The Devil’s Advocate
Time Stamp – 10:36
- Don’t Get Old
- Sleep 8-9hrs daily
- Avoid wrinkles with cream and don’t sleep face down
- Wash face, use toner, moisturize, and exfoliate
- Drink water 8-12 glasses a day
- Eat a balanced diet, lots of fruit and vegg
- Cut down sugar and white flour
- Include full fat
- Exercise & have sex
- Stretch ligaments, soft tissues and tendons
- Use sunscreen
- Brush teeth and get regular checkups
- meditate/take personal time
- Pamper yourself
- Positive attitude
- Preventative medicine with annual physicals
Informal Informant
Time Stamp – 36:57
- Trevor Noah: Bloomberg talked about black people ‘like they’re crime piñatas’
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/feb/14/trevor-noah-bloomberg-trump-jimmy-kimmel-stephen-colbert-seth-meyers- 2015 of Mike Bloomberg defending his controversial stop-and-frisk policy,
- disproportionately affected minority residents during his time as New York City’s mayor
- “We put all the cops in minority neighborhoods,” he says in the clip. “Yes, that’s true. Why did we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is. And the way you get the guns out of the kids’ hands is to throw them against the wall and frisk them.”
- last year, Bloomberg said white people are disproportionately targeted by stop-and-frisk, while minority residents are under-targeted. “According to Bloomberg, white people were the real victims of stop-and-frisk,” said Noah. “Black people and Latinos spent years – years – saying they were harassed by the police and Bloomberg’s response was: ‘I hear you, we have been unfair – to white people.’”
- Statistics
- bureau of justice statistics – 2018 survey,
- the offender was of the same race or ethnicity as the victim in 70% of violent incidents involving black victims,
- 62% of those involving white victims,
- 45% of those involving Hispanic victims,
- and 24% of those involving Asian victims.
- Population 2018 – us census bureau
- White 63.8%
- Black 12.8%
- Hispanic 17.0%
- Asian 5.7%
- Current population 329,288,458
- Drug use archives.drugabuse.gov
- bureau of justice statistics – 2018 survey,
- ‘Grim Reaper ‘ Mitch McConnell Admits There Are 395 House Bills Sitting in the Senate: ‘We’re Not Going To Pass Those’
https://www.newsweek.com/mitch-mcconnell-grim-reaper-395-house-bills-senate-wont-pass-1487401- On Fox News Friday, anchor Bret Baier asked McConnell if Democrats’ statements about those bills were true and whether they could move forward. McConnell confirmed that it was the case, but also said that proposed legislation would be rejected.
- “It is true,” the senator said. “They’ve been on full left-wing parade over there, trotting out all of their left-wing solutions that are going to be issues in the fall campaign. They’re right. We’re not going to pass those.”
- McConnell explained that the bills would not get passed, because the government is divided. He said that instead they “have to work on things we can agree,” listing government spending, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement, an infrastructure bill, a parks bill and some environmental issues as examples of bills that they may be able to agree on.
- “It’s not that we’re not doing anything. It’s that we’re not doing what the House Democrats and these candidates for president on the Democratic ticket want to do,” he said.
- Voter disenfranchisement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression_in_the_United_States- 2010 elections, 24 states have implemented new restrictions on voting.
- photo ID to cast a ballot
- strike voters from registration rolls if they have not participated in an election
- exact-match system is known as “disenfranchisement by typo”
- Gerrymandering districts by ethnicity
- 2010 elections, 24 states have implemented new restrictions on voting.
- Representatives
- Wyoming 30 senators & 60 representatives with 563,626 population
- California 40 senators & 80 representatives with 37,253,956
Creature Feature
Time Stamp – 1:00:20
- Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin (Novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%27s_Baby_(novel)- Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007)[1] was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter.
- Levin said in 2002, “I feel guilty that ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ led to The Exorcist, The Omen. A whole generation has been exposed, has more belief in Satan. I don’t believe in Satan. And I feel that the strong fundamentalism we have would not be as strong if there hadn’t been so many of these books […] Of course, I didn’t send back any of the royalty checks.”[1]
- his second published book
- It sold over 4 million copies, “making it the top bestselling horror novel of the 1960s.” [1]
- Plot
- Rosemary Woodhouse has wanted children for some time, but Guy wants to wait until his career is more established.
- Bramford has a disturbing history involving witchcraft and murder
- Guy, a struggling actor appeared in Luther, Nobody Loves an Albatross, and various TV commercials
- Minnie and Roman Castevet, an eccentric elderly couple.
- a theatrical rival suddenly goes blind, Guy is given an important part in a stage play
- it is time to conceive their first child. That night, she dreams of a rough sexual encounter with a huge, inhuman creature with yellow eyes.
- Rosemary actually leaves Guy for a few days and considers leaving him for good.
- Rosemary falls severely ill; pregnant, craving raw meat
- Guy gets increasingly important roles; he soon begins to talk about a career in Hollywood.
- Edward “Hutch” Hutchins, who also becomes mysteriously ill, Rosemary discovers that her neighbors are the leaders of a Satanic coven,
- she suspects that they intend to steal her baby and use it as a sacrifice to the devil.
- Rosemary finds that she is wrong about the coven’s reason for wanting the baby — the baby that she has delivered is the Antichrist, and Guy is not actually the father; Satan is.
- Rosemary’s Baby is a story about gaslighting.
- manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.
- Film
- Polanski studied the book somewhat obsessively, marking pages and engaging in long conversations with Levin about everything from story to wardrobe details.
- Minnie Castevet, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
- Roman Polanski, who wrote and directed the film, was nominated for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium