I had a picture of Julius Caesar getting murdered… Big Government and many others have the same pic. Since I can’t stand to be part of the crowd I’m changing my pic.
Ides of March by Cammucini
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Monday Open ThreadI had a picture of Julius Caesar getting murdered… Big Government and many others have the same pic. Since I can’t stand to be part of the crowd I’m changing my pic.
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Kinda looks like our Senate…
Oh,the Tennessee Sec. of State says that over 10,000 dead people have been removed from the voter rolls…all those potential Democrat voters!
Where is our Brutus, to stab health care reform in the back?
I recently finished watching the 1st season of HBO’s “Rome” on DVD. I was kind of irritated by the presentation of the republicans, like Cicero and Brutus, who tried to save the republic from Caesar’s ambition. Caesar seemed, all in all, more sympathetic. Yet, the more I think about it, there was no covering up of Caesar’s ambition and ruthlessness. He was just good at what he did, while the republicans were divided, indecisive, and incompetent.
Just like today.
Speaker Vampira,the Wicked Witch of the House…
Big Government has the same Open Thread picture. Weird.
It’s not that brilliant a choice of picture — it is the Ides of March after all. Kinda like everyone showing up at the ice cream joint on a hot day.
That’s okay, because they like everyone else is using the wrong calendar, the Gregorian. They should be using the Julian, in which today is really “ante diem VI nones Martias MMDCCLXIII ab urbe conditae” (02 March 2743 AUC). The ides isn’t for another 13 days.
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” – Yogi Berra
By the way I watched the Bird and Magic thing on HBO this weekend and assumed I’d be able to watch it without a liberal sucker punch but no such luck. They say “the country’s more Conservative tone in the 1980s was rolling back civil rights for blacks at an unimaginable pace” followed by a picture of Reagan, then a picture of a headline saying “President is racist”. I was shaking my head in amazement. These deranged nutbags can’t get through anything without taking cheap shots.
Same decade that saw a huge increase in black-owned businesses and home ownership? Nope, never let facts stand in the way of a cheap-ass
liberalleftistscreechnarrative.That is, quite literally, despicable. We’re all free to spend our money as we see fit, but I refuse to give any of my money to a company that so obviously despises me. It sounds like they do some good stuff to, but, you know, the husband who beats his wife sometimes takes the family to the zoo.
and tells the kids the lions will eat them.
It’s a pleasant surprise to see more Mr. Turbo at this time of day than usual. Spring Break?
Believe me I hate paying for HBO even for the 10 week duration of The Pacific. I’ve never seen a more liberal bunch of d-bags in my life. Someone else who has gotten really bad lately is Netflix. If you have the ability to watch instantly through your TV you have probably noticed it too. When you browse through movies you find a ton of uber liberal documentaries like Loose Change and other anti-American garbage but you definitely will not find anything from the Conservative end of the idealogical spectrum. Eventually you just realize avoiding anti-Americanism (ie liberalism) is impossible.
I’ll still give Netflix credit for having The Stoning of Soraya M available for Instant-watch simultaneous with the DVD availability.
Just added STONING.
Netflix offers “Loose Change” on their PPV service?! Do they have “Birth of a Nation” too?
Might as well round that out with “Triumph of the Will.” Makes for a nice afternoon triple feature.
Better yet, I just noticed they’re streaming Death of a President. Apparently Netflix has become the one-stop-shop for paranoid leftists everywhere.
I used to love HBO, but I had to cancel my subscription a few years ago, partly to save money, but mostly because I couldn’t stand being insulted over and over again. Any network that thinks Bill Maher deserves his own show has something seriously wrong with its leadership.
Harry Reid’s campaign slogan :”THIS ELECTION IS LOST!”
I wanted to be the first person here so I could wish everyone a happy Ides of March before they got irritated hearing it from every smart-assed kid they cross paths with. I guess I’m too late.
I forgot to mention this earlier but has anyone else seen the previews for the movie “Kick Ass”? This needs to make an appearance on the Trailer Park but I’d go with the International trailer as opposed to the US one since it doesn’t censor the language. The movie is going to be a hard R but it’s a nice new spin on the super hero concept.
V, I wouldn’t be surprised if the movie gets slapped with an NC-17. The MPAA is very sensitive about graphic violence when young kids are involved. It looks like alot of fun, but there’s definitely something disturbing to me about how young the movie’s heroes are.
One of the films (or comic I guess)schticks is the 11 year old hero, Hitgirl, endlessly cusses while she is butchering people. This will definitely not be a family film but if you want some mindless escapism it will probably be a lot of fun. In some of the previews on the official site I saw the girl dropping the F-bomb in “I’m just f***** with you dad.” and even heard her break out a word that rhymes with punt in “Let’s see what you *punts* can do.” I imagine an NC-17 version will be released on DVD but theatres wise I’m thinking it will stay R rated.
Uh-oh. Look what just came across the wire. The reconcilliation part of the healthcare boondoggle is now up for your gasp of horror. Weighing in at a beefy 2309 pages combined with the Senate bill at around 2200 pages, this appropriation bill is essentially an amendment of it, we are looking at over 4500 pages of just healthcare nonsense. I’ll never be able to read through all of this but will try to skim for goodies. At 4500 pages the healthcare legislation is now more than triple the length of War and Peace.
http://budget.house.gov/doc-library/FY2010/03.15.2010_reconciliation2010.PDF
I hope it contains some good language concerning proctology. At that size Reid and Pelosi are going to have trouble getting America to “accept” it.
Black Caesar..good one,Floyd
I took on James Bowman, over at TAC. And discovered my critique of his position vis a vis fantasy, art and the “Western mimetic tradition” dismissed rather out of hand at Mr. Bowman’s Diary (he is one of those bloggers that does not allow comments. Things that make you go, Hmmmm …).
Naturally, I felt it necessary to take apart Mr. Bowman’s contradictory, condescending and somewhat confusing response to my original criticism of his criticism.
It’s nice to be recognized in the blog of someone I greatly respect. I just wish it wasn’t for calling the man out for being an obtuse hater of the fantasy genre. Maybe if Latin quotes could roll off my fingertips like so much olive oil, I knew Shakespeare in the original English, and was working with a big think tank (Aside: If anyone knows of an opportunity – I’m available and willing to relocate) he might have a bit more respect.
On the other hand, I kind of like sticking it (all in good fun, of course) to pretentious snobs, even when they are rock-ribbed conservative pretentious snobs.
My favorite bit about Mr. Bowman’s response: He doubles down on the idea that in order for fantasy to be considered “art” in the “Western mimetic tradition” one has to believe in the worlds one creates. As Homer believed the gods existed, so too must fantasy artists believe that faeries, monsters, wizards and so forth exist. Therefore, Mr. Bowman would not bet against the idea that Lewis and Tolkien really did believe in faeries.
The first link in your TAC post is bad, Daniel.
It works for me.
Huh. When I click it, I get a “Page Not Found.” Here’s the link: http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/03/15/2010/03/10/c-s-lewis-j-r-r-tolkien-are-not-real-artists/
It looks like there’s an extra date in there.
You can comment on Bowman’s post at The American Spectator, where it’s cross-posted. (Complete with link to The American Culture!)
And I’ve just discovered I can subscribe to TAC posts in my blog reader. Excellent!
So does that mean I can now refer to Ben Stein as, “my good friend, Ben Stein?” Or do I have chat him up at RF3D first?
That seems awful presumptuous, Daniel.
“He doubles down on the idea that in order for fantasy to be considered “art” in the “Western mimetic tradition” one has to believe in the worlds one creates. As Homer believed the gods existed, so too must fantasy artists believe that faeries, monsters, wizards and so forth exist. Therefore, Mr. Bowman would not bet against the idea that Lewis and Tolkien really did believe in faeries.”
What is he? Retarded?
Parents of Special Needs Children,
I apologize for using the word “retard”, it just came out in response to that idiotic argument.
It looks like 24 might be jumping back over the shark tonight… Jack to Muslim PM, “With all due respect your family brought this threat into my country!”