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Bernard

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About Me

I am a Humanist, a fire breathing liberal, A Political and Social Progessive, A Poet and Essayist, An Avid Collector of Good Music, Books, and Films.I thrive on challenge, and have often found living life on principles a real battle, one which I often find myself relying on my own personal reservoir of strenght, intellegence, and courage to surmount. I believe in being totally honest, true to oneself and to one's vision and convictions, even if that means standing alone. Honesty, integrity, personal honor, and authenticity are my 'gods'.I have a sensible and realistic outlook on life and my two feet planted firmly on the ground [although I may, on rare occasions, seem to have my head in the clouds]. I am very consistent and am gifted with great powers of endurance. Though I have been told that I possess a gentle, even soft, nature, I can be enormously strong-willed and stubborn. I can be coaxed and persuaded by charm, beauty, love or affection - but I can never ever be forced by ANYONE. I rarely resort to fighting. I just will not cooperate with anything that I passionately disagree with and will not be pushed into anything before I feel certain about it.I Love both Red and White Wine, Impressionist Art, Russian Literature, Stimulating Debate & Conversation, Ray Charles', Sam Cooke's, Marvin Gaye's, Bobby Darin's and Ella Fitzgerald's voices wrapped around almost any lyric, Dinning Out, Going To Concerts, Young Ladies, Sweet Romance, Soft Kisses, Hot Hard Sex, and the very thought of 'Making Sweet Love'. Cuddling [either with a hot girl or a good book].I Love both the Beach and the Mountains equally. I Love gentle Spring showers, cool Summer breezes and the color of leaves in the Autumn. I Love Classical, Jazz, Soul, and R&B Music. I also love Calypso, Salsa, Mambo, the Bossa Nova and Spanish Guitar Music, the sound of pure joy in a child's laughter, gentle rain on the rooftop and birds singing before the break of dawn. I love Star Gazing, Singing in the Shower and Humphrey Bogart Movies. I Like Sunsets more than I Like Sunrises. I Love the feel of a woman's hair after it has been washed and the scent that a woman has after bathing.I love to Travel, Water Ski, Sail and Hot Air Ballon. I plan to learn how to Scuba Dive, Ski Glide and Fly an Airplane and I want to try Sky Diving [at least once]. I Enjoy Oratory, History, Post-Aristotelian Logic and I Love Confucian Wisdom, Eastern Art, Tai Chi, Blackberry Sage Tea, Lemons, the pursuit of Intellectual, Cultural and Ethical growth, Museums, Libraries, Bookstores, Beautiful Poetry, Eloquent Prose and Inspiring Speeches; although I am learning the value of diplomancy I will always boldly speak the truth as I understand it.I can be easily provoked to action by those who are cruel, stupid, judgmental or intolerant. I dislike, Cigarette Smoke, Hypocrites, Dishonesty, Religious Dogmas, Delusions and Superstitions, Spiteful Bitter Women, Hateful and Violent Men, Obtuseness, Arrogance, Narcotics, War Profiteers, Enviomental and Human Exploiters as well as National, Racial and Religious Bigots.I truly admire those who are reasonable, open minded, talented, intelligent, creative, compassionate, honest, courageous, kind, keep their word and to the integrity of their convictions, and who champion both Honest Rational Inquiry and Human Dignity everywhere.Like Robert G Ingersoll I believe that 'Every Good Man is my brother, The Entire World is My Country and to do what is right is my only Religion'.My greatest hopes are both to soon find a girl who will justly make me fully believe in love again and to find myself truly living up to my own credo that this one brief life - of which we are certain - should be lived to the very fullest.lay out

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My Interests

Progressive Politics, Social Activism, Civil, Human, Labor, Women's and Children's Rights, World Travel, Reading, Listening To and Collecting Music, Collecting Old Radio Dramas, Writing Essays and Poetry, Watching and Collecting Films, Studying Nature and History, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, Debating Ideas, Collecting Books and Fighting the 'Good Fight', Humanism, Scientific Inquiry, Art, Beauty, Love, Young Ladies, Making Sweet Love, Dinning Out, Concert Going, Reading, Hanging Out with Real Friends, Film Making, and Doing Voiceovers

I'd like to meet:

OF THE LIVING: Michael Moore - Social Critic, Author and Film Maker, Michael Eric Dyson - Author, Radio Host, Social and Political Critic, Ken Burns - Author and Film Maker, Paul Newman - Actor, Robert Redford - Actor and Film Maker, Clint Eastwood - Film Icon and Director, Steven Stielburg -Filmaker, Tyler Perry - Playwrite and Film Maker, Noam Chomsky - Author, Social Critic, and Professor of Linguistics, Natalie Cole - Singer and Actress, Diane Schuur - Singer, Doris Kearns Goodwin - Author and Historian, Hugh Downs - Author and Commentator, Jon Stewart - Host of the Daily Show, Alex Jones - Author and Film Maker, Chalmbers Johnson - Author, B B King - Musician, Senator John Edwards, Senator Barack Obama, George Galloway - UK Statesman, Woody Allen - Film Maker, Comic and Actor, Dan Barker - Author, Richard Dawkins - Scientist and Author, Sidney Poitier - Actor, James W Loewen - Educator and Author, George Clooney - Actor, Activist and Director, Bono - Musician and Activist, Hugh Hefner - Magazine Publisher, Barak Obama - Senator and Democratic Presidential Canidate, Bill Maher - Comedian and Political Satirist, Kevin Spacey - Actor and Film Maker, Tony Bennett - Legendary Singer and Jada Fire, Nina Hartley, Maja Lee, Sinnamon Love, Alana Evans, Lil Miss Kitty, Sandy Style, Bobbi Bliss, Miko Lee, Carmen Hayes and Vanessa Del Rio - Adult Film Actressessam cooke video

Music:

Sam Cooke [the sweetest male soul singer ever], Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Aretha Franklin, Bobby 'Blue' Bland, Jeffrey Osborne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Little Willie John, The Temptations, Jim Croce, The Dells, Tony Bennett, Teddy Pendergrass, Lalo Schifrin, Billy Joel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Rod Stewart, Luther VanDross, George Gershwin, Frank Sinatra, Harry James, The Funky Poets, The Golden Gate Quartet, Mahalia Jackson, Tito Puente, Patsy Cline, Jay-Z, Grand Master Flash, Gil Scott Herin, Billy Ocean, George Benson, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Bobby Darin, The Four Tops, Roy Hamilton, Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Mark Murphy, Beethoven, Bach, Mario Lanza, Bernard Tanner Sr [Greatest Classical Baritone since Tita Ruffo], Paul Robeson, Dinah Washington, Artie Shaw, Sam and Dave, Lou Rawls, Django Reinhart, James Brown, B B King, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Lee Hooker, Brook Benton, Dion, Steve Perry, The Chi-lites, Freddie King, Eric Clapton, The O'Jays, Michael Jackson, Rockapella, Take 6, Marc Anthony, Art Tatem, Louis Prima, Donny Hathaway, Miles Davis, Michael Buble', Otis Redding, Clifford Brown, Benny Goodman, Ben E King, Oscar Petersen, Louis Jordan, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Bill Withers, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Bob Marley and the Wailers and the Drifters

Movies:

Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, 12 Angry Men with Henry Fonda, To Kill A Mockingbird with Gary Cooper, The Shawshank Redemption and Glory with Morgan Freeman, Fury, Captains Courageous, State of the Union and Inherit The Wind with Spencer Tracy, The Moral Storm, Anatomy of a Murder, It's A Wonderful Life, and Mr Smith Goes To Washington with James Stewart, Mr Deeds Goes To Town, The Westerner and High Noon with Gary Cooper, The Lion King and Fantastia [the Walt Disney Animated Masterpieces], Dr Strangelove with Peter Sellers, The Crusades with Terry Jones, Tale of Two Cities and The Prisoner of Zenda with Ronald Colman, Clerks, The Bride of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and A Bronx Tale with Robert DeNiro, Angels With Dirty Faces, Taxi, The Public Enemy, The Roaring Twenties, White Heat, One Two Three, Each Dawn I Die, and City for Conquest with James Cagney, Out of The Past with Robert Mitchem, Ocean's 11 [the George Clooney version], Crash, Devil In A Blue Dress and Hotel Rwanda with Don Cheadle, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Cool Hand Luke, The Departed with Leonardo DiCaprio, Modern Times, The Gold Rush and The Great Dictator with Sir Charlie Chaplin, The Usual Suspects and The Negotiator with Kevin Spacey, Thirteen Days, Dances With Wolves and 500 Nations with Kevin Costner, Baseball, Jazz, The Brooklyn Bridge, Congress, The War and The Civil War by Ken Burns, A Day At The Races and A Night at the Opera with the Marx Bros, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, None But The Lonely Heart with Cary Grant, The Hunt For Red October, Dr No, You Only Live Twice, Goldfinger and Finding Forrester with Sir Sean Connery, Alferd Hitchcock's Lifeboat, Man on Fire with Denzel Washington and Man on Fire with Bing Crosby, Sunset Blvd, Stalag 17, The Country Girl, and Network with William Holden, Finding Forrester, Henry the V: both with Kenneth Branagh and with Laurence Olivier, V For Vendetta, Coach Carter with Samuel L Jackson, The Matrix, The Bourne Identity and Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, Red River, The Quiet Man, Rio Grande and The Searchers with John Wayne, Elmer Gantry, Seven Days In May and The Train with Burt Lancaster, A Rasin In the Sun, In the Heat of the Night, No Way Out, To Sir with Love, and A Patch of Blue with Sidney Poitier, LA Confidential and Gladiator with Russell Crowe, Witness For The Prosecution, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame, Sign of the Cross and It Started With Eve with Charles Laughton, The Americanization Of Emily, Sayonara, Grand Prix, The Great Escape, Decoration Day and The Ultimate Gift with James Garner, The Pride of the Yankees with Gary Cooper, Once Upon A Time In The West and Hard Times with Charles Bronson, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Soul of the Game, The Karate Kid I and II with Pat Morita, All Quiet On The Western Front with Lew Ayres, Robin Hood and The Sea Hawk with Errol Flynn, The Mark of Zorro with Tyrone Power, Mr Deeds Comes To Town, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, The Unknown with Lon Chaney Sr, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bullets Over Broadway, Zelig, Annie Hall, Bananas and Deconstructing Harry with Woody Allen, Key Largo, Sabrina, The Big Sleep, The African Queen, Deadline U.S.A., and The Petrified Forest with Humphrey Bogart, Shane with Alan Ladd, Deep Cover, The Graduate, The Grapes of Wrath with Henry Fonda, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Fallen Sparrow and Between Two Worlds with John Garfield, The Natural and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Robert Redford, Rocky I and II, Cornered and Murder, My Sweet with Dick Powell, Deadline At Dawn, and Watch On The Rhine with Paul Lukas, Strange Cargo, It Happened One Night and Teacher's Pet with Clark Gable, The Meaning of Life, The Life of Brian and The Quest for the Holy Grail with Monty Python, Spiderman II, Oliver Stone's JFK, M, Three Strangers, and The Mask of Dimitrios with Peter Lorre, King Creole, Wild In the Country and Flamming Star with [yes] Elvis Presley, The Third Man, Touch of Evil and Citizen Kane with Orson Welles, Once Upon A Time In The West with Charles Bronson, Deep Cover with Laurence Fishburne, The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, The Emerald Forest with Powers Boothe, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine and Sicko by Michael Moore, The Court Jester and White Christmas with Danny Kaye, The Count of Monte Cristo with Robert Donat, The Sea Hawk, Robin Hood, Captain Blood, The Prince and the Pauper and Gentleman Jim with Errol Flynn, When Harry Met Sally, The Gods must be Crazy I and II, A Star is Born with Judy Garland, The Lost Weekend with Ray Malland, The Front Page with Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon, The Apartment with Jack Lemon and Shirley McClane, King Solomon's Mines with Paul Robeson, The Emerald Forest with Powers Boothe, Cadence with Charlie Sheen and Larry Fishburne, Night Falls on Manhattan with Andy Garcia, and A Foreign Affair with Marlena Dietrich and Jean Arthur.

Television:

Law & Order, American Justice, House MD, The Daily Show, PBS Nova, PBS American Masters, 60 Minutes, The Simpsons, The Sopranos, CSI, BBC's The Black Adder, BBC's The Vicar of Dibley, BBC World News, Numb3rs, Pushing Up Daisies, The Fugitive with David Jannsen, The Twilight Zone [with Rod Serling], Jeopardy, The West Wing, Frasier and Scrubs.

Books:

Mark Twain's 'The Letters from the Earth', 'Mysterious Stranger' and 'On the Damned Human Race', 'The Fire the Next Time' by James Baldwin, 'Black Boy' by Richard Wright, 'By Any Means Nessessary' by Malcolm X, 'The Will To Doubt' and 'Why I'm Not A Christian' by Sir Bertrand Russell, 'The Life of Reason' by George Santayana, 'Yes I Can!' by Sammy Davis Jr, The Complete Works of Robert G Ingersoll, 'Meeting of Minds vol 1-4', 'On The Bible, Religion and Morality' and 'More On The Bible, Religion and Morality' by Steve Allen, 'The Lessons of History', 'The Greatest Minds and Ideas of All Time' and 'The Story of Civilization' by Will Durant, 'The Age of Reason' and 'The Rights of Man' by Thomas Paine, 'Why We Can't Wait' by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., The Complete Works of Shakespeare and Isaac Asimov, 'The God Delusion' by Richard Dawkins, 'Candide' by Voltaire, 'My Narritive As A Slave' by Frederick Douglas, 'Dream Boogie: the triumph of Sam Cooke' by Peter Guralnick, 'On A Note Of Triumph' by Norman Corwin, 'The Last Patrician: Bobby Kennedy and the end of American Aristocracy' by Michael Knox Beran, 'Nat King Cole' by Daniel Mark Epstein, 'Lies My Teacher Told Me' by James W Loewen, 'All Quiet On The Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque, 'A People's History of the United States' by Howard Zinn, 'Failed States', 'Hegemony Or Survival', 'Imperial Ambitions' and 'Manufacturing Consent' by Noam Chomsky, 'Blowback', 'Sorrows Of Empire' and 'Nemesis' by Chalmers Johnson, 'The Art Of War' by Sun Tzu, 'Perspectives' by Hugh Downs, 'Connections' by James Burke, 'The Demon Haunted World' by Carl Sagan, 'Imperial America' by Gore Vidal, 'The Complete Speeches of RFK', 'Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Union' by Michael Moore, 'No Exit', 'Being and Nothingness' and 'Nausea' by Jean-Paul Sartre, 'The Rebel', 'The Fall', and 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus, 'Team Of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' by Doris Kearns Goodwin, 'Batman: The Ultimate Evil' by Andrew Vachss, 'The Dark Side of Christian History' by Helen Ellerbe, 'The End of Faith' by Sam Harris, '2,000 Years of Disbelief', 'Holy Horrors' & 'Holy Terrors' by James A Haught, 'Losing Faith in Faith' by Dan Barker, 'Between God and Gangsta Rap' and 'Open Mike' by Michael Eric Dyson, 'The Ruba'iyat' by Omar Khayyam, Asop's Fables by Asop, 'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon, 'Here I Stand' by Paul Robeson, 'What I Believe' by Albert Einstein, 'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov, 'Crime and Punishment' and 'The Idiot' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee, 'Man Without A Country' by Kurt Vonnagurt, 'The Humanist Manifesto' by E.H. Wilson, 'The Complete Poetic Works of Alexander Puskin' [the greatest poet of the last 500 years], 'On Liberty' by John Stuart Mill, 'Man and Superman' and 'Thus Spake Zarathustra' by Friedrich Nietzsche, 'God's Funeral' by A.N. Wilson, and 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience' by Henry David Thoreau

Heroes:

Mahandas K Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Megar Evers, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Franklin D Roosevelt, Galileo, Louis Pasteur, Chief Tecumseh, Robert F Kennedy, Giordano Bruno, James Farmer, W.E.B. Debois, Megar Evers, Asa Philip Randolph, All the 'Freedom Riders and Civil Rights Marchers' [Black and White], Issac Newton, Charles Darwin, Simon Bolivar, Stanley Krammer, Omar Khayyam, John Locke, Dr Joseph Lister, Sun Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Saladin, Chief Joseph Brant, Pericles, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Nelson Mandela, Ida B Wells, Norman Corwin, Walter White, WEB Dubois, Robert Ingersoll, John Brown, Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Joe Louis, Orson Welles, Sammy Davis Jr, Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke, Rod Serling, Walt Disney, Isaac Asimov, Wendell Phillips, Humphrey Bogart, Macolm X, Noam Chomsky, Chief Joseph, Chief Pontiac, Spartacus, Prometheus, Albert Einstein, Eleanor Roosevelt, Chief Seatte, Crazy Horse, Harriett Tubman, Ernest Shackleton, George Soros, Louis Armstrong, Sir Bertrand Russell, Muhammad Ali, Thurgood Marshall, Geromino, Henry V, Joshua Chamberlain, U.S. Grant [only as Soldier], Bruce Lee, Dr Jonas Salk, Duke Ellington, Voltaire, Thomas Paine, Thomas Edison, Roman Emperors Nerva, Trajan, Julius Ceasar and Marcus Aurelius, Seabiscuit [Yes the champion race horse], Balto [Yes, the great sled dog] AND My Father [Bernard Tanner Sr], my uncle [Alvin Tanner] and my grandfather [George Marshall Tanner] - they were the finest men that I have personally ever known [Yes I was very, very Lucky]!