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ALL NEW!!! Award-winning mystery writer Max Allan Collins returns to the show to kick off Mr. Media's 7th year of continuous podcasting to talk about two new books, 'Seduction of the Innocent,' a skewering of anti-comic book zealot Dr. Frederic Wertham, as well as his work bringing another unfinished Mike Hammer detective novel, 'Complex 90,' by Mickey Spillane, to completion. Along the way, we also talk about violence in media, the writing life and more. Please watch, tell a friend, and THANK YOU for your ongoing support of the show! http://www.mrmedia.com/2013/02/max-allan-collins-on-spillane-hammer-guns-seduction-2013-video-interview/#.URA2F-gp3-gALL NEW!!! Award-winning mystery writer Max Allan Collins returns to the show to kick... more
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Just in case you forgot that Christmas occurs on the same date each year (Dec. 25), here are some remarkably unreadable GOP political memoirs. Just released in time to be unavailable for Christmas day, the authors include
•the dark luminaries like Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, and John Boehner,
•the brightly lit up loonies like Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, and Herman Cain,
•and the darkly luminescent brightly shining nutty as fruit cake Rick Santorum,
•Oh, and a certain former Presidential decider as well, with a Mitt Romney thrown in for old time's sake.
All can be delivered to your least favorite friends of acquaintances, each can be had for under $1.99 (as of this writing) from book remainder resellers everywhere!
http://latestbloomer.uskoa.com/just-in-time-to-be-2-days-late-for-christmas-the-gop-memoirs-no-one-wants-you-to-read/Just in case you forgot that Christmas occurs on the same date each year (Dec. 25),... more
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By C.Jay Engel
As I walked away from the movie, an older man behind me whispered to his friend: “that movie should have come out ten years ago. What a needed story for our time.” Needed? I’m not so sure. But the timing was impeccable. With the recent talk of frustrated citizens storming the White House petition website demanding the allowance of secession, perhaps this movie, which portrayed the closest the United States has ever come to a break up, was reinforcement of “unity above principle.” A disturbing political tendency that haunts our current political climate. “Uniting” together as one nation in “times of trouble” has been the public goal of leaders, not only in the American narrative, but throughout countries worldwide, including and especially those countries considered to be overseen by tyrannical or dictatorial leaderships.
The Lincoln movie was everything I expected it to be and more. Lousy historical scholarship, a sense of positive bubbling emotion for one of our country’s worst presidents, and a praiseworthy cast. Tommy Lee Jones was outstanding as a supporting actor and, in my opinion, stole the show. Sally Fields too did well in portraying the wife of President Lincoln, a role that demanded her to be a frustrated and constantly ill woman, full of contradicting and bi polar emotions. Of course Daniel Day-Lewis was a spectacular choice for the seemingly depressed, yet always thoughtful President who faced a unique crisis in American history. One might have been left, at the end of the two and a half hour movie, feeling rather frustrated with the South and their ever-so-racist ways. But glad with all the hard work that Lincoln did in his second term on behalf of the slavery issue.
Unfortunately however, history tells a different tale about the Lincoln we have learned to cherish in our propaganda ridden secular schools. Lincoln, according to Thomas Dilorenzo, was a master politician. Murray Rothbard described a politician as a liar, conniver, and manipulator.
In 1832, Lincoln begins his career as a politician with a bang, saying things like:
“I presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by many friends to become a candidate for the legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance. I am in favor of a national bank…in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff.”
Central banking, corporate welfare, high taxation; portrayed as an “old woman’s dance.” The perfect and masterful politician indeed.
What of his views on slavery? In Lincoln the Racist, Dilorenzo, shows that Lincoln was “a man of his time,” that is, he consistently stated his belief that blacks are “inferior,” not to be seen as “socially and politically equal,” unqualified to “intermarry with white people” or “hold office,” and perhaps saddest of all, that “America was made for the White people and not for the Negroes.” A very different portrait than the Lincoln of Hollywood who went out of his way to talk to the black soldiers and the black maid that worked in the White House. Lincoln at one point in the movie said, “Slavery bothered me as long as I could remember.” Yet historically, we have only indication of the opposite sentiment.
Full Story: http://libertycrier.com/entertainment/the-lincoln-movie-a-libertarian-review/By C.Jay Engel
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Glenn Beck -THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!
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The scum of the earth (very informal) If a group of people are the scum of the earth, they are the worst type of people
Usage notes: Scum is a layer of unpleasant or dirty substance that has formed on top of a liquid.
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Yes he is THE SCUM OF THE EARTH but he would not be able to do any harm, if it weren't for the ignorant who seem to flock to the Republican Party. Thank goodness, the Non-thinking, who only watch Fox News and only listen to the assholes on Clear Channel, like Limbaugh were outnumbered on Election Day! I hope the Thinking amongst us stay energized; people like Beck will not stop EVER if they see there might be a buck or two made from their fear-mongering. thinkingblue
Bain Capital Owns Clear Channel (Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michael Savage, Etc.)
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/tag/conservative-talk-radio
IGNORANCE IS NOT BLISS! READ ON:
Glenn Beck Has the Paranoid Conspiracy World Cowering with “Agenda 21?
Dystopic novel is a sleight-of-hand technique to keep the public focused on bogeymen, while the pillaging of the middle class continues unabated. November 23, 2012 |
When the Corporate Elite tells us we need to be afraid of something, they almost always expect to make some money off our fear.
From the same people who brought us the “Ground Zero Victory Mosque,” FEMA concentration camps, and every single George Soros conspiracy theory, comes a brand new hyper-paranoid threat-to-America’s-sovereignty that, they say, should scare the hell out of all of us.
It goes by the name of Agenda 21, which just so happens to be the title of Glenn Beck’s new dystopic novel.
Billed as, “more frightening than anything Orwell could have envisioned,” Beck’s Agenda 21 paints a disturbing picture of America following the implementation of the United Nation’s Agenda 21, which is actually a real life UN initiative, though not nearly as nefarious as Beck would have us all believe.
The book’s tagline reads: “This used to be called America. Now it is just ‘the Republic.’ There is no president. No congress. No freedom.”
MORE HERE: http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/glenn-beck-has-paranoid-conspiracy-world-cowering-agenda-21
Beck's Main Purpose Is To Frighten All The Little Children (Oh and make money while doing so)
UPDATE: Salon: Two weeks ago I discovered, to my surprise, that I had line-edited an early draft of Glenn Beck’s new novel, “Agenda 21.” Glenn Beck! At the time I was working on it, the manuscript belonged to its actual author, a woman named Harriet Parke, who lives a few minutes from my aunt. But a year and a few lawyers later, Glenn Beck purchased the right to call himself its creator, and Ms. Parke agreed to be presented as a ghostwriter. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/20/glenn-beck-agenda-21_n_2166465.htmlGlenn Beck -THE SCUM OF THE EARTH!
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The author of "The Dispossessed" explains how she educated herself to write her award-winning novel.The author of "The Dispossessed" explains how she educated herself to write... more
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ALL NEW! Young adult romance novelist J.C.Isabella from Clearwater, Florida, has self-published a handful of ebook-only titles and been very successful at it. She's done so well, in fact, that in less than a year, she's quit her job and begun writing full time! I think you'll find her story and independent story fun and inspiring! Thanks for watching and please share with a friend! http://www.mrmedia.com/2012/09/novelist-j-c-isabella-knows-what-high-school-kids-think-2012-video-interview/#.UGZw4lStPwlALL NEW! Young adult romance novelist J.C.Isabella from Clearwater, Florida, has... more
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This isn't music, it's a novel about rock and it seems to fit better here than it does on Art & Style. Great book - enjoy.
A snip: "Observation #1: Completeness of the Soul isn’t a novel at all. Not in a strict sense, anyway. We expect novels to be driven by more or less cohesive narrative arcs, and this is somewhat true even in literary fiction, which is more about character than plot. Now, make no mistake, there is a powerful organizing gravity well at the center of CotS, but structurally it’s less about an organic whole than it is a closely related suite of vignettes. I suppose fans of the postmodern novel will find this barely worth commenting on, and that’s fine, except for the fact that at heart, Jim Booth is an extremely traditional writer.
None of this is bad. In fact, it’s quite compelling."This isn't music, it's a novel about rock and it seems to fit better here... more
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Resident Evil Movie 201 "Retribution". Behind the scenes. Interview with Mila JovovichResident Evil Movie 201 "Retribution". Behind the scenes. Interview with... more
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Do you know what you are doing next Friday? Many people are patiently awaiting for the opening day for the 5th rendition of "Resident Evil." I have been looking forward to September 14 for a long long time, and I can't contain myself of the excitement. This time the movie is titled "Retribution" - the act of repaying or repairing something that has been damaged. The cast of Resident Evil have began their retribution and taking back the world from the virus spread.Do you know what you are doing next Friday? Many people are patiently awaiting for the... more
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This week we cover our week. Along with a new episode of the Galactic Librarian. We also trudge through the forums and community posts for some fun information. Oh yeah and we cover the nerf buff list as given to us from bioware lead dev for Patch 1.4This week we cover our week. Along with a new episode of the Galactic Librarian. We... more
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This Week We have an all new segment for one of our great listens Bru'tis our new lore master. Sudo stops by with her weekly reading in the Galactic Library. We cover the most recent patch notes and the release of the next great PVP warzone the Ancient Hypergates. Plus so much more.This Week We have an all new segment for one of our great listens Bru'tis our new... more
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