There are 2 parts to the three hour opus by Christopher Nolan.
‘Fission’ – Oppenheimer, Father of A-Bomb.
‘Fusion’ – FBI’s witch-hunt of philosophically leftist Oppenheimer.
The Wall Street Journal MUST undergo paradigm shift & FIX its 100 year biastowards Leftists and Progressives.
I am not holding my breath.
EMPHASIZE that a wealthy connected Republican Lewis Strauss, holding an old grudge, got the American Government to revoke Oppenheimer’s security clearance.
End his career.
WSJ review downgrades ‘Fusion’ piece of “Oppenheimer” film as less compelling: “like grains of sand compared to a mountain” than ‘Fission’. Why? Because ‘Fusion’ is about the FBI’s witch-hunt and persecution of left-leaning Oppenheimer during America’s bizarre obsession with Communism. And WSJ writes fantasies about Red Scares to this day!Oppenheimer beams before feet-stamping, applauding audience after Trinity test – A-Bomb exploding w/o ending world – is successfulScientists and their families at Los Alamos A-Bomb laboratory applaud and wave American flags for Oppenheimer after A-Bomb explosion successfulEinstein said about Oppenheimer: “The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn’t love him – the US Government” – after Oppenheimer was stripped of his security clearance & his career ended
I was in Trader Joe’s on Masconic Avenue in San Francisco the other day looking for my favorite Almond Windmill Cookies.
Seeing none I approached three TJ’s clerks huddled near the cookie section. All of whom were built like they enjoy frequent visits to the cookie shelf.
I asked, “Where are the Almond cookies?” In unison they replied, “Quality issues” without elaboration.
When will my favorite cookie return to the store I inquired.
Hopefully in the not too distant future they replied.
I feel like a disappointed Cookie Monster.
Then I learned more by reading The San Francisco Chronicle which must have reporters whoenjoy cookies, too.
San Francisco Chronicle article – Trader Joe’s recalls almond cookie varieties that could contain rocks
San Francisco Chronicle 7.25.2023
Trader Joe’s recalled two almond cookie varieties because they may contain rocks and urged customers to not eat them, the retailer said.
The company announced that it removed and destroyed “all potentially affected” Almond Windmill Cookies and Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies from its shelves.
The products that may contain rocks include specific “sell by” dates, the company said: Oct. 19 through Oct. 21 for the Almond Windmill Cookies and Oct. 17 through Oct. 21 for the Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies.
A rocky deal – Trader Joe’s Almond Windmill Cookies
“If you purchased or received any donations of Almond Windmill Cookies and/or Dark Chocolate Chunk and Almond Cookies, please do not eat them,” the company wrote in an announcement on its website.
“We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience,” the grocer wrote.
Customers can return the cookies at any Trader Joe’s location for a refund. Those with questions can contact the company’s customer relations department at 626-599-3817 between 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. PST on weekdays or via email
Tuesday evening I spent nearly five hours at San Francisco City Hall waiting to make my presentation to the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force.
Shortly after 10pm I was able to address members of the Task Force to grant my Appeal seeking documentation regarding the Fine Arts Museums refusal to provide documentation regarding its political and legal fight to destroy JFK Promenade in Golden Gate Park.
I prevailed unanimously. The SOTF voted unanimously and ordered the FAMSF to make public its communications on this political brawlwhich riveted The City.
Following is my presentation.
Beautiful glass paneling on the 4th floor of San Francisco City Hall
Sunshine Ordinance Task Force – File 22052
Lee Heidhues-Complainant
Public Records Request with Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
July 25, 2023
JFK Promenade is now a reality. It emerged victorious with the Board of Supervisors. SFMTA. The Recreation and Park Commission. The voters by an overwhelming 63 percent margin last November. And, finally, the lawsuit filed by the FAMSF ‘Open The Great Highway Alliance’ was tossed by the California Court of Appeals earlier this year.
You may ask, “Why are you here today? You won. It is over.”
There is a simple reason. Transparency and Accountability.
I asked for everything and received nothing.
It is difficult to prove a Negative. In this instance the FAMSF is maintaining it has no responsive documents nor a responsibility to provide them.
People forget the political dynamics three years ago when The Mayor decreed JFK Drive car free as an emergency declaration on April 28, 2020. A declaration which was immensely popular with those enjoying the car free oasis in Golden Gate Park.
Liz Heidhues, a San Francisco native, celebrates Prop J victory which will keep JFK Promenade open to pedestrians and closed to cars, in Golden Gate Park. San Francisco Calif., Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022. | Camille Cohen/The Standard
There was also institutional opposition. Opposition with deep connections at City Hall and deep pockets financially. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco was in the forefront. In 2021 there were events on JFK Promenade beginning in March and concluding with a holiday celebration in December. I was at all of them. It was common knowledge that the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco was working hard behind the scenes to end JFK Promenade.
In early 2022 there was a party on JFK Promenade during Lunar New Year in support of this car free sanctuary.
In 2022, with the Mayor’s emergency declaration about to expire, various City Boards got into the action. The FAMSF Board. SFMTA. The Recreation and Park Commission. And, finally, on April 26, 2022, when the Board of Supervisors passed an Ordinance, supported by The Mayor, which designated JFK Promenade permanently car free. On May 7, 2022, The Mayor signed the Ordinance into law before a joyous throng on JFK Promenade. I was there.
The view from the fourth floor of San Francisco City Hall
At this time, I became aware of the FAMSF deep seeded opposition to JFK Promenade. I learned that District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, whose opposition to JFK Promenade was well known, had met with Platinum Advisors – the lobbyist for FAMSF – 14 times. Documentation I found by researching the Ethics Commission website.
I filed several Public Records Requests with both Supervisor Chan and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Because only the FAMSF is on the Agenda I will provide the dates of these transactions.
April 8, 2022 – Immediate Disclosure Request to FAMSF.
April 11, 2022 – Follow up with FAMSF. Response not yet received.
April 18, 2022 – Response from FAMSF.
April 19, 2022 – Amended Immediate Disclosure Request to FAMSF
April 21, 2022 – Response from FAMSF.
June 26, 2022 – Immediate Disclosure Request to FAMSF.
July 12, 2022 – Response from FAMSF.
The responses on April 18, April 21, and July 12, 2022, provided nothing of substance to my requests for documentation about the political battle waged by FAMSF to destroy JFK Promenade.
Megan Bourne is Chief of Staff of the FAMSF. On April 21, 2022, she wrote me that the Ethics Commission “is responsible for maintaining all records under the City’s lobbying ordinance.” It is reasonable to expect the FAMSF would have copies of these same records. My Records Requests did not limit themselves to just formal “lobbying.”
The hallways of San Francisco City Hall
Parfa Dea, Senior Government Affairs Manager of the FAMSF, wrote to me on July 7, 2022. She needed more time “to search for, collect and appropriately examine a voluminous amount separate and distinct records.” Five days later Parfa Dea wrote and told me FAMSF “is not involved with the ‘Access for All’ initiative. It has no responsive documents to your request.”
This assertion was made despite the fact that the FPPC Form 460 submitted to The Ethics Commission for July 2022 lists “Access for All, Sponsored By Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums and Open The Great Highway Alliance.”
The political fight waged by FAMSF against JFK Promenade should have provided a trove of documents. They need to be provided.
Attachments:
FAMSF response to Immediate Disclosure Request – 4.21.2022
P Dea email to Lee Heidhues – 7.7.2022
FAMSF response to Immediate Disclosure Request – 7.12.2022
FPPC Form 460 ‘Access for All…’ – 7-16 through 7.31.2022
Platinum Advisors Ryan Blake phone message – 4.5.2022
Platinum Advisors Ryan Blake phone message – 6.27.2022
The Standard ‘War for JFK Drive’ – 4.8.2022
48 Hills ‘The Move to Reopen JFK Drive – 8.8.2022.
Tuesday evening I spent five hours at San Francisco City Hall participating in a public hearing.
During the long wait, four hours before making my presentation past 10PM, I walked the halls of the 4th floor. Decades ago the 4th floor was the courthouse. Working as a journalist I covered trials in those courtrooms. Reporting for The Sun Reporter Newspaper, whose publisher Carlton B. Goodlett, the street in front of City Hall is now named.
Now these former court rooms are used as meeting rooms and offices for local government business.
In the evening City Hall is often empty. The quiet is very peaceful. I took this unique opportunity to memorialize my night in this beautiful building which has seen its share of historic events. Ranging from joyous occasions to political assassinations.
Sinead O’Connor will always and forever stick in my mind for one reason.
“You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart” as the credits roll in the 1993 film ‘In the Name of the Father’ the cinematic recounting of the Guildford Pub bombings on October 5, 1974.
I watched the film at the now closed Northpoint Theater in San Francisco near Fisherman’s Wharf. I was transfixed during the entire movie. When Sinead O’Connor’s song blasted the screening room with its surround sound I was totally blown away.
Sinead O’Connor – RIP
From that moment on the name Sinead O’Connor stuck in my mind forever.
Following are two renditions of the song. A video with Sinead O’Connor appearing. The next. The actual end scene in the movie and the credits rolling with the song in the background.
Sinead O’Connor – You Made Me The Thief Of Your Heart
Jane Birkin died a week ago and the story of her iconic life continues to unfold.
At the age of 40 Jane Birkin took a turn in life. Away from the fashion pop star of Je’ Taime persona towards a more politically aware life. A decision which only enhanced her reputation and credibility for the next 36 years.
Maintaining her sense of style while immersing herself in the real World of everyday people.
British singer and actress Jane Birkin participates in a pro-choice demonstration of support for French family planning during an abortion trial in Bobigny. (Photo by Alain Dejean/Sygma via Getty Images)
Excerpted from The Wall Street Journal 7.24.2023
Following the death of Jane Birkin on Sunday at age 76, Instagram was flooded with photos of the Brit-in-Paris singer in her photogenic 1960s and 1970s youth. She was a style icon everyone could agree on, be they designers such as Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello and Simon Porte Jacquemus to French President Emmanuel Macron. In numerous tributes, we were reminded of her risqué, girlish fashion moments: the lacy dress worn backward, the completely sheer gowns, the denim mini shorts and the straw basket she used as a handbag.
But that leggy, pouty period, coinciding roughly with her relationship with Serge Gainsbourg from 1968 to 1980, will not be Birkin’s only style legacy. Her later decades, particularly her 40s, 50s and 60s, are an inspiration to women hoping to age without succumbing to plastic surgery and conventionality.
After 40, Birkin abandoned her famous babydoll look for menswear, a makeupless face and unlaced sneakers. “As time went by, I did less and less,” she told British Elle a few years ago.
Beginning with her stripped-down appearance at the Bataclan in 1987, at left, Jane Birkin favored menswear and a makeupless face.
Birkin’s turning point from ingénue to self-possessed, confident artist was her 1987 concert at the Bataclan in Paris, when she was 41 years old. She was then dating Jacques Doillon, a filmmaker who encouraged her to leave behind what he called the “gimmicks” of her youth, from the basket (which he ran over with his car) to the makeup and minidresses.
The less Birkin seemed to care about Fashion with a capital F, the more it embraced her as a pinnacle of chic.
In 2017, she sang at the concert hall Le Palace in Paris for a Gucci fashion show, wearing a simple suit as models in over-the-top multicolored lace and sequined looks marched around her. She often wore Saint Laurent alongside her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in recent years, but stuck to white shirts and black suit separates.
Top photo: The late Jane Birkin photographed in 1989. ‘I think at 40 years old, I was at my best, really,’ she once said. PHOTO: JEAN-CLAUDE DEUTSCH/GETTY IMAGES
Attn: Cheryl Leger – San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Task Force (SOTF)
It is important this information be brought before the full SOTF during its July 25, 2023 in which I will participate.
Even though the electoral and judicial battle is over, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) whose De Young Museum stands astride JFK Promenade still needs to be forthcoming and stand in the sunshine of public disclosure. Attached you will find the following:
FAMSF Response to my Records Request dated June 26, 2022 (see pages 2837-2838) in SOTF file.
California Fair Political Practices Commission Form-460 submitted by ACCESS FOR ALL, SPONSORED BY CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS AND OPEN THE GREAT HIGHWAY ALLIANCE-Period 7.16.2022 through 7.31.2022 ( Open the Great Highway Alliance was Plaintiff in the lawsuit which sought in Court to destroy JFK Promenade and The Great Highway Park. The litigation was dismissed by the California Court of Appeals earlier this year. ‘Open the Great Highway Alliance v. Ginsburg, No. A164797’)
The FAMSF report shows that the first contributor was Megan Bourne-Chief of Staff Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums – $250.00. The same Megan Bourne who responded that her employer had “no responsive” documents to my Spring 2022 public records requests.
The crowds at the De Young Museum. The whining by FAMSF that JFK Promenade would ruin attendance was all nonsense
In my earlier Immediate Disclosure Requests I labeled the responses by FAMSF “preposterous”. Language which still holds true today over a year later. Requests which were totally non responsive and resulted in my first hearing before the SOTF in May 2022.
Dede Wilsey – Dow Chemical scion and Political power house in San Francisco with FAMSF CEO Thomas Campbell
In the FAMSF rejection of my subsequent June 26, 2022 IDR the FAMSF is trying to, again, duck its responsibilities by hiding under a technicality. Claiming it has no obligation to provide responsive documents. This may be correct in a court of law. But in the real world of San Francisco politics it’s preposterous. FAMSF was the leader in the attempt to destroy JFK Promenade legislatively. That is the reason I filed my initial Requests.
Leave it to the tabloid style All American New York Post to put into print what I was thinking while watching the Americans grind out a 3-0 win over the tough Vietnamese in a World Cup match upin Auckland, New Zealand.
The Post gushingly reports that the Vietnamese national team, “emphatically crooned their national song “Tiến Quân Ca,” or “Song of a Marching Army.”These women have something to sing for and I am sure what those before them were doing decades ago. Fighting an American aggressor.
VIETNAM – APRIL 30: The Fall of Saigon in Vietnam on April 30, 1975 – The north-Vietnamese tanks cross Saigon on the way towards the Doc Lap palace. (Photo by Herve GLOAGUEN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
I applaud without reservation the American women who refuse to observe the flag of a country which denigrates women and people of color.
What really struck me during the entire match is the reality that America, in its striving for global hegemony laid waste to this small proud Asian nation for 20 years. Disrupting the fibre of American life forever and causing the deaths of 55,000 young Americans. Killing hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese. For what?
American pride and ego.
It cheers me that while the American women on the pitch in New Zealand were not thinking much about what happened over 50 years ago, they were thinking about America today.
Kudos to them all.
Excerpted from The New York Post 7.22.2023
Most members of the US women’s soccer team stayed silent during the national anthem before its World Cup opener Friday against newcomers Vietnam — who passionately belted their nation’s tune.
The New Post gushingly reports that the Vietnamese national team, “emphatically crooned their national song “Tiến Quân Ca,” or “Song of a Marching Army.”
The majority of the reigning women’s World Cup champion team stared stoically ahead as the “Star Spangled Banner” blasted across New Zealand’s Eden Park arena.
Only five of the 11 players who stood on the field for the anthem — with young, aspiring players standing before them — placed their hands over their hearts, while their six teammates kept their digits clasped behind their backs, video shows.
Only three USWNT players — Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher and Lindsey Horan — sang along with the hundreds of American supporters watching in the stands.
Comparatively, members of World Cup debutant Vietnam emphatically crooned their national song “Tiến Quân Ca,” or “Song of a Marching Army.”
FILE – In this April 29, 1975 file photo, U.S. Navy personnel aboard the USS Blue Ridge push a helicopter into the sea off the coast of Vietnam in order to make room for more evacuation flights from Saigon. The war ended on April 30, 1975, with the fall of Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City, to communist troops from the north. (AP Photo/File)
Top photo: American women stand silent during playing of national anthem at World Cup opener in Auckland, New Zealand – 7.22.2023
Lee Heidhues 7.21.2023
German authorities now say the lioness on the loose is no lion….it’s a wild boar.
The search ends. The drama is over.
The King of the Jungle continues to roam free.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 7. 21.2023
Police said on Friday that they had found no signs of a lion, or any other large predator, following a massive search around Berlin that was launched after reports of a lioness sighting on Wednesday night.

Two experts who examined the video footage that sparked the search told police that in all likelihood the animal in the video was a wild boar.
“Everything indicates it is not a lioness,” Michael Grubert, the mayor of the town Kleinmachnow where the suspected lion had first been spotted, said at a press conference. https://www.dw.com/en/lioness-near-berlin-likely-a-wild-boar-police-say/a-66284417
A lioness in Berlin has taken it upon herself to take a road trip.
Local authorities are vexed because neither the Berlin Zoo or the Circus have reported an AWOL (absent without leave) feline.
Authorities can only conclude, at this juncture, that the lioness decided to leave her home at a private estate or is, alarmingly, being kept captive by an animal trader.
Let’s hope the wandering lioness is found and safely returnedto her native habitat.Which is not in the urban setting of Berlin but in the wilds of Africa.
Excerpted from Deutsche Welle 7.20.2023
A “loose, dangerous animal,” suspected to be an escaped big cat, was reportedly sighted in a Potsdam region on the fringes ofthe German capitalon Thursday, police said.
“It’s clear lions can’t drop out of the sky, not in Germany, at least,” said Professor Heribert Hofer, director of the…
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