Posted on 07/14/2015 11:11:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While Jurassic World swallows the box office, the White House has requested a copy of a more rarefied film based on the life of James Gralton the only Irishman ever deported from Ireland, in 1933.
Spies said President Obama and his family plan to watch Jimmys Hall, by social-realist UK filmmaker Ken Loach, on their upcoming Marthas Vineyard vacation. (Its PG-13.)
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Few, if any came that early. Some of my Irish forbears came to the US in the 1820s, but they were Protestant, and probably from English ancestry. The Irish Catholics who flooded this country didn’t come till the mid-late 1800s.
Won’t be long and we will get a report from the media on how much toilet paper they use on their “vacation”. Am I really interested in what movies they watch? NO, the only thing I ever want to hear about the odumbo’s is, “They’re Gone!”
"It is this tension between the ideals of Christianity and the fear of the church and its natural tendency to be reactionary that is the central issue that the film explores."
Obama preparing for the next fight.
That's what I'm thinking. His kids probably said, "Dad, we want to see Jurassic World". Instead he burdens them with some boring claptrap of a movie about oppression.
You’d best take an interest in the philosophy of this movie. It defines the root of our problems.
It’s about “deportation”?....coincidence? Nahh
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