He wants to be "macho" but won't stand up to the party that wants his little girls competing with biological males.
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Thomas Sean Connery was born in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh on 25 August 1930, the son of a Catholic factory worker and a Protestant domestic cleaner.
His father’s family had emigrated from Ireland in the 19th Century; his mother traced her line back to Gaelic speakers from the Isle of Skye.
The area had been in decline for years. Young Tommy Connery was brought up in one room of a tenement with a shared toilet and no hot water.
He left school at 13 with no qualifications and delivered milk, polished coffins and laid bricks, before joining the Royal Navy. Three years later, he was invalided out of the service with stomach ulcers. His arms by now had tattoos which proclaimed his passions: “Scotland forever” and “Mum & Dad”.
In Edinburgh, he gained a reputation as “hard man” when six gang members tried to steal from his coat. When he stopped them, he was followed. Connery launched a one-man assault which the future Bond won hands down.
He scraped a living any way he could. He drove trucks, worked as a lifeguard and posed as a model at the Edinburgh College of Art. He spent his spare time bodybuilding.
I guess that bodybuilding probably boosted his chances to play James Bond. His first movie was in 1963, and you know the rest of the story.
Yes, he was my favorite James Bond, but it was the movie Hunt for Red October that always comes to mind when I think of Connery. I’m sure you remember the story of the Soviet submarine captain trying to defect to the West. It was a great book and fabulous movie.
I remember this movie so well because I watched it one Sunday night, loved it, went to bed, and then woke up with the story of the coup and arrest of Gorbachev in the USSR. Watching those Soviet Politburo members explaining the coup reminded me too much of the movie, especially when the official at the Kremlin got the news that the submarine was defecting.
RIP, Sean Connery. Loved you as Bond but will forever remember you as Soviet naval officer Marko Ramius!
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It’s getting harder and harder for the Democrats to pretend that they’re not anything like those Democratic Socialist
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Let me tell you that I’d be rich like the Clampetts if I had a dollar for every Democrat telling me that those DSA folks running with a “D” next to their name are not real “Ds.” Maybe they are trespassers or people driving with someone else’s license. Yes, they are trying very hard to distance themselves from those people who want to eliminate the Senate and legalize everything currently illegal.
It’s too late, as Harrison Berger points out. There’s a rot in this party deeper than the ocean. No reflexive denials that DSA members are the next generation will fix this party. This is a party broken by DEI:
One of the more striking developments in American politics over the past three decades has been the transformation of the Democratic Party from a big-tent movement built around working-class Americans into an elite-driven institution obsessed with diversity, equity, and inclusion.
I think that diversity, equity, and inclusion spells DEI, or the point in history when everything went south (downhill) for the once mighty Ds.
All of us have experienced this with an old friend. Once upon a time, my friend and I could talk politics and even disagree. It’s impossible now because every conversation turns into one about Trump or skin color. Everything is Trump’s fault or something like that. Every story has a victim of color or a bad white guy who voted for Trump.
In the end, DEI has killed friendships and promoted bad feelings. It has turned the HR lady into an obnoxious jerk telling everyone how to talk or what to say to people.
It has killed our society and the Democrats too. It’s time to replace DEI with USA and get Democrats to love their country again.
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Well, the newspaper refused to run it, Matt resigned, and a viewpoint shared by most Americans is suddenly too hot to print.
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oA Seattle reporter made a principled decisions when his bosses couldn’t stomach the idea of supporting Sophie Cunningham’s view on men in women’s sports.
John Lennon and Cynthia Powell were married on this day in 1962. They eventually divorced in 1968. John was killed in 1980 and Cynthia died in 2015.
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Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez was born in Santa Isabel de Las Lajas on August 23, 1919 and died February 19, 1963. We were still living in Cuba and his death hit my parents very hard. I learned later that my parents had attended several of his performances.
More’s music is found in every Cuban household in the US. I remember that my parents ordered some Beny More LP’s when we finally got a record player in Wisconsin. More’s music was exactly what my parents needed to survive those cold Wisconsin winters.
He started singing as a young man and eventually joined Perez Prado, the big Cuban orchestra of the 1950’s. More eventually started his own band and enjoyed tremendous success until his death.
The bad news is that he died young. The good news is that he left a huge archive of music and much of it is available in the US. Click here for “Santa Isabel de las Lajas“, a song that he wrote about his hometown!
A much bigger star than El-Sayed discovered that the American public dislikes seeing people compare themselves to Jesus.
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".....four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, two more great European powers—Russia and Germany—declare war on each other; the same day, France orders a general mobilization.We started this series with Barry Jacobsen in 2014, or the 100th anniversary of World War I.
The so-called “Great War” that ensued would be one of unprecedented destruction and loss of life, resulting in the deaths of some 20 million soldiers and civilians and the physical devastation of much of the European continent."
The Prague Spring was a shocking reminder to an increasingly complacent West that the Soviet Union was a brutal totalitarian regime.
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On the night of August 20, 1968, approximately 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. The liberal reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek were repealed and “normalization” began under his successor Gustav Husak.
A chat with Frank Burke about Wisconsin politics....
Corporal Vindman checks out.
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The USSR and The Warsaw Pact are now history. It all collapsed at the end of 1991. In other words, most young people younger than 35 have no emotional involvement with what we grew up with. They’ve probably never heard of the Berlin Wall or the 1956 Hungarian revolution or the atrocities of communism. Prague is now the capital of the Czech Republic and Slovakia is another country. It all seems like a past so long ago.
Some of us are old enough to remember this week when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring.”
It was a dark day for freedom. Like the Hungarians in 1956, the people of Czechoslovakia were given a taste of Soviet “tolerance.” The “Prague Spring” was all about freedom and reforms but the Kremlin did not accept it and sent the tanks in.
A sad day for those of us who were watching from the West, especially when Fidel Castro defended the USSR. by saying among many things that the country was “…..heading toward a counter-revolutionary situation, toward capitalism and into the arms of imperialism.”
We remember today all the people who stood up to Soviet tanks in Prague. And we remember more victims of communism.
(My new American Thinker post)
The USSR and the Warsaw Pact are now history. It all collapsed at the end of 1991. In other words, most people younger than 35 have no emotional involvement with what we grew up with. They’ve probably never heard of the Berlin Wall or the 1956 Hungarian revolution or the atrocities of communism. Prague is now the capital of the Czech Republic and Slovakia is another country. It all seems like a past so long ago.
Some of us are old enough to remember this week when 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring.”
My father had a friend from Prague who escaped a few months later. He was often at our home listening to news reports on my dad's Telefunken short-wave radio. That's what we used to do before the internet and cable news.
The invasion was a dark day for freedom. Like the Hungarians in 1956, the people of Czechoslovakia were given a taste of Soviet “tolerance.” The “Prague Spring” was all about freedom and reforms, but the Kremlin did not accept it and sent the tanks in.
A sad day for those of us who were watching from the West, especially when Fidel Castro defended the USSR by saying among many things that the country was “….heading toward a counter-revolutionary situation, toward capitalism and into the arms of imperialism.”
We remember today all the people who stood up to Soviet tanks in Prague. And all the other victims of communism.
