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I hope you see it soon; so

Resistance — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:00:21 +0000

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I hope you see it soon; so you'll be able to comment on it. In the film Abe makes a compelling reason for taking on States rights.

Best to you.

Well the critics definitely

Richard Day — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:07:22 +0000

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Well the critics definitely loved this film!

And I look forward to seeing it.

How anyone maintains sanity after witnessing the death of a son and the massacre of hundreds of thousands of soldiers with the specter of watching an experiment in Constitutional Democracy evaporate...

Yeah, I would have been a bit depressed too!

Dick, I went to see the

Resistance — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 07:00:00 +0000

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Dick, I went to see the "Lincoln" movie today. It was great, it was sad, it was funny, it was brilliant how Lincoln got the 13th amendment through the House

I did some research upon returning home and found out, Lincoln suffered clinical depression.

Medical and mental health of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia, the free ...

Mental health issues just never end.

Thanks Smith, always count on

Richard Day — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 23:30:23 +0000

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Thanks Smith, always count on you.

I recall researching the movie. A lot of fun anecdotes.

The director came to the conclusion that the daily echoes went on for a hundred or a thousand years. hahahahaha

Bill was angry with the director for some ten years following the shoot. hahahahah

There are the five or seven or ten steps in psychology regarding a loss and how humans must deal with that loss.

The mammal bit Bill several times. hahahaha

There was a book outlining why we need ten thousand hours of experience/education before we even come close to being 'good at' anything.

How much do we really have to pay to get out of going through all these things twice?

I would like to start all over and try it again.

That is a fact.

Happy Groundhog Day, DD! I

MrSmith1 — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:35:56 +0000

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Happy Groundhog Day, DD! I love the Bill Murray movie. It's a great comedy movie and is on my top ten comedies of all-time list. :-)

The comedic conceit is so nicely worked out; that we keep going back and re-living our mistakes until we learn and correct them... Genius.

Okay, I'll try to follow your

Ramona — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:52:00 +0000

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Okay, I'll try to follow your lead: Hopeful. I'm hopeful. The operative word is "hopeful."

But, man, Bill Murray is hopeless.

(I'll take a look at the movie. I actually like all of those actors. Even Andy Garcia, when he's not off his meds.)

Oh Bill is now an icon. I

Richard Day — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:31:23 +0000

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Oh Bill is now an icon.

I just viewed a film with Andy Garcia and Dreyfus and Ron Liebman of all people.

A remarkable film called Night Falls on Manhattan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_falls_on_manhattan

I bring up this movie to underline that the critics are not always right, but we already know this.

Anyway a bad actor showed up in a bad scripted movie with other bad actors (and there were good actors for sure) and it worked; at least it worked for me. I keep going back--at least once a year--for more.

Anyway, Ramona when you get down, just remember WHERE WE CAME FROM.

There is a future out there for my Granddaughter and others.

We live in a great country with great faults and incredibly ignorant politicians voted into office by incredibly ignorant voters.

But damn! There are such great statesmen and stateswomen out there the likes this nation has never seen before.

And I still think that Lincoln would look down and say:

DAMN, I NEVER SAW IT COMING BUT 2013 IS A MIRACLE INDEED!

I dunno.

I am hopeful.

Happy Groundhog Day Eve,

Ramona — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 00:03:58 +0000

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Happy Groundhog Day Eve, Dick, and thanks for the trip on the Wayback Machine. I see you updated last year's post a little, but I'm glad you didn't update the part about "Bill Murray is a terrible actor". Because Bill Murray is a terrible actor. I mean dreadful. A one-note actor who has nevertheless become famous for being an actor.

I see that he has taken on the role of FDR in "Hyde Park on the Hudson" and I would so like to believe that he decided beforehand the time might be ripe for some acting lessons. I watched "Lost in Translation" in horror, finding only later that some people actually thought that was an award-winning performance. I was vindicated when he got slaughtered over "The Razor's Edge". but, okay, I liked him fine in "Caddyshack" and "Groundhog Day" and "Ghostbusters" and "What about Bob", when he was strictly a comedian, but when he began to take himself seriously I seriously had to laugh.

But I'm not ignoring the rest of your post. Thought you might like to know that we're reliving the bad old days in Michigan right now, with Draconian abortion clinic laws, and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in jeopardy again.

Thanks for this. It was great.

Oh Mike, thank you so much

Richard Day — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:53:23 +0000

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Oh Mike, thank you so much for showing up!

You make my day!

Happy Groundhog Day to you--at least in about six hours anyway!

Happy GH day, Dick. Sorry

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:23:37 +0000

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Happy GH day, Dick. Sorry about the computer. I'm glad that the dag wayback machine came in handy.

Fwiw, I vaguely remember Stanley Fish predicting in 1999 that Ground Day would be the movie most remembered in 2099. Not sure about that. Great film though.