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Like the fantasy news of that Russian journalists are killed by the dozen and Russia is one of the most dangerous countries for journalists in the world, and Putin doesn't seem to care?Quote:
Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny
See, in the game of politics, you can do something about rumors without commenting on them directly. Your reputation affects what accusations and rumors that stick.
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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Those are actually pretty cool and quite sharply observed.
I don't much care for Bush jr.
It might not be him personally, but he headed (was figurehead) for the worst exploitation of the "politics of fear". I have no respect for that...ever.
I prefer Hitler's paintings, they also look better.
http://www.socialphy.com/posts/art/8...Paintings.html
Of course I also admire his intelligence, wit, humor and how he had this realistic self-image and stayed down-to-earth-genuine in his ways.
Just too bad that he was later blamed for starting a war when he was merely trying to stem the tides as the head of a genuinely evil administration that really thought it was doing the right thing though...
I thought 41 flew Avengers. Oh well, neither here nor there. He was the then youngest ever navy pilot; did head the CIA, also served as our inaugural ambassador to the PRC.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
I think it was a Wild Cat (F4F), on show at the Museum at Washington DC.
Wiki says Seamus wins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...h#World_War_IIQuote:
After Bush's promotion to Lieutenant (junior grade) on August 1, 1944, the San Jacinto commenced operations against the Japanese in the Bonin Islands. Bush piloted one of four Grumman TBM Avenger aircraft from VT-51 that attacked the Japanese installations on Chichijima.
...vienna's fine arts academy rejected that? Jesus what did you need to do to get in, fully depict each ass hair of every rat in the gutters of a 30 ft square depiction of the entire florentine skyline?Quote:
Originally Posted by Husar
Should have mentioned the drugs, nothing pushes up a hitler sympathy diatribe better than noting the coctail of mind altering drugs hitler's doctors used to keep him "healthy".Quote:
Of course I also admire his intelligence, wit, humor and how he had this realistic self-image and stayed down-to-earth-genuine in his ways.
Just too bad that he was later blamed for starting a war when he was merely trying to stem the tides as the head of a genuinely evil administration that really thought it was doing the right thing though...
If I recall, they said he was technically competent, but lacking individual style - they felt his work was merely derivative. According to his grandchildren, he used to go on big rants about how rubbish the impressionist masters were.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greyblades
"According to his grandchildren" You lost me here. Whose grand-children? Hitler's?
They lived in Brazil for a while.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brenus
https://i.imgur.com/CAieQ0g.gif
Take a look at the proportions(which is what an art academy cares about).Quote:
Originally Posted by Greyblades
Art is definitely not my forte. What's so wrong with proportions?Quote:
Originally Posted by HoreTore
To me, they just look somehow lifeless.
Some of the art back that was really horribly done. I cannot name the piece, but I remember it being done around the early 1900s which is meant to be describing Urban life and it looks like it was drawn by a 8 year old. This is remembering from over 10 years ago in GCSE History.
Well, take a look at the building on the right on the third painting: the length between the windows and the roof decreases way too rapidly. There are problems with depth in all of those paintings.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarmatian
Nothing I would care much about, but it was a focus in arts academies of the day.
That's not to say that he was rubbish, of course. There were loads more painters back then than we have now, all trying to get into these academies. It's comparable to the guitarists of today: most good guitarists will never become famous, there are simply too many good ones.
I think that's got more to do with the angle of the shadow, but I see your point...Quote:
Originally Posted by HoreTore
Thinking about Hitler and art academy always make me wonder if history of the world would be vastly different if he was accepted...
I am far from an arts critic, but that was the answer I got when I asked one...Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarmatian
I would love to own one of Hitler's paintings and hang it up on my wall, then if somebody ever asks me about it I can say "oh that one? that's an Adolf Hitler".
Apparently the affectation would cost you about 40k USD per painting, less for the tinted postcards. WikiQuote:
Originally Posted by Tuuvi
Who is pat buchanan and why should I care?
In short: Republican.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greyblades
He's the reason Bush got elected in 2000.Quote:
Originally Posted by Greyblades
So now, according Pat Buchanan, the Kremlin is the new Vatican. But with amored divisions.
It's like the 1920's US Commies all over again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brenus
'The world was stunned when Russia invaded Crimea, but should it have been? Author and journalist Oliver Bullough says President Vladimir Putin never kept secret his intention to restore Russian power - what's less clear, he says, is how long the country's rise can continue.'
The country isn't rising - its falling apart, seriously declining - economically, socially ... Putin's sabre rattling (and, indeed, sabre wielding) is a way of distracting the population from this fact.
Is he the loonie-toon who's always ditched early in the primary, or is he the sane one who is always ditched early in the primary?Quote:
Originally Posted by Tiaexz
EDIT: just clicked Fisherking's linky and read the title. "Putin vs. cultural marxism"..... It's the loonie toon, then.
I lol'ed.
Buchanan’s last run for office was in 2000, running under the Reform Party against Bush and Gore.
As a political party with only two elected official (of unknown province) I would say it is pretty dead.
Buchanan is a staunch social conservative, and many would say anti-Semitist, pretty much to the right of anyone you know.
Nader siphoned off more votes in Florida than the balloting issues with Buchanan did. And you can bet that all of the Green Party votes would NOT have voted GOP. Buchanan, other than the balloting snafu in Broward County, was siphoning away GOP votes. Blame Nader and Gore for losing to a VERY beatable W in 2000. Virtually ANY Dem who wasn't a cigar-store wooden Indian like Gore could have taken W by a point and a half.
Buchanan is not much of an anti-Semite, but he certainly doesn't believe in bending over backwards for Israel. He's an out-and-out protectionist with a fairly strong leaning towards isolationism -- and yes a big-time social conservative as well. Had he been put in office, we'd have been drawing US armed forces back to CONUS and the mid Pacific as fast as he could get modified treaties in place with our Allies.
Pat Buchanan is a worthless fascist, not surprising he would come to the defense of another worthless fascist.
I can't even take Putins propagandized tripe seriously. The decadent west?
What does he have to say for the half human mongoloids he leads? Beat up some fags, beat up some women, beat up some brown people, die at 38 from chrisos of the liver.
I am shaking at the might of this new defender of the faith.