DagwoodIII

The movies “Her” and “Network” went from being cutting edge satires to quaint docudramas in real time.

Of course there are plenty of ‘moderate bipartisan’ GOPs who give lip service to centrist positions. Then they vote right down the Party line.

An immigrant and a Harvard professor?

This is probably being gleefully followed by Trump personally.

New Yorker here.

It’s going to be an interesting race.

His best chance to win is if the Right goes all out in making it a fight between him and MAGA. Trump lost his home town by 80% plus of the vote

otoh, the actual Trojans fought for years before Odysseus thought up that trick.

Sounds like you’d have given up Helen before second breakfast.

Good reply. Thanks

If you want to binge a great documentary, Ken Burns’ The Civil War is phenomenal.

There’s a story that says that a Northern quartermaster didn’t want repeating rifles because he didn’t want his troops wasting bullets.

More likely the repeating rifles were more expensive and heavier.

https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american

I’ve seen this idea from several sources. The British figured that American ‘Manifest Destiny’ would mean annexing Canada eventually. It didn’t cost the Brits a lot to stir up Southern resentments against the North. So they South got played.

https://richardpoe.substack.com/p/how-the-british-caused-the-american

Many people believe that the British government actively pushed the south to secede in order to weaken the US.

Apples and oranges.

Vietnamese had been fighting for twenty years against the French and Japanese. The South thought they would achieve victory with a few battles.

https://youtu.be/F-Vz67p5kLQ

I take it as a personal affront that there are grown adults who are ignorant of their own cultural heritage.

I think that first wife Ivana dressed him until he dumped her.

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The Queen’s Fool by Phillipa Gregory. The story of Bloody Mary, told through the eyes of one of her fools. The fool is a Jewish woman who has visions. Very well researched novel.

“Snake Pliskin? I thought he was dead.”

In the script, the author says that the fight between Inigo and Wesley is the second greatest fight in the history of the movies. The final fight is supposed to be the best ever.

From ‘DC Cab.’

The cabbies are looking for Bruce Lee. Fianlly one spots a drive-in movie showing a movie and the cabbie reports, “I see that Kung-fu mother fucker.”

In the TV version it’s “I see that Kung-fu Master Fighter.”

Trump has based his entire personality on a third rate Mafia thug. He’s the guy who thought Fredo should have led the Family. Of course he’d pretend to be a peacemaker and then do a sneak attack.

Remember the time Trump walked onto Air Force 1 with toilet paper stuck to his shoe?

The people who take orders directly from him despise him. The Army has plenty of crack units that could put on a great display; the folks in charge put on the weakest show they could.