We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by Senator Chris Murphy
The elevation of Pope Leo XIV is a profound and historic occasion. Like so many around the world, I am praying for him and wishing him and the Church well as his papacy begins.
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So let me get this straight, we finally get an American pope, and some of the America first crowd is mad because he cares about the poor and immigrants. Am i missing something here?
The Soviet contribution was very well known during the war, not only through newspapers and radio accounts, but in the popular arts. Movies like “The North Star” and “Mission To Moscow” and even American-centered pictures like “Action in the North Atlantic” stressed the importance of the Soviet contribution. But the onset of the Cold War and the Red Scare led to the suppression of the films and in some cases blacklisting or other repudiation of the work. With the fading of the blacklist, books …
I can remember watching all of those movies in the later '50's, when tv was full of old movies. I definitely remember "Action in the North Atlantic" on the Million Dollar Movie, where you could watch the same movie sixteen times in the same week if you were so inclined. what's funny is that four days ago I watched "The North Star" (or actually as much of it as we could stand) with my friend, who's a Russian scholar. the personnel on that movie is sort of unreal...about as Popular Front and b…
The screenwriter of Action in the North Atlantic - John Howard Lawson - was the head of the Hollywood chapter of the CPUSA. There is all kinds of really obvious "left propaganda" in the screenplay dialogue. None of which ever changed anyone's mind.
I'd totally forgotten that Lawson wrote that screenplay. a friend of mine was a neighbor of Ron Radosh, who's spent his entire career as an historian writing about how the Hollywood blacklist was probably a good thing because of all the REAL commies who smuggled their politics into their movies. but when he gives examples of this "dangerous" dialogue, it's pretty fucking anodyne (an example he cites is Trumbo's line ending a Ginger Rogers movie (I forget which one): "I guess that's the Ameri…
Lawson wrote the book, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Dalton Trumbo wrote the screenplay. I once met Radosh - "fucking moron" is a good two-word review there.
I resisted meeting him because I have a chronic incivility issue (this made my professional life, such as it was, something of a nightmare), but I think (or thought, if he's no longer among us) you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Radosh also loved to make a lot of public noise about not being able to get tenure because of the "hard left" orientation of most local History departments and my take on that was that his work was hardly worthy of tenure. whenever I see anything about "Thirty…
Since I have just written a history of the Eighth, I hate to be the one to tell you that Dad was wrong. When Doolittle "slapped on" the additional missions, that was the summer of 1944, when the Eighth Air Force fighters had knocked the Luftwaffe for a loop. By then the average losses on a mission were under 2 percent, way below the loss rate of January 1944, before the "Battle of Germany." And at the same time, the 15th Air Force flying out of Italy had a crew tour of 50 missions. Yes, nobody …
well, that was certainly enlightening, which is exactly what I expected. my information is stuff I just sort of picked up, based on what my father told me. I totally got the dates and circumstances wrong. is your history of the Eighth out yet? I noticed the previous ones are all e-books and most of them are audiobooks, which is how I tend to get most of my reading done these days (something about how my eyes work now, or, to be more more accurate, DON'T work). I'll grab the Eighth history as soon as it's available. and I DID know they were considered prima donnas and "glamor boys." a mo0vie scene that ALWAYS makes me cry is Dana Andrews in the bomber cemetary in "The Best Years of Our Lives." incidentally, I got to know Joe Heller a little bit when he started teaching at CCNY (he also had an office the building on West 57th Street as my father did for a time), and his actual, personal take on the officers he knew was pretty much the opposite of the way they were portrayed in "Catch-22." I can recall being on the subway with my father when he read "Catch-22" and I can remember being a little mortified that I was with this guy who was laughing so hard he had trouble catching his breath. I read it again last year, and hadn't remembered how fabulous it was, just for the sheer quality of the prose.
