During the Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi, a Blue Dog Democrat( a Conservative), who lost his re-election in 2010, remarked that he was concerned about how Latinized American politics was becoming. He was prescient. The Democrats have become a Latin Party, with Hillary Clinton aspiring to be Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the current Peronista  President of Argentina, who married and succeeded a President, Nestor Kirchner. She was the second female President of Argentina, the first was Isabel Martínez de Perón, who became Argentina's President by marrying a  President, Juan Peron, and succeeding him. The Democratic Party of 2012 is rife with Peronism. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner That said, the  2012 Democratic Party gone beyond Peronism, transforming itself into something even more Latino than Peronism. The American Democratic Party in 2012 is an American v...

I went to see EYES WIDE SHUT in total awe of its Director, Stanley Kubrick, who had in his career Directed THE GREATEST Science Fiction/Cosmological film EVER- 2001, SPACE ODYSSEY, the BEST and MOST INSIGHTFUL film essay on American culture EVER- LOLITA, arguably the greatest war movie ever- PATHS OF GLORY, and one of the best film epics ever- SPARTACUS. Mr. Kubrick died SUDDENLY, before EYES WIDE SHUT was released. Everyone was so sad. Then I saw EYES WIDE SHUT, and understood exactly why Herr Director Kubrick had croaked so suddenly; he had willed himself to death before the release of the film, so that  he would not have to suffer the slings and shots against his declining genius. EYES WIDE SHUT is the WORST, laughably worst, porn film ever made, EVER. It starred that larger than life couple(at the time), Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. The key scene in the film was Ms. Kidman peeing. I was spending over $60.00(including tickets,parking and snacks for m...

GERALD MAXEY Writer, Director, Producer holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a M.A. from San Francisco State University in Creative Writing. He has traveled extensively to over 27 countries, and worked for the US government as a futurist. He authored the novel, CODES, about the Coyotero Apaches in New Mexico based on his experiences as a VISTA volunteer. He has Written and Directed the film festival movie, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES, an episodic drama about the decline of the American male as a heroic figure. He helped co found the WHITMORE/LINDLEY THEATER COMPLEX in North Hollywood, California and has had the following plays produced in Los Angeles, HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH SPEAKING PEOPLES, ROCOCO, TEXTURE OF INNOCENCE, and MOMMIE DEAREST or how Richard Gere taught me everything I know about life.  His future film projects include FORLORN HOPE, which he co-authored, about three young Los Angeles School Teachers, CHARLIE’S ANGLES MEETS BLACKBOARD JUNGLE, a John ...

Afghanistan itself is another creation of Imperial Britain. It was created artificially by a line drawn on the map by an English Imperialist,  in this case, Mortimer Durand. There has always been a rump Afghanistan centered around Kabul; but the present configuration of Afghanistan is a fake,  created by Durand when he sat in a room, and drew a line on a map which created modern Afghanistan. In doing so he  divided the Pashtun tribe. Before the Durand Line, there was no border between Afghanistan and British ruled India(now Pakistan); so the Pashtuns could  move easily around. Once that line was drawn, the Pashtuns were split between two nations, through no fault, nor desire nor  reason of their own. That Readers is Colonialism, and we are getting killed to support that? in 2012? The Taliban is Pashtun. The reason that the Pakistanis won't come down on them is that Pakistan has many Pashtuns in its Army Establishment. The solution, rather than ...

In 1954 there was the film, THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY about danger in the air; that was followed by the 1964 film, FATE IS THE HUNTER about a fatal airplane crash and the followup investigation; followed by the 1970 film, AIRPORT, about a bomber on a plane, starring every living star in Hollywood at the time; followed by  the sequels, AIRPORT 75, AIRPORT 77, AIRPORT 79- THE CONCORDE. All that melodramatic danger in the air was laughed to death by the films AIRPLANE in 1980, followed by AIRPLANE II in 1982. Everything in air flight had been covered, both the tragedy and the comedy  of air travel, until Air France Flight 447. Flight 447 was the Air France  Airbus Flight from Brazil to France, which,in 2009, crashed in the South Atlantic , killing all on board,228 passengers. Airbuses fly by wire, which means they fly by computers rather than the old mechanical ways.  Very up to date, except when something goes awry, then it seems it is very diff...

""Marlen Garcia, a Democrat and mayor pro tem of Baldwin Park, which is in the proposed new district, said her community had been anxiously awaiting the proposed district maps in hopes that they might bring better representation for low-income Latinos. She said she hoped a new representative would be a Democrat and Latino. Since she cast her first vote as a teenager growing up in Boyle Heights, Garcia said, “I knew I needed someone in office who was my color skin, spoke my language and understood my living conditions and culture. It had a huge impact.” "..... spoke my language...." This Blog continues to be bewildered and befuddled by why Mexican Americans or Dominicans or South Americans continue to value Spanish. This Blog understands why Iberians cling to Spanish, it is their native language, but Mexicans? Spanish was IMPOSED on Mexico by the Conquistadors, who were basically a 16th Century version of the Waffen SS. It is as if the Holocaust survivor...

LIBERAL VERSION Birenbaum on Obama Obama's Burden Why do Republicans hate Barack Obama with such intensity that they consistently say that they want their country back? What has Mr. Obama done to their framework for understanding American politics?  Surely it is that, as a man of color, Barack Obama is the first of his kind to serve in the office of President. John Kennedy was the first (and still the only) Catholic to hold that office but the Republican Party members kept their dislike of Kennedy to themselves. Other right wing groups, such as the John Birch Society, were never reluctant to abuse Kennedy but they did so because they believed he was insufficiently anti-Communist rather than because he was a Catholic. With Obama, the contempt is widely overt and there is a widespread theme that the President is a crypto Socialist and Muslim. And aside from sharp differences in political culture between the anti-Obama and the pro-Obama forces, there is a socially construc...

This is a followup on THE MAXEY CHRONICLE'S blog of President Obama's mother, Stanley Ann Dunham. http://themaxeychronicles.blogspot.com/#!/2012/05/presumptve-president-barack-obama-sr.html Like any bonafide anti-Communist Reagan Republican, I have read THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO and DAS KAPITAL ; in that same vein I begin every Saturday morning by watching the Liberal, Feminist MSNBC Tv program, the Melissa Harris Perry Show. She is sexy and smart, what more can a Reaganite ask from a Liberal Feminist? On May 5, 2012, Ms. Perry discussed the new book, "BARACK OBAMA, THE STORY;by David Maraniss, which discusses, in part, the President's love life as a student at both Occidental College and Columbia University, especially his two white women lovers, especially his shacking up with one white woman, Genevieve Cook, the daughter of an Australian diplomat. (Hey Readers don't be to too shocked, even the black icon Frederick Douglass had a white wife,...

The Palestinian/Israeli Conflict has been around since the 19th Century;  it  is something out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; so it will take a solution out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. THE MAXEY CHRONICLES offers this solution to the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict, based on a Two State solution, using methods out of Gandhi and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One- The Palestinians pull a Chief Joseph and stop fighting, period. ” From where the sun stands, I will fight no more.” Step Two- The Palestinians execute some of their own die hards as proof of life examples to the Israelis. Step Three- The Palestinians disarm, and give up all their claims to a State of the own. Step Four- The Palestinians ask not for the own state but for Israeli citizenship, equal rights and the right to vote in Israeli elections.(the Gabriel Garcia Marquez input to the Solution). Step Five- The Palestinians start peacefully marching for the Israeli vote and star...

Anatoly Artsebarsky became a cosmonaut in 1985. Artsebarsky has spent almost 5 months in space on a single spaceflight. In 1991, he flew aboard Soyuz TM-12 and docked with the Mir Space Station. Artsebarsky and Sergei Krikalev stayed aboard Mir while the rest of the crew flew back to Earth after eight days. Artsebarsky took six spacewalks during the Mir EO-9 mission. He spent over 33 hours walking in space. During his stay, Artsebarsky constructed a space tower for use with a control module. Artsebarsky and Krikalev were almost stuck at the station. They were in orbit during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 . For several days, the political situation seriously jeopardised their position." Hero of the Soviet Union, cosmonaut Anatoly Artsebarsky "A lecture featuring some of the world’s leading figures in space travel was the highlight of this year’s Scottish Space School at the University of Strathclyde. Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Artsebarsky was joined by NASA as...