(Photo: Matthew Hinton/The Advocate)
Mickey Easterling had a larger than life personality. That hasn't changed a bit since she died last week. She was a philanthropist and bon vivant known throughout New Orleans. Easterling was noted for her wild hats and for often carrying a champagne glass in one hand and a cigarette holder in the other. So that is precisely how undertakers arranged her body at her funeral this Tuesday.
John Pope writes about her in The Times-Picayune:
“She loved the limelight. She loved the attention,” said her daughter, Nanci Myke Easterling. “She was flamboyant. She had flair. She was outrageous.” […]
In a 1998 interview for The Times-Picayune, David Cuthbert wrote that the walls of Ms. Easterling’s home office were hung with portraits of herself by George Febres, Douglas Bourgeois, Jean-Jacques Giraud and Douglas Johnson. Out by the pool, Cuthbert said, was a nude sculpture that, Ms. Easterling said, was “the quintessential me – shoes, hat, cigarette and Champagne glass.”
For people who might not have known her, Ms. Easterling gave a hint to her saucy personality by frequently wearing a pin spelling out “#1 Bitch” in sparkling stones.
“Wearing that pin all the time was so my mother,” her daughter said. “She was proud of the fact that she was aggressive and in-your-face tough.”
-via American Digest
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The famed then 87-year-old Kazan's unforgivable crime was to have truthfully told the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities in 1952 that he and eight of his friends had been fellow members of the communist party, from which he had resigned in disgust. Some of these men later admitted that Kazan told the truth. Nevertheless, until his death in 2003 at the age of 94 Kazan remained a political leper among Hollywood's politically correct.
These are same people who in October 1997 streamed into the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences in Berverly Hills to see Hollywood Remembers the Blacklist, a film glorifying unrepentant Stalinists who wanted to turn the US into another Gulag. Needless to say, these are also same celluloid intellectuals who support cop-killers and murderous dictators – but only so long as they are socialists." -- "Hollywood leftists, their blacklist and their treason", Gerard Jackson
Amazing. The leftists who have wrested control of our colleges and universities are, next to Hollywood, the greatest blacklisters of all time. They have ideologically cleansed the faculties of these institutions of conservatives while ironically making a fetish of "diversity". How utterly hypocritical for any left-wing academic to complain about "McCarthyism" and "targeting".
Gee, I wonder what would give hime that idea.
Dem. Socialists of America claim 70 Democrat congressmen as members?:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/35733956/DSA-Members-American-Socialist-Voter-Democratic-Socialists-of-America-10-1-09
Wake up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venona_project
Start there and then read the books:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Haunted-Wood-Espionage-Paperbacks/dp/0375755365/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335282353&sr=1-7
http://www.amazon.com/Venona-Decoding-Soviet-Espionage-America/dp/0300084625/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335282353&sr=1-1
http://www.amazon.com/In-Denial-Historians-Communism-Espionage/dp/159403088X/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1335282353&sr=1-3
McCarthy and Bobby Kennedy were right, the communists had infiltrated our cultural institutions and had gained access to the highest levels of our government.
How sad that the apologists for the "red fascists", as George Orwell called them, continue to push the ahistorical garbage contained in this post.
Here's a protip: McCarthy was a piece of garbage who was willing to make innocent people suffer to further his own political career.
Still, the Venona papers which were released in the early 90s, while not justifying all tactics used to track down Soviet spies, do prove that there were Communist spies deep inside the US government.
http://www.nsa.gov/about/_files/cryptologic_heritage/publications/coldwar/venona_story.pdf