FROM JUNE ELEVENTH, 2018.
Roughly 12 years ago writer Phelim McAleer moved to the U.S. from Europe and learned that many European assumptions about the country are just plain wrong. That was especially true when it came to the overseas image of America’s political left compared to the ugly reality of what they’ve become in recent decades.
Here’s another figure from the creative community making many of the same observations I’ve often made about how the left has driven away so many of us who used to belong to it. The link is below but first some excerpts:
“One of the first things I learned when I came to America was that American Progressives don’t much believe in progress. In fact they are among the most conservative – even regressive – people I know.”
DEMOCRAT PARTY
“As I got to know my new country I discovered that very often leftism debased terms so badly that they meant the opposite of what they should.”
“I wrote a play called FERGUSON which only used actual Grand Jury eyewitness transcripts to tell the story of the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown. It is a technique known as Verbatim Theater.
“Nine members of the cast walked out during rehearsals. Why? Simply because the truth didn’t match the “Hands Up Don’t Shoot” Ferguson lie they’d been sold by the media. The irony was that most of the eyewitnesses who gave evidence to the grand jury were minorities. The actors were not willing to give minorities a voice on stage, because they didn’t much like the truth of what had actually happened in Ferguson.” Continue reading
DOWN GOES NUMBER SIX – In NCAA Division 3, the 13th ranked UNIVERSITY OF MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR CRUSADERS welcomed the number 6 team in the nation – the HARDIN-SIMMONS UNIVERSITY COWBOYS. A 3-3 1st Quarter tie became a 6-3 Crusaders edge at the Half. UMHB got the only points from there and won out 13-3. 
NUMBER SEVEN GOES DOWN – Up in NCAA Division 2 action, the MINNESOTA STATE AT MOORHEAD DRAGONS played host to the 7th ranked MINNESOTA STATE MAVERICKS. The Mavericks were out in front 28-21 at the midpoint of the game. After the break, the Dragons shut out MSU while rallying for a 34-28 victory. 
THE GOLDEN HAWK (1952) 
Marvel Comics rules the superhero roost right now, and with the movie business being what it is that means they pretty much rule blockbuster cinema, too. We have all seen Marvel’s superhero characters dominate the big screen in a way not seen since Cowboy stars of long ago. 
CAPTAIN TERROR 
FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH (1907) – Written by Thomas William Lawson, a writer and stock manipulator who made a fortune from shady stock deals … in between advocating for cleaning up Wall Street to shut down those fleece jobs. The reforms Lawson campaigned for were taken up decades later when Franklin Roosevelt appointed future Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas to head the Securities Exchange Commission. 
Jim Randolph, one of the novel’s main characters, is in the T.R. mold: he may be a bloated rich pig but at least he’s a bloated rich pig with a sense of noblesse oblige. Jim shares Teddy Roosevelt’s disdain for the Trusts and for con men who use the stock market to rip off their clients. 
Here’s a Friday current events roundup from 
FRITZ THE NITE OWL – Frederick C. Peerenboom aka Fritz the Nite Owl, lasted so long as a Movie Host that it would take a multi-volume set of books to truly do justice to his career. Consider this blog post a mere scratching of the surface. 
Double Chiller Theatre aired a Double Feature beginning at 11:30pm. Over time it became better known as Nite Owl Theatre.
DYNASTY (1976)
Despite this, the family stands united against slave-hunters when they come looking for fugitive slave Sam (Charles Weldon). They come to Sam’s aid and he stays with the Blackwoods from then on. 
STICKY REMINDER: In the midterm elections during Barack Obama, the Democrats were massively blown out and lost SIXTY-THREE seats in the House and NINE MORE in the Senate. Obama fans tell me that had nothing to do with Obama because he wasn’t on the ballot that year. WELL, NEITHER WAS TRUMP ON THE BALLOT THIS YEAR. More elections 
