The Czech director of Amadeus (1984, won 8 Academy Awards) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975, won 5 Academy Awards) had made his American home in Connecticut.
The LA Times has the obit, here.
Saturday, April 14, 2018
SECDEF Mattis has called the joint missile strike on Syria a "single shot", not an opening salvo in a war
Reported here:
Mattis said the strike was a “single shot” aimed to deter the Syrian regime from using chemical weapons. Whether the United States and its allies will pursue further action in Syria would “depend on Mr. Assad should he decided to use more chemical weapons in the future," the secretary said.
Critics will no doubt say the April 2017 missile attack was a one-off, too. How many one-offs does it take before we're at war?
US, France and Great Britain attack Syrian chemical facilities after 6th Russian veto at the UN on Tuesday
From the veto story here:
Washington (CNN) -- Russia vetoed a US draft resolution at the UN Security Council Tuesday that would have established an independent investigation into the suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria. ... In November, Russia blocked the renewal of the independent panel investigating chemical weapons in Syria, and British Ambassador Karen Pierce reminded the council that Tuesday's vote marked Russia's sixth veto related to chemical weapons in Syria. Seven nations -- including the US -- voted against a Russian resolution that would have set up an investigation overseen by the Security Council. According to Haley, that draft was designed to give Russia a chance to approve the investigators who were chosen for the task and allow the Security Council to assess the findings of the investigation before any report was released. A second Russian resolution that only supported the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons fact-finding mission in Syria also failed to pass. The organization is made up of an international team of investigators but it cannot on its own determine who was responsible for the attack.
Friday, April 13, 2018
If we really had full employment in America, we wouldn't be missing 7.6 million working
The difference between 63.2% working before 2009 and 60.2% working in March 2018 is 7.6 million.
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Former British Ambassador to Syria says first responders to gas attacks on which the West relies are themselves Islamic fanatics who beheaded their enemies
Watch here.
He says the video evidence is unverified and probably staged and that the West should get inspectors in there.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
150 big spending House Republicans gave away the store in December 2015 in exchange for lifting the oil export ban
Since the vote on Dec. 18, 2015 what we got in return is US debt to the penny increasing by $2.33 trillion through 4/9/18, or 12%, and the price of a gallon of gasoline climbing by 65-cents, or 33%.
Way to go, Brownie!
Hungary completes second border fence with Serbia in less than two months for 120m Euros
The second fence was begun in late February, according to Politico here.
The 3-meter high 155km barbed barrier is already finished, according to Reuters here.
That's 96 miles in two months for the equivalent of $149 million.
That would come to $3.1 billion for the equivalent of 2,000 miles of US barbed barrier with Mexico. To match the Hungarian pace the US would need to finish the 2,000 miles in 3.5 years.
Somebody tell Trump the election is 2.5 years away.
Fine, Mueller's had bupkis all along, but unscrupulously rummaging through information privileged between client and attorney might lead elsewhere
That's why someone has to stop Mueller.
Law and order costs money, which implies taxation and government
And that's this morning's reason why I'm a conservative, not a libertarian.
We wouldn't need to increase law and order if men were increasingly demonstrating that they were angels, but because they are not, we do. Simple as that.
Now, on to my coffee.
Violence on the right: Takimag author floods the zone with the bilge of his own irrationality
He's no different than Antifa. Giving up on reason is never the answer.
Here:
Anyone who, like me, has spent a lot of time in discussion and argument with other people can easily see how little the rational avails. ... And that is precisely why we need a civil war. ... There are so many bad ideas, and such moral rot, that only war can rid us of the many pathologies that obviate culture and democracy alike. Only war can bring us to a state of affairs in which people, having serious problems to face, will have a more reasonable perspective and stop griping about safe spaces, white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and all the tiresome rest. Only war will send our politicians the message that Americans will not abide their cynical manipulations and refusal to do what is best for us.
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, But down in the bilge, and with just one foot, Pumping away was Chris DeGroot, says Johnny.
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Levin calls for Sessions to step down as AG in wake of FBI raid on Trump's personal attorney
Dershowitz for his part called the raid dangerous for the future of attorney-client privilege.
The whole thing makes us want to puke. The affair is completely out of control, and there's no one in the amusement park to turn off the ride.
Don't be fooled: Our communist enemy Xi Jinping Pong is still after our high-tech
Quoted in the story here:
"We hope developed countries will stop imposing restrictions on normal and reasonable trade of high-tech products and relax export controls on such trade with China."
Monday, April 9, 2018
Laugh of the Day 2.0: Holocaust survivor born in 1938 or 1939 warns America under Trump feels like 1929 Berlin
Here in "Holocaust survivor: America under Trump feels like 1929 Berlin".
The story references Newsweek as the source, here:
At 79 years old he is among the youngest of the Holocaust survivors still alive. But Jacobs can remember life in the Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald; what the Nazis did to him, his family, his friends. ...
“It feels like 1929 or 1930 Berlin,” Jacobs says, ahead of Holocaust Remembrance Day 2018 on Thursday.
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