NEWS AND VIEWS THAT IMPACT LIMITED CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with
power to endanger the public liberty." - - - - John Adams
A Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of our regular and irregular readers. If you are surfing the Internet on Christmas and reading this message then your life is almost as pathetic as mine. In any case, thanks for coming by. Bless you all.
Your Editor will be taking a few days off for obvious reasons. If the world decides to end then so be it. The worldwide web will have to wait for my return to go over events.
Spend time with your loved ones. They are with us for way too short a time.
“I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, or why we died. All that matters is that two stood against many. That’s what’s important! Valor pleases you, Crom so grant me one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, then to hell with you!”
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– Conan
If I see the Grinch or National Lampoon's Christmas one more time I will fucking scream.
So I selected DVDs of five of my favorite war movies to watch over Christmas.
#1) Return of the King: The Ride of the Rohirrim [4K] (2003)
Perhaps the greatest war movie ever made. The siege of Minas Tirith alone was worth the price of admission.
#2 - Zulu (1964)
Chard: "The army doesn't like more than one disaster in a day."
Bromhead: "Looks bad in the newspapers and upsets civilians at their breakfast."
#3 - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
Russel Crowe strikes again.
#4 - Major Dundee (1965)
Gritty, realistic and ultra-violent.
Wonderful war film directed by the great Sam Peckinpah and starring Charlton Heston, Richard Harris, Jim Hutton, and James Coburn. Written by Harry Julian Fink.
Everyone dies - Dundee is an equal opportunity slaughter fest war movie. Every possible group is killed off, often savagely. Union soldiers are butchered, along with Confederates, Apaches, blacks, Mexicans, American frontiersmen and best of all lots and lots of French are killed. This film has something for every taste.
#5 - Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Kingdom of Heaven is a 2005 epic action film directed by the great Ridley Scott . It stars Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, Edward Norton and Liam Neeson.
King Baldwin IV: When I was sixteen, I won a great victory. I felt in that moment I would live to be a hundred. Now I know I shall not see thirty. None of us know our end, really, or what hand will guide us there. A king may move a man, a father may claim a son, but that man can also move himself, and only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone, even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say, "But I was told by others to do thus," or that virtue was not convenient at the time. This will not suffice. Remember that.
A researcher who analyzed FDA documents related to the emergency use authorization of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is demanding the autopsy report on a Kansas woman who died of cardiac arrest 41 days after receiving her second dose of the vaccine. Pfizer took 37 days, instead of the required 24 hours, to report the death.
Pfizer-BioNTech did not disclose the deaths of two vaccinated participants in its COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials, according to a team of Daily Clout researchers who analyzed documents related to the Pfizer clinical trials.
The deaths occurred before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted emergency use authorization (EUA) for the vaccine in December 2020. However, it wasn’t until September 2023, nearly three years later, that the FDA publicly released documents revealing the deaths of a 63-year-old Kansas woman and a 58-year-old Georgia woman who participated in the trials.
The revelations prompted Dr. Jeyanthi Kunadhasan — an Australian anesthesiologist and perioperative physician and one of the researchers analyzing the Pfizer documents on behalf of Daily Clout — to write to Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach, requesting his office investigate the death of the 63-year-old Kansas woman.
“If the additional two deaths had been disclosed at the time of the EUA, it would have shown that the BNT162b2 mRNA COVIDvaccine intervention provided no reduction in deaths,” Kunadhasan wrote in her letter.
In June, Kobach sued Pfizer, alleging the companymisled the public by marketing its COVID-19 vaccine as “safe and effective” while concealing known risks — including myocarditis and pericarditis, failed pregnancies and deaths — and critical data on limited effectiveness.
Pfizer also did not disclose the deaths — both classified in the documents as “sudden cardiac death” unrelated to the victims’ vaccination — in a December 2020 New England Journal of Medicine paper touting the “safety and efficacy” of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
“The death highlighted in Kansas is significant as it occurred well within the reporting period considered for the EUA, and as my letter shows was not disclosed. There was every opportunity to disclose this death at the VRBPAC meeting.
“This death even had an autopsy, which I show was probably available before the VRBPAC meeting, and again was not disclosed.”
Born 1909 in Berlin, Germany or Budapest, Hungary, Jewish-German photographer László Willinger was most noted for his portrait photography of movie stars and celebrities starting in 1937.
Willinger established photographic studios in Paris and Berlin in 1929 and 1931 respectively, and at the same time submitted his photographs to various newspapers as a freelance contributor. He left Berlin in 1933, settling and working in Vienna, where he began to photograph such celebrities as Marlene Dietrich, Hedy Lamarr, Pietro Mascagni, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Max Reinhardt.
Willinger crossed into the United States in 1937 and resided in Los Angeles, California. After establishing a studio in Hollywood, California, he became a frequent contributor to magazines and periodicals, providing magazine cover portraits of some of the most popular stars.
These stunning photos of classic beauties are part of his work that Willinger took in the 1930s and 1940s.
He died of heart failure in 1989 in Los Angeles, California at the age of 80.
