</strong></p><p>Download XAMPP and install and then install wordpress Local host (on your pc )and u Download XAMPP from here <a href="http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html</a> and then Download WordPress and Install WordPress get Backup from your nonwordpress server ,,my sql&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: African mango plus</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-556108</link> <dc:creator>African mango plus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:18:17 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-556108</guid> <description>&lt;strong&gt;&quot;Nope. Find another hosting company. Go to http://hostgator.com and you&#039;ll get all the bells and whistles without paying extra.&quot;...&lt;/strong&gt;&quot;All depends on the size of the database you plan to host, tho I would think it&#039;d have to be somewhat hefty to require a hosting charge...hosting companies usually charge based on two things: traffic bandwidth and amount of memory space used on the s...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;Nope. Find another hosting company. Go to <a href="http://hostgator.com" rel="nofollow">http://hostgator.com</a> and you&#8217;ll get all the bells and whistles without paying extra.&#8221;&#8230;</strong></p><p>&#8220;All depends on the size of the database you plan to host, tho I would think it&#8217;d have to be somewhat hefty to require a hosting charge&#8230;hosting companies usually charge based on two things: traffic bandwidth and amount of memory space used on the s&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: GreenLadyHere</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-342327</link> <dc:creator>GreenLadyHere</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:04:54 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-342327</guid> <description>BAP:   THANK U!!  :&gt;)   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&#039;s GOOD 2 check in!!  :&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Luv ya!  :&gt;)    L8R!    :&gt;)</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BAP:   THANK U!!  :&gt;)</p><p>It&#39;s GOOD 2 check in!!  :&gt;)</p><p>Luv ya!  :&gt;)    L8R!    :&gt;)</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: GreenLadyHere</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-264224</link> <dc:creator>GreenLadyHere</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:04:54 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-264224</guid> <description>BAP:   THANK U!!  :&gt;)   &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It&#039;s GOOD 2 check in!!  :&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Luv ya!  :&gt;)    L8R!    :&gt;)</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BAP:   THANK U!!  :&gt;)</p><p>It&#39;s GOOD 2 check in!!  :&gt;)</p><p>Luv ya!  :&gt;)    L8R!    :&gt;)</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: TruthSeeker</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262485</link> <dc:creator>TruthSeeker</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:05:16 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262485</guid> <description>I love Susan Rice.   I think she made John King wish he&#039;d become a plumber, on his state of the union show on Sunday.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;As for Hillary...I think it was Bernstein who said that the remarkable thing about the whole Bill Clinton sexcapades...was how Hillary &quot;savaged&quot; the women who came forward to accuse Bill.    Doesn&#039;t strike me as a feminist..more a &quot;selfist&quot;.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love Susan Rice.   I think she made John King wish he&#39;d become a plumber, on his state of the union show on Sunday.</p><p>As for Hillary&#8230;I think it was Bernstein who said that the remarkable thing about the whole Bill Clinton sexcapades&#8230;was how Hillary &#8220;savaged&#8221; the women who came forward to accuse Bill.    Doesn&#39;t strike me as a feminist..more a &#8220;selfist&#8221;.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: BlackAmericanPrincess</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262439</link> <dc:creator>BlackAmericanPrincess</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:12:38 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262439</guid> <description>Hey darlin!!!!  Great to see your font again!!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey darlin!!!!  Great to see your font again!!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: whiterosebuddy</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262422</link> <dc:creator>whiterosebuddy</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:35:49 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262422</guid> <description>Doubtful. They are making way too much money on the deal. Generics, are always an issue for bigPharma, but will not be a deal breaker.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doubtful. They are making way too much money on the deal. Generics, are always an issue for bigPharma, but will not be a deal breaker.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: mon_dieu_ishmael</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262417</link> <dc:creator>mon_dieu_ishmael</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:19:33 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262417</guid> <description>Big Pharma might just reconsider that deal now that CNN is reporting the the WH wants to shorten the Patent duration for medications.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Big Pharma might just reconsider that deal now that CNN is reporting the the WH wants to shorten the Patent duration for medications.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: morphus</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262415</link> <dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:12:58 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262415</guid> <description>True. While sometimes I question the wisdom in bringing these characters on teevee, its moments like last night that made me think &quot;this is NOT 15 mins of fame&quot;.  Maybe, bring the next &#039;Joe/Josephine  the Plumber&#039; hopeful on teevee for an airing helps.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>True. While sometimes I question the wisdom in bringing these characters on teevee, its moments like last night that made me think &#8220;this is NOT 15 mins of fame&#8221;.  Maybe, bring the next &#39;Joe/Josephine  the Plumber&#39; hopeful on teevee for an airing helps.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rikyrah</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262408</link> <dc:creator>rikyrah</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:08:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262408</guid> <description>AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>AFTERNOON OPEN THREAD IS UP</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Lisa M</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262390</link> <dc:creator>Lisa M</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:54:36 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262390</guid> <description>That&#039;s funny!!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#39;s funny!!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: BlackAmericanPrincess</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262374</link> <dc:creator>BlackAmericanPrincess</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:24:48 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262374</guid> <description>Hey darlin!!!!  Great to see your font again!!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey darlin!!!!  Great to see your font again!!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: morphus</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262370</link> <dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:16:22 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262370</guid> <description>Yeah, probably being rehearsed for that drama at the townhall.  I laughed when she accused O&#039;Donnell of  putting words into her mouth.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, probably being rehearsed for that drama at the townhall.  I laughed when she accused O&#39;Donnell of  putting words into her mouth.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: The_A</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262368</link> <dc:creator>The_A</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:12:43 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262368</guid> <description>&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crmlu/2009/crmlu090812.gif&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crmlu/2009/crm...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;giggles...</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crmlu/2009/crmlu090812.gif" rel="nofollow">http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crmlu/2009/crm&#8230;</a></p><p>giggles&#8230;</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: morphus</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262367</link> <dc:creator>morphus</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:07:29 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262367</guid> <description>This article in some ways, explains to me why Sen. Webb held a committee hearing on the for-profit prisons.  A recent expose in PA demonstrates the story &quot;its about the poor.&quot;  PA judges directed public funds to build jails and then profited from sentencing juveniles of &quot;poor families&quot; in the area to the same jails.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This article in some ways, explains to me why Sen. Webb held a committee hearing on the for-profit prisons.  A recent expose in PA demonstrates the story &#8220;its about the poor.&#8221;  PA judges directed public funds to build jails and then profited from sentencing juveniles of &#8220;poor families&#8221; in the area to the same jails.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: GreenLadyHere</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262364</link> <dc:creator>GreenLadyHere</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:04:05 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262364</guid> <description>rikyrah:   AWWWWWWW!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/obama-with-babies-see-who_n_257293.html?slidenumber=0#slide_image&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;	&lt;br&gt;OBAMA WITH BABIES: See Who He&#039;s Held Since Becoming President (PHOTOS)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Back when he was on the campaign trail, Barack Obama held a lot of babies. (See pictures of that here.) Since becoming president, he&#039;s held significantly fewer, but the gesture is no less heart-melting. From Prague to Accra to the heated town hall meetings, everyone could use a little adorable right now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Or see slideshows of more babies for Obama, babies for McCain, and babies for Biden.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;ENJOY!!  :&gt;)</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rikyrah:   AWWWWWWW!   :&gt;)     :&gt;)</p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/obama-with-babies-see-who_n_257293.html?slidenumber=0#slide_image" rel="nofollow"> <br />OBAMA WITH BABIES: See Who He&#39;s Held Since Becoming President (PHOTOS)</a></p><p><i>Back when he was on the campaign trail, Barack Obama held a lot of babies. (See pictures of that here.) Since becoming president, he&#39;s held significantly fewer, but the gesture is no less heart-melting. From Prague to Accra to the heated town hall meetings, everyone could use a little adorable right now.</p><p>Or see slideshows of more babies for Obama, babies for McCain, and babies for Biden.</i></p><p>ENJOY!!  :&gt;)</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: GreenLadyHere</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262361</link> <dc:creator>GreenLadyHere</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:45:26 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262361</guid> <description>rikyrah:  GOOD MORNIN&#039;!  :&gt;)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/08/13/pioneer-black-golfer-powell-to-be-honored/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;Pioneer black golfer Powell to be honored&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;The PGA is honoring 92-year-old William Powell, whose Ohio golf course is the only one in the United States designed, built and owned by an African-American.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Powell will be given the PGA of America’s 2009 distinguished service award Wednesday, the day before the PGA Championship gets started at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Powell, who has spent decades passing on his knowledge, love and respect for the game to others, embarked on his effort to have a course open to blacks in the 1940s after coming back to a segregated America from World War II.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;He built his own course — Clearview Golf Club — in East Canton, Ohio, in 1948.&lt;/b.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“I just got tired of the — all the garbage,” he told ABC. “Because a fellow’s skin was white, he could play at a golf course and I had to wonder whether I could play.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;But, he added: “I didn’t do it for black people. I built it for everybody.”&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;Larry Powell, who is now the superintendent at the family-run course while his sister Renee, a former women’s tour player, is its head pro, says his father “was just obsessed, to be frank with it.”&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“It was something that he wanted to do and he put all his effort mentally, emotionally, physically into accomplishing his goal,” the younger Powell told ABC.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Powell&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;William J. Powell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;William J. Powell (born Nov. 22, 1916, in Greenville, Alabama) is the first African American to design and construct a professional golf course in the United States. In 1946, he began construction of the Clearview Golf Course in East Canton, Ohio. Numerous courses prohibited Powell from playing in the 1940s because of his race.[1] While working as a security guard, Powell began to build his own nine-hole course. By 1948, he had completed nine holes, and in 1978, he expanded the course to eighteen holes.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Clearview is the only course in the United States designed, constructed, owned and operated by an African American.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2001, the United States Department of the Interior added Clearview Golf Course to the National Register of Historic Places.[2]&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 1996, Powell was inducted into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame[3]. He also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from his alma mater, Wilberforce University, and from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2009, Powell was named the recipient of the 2009 PGA Distinguished Service Award by the Professional Golfers Association and was honored in conjunction with the 91st PGA Championship.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pga.com/2008/news/pga/06/25/powell062508/index.html?eref=sitesearch&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Pioneering Powell receives honorary degree from Univ. of St. Andrews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. -- You can call her Dr. Renee Powell now.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;PGA Professional Renee Powell of East Canton, Ohio, the 2003 PGA First Lady of Golf, marked another historic chapter in her career Wednesday, becoming the first female golfer and ninth overall professional in history to be conferred with an honorary doctor of laws (LLD) degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The PGA head professional at Clearview Golf Club in East Canton, Ohio, Powell was honored before an audience at St. Andrews&#039; Younger Hall that included PGA of America President Brian Whitcomb and LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens. Powell, 62, holds dual membership in The PGA of America and LPGA and was the second of three African-American to compete on the LPGA Tour. &lt;br&gt;&quot;This is a historic day for golf, and I am honored to be among those who can pay tribute to Renee Powell and her impact upon the game,&quot; said Whitcomb. &quot;The R&amp;A opened their doors to honor Renee, and it couldn&#039;t have been any better. It was truly special in all respects and the game of golf hit on all the high notes today.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Prior to Powell&#039;s being conferred with her degree, a choir sang &quot;Straight Down the Middle,&quot; a song popularized by the late Bing Crosby, whose love of golf was legendary. Powell was introduced by Professor Alan Cairns, who paid homage to Powell&#039;s life work of building diversity in the game and her personal struggle early in her playing career to achieve human rights.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Renee has received many honors from the world of golf, too many to list here, but amongst the most notable is her First Lady of Golf award by The Professional Golfers Association of America in 2003,&quot; said Cairns. &quot;Situated as it is, it is natural for the University of St Andrews to confer honors on eminent golfers from time to time. However, in Renee Powell we honor someone whose achievements transcend the world of golf and move into much broader issues of human rights, racial equality and the treatment of disadvantaged members of society.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joining in the celebration was Renee&#039;s father, William Powell, 91, a PGA Life Member and who remains the only African-American to own, operate and build a golf course in the United States. &lt;br&gt;&quot;It was a wonderful day, and to have my father with me made that much better,&quot; said Renee. &quot;This is such a major highlight of my life, and it keeps getting better and better. St. Andrews does things in an extra special way. To have had Brian Whitcomb and Carolyn Bivens be here to represent the organizations of which I am a member has made this an extraordinary experience.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Powell&#039;s degree follows, in order, the following professional golfers to be honored at St. Andrews: Charlie Sifford, Peter Alliss, Nick Faldo, Peter Thomson, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Colin Montgomerie and Seve Ballesteros. Nicklaus sent a congratulatory letter to Powell, which was received at the ceremony.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;I know how honored and proud you must feel to not only receive this very special recognition, but to be the first female golfer and only the third American golfer (coincidentally all Buckeyes!) to do so,&quot; Nicklaus wrote. &quot;Renee, you are an inspiration to all who know you. Your lifetime commitment to the game and contributions as a player, teacher and ambassador are well known. You should be proud of the manner in which you have given back to the game over the years.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Powell began playing golf at the age of three through her father, William, began playing competitive golf at age 12. After becoming a champion at national junior level, she turned professional in 1967. During her 13-year professional career, she competed in more than 250 tournaments worldwide.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Since 1980, Powell has been a PGA Teaching Professional in the U.S., and has extended her skills as golf&#039;s unofficial international ambassador for more than 40 years. In 1979, Powell became the first female head professional in the United Kingdom, a post that came after she had traveled for years promoting golf and goodwill. In 1971, she was a member of a month-long USO Tour to greet the U.S. troops near the battlefront in Vietnam. By her count, Powell has made 25 trips to Africa, where she has taught both heads of state and juniors to enjoy the game of golf.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Returning home to Clearview Golf Club in 1988, Powell guides a course her father, a U.S. Army veteran, built in 1946. Powell&#039;s youngest brother, Larry, is course superintendent and a long-time member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In 2001, Clearview Golf Club earned a berth in the National Register of Historic Places and an Ohio Historical Marker rests on the first tee.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The ceremony is the first of two visits that Powell will make this summer to St. Andrews. She will return in August as part of the &quot;New Links St Andrews&quot; initiative connecting youth to St Andrews and with scholarships to the university. Powell will be accompanied by four youngsters from her LPGA girls program at Clearview Golf Club.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Powell was elected to PGA membership in 1996, a year after she established the Renee Powell Youth Golf Camp Cadre Program. A member of the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame and the Stark County Women&#039;s Hall of Fame, she also was named in 1999 as an honorary member of the LPGA Teaching &amp; Club Professional Division.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;She has served as development and programming consultant for The First Tee Program and in 2000, began the LPGA Girls Golf Club in East Canton.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By establishing and elevating the standards of the golf profession through world-class education, career services, marketing and research programs, the Association enables PGA Professionals to maximize their performance in their respective career paths and showcases them as experts in the game and in the $76 billion golf industry.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By creating and delivering dramatic world-class championships and exciting and enjoyable golf promotions that are viewed as the best of their class in the golf industry, The PGA of America elevates the public&#039;s interest in the game, the desire to play more golf, and ensures accessibility to the game for everyone, everywhere. The PGA of America brand represents the very best in golf.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;NOTE:  THIS ARTICLE HAS PICS of HER annnnd HER FATHER.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;b&gt;CONGRATULATIONS!!!&lt;/b&gt;  :&gt;)&lt;/b&gt;</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>rikyrah:  GOOD MORNIN&#39;!  :&gt;)</p><p><a href="http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/2009/08/13/pioneer-black-golfer-powell-to-be-honored/" rel="nofollow"><b>Pioneer black golfer Powell to be honored</b></a></p><p><i><b>The PGA is honoring 92-year-old William Powell, whose Ohio golf course is the only one in the United States designed, built and owned by an African-American.</b></p><p>Powell will be given the PGA of America’s 2009 distinguished service award Wednesday, the day before the PGA Championship gets started at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn.</p><p>Powell, who has spent decades passing on his knowledge, love and respect for the game to others, embarked on his effort to have a course open to blacks in the 1940s after coming back to a segregated America from World War II.</p><p><b>He built his own course — Clearview Golf Club — in East Canton, Ohio, in 1948.&lt;/b.</p><p>“I just got tired of the — all the garbage,” he told ABC. “Because a fellow’s skin was white, he could play at a golf course and I had to wonder whether I could play.”</p><p>But, he added: “I didn’t do it for black people. I built it for everybody.”</p><p></b><b>Larry Powell, who is now the superintendent at the family-run course while his sister Renee, a former women’s tour player, is its head pro, says his father “was just obsessed, to be frank with it.”</b></p><p>“It was something that he wanted to do and he put all his effort mentally, emotionally, physically into accomplishing his goal,” the younger Powell told ABC.</i></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Powell" rel="nofollow">William J. Powell</a></p><p><i>William J. Powell (born Nov. 22, 1916, in Greenville, Alabama) is the first African American to design and construct a professional golf course in the United States. In 1946, he began construction of the Clearview Golf Course in East Canton, Ohio. Numerous courses prohibited Powell from playing in the 1940s because of his race.[1] While working as a security guard, Powell began to build his own nine-hole course. By 1948, he had completed nine holes, and in 1978, he expanded the course to eighteen holes.</p><p>Clearview is the only course in the United States designed, constructed, owned and operated by an African American.</p><p>In 2001, the United States Department of the Interior added Clearview Golf Course to the National Register of Historic Places.[2]</p><p>In 1996, Powell was inducted into the National Black Golf Hall of Fame[3]. He also received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from his alma mater, Wilberforce University, and from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.</p><p>In 2009, Powell was named the recipient of the 2009 PGA Distinguished Service Award by the Professional Golfers Association and was honored in conjunction with the 91st PGA Championship.</i></p><p><a href="http://www.pga.com/2008/news/pga/06/25/powell062508/index.html?eref=sitesearch" rel="nofollow">Pioneering Powell receives honorary degree from Univ. of St. Andrews</a></p><p><i>PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. &#8212; You can call her Dr. Renee Powell now.</p><p>PGA Professional Renee Powell of East Canton, Ohio, the 2003 PGA First Lady of Golf, marked another historic chapter in her career Wednesday, becoming the first female golfer and ninth overall professional in history to be conferred with an honorary doctor of laws (LLD) degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.</p><p>The PGA head professional at Clearview Golf Club in East Canton, Ohio, Powell was honored before an audience at St. Andrews&#39; Younger Hall that included PGA of America President Brian Whitcomb and LPGA Commissioner Carolyn Bivens. Powell, 62, holds dual membership in The PGA of America and LPGA and was the second of three African-American to compete on the LPGA Tour. <br />&#8220;This is a historic day for golf, and I am honored to be among those who can pay tribute to Renee Powell and her impact upon the game,&#8221; said Whitcomb. &#8220;The R&#038;A opened their doors to honor Renee, and it couldn&#39;t have been any better. It was truly special in all respects and the game of golf hit on all the high notes today.&#8221;</p><p>Prior to Powell&#39;s being conferred with her degree, a choir sang &#8220;Straight Down the Middle,&#8221; a song popularized by the late Bing Crosby, whose love of golf was legendary. Powell was introduced by Professor Alan Cairns, who paid homage to Powell&#39;s life work of building diversity in the game and her personal struggle early in her playing career to achieve human rights.</p><p>&#8220;Renee has received many honors from the world of golf, too many to list here, but amongst the most notable is her First Lady of Golf award by The Professional Golfers Association of America in 2003,&#8221; said Cairns. &#8220;Situated as it is, it is natural for the University of St Andrews to confer honors on eminent golfers from time to time. However, in Renee Powell we honor someone whose achievements transcend the world of golf and move into much broader issues of human rights, racial equality and the treatment of disadvantaged members of society.&#8221;</p><p>Joining in the celebration was Renee&#39;s father, William Powell, 91, a PGA Life Member and who remains the only African-American to own, operate and build a golf course in the United States. <br />&#8220;It was a wonderful day, and to have my father with me made that much better,&#8221; said Renee. &#8220;This is such a major highlight of my life, and it keeps getting better and better. St. Andrews does things in an extra special way. To have had Brian Whitcomb and Carolyn Bivens be here to represent the organizations of which I am a member has made this an extraordinary experience.&#8221;</p><p>Powell&#39;s degree follows, in order, the following professional golfers to be honored at St. Andrews: Charlie Sifford, Peter Alliss, Nick Faldo, Peter Thomson, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Colin Montgomerie and Seve Ballesteros. Nicklaus sent a congratulatory letter to Powell, which was received at the ceremony.</p><p>&#8220;I know how honored and proud you must feel to not only receive this very special recognition, but to be the first female golfer and only the third American golfer (coincidentally all Buckeyes!) to do so,&#8221; Nicklaus wrote. &#8220;Renee, you are an inspiration to all who know you. Your lifetime commitment to the game and contributions as a player, teacher and ambassador are well known. You should be proud of the manner in which you have given back to the game over the years.&#8221;</p><p>Powell began playing golf at the age of three through her father, William, began playing competitive golf at age 12. After becoming a champion at national junior level, she turned professional in 1967. During her 13-year professional career, she competed in more than 250 tournaments worldwide.</p><p>Since 1980, Powell has been a PGA Teaching Professional in the U.S., and has extended her skills as golf&#39;s unofficial international ambassador for more than 40 years. In 1979, Powell became the first female head professional in the United Kingdom, a post that came after she had traveled for years promoting golf and goodwill. In 1971, she was a member of a month-long USO Tour to greet the U.S. troops near the battlefront in Vietnam. By her count, Powell has made 25 trips to Africa, where she has taught both heads of state and juniors to enjoy the game of golf.</p><p>Returning home to Clearview Golf Club in 1988, Powell guides a course her father, a U.S. Army veteran, built in 1946. Powell&#39;s youngest brother, Larry, is course superintendent and a long-time member of the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America.</p><p>In 2001, Clearview Golf Club earned a berth in the National Register of Historic Places and an Ohio Historical Marker rests on the first tee.</p><p>The ceremony is the first of two visits that Powell will make this summer to St. Andrews. She will return in August as part of the &#8220;New Links St Andrews&#8221; initiative connecting youth to St Andrews and with scholarships to the university. Powell will be accompanied by four youngsters from her LPGA girls program at Clearview Golf Club.</p><p>Powell was elected to PGA membership in 1996, a year after she established the Renee Powell Youth Golf Camp Cadre Program. A member of the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame and the Stark County Women&#39;s Hall of Fame, she also was named in 1999 as an honorary member of the LPGA Teaching &#038; Club Professional Division.</p><p>She has served as development and programming consultant for The First Tee Program and in 2000, began the LPGA Girls Golf Club in East Canton.</p><p>By establishing and elevating the standards of the golf profession through world-class education, career services, marketing and research programs, the Association enables PGA Professionals to maximize their performance in their respective career paths and showcases them as experts in the game and in the $76 billion golf industry.</p><p>By creating and delivering dramatic world-class championships and exciting and enjoyable golf promotions that are viewed as the best of their class in the golf industry, The PGA of America elevates the public&#39;s interest in the game, the desire to play more golf, and ensures accessibility to the game for everyone, everywhere. The PGA of America brand represents the very best in golf.</i></p><p><b>NOTE:  THIS ARTICLE HAS PICS of HER annnnd HER FATHER.</b></p><p><b>CONGRATULATIONS!!!</b> :&gt;)</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: MoObama</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262360</link> <dc:creator>MoObama</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:45:08 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262360</guid> <description>I heard Ms. Abram on Hardball last night, she is sad. Did you hear her response to the question of whether she had health insurance stating that she and her husband have a 5000.00 dollar deductible!  “We agreed to that, it works for us”.  The reason she has such a high deductible is to keep her premiums down; what a rotten deal.  She really thinks this is the way things are supposed to be...stretched out and broke.  She was completely void of any form of political intelligence.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I heard Ms. Abram on Hardball last night, she is sad. Did you hear her response to the question of whether she had health insurance stating that she and her husband have a 5000.00 dollar deductible!  “We agreed to that, it works for us”.  The reason she has such a high deductible is to keep her premiums down; what a rotten deal.  She really thinks this is the way things are supposed to be&#8230;stretched out and broke.  She was completely void of any form of political intelligence.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: rikyrah</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262359</link> <dc:creator>rikyrah</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262359</guid> <description>wow, this is fast. they&#039;re already having the wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>wow, this is fast. they&#39;re already having the wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: djchefron</title><link>http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2009/08/thursday-open-thread-56/comment-page-1/#comment-262357</link> <dc:creator>djchefron</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate> <guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/?p=13979#comment-262357</guid> <description>For he Chicagoland JJP I just got this E-mail&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;**This Saturday, August 15, from 10 am to 4 pm, Saint Sabina will be a location for the citywide gun turn in program.  If you or anyone you know has a gun this is an opportunity to turn in the weapon in no questions asked and receive a MasterCard gift card to use at any store of your choosing.  The gift cards come in different denominations: $100 for assault weapons, shotguns, rifles, etc.; $50 for handguns; $10 for BB guns or pellet guns.  If you have any weapons to bring in make sure that they are not loaded and that during transportation to the site make sure that the weapon and any ammunition are in separate parts of your vehicle.  Please spread the word about the gun turn in and let them know that we are a site for the turn in.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;The importance of the gun issue continues to be shown as a 15 year old girl was shot in the head last night in the Roseland community.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;**This is the last week to sign up for the boat cruise.  We set sail Saturday, August 22, at 5 am and the cruise will last until 8 am.  Tickets are $20 per person and there will be transportation provided.  Please fill out and turn in your forms and turn in the ticket money.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;**This Friday, August 14, is our final Friday Night Live of the summer.  The evening lasts from 5 pm to 9 pm.  As it is our final Friday Night Live there will be a talent show from 6 pm to 8 pm, along with other fun and games.  Please come and show your support for our young people.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;**CNN will host a Town Hall Meeting on the gun violence that is plaguing the country here at Saint Sabina on Monday, August 17, at 7 pm.  Everyone is invited to join us for this important meeting.  Doors will open at 6 pm.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For he Chicagoland JJP I just got this E-mail</p><p>**This Saturday, August 15, from 10 am to 4 pm, Saint Sabina will be a location for the citywide gun turn in program.  If you or anyone you know has a gun this is an opportunity to turn in the weapon in no questions asked and receive a MasterCard gift card to use at any store of your choosing.  The gift cards come in different denominations: $100 for assault weapons, shotguns, rifles, etc.; $50 for handguns; $10 for BB guns or pellet guns.  If you have any weapons to bring in make sure that they are not loaded and that during transportation to the site make sure that the weapon and any ammunition are in separate parts of your vehicle.  Please spread the word about the gun turn in and let them know that we are a site for the turn in.</p><p>The importance of the gun issue continues to be shown as a 15 year old girl was shot in the head last night in the Roseland community.  Please keep her and her family in your prayers.</p><p>**This is the last week to sign up for the boat cruise.  We set sail Saturday, August 22, at 5 am and the cruise will last until 8 am.  Tickets are $20 per person and there will be transportation provided.  Please fill out and turn in your forms and turn in the ticket money.</p><p>**This Friday, August 14, is our final Friday Night Live of the summer.  The evening lasts from 5 pm to 9 pm.  As it is our final Friday Night Live there will be a talent show from 6 pm to 8 pm, along with other fun and games.  Please come and show your support for our young people.</p><p>**CNN will host a Town Hall Meeting on the gun violence that is plaguing the country here at Saint Sabina on Monday, August 17, at 7 pm.  Everyone is invited to join us for this important meeting.  Doors will open at 6 pm.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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