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Nov 27 2007-Movie Review: American Gangster
Denzel Washington plays real-life crime boss and drug kingpin Frank Lucas. Review by Jan Freeh.
Dialogue-
Detective Richie Roberts: My investigation indicates that Frank Lucas is above the Mafia.
District Attorney: Who does he work for? Which family?
Detective Richie Roberts: He's not Italian, he's black.
District Attorney: No black man has accomplished what the American Mafia hasn't in a hundred years!
(Dialogue from
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Army Has Increase in Deserters
Comments on above article from webzine reader:
Deserting solders indeed.
Let's see, it's their second or even third deployment --- within 30 months!!! DUH!!!
We've deserted them is more like it...
As you know, there are people that thrive on this action but not many are warriors. The rest become fodder, mental or deserters. What are those people thinking?
Did you catch the whining the State Department personal put up when they were suddenly subject to serving in the zone? Found myself standing in front of the TV, disgusted...
The service [mostly Army] is slacking off somewhat on it's hiring stat's, about 40% are now high school grads where a few years ago that number was somewhere near double that number.
[These numbers fog with time]
All of the admirals and generals are scared to death that the draft will reappear and there goes the soft, cushy job of control they have enjoyed for so long. Of course if the draft did come back --- well, you know what it would mean as for the re-training of the American male, etc & yada. eb
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Nov 25 2007-Movie Review: August Rush
Two musically-gifted young people meet and fall in love in New York City. Circumstances separate them. Young woman is pregnant. She gives birth, is told baby is dead, but later finds out he is
alive.
The child becomes an orphan. At 11 years old(also musically-gifted), he finds his way to New York City and hopes he will find his parents through music.
The young woman, played by Kerri Russell, searches for her son and the young man, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers, searches for his lost love.
Yes, a bit of a fairy tale, but a good movie.
Quote: Richard Jeffries(Terrence Howard): Why is it so important that you want him now?
Lyla Novacek(Kerri Russell): I've ALWAYS wanted him!
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HYPOCRISY
I followed my yearly tradition of watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thanksgiving morning.
During the broadcast, there were several stories about the troops to include greetings to their families back home. I was moved.
In watching those youngsters say how they missed home, my first thought was their amazing sacrifices. One white soldier reached over and put his arm around an African American and said, "This is my family now."
This war has divided our nation and surfaced what I view as a kind of benign hypocrisy. It is easy to support the troops when we have little involvement in the war. As I watched those kids, it was obvious to me that they are from struggling families across America; many were single parents and many were female soldiers. To confirm my view, I googled the demographics of the Army and came up with all sorts of statistics.
There were a couple of articles by some guy who was in the politico mode. If asked a question a politico doesn't want, he or she will choose to answer the question he wished he had been asked. This guy used statistics to bolster his claim that the Volunteer Army has worked well without the draft..
As we all know, you can do anything with statistics you want. My counter to the argument is very simple and illustrated by Michael Moore, a guy I don't even like (nothing personal). His last movie, Sicko, made the point that we cannot deny that there are 45-50 million Americans who don't have health insurance, just like we can say that we support the troops until the cows come home, but the fact exists that only a small portion of Americans make the sacrifices of war by serving in the military. KT
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