Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus

1939. Vivien Leigh, publicity photo for Gone With The Wind.

From when style was in style, leading ladies were beautiful, and photography was making a bid to be art rather than "an art"—and not falling short by much. The master of vintage Hollywood glamor photography was George Hurrell.

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*1939 - Molotov then said in a speech, “Tomorrow we will dine in Helsinki!” After Soviet bombs began to fall on Finnish troops, Molotov insisted that the Soviets were dropping food and drink instead. Exhibiting a keen wit, the Finns thus dubbed Soviet cluster bombs “Molotov bread baskets” and named the improvised weapons that they were using against Soviet armor “Molotov cocktails".

--Josh Kovensky at newrepublic.com

  * This is new to me.  I had no idea of the Finnish origin.

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Ebola and quarantine - I notice an overwhelming presence of White American and European medical professionals. This must be that White privilege the Tumblr kids mention. Get an MD, volunteer in Africa, get Ebola. Privilege... *An honest media and academia would critique decolonization as much as colonialism. The opportunity for grandstanding is there since preventable deaths are occurring, and these nations cannot put into effect a quarantine.
Ryan Landry at theden.tv

*Surely, you jest........ 

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Captain Ron Johnson of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, who was put in charge of the police response in Ferguson, Missouri, said, at a service for Michael Brown:

*"I wear this uniform, and I should stand up here and say that I'm sorry. And I needed today. I needed today to get back in the water. And I'm gonna tell you I'm gonna be here as long as it takes. My words will be honest. If we talk about it behind closed doors, I'm gonna tell you. So if you don't want me to know, don't tell me behind closed doors. When this is over, I'm gonna go in my son's room - my black son, who wears his pants saggin', wears his hat cocked to the side, got tattoos on his arms, but that's my baby.

And we all ought to be thanking the Browns for Michael, because Michael's going to make it better for our sons, so they can be better black men, so they can be better for our daughters, so they can be better black women, better for me, so I can be a better black father, and we know they're gonna make our mommas even better than they are today.

Let's continue to show this nation who we are, continue to show this country who we are, but when these days are over, and Mike Brown's family's still weeping, and they're still on their knees praying, no matter what positive comes in our lives, we still need to get on our knees, and we need to pray. We need to thank Mike for his life. We need to thank him for the change that he is going to make and to make us better."

*Pathetic is about the best I can describe his ingratiating words for a thug. BT

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Global warming may go on trial

This, if Steyn is successful, could be the moment the dam bursts: the one where the global establishment is finally forced to acknowledge the fraudulence, the corruption, the mendacity, the trickery, the deception, the junk science, the big money and the official complicity which for the last two or three decades have been underpinning the Great Climate Change Scam, says James Delingpole in this article, Mann v Steyn: If This Trial Ever Goes Ahead Global Warming Is Toast, at Breitbart.

The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie, by Michael Daly at The Daily Beast.

Ferguson - Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer whose fatal shooting of Michael Brown touched off more than a week of demonstrations, suffered severe facial injuries, including an orbital (eye socket) fracture, and was nearly beaten unconscious by Brown moments before firing his gun. “The Assistant Chief took him to the hospital, his face all swollen on one side,” said the insider. “He was beaten very severely.”
Hollie McKay at foxnews.com

Activist - If you want to call me an activist attorney general, I will proudly accept that label. Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job... An activist civil rights division and this is an activist attorney general—I’d say I agree with you 1,000 percent and I am proud of it.
Attorney General Eric Holder, via Juan Williams at thehill.com

Remus says - Mr. Holder believes any outcome favorable to "his people" is justice by definition. Facts which do not support such an outcome are taken to be evidence of, if not the product of, a deeper injustice. This is what he means by "an activist attorney general," and what his "comprehensive investigation" will be all about.

Oppression - We are told that of six members of the Ferguson city council only one is black, while two-thirds of Ferguson's population is black. Yet, last week, we learned that the black voter turnout in local elections in Ferguson in 2013 was 6 percent.
Patrick Buchanan at takimag.com

IQ and civilization - It seems like there is a point, somewhere around 97, above which a modern civilization can be maintained and below which things abruptly begin to fall apart.
Staffan at staffanspersonalityblog.wordpress.com 

Two Americas - Those who achieve are to be punished as enemies of society and those who fail are to be rewarded as wards of society. Entitlement has replaced effort as the key to upward mobility in American society. America is not divided by the differences in our outcomes, it is divided by the differences in our efforts. And by the false philosophy that says one man’s success comes about unavoidably as the result of another man’s victimization.
Bob Lonsberry at lonsberry.com/writings.cfm

Food as a weapon - There is historical evidence that food vulnerability may have been planned for a long time by elements of the U.S. government... “Would food be considered an instrument of national power? Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can’t/won’t control their population growth?” Kissinger has answered these questions when he stated that he was predicting a series of contrived famines... I defy the reader to not be concerned about long-standing pattern of this government in acquiring vast amounts of food.
Dave Hodges, Common Sense Show, via Mac Slavo at shtfplan.com