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...