Jesse Jackson has passed away. One character in Tom Wolfe’s entertaining novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities” is a race hustling activist with some similarities to Jackson. I never saw the movie of the same name.
I wrote a non-fiction book about a beautiful Polish Jewish teenage girl with blonde hair and green eyes who survived the Holocaust because . . . she had blonde hair and green eyes. . . .
. . . . and also because she had tons of courage, resourcefulness, and luck. Plus identification papers, provided by the Catholic Church, that said she was Catholic.
On one occasion she was caught up in a random sweep for Jews by German Ordnungspolizei in the streets of Lvov. When she got off the truck at the gate of the camp (where she was to be murdered) she strode up to a German officer and berated him for detaining an obviously Aryan girl. The officer looked her up and down, looked at her papers, and, convinced, let her go.
If you could see a photograph of her from that time . . . she looked like a blonde Hollywood movie star. Gorgeous. Ravishing.
She survived. So did her brother, also a blond. But the rest of her extended family did not.
Don’t see the movie of the same name. It’s terrible.
Jesse Jackson has passed away. One character in Tom Wolfe’s entertaining novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities” is a race hustling activist with some similarities to Jackson. I never saw the movie of the same name.
— Selfy
I always thought there was just a hint of the tragic about J. Jackson. I do not have a high opinion of him (for reasons I won’t go into right now out of respect for the fact that he just died), but there were times when he did do good things, and earlier in his ‘career’, he often said things to his fellow blacks that needed to be said. That faded later in life, but it was true once.
I think he had the real potential to be something much better then he turned out to be, and tragically failed to make the right choices.
For those of you who don’t read the Babylon Bee, today’s edition has a tongue-in-cheek story about a new award that has been announced by Trump: the “Almost-President” award.
First recipient is Hillary Clinton, according to the Bee. I don’t know how they missed Al Gore, but it’s still funny.
Irish Otter- Please give us the title of your book. Amazon awaits!
What a great story!
1. IP theft by the Nazi government. No respect for the rights of the parents and, probably, copyright.
Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies) and Pro-Choice religion, with redistributive change schemes, ethnic Springs, and Dreams of Herr Mengele in gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes) therapeutic corruption. Deja vu.
I have a friend who knows an elderly (jewish) holocaust survivor. My friend tells me that said survivor is planning to move back to Germany due to TDS. Sigh.
Part of the explanation for this idiocy is that I live in far left California Silicon Valley. I admit that I do not know the whole story, but it sounds like something that would happen here.
@F:I don’t know how they missed Al Gore, but it’s still funny.
That was an SNL skit, Al Gore himself mooning around a prop Oval Office for “West Wing”. He seemed self-aware and a good sport about it. But that’s the problem with politicians, they can simulate human behavior when they need to.
“I guess while you were vice president you never got to sit in it,” Sheen said. “No — no I did not,” said Gore, who seemed reluctant to give up the seat.
Also he was on Futurama sometimes (his daughter wrote for the show). In the year 3000 he is the first Emperor of the Moon, rider of the mighty Moon Worm, and author of “Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth”.
clearly wolfe, saw al sharpton, in that role, yes the film was a disaster, again de palma has got my goat for some time since his previous work scarface for obvious reasons, wolfe was a great stylist, whose nuance was left on the cutting room floot
after wolfe’s depiction of new york and then atlanta, and durham,
(I charlotte simmons,) one would have been crazy to let him skwere your city, as he would do with Miami as he would do with back to blood,
Rush Limbaugh – RIP: Five years ago today we lost a legend (Videos)
Jesse Jackson has passed away. One character in Tom Wolfe’s entertaining novel “The Bonfire of the Vanities” is a race hustling activist with some similarities to Jackson. I never saw the movie of the same name.
I wrote a non-fiction book about a beautiful Polish Jewish teenage girl with blonde hair and green eyes who survived the Holocaust because . . . she had blonde hair and green eyes. . . .
. . . . and also because she had tons of courage, resourcefulness, and luck. Plus identification papers, provided by the Catholic Church, that said she was Catholic.
On one occasion she was caught up in a random sweep for Jews by German Ordnungspolizei in the streets of Lvov. When she got off the truck at the gate of the camp (where she was to be murdered) she strode up to a German officer and berated him for detaining an obviously Aryan girl. The officer looked her up and down, looked at her papers, and, convinced, let her go.
If you could see a photograph of her from that time . . . she looked like a blonde Hollywood movie star. Gorgeous. Ravishing.
She survived. So did her brother, also a blond. But the rest of her extended family did not.
Don’t see the movie of the same name. It’s terrible.
— Selfy
I always thought there was just a hint of the tragic about J. Jackson. I do not have a high opinion of him (for reasons I won’t go into right now out of respect for the fact that he just died), but there were times when he did do good things, and earlier in his ‘career’, he often said things to his fellow blacks that needed to be said. That faded later in life, but it was true once.
I think he had the real potential to be something much better then he turned out to be, and tragically failed to make the right choices.
For those of you who don’t read the Babylon Bee, today’s edition has a tongue-in-cheek story about a new award that has been announced by Trump: the “Almost-President” award.
First recipient is Hillary Clinton, according to the Bee. I don’t know how they missed Al Gore, but it’s still funny.
Irish Otter- Please give us the title of your book. Amazon awaits!
What a great story!
1. IP theft by the Nazi government. No respect for the rights of the parents and, probably, copyright.
2. The magazine did a terrible job of vetting.
3. The joke is a great one!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NxIo6a6sHk
Diversity (i.e. class-disordered ideologies) and Pro-Choice religion, with redistributive change schemes, ethnic Springs, and Dreams of Herr Mengele in gender (i.e. sex-correlated attributes) therapeutic corruption. Deja vu.
I have a friend who knows an elderly (jewish) holocaust survivor. My friend tells me that said survivor is planning to move back to Germany due to TDS. Sigh.
Part of the explanation for this idiocy is that I live in far left California Silicon Valley. I admit that I do not know the whole story, but it sounds like something that would happen here.
@F:I don’t know how they missed Al Gore, but it’s still funny.
That was an SNL skit, Al Gore himself mooning around a prop Oval Office for “West Wing”. He seemed self-aware and a good sport about it. But that’s the problem with politicians, they can simulate human behavior when they need to.
Also he was on Futurama sometimes (his daughter wrote for the show). In the year 3000 he is the first Emperor of the Moon, rider of the mighty Moon Worm, and author of “Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth”.
clearly wolfe, saw al sharpton, in that role, yes the film was a disaster, again de palma has got my goat for some time since his previous work scarface for obvious reasons, wolfe was a great stylist, whose nuance was left on the cutting room floot
after wolfe’s depiction of new york and then atlanta, and durham,
(I charlotte simmons,) one would have been crazy to let him skwere your city, as he would do with Miami as he would do with back to blood,
Rush Limbaugh – RIP: Five years ago today we lost a legend (Videos)
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/02/rush-limbaugh-rip-five-years-ago-today.html
SD — re: Rush gone 5 years, today:
I truly miss that man. Still!
Thanks for the link.