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March 3, 2022

Boo hoo! The U.S. is practicing cancel culture on Russia!

(And notice Naryshkin refers to the right-wing. The Russians know where their support is.)

[link:https://twitter.com/PaulSonne/status/1499421918629404681|]

[link:https://twitter.com/travisakers/status/1499041366696992772?s=20&t=V4rXIp7973TviBG6t_D2Iw|]

March 3, 2022

TCM Schedule for Saturday, March 5 - 31 Days of Oscar continues - Dustin Hoffman night

(Times listed are Eastern and Pacific. Others should check their local listings.)

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12:15 AM Midnight Express (1978)
2h 1m | Drama | TV-MA
On October 6, 1970 while boarding an international flight out of Istanbul Airport, American Billy Hayes (Brad Davis) is caught attempting to smuggle two kilos of hashish out of the country, the drugs strapped to his body. He is told that he will be released if he cooperates with the authorities in identifying the person who sold him the hashish. Billy's troubles really begin when after that assistance, he makes a run for it and is recaptured. He is initially sentenced to just over four years for possession, with no time for the more harsh crime of smuggling. The prison environment is inhospitable in every sense, with a sadistic prison guard named Hamidou (Paul L. Smith) ruling the prison, he who relishes the mental and physical torture he inflicts on the prisoners for whatever reason. Told to trust no one, Billy does befriend a few of the other inmates, namely fellow American Jimmy Booth (Randy Quaid) (in for stealing two candlesticks from a mosque), a Swede named Erich (Norbert Weisser), and one of the senior prisoners having already served seven years, an Englishman named Max (Sir John Hurt), the latter two also in for hashish-related charges.
Director Alan Parker
Cast Brad Davis, Randy Quaid, John Hurt

2:30 AM The Omen (1976)
1h 51m | Horror | TV-14
Mysterious deaths surround an American ambassador. Could the child that he is raising actually be the Antichrist? The Devil's own son?
Director Richard Donner
Cast Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner

4:30 AM Cries and Whispers (1972)
1h 35m | Drama | TV-MA
When a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.
Director Ingmar Bergman
Cast Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann, Harriet
Andersson

6:30 AM The Good Earth (1937)
2h 18m | Epic | TV-PG
Epic adaptation of the Pearl Buck classic. Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Director Sidney Franklin
Cast Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly

9:00 AM The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
1h 46m | Adventure | TV-G
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
Director Ludwig Berger
Cast Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez

11:00 AM Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
2h 50m | Epic | TV-G
A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
Director Michael Anderson
Cast Cantinflas, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley

2:15 PM She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
1h 43m | Western | TV-PG
Captain Nathan Brittles, on the eve of retirement, takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.
Director John Ford
Cast John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar

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4:15 PM Doctor Zhivago (1965)
3h 17m | Epic | TV-PG
Sweeping epic about the life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Director David Lean
Cast Geraldine Chaplin, Julie Christie, Tom
Courtenay

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8:00 PM Tootsie (1982)
1h 56m | Comedy | TV-MA
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor, who, in order to find work and also fund his friend's play, dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama.

Director Sydney Pollack
Cast Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Terry
Garr

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10:15 PM Rain Man (1988)
2h 20m | Drama | TV-MA
After a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.
Director Barry Levinson
Cast Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria
Golin

March 2, 2022

Politicians you've either met or seen at rallies or public events

1. Bobby Kennedy
2. Hubert Humphrey
3. Sargent Shriver
4. Richard Nixon
5. George Murphy
6. Ronald Reagan
7. Bill Clinton
8. Al Gore
9. Ted Kennedy

For those of you wondering about Nixon, Reagan and Murphy, they were all at a Nixon rally in, I believe, '68. The rally was near my home. Also at the rally were Burt Ward (yes, Robin of "Batman" fame), Tony Martin and Les Brown and His Band of Renown.

The only ones on the list I actually met were Bill Clinton and Al Gore. I was a volunteer for Bobby Kennedy, but never met him.

March 2, 2022

Why every American should despise Fox

I am one of those who despises Fox with every fiber of my being. It is an evil organization. As someone who worked in the newspaper biz for over 30 years, it sickens me to see them distort the news in various ways and con their viewers into thinking they are a reputable news source. They are not and they never will be. We've all seen how they draw things out of context to make false fears and outright racist stories. (And we won't begin to discuss their "opinion" shows, which some of their viewers think are news.) To put it simply, they do not tell the truth.

But another thing they do that angers me that's very unprofessional and that seems to not get much notice is their constant bellowing of how their competition has missed stories or done something they feel deserves criticism. They really turned it up during the Trump admin. to follow the lead of Trump, who himself was all over CNN (and all media that didn't serve his wishes). And the Trump harping left a mark -- even now I see many of those comments repeated here and few threads, if any, devoted to what Fox has done and is continuing to do to our country. (For a long time, CNN did not in kind go after them. They are now and I don't blame them one bit. All that Trump/Fox harping must have hit their morale, but, bless them, they stayed in there and kept reporting as they should. That's what a real news organization does.)

Folks, remember that without Fox, it's very likely we would have not had Trump as president. Fox is the Repughlican cheerleading section. You know that. But the evils of Fox can not be overstated. It is poison. It is garbage. And that needs to be repeated.

That's not saying that the sources we prefer don't make mistakes on occasion. They're human. They do. But Fox, not CNN, not the Washington Post, not The New York Times, not MSNBC, is what's driving this country apart more each day.

Fox could care less about America. They're in it strictly for the money. And that should never ever be forgotten by anyone.

March 2, 2022

Biden Press Corps tweet - McConnell and Judge Jackson meet up.

[link:https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1499054090151772161?s=20&t=HXDJ93RbgsvCuZREqunp7g|]

March 2, 2022

Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa uses G.O.P. response to blast Biden over 'runaway inflation.'

Source: New York Times/Glenn Thrush

Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa delivered a scathing Republican rebuke of President Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, casting his presidency as an unwanted remake of “That ‘70s Show,” complete with “runaway inflation,” rampant crime and a rampaging “Soviet army.”

Ms. Reynolds, who was chosen by Republican Senate leadership to deliver the party’s official response, portrayed the populist revolt against mask mandates and remote learning as a “pro-parent, pro-family revolution,” hoping to harness the backlash ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

The governor, who has been in that office since 2017, used her address to preview themes, poll-tested and echoed by conservatives on social media, that are likely to be repeated by Republican candidates across the country as they seek to seize control of Congress two years after the party lost the White House and Senate. That included stoking fears that the Biden administration — and Democrats — want to control what children can learn in school and whether parents should have a say.

“We are tired of politicians who tell parents they should sit down, be silent and let government control their kids’ education and future,” she said.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/us/politics/kim-reynolds-state-of-the-union.html

As usual, the Repughlican "platform" is thinner than a tissue. The Democratic Party needs to hammer the word that they have nothing to offer except stoking false fears and counter these Repughlican fairy tales with the truth of reality in terms even Trumplicans can understand. Which means following the rule they adhere to: "keep it simple, stupid."

March 2, 2022