...who would it be?
I'd select Barack Obama.
Well, obviously myself. Duh!
shareI suppose id vote for you over those crummy Republicans and Democrats...
But i would do so under protest!!
I'd hire some Russian hackers to make sure everyone in the world would vote for me. No one would have a choice!
shareDoes it have to be someone who's currently living?
If not, then Vladimir Lenin.
The rules were not made clear
Anything goes
If not, then Vladimir Lenin.
Communism has a definition, and Obama doesn't fit in it... Have you ever encountered one single communist who views Obama favorably? I mean an actual self-identifying communist, not someone you think is a communist because he/she is anywhere to the left of Mussolini. I am a communist, I know tons of communists, and I've never met a single one that views Obama with anything less than loathing.
shareYou are a Communist ??? Your ideology has killed a whole lot of people. Congratulations.
shareA whole lot of people are being killed by yours even as we speak. Free-market economics have hundreds of millions of people condemned to poverty and destitution. The genocide of the Americas and Australia and the enslavement of Africans alone, which were the building blocks of capitalism, killed far more people than any communist governments ever have or will. World War I and World War II killed a hundred million people between them to decide which bloc of capitalist powers should control the resources and wealth of the world. Millions of people die all over the world every single year under capitalism of preventable and curable illness, hunger, crime, police repression and war. In the United States alone thousands of people, mostly people of color, are killed by police every year. And how many have been killed by the invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the bombing of Syria and the arming of terrorist groups there, etc? Not to mention the devastating spinoff effects of those wars, which have destabilized entire regions and created the worst refugee crisis in the history of humankind. But sure, talk to me about how communism is oh so violent.
Politics is violence. The question is who is using violence against whom and to what purpose. And I fully support the use of violence against those who have condemned the world to what it is today, to abolish this system of misery they've imposed on the world, by any means necessary.
You spew social justice nonsense. Why is China embracing capitalism ???
shareYou are AMAZING!!!
Also,you are very silly...
Anyone.
shareLiving or dead????
shareEither id say!!
Tell us!
Seriously! Anyone who can come up with salad dressings and popcorn for charity is aces in my book!
He's handsome, a darn fine actor, and he will be delivering my eulogy when I finally decide to leave this world!
I say, Put this man in charge!
Sadly hes gone
Died at 83...in Connecticut i believe from a cancer...
A real man and a real loss
Newman was tops!
I remember when my husband told me. I actually sat down and cried.
Talk about ridiculous! I actually cried as though a family member had passed away.
For me, it was the end of an era.
Not ridiculous at all
He was the greatest...
A major movie star
Race car driver
Decent husband/family guy
Philanthropist/people person
Paul Newman was a super nova...very few can compare!
Even Albert Schweitzer never made salad dressing for charity.
shareHe was more than "a race car driver," with all due respect. I am a lifelong sports car racing fan, and Paul Newman (who competed as "P. L. Newman") was an EXCELLENT racing driver, very much respected by his peers, amateur and professional alike. In company with Carl Haas, well-respected racing team captain, he created Newman/ Haas, Racing, one of the major teams on the Indycar circuit. I don't think that Paul had the same level of driving talent as Steve McQueen, but, unlike Steve, Paul actually entered races. (To be fair, McQueen was for all intents and purposes really racing when he went up against world-class drivers while making his film, Le Mans, driving one of THE most dangerous purpose-built racing cars in history, the Porsche 917.) Paul Newman was a Movie Star in an era when a movie star did not just walk in from doing a fucking TV series.
sharehmm..i stand corrected...
Thank you kindly as always good sir!
You did not need correction, only elaboration, and I have only three words to add: Cool Hand Luke ("What we have here is a failure to communicate!"). The guy is a legend. His wife, Joanne Woodward (a WONDERFUL MOVIE ACTRESS, not a TV actress) once said, "He is the most infuriating man. You want to have a real, air-clearing fight, and he refuses to fight with you."
P. L. Newman: class, talent and style all the way.
he was a big left winger
shareWell...i suppose im more of a conservative type guy...but i dont really mind the back and forth tussle...i think its all lots of fun!
Newman was a real prince! I miss him...
He was a supporter of cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal who killed a Philly police officer.
shareHmmm...did not know that...that gives me pause...i heard of the case so i get it...thats weird
Newman always seemed a sport to me...
Odd!
Don't get me wrong he was a fine actor - I just watched Hombre earlier tonight.
shareMost disturbing!
I love this guy
Wow...
"On Dec. 9, 1981, Officer Faulkner made a traffic stop on Abu-Jamal's brother, Billy Cook, who put up a fight. Abu-Jamal happened upon the scene, and shooting began. Faulkner ended up dead, and Abu-Jamal was shot in the chest.
A gun registered to Abu-Jamal, with five chambers empty, was on the sidewalk. Four witnesses who saw all or part of the shooting implicated Abu-Jamal. One witness said that after Faulkner went down, Abu-Jamal stood over him and sealed the deal with a bullet through the head.
And yet an international crusade to free Mumia--fueled by endorsements from Hollywood celebrities including Susan Sarandon, Paul Newman, Ossie Davis, Ed Asner, Tim Robbins and Alec Baldwin--has had people marching in the streets from Africa to Asia and beyond."
I never understood why this killer became a cause celebre
shareCool Hand Luke... Amazing!!
I make everyone watch it...nobody complains
The Pope always kind of feel like the closest thing to that for me. So would any living Pope of Vatican City work? I guess it would depend on how one may feel about religious figures.
shareTeddy Roosevelt is my guy!!
shareFranklin!
Are we gonna fight?
Sorry... My 'net service is all stupid tonight...big server is down in the Hudson Valley NY...apologies my good lady
The moment i posted FDR i started thinking Teddy instead lol and here we are
My bad...stupid servers
I can hardly post atm...
ME
shareOh you...
You'd nuke us all methinks!
Not really sure 'methinks' is a word but i went there anyway you rascal!!
It is absolutely a word.
Not a word that is understood in our illiterate society, but it is a word.
(In a literate society, which does not describe the world in which we live, the words "It is" would be understood to precede the words in the previous sentence.)
Bill Shakespeare, Hamlet: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks." If Billy Shakespeare, the Bard of Avon, says it's a word, case closed.
Thx
You are always enlightening!
Actually, it's little known that Billy S. wasn't always correct with the English language,
Shogun, methinks is a word.......Hamlet then turns to his mother and asks her, "Madam, how like you this play?", to which she replies "The lady doth protest too much, methinks
Sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say. Are you saying that the question and answer are a non sequitur, which would be more of a problem with logic than with language, as such? I would agree. Are you saying that Shakespeare created the word "methinks" out of whole cloth and it is therefore incorrect, wrong? If that's the case: he was a poet. He has the right to enlarge our language. "Methinks" has its place in the English vocabulary.
The man was human, hence, imperfect. That's not a little known fact. That's good, adult sense.
sorry bout that, I put 2 different statements together, the first part was to say that BS wasn't always correct with the English language, the second part which has nothing to do with the first part was just to tell Shogun who asked if "methinks" is a word, that it is actually a word and I added an example.
I edited my post so it would make more sense, methinks.
and as far as Shakespeare, don't know what you mean by "good adult sense" Shakespeare was a writing genius, he knew what was correct and not correct, but he chose to use his own words, he didn't care what others were writing, he wrote in his own world.
Well, Teddy was no slouch either. Any guy who can stand and deliver one long speech after just being shot is aces in my book!
I have been watching a few episodes of Ken Burns's The Roosevelts every few days on Netflix over the past few weeks. Interesting stuff!
I have to check that out-thx!
Sorry my internet is being a dummy and responses are quite slow!
Teddy Roosevelt is THE only Roosevelt, in my opinion. "Speak softly, and carry a big stick." He was lifted on a lot of PR and hyperbole, and history questions the need for the Mexican/American War, fueled by the Hurst newspaper conglomerate, but he was bully star nonetheless. Not Thomas Jefferson, my nominee of choice (don't think Teddy (bear) would get into Mensa, but a bully good candidate.
However, I would nominate Anwar Sadat and Mahatma Ghandi over
him, but behind Thomas Jefferson.
Dead - Lincoln
Alive - Merkel
Intergalactic overlord Buckethead!
sharewhat ???
sharehttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Buckethead
sharehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FJzW_gFoXR0
shareI love this guy!!
He needs to come to the states:)
All hail Buckethead