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LogGrad98 said:
apnews.com

Teri Garr, the offbeat comic actor of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' has died

The quirky comedy actor who rose from background dancer in Elvis Presley movies to co-star of such favorites as “Young Frankenstein” and “Tootsie,” Teri Garr has died.
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What knockers!

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Sardines said:
Jimmy Carter
www.cartercenter.org

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter Passes Away at 100

Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, died peacefully Sunday, Dec. 29, at his home in Plains, Georgia, surrounded by his family. He was 100, the longest-lived president in U.S. history.
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Jimmy Carter makes me wish there was a heaven, because he deserves it.
 
Rubashov said:
A great American, never stopped serving. Vale Jimmy Carter.
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Imagine someone who became President of the United States with the goal of serving the United States and ALL of its people. Just like Stockton's assist record, it just can't happen today.
 
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Sardines said:
Imagine someone who became President of the United States with the goal of serving the United States and ALL of its people. Just like Stockton's assist record, it just can't happen today.
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The last honest, decent man to serve as President too.
 
Rubashov said:
The last honest, decent man to serve as President too.
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Only president to spend time inside a nuclear reactor. It was only 89 seconds, but...

From Wikipedia:

On December 12, 1952, an accident with the experimental NRX reactor at Atomic Energy of Canada's Chalk River Laboratories caused a partial meltdown, resulting in millions of liters of radioactive water flooding the reactor building's basement. This left the reactor's core ruined.. Carter was ordered to Chalk River to lead a U.S. maintenance crew that joined other American and Canadian service personnel to assist in the shutdown of the reactor. The painstaking process required each team member to don protective gear and be lowered individually into the reactor for 90 seconds at a time, limiting their exposure to radioactivity while they disassembled the crippled reactor. When Carter was lowered in, his job was simply to turn a single screw. During and after his presidency, Carter said that his experience at Chalk River had shaped his views on atomic energy and led him to cease the development of a neutron bomb.
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gandalfe said:
Jimmy Carter makes me wish there was a heaven, because he deserves it.
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There are a couple of cool recent Jimmy Carter documentaries out. I watched them both on Delta flights and they're quite good. Best man of our times without a doubt in my opinion.

www.jimmycartermovie.com

Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President | Greenwich Entertainment

Search for screenings / showtimes and book tickets for Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President. See the release date and trailer. The Official Showtimes Destination brought to you by Greenwich Entertainment
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carterlandmovie.com

CARTERLAND | A Groundbreaking New Jimmy Carter Documentary

In the mid 1970's, a leader decades ahead of his time is locked in a struggle for the future of America. His name is Jimmy Carter.
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Rubashov said:
The last honest, decent man to serve as President too.
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I don't disagree with this statement. He was a good man. He was an awful President and booting him from office marked morning in America, but as a human being he gets the highest of marks. It is enough to make one think maybe our system wasn't set up to be run by good men.
 
Carter, like Biden, was guilty of being President when the tide was out.

The worst political decisions Americans have made have been based on blaming the current administration on the status of the tides.

Presidents don't control the tide or inflation. Only the stupidest of stupid people believe otherwise, so like 52% of the U.S..
 
Sardines said:
Carter, like Biden, was guilty of being President when the tide was out.
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I don’t agree with that at all. Biden is a moron. Even when his brain wasn’t addled by old age, he was still a moron. Obama’s Sec Def famously said Biden had been "wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades."

Carter was not a moron. Carter was intellectually brilliant. Carter’s problem is that he couldn’t lead people. Contrary to your opinion of Presidents not being able to address inflation, Carter did address 70’s stagflation. It was solved by Fed Chairman Paul Volker who abandoned Keynesianism by jacking interest rates to the sky to tighten the money supply.

Ronald Regan gets the credit for ending the era of stagflation, but it was Carter who recognized the wisdom of Volker’s different approach and put him in the position to solve the problem. Carter installed Volker, not Regan. Carter intellectually knew what to do but he was not capable of galvanizing a nation out of malaise. Regan did have the charisma and command to lead a nation, so he gets the credit for having done so.
 
Al-O-Meter said:
I don't disagree with this statement. He was a good man. He was an awful President and booting him from office marked morning in America, but as a human being he gets the highest of marks. It is enough to make one think maybe our system wasn't set up to be run by good men.
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Morning in America? More like evening in America.
 
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