NP - The Witch (movie)

[David Morris]

You're prognostics limp, hobbled from sad poisons.
Your equations lack air, aspirations, heart.  They are gasping.
Any hope?  Any help?
Redemption, Ressurection?
Love?  Yes!
Try betting on that!

David Morris

On Sunday, December 18, 2016, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Workers think Trump might change things. There is something to be
> said for all his jawboning, as stupid as it makes him sound. Maybe he
> can do something to improve the working lives of ordinary white men
> and women. Time will tell. If he pulls it off, with tax cuts and
> spending, they will re-elect him. The Democrats can't count on Blacks,
> Latinos and the educated whites and women to win. That's a failed
> formula even if the trend is in their favor.
>
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:57 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > Krugman, like so many who think like liberals with a conscience missed
> > something huge in the recent election and he still doesn't seem to
> > realize how wrong he was about the working people who supported Trump
> > and how the trade agreements with China and Mexico impacted wages.
> > Krugman, who defends trade, and the trade agreements (WTO, Most
> > Favored Trading Nation Status for China, for example )that stripped US
> > workers of wealth and job security argues that the US  jobs and the
> > benefits were lost to technology. This is false and those simple folk
> > Krugman claims to care about know it, even though he is a professor of
> > Economics,  has the Nobel in Economics and most of them don't have a
> > degree in anything. China's gain was the  US loss, in wages, job
> > security. Sure, the wealth got skewed more and more to the top 10%
> > under US Capitalism while in China the poor were lifted out of
> > poverty, so one could argue, as liberals often do, and did when the
> > unfair trade advantage was extended to China, that the US needed to
> > redistribute the wealth, educate, re-educate, invest in
> > infrastructure, productivity, workers...to offset the unfair trade
> > that raised the Chinese workers out of poverty and stripped US workers
> > of the wages, and that, in the long run, a China without poverty would
> > benefit not only China but the US, US workers, and the world. Not true
> > of course, but this was the thinking and Krugman was a big cheerleader
> > for it. Now he is reluctant to admit that he was wrong. The Liberals
> > got it wrong. At least from the American worker's point of view they
> > did. The US gave up a lot of manufacturing. It would shift to service
> > and knowledge economy. The shift, from Clinton through Bush and to
> > Obama, 24 years, failed. The Chinese took full advantage, and they
> > manipulated the currency to boot. Workers know this. Will Trump change
> > things?
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >> I look at the Times everyday and agree about the treatment of Hillary's
> >> silly emails, which clearly shouldn't have amounted to a row of beans in
> >> this crazy world. Krugman calls it false equivalency and says the
> mainstream
> >> press in general was guilty. He recently wrote a scathing piece on the
> >> subject.
> >>
> >> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:09 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi Paul!
> >>>
> >>> I like the NYT grammarian.  Otherwise I hate the NYT for endlessly
> >>> persecuting Hillary's emails and not showcasing Trump's endless lies,
> >>> race-baiting, Putin-loving anti-NATO crap. I HATE the NYT.
> >>>
> >>> Just saying..
> >>> David Morris
> >>>
> >>> On Saturday, December 17, 2016, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> No more than any other English teacher would--Hi David.
> >>>>
> >>>> p
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 5:35 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> OK.  Is it no different than our English?  You quibble.  Do you have
> a
> >>>>> point?
> >>>>>
> >>>>> David Morris
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Saturday, December 17, 2016, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Shakespeare's language is Modern English, not Old or Middle English.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 7:53 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:;>>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> > http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-witch-2016
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > I'm only at the first third, but everything so far is layered in
> deep
> >>>>>> > resonances.  The language is faithfully old English, but that's
> not
> >>>>>> > the only
> >>>>>> > reason it reminds me of Shakespeare.  The drama is smart and real.
> >>>>>> > Cinematography is superb, as is the soundtrack.  In that regard
> this
> >>>>>> > feels
> >>>>>> > like Kubrick, but without the symmetry and clean edges.
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > David Morris
> >>>>>> -
> >>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>
> -
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