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13.SS fought for a bit and was crushed in the powerful Soviet L'vov-San offensive.

Awesome work.  Part 2 is in the description:

2:15 of Hopkins..truly a gift to this world

" A greyhound is a racing dog. Spends its life running in circles, chasing a bit of felt made up like a rabbit. One day, we took it to the park. Our dad had warned us how fast that dog was, but we couldn't resist. So, my brother took off the leash, and in that instant, the dog spotted a cat. I imagine it must have looked just like that piece of felt. He ran. Never saw a thing as beautiful as that old dog running. Until, at last, he finally caught it. And to the horror of everyone, he killed that little cat. Tore it to pieces. Then he just sat there, confused. That dog had spent its whole life trying to catch that thing. Now it had no idea what to do. "

awesome performance;

the clandestine menace of mamba & bilery is over, so this can be done

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/12/hungary-set-ban-soros-linked-organisations/

"Fish armor".  Favorite armor set from GOT

I've watched the arcs that piqued my interest already.  I've missed several.

They are:  The Lannisters, The Boltons, Iron born (Theon mainly), Tyrells,  The Starks except for Bran.

Strong performances (I may be missing some):

main characters: Cersei, Tywin, The Imp, Jaime, Brienne, Sir Bonn, Theon, Ramsey Bolton, Roose Bolton, Margaery Tyrell, Robb Stark, Ned Stark, King Robert, Joffery, the Hound, Arya, Olenna Tyrell,Cate Stark

minor characters:  Locke, Balon Greyjoy, Byndun Tully, Walder Frey, High Sparrow, Tormund, Ygritte

Perfect acting:

Tywin, Cersei, The Imp, Theon, Margery, Robb, Ned, Olenna, Joffery, the Hound, King Robert, Arya

Of these, Margeary, Cersei, the Imp, Robb, Theon and Arya's roles are the hardest to portray but they did it.  

I've a fan of the writing and design of Robb Stark, Theon, and Margeary.  Damn good characters and quite realistic in my view.

Wifey

it adds to the huge heap of money that the public enemy no. 1 shoveled into bilery

On 2017. 01. 08. at 0:39 AM, Cult Icon said:

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The biggest alternative fact is the frequent peddling of vague sociological theories as policy

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The traditional “National Review” center-right confronted communism on a global scale and delayed creeping socialism. These two threats were stalking horses for the real enemy of the West: what you call “Cultural Marxism” (Jews would describe as “Frankism”). This Jewish Satanic heresy is the dominant paradigm of the Jewish intelligentsia and the Reformed/Re-constructivist denominations. The Alt-Right is a late-hour counter-reaction to this threat. While much of the Alt-Right doesn’t even fully comprehend this inchoate “POZ,” it has nevertheless mounted a successful intellectual assault and helped bring about the greatest political upset since Truman.

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The Frankists/Cultural Marxists are the existential threat, yet a movement based upon quasi-Satanism will inevitably implode under the weight of its decadence, madness, and sadism (PizzaGate?).

http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/2017/1/16/the-jewish-questionand-some-answers

17: TBH I don't really want to talk about politics in my members thread

I have a few characters in mind:

From McKnee (top screenplay teacher's book, The story):

Your intellectual life prepares you for emotional experiences that then urge you toward fresh perceptions that in turn remix the chemistry of new encounters. The two realms influence each other, but first one, then the other. In fact, in life, moments that blaze with a fusion of idea and emotion are so rare, when they happen you think you’re having a religious experience. But whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion.

The source of all art is the human psyche’s primal, prelinguistic need for the resolution of stress and discord through beauty and harmony, for the use of creativity to revive a life deadened by routine, for a link to reality through our instinctive, sensory feel for the truth. Like music and dance, painting and sculpture, poetry and song, story is first, last, and always the experience of aesthetic emotion—the simultaneous encounter of thought and feeling.


When an idea wraps itself around an emotional charge, it becomes all the more powerful, all the more profound, all the more memorable. You might forget the day you saw a dead body in the street, but the death of Hamlet haunts you forever. Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality. In short, a story well told gives you the very thing you cannot get from life: meaningful emotional experience. In life, experiences become meaningful with reflection in time. In art, they are meaningful now, at the instant they happen.


In this sense, story is, at heart, nonintellectual. It does not express ideas in the dry, intellectual arguments of an essay. But this is not to say story is anti-intellectual. We pray that the writer has ideas of import and insight. Rather, the exchange between artist and audience expresses idea directly through the senses and perceptions, intuition and emotion. It requires no mediator, no critic to rationalize the transaction, to replace the ineffable and the sentient with explanation and abstraction. Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.


A well-told story neither expresses the clockwork reasonings of a thesis nor vents raging inchoate emotions. It triumphs in the marriage of the rational with the irrational. For a work that’s either essentially emotional or essentially intellectual cannot have the validity of one that calls upon our subtler faculties of sympathy, empathy, premonition, discernment … our innate sensitivity to the truth.

This is the best depiction of fighting during the Battle for Moscow I've ever seen: edit: youtube links removed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panfilov's_Twenty-Eight_Guardsmen

GOT: terrific quote about "duty"

"If a man knows what he is and remains true to himself, the choice is no choice at all. He must fulfill his destiny and become who he is meant to be, however much he may hate it"