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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    ^Great review and background Code history. ...and, can't let it go---I was a dozen feet away and thirty seconds too late to get Ginger Rodgers' autograph. I was fourteen or fifteen, Ms Rodgers encircled by mature ladies, Chicago's Water Tower Place, I was ready-set to dash over, and one of the...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    You are correct. And Mountbatten got Southeast Asia. Interesting aside per slicing Pacific theatre is intelligence dissemination within and without. Just saw The Immitation Game which focuses Turing at Bletchley Park and MI6 crypts cracking Enigma; and once done how the fact that it was broken...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I was a lousy student, disciplinary issues, school basically bore me. The Army turned me around and I aced college on the GI Bill, regret that it took so long. But college itself isn't the golden key to prosperity people ascribe to it, a person who has some understanding of himself is equally...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    On second glance you are right, and I stand corrected. :) My apology for mistaken inference. However, if I erred and committed the sin of supposition, candor suggests reply to your caustic sarcastic nature, as is your want; at least as such is directed towards me. Perhaps I erred too quickly...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    See: Shattered Faith: A Woman's Struggle To Stop the Roman Catholic Church From Annuling Her Marriage, Sheilah Rauch Kennedy Compelling canon law case. Annulment initially granted; appellate recourse Vatican; Rota reversed Personal---A decade ago; maybe longer, dozen years past, brief...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Looks a LAW, light ant-tank weapon; also called 'PRINGLES' by American grunts. Soviet tanks are vulnerable left side, ammo and gas storage, so Laws typically fire at port side...saw a Law on tv hit a Russian tank left, southpaw hit the tread, knocked it off, stopping the tank. Great shot. See...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Please read my full post as listed above, and you will see that I remarked that college was not for every kid and there is nothing wrong with a blue collar trade skill or similar option. I never said anything, nor implied, that trades do not require brains. And for the record, college summers...
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    Hunting Hitler on the History Channel

    Respectfully disagree. Nostradamus has stood the test of Time. His quatrains are often difficult to decipher but numerous subsequent revelation came to pass with discernible provenance. Your cite of sixteenth century critics pale in comparison to his full canon and you failed to mention the...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Closest religous established church to Roman Catholicism is Episcopalian. Differences abound, most certainly women ordained to priesthood, though occasionally married Episcopalian priests are ordained within the Roman Catholic Church. Theology gets confused sometimes; especially annulment...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    No connection. None whatsoever. A few years ago when I lived in Chicago's Gold Coast an American Catholic Orthodox church was located up the street from my apartment bldg. Fancy neighborhood ritzy address but never saw another franchise....
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I recently watched Manchester By The Sea, a lovely film set in coastal New England. The protagonist assumes guardianship of his sixteen-year old nephew who adamantly states he "is not going to college." His nephew intends to become a fisherman like his dad. College is not for every kid and there...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Novturne. Adequate, but disjointed horror genre; drug usage at a prestigious fine arts high school, sexual encounters filmed against a classical music competition. Some fairly interesting, well scripted scenes but the cumulative composition fails to score a masterpiece. Nocturne could have been...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I've been looking for Derry Girls... The Quest continues. Murphy's Law is okey-doke. However, playing both sides of the coin for episodic crime show cuts the drink a wee bit thin. Pour a full glass of Guinness, intro the character warts and all like Celine, let the chips fall wherever...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    The Supreme Allied Commander enjoys overall theatre control. Adm Nimitz, other Navy brass will coordinate fleet movements within tacit understanding while allowing initiative per circumstance. LaGuardia needs to understand ain't nuttin' wrong with makin' n' takin' a little book. George...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I recall having read Seven Pillars of Wisdom while in the Army off a commander reading list report or early in college; wine and cheese party converse about the film, its rape scene, Lawrence's subsequent incongrous RAF enlistment, motorcycle death. The proverbial Churchillian enigma, wrapped...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Carol is adapted from Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt, an excellent though clearly dated literary effort, which a more perceptive director such as Hitchcock could have done much more with. Hitchcock grabbed Highsmith's literary deflower Strangers On A Train.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    And you are correct. But within legal stricture there are lines that can be subsequently cited to appeal a bench decision and Solomon has needlessly wounded himself and his judgement by his paternal solicit of Ms Kohlman; ostensibly at least a minor. And I suspect that Ms Kohlman may be...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I should have remarked this film's painstaking attentive-to-detail wardrobe. Outstanding. Hats galore. Fedora, homburg, caps. Sweaters, overcoat, scarves. And ladies wear superb. Honorable mention automotives. Iron parked all over the place, driven. :)
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Mr Carhart will not be charged with treason but is liable to be charged with failure to comply with Selective Service induction. A felony, subject to five years imprisonment and $250,000 fine. Should Carhart resist or wound/kill a police officer, said action would normally place consecutive...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Magistrate Solomon is a bit daff since Ms Kohlman isn't an emancipated minor, and her father; while obviously strict, nonetheless is within parental right to set curfew. But the magistrate erred and is subject to appellate correction since Ms Kohlman has been convicted of accessory to illegal...

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