This morning, I went to see the movie 30 Minutes or Less with Jesse Eisenberg. You might recall that a few years ago some guy robbed a bank and when the police chased him down, he had a bomb strapped on his chest. He said someone forced him to rob the bank, threatening to detonate the bomb. That is the basic plot of the movie.
It was funny and there was a lot of action and car chases, but once again, I was turned off by the gratuitous use of four letter words, particularly the f-word. Maybe I’m a prude, but it amazes me that people can take a perfectly good movie plot, but can’t come up with better means of expression. How sad!
A friend sent me the following in an email. I always loved Martha Raye. What a super lady!
Stronger Stuff
| It was just before Thanksgiving '67 and we were ferrying dead and wounded from a large GRF west of Pleiku ,Vietnam. We had run out of body bags by noon, so the Hook (CH-47 CHINOOK) was pretty rough in the back. All of a sudden, we heard a 'take-charge' woman's voice in the rear. To all of our surprise, she pulled on her right collar and said.....Captain, see this eagle? I am a full 'Bird' Colonel in the US Army Reserve and on this is a 'Caduceus' which means I am a Nurse, with a surgical specialty. Now take me to your wounded. He said, yes ma'am.... Follow me. Several times at the Army Field Hospital in Pleiku, she would cover a surgical shift, giving a nurse a well-deserved break.Martha is the only woman buried in the Special Forces cemetery at Ft. Bragg . H a n d S a l u t e !
Another friend sent the following: Divorce Since we are not going to get gasoline back to $1.50 per gallon and coffee to $2.00 per pound maybe this would be a solution we could live with. DIVORCE AGREEMENT -- This is so incredibly well-put, and I can hardly believe it's by a young person, a student!! A law student yet. * * * * * * * * * * Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et. al.: We have stuck together since the late 1950's for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course. Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way. Here is a model separation agreement: 1. Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy. Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets since both sides had such distinct and disparate tastes. 2. We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them. 3. You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU. 4. Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military. 5. We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel. 6. You can keep Oprah, Michael Moore, and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all three of them. 7. We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street. 8. You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens. 9. We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEO's and rednecks. 10. We'll keep the Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood. 11. You can make nice with Iran and Palestinians we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us. 12. You can have the peace-niks and war protesters. When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security. 13. We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values. 14. You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLain. You can also have the U.N., but we will no longer be paying the bill. 15. We'll keep the SUV's, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Subaru station wagon you can find. 16. You can give everyone healthcare if you can find any practicing doctors. 17. We'll continue to believe healthcare is a luxury and not a right. 18. We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem." 19. I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine", "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", "Kum Ba Ya," or "We Are the World". 20. We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle up poverty your best shot. 21. Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name and our flag. 22. Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you answer which one of us will need whose help in 15 years. John J. Wall Law Student and an American P.S.: Also, please take Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and Jane Fonda with you. P.S.S.: And you won't have to "Press 1 for English" when you call our country. Share this every chance you get! Let's keep this going; maybe some of it will start sinking in! If you can't stand behind our Military, Please feel free to stand in front of them! |
Every day, my home gets more and more settled. This afternoon, I was finally able to get the mattress bad and fitted bottom sheet on my bed. Talk about hard work. I’ve half a notion to just cover it with something so I don’t have to wash the sheets, etc. too often. I still have to put the top (flat) sheet and comforter on. I’ll do that after I rest up.
Tomorrow should be exciting. DirecTV is coming to install my receivers. Now I’ll never get anything done.
Until next time.
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