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Tariff woes depress US manufacturing, erode labor demand
Thumpers aren't worried!... Tariffs will be paid by Mexico, Canada and those woke uncut Europeans!... -
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Thailand's 2025 Military Draft: Pride, Dreams, and Gender Identity
Like Corporal Klinger in MASH - send me home please, I don't want to play! -
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Helen Mirren Criticizes James Bond Franchise for Its Deep-Rooted Sexism
Mirren was notorious for her sex scenes. Biting the hand that feeds her comes to mind. -
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Speedboat Explosion Near Phuket Leaves Six Injured, Sparks Panic
Phuket is getting be a very dangerous place. There seems to be a lot of accidents and issues there. Wow. Avoid. I was there in 1999. It was great and still fairly untouched. Today ... played out! It's a real shame! -
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Helen Mirren Criticizes James Bond Franchise for Its Deep-Rooted Sexism
How about looking at the films themselves instead of going off on personal political diatribes? The films are mostly a poor rendition of the Ian Fleming novels, which reflected the era that they were written in and Fleming's military experience. Mirren has a point, particulary with the awful Roger Moore period in the 1970's when the movies were idiotic camp exercises. The US producers forced a pandering and ignorant characterization that was never intended. Ian Fleming saw Bond as a sophisticated, suave gentleman, which is why he wanted David Niven, a veteran of WWII, for the role. Niven was a graduate of Sandhurst, and had been in combat including high risk reconnaissance at Normandy. His childhood to a certain extent mirrored that of the fictional Bond's. Niven was anything, but a misogynist. He had a character seeped in reality and is noted for his saying; "Anyone who says a bullet sings past, hums past, flies, pings, or whines past, has never heard one – they go crack!" Despite the revisionism from Connery fans and studio PR hacks that followed release of the Connery movies claiming Fleming thought Sean Connery was the perfect Bond, Connery has confirmed what Fleming said, Bond was more of a Niven person. Bond was never the caricature portrayed in the dumb downed films. Timothy Dalton brought Bond back to his roots, and Daniel Craig restablished the original intent of Bond. Neither of whom was as obnoxiously idiotic as we saw with the horrid Roger Lazenby or Roger Moore. The failings of Moore as Bond are surprising considering how he was pretty good as Simon Templar in The Saint series which I used to watch as a kid in reruns, and inspired one of my career choices. So yes, Mirren has a valid point.
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