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Jenny Hawkins's avatar

Read that Nicole Kidman applied for citizenship in Portugal. She & Keith Urban applied for divorce. All the talk of fascism.

Barry Friedman's avatar

I saw that. I'm sure she'll have an easier time getting in than most.

Kent Anderson's avatar

Nicole Kidman. The 'Ice Queen of Hollywood.' She already has American citizenship, (she was born in Hawaii, her parents were diplomats) as well as her native Australia. I know someone who knows her. Her Catholicism didn't go over well in Tennessee.

Tamara Piety's avatar

Wow! Bet they like some other prominent Catholics. I’m surprised by that, altho I guess I shouldn’t be. But I thought all the evangelicals were onsides with the Catholics to be united against the godless left.

Kent Anderson's avatar

They are, on certain issues. But, dig just under the surface and they still think the Pope is the Antichrist. I'm the only one in my family who was baptized. My dad had a fit when he found out.

Bruce Kopetz's avatar

"August Landmesser was a German man famous for appearing in a 1936 photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute, a symbolic act of defiance against the regime. He had previously joined the Nazi Party but was expelled after falling in love with and becoming engaged to a Jewish woman, Irma Eckler. His refusal to marry under the Nuremberg Laws and subsequent persecution led to his imprisonment in a concentration camp and eventual death during World War II while serving in a forced labor battalion." Wikipedia

Barry Friedman's avatar

He paid heavily for this photo. He is more famous, more important than everyone pictured. I wonder at the end if he had any idea that people would still be speaking of him 90 years later -- or if it would have mattered?

Frankie Two Bits's avatar

Those who cannot remember the past have taken over the day room.

Robert Tetrault's avatar

This is to be devoutly hoped for. Hang together or hang separately. However, the treatment of fishing boats off Venezuela isn't helping my optimism.