Her finest hour has come…

Marjorie Catherine Terry Doster

AUGUST 13, 1923 – FEBRUARY 27, 2020

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/brunswick-ga/marjorie-doster-9054393

God bless America and God bless President Trump, our fearless leader!

* No Spoilers * BONDLIST

NO TIME TO DIE (no movie spoilers in this note!) features extensive IMAX footage. See NTTD at a true IMAX-sized theatre to get up to 40% more picture/background on screen!

Many of us BONDLIST’ers have hotel rooms now to see NTTD together on a GIANT IMAX screen in Orlando, Florida on Saturday, April 11. We’ll also dine together and visit Aston Martin Orlando and Omega Orlando. Write to join us!

For October, we have more than 45 James Bond fans signed to sail on FanCruise5! Join us for all-new Bond games and trivia, seminars and podcasts at sea, dozens of locations from a dozen Bond books and films ashore, and much more aboard the largest Bond fan cruise ever held. Make lifelong friends and swap collectibles and war stories . . .

I recommend NOBODY DOES IT BETTER: THE COMPLETE, UNCENSORED, UNAUTHORIZED ORAL HISTORY OF JAMES BOND by Mark Altman and Edward Gross. It’s a compendium of fascinating quotes and comments on Bond in film (full disclosure: my quotes appear in this book).

Altman and Gross did a lot of research and many in-depth interviews to build this extraordinary volume. The hardcover is available now at Amazon for a bargain price, since it weighs in at over 700 pages! You could randomly turn to any page of this book and get immersed.

Our fellow BONDLIST’er Dr. John Flynn is celebrating another audio spy book! EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LIFE I LEARNED FROM JAMES BOND, co-written with Bob Blackwood, is a look at all in the world of 007 that makes life fun and meaningful in the modern age, and EVERYTHING is available now at Amazon and on iTunes! Congratulations, John!

The upcoming SAMLA conference features an intriguing new Bond topic and ARTISTIC LICENCE RENEWED has this feature story. Join us this November for in-person presentations on Fleming, the continuation authors and all of the Bond films.

And not less than five SAMLA panelists are cruising with us in October, with expert information for you on the Bond phenomenon. Be there, but only if you love food, the Caribbean, New Orleans and 007!

Best, Matt Sherman 007

Bacon 3 – Connery 1 – YM 0

8 Important Books Every Feminist Mother Should Read

Give your children the start that will help them understand the importance of feminist issues in society

How we see the world is influenced in a big way by our early childhood. While it’s important not to pressure yourself in parenting, there are some key aspects of parenting that feminism cares about.
These books touch on the balance between success and parenting as a mother, single parenting, and the unique issues that mothers have faced in the past. These stories are inspirational and proclaim the strength we mothers have when it comes to raising our children. So don’t be put off by the ‘how-to’ guides that set unrealistic expectations. These 8 books on motherhood tell you all you need to know as a feminist mother.

#6 Searching for God in the Garbage by Bracha Goetz

Experience what goes on inside the mind of a feminist Harvard grad who broke the habits that were imprisoning her in this raw and candid memoir about overcoming food addictions and learning to value motherhood. How did she fill the inner emptiness? By nourishing her soul.

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Best movie I have ever seen. Great story, Super actors, Breathtaking scenery, Incredible cinematography!!! How?? My mind cannot wrap around how they got those pics and how long it took to make this movie. The actors – Jean Reno, Manuel Camacho, Tobias Moretti, AND that eagle, Able – should be given every award there is! God bless them and the whole crew for what they did – Directors: Gerardo Olivares, Otmar Penker. Writers: Joanne Reay (screenplay), Otmar Penker (original idea). There aren’t words to express how wonderful this story is!

Please read 28th amendment Please Read, and forward. This will only take 1 minute to read! 28th Amendment, 35 States and Counting. It will take you less than a minute to read this. If you agree, please pass it on. It’s an idea whose time has come to deal with this self-serving situation: OUR PRESENT SITUATION!

• Children of Congress members do not have to pay back their college student loans.
• Staffers of Congress family members are also exempt from having to pay back student loans.
• Members of Congress can retire at full pay after only one term.
• Members of Congress have exempted themselves from many of the laws they have passed, under which ordinary citizens must live. For example, they are exempt from any fear of prosecution for sexual harassment. And as the latest example, they have exempted themselves from Healthcare Reform, in all of its aspects.

We must not tolerate an elite class of such people, elected as public servants and then putting themselves above the law. I truly don’t care if they are Democrat, Republican, Independent, or whatever. The self-serving must stop. Governors of 35 states have filed suit against the Federal Government for imposing unlawful burdens upon their states. It only takes 38 (of the 50) States to convene a Constitutional Convention. If each person that receives this will forward it on to 20 people, in three days most people in The United States of America will have the message.

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: “Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the Citizens of the United States …” This is an idea that should be passed around, regardless of political party.

Congressional Reform Act of 2017

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they’re out of office. And, no more perks go with them.
2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as ALL Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e. NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts by and for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor and privilege, NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work … not get all kinds of freebies.

Loiacono Literary Agency takes on Knights in Action, the third in the Jean Termonde Novels by Daniel C. Lorti!

Duke Jean Termonde, French Ambassador to Italy, in a search of information pertinent to French interests, finds a northern Italian city-state preparing territorial expansion among warring cities, a rogue Roman pope with designs on an Italian kingdom, and a French invasion of Southern Italy sponsored by the Avignon anti-pope. Seeking timely information means putting himself in danger and initiating a spy network operating out of the embassy. Friendships with the Mayor of Arles, a French privateer, city-state rulers, and a Vatican cardinal are fraught with adventure and danger. A twist of fate moves him into a dangerous situation with the English enemy in the middle of a coup d’état and the Hundred Years’ War.

A writer of mainly factual and historical fiction, Daniel C. Lorti is the author of the Jean Termonde Novels: The Avignon Legacy, Knights of Honor, and Knights in Action, the Jim Factor Novels: The Missing F_ctor and The Business End (W&B Publishing), which embody Lorti’s professional background as an arms broker in outstanding suspense thrillers, and The Mulligan (available for acquisition), a parody on do-overs; his most recent completed novel. An aerospace engineer with sensors, weapons, and intelligence background, he was the Chief Radar Engineer for the Northrop Grumman Corporation and was on President Clinton’s twenty-member committee for Trade and Investment in Northern Ireland. A former international arms broker, he conducted business in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. During his career, he, with partners, sold a successful aerospace company to the Northrop Grumman Corporation. A member of Mystery Writers of America and the Historical Writers of America, he currently resides in Newport Coast, California.

Represented by Loiacono Literary Agency

Loiacono Literary Agency takes on Ginny Fite’s Songs My Mother Taught Me.

Linked in short stories in the manner of Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge or Alice Munro’s The Beggar Maid, it explores the interplay of memory and identity.

Irene Fermi has always felt like she did not belong — to her family, school, neighborhood. Abused by her mother, she cocoons herself in her observations of the world and builds a story about who she is in order to survive. Irene develops an intuition about picking battles; when to run and when to hide, as well as choices and consequences.

At the heart of the story is a complex relationship between Irene and her mother, Zuzu, a woman whose life is a mystery to her daughter. When Irene tries to piece together the story of who she is, she finds she may have been wrong about everything. Memory, she discovers, is not fact but only the story she has told herself.

Eight stories in the collection have been published in literary magazines. The entire collection was short-listed for the 2019 Santa Fe Writer’s Project prize and one of the stories, published in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

A journalist by profession, Ginny Fite is the author of five novels: Cromwell’s Folly, No Good Deed Left Undone, Lying, Cheating, and Occasionally Murder, No End of Bad, and Blue Girl on a Night Dream Sea, published by Black Opal Books, in addition to three collections of poetry, and a humorous book on aging, I Should Be Dead by Now. Many of her stories have been published in literary journals. With degrees from Rutgers University and Johns Hopkins University, she has also studied at the School for Women Healers and the Maryland Poetry Therapy Institute. She is a member of Thriller Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, Women’s Fiction Writers Association, the Maryland Writers Association and The Writer’s Center. She is currently working on a paranormal murder mystery. Born in L.A., brought up in New Jersey, long-time Maryland resident, she now lives in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act, as signed by President Trump, reinforces efforts to stop human trafficking. John L. Flynn‘s Terror at G-20 is a novel which deals with human trafficking around the world, and the efforts of his female detective Kate Dawson to stop human trafficking from affecting the G-20 in San Francisco.