okay, a week from tonight in new hampshire there is going to be a showing of a movie that has never been shown before not in modern times. a silent film from 1911. starring mary pickford. mary pickford was the biggest movie star who ever was. in the teens and 1920s there is a case to be made she was the single most famous woman in the whole world. she was also smart about the business. insisted on ownership of content, negotiate herd contract starting as a teenager, a filmmaker, produced. joined with charlie chaplin and douglas fairbanks to found united artists so filmmakers and artists could control the studio. mary pickford amazinamazing, th broke the mold and broke it after her when she was gone. a local carpenter, peter massey was hired to knock down an old barn. decided he would check through the barn, through and through to make sure it was empty before he started knocking it down.
0 democrats do, which is that the government should be started up again, and we should settle our policy issues through some other means of fighting. more than enough republicans have said that publicly, that it should be possible. but it s left to the democrats to try to find a way to make that true. it s left to the democrats to try to find ways to let those supposedly more moderate republicans find a way to put their money where their mouths are. so they tried the louise slaughter rule which effectively would have put louise slaughter in charge of the house for a second instead of john boehner. that didn t work. now their plan is to take over john boehner s job, to maneuver around him for one vote. by using something that is technically called a discharge petition. but which for the last few years at least everybody really just thinks of as the reese witherspoon option. in the reese witherspoon movie legally blonde 2, not only did the whole plot turn on a successful use of a disch