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rpannier's JournalVirginia man has 43 crumbling busts of US presidents on his farm
A Virginia man who owns 43 presidential busts is raising money so that he can open a museum to properly display them. The statues some of which weigh up to 20,000 pounds are currently sitting on Howard Hankins' farm in Croaker, Virginia.
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The busts were originally commissioned for a tourist attraction that opened in Williamsburg, Virginia a decade ago. But, following financial difficulties, the park closed.
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Hankins has a statue of every American president except Obama, which he plans on commissioning when his museum is up and running. He's also going to make space at his museum for whoever's chosen in the next election.
link:
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday-edition-1.3462076/virginia-man-has-43-crumbling-busts-of-us-presidents-on-his-farm-1.3462081
I found this really interesting.
Though, the guy lost me when he said he was voting for Swampie Forrest Trump
You Nazty Spy! The Stooges and Naziism in 1940
This may be the best Stooges short ever and the best pre US involvement in WWII made
In the little country of Moronika three munitions makers only made 5 million in profits last year. The king wants peace and they can't make a profit off of peace, they plan the overthrow of the King and plan to replace him with a dictator. The reference to the industrialists who backed Hitler is there. Good on the Stooges
Moe Hailstone is made the dictator (in a non-subtle Hitlerian way). Curly Gallstone is made Field Marshall replete with hundreds of medals. (He's a Goering with a smattering of Mussolini tossed in) and Larry Pebble is made Minister of Propaganda (Goebbels)
The movie was released in 1940 and mocks the Nazis.
It was made at a time when isolationist Senators Burton Wheeler (D-MT) and Gerald Nye (R-ND) were opposing films made in Hollywood they considered anti-Nazi propaganda and pro-war. You Nazty Spy! was released before The Great Dictator was released. This made You Nazty Spy the first anti-Nazi comedy made in Hollywood.
The short was in violation of the Hays Code which prohibited movies that made fun of world leaders and movies had to present 'fair' portrayals of world leaders (funny how that never seemed to apply to Asians -- but what the heck)
The movie got released without much opposition because it was a short and they tended to slide by Congress. Plus, there was more attention paid to the Chaplin movie which didn't get released until 6 months after You Nazty Spy! came out
- Moe became the first American to portray Adolf Hitler in a released movie
- Larry Fine walked with a limp to imitate Goebbels limp
- The scene where Larry starts with "If I take Mickey Finlen, I better be rushin'." is hysterical with many political jokes
-The phrase "Moronika for Morons" which is a play on the Nazi's "Deutschland den Deutschen"
- The Stooges (all of whom are Jewish) use many Yiddish words in the film, some of them considered obscene at the time:
-Moe Hailstone says "in pupik gehabt haben" which translates sd "I've had it in the bellybutton" would have been considered slightly obscene and would normally have been yanked by the censors -- I don't know the history of how it got through
- One of the weapons manufacturers encourages Moe Hailstone to affect a 'Beer Putsch'
- Curly says "Let's go shoot the works." was aslang term about using morphine and was a jab at Goering's morphine addiction
It's worth every second og the 18+ minutes. Enjoy
Karl Rove Strikes Again
per Crooks and Liars
Karl Rove Predicts Rubio Surge In Virginia Seconds Before Race Is Called For Trump
Oh, Karl! Will you ever learn? Obama-rMoney in Ohio and now Narco Rubio
Please Karl, PLEASE! Predict I will not win the lottery, tell me who will win the World Series so I know not to bet on them
Karl... it's time to get on your horse and ride off into the sunset
You've lost your touch you bastage
edit for link
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/03/karl-rove-predicts-rubio-surge-virginia
Congrats to both campaigns on Super Tuesday
Not a lot of nail biters tonight; though Massachusetts was quite close
Each campaign walked away with a good amount of delegates.
I don't think either side can claim they exceeded expectations -- though there will be those who likely will try.
I saw reports on one side claiming they'd win all but one (one person thought all) and the other looking at 6 wins.
The campaign moves on
Celebrate the states you won. Console yourself with a drink over the loses and move on to the next races
Remember for those overseas voters, Democrats Abroad ballots are out. I've sent mine in.
If you aren't registered I think you still can do so. But, you only got a week to vote
To everyone out there whether your state has voted or not...
If you didn't vote and there were down ballot things to vote on
and WTF happened? If you couldn't get to the polls that's one thing. If you could have and chose not to, with house primaries, or state rep legislature primaries or propositions why didn't you vote?
If it was all uncontested... you have my sympathies
Oh, on a happy joy-joy note... The Great Swampies prediction failed (Herr Donald)... Forrest Trump did not run the table in the rest of the primaries and caucuses
So much for Swami Trump
He predicted he'd run the table after Nevada
But, he lost in at least 3 states on Super Tuesday -- not that Canada Cruz or Sweaty Rubio are any better
I guess he'll have to work on those powers of prediction a bit
Excellent again
The Skeptical Hippo looks extremely skeptical
The leper cat was great
Top Ten Arms Exporters for 2011-5
1. United States
2. Russia
3. China
4. France
5. Germany
6. U.K.
7. Spain
8. Italy
9. Ukraine
10. Netherlands
The US and Russia together made up 58% of all international arms sales. That's up from 51% from 2005-10
Biggest recipients from the US are Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Turkey
Biggest recipients from Russia are India, China and Vietnam
China sells mostly to Pakistan, Bangladesh and Myanmar/Burma
As far as arms imports go
1. India (70% from Russia)
2. Saudi Arabia (Almost half from the US. Over two-thirds from the US and UK)
3. China (3rd in both. Interesting. Over half of all purchases come from Russia)
4. UAE (over three-fifths from the US)
5. Australia (About 3/4s from the US and Spain)
6. Turkey (3/5ths US. 10% from South Korea)
7. Pakistan (63% from China)
8. Vietnam (Almost exclusively from Russia)
9. United States (Ain't that a kicker? Germany, Canada and Norway are whom we buy the most from)
10. Netherlands (80% US, 13% Germany)
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/these-are-the-worlds-10-biggest-arms-exporters-and-the-countries-they-send-weapons-to--b1b9WfJbu0e
http://www.sipri.org/media/pressreleases/2016/at-feb-2016
What it’s like to live in - and leave - the ultra-Orthodox sect that banned women driving
Emily Green didnt decide to leave the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community she grew up in, she decided to leave her husband. But that decision had consequences.
I was pushed out in a sense, she says. "One thing led to another, the way people in the community sided with him. I just felt more and more alienated. I was very respected, Id been the wife of someone respected. It all changed very quickly."
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After the rumours started, and when the Rabbi of the school she taught in threatened her job, Emily knew she and her children would no longer feel comfortable living by the strict codes of the Charedi ultra-Orthodox Belzer community, which recently hit the headlines after one of its schools threatened students with expulsion if their mothers drove. On some days there, Emily says I felt like I was choking.
Emily was lucky: she was eventually awarded custody of her children in the secular courts but leaving meant discovering an entirely new world and being shunned by her family and friends she grew up with. That she survived at all, Emily says, is a miracle.
link
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/what-its-like-to-live-inand-leavethe-ultraorthodox-sect-that-banned-women-driving--Z1gdlMZkrZx
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster just appointed its first 'Ministroni'
Two months ago we reported that the religious organisation, whose members worship a giant spaghetti monster (GSM) and wear colanders on their heads,had received approval to perform legal marriage ceremonies in New Zealand.
And just a few short months after that significant milestone on the CFSM's long battle for equality, another has come in the form of Karen Martyn, its inaugural minister, who's tasked with carrying out the services.
Martyn now has the power to bind church members - known as Pastafarians - together in holy matrimony.
Pastafarians often dress as pirates as they believe them created by their god. They first came to light back in 2005, when 'prophet' Bobby Henderson revealed his belief system - praising the 'Noodly One'.
http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/the-church-of-the-flying-spaghetti-monster-just-appointed-its-first-ministroni--W1QnUWN2Rg?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100
interview with Stuff NZ at
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/77340137/ministeroni-makes-new-zealand-history
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