Note: The Coffee Coaster Beaniegram contains synopses of writings—columns and book/movie reviews—of the week. It normally is posted and emailed on Sunday mid day. Toward the end of each week, a more journalistic newsletter, "Percolations," is emailed commenting on news and issues of the week. Last week's issue of Percolations is located here. — bw

My Column-Article
Millionaire Page
Say Yes to Success!
by Brian Wright

The Millionaire systems are designed to progressively leverage your effort to obtain, ultimately, the entire range of James Lee Valentines' personal empowerment tools as well as the opportunity to make substantial residual earnings immediately and 'big money' in the long run. Access the link at the beginning of each MXn paragraph below to go to my respective MXn site for a full description of that product/business line. Each MXn system gives you a set of valuable tools to achieve the four freedoms: [Full Column]

Excerpt of Review

Imitation of Life (1934) ___ 8.5/10
First version outshines 1959 by a bit

All in all, the acting in Imitation 1934 rolls along more naturally, too. Colbert is very smooth, the everyman's dream girl of her time. This was the year she also performed in the Academy Award winning movie, It Happened One Night, with costar Clark Gable—not only did that movie win the Oscar, so did she, so did Gable, and so did director Frank Capra! And Louise Beavers is sympathetically powerful as Delilah. But what I want to point out are the performances of Warren William as Steve Archer and Rochelle Hudson playing Bea's daughter Jessie. [Full Review]

Book Review
Three Men in a Room (2006)
New York politics a microcosm of 'Borg' Central
by Seymour P. Lachman

Author Lachman served as a New York senator 1995-2004 from Brooklyn and (after redistricting) large chunks of Staten Island. As a second-generation immigrant from Poland, Mr. Lachman had risen in the ranks of the education system, eventually running the New York City School Board. He decided to run for state senate, was elected, and went to Albany the state capital. Shortly after, through conscientious hard work, he was appointed to the senate's finance committee. He describes his Day of Dawning as follows.

Soon I began to vote my own way on important issues of concern to me and to my constituents. Very shortly thereafter, I was approached by a senior member of the Democratic Party who said, "Listen, you can either support the Democratic leadership and rise to the very top, or be an independent who votes on principle, and sink to the bottom." [Full Review]

Guest Column

Stop the Fed Land Grab
Timely warning of police-state intrusion inland
Courtesy Bill McNally

The National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, H.R. 1505, is an extensive land-grabbing bill by the federal government in the name of “national security.” The proposal gives the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and specifically the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency, which is under the DHS, authority over a 100-mile inland swath of land across the northern and southern borders of the United States “for purposes that assist in securing the border (including access to maintain and construct roads, construct a fence, use vehicles to patrol, and set up monitoring equipment).” [Full Column]

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