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Hollywood mogol David Geffen's recent neutron attack on Hillary and Bill also says quite a bit about him. I mean didn't he champion their cause to the tune of multi million dollar fund raisers Hollywood fete's? Of course.
So seeing or hearing about Algore's lying and misrepresentation now validated by Oscar simply continues a long and distinguished Hollywood tradition of treachery to the nation and insularity from our population.
As the years go by I become more like Howard Beale in the movie "Network". If you've never seen it I would highly recommend it, highly. Howard Beale inveighs against the hustle and hype of Hollywood etc.etc....do yourself a favor and see it. My TV stays off with few exceptions. I would watch this movie for the fifth time again anytime, it's that good.
None of the above is why I am posting today however. There is a piece in the NYT Magazine that is worth your time, or at least i my humble opinion it does since it covers the most critical problem we face today. Nukes in the hands of Islamic maniacs.

Here is some of what I have written about the article.

People get ready for the trains a com'n...the world sans the USA, hey we're almost there, and I'd like to be the first to give the finger to all those shit countries that fucked off while the US did all the heavy lifting for the last fifty years plus. Here's a little Sam Nunn and then some more Sam Nunn with friends, like Warren Buffett and Ted Turner.

"America was lucky to survive the cold war, Nunn told an audience in Washington last month. “I don’t believe if you get another 7, 8, 10 countries with a nuclear weapon that you’re going to be so lucky.”
Now included in Sam Nunn's corner is Warren Buffett and Ted Turner who had this to say.
"And then I saw a report on “60 Minutes” about lax security in the former Soviet Union. There were 20,000 warheads and stockpiles of uranium and plutonium capable of making another 40,000 or more warheads scattered across 11 time zones, whose safety too often depended on lackadaisical guards, shabby locks and defective security cameras. There was another related problem: large quantities of uranium that could be used to make bombs were being stored at some 130 civilian nuclear reactors around the world, often under even more slipshod security. A small group of terrorists might break into such a facility and if they had basic engineering and chemistry skills could probably forge a crude nuclear bomb out of a grapefruit-size 30-pound lump of highly enriched uranium (to say nothing of a much simpler radioactive “dirty” bomb).
They got busy and formed the Nuclear Threat initiative NTI

Those of you who write very eloquently about what it will be like might want to start learning some survival skills. 500,000 illegals a year across our borders means a 100% chance there's dirty bomb material here now.

Fish and Sausage Trader ,side order of enriched uranium..Nunn’s Nightmares

"Last month, the International Atomic Energy Agency revealed that officials in the former Soviet republic of Georgia had arrested Khinsagov, a 50-year-old Russian fish and sausage trader, for attempting to sell 100 grams of highly enriched uranium to a Muslim buyer who, Khinsagov had been told, represented “a serious organization.” The price: $1 million. Khinsagov, who was caught in a sting operation, had nowhere near enough material for a bomb, but he claimed to have far more at his apartment. (Whether he actually did is unclear.) An American laboratory analysis indicates that the material most likely originated at a Russian nuclear facility."

So it looks very much like the world is going to get a big dish of a diminished United States. It hungers for it now if one believes the world press. Wait until DC,Wall Street,LA, and a host of other cities are hit with the "Tet" that is coming. So don't wait, join me now in raising that middle digit to all those friends and allies who are now "safe" at home.
Men speak of peace but there is no peace.

We are now back at Trinity site and the words from the Bhagavad Gita spoken by J.Robert Oppenheimer Bhagavad Gita

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to
burst forth at once in the sky, that would
be like the splendor of the Mighty One."
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
The words of Vishnu come to us as the clocks ticks toward the radiance of a thousand suns.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/magazine/25Nunn.t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin

John Hetman you are a funny guy. I got a good chuckle out of your attempt last evening to not look directly at the radiance of the luminaries...you also obviously have smart dogs.

My antipathy for Hollywood comes from personal experience. I may have mentioned this before , so those of you who have heard the story or are bored reading me ...coffee break time.

I worked for three years in Beverly Hills for IBM at the end of '79-82. I had most of Wilshire Blvd down to Robertson over to Olympic right on Rodeo and then back to Wilshire.
Many of my clients were movie and TV producers. Every one was a multimillionaire who was very left of center.
One day a TV producer who happen to then have the #1 rated show on TV and was notoriouly anti military found out I was a former Marine...well my life visiting his office from that point on was the shits. I was in marketing and sales so part of my job was to show up when the installation of a new system was scheduled. By this time Mr. Big had also found out I was former CIA. He cussed me and defamed IBM for hiring me etc..he then demanded that I get on my hands and knees and help with the installation ..I didn't work for IBM too much longer after that,perhaps a year.
I have very few nice things to say about MOST of the Hollywood types.
I also catered to the whims of the late Armand Hammer, CEO of Occidental Petroleum and friend of Joe Stalin. In fact Stalin awarded Hammer the Lenin Order of Friendship Among the Peoples award. I'll tell ya , California is a mess, and I don't miss it a bit.

...one other thing...can anyone name an industry that congratulates itself with award celemonies like the movie and TV industry?

And unfortunately most begin early on to confuse fame with intelligence. Congress even calls stars to testify because the PLAYED A ROLE in a movie about , oh lets say, geothermic power. Hello...they learned lines from a script...

About twenty years ago I made a vow that I wouldn't go to a first run movie at a theater..I would not support those people..I'm still good.