This Blogger has an abiding and perhaps defining admiration for American films of the 1940s, 50s,60s, especially film noir and Classical Westerns produced during those years.   Why?   The first reason, perhaps the main reason, is that they were written, in the majority, by men who had seen combat, or participated in war, or had friends and/or relatives in war.   They seemed determined to grapple with the major issues of    Life; such as, when    one bent over to tie one's shoe lace and the bullet meant for him, killed his best friend. Is that personal luck? Random luck?   O r Pre-ordination? If it is pre-ordination, does that mean you must live a life justifying the escape from certain death?   Since most grievously wounded men whine for their mommies, they never produced art like I AM GLAD MY MOM DIED.   They strove to reveal enduring verities, enduring vanities, enduring flaws, and enduring absurdities in the human condition.   Even in...

  It seems that every given day, the Liberal media wakes up with the mission of re-writing nasty history; soon 2023 will pronounce that the Spartans won at Thermopylae, with all surviving. On January 12, 2023, the NEW YORK TIMES published the following: "  A frothy musical comedy from Weimar Germany, starring an actress whose  unexpected death at 31  may have been a Gestapo murder. “Private Secretary” stars Renate Müller, whose death in 1937 has never been firmly resolved. It may have been a suicide or a murder by the Nazis. (Some sources suggest that Hitler was interested in her, but Drössler said that Müller “loved Georg Deutsch, a Jew who had to emigrate and whom she visited as often as possible.”) She plays a bank typist who does not realize that the man she has fallen for is the bank’s director...NEW YORK TIMES." Up to that 1-12-23  revision, it was fairly common knowledge, both in America and Germany, that Renate was a Hitler lover, desperate for Adolf to ...

On December 31, 2008,  this Blogger had a vision for an Israeli-Palestinian Peace, when he published the following:    “ New Year, 2009, and Israelis and Palestinians are still killing each other, as has happened every year since Jehovah knows when. This conflict is something out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez; so it will take a solution out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.…..the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict, must be  based on a Two State solution,  using methods out of Gabriel Garcia Marquez.       Step 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 diehards as proof of life examples to the Israelis.      Step Three-The Palestinians disarm, and give up all their claims to a State of their own.        Step Four-The Palestinians ask for Israeli c...