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 the formulaic films; there was always BIG qu

  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 marry her. Whe

One of the goals of this Republic’s Liberal Ruling Elite has been, since the dawn of the Clinton Administration, to break the American military of its exclusivity, and make it inclusive of other cultures.   In line with that mission statement, the Liberal Ruling Elite has squashed the key role of American Protestantism in the Military, uplifted transgender rights, sought to outlaw gender differentiation, dismissed the need in America's armed forces for unwavering honor and discipline; and transformed  an institution dedicated to defending the Republic, at any sacrifice, to one in line with the modern modernity of sensitivity, drugs and materialism. Joe Biden's Liberals have been more concerned about changing the names of army bases than maintaining honor on those bases.   The motto for America's military should be HONOR BEFORE INCLUSION, not Inclusion Before Honor.  In their inclusionary  process, the Biden Administration has bred a Frankenstein in the Republic’s Army, spec