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  Frank Vincent

  by glenster in

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  rip aug.4, 1939 to sept.13, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxnh8aje7n4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmrf2wazwpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/frank_vincent.

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  glenster

  RIP
  Aug.4, 1939 to Sept.13, 2017
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxNh8ajE7N4
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMrF2wAzWpg
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Vincent
  
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  Their interest in us is self-serving.

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  why these war-beasts have kept me on i haven't a clue.

  perhaps my ruddy complexion is a reminder of the basic hue of a home deserted yet scarcely forgotten.. .

  i cannot by any stretch of the imagination -- and there's been a great deal of such "stretching" lately -- attribute to these coarse and loathsome creatures any delicate sentiment characteristic of our gentler race.

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  glenster

  "Hidden Meaning in Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino) – Earthling Cinema" by
  Wisecrack
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK9rhr06lGA
  
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  Jerry Lewis

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  rip march 16, 1926 to aug.20, 2017 he was too conservative for me about a few things but he was my biologicalmother and you never forget a woman like that.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xejfsfmbfqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3kamg9lizw&t=87s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkog-wi9_2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxz769dgae.

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  glenster

  "Nutty Professor Bloopers - All At Once"
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GqGvNkId54
  
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  Walter Becker

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  rip feb.20, 1950 to sept.3, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0qhabw73sk steely dan spoof of nazis w/rick derringer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiahryiiyde http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steely-dan-10-essential-songs-w500955 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/walter_becker.

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  glenster

  https://www.yahoo.com/music/remembering-steely-dans-walter-becker-lost-interview-043537071.html
  
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  Walter Becker

  by glenster in

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  rip feb.20, 1950 to sept.3, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0qhabw73sk steely dan spoof of nazis w/rick derringer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiahryiiyde http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steely-dan-10-essential-songs-w500955 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/walter_becker.

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  glenster

  RIP
  Feb.20, 1950 to Sept.3, 2017
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0QhaBW73Sk
  Steely Dan spoof of Nazis w/Rick Derringer
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiahryiIYDE
  http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steely-dan-10-essential-songs-w500955
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Becker
  
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  Shelley Berman

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  rip feb.3, 1925 to sept.1, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noydkwf8agc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et4g3cdog8m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/shelley_berman.

  there are three stages of man.

  one is i want some candy and some toys.

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  glenster

  RIP
  Feb.3, 1925 to Sept.1, 2017
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOyDkwF8AGc
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et4G3CdOG8M
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_Berman

  There are three stages of man.
  One is I want some candy and some toys.
  Two is I want some sex and a job.
  Three is Oo, I'd sure like to take a nap and the vibrant young adults of my
  childhood are dropping like flies.
  
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

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  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  glenster

  Advocates of removing statues of confederate generals force their point in
  claiming that if some were put up to promote racism that the only explanation
  white people gave for them was that confederate generals were good in promoting
  racism. Assuming an agreement with the statue removers that racism is harmful
  junk science it begs the question--what do they think we white non-racists
  explained about those statues all these years--that the Civil War was fought
  pointlessly against the south because the south was about racism which is good?
  That Lincoln had a big war fought for no reason? Hitler was a racist foreign
  leader we as Allies fought against but there's an historical USA point in having
  statues of confederate generals since they were leaders in a war that took place
  on American soil. The same reason they keep up both sides generals at Gettys-
  burg and call on you to explain it applies to such statues and the Civil War
  generally.

  Lost Causers try to rationalize it otherwise but we don't bend the explana-
  tions around them. The statue removers haven't invented some exclusive new ex-
  planations about that. Why remove statues that create an historically important
  reason to explain that racism is junk science? Confederate general statues
  present an opportunity to explain that as an important part of explaining the
  Civil War.

  If it's debatable I would recommend consideration. If some people believe the
  confederate generals statues represent approval of racism on the part of the
  public I'd say take them down--I don't need to look at them. But if you ask me
  I'd explain what I have in the other several paragraphs. You should know how to
  explain why Lincoln's on Mt. Rushmore--not take statues down if you don't.
  
  
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

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  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  glenster

  Follow up to the bit I wrote about Jimmy Stewart
  "Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe" by Robert Matzen
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3825552/Jimmy-Stewart-suffered-extreme-PTSD-lost-130-men-fighter-pilot-WW-II-acted-anguish-filming-s-Wonderful-Life.html

  PS: I have the usual ideas about
  - racism being junk science which has caused and causes needless harm
  - slavery justifiably being illegal in all countries (if practiced illegally
  in some places)
  - I'm not a "Lost Cause"r or such about the south in the Civil War.
  
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

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  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  glenster

  Much of the reason for greater European advancement than African advancement
  was that Europe was riddled with rivers and Africa was not at a time when
  shipping was important for tranportation of goods and ideas.
  
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  Columbus Circle monument could be next statue to go

  by freemindfade in

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  2. current

  christopher columbus could be next on the monuments chopping block.. the 76-foot structure honoring the explorer at columbus circle should be among the statues reviewed by the city for potential purging, city council speaker melissa mark-viverito said on monday.. http://nypost.com/2017/08/21/columbus-circle-monument-could-be-next-statue-to-go/.

  if this goes on, these people are just validating what the orange one said, where will it stop?

  how will people 200 years from now look back on us?

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  glenster

  My little contribution to this discussion is JWs-sounding. If you want statues
  to be just "good" make them for ethics or ideals--not people (except JWs would
  go farther and make it a concern not to be idolatrous which I wouldn't bother
  with). Nobody's perfect and in some cases it could get pretty thorny. If you
  make them for people you better know your history and be ready to make explana-
  tions.

  If you're going to take down any statues to people who aren't consistent with
  modern outlooks (don't be 'centric and intolerant about things that don't merit
  being that way--gender, sex orientation, age, handicap, race, nationality, basic
  belief in God or not, etc.) it's like "Jaws"--you're going to need a bigger
  boat. You're going to need bigger museums and more of them to put them in. You
  can't just put statues for confederate generals in there.

  For example:

  Many of our rock heros, like Lennon, financed organized crime to buy their
  heroin or cocaine. (The latest Beatles PR is that they didn't know where the
  money was going to. Big money Beatles PR must be powerful stuff.)

  Gen. Patton had a virulent antisemitic streak--and let it be known at the end
  of WWII!

  MLK--justifiably renowned for braving threats of bullets to combat racism--
  had the conservative doctrine about homosexuals according to a 1958 letter he
  wrote. (They choose to be sinners like crooks and if they persist they're going
  to hell). An associate of his was homosexual but that just shows he wasn't as
  strict as a JWs leader about fellowshipping--most Christians aren't in compari-
  son. He maintained a conventional consideration of the Bible as a source of
  wisdom for his speaches as a pastor up to the time he died in the late 1960's.
  (What is this--what kind of bigotry do you prefer?)

  Think of all the plaques to wars. Every modern war I know of comes with war
  crimes.

  The biggest bloody mess in the history of big bloody messes--WWII--is usually
  thought of as controversial due to the two atom bombs. Actually, they just made
  killing non-combatants more convenient. Firebombing of non-military targets had
  been going on for a while by then.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebombing

  FDR and Churchill initially wanted bombs to hit military targets only but the
  Axis anti-aircraft weaponry was so good the bombers couldn't fly in the day low
  down they had to fly high up at night. And they couldn't be surgical about it.
  (I vaguely remember a source saying Hitler bragged that his strategy of killing
  non-combatants forced his opponants to emulate it to combat it.)

  Who is better remembered as an Allied hero than Jimmy Stewart? There's a
  statue for him in Indiana, PA. He led bombing raids of Berlin near the end of
  the war. How many men, women, and children non-combatants did he kill?

  God said so, what else could we do rationalization, we didn't know back then,
  etc. Get ready to explain something.