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I didn't know. Substance

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 17:02:31 +0000

In reply to "Ragtime" was a Greta book

I didn't know. Substance abuse, arrests, drag queen, dead of AIDS at 46 - tough short life for such a talent.

"Ragtime" was a Greta book

rmrd0000 — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:51:40 +0000

In reply to I was watching a video of

"Ragtime" was a great book and movie. Sad that Rollins died. He has a statute at a museum in his birthplace, Baltimore.

I was watching a video of

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 15:01:35 +0000

In reply to I agree that the Republicans

I was watching a video of Milos Foreman last night talking about his movies - 2 items jumped out, first Foreman talking about Howard Rollins in "Ragtime", a black man who'd just had a group of joker New York country boys defecate on his nice car, with Foreman identifying with Rollins' humiliation - Rollins just wanted *someone* to pay for what they'd done even as the constable begged him to let it go - as the same kind of humiliation the Communists put Foreman and everyone else through - at that point he finally understood what his own film was about, the key motif.

Second was Foreman talking about his actors, how they're always prepared, with the example of one black girl who he auditioned for "Hair" - he asked what she'd been in and she said "no, sir - I'm just a maid down at the hotel", and she did such a good job he gave her the part - and then when they were practicing and auditioning it out, she hit every version perfect, first time, even when the camera wasn't supposed to be on her - he even used her first audition outtakes in the film ( Guess being an immigrant, Foreman didn't realize he was supposed to assume the blacks were lazy - an American-born white man might have presumed she just didn't want to come back for a 2nd take, so went ahead and did it right the first time around ;-)

I agree that the Republicans

rmrd0000 — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 14:18:06 +0000

In reply to I'm hoping Hillary appoints

I agree that the Republicans are my deplorable than Obama thought. Republicans think Obama wasn't born in the United States and is a Muslim. The majority of Republicans think blacks are lazy. They want to monitor the polls in black neighborhoods. The Republican Party is under a 1982 consent decree because they tried to do voter suppression at the polls. He wants a Stop and Frisk. A Huffington Post survey notes that Republicans believe that the only the only way that Clinton win is if the election is rigged. The GOP is a white supremacist party. Republican Evangelicals have abandoned their moral authority by continuing to support a misogynist who admits to attacking women. We have to realize that up to 40% of the voting public wants complete control over the other 60%. GOP leadership still supports Trump. The Republicans are not a political party, they are a cult.

I'm hoping Hillary appoints

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 06:15:29 +0000

In reply to If Donny had not run, the

I'm hoping Hillary appoints Warren as Secretary of Pitbull.

I think Obama hurt himself early by not wrapping the 2008 economic catastrophe firmly around the Republicans' neck so they were able to spin it back and with amazing chutzpah make it his fault even as he was trying his best to make nice and do bipartisan compromises.**

Warren will help keep this from being "Donald was just an aberration" and instead firm up "he's the obvious natural result of what you've been pushing the last 2 decades".

** the problem with listening to Village wisdom and the "will of the electorate" is they tell you all sorts of bullshit like "America's tired of the fighting, they want parties that can get along". They want parties that get along if it's their way - an impossibility with 2 or more opinions.

Who's Who

Flavius — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 03:09:58 +0000

In reply to It wasn't the performance he needed

Who's Who

A shilling life will give you all the facts:

How Father beat him , how he ran away,

What were the struggles of his youth, what acts

Made him the greatest figure of his day:

Of how he fought, fished, hunted , worked all night,

Though giddy, climbed new mountains; named a sea:

Some of the last researchers even write

Love made him weep his pints like you and me.

With all his honours on, he sighed for one

Who, say astonished critics , lived at home;

Did little jobs about the house with skill

And nothing else; could whistle; would sit still

Or potter around the garden; answered some

Of his long marvellous letters but kept none.

W.H. Auden

Good, isn't it. Flavius

Primarily because it's so

stillidealistic — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 17:10:57 +0000

In reply to I disagree - Hillary's shown

Primarily because it's so hard for women to break into the highest levels of politics, there just aren't a lot of choices for female candidates. And I think we are MORE than ready to see what a woman can do in the office. Following Obama's historic election, it's only fitting we have an equally historic one.

I hope we are beyond wanting a NON-POLITICIAN in the office. Unfortunately, without years of vetting on the way to getting there, who knows what you'll end up with as the nominee? If this cycle should be proving ANYTHING, it's that you need to be careful what you wish for.

I was never a Hillary fan. Ever. But when Obama appointed her Secretary of State, I had to take another look at her. He obviously saw something in her I didn't. And watching what the right did to him, I had to consider the possibility that they had done the same to her over the decades. So I started researching where all the Hillary hatred came from. Lo' and behold, they HAD. The vast majority of things that have been hung around her neck were either distortions or half-truths, and sometimes even outright fabrications.

By the time she was considering another run, I was hoping she'd go for it, and am now a passionate supporter. My husband has always distrusted her, and considered the Clintons grifters. I've been feeding him articles showing what they've been doing to her, and even HE has come around.

As far as her stamina goes, I am in awe. I am only 64, and I'm pretty sure she could run circles around me, and she is certainly more in command of facts and figures than I have ever been on my best day!

Still, being ahead in the polls, even by a lot, does not get her elected. We have to have a HUGE turnout to counteract all the people thrown off the voting rolls, and all the voter suppression going on in various states. Voting has NEVER been so important. This race has gone way beyond policies and into the realm of fitness for the office. I have to say that should be the number one criteria. We can survive policies we disagree with. We cannot survive having a willfully ignorant/dangerously vindictive/thin-skinned narcissist in office. When a candidate makes George Bush look reasonably competent, you know you have a problem.

Pence supports Trump

rmrd0000 — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 12:06:44 +0000

In reply to " A top Kansas state lawmaker

Pence supports Trump unwillingness to concede, citing "pockets" of voter fraud in the United States. Pence dog-whistles that blacks are causing voter fraud. He is as much of a racist as Donald Trump.

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/pence-echoes-trump-his-rig...

If Donny had not run, the

rmrd0000 — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:57:05 +0000

In reply to "" My fear was she was

If Donny had not run, the other candidates would have had to sent dog-whistles to the GOP base. Elizabeth Warren wrote an op-ed taking Republicans to task for the disease they inflicted on the US.

http://thedailybanter.com/2016/10/elizaneth-warren-republicans-donald-tr...

(the link is not directly to the WaPo in case people without a subscription have exceeded their free article limit)

"" My fear was she was

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 11:38:02 +0000

In reply to I wrote that Hillary shouldn

" My fear was she was unelectable . Running against anyone other than Donny Boy. " - we of course won't know (at least not til 2020, but I've always suspected that simply isn't true. She would have put in a similar money machine against other candidates, she would have taken them on at debates in different but equally effective ways, etc. Yes, she would always be running against the press as well and be losing 24x7, no it wouldn't be easy, but with a less bizarre candidate it would be easier to bring up the trainwreck of the Republican party and have it stick whereas with Trump the normal disqualifiers nevery applied.