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Comparing the US govt (ANY US govt - there is no such thing as "the US govt" we get a new one about every 4 years, you know) to the Chinese Communist dictatorship is a brainless idea at the outset. The Chinese Commies were dictators of the worst sort and the idea that their govt paid any attenti...

Teddy Roosevelt was mostly a lying blowhard. After he left the Presidency he decided to return to the White House and ran as a third party candidate, ruining any chance for defeating Woodrow Wilson - Teddy the big baby. He smeared Taft in the process, despite the fact that Taft had, in fact, pros...

The Pastoral sounds pretty much the same regardless of who's conducting, which is unusual. I would not choose Toscanini for Beethoven - he's better doing Mozart.

Why anyone would want people to know they were related to madman Brown is a mystery. Practically everyone Brown was related to were crazy - that was established at his trial for treason. It would have been far better for our country had Lee's Marines shot Brown dead at the scene of his crimes.

Pretty poor history. John Brown didn't begin any war. His plans to cause a slave revolt in the South were a total failure - not a single slave rose up to join his "army" (16 guys with pitchforks). Nor was the Civil War begun with any intention of ending slavery - Lincoln promised at his inaugura...

John Brown was simply a deranged failure in life who decided to "conquer" the South with his "army" of 18 men. After capturing the arsenal at Harpers Ferry,

he called upon blacks to leave their masters and join him. None did. The slaves apparently realized what many boneheaded white New England...

This commentary is aimed at a general audience. Those of you who claim it

too simple - what are you doing here in the first place?

Steve Jobs was an ass, eternally full of himself. Bezos has created a device with more value than anything Jobs ever created. And its Silk browser blows Apple's away. Let's see now, I can buy three Fires or one iPad. Gee, I wonder which I'll choose? This is a tough one.

This has to be one of the screwiest protests ever - what are these morons

attempting to do? It's so pointless one has to wonder whether it's some kind

of inside joke. Sort of like protesting because Manhattan is an island. And people wonder why this generation has failed so miserably in competi...

Morton Gould's music and the footage distinguish this documentary, which

one reviewer called "World War One for Dummies." Ryan's pomposity plus a script that attempts to teach a moral rather than a history lesson dooms this

documentary to irrelevance. The script often misleads, or lies - as in...

Fusion is a dead end technology. Thorium reactors are the future. Thorium is the future of energy.

Generally, this version is considered the best ,although rather different from the also admired 1939 version with Barry Fitzgerald. Both versions are good, although this version has far more attractive actors to watch, especially the women. However, everyone seems to be in agreement that having ...

Another theory making the rounds is that Kennedy actually arranged to be assassinated, although t was to be make believe in order to lift Kennedy's sagging popularity, which had dropped so low that it appeared certain he would be defeated in the 64 election. But there was a horrible mixup - the ...

The more conspiracy theories I see, the more I'm convinced that the reason they exist has nothing to do with the actual assassination. That story has been neatly wrapped up in Case Closed, the only through and professional analysis of ALL the data (and there's tons of it, despite the lies of cons...

This is the skit that I always remembered - I saw it live during the 1950's and still thought about it 40 years later. Truly a gem.

Jones certainly had the most fluid, flowing golf swing I've ever seen. Can you imagine being able to swing like that? He was also smart as hell - an engineering degree from tech and passed the bar after studying

law for only one year at Harvard. Certainly the most intelligent famous golfer of a...

This documentary is largely exaggerated half-truths and lies. It claims Sarajevo "set off a powderkeg." Nothing could possibly be further from the truth. It claims America's attempts to broker a peace failed because "too many people had died," a rather nonsensical statement, since a peace was d...

This title is a fraud - Nixon doesn't say anything about killing JFK

It's really amusing listening to these clowns "proving" that LBJ had a hand in killing JFK. We all know what happened from "Case Closed." There's nothing left to figure out.

This documentary is strangely unbalanced. It documents the problems facing the Allies during 1917 but neglects to mention anything about the Germans, who were basically starving to death, and down to their last bits of manpower.

There is also an overly optimistic belief that the Germans could ha...

@cuzcatlan36 Sure, Buddy, we always blow up 3,000 citizens in order to have an excuse to go to war.

But the war didn't begin after 9/11, now did it? and had nothing to do with 9/11. I assume you're from

the Middle East (but NOT Jewish - they have brains) . Sorry to hear about your buddy Bin.

Some of these claims are quite exaggerated - in order to spice up a program that really doesn't deliver very much in the way of "lesser known facts." And some of the "facts" are not really facts. The claim that "American officers didn't think America would need to send troops to France" is absur...

@Maetel22 I've never heard such utter drivel. Imperialism played no part in the series of events that led to WWI. I'm tired of hearing buffoons making statements that prove my contention that this is the dumbest generation in American history.

Actually, WWII did NOT end the Great Depression. The number of jobs did not increase appreciably, the unemployed simply put on a uniform and went to war. And practically nothing was available for consumers to buy - the Depression end in 1946. He's absolutely right about Hoover. Hoover helped d...

SuperMarine was the name of the company that created and built the Spitfire by

R.J. Mitchell (played by Leslie Howard in the movies) . The SeaFire was a carrier version, which was updated to make it more robust for carrier landings.

The US govt doesn't guarantee very much about their money. Only that people must accept it as payment. But not how much it is worth. The govt doesn't and

can't determine that, per se. The market does. It thus has no intrinsic specified

value and is accepted because 1) there is no alternative, ...

@grouchobeer Obama and his wife will likely be behind bars after his and her fat asses are

kicked out of the WH for incompetence.

Silly claims of "stereotyping" both deny the presence of typical (and quite obvious) ethnic characteristics and are themselves stereotypal statements. In the case of Charlie Chan movies, those who claim stereotyping have to explain how it is that Chan behaves 180 degrees different from any of his...

Shut up Sheen or I'll kick your wife-beating little ass. What an overaged ugly piece of human garbage. Examine the crap idiots in this country pay to see.

With fast fission technology that is already here, the need for fusion completely disappears. Good thing, since fusion isn't going to be practical for a very long time,

if ever. Just because the sun shines because of fusion does not mean it

is a practical means for us here on Earth to produce ene...

Szell recorded this piece with Leon Fleisher (and I believe the entire cycle)

and I consider that performance heads and shoulders above any rendition I've ever heard,

including this one. I believe that it's still available on CD.

Personally, I think Szell and the Cleveland was unsurpassed with Mozart and did extremely well with Brahms. I preferred Walter for Beethoven although Szell's recording of the Emperor is without question the best ever recorded, and second best is not even close. My fondest memory is of Szell in 19...

Hearing this rather morose rendition of the G minor makes me appreciate those who have been successful with this piece - the incomparable George Szell and his Cleveland, which routinely bested Lenny every year in competitions, and Andre Previn as well. If you want to hear an exposition of a compo...