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Saturday, January 29, 2022

Real Time With Bill Maher: 'New Rule, How The Left Was Lost'

Source:Real Time With Bill Maher- telling the Far-Left in America to grow up.

Source:The New Democrat 

"Bill slams this ridiculous new era of mind-numbing partisanship, where simply speaking truth to your own party can make you an instant hero to the other side." 


Because of America's crazy and outdated two-party system, you have two, large, political parties in America, that have two crazy factions in it. Which means you have a Democratic Party that believes in both liberal democracy, quality of opportunity, equal rights, and equal justice, as well as personal freedom is dangerous, capitalism is racist, free speech is bigoted, minorities and women should be treated better than the majority population and Caucasian men. Because the Democratic Party has a Center-Right and Center-Left, that believes in liberal values that I mentioned before and a Far-Left that believes in the crazy values that I just mentioned. 

So America has a Democratic Party that looks and acts like the adults in the room, but only because they are the adults in the room. Who tend to run the Democratic Party and don't need a gerrymandered district to get elected to anything, who can not just get elected statewide in swing states, but who can get elected statewide in Democratic states. (Where Far-left Democrats can't, like in California) And a Far-Left that really should be in the Green Party (when they're not occupying mental institutions) who can't get elected anywhere, to anything, that doesn't just have an overwhelmingly Democratic population, but left-wing Democratic population. 

I'm not saying America should have a parliamentary political system, because that would make me a crazy leftist as well. But the two-party system is why America has a Democratic Party that has two political factions that simply don't agree on much, because the Far-Left has nowhere else to go, because they represent such a small percentage of the country. And the Green Party is simply to small for them to get elected to anything, that's worth anything in America.

Friday, October 22, 2021

NFL Network: Eric Dickerson: A Football Life

Source:NFL Network- Eric Dickerson with the Anaheim Rams (as I called them) at Anaheim Stadium.

"A Football Life Eric Dickerson. Subscribe to the channel!
I don't own the rights to this  content." 


This might sound strange considering that Eric Dickerson, is not just in the NFL Hall of Fame, or that he rushed for 12,000 yards, and is literally one of the greatest runners (not running backs) in NFL history, but he underachieved and could've been so much better. 

Outside of John Riggins with the Redskins, the team that I grew up loving, Eric Dickerson was my favorite running back ever growing up in the 1980s. So I don't think I'm bias at all when I'm talking about Dickerson. And other than Jim Brown, I don't think the NFL has ever had a better runner in the backfield, than Eric Dickerson. He was a better runner than Marcus Allen and Walter Payton. Not as big and strong as John Riggins, but faster. 

I think (and this is where the underachieving part of his career comes in) had Eric Dickerson stayed in Anaheim with the Rams, instead of going to to the Indianapolis Colts, a franchise that had no history of being competitive, let alone winning, I think Dickerson owns every single major rushing record in the NFL right now. He would've shattered both Jim Brown's and Walter Payton's records and still have time and ability to do so much more. But his main goal was to be a millionaire running back and be paid like Pro Bowl QB, instead of being a champion and the best player at his position.

Imagine Eric Dickerson staying in Anaheim with head coach John Robinson who was essentially running his Southern California power offense, where the offense was built around the tailback and the Rams add QB Jim Everett and WR Flipper Anderson, they already had WR Henry Elliard and TE David Hill, one of the best offensive lines in the NFL, and one of the better defenses in the NFL. I

Imagine the 1989 Rams with Eric Dickerson as their tailback, instead of Greg Bell, who was a good running back, but not even on the same planet as Dickerson, at least as a runner. But we never got to see any of that, because Erick Dickerson was about making as much money as he could, even if it meant playing for losers like the Indianapolis Colts and Atlanta Falcons. And about being the best football player he could be becoming a Super Bowl champion.

7/18/2022 - Ryan Woods: "I understand what your saying to a certain degree. I'm glad you acknowledged he isn't the second greatest RB ever though. Great thought & point." 

Erik Schneider: "Thanks. I'm saying he's not the 2nd best all round RB ever, simply because he's not."

From Facebook

Ryan Woods: "he's the smoothest runner ever in my opinion & many other's. Dickerson's biggest knock his running didn't directly lead to a lot of team success like the other All-Time great rb's. Have him #7 on my All-Time rb list." 

Erik Schneider: "Or, he was more interested in making money, than winning football games." 

From Facebook

7/19/2022 - Britt Prentice: "Jim Brown was bigger than linebackers and even linemen. Average weight and height for a lineman was 6'2" 235lbs in the 50s-60s. Jim was 6'2" 232lbs. Different game. Jim would not be a man among boys today." 

Erik Schneider: "Actually, 235 for a RB back then, would not be 235 today. So you could at least argue that JB would be even bigger and stronger today, than he was back then. If you go by the theory that NFL players get bigger and stronger, as the league gets older."

Chris Paez: "I get your point. Dickerson wasn't the best receiver or blocker but his running was so much better I think most people would still take Dickerson over just about anyone. AND HE IS on the 1980's All Decade Team." 

Erik Schneider: " If you are simply talking about running the ball out of the backfield. But based on that, Roger Craig was the same size as ED, but not as tall and was about just as fast as ED, and had a lot more skills."

Chris Paez: "I just looked at the All Decade team. It was Dickerson and Payton at RB. Unless there's more than one version ?. And yeah Roger Craig was great but I bet more people would take Dickerson over Roger Craig." 

Erik Schneider: "Are we taking polls now? I thought we were talking about the best all around RB, versus the best runners at RB."

Chris Paez: "I'm not arguing with you. I already said Dickerson wasn't the best receiver or blocker. My point is that I'll take Dickerson over any back from the 1980s." 

Erik Schneider: "OK, got your point."

Britt Prentice: "Eric was 6'3" 220, Derrick Henry 6'3" 247, Faulk 5'10" 212, LT 5'10" 216, Emmitt 5'9 216. Gurley 6'1" 230, Chubb 5'11 225. Henry is very rare being so big. The backs today are not huge." 

Erik Schneider: "None of those players played 60 years ago. Bo Jackson was considered a man among boys in the 1980s. Similar size to Jim Brown."

Britt Prentice: "thank you for making my point. Bo 6'1" 230lbs." 

Erik Schneider: "Not only that, but the guys you mentioned who play today, are about the same size as the RB's of the 1980s. So Jim Brown would be a man among boys today as a tailback as well at 6'2 230 pounds, or so, with the great speed."

Britt Prentice: "no he would not. The average LB is 6'3" 240. Average lineman 6'4" 315. Brown would not be a man among boys stomping on Aaron Donald. He would be great, not dominant against far smaller opposition as he was." 

Erik Schneider: "Again I could take you back to Bo Jackson from the 1980s and the size he played at and the defenders he went up against or just use the fact that JB would be even bigger and stronger today, with all the access to modern medicine, weight training, personal trainers, that he didn't have in the 1960s. I don't see much point in arguing this."

David Thompson: "people forget how good Dorsett was. I could take or leave Craig. He found the perfect scheme for him offensively. Huge Walter Payton fan though. He’s on my Mt Rushmore along with Brown and Sanders. For that 4th spot on the Mt. I can argue for ED, Emmitt, prime Terrell Davis or Tony Dorsett. Maybe Curtis Martin, who is overlooked but was consistent and durable as they come." 

Erik Schneider: "We agree on Dorsett and Payton. It's Roger Craig whose overlooked. Should've been in the Hall of Fame a long time ago."

David Thompson: "He’s got a good argument for the HOF, and I love those 49ers teams, even as a Rams fan, but I wouldn’t put him in the conversation of beat backs ever. At the same time, he only had 3 1,000 yard rushing seasons over an 11 year career, and only one of those was dynamic. His 85 season was amazing, but he never really got close to anything like that again. It’s arguable his best ability was as a receiving back. But if Ricky Watters isn’t in, I don’t know how Craig gets in." 

Erik Schneider: "If Roger Craig is not one of the best RB's ever, then how does he have a "good argument" for the HOF?"

David Thompson: "for his era, he was considered one of the best backs. He won multiple Super Bowls. His 1000 yd rushing and receiving season was great. And despite his lack of stellar running stats, he still caught over 500 passes for his career which was almost unheard of. He’s not in the top 20 RBs of all time. But there are other RBs in with similar or even a lesser pedigree. That being said, I’m not gonna lost sleep if he doesn’t make it. That might be the most damning thing about him, you look at his career and it’s something that doesn’t overwhelm you as an omission that he’s not in the HOF." 

Erik Schneider: "for his era, he was considered one of the best backs. He won multiple Super Bowls. His 1000 yd rushing and receiving season was great." I could rest my case for Roger Craig with what you said about him. Two standards that HOF voters look at when deciding if someone should be in the HOF: were they one of the best players at their position during their era. Your answer for that is obvious yes. The other standard is would they be a great player in every era. The answer to that is obvious yes as well. Craig has a numbers game working against him since he played on a team with a lot of other HOF players. But just because a team was deep, shouldn't disqualify you for the HOF. He'll get in eventually and hopefully while he's still alive, unlike Ken Stabler."

From Facebook

7/22/2022 - Joseph F Cristarella: "It is harder to have a longer season, but you cannot compare the yardage, playing 17 games gives you a distinct advantage over those in 12 game seasons to gain more yardage, keeping in mind the defense back then may have been smaller than today but there was so much more they could do, a running back today does not have to routinely be clothes lined, helmet to helmet hits with far inferior helmets, etc. So things kind of work out in the end." 

Erik Schneider: "You sound like someone who knows his NFL history and not automatically assuming the great players today, are definitely better than the players before them. The only thing that I would add is the rules that Jim Brown played under, clearly favored defenses over offenses. Which is why the average NFL team ran the ball a lot more back then, than they do today. So Jim Brown had to work with smaller holes, fewer games and he still ran for 13,000 yards in 9 seasons, playing 116 games, over 100 TD's."

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Never More: Manson (1973) Documentary

Source:Never More- 1973 Manson Family documentary.

"'Manson' is the definitive documentary on the former cult leader and his followers, released at a time when the notorious murders were still fresh.

"Whatever is necessary to do, you do it," Fromme says. "When somebody needs to be killed, there’s no wrong. You do it, and then you move on. And you pick up a child and you move him to the desert. You pick up as many children as you can and you kill whoever gets in your way. This is us."

The film was shot by Hendrickson and Merrick between 1969 and 1972—after Charles Manson and a handful of Family members had been arrested for the murders but before the story had been cemented as a cultural touchstone in the 1974 book Helter Skelter—with the Family footage filmed primarily at the Western film-set-turned-Manson compound Spahn Ranch and in Death Valley. The whole thing was scored by Brooks Poston and Paul Watkins, two former Manson Family members.

Directed by - Robert Hendrickson & Laurence Merrick
Music by - Brooks Poston & Paul Watkins
Release date- 1973" 

From Never More 

"Documentary on Charles Manson and his family. Has a number of insightful interviews with many family members most notably Squeaky and Sandy (Blue and Red). There is also a history of Manson from his birth to the family formation to the Tate/La Bianca murders. Plenty of footage of the family playing at Spahn Ranch." 

Source:IMDB- with a look at this Manson Family documentary.

From IMDB

"1972 Manson Family documentary"

Source:Autism Awareness Bureau- from a 1972 Manson family documentary.
Source:Autism Awareness Bureau

When I think of the Manson Crime Family, (as I call them) because thats basically what they were) I think of a huge waste of human potential across the board of people who are now serving life in prison, because they threw their lives away by intentionally taking the lives of innocent people. But thats not the whole story because they not only have wasted their lives all of these people in their late teens and early twenties, but they wasted the lives of their victims and threw their lives away as well.

The Manson Family stuck their victims families and friends, as well as their own families and friends with a life sentence in prison. That now all of these people who've done nothing wrong as it relates to this story of a life sentence in the victims families case of never being able to see their relatives again and losing them at a young age. But have also stuck their own families and friends with a life sentence of never being able to see them living in freedom again. Because of course they are now in prison for the rest of their lives where they deserve to be.

I call the Manson Family a crime family because they may of started off as a cult. Where young somewhat lost people could come together and get away from the real world where they may of felt out of place and not doing well there. But they became a crime family by late 1968 early 1969 by ripping people off, even taking hostages and beating the hell out of people who they thought they had money that was owed to them and so-forth and were even dealing illegal narcotics.

And of course all of these things all boiled up and eventually leading to the horrible murders. Murders you might only see from racist hate groups or vicious serial murderers which some of the Manson Crime Family members ended up being, like Charles Tex Watson (to use as an example) with all of the blood and stab wounds they left by their victims and the surrounding areas where the murders were done.

So the Manson Family became not much more than an evil crime family creating a lot of damage for the Los Angeles area. And of course for their victims and created just a tone of human waste that over forty years later the victims of these crimes, as far as the family members of the victims and offenders because the offenders families are also victims as a result of the Manson Crime Family murders as well.

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Joey Teefizz: MISL 1980- 2/10/2980- Philadelphia Fever @ Buffalo Stallions: Highlights


Source:Joey Teefizz- welcome to the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium.

"Old School Indoor Action! Phillly and Buff-let's rock!
Last 4 minutes of game are MIA-two goals we miss...6-2 Final" 


The first or second season on the Major Indoor Soccer League.

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Washington Redskins: NFL 1964- Season Highlights


Source:Washington Redskins- QB Sonny Jurgensen. We can thank the Philadelphia Eagles, actually we should send them annual Christmas gifts, for giving away Sonny to us.

"Watch this NFL Year in Review from 1964 when quarterback Sonny Jurgensen comes to the Washington Redskins and wide receiver Charley Taylor is League Rookie of the Year." 

From the Washington Redskins

There are many reasons why the Redskins-Philadelphia Eagles has at least been a great NFL rivalry historically and I believe one of the most underrated rivalries in the NFL. 

Washington and Philadelphia are only 130 miles apart, which means the fans of both teams can go to the city to watch their team play. Both clubs are in the NFC East. Both clubs have been historically tough, physical, hardworking, blue-collar teams, at least during the Super Bowl era. Both teams have been good at the same time, for an extended period of time, like in the late 1980s and early 90s. 

I'm not saying the Redskins-Eagles rivalry started in 1964, when the Eagles traded Sonny Jurgensen to the Redskins for journeyman QB Norm Snead, the rivalry was already there. But if you look at the career that Sonny had and the career that Snead had and you look at what both teams did after this trade, with Eagles going into a drought where they would have 11 straight non winning seasons from 1967-77, 1 winning season from 1964-77. This trade was a steal for the Redskins and something the Eagles would spend the next 15 years trying to recover from, going through one QB after another after Sonny.

The Redskins didn't start winning right away under Sonny Jurgensen. They wouldn't have their first winning season with Sonny until 1969 under Vince Lombardi. But for the rest of the 1960s with Sonny at QB, and then add WR's Charley Taylor ,(perhaps the best WR ever) Bobby Mitchell, perhaps the first hybrid RB/WR, whose also in the Hall of Fame, and then Jerry Smith who should also be in the Hall of Fame, and the Redskins had one of the best offenses in the NFL during the 1960s decade. And would become consistent winners and a consistent playoff team in the 1970s with Sonny and would even win the NFC in 1972, with Sonny as their QB.  

6/07/2022 - Douglas John Musielak: "They will always be the Redskins to me." 

Erik Schneider: "Damn, straight!" 

From NFL Classic 

6/08/2022 - Benjamin Rice: "When RFK was new. Great old People's Drug sign. Was a great drugstore until it got gobbled up by CVS." 

Erik Schneider: "There was one in downtown Bethesda on the same street where I went to high school. It also had a Roy Rogers and Hot Shoppes, and a local bookstore. Great shopping center." 

Benjamin Rice: "nice. We used to go to the one at Arlington Rd and Bradley Blvd when I was growing up." 

Erik Schneider: "Small world." 

Saturday, August 4, 2018

The Cold Turkey: Sean Penn- On Hugo Chavez & Fidel Castro: Hollywood Leftist Support For Socialist Dictators

Source:The Cold Turkey- Hollywood actor/activist Sean Penn, on President's Hugo  Chavez and Fidel Castro.
Source:FRS FreeState

“Sean Penn talks about Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro.” Originally from The Cold Turkey.

For the life of me I don't understand why today's so-called Progressives ( radical hippie, Socialists, Communists in actuality ) love affair or admiration with Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez. Progressives are supposed to be people that are about progressive through government action like democracy and yet they defend people, who are anti-democratic. Who've attempted to centralize power with their presidencies, in President Castro's case, have been successful in doing that. President Chavez's case still trying to do that in the Bolivar Republic of Venezuela, still has that official name.

Source: The Nation Magazine- Hollywood actor/activist Sean Penn and President Hugo Chavez ( Socialist Republic of Venezuela )
But if President Chavez is successful, they'll basically be another Communist Republic in Latin America. He's already been successful in nationalizing the energy industry, as well as at least certain parts of the media. But Venezuelan Democrats still have media outlets they can go to but in President Castro's case, it's official he's had a Communist State in Cuba for over fifty years. This guy is not a democrat and never has been, he's not even a Democratic Socialist, he's a Statist, who wants his people to be subjects of the State. And Hugo Chavez is one of Fidel Castro's biggest admirers.

Source: The Atlantic- Prudent Fidel Castro ( Communist Republic of Cuba ) and President Hugo Chavez ( Socialist Republic of Venezuela )
So why would Social Democrats or Democratic Socialists, people like Sean Penn who I generally have a lot of respect for, respect him more as an actor ( but that's a different story ) be standing up for people who are anti-democratic? First it's Castro, now it's Chavez, who is next President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation? Who's not a Communist but certainly a Statist, who's really Russia's version of a Nationalist.

I can understand why Democratic Socialists would speak highly of European Socialists or Canadian Socialists, but all those people are Democratic Socialists. Those are the people that regressive so-called Progressives like Sean Penn and others should be speaking highly of. Not Communists in Cuba, Venezuela or anywhere else, people who hold their own people down, because they don't want them to be powerful on their own. Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez aren't people to be admired, unless you are a Communist.

Not Progressives seem to have this notion that Americans, especially the Federal Government, have no right to criticize people in other countries. Because we aren't perfect, that we can't speak out against voter fraud in Venezuela or anywhere else. Because we have voter fraud in our own country. If that was the rule, then no one would ever be able to criticize anyone else. Because no one is perfect and this would be a very quiet world.

Monday, October 16, 2017

Constitution Daily: 'Looking Back: George Carlin & The U.S. Supreme Court'

Source:Constitution Center- The great comedian and political satirist George Carlin.
Source: The Daily Review

"On July 3, 1978, the Supreme Court issued its historic verdict in the George Carlin “seven dirty words” case, a decision that still holds sway over the use of indecent and obscene language on television, and in a new era of mass communications."

From Constitutional Daily

Source:Foundation Interviews- Comedian George Carlin, talking about his seven dirty words.
"George Carlin on his reaction to the Supreme Court case about his Seven dirty words."

From Foundation Interviews

The blog writes a lot about political correctness and fascism, because we write a lot about comedy and write comedy ourselves and without free speech which is what political correctness and fascism tries to restrict (obviously, duh, you don't say!) there would't be any comedy and even political satire. Which is why I'm always amused if not confused when so-called left-wing comedians and other entertainers make calls for political correctness because they think some material is offensive.

Because without free speech there wouldn't be any comedy. I mean, if political correctness ran this country instead of the First Amendment, comedians wouldn't be able to crack jokes about anybody. Especially the people who deserve to be made fun of. Like our politicians, just to use as an example. Entertainers attacking free speech is very ironic. Because speech is what fuels comedy, as well as self-awareness and what's going on around you in life. Even comedians have stood up for political correctness against free speech, like Michael Moore and others. Even John Oliver, Stephanie Miller, John Fugelsang, would be other examples.

A comedian attacking free speech, is like a race car driver saying oil and gas are bad for the environment and therefor should be outlawed. Oil and gas literally fuel that race car driver's career. Without it, he might be flipping burgers or selling lemonade. Or a pro football player saying football is too violent and therefor tackling should be outlawed. Who would go watch professional flag football? As the great comedian Mel Brooks has said political correctness is destroying comedy because comedians are worried about offending oversensitive tight asses, who think they're the only perfect human beings on the face of the Earth who don't deserve to be made fun of. Brooks has said political correctness is destroying comedy. The second part is my line.

George Carlin is not the first victim of political correctness when it comes to comedy. You could argue at least that Lenny Bruce back in the 1950s and 60s has that uthonorable title. But George and Lenny, are from the same generation. Lenny would literally go on stage using cuss words as part of his act and I'm not talking about hell or damn, but he would talk about sex and talk about how people would have sex with each other and put it bluntly. And then would literally be arrested on stage for using foul language. George has  a similar but different story.

George would go on stage and literally use words like shit, fuck, mother fucker, mother fucking fucking, and others and these were part of the so-called seven dirty words that comedians weren't supposed to use in Phyllis Schlafly's 1950s America, where you weren't even allowed to say God, Jesus, and hell, at least not on TV.

Liberal democracy which has a practically guaranteed right for free speech in America under are First Amendment. The only exceptions having to do with falsely libeling, inciting violence, or harassment, like leaving obscene message on someone's voice mail, to use as an example. This is not the place for oversensitive tight asses who look at the mirror and only see perfection. Or have a glass jaw for an ego and can't take the smallest bit of criticism without breaking out in tears and flooding their homes from all of their perspiration. I don't know, maybe Canada is a country for people like that.

If you don't like offensive material, then don't watch it or listen to it! Only watch PBS and C-SPAN if you can't handle criticism about yourself and groups you believe have constitutional protection not to be criticized that no one else has. With liberal democracy comes a lot of individual freedom, but with that comes responsibility and the fact that you're not the only one who lives here and you have the same freedom and responsibility that everyone else has. And might from time to time hear and see things that you disapprove of. But so will everyone else.

Monday, October 2, 2017

The Onion: 'Revelations From Hillary Clinton's New Memoir- What Happened'


Source:The Onion- Hillary R. Clinton: what happened? 
Source:The Daily Review 

"What Happened, a new memoir detailing the trials and tribulations of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, was released today, with Clinton supporters and detractors already divided on its contents. Here are some of Hillary’s bombshell revelations: 

From The Onion 

"Highlights From The First Presidential Debate" 


From The Onion

What happened? Hillary Clinton might be the only person asking that question as far as how she's the first American presidential candidate to ever lose to a reality TV star who for the last 35 years in Donald Trump's case is mostly famous simply for being a New York celebrity. A career public servant in Hillary Clinton who has serious foreign policy, national security, and domestic policy experience and knowledge, versus a professional reality TV star who was a reality TV star before that term was ever invented.

Hillary Clinton losing to Donald Trump in a presidential election, would be like George H.W. Bush or Lyndon Johnson, losing a presidential election to Paris Hilton or any Kardashian you want to name: it's one of those: "I don't believe what I just saw moments and I just saw that." (To paraphrase the great sportscaster Jack Buck) Or the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl to an expansion team.

I mean, would it have killed Hillary Clinton to eat a cheeseburger in Pittsburgh at any point between September and November last year. Stop for some chill in Cincinnati, have a steak in Columbus. Stop in Milwaukee or Madison, Green Bay and have some bratwurst and beer, even take in a football game. Sure! She probably would have gained a few pounds and been accused by New York and San Francisco yuppies as being a common person and perhaps not have as much wine and cheese and caviar, or whatever fancy yuppie meals she's accustomed to having in New York, but it would have been for a good cause. Which is trying to get votes that you need when you're running for President of the United States.

There simply not enough yuppies, people who hang out in coffee houses and work in new-tech, or as college professors for a Democrat to be elected President of the United States. And trying to rely on people who generally don't vote unless they see a candidate who uses the same smartphone as they do, watches the same reality show, shares the same coffee drink as their favorite coffee drink, listens to the same music, (referring to college students and other young adults) there not enough voters there to make up for average Americans who take voting seriously and want to feel a real connection with the people they're considering voting for. Talking about blue-collar and other middle class Democrats who voted for Donald Trump. As hard as it is to believe.

There's nothing average and working class about Donald Trump. Except for qualifications to be President of the United States. To say Donald Trump is an average Joe, or a blue-collar billionaire (as he calls himself) is like saying that Tori Spelling and Paris Hilton are famous because of their great talents as entertainers. And not because of who their father's are. I mean, how many truck drivers do you know who own a golf club in Florida, as well as a vacation home and live in a penthouse in New York?

To try to sound serious for a minute (and that might be only a minute) the reasons why Hillary Clinton lost in 2016 are the same reasons she lost the Democratic presidential primary in 2008. It really gets down to one person which is the person that she sees in the mirror when she's the only one there. To put it bluntly: she comes off as an actress and not a real person. Someone playing a part instead of a real person. People in Pennsylvania had more trust and faith in a guy selling Brooklyn bridges and South Dakota beach homes (in Donald Trump) than a woman who might very well be the most qualified presidential candidate we've ever seen.

And that has nothing to do with Russia, or the fact that Hillary is obviously a woman, especially when you consider that less than half of Caucasian women voted for her for president. American voters like to know who they're voting for generally and decided as much as I disagree with this, but that Donald Trump even with his never-ending list of faults that probably deserve multiple great books and documentaries to cover all of them (CNN has produced most of them) that he was a better suited to be President than she was. Even though they overwhelmingly believed that Hillary was more qualified to be President than Donald.

The last and most important reason why Hillary Clinton was appointed Secretary of State in 2009 instead of being sworn in as President of the United States or spending 2017 writing a book on why she lost the 2016 presidential election, instead of being too busy to write a book like that because she has an administration to run as President, has to do with entitlement. Being a Democrat and the first female major presidential candidate, is not enough reason for Americans in at least the states of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin for them to vote for her to be President.

American voters are kind of stubborn and even prickly and actually expect their presidential candidates to offer them little annoying things like vision and reasons for voting for them. Other than the candidates saying: "Hey, you might not like me, but you should hate my opponent more, because of these reasons." Not being Donald Trump in 2016 was not enough reason for Americans to elect Hillary Clinton as President. That is why she's not President Hillary Clinton right now. She didn't introduce the real Hillary Clinton to enough voters and give enough for them reasons to vote for her and not just against Donald Trump.

Monday, September 18, 2017

Inside Edition: Bonnie Strauss- 1992 Feature on Jayne Mansfield

Source:The Daily Review- Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield, probably in the 1960s.
Source: The Daily Review

"Movie star Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) is profiled on "Inside Edition" in 1992, featuring film, TV and newsreel clips, as well as interviews with her first husband, Paul Mansfield, her daughter, Jayne Marie Mansfield, her mother (Vera Peers) and stepfather (Harry Peers), Hollywood journalist James Bacon, super-agent Irving "Swifty" Lazar and fellow sex symbol Mamie Van Doren.

Mansfield is best known for starring roles in THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT,  WILL SUCCESS SPOIL ROCK HUNTER?, KISS THEM FOR ME and PROMISES, PROMISES, and her untimely death in 1967. She had five children, including actress Mariska Hargitay."

Source:Inside Edition- Jayne Mandfield's daughter, being interviewed by Inside Edition about her mother, in 1992.
From Inside Edition

The man anchoring this show might look familiar to all you political and news junkies out there. Especially cable news junkies, because before Bill O'Reilly got his big gig The O'Reilly Factor at Fox News Channel in the mid 1990s, he was anchor of the syndicated tabloid/news magazine show Inside Edition.

I remember watching him on that show in the mid 1990s after work. But enough about The O'Reilly Factor, or as I prefer to call him The O'Reilly Finger and give him my middle finger to show how I feel about him.

Jayne Mansfield died in a horrible car crash in 1967 and she wasn't drunk or even driving the car. The two men in front that were supposed to protect her were simply too tired to work and drive that night and should have never been on that trip. Especially with other people with them and in back of the car.

So that is why Inside Edition did this story about Jayne in 1992. Because even though she did make a brief impact in Hollywood in the mid 1950s, it was sort of like that talented QB who has a couple big years early in his career and perhaps even wins the Super Bowl, but gets hurt or thinks too much of himself and stops doing the work and finds himself even playing for bad teams, or completely out of the NFL. The fall ends up being as dramatic as the rise to the top floor in Hollywood. That was Jayne Mansfield's short Hollywood adventure.

 I disagree with James Bacon that Jayne wasn't a good actress though and was only famous because of her, lets say measurements. She was a good actress, but more importantly a very good entertainer. Who was also a very good singer and comedian and had she realized that early on and just took with that instead of trying to move to doing drama and serious roles, we might be talking about one of the best comedic actresses and comedians at least of her generation. Which is how Carol Burnett and Mary Tyler Moore are remembered today.

Jayne wasn't a great dramatic actresses, but great comedians don't have to be. But Jayne got bored with comedy and tried to move away from what made her great in Hollywood.

Monday, September 4, 2017

Jerry Skinner: What Happened To Jayne Mansfield?

Source:Jerry Skinner- Hollywood Babydoll and Bombshell Jayne Mansfield.

Source:The Daily Review 

"Jayne Mansfield: A Tragic Ending (Jerry Skinner Documentary)"  

From Jerry Skinner

"How Jayne Mansfield's Death Car Changed The Trucking Industry. Great New segment about The Mansfield Bar on the REAR of Truck's and how her death changed Federal regulations."
Source:Jayne Mansfield Diamonds To Dust- The car crash that killed Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield in 1967.


This is a scene from CBS's The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980) where Jayne Mansfield (played by Loni Anderson) just wrapped up her latest nightclub act in Biloxi, Mississippi. And she calls her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) to tell him that she has a big business meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. If you are familiar with this story, you know that Jayne and her crew, including her kids, never make it to New Orleans on this tip.  

Source:Make a GIF- Hollywood Babydoll Loni Anderson as Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield.

From Make a GIF

This is a scene from CBS's The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980) where Jayne Mansfield (played by Loni Anderson) just wrapped up her latest nightclub act in Biloxi, Mississippi. And she calls her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) to tell him that she has a big business meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. If you are familiar with this story, you know that Jayne and her crew, including her kids, never make it to New Orleans on this tip. 

Source:Streamer Clips- Hollywood Babydoll Loni Anderson, as Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield.

From Streamer Clips 

"Jayne Mansfield: A Tragic Ending (Jerry Skinner Documentary)" 
Source:Jerry Skinner- Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield, I believe appearing in a British documentary about her.
What happened to Jayne Mansfield? Well as far as her death, she died in a car accident in June, 1967. She was a passenger and not driving and was headed to New Orleans from Biloxi, Mississippi just after midnight because Jayne had an interview that next day on a local New Orleans news show. They probably should have waited until the next morning to leave because as we know now the driver of the car was working and driving literally on no sleep.

And to make things worst, they were trying to make an 87 mile trip in about an hour or so and were in a real rush. So you got a tired driver driving past midnight and in a hurry to get from Biloxi to Mississippi and you also had a lot of traffic on the road as well and two men who died in the accident in front of Jayne's car who were real impatient.

But I believe the better question as far as what really happened to Jayne Mansfield is not so much about how she died in the end, but why was she performing in nightclubs in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1967 when she was still only 34 years old. Instead of New York or Los Angeles making movies, or doing TV shows, performing comedy, perhaps putting her own music album together. Because she had real talent to do all these things as a versatile entertainer, but wasn't doing them by 1967.

One thing that I agree with the narrator in this video is that Jayne Mansfield wasn't a dumb blonde. The woman had a college degree and came from a successful family in Pennsylvania and later Texas. The daughter of a layer and teacher. She could act, she had a comedic wit, and a singer's voice. But she played the dumb sexy blonde as a career move in order to make money and bring publicity to herself.

But to go back to the fact that she was actually a good actress who could act: she played the dumb sexy blonde so well that people took her seriously as the dumb sexy blonde and didn't see her as anything else. Both her fans and studios, movie and TV executives. She voluntarily left Hollywood in the 1960s because she was tired of playing the dumb sexy blonde and wanted serious roles as an actress. She could have stayed in Hollywood and continued to play the dumb sexy blonde and had very successful career as a comedic actress and comedian in general.

But Jayne was no longer interested in playing the dumb blonde. I believe she would have made a great soap actress in the 1970s and 80s even on prime time had she lived a normal life in years, because of a great comedic timing and wit and she had real dramatic affect as well. But of course we'll never know that. I believe Saturday Night Live in the 1970s and 80s would have been a great place for her too, but we'll never know that either. By the early and mid 1960s Jayne's Hollywood career was basically over.

Jayne's Hollywood career wasn't over because she was tired of working in it, but because she was tired of the roles that she was getting as the comedy relief in movies and TV appearances and wanted to go further as an actress. And was left to doing b-movies and and even some pornographic film and even films of her simply traveling around the country and going to Europe simply to stay busy as an actress.

Marilyn Monroe is famous for saying that it takes a smart woman to play the dumb blonde. Jayne played the dumb blonde so well that she had too many people fooled. Which is why she's always been known as the dumb sexy blonde and not much else even though she had so much else going for her as an entertainer and person. 

Monday, August 21, 2017

BBC: 1999 Jayne Mansfield Documentary

Source:Primativo- Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield, being interviewed by BBC, for their documentary about her.
Source:The Daily Review

"Movie star, pin-up queen, nightclub performer Jayne Mansfield lived a short but colorful life (1933-1967) during which she married three times, had five children (including TV star Mariska Hargitay), made over 30 films, appeared on hundreds of magazine and record album covers and dozens of TV appearances. She was known for her "dumb blonde" persona, almost-cartoonish dimensions, and a brilliant intelligence (she spoke multiple languages, played various instruments and was reported to have a 163 IQ). Unfortunately, she is as recognized for her presence in the media (including for her untimely passing) as she is for her on-screen performances. This comprehensive British documentary features tons of media footage, interviews with all three of her husbands, two of her children, and her friends and collaborators...

From Primativo

I guess in one way Jayne Mansfield was a great actress and not just a great comedic actress and comedian, but a real great actress at least in the sense that she had so many people fooled. She wanted to be seen as the dumb blonde who needed her hot, adorable, sexy image to pay her bills. But in actuality she always knew what she was doing. An intelligent woman who wanted to be viewed as a bimbo and was such a great actress that she pulled that off. She had people thinking she was exactly as she came off which was as a bimbo.

Marilyn Monroe had the famous quote that it takes a smart woman to play the dumb blonde. Well that was Jayne Mansfield, the smart woman who played the dumb blonde. She knew what Hollywood was and how she could be successful in it and played her talents to the hilt. A hot, adorable woman with a great body, but who also had a great sense of humor and comedic timing, who was also an accomplished singer. But knew exactly what people in Hollywood and what the fans noticed first and what they wanted.

Which was to see this hot, adorable woman with the great curve appeal and then you add to that which was she was a great entertainer. Someone who should exchange wisecracks with funny people like Tom Ewell, Edmond O'Brien, Merv Griffin, Jack Benny, Cary Grant, and many others.

Jayne was better than Marilyn Monroe at least in this sense that Jayne knew she was really good and had made it and deserved what she accomplished. Unlike Marilyn who was battling mental illness and depression and was heavily medicated for a lot of her adult life and had even attempted suicide and been committed at one point.

Jayne had a plan from day one and knew what she needed to do to make it in Hollywood. But unfortunately Jayne Mansfield falls in the class of what could've happened if only and ends up dying at 34 in 1967 because of a car crash where she wasn't even driving because her and her crew were in a big hurry to meet a big appointment that they had in New Orleans the next morning.

By the time Jayne died in 1967 she was woking the nightclub circuit as a singer because her Hollywood career had burned out because the major studios no longer wanted to work with her.

Jayne mentally in many ways was just as adorable as she was physically. She came off a little girl both physically and personally. And was fairly immature and developed bad habits like drinking heavily and not able to take criticism very well and work to expand her image so she could get better and bigger parts.

Which is why she fell out of Hollywood and down to the nightclub circuit just to pay the bills and keep working.

Monday, August 7, 2017

CBS: 'The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980) CBS Wednesday Night Movie'

Source:Danjel Ostojic- Hollywood Babydoll Loni Anderson, as Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield, in The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980)
Source:The Daily Review

“Made-for-TV** – WJBK 2 Detroit – The Jayne Mansfield Story (Made-for-TV) – This is the Original Oct.29,1980 broadcast with Commercials followed by a few minutes of Local News.

“The Jayne Mansfield Story” (Made-for-TV) CBS Wednesday Night Movie (Oct.29,1980)

Promo for the rerun of the 1980 made for TV movie “The Jayne Mansfield Story” starring Loni Anderson and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the April 27, 1982 CBS Tuesday Night Movies.

Opening to the world premiere of “The Jayne Mansfield Story” from 10/29/80.”

From Danijel Ostojic

"Not from Chicago, but aired via another CBS affiliate, WJBK Channel 2 in Detroit, MI, here's The CBS Wednesday Night Movies' "television premiere" presentation of "The Jayne Mansfield Story," with Loni Anderson as the ultimately doomed blonde bombshell, and Austrian-born Arnold Schwarzenegger as her husband, Hungarian-born Mickey Hargitay. Followed by the first three minutes of Eyewitness News, with Norm Wagy, Jill Geisler, Bill Fouch and Joanne Williams, and a report from Tom Fenton."  

Source:Chicago Classic Television- Hollywood Babydoll Loni Anderson as Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield.

From Chicago Classic Television 

"The movie tells the story of Hollywood movie star Jayne Mansfield. Like Marilyn Monroe, Mansfield was a sex symbol of the 1950s. She was able to succeed in Hollywood, became the owner of several theater awards. She also appeared several times in Playboy magazine. Her tragic death in a road accident ended her life at age 34."  

Source:IMDB- CBS's Wednesday Night Movie.

From IMDB 

"Martha Saxton's 'Jayne Mansfield And The American Fifties' is a fascinating, deeply probing biography on the short, tragic life of a Hollywood ... symbol. "  

Source:Good Reads- Martha Saxton's book.

From Good Reads 

"Thanks to social media, it’s now easier than ever to become “famous,” often for doing as little as Tweeting a joke (or someone else’s joke, if you’re Josh Ostrowsky). Sometimes you don’t even need to try–merely saying something funny in a “man on the street” interview will turn you into someone’s “spirit animal.” Back in Hollywood’s golden age, however, you had to work hard to get publicity, let alone keep it, and no one worked harder than Jayne Mansfield." 

Source:Tune in Tonight- Hollywood Babydoll Loni Anderson as Hollywood Babydoll Jayne Mansfield.

From Tune in Tonight 

At risk of sounding old here: when I was growing up in the 1980s and even when I was in high school in the early 1990s. network original movies that were made and produced by the networks, were actually worth watching.

CBS, NBC, and ABC, all had their own movie companies that were part of their entertainment divisions and had one night a week and sometimes multiple nights if they were showing a mini-series where they should show two-hour movie and sometimes longer than that.

The networks would produce their own movies and of course would show movies that were from Hollywood and perhaps had been out for a year or so, or longer. Very similar to what HBO, Showtime and others do on cable.

Probably watched 5-6 of James Bond series of movies in the summer of 1992 alone on ABC. The networks did this because they were good at it and knew what movies to pick and how to promote them and what kind of cast they could put together and so-forth. But also because cable wasn’t as dominant in the 1980s as it became in the 1990s. CBS, NBC, and ABC, were worried about each other. And not so much what HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, TNT, USA, etc, were doing on cable.

The cable networks simply didn’t have the resources that the broadcast networks had back then and to certain extent today as well, but cable networks are much powerful and influential today than they were back then.

I only mention all of this because I’m trying to bore you into a coma. Especially if you weren’t even born yet in the 1980s. Actually, I have other reasons as well. Because the Jayne Mansfield Story was a TV network movie that CBS put together with the producers, directors, creators, and writers of the movie.

And The Jayne Mansfield Story and I’m only 4 years old when it came out in October, 1980 so I didn’t see it and only finally heard about it a year or so ago and saw a video for it on YouTube and the finally got to see the whole movie on cable (of course) on Get-TV last February and saw it again a few months after that.

And this was a network movie where you have Loni Anderson as the lead actress playing Jayne Mansfield and Arnold Schwarzenegger playing her husband and long time lover Mickey Hargitay. (The father of Mariska Hargitay) If there is just one woman who is adorable and funny enough to play Jayne Mansfield, as well as being a good enough actress and comedian, it's Loni Anderson. I think she plays Jayne perfectly in this movie.

Loni was already a star at this point with her guest appearances on Threes Company in the late 1970s playing Jack Tripper’s love interest. And then she lands WKRP in Cincinnati in 1978. (One of the best sitcoms of all-time) Arnold wasn’t a star as an actor yet, but he was a superstar professional bodybuilder and already well-known at this point. Mickey Hargitay was a superstar bodybuilder before become an actor as well.

This is a very good and funny movie and a lot of that has to do with Loni Anderson. Who has great comedic ability and one of the top comedic actresses of her generation, at least. And she happens to playing a very funny woman in Jayne Mansfield who was very funny in real-life both intentionally and unintentionally, because she was so adorable and very immature and then add her comedic timing and you had a very funny woman who might still be working today had it not had been for her tragic car accident in 1967.

The movie covers Jayne’s life from when she became star in the early 1950s looking for work and basically forcing herself on her future agent Bob Garrett (played by Ray Buktenica) and he tells her if he’s going to represent Jayne that she’s going to have to change her hair and a few other things. But sees potential in her as a comedian.

And the movie goes from Jayne being discovered in the early 1950s where Hollywood wasn’t ready for her alway up to her fall and struggling to find work in the early and mid 1960s, to her tragic death in 1967.

Loni Anderson is just plain hot, sexy, adorable and funny as Jayne Mansfield. She’s as cute as a little girl with personality to match, but with body of a goddess with those legs, curves, chest and everything else, as well as the face. 

Arnold playing Jayne’s wife is also great as a very loving and caring husband of Jayne who tries to look out for her best interests and tries to manage her immatureness and irresponsible behavior, but fails at both and they split up in the movie.

I believe Jayne Mansfield in real-life would have been proud for how Loni played her and at least give her credit for doing such a great and accurate job. Because I think knew herself real well and didn’t try to be anyone other than herself even if she seemed overly adorable and even childish to even the people who loved and cared about her like Mickey Hargitay and her business people. 

This is a very entertaining movie that covers the struggles as Jayne making it as a great comedic actress, but someone who also wanted to be taken seriously in Hollywood and get serious parts with more meaning.