Review Of Performance, James Joyce Romance

[From article]
“Himself” refers to the protean and magical Irish giant of the past century, James Augustine Aloysius Joyce, whose birthday is celebrated annually with a full day of readings and performances at NYC’s Symphony Space even now.
[. . .]


James Joyce

Nora, of course, is the fiery Muse he adored, lived with, and refused to legitimize as wife, even after 27 years and several children.
[. . .]
Influenced by the Bard, Yeats, and Oscar Wilde, Joyce the writer polymath died much too soon in 1941, still a man with many works unwrit. But although he’s gone, ere we knew him, lovers of literature and romance can experience a chunk of transcendent elegance and eloquence. Quaff deeply of this linguistic and musical golden goblet.
Grievously, in a time of deracinated and prostituted cultural offerings, the literacy and quality of Himself & Nora are an emotional and singular pleasure we might not be accessible to in a few years of lowest-bar, rancid hanging fruit.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/05/himself_and_nora__a_review.html

May 30, 2016
Himself and Nora: A Review
By Marion DS Dreyfus

Sonnie Johnson Reviews 2015

Sonnie Johnson

[From article]
1. “Trans-Racial” — Rachel Dolezal
Everyone was confused when the President of the NAACP’s Spokane, Washington chapter had to admit she was white. We lost even more of our sanity when we where introduced to the term “trans-racial” to explain a person who thinks they were born into the wrong skin. I wonder if that would have worked during slavery?
[. . .]
3. White Privilege — Shaun King
If you thought Rachel Dolezal and “trans-racial” were a hoot, then you have to love the exploits of Shaun King. Let me steal a phrase from Deray. In 2015, Shaun King showed black America how whiteness works — at least white progressivism.
First, latch on to a black cause. Second, let the blacks work while you “report” on the situation. Third, start producing a resume. Fourth, when the money in the movement starts to slow down, take the resume and get a real job. Shaun King is getting paid to write headlines for the New York Daily News, and you are out protesting for free. Now that’s white privilege at work.
[. . .]
8. Another American City Burns — Baltimore
We started 2015 still in disbelief watching Ferguson, Missouri, burn after the killing of Mike Brown. Well some of you were in disbelief because I’ve been warning others for years. When Baltimore, Maryland, started to burn, again everyone feigned disbelief. This was the roughest period of my year.
I feel like a broken record. Conservatives are supposed to be the party that holds leadership accountable. If your so-called “black leaders” in the conservative movement didn’t warn you Ferguson was coming, if they didn’t tell you Baltimore was on the way, if they are sitting next to you wondering what Black Lives Matter is going to do next instead of desperately trying to infiltrate and influence the 90% of black America that doesn’t follow BLM, you will be in disbelief when more American cities burn in 2016.
9. Selling Baby Parts — Planned Parenthood
A string of videos were released showing Planned Parenthood selling baby parts to finance their Lamborghini dreams. The videos were sickening but not enough for Planned Parenthood to be defunded by the Republican Congress… so I guess this is a non-story.
I’ll use this space to say Hillary Clinton’s hero is Margaret Sanger. Sanger believed in eugenics and wanted nothing more than to exterminate inferior people, mostly blacks and Jews. Sanger’s group, now Planned Parenthood, stopped using the term “eugenics” after Hitler slaughtered millions using eugenics as his justification. Notice I only said they stopped using the term — that’s because they continued the practice. Long before abortion was legalized, progressives like Sanger used the pseudo-science of eugenics to pick candidates for forced sterilizations. Hillary Clinton knows this history and still calls Sanger her hero. In 2015, I coined the phrase Hillary Sanger.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/31/sonnie-johnson-from-trans-racial-to-cultural-marxists-2015-year-in-review/

by SONNIE JOHNSON

31 Dec 2015
Sonnie Johnson: From ‘Trans-Racial’ to Cultural Marxists – 2015 Year in Review

Fury, Film Review

[From article]
Every American should see this movie, especially the academic boobs in the White House who never served in the military but now make decisions like waging a halfway, sort-of, semi-war against ISIS and sending our troops to fight Ebola in Africa, two misguided uses of our armed forces.
[. . .]
It does, however, convey to the audience the ugly brutality of war, the unfair and unforgiving nasty business of killing that leaves permanent scars on cities, landscapes and souls, and how it inflicts on our own troops monotony, fatigue, stupidity, terror, filth, hunger, brushes with death and utter despair.
[. . .]
No matter how much bombing and pounding from the air and artillery, taking and holding ground to defeat an enemy is the dirty, miserable job of boots on the ground, even in our modern world.
[. . .]
As it is, the American public is weary from wars we didn’t have to fight just when an enemy has emerged that we must fight and our neophyte president mixes politics with military strategy and foolishly advertises to our enemy he is taking ground troops off the table, relying on air strikes. In a perfect world our politicians would be veterans who realize hell-on-earth is unleashed when opposing armed forces meet to tear each other to pieces, and that half – measures just get more of our own killed while overwhelming force tends to get the nasty job done quickly.

http://americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/emfuryem__an_american_movie.html

November 8, 2014
Fury -- an American Movie
By Terry Garlock

Two Reviews of Ken Burns' Roosevelts

[From article]
The omission of the details of the Wallace issue exemplified the goal of the Roosevelt series to brainwash rather than inform. The derring-do of Teddy and the ferocious bravery of FDR are washed away in an attempt to deify Eleanor and praise her far Leftist political views. In retrospect, the program appears in the rear-view mirror as a greedy act of cannibalism of two great men to plug the Democratic Party and elevate the role of women to pay homage to the politically-correct feminists of our era.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/09/ken_burns_makes_room_on_rushmore_for_eleanor_roosevelt.html

September 25, 2014
Ken Burns Makes Room on Rushmore for Eleanor Roosevelt
By Bernie Reeves

* * *

[From article]
Woodrow Wilson’s distaste for Blacks is well known, but his hate of Mexicans is not. He instructed his ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson (no relation) to interfere in Mexican politics including two invasions in 1914 and 1916.
Proof number one: In the great Burns PBS Special of the American Civil War, as outstanding and award winning as it was, not a single second of the massive multi-hour production mentioned that Hispanics fought in the Civil War or that two of the very first Civil War Medal of Honor awardees were Hispanic, one, Spanish and the other Chilean born. Nor is there any mention of New Mexico Union troops led by an officer who was a Mexican citizen until 1848 when the United States took over New Mexico. Nor is there any mention that entire cavalry units were 100% former Mexican citizens who also became Americans in 1848. They fought on both sides. In fact the very last battle of the Civil War was fought by Union and Confederate cavalry in Texas between 100% Mexican American troops.
[. . .]
In the fine Roosevelt production currently being shown on PBS, the fact that Hispanics served in Teddy Roosevelt’s Rough Riders in Cuba is ignored by Burns even though they included his most favorite company Commander Maximiliano Luna of New Mexico who led the charge of Company A up San Juan Hill.
[. . .]
the current Roosevelt production has the defects noted here. Will Ken Burns and PBS ever learn? Hispanics have been here for a long time and have served the country well, even when they weren’t Americans.

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/09/ken_burns_and_hispanics.html

September 24, 2014
Ken Burns and Hispanics
By Raoul Lowery Contreras

IRS Chief: We Found Back Up Tapes of Emails, Reviewing To See If Any Need To Be Destroyed

[From article]
The head of the IRS confirmed Wednesday that investigators looking into missing emails from ex-agency official Lois Lerner have found and are reviewing "backup tapes" -- despite earlier IRS claims that the tapes had been recycled.
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, testifying before a House oversight subcommittee, stressed that he does not know "how they found them" or "whether there's anything on them or not." But he said the inspector general's office advised him the investigators are reviewing tapes to see if they contain any "recoverable" material.
The revelation is significant because the IRS claimed, when the agency first told Congress about the missing emails, that backup tapes "no longer exist because they have been recycled."
It is unclear whether the tapes in IG custody contain any Lerner emails, but Koskinen said investigators are now checking.
[. . .]
"It is unbelievable that we cannot get a simple, straight answer from the IRS about this hard drive," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., said in a statement Tuesday.
Democrats, meanwhile, slammed Republicans for continuing to bring Koskinen before the congressional committees.
"This is unseemly, it's embarrassing, this is not a proper way to run an investigation," Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/23/tale-tapes-irs-head-confirms-investigators-have-found-backup-tapes-in-lerner/?cmpid=cmty_twitter_fn

Tale of the Tapes: IRS head confirms investigators have found backup tapes in Lerner probe
Published July 23, 2014

FoxNews.com

Bernie, The Film

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/

This is a wonderful story about real people in the East Texas town of Carthage. Bernie (real name), was the assistant funeral director in Carthage. He befriended his neighbors and did good deeds. He was especially attentive toward older women, who are seldom appreciated for their beauty and wisdom.

He met his fellow citizens at a most vulnerable time. He followed up with love and gifts after the deaths of their loved ones. He made them feel special and loved. He made a typical mistake of people from the underprivileged working class. He mistook access to wealth as a way to freedom. It was the opposite and brought a loss of freedom and resentment. His reaction is easily understood. This film is a result of two men seeing an article in Texas Magazine about the real Bernie, and attended his trial, then made this delightful instructive film about human nature.

People often reject what they see and hear for what they want to see and hear. It is why some people believe what politicians say and believe what journalists say and write. Humans want to believe the best and the worst about people they love and hate. Even when what they believe makes no sense at all. It happens even in Cambridge MA, at Harvard University among the best educated and most wealthy people in the world, who often lack common sense. Why expect anything different from the people of Carthage, Texas?

Atonement, Film Review

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0783233/




Keira Knightley stars in this powerful drama about British family, love, abuse, and World War II.

Flow, Film Review

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1149583/

2008 documentary about water. Lots to learn.
"In Texas toxicologists find high levels of Prozac in tissues of every fish they sample."
Atrazine, banned in European countries, is used in US, said to emasculate frogs and fish. EPA approved its use in 2006.
Private international water companies: Thames Water, Vivendi, Suez.
$30 billion is needed to bring clean drinking water to the entire world. We spend $100 billion each year on bottled water.
Water is third largest industry after oil and electricity.
Dams create methane gas. Main film does not mention that it can be captured and used to run devices.
40-80 million people displaced creating large dams in 20th Century.
Corporations want to put a dam on the Ganges River in India.
World bank funds dam construction. It is immune from lawsuits.
Two vice presidents of water companies are advisors to World Bank president.
Planet is on verge of major extinction due to scarcity of water.
Nestle Company owns 70 brands of bottled water, including but not limited to Perrier, Poland Spring, Ice Mountain, Pellegrino and Deer Park. Pepsi and Coca Cola also sell bottle water. In Michigan Nestle earns about $1.8 million each day with no cost for the water they extract from the land. There are wells in Framingham MA, and Greenwich CT.
Quote: "Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed its the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
"It is not an issue of lack of knowledge. There's a lack of political will. We have to collectively find the political will to do what needs to be done to save the world's water resources." Maud Barlow.
From DVD jacket:
On average bottled water costs 900 times the amount of tap water.
This year [2008] Americans will spend $40 billion on bottled water.
25% of all bottled water is re-packaged tap[ water. One scene in the film shows a couple at a restaurant ordering bottled water from a fake menu for a lot of money. They think it tastes better than the tap water it is.
Tap water has more stringent governmental standards than that of bottled water regulation.
The amount of oil required to put one bottle of water in your hand would fill 1/4 of that same bottle.
90% of used bottles are not recycled.
Right now,  millions of pounds of trash are floating in the Pacific Ocean to form an island at least the size of Texas - 90% of that trash is discarded plastic.

Glass-House Pot Calling The Kettle?

Peter Keough says, Moore echoes "the Teabaggers here, a movement he otherwise ignores."
And later Moore is "no [more] informative than those knuckle draggers who misspell the word on protest signs." Is Keough thoroughly modern in how he equates a sex act to a group of protesters? The word is Tea Party, Peter.

http://thephoenix.com/Boston/Movies/90521-CAPITALISM-A-LOVE-STORY/

Review: Capitalism: A Love Story
Moore of the same: Capitalism fails to make a prophet
By PETER KEOUGH
Boston Phoenix
September 29, 2009
Page 27