Zero Dark Thirty: zero for storytelling, feminism. a CIA tool of a movie

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Zero Dark Thirty is a Big Disappointment, a one-note presentation of taking of bin Laden, per CIA. Print versions are more exciting so far. So glad Zero won almost no Oscars, the film is not good storytelling at all, and if a real female CIA operative acted that bitchy and incommunicative, they would not rise to that high a place in their careers.  Main character Maya set the women's movement back a notch as no one would want to work with her. . . 2 stars for a sanctioned history lesson.  Kathryn Bigelow is no journalist. 

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Kay Ebeling

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on Facebook.

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Citizen Zombies Repeating Treasonous Phrases

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From Facebook by me this AM:

Today I am perplexed at the condition of my country. I think NRA, Karl Rove's PACs and Fox News get overseas money, which is then used to disseminate lies through Opposite World sound bytes such as "Social Security is a ponzi scheme" and "guns don't kill people" etc. Maybe in china and the saudis, some magnate who hates America (pick one) uses this disinformation to sabotage the USA from within.  They turn citizens into zombies who then quote these treasonous phrases over and over until they believe them.  

We are under attack by our own words which are being written by our overseas enemies. 

That's what I think is happening in Amerika and it's damn scary.

* Not CPAC, the other PAC, the one run by Karl Rove. . .

-first posted by Kay Ebeling in Illinois today on Facebook, Friend me:

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FB Grant Award Scam, the check will never clear

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As posted today on Facebook:

Kay Ebeling

FB SCAM EXPERIENCE: Weird one today person on FB messaged me, "just got a $50,000 check from Facebook Awards and your name is also on the list." I am broke enough to ask more, her name was "Patricia Hoyt" a recent friend here on FB, with child abuse action groups on her page, we had 3 mutual friends among her 53. When I asked for more she sent me to the "agent, Dennis Woods" who piped in needing my name address etc. I knew it was phishing. I asked more to see how it played out. Pat claimed her check came to her door by FedEx, in mutilated English, same errors Dennis made. Man, people fall for this stuff, they catch you when you're vulnerable. STRANGEST THING was when I said, this is a scam with a link to the website below, BOTH "PAT AND DENNIS" FB ACCOUNTS DISAPPEARED no trace of them, soon as I sent "her" that link, both "Pat" and "Dennis."
Visually, the shades of their names changed in the messages. My messages with the link below disappeared. In a few more seconds, both profiles disappeared entirely. Their friendly smiling faces, gone. People who fall for these things end up sending them money for fees or whatever, and the check may come, but it never clears. Here is the link to info about the scam, amazing.
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/facebook-grant-award.shtml

Facebook Grant Award Advance Fee Scam

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Facebook message claims that the recipient has won a cash prize in the 'Facebook Grant Award'. The message instructs the recipient to follow a link to the award notification website to claim the prize.

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In movies about 1890 they cough and perspire, today our immune systems eat us alive

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Kay Ebeling

about a minute ago

All through history people without money have died or been incapacitated by illness that could have been treated, so I have to accept it. America has lost three-four wars (who can keep up) and is no longer a superpower nation, instead is left with this massive debt. So the middle class here is disappearing. I'm not the only one who's dealing with sickness that by all rights should be treated. In America today we've returned to the robber baron era socially and I'm just one of many-many casualties.

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Vision to see 2 inches in front of your face, maybe

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The politicians claiming the Benghazi attack was a result of lax security at the American Embassy in Libya are the same politicians who fight against any increased revenue for the government. 

How are we supposed to secure our overseas embassies if the wealthy in the USA refuse to pay taxes? 

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-hillary-benghazi-gop-20130123,0,3388315.story 

Just asking
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Game Change: Where our current political insanity began

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Netflix Review:by Kay Ebeling


Towards the end of Game Change, a crowd is hollering “Socialist” and “Muslim” when John McCain mentions Barack Obama at a Republican rally and Ed Harris as McCain gets a look of pain on his face. He’s shocked at the radical hate-filled words coming from his followers. That moment is pivotal in American history, the beginning of the whacked out weirdness that is dominating our political climate today.

Game Change gave me a renewed respect for McCain and I even ended up feeling kind of sorry for Sarah Palin after seeing the HBO production, as Palin was in way over her head and should never have been put in that position of running-mate to begin with.

But Pandora’s box was open, the bigotry and extremism that Palin brought out in crowds is still with us today, inspiring gun nuts who massacre innocent people in crowded places, feeding anti-Muslim anti-liberal animosity that dominates politics today so much that it's almost impossible to hold a conversation in public.

Reactionary name-calling has replaced political dialogue and it may take decades for the country to recover. Game Change made me see how much the mistake of putting Sarah Palin in as a vice presidential candidate has had reverberations five years later.

I'm a progressive but I've always liked John McCain, I like any Republican or Independent who can engage in intelligent discourse. However, today the hate-filled hollerers have come to dominate politics. I hope it stops soon.

Game Change is a history lesson, as well as an example of how great actors can inhabit a role: Harrelson, Moore, and especially Ed Harris are wonderful and I'm keeping the disk to watch it a few more times before returning it to Netflix. Wish there was more meaningful drama like this being produced today.

http://www.hbo.com/movies/game-change/index.html

Freedom to go to the movies and come home alive

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Laws against drunk driving did not ban alcohol for everyone. 
Denying there is a problem with guns in America is like saying it's okay to keep having unprotected sex after you know you have AIDS. 
The Constitution was written as a living document that can be amended as time requires it, and time requires it now. 
This is not a partisan issue. You'd think after all the massacres in the US by nuts with guns that people would rally behind gun regulation as a matter of public safety. What more will it take?

A Deep Internal Sense of Being Pissed Off

Kay Ebeling shared a link.

21 minutes ago

Past few years I've had several "friends" enter my life, by way of the blog I wrote about pedophile priests. My new "friends" told me they would do things for me, got my hopes up, then when the time came, they disappeared. The way the same pattern happened over and over, I can't help thinking "someone" orchestrated these incidents to get the result they got, me being depressed, lonely, unmotivated, and now able to trust no one. I keep telling myself not to let paranoia taint my instincts, but it's just too weird that this has happened over and over since 2010. And, I mean, the dirty tricksters are likely working for Catholic Church hierarchy (boy will that get you funny looks when you try to tell someone). Well, guys, they won. I have no motive to continue the blog at all after being burned like this over and over. I should feel liberated, but instead I just have a real deep internal sense of being pissed off.
http://cityofangels8.blogspot.com/

(Posted originally at Facebook) 

Passion on Facebook about Newtown CT

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Kay Ebeling

2 minutes ago near Chicago

If something as bad as Newtown can happen and we don't make serious changes as a result, then we as a people are lost.

Kay Ebeling

39 minutes ago near Chicago

I think the rancor of last US election feeds these guys' mania to go shoot up a movie theater or classroom. There is a tone in public discussion today, fed by a weird population that snarls hatred in every breath, hollers things like, "Get a job" and spews political jingos instead of looking at what is happening Now and dealing with it. All those old sayings like "if guns are illegal only criminals will have guns" are out of date. Everything Is Out Of Date Today. We all need to eject our baggage and exhale, look at what our world is developing into and deal with it.

Kay Ebeling

about an hour ago near Chicago

The Second Amendment is about Patriots stuffing gunpowder down a rifle and blasting short-range, One Shot. No one back then envisioned the weapons that are all over the streets today. We don't have freedom if we can be shot for being in a movie theater or a classroom.

Kay Ebeling shared Mary Shaw's status.

8 hours ago

Now what do we do

December 15: On this date in 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified, establishing the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Kay Ebeling shared a link via The Kryptonite Project.

Yesterday

I almost think we deserve to be wiped out on Dec 21 by a meteor or whatever, bk these insane ideologues are running the country, responding to real human tragedy with political theory. What Will It Take to Get Sanity?

Hours After Kindergarten Shooting, Michigan GOP Calls For Allowing Guns In Schools

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After the terrible shooting in a Newtown, Connecticut elementary school, the Michigan House Republicans issued demanded on Governor Rick Snyder (R) to sign a bill that would making it easier for people to receive a gun permit and opening up “gun free zones,” including schools and elsewhere, to peopl...

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This statue truly expresses how I feel right now

Every one please Post this as your status for at least one hour to start the biggest prayer chain we can: Dear God, I pray for the families of students at Sandy Hook Elementary. May these children find peace during this tragic time. Innocence lost by fear is unacceptable. I pray for the wounded and I pray for those lost. Keep these families near your heart and help them find healing In Gods name we pray

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"Second Amendment long overdue for revision" sorry to repost mess

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Sign the petition

Gun Control. Now.

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I just signed a petition to The United States House of Representatives, The United States Senate, and President Barack Obama: Our second amendment rights are long overdue a reevaluation. How many more senseless and entirely PREVENTABLE shootings have to occur before we do something about Gun Control...

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Kay Ebeling

about an hour ago near Chicago

The Second Amendment is about Patriots stuffing gunpowder down a rifle and blasting short-range, One Shot. No one back then envisioned the weapons that are all over the streets today. We don't have freedom if we can be shot for being in a movie theater or a classroom.

Kay Ebeling

about an hour ago near Chicago

The gun lovers are saying we need to ID persons with mental health problems rather than remove the "Freedom from gun regulation." Um, do you really think when the government decides which people have mental health problems you will have more freedom?
You want the the Govt. to force people to take psychotropic drugs rather than regulate assault weapons?
Really?'

AND ONLY A FEW DAYS EARLIER:

Kay Ebeling shared a link.

Thursday near Chicago

What is it with guys going into a "trance" and then on a shooting spree? Visions of Batman type villains hypnotizing select candidates to make them serial killers dance in my brain

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/13/oregon-portland-shooting-mall-jacob-roberts-ex-girlfriend/1766473/

Report: Oregon shooter seemed 'numb' in recent weeks

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The ex-girlfriend of Jacob Tyler Roberts, the suspect in the deadly shooting at an Oregon mall , tells ABc News that he was typically happy and liked to joke around, but had changed abruptly in the week before

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