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
Here we go again. Captain America: Civil War, the #1 movie on the planet Earth, failed to win or even be nominated for Best Picture.
The insane loons in Hollywood gave the Best Picture Oscar to Moonlight, a movie no one saw and even fewer cared even existed.
This was also a politically correct award.
Now that an African American oriented movie has won the Hollywood Leftists can strut around saying, "See, were are not really racists after all."
The hilarious thing is Blacks had near zero interest in seeing this shoved down the throat so-called "Black Movie". The reality is African Americans were far more interested in buying tickets to Captain America or Star Wars.
It also comes down to mental illness combined with Elitist snobbery. They feel Hollywood and its actors are rightfully the center of the universe. Stop being a an uneducated rube and bow down before our opinions on film and politics.
I stopped watching all the award shows many years ago. Spending hours watching these people stroke each other on how smart and beautiful they all are in a waste of time.
Best Movie of 2016 Against my better judgement I went to see Suicide Squad.I guess my judgement sucks because I loved the movie. The insane Harley Quinn (played by Margot Robbie) stole the film from the "star" Will Smith.
The Movies People Actually Liked
Worldwide Box Office grosses of the top ten movies of 2016.
As a general rule if a movie is popular the Oscars ignore it.
The Silence of Democrats - Leftist loon Democrats only get worked up if transsexuals are not allowed to pee in front of little girls. Muslim terrorists must be "understood" because they come from a disadvantaged background.
(ABC News) - After Islamic militants barged into his uncle's house, shot him and his son dead, then looted the place and set it on fire, Said Sameh Adel Fawzy knew it was time to leave.
The 35-year-old Christian, who owns a plumbing supply business in Egypt's troubled northern Sinai town of el-Arish, packed up a few belongings and brought his family to the Suez Canal city of Ismailia, joining hundreds of Christians fleeing a spate of sectarian killings last week.
"My cousin went to open the door after he heard knocking," Fawzy said, speaking from a youth hostel where authorities were putting up dozens of families who fled the town. "Masked extremists, terrorists with a pistol, took him inside and shot him in the head," then dragged his screaming mother out to the street half-dressed and killed her husband. The woman, still in shock after the Tuesday night slayings, sat nearby.
"They're thirsty for the blood of any Christian," said Wafaa Fawzy, the sister-in-law of Saad Hana, the man who was killed along with his son. "They were pretty clear when they said they won't leave any Christian in peace. They want an Islamic state."
Hundreds of Egyptian Christian families flee ISIL-affiliated militants in Sinai
The killings, two of seven brutal slayings in recent weeks, come after a devastating IS suicide bombing at a Cairo church in December that killed nearly 30 people. The violence poses a fresh challenge to President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi's government to put down an IS-led insurgency in northern Sinai and prevent spillover that at times has reached the mainland.
The group's local affiliate recently vowed to step up a wave of attacks on the embattled Christian minority, pointing to a shift in tactics toward targeting Christians and their holy sites, which are less protected than the military and police installations that are their usual targets.
Northern Sinai has for years been the epicenter of an insurgency by Islamic militants, and the area's few Christians have slowly been trickling out. But departures surged after suspected militants again gunned down a Christian man in front of his family two days after Fawzy's uncle and cousin were killed, stoking panic among Christians.
Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of Egypt's population, have always been a favorite target of Islamic extremists. But attacks on churches have increased since the 2013 military overthrow of an Islamist president. Christians overwhelmingly supported the army chief-turned-president, el-Sissi, who led the ouster, and extremists have used their support as a pretext to increase attacks against them.
The Christian exodus continued for a fourth day Sunday, bringing to more than 100 the number of families who have fled el-Arish, said Nabil Shukrallah, an official with the city's Evangelical Church.
Families arrive frightened and in need of supplies, which are being stockpiled at the church from donations from several parishes, he said. The new arrivals are then housed in and around the city, in private homes or in accommodations provided by the government.
"They're exhausted, with urgent needs for food and children's clothing," he said, as one father carried a sick infant to be evacuated by ambulance. "They're terrified of the violence and brutality."
Before Egypt's 2011 Arab Spring uprising, some 5,000 Christians lived in northern Sinai, but that number has since dwindled to fewer than 1,000, according to Christian clergy members and residents. Egypt does not keep official statistics on the number of Christians in specific regions or nationwide.
Blacksmith Ezzat Yacoub Ishak said he and his two sons left their apartments carrying "absolutely nothing."
"The security forces, they're all hiding and scared for their lives, scared to confront those people," he said, speaking from a Spartan room furnished with only a mattress in a rented apartment in Ismailia. "There is no security. Yes, there are military and police at the check points, but for my protection as a human there is nothing."
The military's fight against the Sinai militants has been bitter.
Hundreds of troops have been killed, the army has razed hundreds of houses to stop alleged militant infiltration through tunnels from neighboring Gaza, and in 2014, el-Sissi declared a state of emergency and curfew after suicide bombings killed more than 30 soldiers. Still, the insurgency has shown little sign of abating.
At the Ismailia youth hostel where authorities were putting up some 45 families, luggage, boxes of food and the newly displaced arrived throughout the day.
"I don't want to stay there and die as a casualty in the war that has hit el-Arish," said Reda, a Christian civil servant who arrived two days earlier with six family members, including grandchildren. "If they allow us we will stay here until the terrorism is over and the government makes peace."
Coming within 1,621 votes of defeat has caused yet another GOP Congresswhore to go out of his way to adopt the Democrat Party Line on "evil" Russian election hacking and undermining a Republican President.
(San Jose Mercury News) - The day after Rep. Darrell Issa called for a special prosecutor to probe Russia’s role in the presidential election, the Republican congressman from San Diego County told reporters that Russia was “an evil, smaller empire” that needs to be kept in check — and that Republicans must show leadership by having the matter thoroughly investigated.
Rep. Darrell Issa
(AP file photo)
“For credibility, we have to hold this president to the level of transparency that the last president made every effort to thwart,” Issa said. “We have to make sure that this is a transparent administration.”
Issa, a former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committtee, is now one of only a handful of congressional Republicans to publicly state the need for an independent investigation into Russia’s reported election meddling.
Issa, who kept his House seat in November by a razor-thin margin, appeared Friday on the HBO talk show “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Maher continued, asking if Issa believed Attorney General Jeff Sessions should be involved in any such probe, given his involvement in the presidential campaign.
“You’re right that you cannot have somebody — a friend of mine, Jeff Sessions — who was on the campaign and who is an appointee,” Issa said. “You’re going to need to use the special prosecutor’s statute and office.”
(Breitbart London) - Former Prime Minister of Sweden Fredrik Reinfeldt has hit back at U.S. President Donald J. Trump, insisting mass migration has strengthened the country, which he said is becoming safer. In an interview with Aftonbladet, the Moderate party figure slammed Trump for his depiction of the Scandinavian country, accusing the U.S. president of drawing attention to crime and unrest in Sweden “to send a message that large scale migration harms a country”. Reinfeldt criticised the image of Sweden portrayed by some, including a piece by Sweden Democrat (SD) leaders Jimmie Åkesson and Mattias Karlsson last week in the Wall Street Journal, which said, “Trump is right”.
William "Bill" Paxton (May 17, 1955 – February 25, 2017) was an American actor and director. The films in which he appeared include The Terminator (1984), Weird Science (1985), Aliens (1986), Predator 2 (1990), Tombstone (1993), True Lies (1994), Apollo 13 (1995), Twister (1996), and Titanic (1997). Paxton also starred in the HBO series Big Love (2006–2011) and was nominated for an Emmy Award for the miniseries Hatfields & McCoys.
Game Over Man, GAME OVER!
(Aliens) Hudson best moments
(Entertainment) - In real life, the actor, who died Sunday at age 61, was as genuine as they come. A true-life good guy. Curious, kind. Always reaching out.
The last time I crossed paths with Paxton was at Comic-Con this past summer, where I hosted the Q&A for the Aliens 30th anniversary panel. Almost the entire cast was there, and he seemed as electrified as the thousands of fans in Hall H to relive the movie in which he died so spectacularly.
As delighted as he was to bellow Private Hudson’s plaintive wail of “Game over, man!” to the crowd, Paxton was also characteristically humble. He recalled a day during the making of Aliens when the roof of the set started to collapse during one of his scenes.
“I thought, ‘God I must really be sucking here,'” the actor said. “When I played this character, when I got the call to do this, I was so thrilled, but at the same time, I was very nervous. It’s hard to sustain the guy that’s always scared. In retrospect, 30 years later, I’m looking and going… you know… yeah, it’s okay.”
In The Terminator
Sigourney Weaver took umbrage on the panel. “You were brilliant!” she declared, stoking cheers from the crowd: “He was brilliant, right?”
Paxton grinned. “I thought the character was just gonna wear out his welcome and people were going to go, ‘When is this guy going to die already?'” he said. “Jim used the Hudson character and me in the role as kind of a pressure release valve.”
“That’s exactly what it was,” director and writer James Cameron interjected. “It’s a measure of the tension of the film on the audience. You give them the ability to laugh, and that releases the tension so it can build up again.”
“I just wish I coulda laughed more,” Paxton said.
“Then you gave him a heroic ending, saving us,” Weaver said to the filmmaker.
The corrupt Democrat Party has told Vets and American citizens in general to go fuck themselves. Dems have fully embraced the citizens of foreign nations over American citizens of all colors and ethnic backgrounds. Only illegal alien law breakers are deserving of support.
(Boston Herald) - A local veterans’ advocacy group is blasting Massachusetts U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other state Democrats for their support of illegal immigrants, calling it “selfish political theater” and demanding they put veterans’ services at the top of their list — or feel the heat.
“We’d like to see our leaders re-examine their priorities, put this at the forefront — if we have to, we’ll knock on some doors in D.C.,” said John MacDonald of Veterans Assisting Veterans. “We need to take care of veterans first before we decide to take care of people who are illegally here.”
In a two-page open letter to “all Americans,” the group — which has funded all-terrain wheelchairs for local vets as well as horse therapy at Ironstone Farm in Andover — slams the “selfish blatant ignorance of the politicians that have chosen illegal immigrants over US Veterans” and calls for readers to support VAV’s cause.
The letter also targets U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, U.S. Reps. Michael Capuano and Seth Moulton — an Iraq war veteran — and Mayor Martin J. Walsh for failing to speak out about veteran homelessness and health care problems, specifically calling out Warren and her “misguided antics.”
“Senator Warren and others like her should know the difference between legal and illegal activity and chose instead to act out negatively in selfish political theater,” the letter reads. “Where’s your rally for US Veterans, Senator Warren?”
(PJ Media) - This is literally and figuratively crazy.
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that some mental health professionals are complaining about clients who are suffering from various physical maladies as a result of their paranoia over Donald Trump's presidency. They are saying that there hasn't been this much anxiety in their patients since the September 11 terrorist attacks.
“This is so monumental because we are not in normal anymore,” said Randi Gottlieb, a therapist who heads the L.A. chapter of the California Assn. of Marriage and Family Therapists. “It’s putting into flux and questioning how do we practice, what is the best way to support the people we care for. We’re beginning those conversations — we don’t really have good answers.”
Therapists say the last time so many people came to therapy wanting to talk about the same thing was after the Sept. 11 attacks. Trump has been a topic of discussion for months, even for people who see therapists for issues as seemingly unrelated as relationship troubles or eating disorders.
“I had a 10-year-old in my office who was talking about it,” said Paul Puri, a psychiatrist in Brentwood.
Over the summer, William Doherty, a professor at the University of Minnesota and a therapist in St. Paul, published a manifesto online declaring Trump a unique threat to America’s mental health. More than 3,800 therapists signed it.
Doherty wrote that Trump’s campaign was creating widespread alienation and fear among Americans. Trump was normalizing behavior that therapists fight to reverse, including “the tendency to blame others in our lives for our personal fears and insecurities,” he said, and “a kind of hyper-masculinity that is antithetical to the examined life and healthy relationships.”
These issues haven’t gone away now that Trump is president, Doherty said. He formed a group last month called Citizen Therapists for Democracy to consider issues raised by Trump’s presidency. Therapists aren’t accustomed to advising patients on how to handle this kind of “public stress,” since psychotherapy has traditionally been limited to private lives and psychology, he said.
(Long War Journal) - The British press buzzed yesterday with news that a former Guantanamo detainee known as Jamal al Harith (formerly Ronald Fiddler) had blown himself up in a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) in Iraq.
Al Harith reportedly took part in the Islamic State’s defensive suicide attacks around Mosul, which is one of the organization’s de facto capitals. The so-called caliphate claims to have launched scores of suicide VBIEDs in defense of the city.
On the same day al Harith executed his attack (Feb. 20), the Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency released a short video of three SUVs being deployed as bombs. All three vehicles had armor added to the front. One of the three was presumably driven by al Harith. The Islamic State released a photo al Harith (seen above), identifying him by the alias Abu Zakariya al Britani. The group also issued a claim of responsibility for his bombing.
Al Harith’s death brings to an end one of the strangest stories in the history of the detention facility at Guantanamo. Along with four others, Al Harith was transferred to American custody in early 2002 after being found in the Taliban-controlled Sarposa prison.
According to leaked Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF-GTMO) threat assessments, jihadis in Afghanistan accused all five men of being spies for foreign powers looking to infiltrate the Taliban’s and al Qaeda’s ranks. Sarposa (spelled “Sarpooza” and “Sarpuza” in JTF-GTMO’s files) was overrun by the Northern Alliance in late 2001 and the men (subsequently dubbed the Sarposa Five) were handed over to the Americans and then transferred to Guantanamo.
Trump is correct. By campaigning for jobs for the working man Trump carried the Democrat Rust Belt states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. States that no open borders Republican would have carried.
The corrupt GOP will oppose Trump at every turn.
(New York Post) - President Trump vowed Friday that his jobs plan would revive the country’s Rust Belt and make Republicans “the party of the American worker.” “It’s time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work,” Trump told the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md. “You’re going to love it. You’re going to love it.” Trump promised to “put our miners back to work” and took a shot at environmentalists by adding: “Sorry to tell you that.” “The GOP will be from now on also the party of the American worker,” he said later.
The Real Republican Party Trump Nationalism will be fought tooth and nail by the corrupt Wall Street multi-national corporations. Virtually the entire GOP is bought and paid for by corporate special interests. . The GOP Corporatists have ZERO interest in American citizen workers. The corporations pay off both parties to flood America with an endless wave of legal and illegal workers in order to drive down wages. The GOP Congress deliberately kept the Obamatrade Treaty secret during the entire election. They wanted Hillary badly to win so their Masters on Wall Street could export even more jobs to Asia.
(The Gateway Pundit) - They say after a drinks, the truth always comes out. Not with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, as all he needs is a latino audience and a camera. The television anchor let it be known who he thinks the United States really “belongs to” at the Univision Music Awards.
Further ramping up his open opposition to President Trump’s immigration law enforcement policies, Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has let loose with an outrageous tirade that could best be described as equal parts nationalistic identity politics, racially-driven demagoguery, and yet another instance of the irresponsible conflation of legal and illegal immigration.
Here’s how the Univision/Fusion anchor kicked off his participation in the 2017 edition of the network’s annual entertainment awards show, Premios Lo Nuestro (“Our Awards”):
JORGE RAMOS, SENIOR NEWS ANCHOR, UNIVISION: I am an immigrant, just like many of you. I am a proud Latino immigrant here in the United States. My name is Jorge Ramos, and I work at Univision and at the Fusion network. And you know exactly what is going on here in the United States. There are many people who do not want us to be here, and who want to create a wall in order to separate us. But you know what? This is also our country. Let me repeat this: OUR country, not theirs. It is our country. And we are not going to leave. We are nearly 60 million Latinos in the United States. And thanks to US, the United States eats, grows and, as we’ve seen today, sings and dances. So when they attack us, we already know what we are going to do. We are not going to sit down. We will not shut up. And we will not leave. That is what we are going to do.
This certainly isn’t the first time Ramos has gotten fired up about immigration or anything Trump related, for that matter. The anchor was swiftly removed from a Trump presser over the summer.
