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Al Qaeda’s plots are usually large-scale and involve planning over months or even years. But Western intelligence officials say they are seeing increased chatter about cheap, small-scale attacks — perhaps by individuals or small extremist groups inspired to take revenge for the killing

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I’m running for president . . . and I don’t run for second place “As president, my job would be to change Washington, not learn Washington.”

That was my announcement on Saturday, May 21, 2011 in Atlanta’s Centennial Olympic Park. It was a high noon event with over 15,000 of my closest friends in attendance!

I wanted to be very clear of my intentions because of the usual three reservations expressed by skeptics about a “dark horse” candidate winning the Republican nomination for the presidency.

Name recognition, money and not being a previous office holder are the usual negatives pointed out by political pundits.

My name may not be a household name, but it is a grassroots-recognized name. Just consider the number of straw polls in which I have placed first in the last few months. The Tea Party Patriots Summit in Phoenix, the Conservatives Values Conference hosted by Congressman Steve King in Des Moines, Iowa, multiple state Republican Party conventions, and most recently an online Fox News survey following my official announcement of candidacy last Saturday.

Now, my performance in the recent South Carolina presidential debate was not a straw poll, but by most accounts I was viewed most favorably by a majority of those who saw that exchange among potential candidates, as well as the immediate reaction of

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Even a recent Zogby poll shows me in first place of the declared or soon-to-be declared candidates for the Republican nomination for president. And ever since the Gallup Organization started including me in its “positive intensity” poll, I have placed in the top three and most recently tied for first among all of the potential candidates.

Most importantly, people who know me and my professional history know that running for second place is not my style. There’s no such thing as second place when you are trying to save a company like Godfather’s Pizza from bankruptcy, and we did!

When I was assigned the responsibility for the most troubled region in the Burger King Corporation back in 1982, we did not strive to become the second most successful region in the company. Our goal was to become the most successful region in the company, and we did.

When the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association asked me to become their president and CEO in 1996, my mission was not defined as becoming a second class association in Washington, D.C. Our task under my leadership was to become a first class professional association of influence, which today represents over 13 million workers.

Just as money cannot buy happiness, money alone cannot buy the Republican nomination or even a second term, as President Obama hopes to do by raising $1 billion in campaign cash. Although we need enough money to be competitive, money alone will not supersede the voices of an energized

and informed electorate. That’s what is propelling my campaign into the limelight.

No, I have never held public office before, and I may not know how Washington works as some have pointed out. But I do not want to learn how to create a $14 trillion national debt, or waste $1 trillion to create a stalled economy and a 9 percent unemployment rate, or continue to push problems off on future generations.

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“USA, you will pay!” chanted more than 100 participants in a pro-bin Laden protest outside the U.S. Embassy in London A Western intelligence official said no concrete threat has emerged so far that authorities considered credible. “There have been mentions of shootings, bombings and random violence, though it is not surprising, given bin Laden’s death,” the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Despite the Internet chatter, reaction in the Islamic world to bin Laden’s death has been relatively muted compared with the rage that he long inspired, raising questions about his relevance in the Middle East — a region that has been changed by a wave of pro-democracy uprisings.

“Sheik Usama didn’t build an organization to die when he dies,” the statement read. “The university of faith, Quran and jihad from which bin Laden graduated will not close its doors,” it added.

There had been hope that bin Laden’s death would cause the Afghan Taliban to rethink its ties with Al Qaeda — a union the U.S. insists must end if the insurgents want to talk peace. The foundation of their relationship was believed to be rooted in bin Laden’s long friendship with the Taliban’s reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar Al-Zawahri, an Egyptian who is the most likely successor to bin Laden, is a less charismatic, unifying figure. He is believed to lack bin Laden’s ability to bring together the many nationalities and ethnic groups that make up Al Qaeda. His appointment could further fracture an organization that is thought to be increasingly decentralized.

Al-Zawahri has long been considered the operational head of Al Qaeda while bin Laden was assumed to be an inspirational figure who was uninvolved in operations.

But documents Navy SEALs seized in the raid on the hideout in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad suggest that bin Laden may have been more involved in operations than had been thought.

The documents reveal plans for derailing an American train on the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2011 attacks. Counterterrorism officials said they believe the plot was in the initial planning stages at the time.

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The film has catapulted the mission to repatriate MIAs by triggering Congressional legislation in 2009.

A sequel has been filmed and is currently in post production, but not for long. I have just returned from spending three days inside the Washington beltway nearly 14 years after that meeting Mr. Albert. The number of years that have past are a true testament to the longevity and eternal urgency and power of this film, its cause and the message of war which this story seeks closure for.

“ReturnToTarawa” was responsible for spurring the Congressional Legislation that ensued JPAC (Joint POW MIA Command) to load a C-17 with 17 U.S. Marines and soldiers to go look for their fallen comrades from the 1943 The Battle of Tarawa. Being embedded with them for 34 days last summer, we documented JPAC locating, repatriating and attempting to identify two US Marines from the battle in a sexy CSI style recovery mission under the hot equitorial sun.

It was an amazing time to be sure, and we have shot the sequel called, Until They Are Home.

I was invited to the Pentagon where I was able to spend an hour with the Marine Commandant General James F. Amos. I had just met the General last month at the the Medal of Honor event held at the Reagan Library. I gave him some sand from the island of Tarawa in a clear bag with four old bullets in a clip from the battle I had found while filming the multiple dig. Giving the Marine Commandant sand and ammunition from what is considered “holy and hallowed ground” from the battle site of Tarawa is like giving the Pope part of the Shroud of Turin.

The Pentagon is the biggest building in the world, housing some 25,000 employees every day. The Pentagon did not disappoint. I was given a two-hour tour of the concentric circles from east to west and the amount of history and concrete I was privy to were unparalleled. To say the Pentagon is ‘impressive’ is an understatement and I am not sure there is an adequate word in any language to accurately describe this great American monolith.

The Commandant gave me his Challenger Commanders Coin, we shook hands and I was whisked out of the building to a waiting jet black SUV to then go meet former Secretary

of Defense Donald Henry Rumsfeld in the heart of the District of Columbia.

I was fortunate to meet the former Secretary two weeks ago at the Academy of Country Music Awards in the VIP lounge at the MGM. When I introduced myself to Mr. Rumsfeld and told him about Tarawa and the magical journey I have been on, he was kind enough to agree to meet me after my interview with General Amos.

When I arrived at Rumsfeld’s private office, he was finishing up a tour with 10 West Point Cadets and could not have been more inviting and kind.

He asked my co-producer Matthew Hausle and Mathew Haussle, Donald Rumsfeld and Steven C. me to take a seat in his conference room and we Barber waited for him to finish up with the cadets. Ten minutes later he arrived in the conference room.

Pleasantries were exchanged and then he asked me what he could do for me.

I explained to him the powerful nature of my film and how many millions of Americans the film had profoundly affected, and how I am seeking finishing funds for this film and would like him to consider donating and possibly getting my information to others that would be interested in Until They Are Home. We then spoke briefly about a project that he and my production company Vanilla Fire Productions could do together and he took my package and told me that he would be happy to review and get back to me.

Mr. Rumsfeld would then sign two newly published books of his memoir for me and a colleague and we took pictures, shook hands and both agreed to reach out to each other in the very near future. Before we left, he offered a quick tour of his office which had mementos from his historic two terms as Secretary of Defense and other government positions. My favorite item he has was a stand up desk that he said he spent $1200 dollars on and had been using for years!

Being here made me feel great and then it happed - the Trifecta. We were invited to tour the amazing Marine Museum in Quantico and were greeted by its curator for a 20 minute tour and interview. This is one of the most spectacular museums I have ever seen costing over $100,000,000 and showcasing the 235 years of history of the United States Marine Corp. The sacrifice that the Marines have made along with all branches of the armed services can not be measured... but are felt and seen and used by all of us when we exercise our daily freedoms.

My co-producer and I headed to the airport late in the afternoon bound on a United flight back to Los Angeles. The five hour flight was a time to reflect on what a great and proud country America is. I hear a lot of negative talk about America and how she is sinking into the abyss and there is no way out.

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EXILE THE PENAL COLONY A penal colony is a settlement used to exile prisoners and separate them from the general populace by placing them in a remote location, often an island or distant colonial territory. Although the term can be used to refer to a correctional facility located in a remote location it is more commonly used to refer to communities of prisoners overseen by wardens or governors having absolute authority. Historically penal colonies have often been used for penal labor in an economically underdeveloped part of a state’s (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm. In practice such penal colonies may be little more than slave communities. The British, French, and other colonial em-

pires heavily used North America and other parts of the world as penal colonies to varying degrees, sometimes under the guise of indentured servitude or similar arrangements.

The prison regime was often harsh, sometimes including severe physical punishment, so even if prisoners were not sentenced for the rest of their natural lives, many died from hunger, disease, medical neglect, excessive labour, or during an escape attempt.

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escape and to discourage returning after their sentence expired. Penal colonies were often located in inhospitable frontier lands, where their unpaid labour could benefit the colonial powers before immigration labor became available, or even after because they are much cheaper. In fact, some people (especially the poor, following a similar social logic as could see them domestically ‘employed’ in a poorhouse) were sentenced for trivial or dubious offenses to generate cheap labor.

British Empire The British used North America as a penal colony through a system of indentured servitude.

Convicts would be transported by merchants and auctioned off to plantation owners upon arrival in the colonies. It is estimated that some 50,000 British convicts were sent to colonial America, representing perhaps one-quarter of all British emigrants during the 18th century.

When that avenue closed in the 1780s after the American Revolution, Britain began using parts of what is now known as Australia as penal settlements. Some of these included Norfolk Island, Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) and New South Wales. Advocates of Irish Home Rule or of Trade Unionism (the Tolpuddle Martyrs) often received sentences of deportation to these Australian colonies. Without the allocation of the available convict labor to farmers, pastoral squatters and Government projects such as roadbuilding, colonisation of Australia would not have been possible, especially considering the considerable drain on non-convict labor caused by several goldrushes that took place in the 19th century.

Bermuda, off the North American coastline, was also used during the Victorian period. Convicts housed in hulks were used to build the Royal Naval Dockyard there, and during the Second Boer War, Boer prisoners-of-war were sent to the archipelago and imprisoned on one of the smaller islands.

In colonial India, the British had made various penal colonies. Two of the most infamous ones are on the Andaman islands and Hijli. In the early days of settlement, Singapore was the recipient of Indian convicts, who were tasked with clearing the jungles for settlement and early public works.

Elsewhere Joseph Stalin sent millions of Soviet (mostly Russian and Ukrainian) dissidents to Kazakhstan as punishment for disobeying the CPSU line.

The scale of Russian penal settlement helped Kazakhs become an ethnic minority within their own country. This demographic trend lasted until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

During the Argentine rule of the Falkland Islands, Major Esteban Mestivier was commissioned by the Buenos Aires government, as the new governor of the islands, to set up a penal colony. He arrived at his destination on November 15, 1832, but his soldiers mutinied and killed him. Lt. Col. José María Pinedo quelled the rebellion and took charge as governor. Argentinas southermost city Ushuaia was founded as a penal colony.

France sent criminals to tropical penal colonies including Louisiana in the early 18th century. Devil’s Island in French Guiana, 1852–1939, received forgers and other criminals. New Caledonia in Melanesia (in the South Sea) received dissidents like the Communards, Kabyles rebels as well as convicted criminals.

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Currently in Mexico, the island of Isla María Madre (in the Marías Islands) is used as a penal colony. With a small population (less than 1200), the colony is governed by a state official who is both the governor of the islands and chief judge. The military command is independent of the government and is exercised by an officer of the Mexican Navy. The other islands are uninhabited.

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CHAIN GANG A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work, such as mining or timber collecting, as a form of punishment. Such punishment might include building roads, digging ditches or chipping stone. This system existed primarily in the southern parts of the United States, and by 1955 had been phased out nationwide, with Georgia the last state to abandon the practice.

Chain gangs were reintroduced by a few states during the “get tough on crime” 1990s, with Alabama being the first state to revive them in 1995. The experiment ended after about one year in all states except Arizona,where in Maricopa County inmates can still volunteer for a chain gang to earn credit toward a high school diploma or avoid disciplinary lockdowns for rule infractions.

History Various claims as to the purpose of chain gangs have been offered. These include: • Punishment. Societal restitution for the cost of housing, feeding, and guarding the inmates. The money earned by work performed goes to offset prison expenses by providing a large workforce at no cost for government projects, and at minimal convict leasing cost for private businesses.

• A way of perpetuating African-American servitude after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ended slavery.

• Reducing inmates’ idleness.

• To serve as a deterrent to crime.

• To satisfy the needs of politicians to appear “tough on crime.”

The use of chain gangs in the United States generally endChain Gang street sweepers. From a real photo postcard postmarked from Washington, ed in 1955. Chain gangs experienced a resurgence when AlaDC in 1909.

bama began to use them again in 1995.

Many jurisdictions in the United States have re-introduced prison labor. In recent years, Maricopa County, Arizona, which encompasses Phoenix, and its Sheriff Joe Arpaio have drawn attention from human rights groups for the use of chain gangs for both men and women. Arizona’s modern chain gangs, rather than chipping rocks or other non-productive tasks, often do work of economic benefit to a correctional department. Opponents note that the gangs often work outside in oppressive desert heat.

A year after reintroducing the chain gang in 1995, Alabama was forced to again abandon the practice pending a lawsuit from, among other organizations, the Southern Poverty Law Center. “They realized that chaining them together was inefficient; that it was unsafe,” said attorney Richard Cohen of the organization. However, as late as 2000, Alabama Prison Commissioner Ron Jones has again proposed reintroducing the chain gang.

The 1995 reintroduction has been called “commercial slavery” by some in academic circles.

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Officer James Yarbrough: “It’s obvious that we gotta do something to keep these inmates from comin’ back. Like I said, I don’t know if chain gangs are going to work, but at least they’re trying something. And as a taxpayer, I like the idea that they’re at least trying something. If this don’t work, you know let’s try something else. If we gotta hook to a ten ball and let them tote that around, ya know, let’s get the balls ordered. Ya’ know, whatever it takes to stop these folks from coming back to prison.”

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This is exactly what a Sheriff is supposed to do.

Why do we not have more like him? Go get them Joe!

He stopped smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails. He removed their weight training equipment and cut off all but “G” rated movies. He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and therefore was a waste of valuable monetary resources. When the inmates complained, he told them, “This isn’t the Ritz/Carlton... If you don’t like it, don’t come back.” He bought Newt Gingrich’s lec-

ture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails so he hooked up the cable TV as required by law. Prisoners now have access only to The Disney Channel and The Weather Channel. When asked

why he allowed The Weather Channel, he replied, “So they will know how hot it’s gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.”

He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects, thereby lowering the taxes and helping raise the standard of living on the local population.

But there was a problem. Because of the litigious society that we live in and with groups like the ACLU, he was afraid that he might get sued for discrimination so he started chain gangs for women. Women have another reason to thank the good ladies of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and the ACLU for forgetting that women are women and insisting on equality everywhere. In Joe Arpaio’s jail, they have it.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix, sometimes reaching well over 110 degrees, the 2,000 inmates living in the tent prison had been given permission to strip down to their government issued pink boxer shorts. Hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which has reached as high as 138 degrees inside the tents. Many were also wrapped in wet, pink towels as sweat dripped down to their pink

socks.

“It feels like we are in a furnace,” said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tent jail for one year. “It’s inhumane.” Here is a thought... Maybe you should not have committed the crimes that put you in the position you are in now. It seems that you now have a certain motivation not to break the law again. Is that not what rehabilitation is all about?

Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city jail and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He told all of the inmates: “It’s 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they did not commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!”

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Military Press Café Beer and Sake Festival

This ninth annual event hosted by the Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana takes place on Thursday, June 23 from 6 to 9 p.m. at the San Diego Marriott Del Mar. The tasting event brings together San Diego’s top chefs to showcase their Japanese culinary and sake traditions. The festival will highlight imported Japanese beers and local microbrews and a vast variety of sake. Lots of giveaways, a raffle and an auction. For info, visit http://2011beerandsakefestival.eventbrite.com.

Lowe’s to honor armed forces

Lowe’s has launched its Summer Salute campaign to encourage customers and racing fans to salute service men and women across the world. Lowe’s and Pepsi will donate $1 million to help support the troops and their families. NASCAR drivers Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr. will run special promotions,

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including Summer Salute paint schemes on their cars to show support and say thanks to the soldiers who put their lives on the line for America.

Free Padres tickets

In celebration of Memorial Day and as a special “thank you” to our nation’s military, Union Bank has donated 1,500 Padres tickets to local military men and women and their families. The Padres will play the Astros on Saturday, June 4. The tickets were distributed to units at Camp Pendleton, MCAS Miramar and NAS North Island, as well as aboard the USS Princeton.

West Marine/Challenged America Regatta and Dinner

This third annual event will be held Saturday and Sunday, June 11-12, in San Diego. This fundraising event will help support the charitable Challenged America adaptive sailing program for disabled veterans, kids and adults with disabilities.

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San Diego County Fair, June 10-July 4

Back by popular demand is the Military Ticket Pack: 2 single-day admissions, 1 parking pass and 2 drink coupons for one low price. Stop by your MWR ticket office for discount prices on the value pack, ride sheets and game sheets, and unlimited fair admission tickets to use again and again for the entire fair. The fair is held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds. For more info, visit www.sdfair.com.

SeaWorld’s ‘Here’s to the Heroes’ tribute is back!

The “Here’s to the Heroes” tribute honoring the men and women of the armed forces has been extended at SeaWorld through 2011. This special offer provides a single day’s free admission for the service member and as many as three direct dependents, now through December 31, 2011. Check with any MWR Ticket Office for offer details or visit www.herosalute.com.

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Honoring our flag This is a story about a prisoner of war in Vietnam. He was a pilot who went in to the Navy as a enlisted man, worked his way up through the ranks.

He was shot down over Vietnam and became a prisoner of war. While held, he found some red, white and blue rags and made a darning needle out of bamboo. He sewed a flag inside his prison shirt, and each night the prisoners placed the shirt with the flag on the wall, and recited the pledge of

allegiance. One day his captors found the flag sewn inside his prison shirt.

For this he was severely punished in front of the other prisoners, suffered punctured ear drums, broken ribs, and thrown back into the cell. The other prisoners placed him on his sleeping platform, and cleaned him up the best they could.

Let us never forget the Mike Christians who served this country.

Mike Christian and the American Flag

By Hal Holland, San Diego Resident Inside a prison uniform he had sewn a flag, With a needle made of bamboo, and colored rags.

Each night all the prisoners would hang up the shirt, And pledge the allegiance, while enduring all the hurt.

One day, he was caught, with the flag in his shirt, Beaten severely, thrown back in the cell with all the hurt.

His fellow prisoners, cleaned him up, as best they could, Thinking of the pledge of allegiance, as each night they stood.

Looking across the dim lit room, they saw Mike with an old red rag, And his bamboo needle, creating another flag So each Fourth of July as you start to celebrate, Think of these prisoners, and pride they did take.

Always remember it’s the acts of honor and pride, And the grace of God, for it is in him we confide, Truly make for us, That Grand Old Flag

Why red, white and blue?

To the original members of the Continental Congress, red stood for hardiness and courage, white for purity and innocence, and blue for vigilance and justice.

Father’s Day Walk & Festival Hundreds of families are expected at the scenic Coronado Tidelands Park for a day of exercise, entertainment, shopping, food and activities and to show fathers how much they are appreciated.

Sponsored by the San Diego Children’s Coalition, the day begins at 9:00 a.m. with a beautiful two-mile bayside walk followed by fun throughout the day. Activities include: A shopping festival for dads, community awareness for health issues, home repairs, art gallery showings, children’s activities.In addition, the festival will feature: music, family activity workshops, home improvement workshops, a hot dog Eating contest, art activities for all ages and scavenger hunt. A portion of funds raised will be donated by the Coalition to local fathers in need.

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7:00 p.m. Festival ends Participants are encouraged to help us help fathers in need. They can raise funds by asking friends, family, co-workers and businesses to sponsor them. Walkers that raise a minimum of $110 will receive a Father’s Day Walk t-shirt. Registration information for the Walk is available at www. sdchildren.com.

The San Diego Children’s Coalition, launched in 2009, is a resource and support center made up of a network of community leaders, service clubs, graphic artists, event planners, musicians, and talented individuals all volunteering their time to support children and their families through partnerships with hundreds of children’s charities, organizations, and businesses in San Diego County.

Our vision is to inspire a new generation of leaders and ignite the passion for the arts in our youth today and keep it alive for tomorrow.

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This is the latest in a series of “secrets” revealed by author Victoria L. Collier, JD, in her book “47 Secret Veterans’ Benefits for Seniors, Benefits You Have Earned... but Don’t Know About”

VA compensation is tax free income Veterans are often concerned that if they apply for service connected disability compensation, they will be taxed on the income and thus have to pay more income tax. This is not correct. Both VA compensation and VA pension are tax free income.

Elements of Proof for Service Connected Disability In order to receive service connected disability compensation, the veteran must prove three essential elements.

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of current disability; 2. There must be medical or lay evidence of an in-service occurrence or the aggravation of a disease or injury; and 3. There must be a nexus between the current disability and that inservice occurrence. So let me give you a personal example.

When I was in the military, I was a carpenter. I sustained an injury. Here is how it happened: I weighed 97 pounds when I enlisted. The guys I worked with were much larger than me. Because I worked in a traditional man’s job, I was trying to prove myself as someone who they would want to work with, and would want to be on the team. We had a masonry job to complete. Masonry involves handling a lot of concrete and bags of plaster. Our job site was on the interior of a building, up some 34 stair steps.

I was getting my plaster, which weighed 60 pounds, from the truck to take upstairs to do my job. My coworker, superior in rank, was on the back of the truck handing me a bag of plaster. I threw it on my shoulder and turned around to walk about 40 yards, and then up 34 stairs. My co-worker put his hand on my head to stop me from leaving. He threw another bag on my shoulder. That meant I was carrying 120 pounds and walking with both bags on my shoulders. I made it to the end of the long hallway. I climbed the stairs and made it almost all the way to the top I was about four steps away from the top when my legs began to give way. Fortunately, a friend of mine, Sgt. McVey, was at the top. All I could do was look at him and give him an expression like, “You’d better take these bags because I’m going down.”

He saved the bags and he saved me.

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hemorrhoid. Carrying more than you are supposed to carry apparently puts strain on your innards. I sought treatment at the military medical facility on base. The treatment consisted of basically eating soft foods and using Preparation H. This event is documented in my medical records. I can show a specific incident Fast forward to years later. My enlistment ended and I left military service. I don’t know if you have experienced hemorrhoids or not, but I will just share with you that they come and go. They are always there but the discomfort comes and goes. Sometimes it feels like shards of glass are passing through. So the last thing you want is a doctor poking around all the time in your private areas. So I just kind of grinned and bore it when I had to and otherwise, I was comfortable. Like many people, I wanted to avoid going to the doctor.

Seven years after leaving the military I founded my law firm. I knew that my emphasis was going to be on helping elderly veterans obtain the benefits they had earned. So, I thought, “What better education than going through the application process myself. I can do my own application. I can fill it out and see first-hand what my clients will be going through when they file a claim.

At this time, my hemorrhoid was acting up. I still didn’t want to go to the doctor. Nevertheless, I went to the VA regional office to file my application for a service connected disability. The VA representative asked if I had been to the doctor lately. I had not. He said, “Well, you are going to have to go because we need medical evidence of a current disability.” I chose not to go. Thus, I was denied benefits. The VA acknowledged, in writing, that

I incurred the injury while in the military. They acknowledged that it was in my medical records, but they denied me because I couldn’t show that my injury was currently disturbing me. All of the three essential elements must be proven to the VA to receive benefits.

Four Step Adjudication Process Once the VA receives a claim for service connected disability benefits, it processes the claim by following a four step adjudication process.

1. Upon receipt of the application at the VA regional office in the state where you live, the VA will determine if the veteran meets the service discharge requirements.

2. The VA will determine if the three essential elements have been met.

3. If so, the VA will then determine the severity of the disability and adjudicate a disability rating of 0% to 100%.

4. Then, the VA will establish the effective date for the disability, the onset date. Typically, you will get paid from the month after you filed the application. So even if you were disabled in 1980, if you don’t file an application until 2007, the onset date will likely be fro 2007 and forward.

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feature COOL HAND LUKE Luke Jackson is a cool, gutsy prisoner in a Southern chain gang, who, while refusing to buckle under to authority, keeps escaping and being recaptured. The prisoners admire Luke because, as Dragline explains it, “You’re an original, that’s what you are!” Nevertheless, the camp staff actively works to crush Luke until he finally breaks.

Female convicts chained together by neck rings, working on a road in Dar es Salaam much. Criminals should be punished for their crimes - not live in luxury until it is time for their parole, only to go out and commit another crime and end up back in jail to live on taxpayer’s money and enjoy things taxpayers

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Cuban Missile Crisis when USSR’s plans to deploy missiles in Cuba brings the world to the brink of world war, the U.S. blockades Cuba and the USSR agrees to dismantle Soviet Silos Begins On October 15th ends on November 20th A U.S. embargo ordered by President Kennedy goes into effect on all imports from Cuba including tobacco, seafood, fruits and vegetables

Technology Telstar relays the first live trans-Atlantic television signal U.S. Airforce investigates using lasers to intercept missiles 90% of U.S. households own a television set The first use of silicone breast implants by Houston plastic surgeons 1962 Mustang Fastback

The first U.S. rocket Ranger IV lands on the moon on April 26th Marilyn Monroe is found dead on August 5th after apparently overdosing on sleeping pills The first Wal-Mart discount store is opened by Sam Walton in Bentonville, Arkansas The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation Burundi The first Kmart department store opens in Garden City, Michigan The Columbus Day Storm ( 12th October ) strikes Northern California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia John H. Glenn, Jr., becomes first American to orbit the earth during Friendship 7 orbit.

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Reaction to politician’s ‘greedy seniors’ Alan Simpson, Senator from Wyoming, co-chair of Obama’s deficit commission, calls senior citizens the greediest generation as he compared “Social Security” to a milk cow with 310 million teats. — August 2010.

Here’s a response in a letter from a unknown fellow in Montana…

I think he is a little ticked off! He also tells it like it is!

“Hey Alan, let’s get a few things

straight.

1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole for fifty years.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 years (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give our money to a bunch of zero ambition losers in

return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would have made Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy and Charlie Brown, you and your ilk pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age 67.

Now, you and your shill commission are proposing to move the goalposts yet again.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from day one, and now you morons propose to change the rules of the game.

Why? Because you idiots mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why? Because you incompetent politicians spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off your debt.

To add insult to injury, you label us “greedy” for calling foul on your incompetence. Well, I have a few questions for you.

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for your government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in your retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or, as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?

It is you and your political coconspirators called Congress who are the “greedy” ones. It is you and your fellow nut cases who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers. And for what? Votes. That’s right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

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uring this month we take time to reflect and give Honor to those who have gone before us. We give them a special day called “Memorial Day.” Many of you have childhood memories, as I do, of going as a family to the cemetery each Memorial Day to visit the site where my great-grandparents were buried. It almost felt like Easter. We would all dress up in our nice clothes and take a picnic lunch. We kids would be told or reminded of who was buried there and how important they were to our life. Then, the parents would edge the overgrown grass around the markers and we would play up and down the hill.

We came to know that these people we had never met had played a vital role in our family. For some reason however, as we became teenagers and life got busier, our family would go only every few years and then stopped going all together. Why do we allow the worldly rat race to interfere with a family tradition and what is most important? Maybe this hasn’t happened in your family yet. Great, maybe these few words will help you not allow it to.

A writing I came across, reminds us that all memories may not always have been especially good ones, but become special nonetheless. Maybe you have some thoughts similar to these in this story. (With all that is going on in the economy today, some of us may relate to this story even more…)

I grew up in the fifties with a practical parent — a mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen, before they had a name for it... A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones. Their marriage was good, their dreams focused.

Their best friends lived barely a wave away. I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a housedress, lawn mower in one hand, dishtowel in the other.

It was the time for fixing things — a curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, and the hem in a dress. Things we keep. It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy.

All that re-fixing, reheating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there’d always be more.

But then my mother died, and on that clear summer’s night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn’t any ‘more.’

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return.

So...while we have it...it’s best we love it...and care for it...and fix it when it’s broken...and heal it when it’s sick. This is true...for marriage...and old cars...and children with bad report cards...and dogs with bad hips...and aging parents...and grandparents.

We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away — or — a classmate we grew up with. There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special...and so, we keep them close!”

We can get so caught up with day-to-day life that we forget to “keep” those ties with family and old friends. Many is the mother who longs for a phone call from her son or daughter, be they 20 or 60—whose heart is lifted to the heavens when she hears them ask, “How are you doing, mom?” For those away from home and possibly somewhat estranged from loved ones, this could be a door opener to reestablishing the relationship that is obviously still somewhat on your mind. (Because you are thinking of that person now).

It may be a parent, a brother, or sister; it may that friend you hung out with during school. It just might be someone you want to check on and see how they are doing; a former teacher who made a difference in your life, a coach, or the old man you talked to on the graveyard shift at one of your first jobs. All who are growing older, as we are, and may wish to know if they helped create lasting memories or made a difference in your life. I think we all would want to know if we had.

If this hadn’t been part of your family tradition maybe you might want to start one of honoring those who are a part of you and contributed to who you are. We are given this day of Memorial Day to jar our memories, but it can be any and all days. Start by keeping a record, a journal, a photo album, etc… Go to the family reunions, high school reunions and for those who go to war together, unit reunions. Maybe we are the ones who start them up. We can always start from where we are and appreciate what and who is in our life today. A poem, by an unknown author, shares this message:

Memorial Day is a time to remember the joys of life. For most, it is the time spent with family and dear friends. “Good friends are like stars...

You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.” May we take and make the time to create those special moments that others and we can look back on with fondness, is my prayer this week. God Bless!!

As always, it is my hope that this message will help you this week to, “mount up as on eagle’s wings,” and renews a little of your strength to keep moving forward and find joy…

(Isaiah 40:31) Until next time, may God bless you and may God continue to bless our great nation… SEMPER FI

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Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

trivia Although billed as a true story, the French in French Guiana claim that much of the story of Henri Charrière (Papillon) is fabricated.

Papillon was documented to have been incarcerated in Saint Laurent and may have escaped from there, but he never served any time on the Devil’s Islands (now known as Iles du Salut or Salvation Islands). The book and movie both present Devil’s Island as having rocky cliffs, when in fact, though the entire island is rocky, it gently slopes into the surrounding sea.

The real-life Papillon, Henri Charrière, was 25 when he was sent to Devil’s Island.

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KING OF COOL - STEVE MCQUEEN

Date of Death 7 November 1980, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico (heart attack following surgery) Birth Name Terence Steven McQueen Nickname – Bandito, King Of Cool Height 5’ 9½” (1.77 m)

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He was the ultra-cool male film star of the 1960s, and rose from a troubled youth spent in reform schools to being the world’s most popular actor.

Over 25 years after his untimely death from mesothelioma in 1980, Steve McQueen is still considered hip and cool, and he endures as an icon of popular culture.

His first lead role was in the low-budget sci-fi film The Blob (1958), quickly followed by roles in The St. Louis Bank Robbery (1959) and Never So Few (1959). The young McQueen appeared as Vin, alongside Yul Brynner, in the star-laden The Magnificent Seven (1960) and effectively hijacked the lead from the bigger star by ensuring he was nearly always doing something in every shot he and Brynner were in together, such as adjusting his hat or gun belt.

He next scored with audiences with two interesting performances, first in the WW2 drama Hell Is for Heroes (1962) and then in The War Lover (1962). Riding a wave of popularity, McQueen delivered another crowd pleaser as Hilts, the Cooler King, in the knockout WW2 POW film The Great Escape (1963), featuring his famous leap over the barbed wire on a motorcycle while being pursued by Nazi troops (in fact, however, the stunt was actually performed by his good friend, stunt rider Bud Ekins).

McQueen next appeared in several films of mixed quality, including Soldier in the Rain (1963); Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) and Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965). However, they failed to really grab audience attention, but his role as Eric Stoner in The Cincinnati Kid (1965), alongside screen legend Ed-

ward G. Robinson and Karl Malden, had movie fans filling theaters again to see the ice-cool McQueen they loved. He was back in another western, Nevada Smith (1966), again with Malden, and then he gave what many consider to be his finest dramatic performance as loner US Navy sailor Jake Holman in the superb The Sand Pebbles (1966). McQueen was genuine hot property and next appeared with Faye Dunaway in the provocative crime drama The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), next in what many consider his signature role, that of a maverick, taciturn detective in the mega-hit Bullitt (1968), renowned for its famous chase sequence through San Francisco between McQueen’s Ford Mustang and the killer’s black Dodge Charger.

By 1979, the spreading cancer was taking its toll on his body. McQueen’s last two film performances were in the unusual western Tom Horn (1980), then

he portrayed real-life bounty hunter Ralph “Papa’ Thorson (Ralph Thorson) in The Hunter (1980).

Steve McQueen passed away on November 7, 1980, only 50 years of age, and his ashes were scattered at sea. He married three times and had a lifelong love of motor racing, once remarking, “Racing is life.

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wyneth Paltrow’s talks with Atlantic Records have reportedly collapsed.

Poor Gwyneth Paltrow. The would-be country singer may have no choice but to remain a plain old movie star. After months of talks with Atlantic Records, plans for Paltrow’s debut album have reportedly collapsed. The actor claims she is still “considering” her options.

At 38, Paltrow had suddenly become a surprisingly plausible music star. The former star of Emma and Shakespeare in Love portrayed a singer in the new film Country Strong, earning an Oscar nomination for best song. She also found the back-door to a youth audience, appearing on the hit TV series Glee. In two performances as the substitute teacher Holly Holliday, Paltrow has performed songs such as Prince’s Kiss and Gary Glitter’s Do You Wanna Touch Me. Plus it doesn’t hurt that she can snuggle up at night with one of the biggest pop stars in the world, her husband, Coldplay’s Chris Martin.

Then again, her familiarity with Coldplay’s revenues may be part of Paltrow’s problem: according to a report by the New York Post, she wanted a mind-boggling $1m (£621,000) to sign with Atlantic. “Atlantic bosses were very interested,” their source explained. “But then the talks halted and the deal fizzled out ... [$1m was] a ridiculous figure.”

While Paltrow can sparkle on the silver screen, label honchos may have learned some lessons from the discographies (and sales figures) of Jennifer Love Hewitt and Paris Hilton. Representatives for Paltrow claim that those reported figures are “innacurate” however and stated that Atlantic “was not the only company pursuing her. She still has not decided if she wants to record an album,” they told the Post. “[It] is still something she is considering.”

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arciano became a top contender following his sixth-round knockout of Rex Layne at Madison Square Garden on 12 July 1951. His physical style in a very rough bout made him a popular favorite, and the crowd cheered him for twenty minutes after the match. However, Marciano’s heavyweight title aspirations were dashed when the number-one contender, Jersey Joe Walcott, won the heavyweight title from Ezzard Charles. With a Charles-Walcott rematch scheduled, Marciano was matched against former champion Joe Louis, who was making a comeback in order to pay off tax debts. Weill opposed the bout, but Goldman believed Marciano was ready to take on the aging Louis, who was a slight favorite. The fight took place on 26 October, with Louis receiving 45 percent of the purse and Marciano only 15 percent.

Marciano won with an eight-round knockout, as youth, power, stamina, and hunger carried the day over experience and reach. With his victory over Louis, Marciano earned a title shot against Walcott, who at age thirty-eight was the oldest champion in boxing history to that time. In preparation for the bout, Marciano tuned up by defeating light heavyweight contender Kid Matthews on 28 July 1952 at Yankee Stadium in New York City; the fight drew a crowd of 31,188 and earned Marciano $50,000.

The Marciano-Walcott championship match took place in Philadelphia on 23 September 1952, with Photo Courtesy of Michael N. Varveris, author of “Rocky Marciano The 13th Candle” Walcott a 3-1 favorite to win. The fight was attended by more than 40,000 spectators, who paid over $500,000. ic performance, but he wearied after $2,248,117, then the second largest In addition, the bout was neither on home the fifth round and lost a split deci- gate in boxing history. Marciano was television nor on radio, but it was televised sion. A rematch on 17 September 1954 dropped to the canvas in the second into fifty theaters in thirty cities, earning drew more than 34,000 to Yankee Sta- round, but he survived to knock out a profit of $125,000. The fight began poor- dium and generated a $350,000 gate Moore in the ninth round. According ly for Marciano, as he was knocked to the and $650,000 from ancillary rights. In to Moore, “Marciano is far and away canvas for the first time in his career during the first round. In the sixth round the rematch Charles completely split the strongest man I’ve ever encounthe fighters’ heads collided, cutting Marciano and blurring his vision; he lat- Marciano’s left nostril in the sixth tered in almost twenty years of fighter claimed that Walcott’s manager had rubbed ointment on the champion’s round, and the doctors considered ing.” For this fight Marciano earned gloves. By the thirteenth round Marciano was well behind in points, but he then halting the bout. Marciano responded his largest purse of $468,374. knocked out Walcott with a short right. Experts have considered this Marcia- to the crisis by knocking out Charles no’s defining moment. Having made a total of $100,000 from the bout, Marciano in the eighth round. He earned a comfought in a rematch with Walcott on 15 May 1953 in Chicago Stadium. This time bined $450,000 for these two fights.

Marciano’s final defense came Marciano scored a knockout after just 145 seconds of the first round, earning $166,000 while Walcott earned $250,000. Marciano had trained extraordinarily on 20 September 1955 against light hard for this defense, sparring a remarkable 225 rounds. Such training was not heavyweight champion Archie Moore. unusual for Marciano; he typically sparred 40 percent more than the average The fight brought a crowd of 61,574 to Yankee Stadium, with hundreds of for a title bout.

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A bruising fighter, Marciano was rated as the greatest slugger of all time with an 88 percent knockout record.

A member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, he was Fighter of the Year in 1952 and 1954. Marciano died when a private plane in which he was a passenger crashed near Newton, Iowa

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OPRAH’S FAREWELL To borrow a line from “Citizen Kane,” I knew Oprah before the beginning, and now I know her after the end. Her taping of two farewell shows on Tuesday night at Chicago’s United Center brings to a close the most phenomenal run of any talk show host in history, and rings down the curtain on the second act of a life that seems poised to have many more. What lies ahead? Her new cable network, we know. But I suspect she also has a future in high public office.

Gene Siskel and I met Oprah in Baltimore, when she was in her early 20s and hosting a morning talk show. Then she moved to ABC/7 in Chicago, went up against the ruling Phil Donahue, dethroned him in three months, and went on to become a superstar with (for some) elements of earth mother and deity.

Curious about some of the feelings she was having at this time, I sent Oprah some questions.

These are her replies:

Q: What do you think happens after death?

A: You drop your body, and your soul joins the spiritual chorus of ALL there is.

Many levels in the chorus. Where you stand in the chorus line is determined by how you live now. I think that Holly Hunter’s last words in the movie “The Piano,” when she’s sinking to the depths of the ocean with the chain unraveling from the boat, will be true for all of us: “Death. What a surprise!”

Q: The novel “Miss Lonelyhearts” was about the author of an advice column who began to crumble under the weight of his reader’s problems. How do you survive the depth of suffering of some of your guests?

A: I used to take in and FEEL EVERYTHING. I could literally feel people’s energy. Their nervousness. Anxiety, pain.

Years ago I complained to the executive producer how feeling everyone’s pain was making me sick. And she replied, “Then, you need to stop doing that.” So I did. I made a conscious effort to listen and not absorb the pain. Not take it on, but hear it, empathize and LET IT GO. Q: I believe you started out with a career and ended up with a vocation. If you agree with that at all, did the transition catch you rather by surprise?

A: Very much so. Everyone would be surprised at how little I knew about ANYthing when I first came to Chicago. Every decision was made on instinct.

Q: Your Chicago shows began with the standard TV morning show studio format. Today I can’t imagine your program without a studio audience. How did the studio audience evolve, and how do you relate to it?

A: I was accustomed to an audience, though tiny (24), in Baltimore. I was so thrilled to have the “AM Chicago” job, I forgot to ask my boss, Dennis Swanson, “What is the format? And do you have an audience?” After the first day with no audience we started asking the secretaries to sit in on folding chairs. Then expanded to going on State Street and begging people to come in, “get warm and watch the show.” I knew I worked better connecting to real people in front of me. It felt more like sharing the experience rather than being the experience.

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Fame is such an interesting dynamic. It’s determined by other people’s view of you. I became famous for being myself. I’d be the same self no matter what I was doing. For many years I thought I’d be a teacher. And had visions of getting the teacher of the year award.

Q: Will the Oprah Network broaden out from health and counseling sorts of programs to include news, sitcoms, movies, reality shows?

A: I want to create programming 24/7 that wakes people up. And use whatever format it takes to do it.

Q: On TV, I saw you weeping at Grant Park during Obama’s speech. I sensed at that moment something more than simply joy. I felt something very deep within you had been accessed.

A: For sure. There’s a Negro spiritual, “Wouldn’t Take Nothin’ for My Journey Now.” I was thinking about the journey. His and mine and the collective ours; the sacrifices and prayers, marches, sit-ins and lynchings. I was thinking about my grandmother, who spent her whole life in acceptance of segregation and oppression not imagining it could be any other way. I was thinking of Martin L. King and the countless others who dared believe it could. I was thinking of the spiritual and emotional impact of his victory on the world.

Q: At the movies, I think many people cry more when they see goodness than when they see sadness. Why is that?

A: Because we are innately good, and the goodness we see that makes us cry is just a mirror of ourselves. Hits our goodness nerve.

Q: Gene Siskel’s invariable question: What do you know for sure?

A: I know for sure that the third law of motion in physics is real and is the rule of the world: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Being responsible for the energy you put out determines the energy returned. Or to quote Celie, as she finally summoned the courage to leave Mister, in “The Color Purple,” “Everything you even try to do to me, already done to you!”

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CALIFORNIA ROUNDUP San Diego Food Truck Extravaganza

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My two favorites were Deborah Scott’s Ms. Patty Melt and Chop Sooey (think BBQ not Asian). Grab a glass of wine in the store and roam the parking lot. Hint: go early for parking or take the Trolley.

The San Diego County Fair, the county’s largest,

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Who would you pick to be the greatest center in the NBA?

Shaquille O’Neal Shaquille O’Neal has played 80 regular-season games only twice: in his first two seasons. Walt Bellamy played 80 games eight times, actually played 88 one year thanks to a strangely-timed trade. David Robinson played 80 games eight times, Gilmore 13 times, Malone 10 times, Mikan never, but only because there weren’t 80-game seasons when he played. Center is traditionally a position manned by iron men.

Malone and Parish played 21 seasons each. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar played forever. Wilt Chamberlain almost never sat — one year he averaged 48.5 minutes per game, because the Warriors went into overtime a few times. While durability was a strength for almost every center on this list, for O’Neal it has been his singular weakness. Well, that or free throw shooting.

O’Neal was officially NBA MVP once, in the 19992000 season. He also finished second twice, third twice, and fourth twice. Despite his limited playing time, to suggest that O’Neal was only the best player in the NBA for one season seems, well, unlikely. Shaq was the dominant force on the three-peat Lakers, Finals MVP in all three seasons. The best player on the best team is not necessarily the best player in the league, but in this case, he probably was.

Bill Russell

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The year before Russell arrived, Boston was a good team: 39-33, second in the East. He played 13 seasons with the Celtics, and the Celtics won 11 championships in those 13 years. When he retired, they missed the playoffs each of the next two seasons. Those teams had other Hall of Famers, plus a legendary coach, but Russell brought everything together. The dynasty began when he arrived and ended when he retired. He was named NBA MVP five times.

My favorite NBA season is one I’m too young to remember: 1961-62. It was a year of legendary individual accomplishments; the league’s stars have never shined so brightly. Bob Pettit averaged 31 points and 19 rebounds per game.

Walt Bellamy averaged 32 ppg, 19 rpg, and led the NBA in field goal percentage. Oscar Robertson averaged a triple double (30.8 pts, 12.4 reb, 11.5 ast). Wilt Chamberlain averaged 48.5 minutes, 50.4 points, and 25.7 rebounds. And none of them won MVP. Bill Russell did.

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Wilt Chamberlain

Michael Jordan averaged 30.1 points per game, with 6.2 rebounds and 5.3 assists. Wilt Chamberlain averaged 30.1 points per game, with 22.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists. Jordan averaged 2.8 steals per game. Chamberlain probably averaged 3-4 blocks. Jordan shot 49.7%. Chamberlain, 54%.

Wilt led the NBA in scoring seven times, in rebounding 10 times, in assists once, in field goal percentage nine times, and in minutes eight times. He averaged 35 points a game five times, 20 rebounds a game 10 times, 5 assists four times, and he shot 60% three times (actually over 64.9% all three years).

Chamberlain’s accomplishments are legendary (even if we’re only talking about his basketball accomplishments). Fifty points per game, 100 in a single game, 72.7 FG% his final season. He was an unparalleled offensive force. In the 2010-11 season, MVP Derrick Rose scored 2,026 points. In the 196162 season, Wilt scored 4,029 points — 2,000 more than Rose. And that was an 80-game season, not 82. How do you even wrap your mind around that, separate the man from the legend?

Chamberlain was also the greatest rebounder of his day. Well, him and Russell. Chamberlain’s career record for rebounds, 2,664 ahead of Russell and many thousands ahead of everyone else, will probably never fall. Contrary to popular belief, he was also a generous passer, with more assists than any center except Abdul-Jabbar.

Chamberlain was a far better offensive player than Russell, but he also averaged more boards and more assists. As a defensive player, he was not Russell’s equal, but apart from his rival in Boston, he probably blocked more shots than anyone in his day.

Because he is so often compared to Russell, a reputation has unfairly settled on Chamberlain as not being a winner. His first year with the Warriors, they improved by 17 games. When they traded him, they dropped from 48-32 to 17-63.

He played on championship teams with both the Sixers and the Lakers. He was named Finals MVP in ‘72, and probably would have been in ‘67 if the award had existed.

Chamberlain played all but two minutes of the playoffs that season, shooting 57.9%, averaging 29 rebounds and 9 assists. What a choker, right?

Who is the greatest center in history? Some say Mikan.

Some, Russell. Many fans believe it was Abdul-Jabbar. My choice is the Big Dipper.

defensive center since Bill Russell, and Olajuwon was no slouch on offense. He scored 2,000 points four times, grabbed over 4,000 offensive rebounds in his career, and was never vulnerable to the hack-a-Shaq strategies that limited O’Neal’s effectiveness on offense. And whereas Shaq has been in and out of the lineup for the last 10 seasons — playing 70 games only twice — Olajuwon was a steady player, someone the team could count on year-in, yearout. They were both great players, and the gap between them is not wide, but it seems to me to favor Olajuwon.

Abdul-Jabbar

Abdul-Jabbar could have won a few MVPs just with his offense. An efficient shooter both on the floor (with his legendary sky hook) and at the line, he ranked among the league’s top 10 scorers 13 times, made the top five 10 times. But Abdul-Jabbar wasn’t a one-dimensional offensive powerhouse. He was an awesome rebounder, who averaged 11.2 per game in a 20-year career. He was a great assist man, the leader among centers by over 1,000. He led the league in blocked shots at least four times — maybe more, since the stats weren’t kept until he had already played four seasons.

And Abdul-Jabbar, as much as any player in history, proved that while he worked well with his teammates, his success wasn’t just because of them. He played on six championship teams, one with the Bucks and five with the Lakers.

He won Finals MVP honors with both teams. He won six regular-season MVP awards, three with each team. Abdul-Jabbar is probably best remembered for his years with Magic Johnson, and he was still a great player then, but in the ‘70s, Kareem was a singular force, by far the greatest player in basketball.

Hakeem Okajuwon

Olajuwon and O’Neal should probably be regarded as something very close to even. I ranked Olajuwon ahead because of consistency and defense. O’Neal was a sensational offensive player.

He led the NBA three times in points and 10 times in field goal percentage. He was also a good defensive player, blocked 200 shots four times, as many as 286 one season. Olajuwon was a sensational defender. He blocked 200 shots for 12 seasons in a row, blocked more than 286 shots four times, blocked 1,100 more than Shaq in his career. Hakeem the Dream is also the only player in recorded history with 200 steals and 200 blocks in the same season (1988-89).

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