Hell yeah… you know what irks me the most? This made me agree with the fucking FRENCH!!! I hate those guys! In fact I had to stop making fun of those snobby-ass, snail-eating bastards because picking on the french became fashionable. ARRRRGH!

I smell a conspiracy. Citroen, with the tactical support of hollywood superstars are planning a hostile takeover of General Motors and Ford. I’m sure Mr Bush will know what to do though.

Well Well, I make it back to my rounds of reading and of course have to come by “my legs fan” and to read nothing has changed *S*. Have missed reading your rants as you handle them so well ~

Nice burn. (Must now see Rev. Mykeru.)
Memory fades a lot faster than inner beauty, which Tim & Susan both possess. Thank you for reminding us of that fact.

I was talking about your blog entry as a whole: nice burn of the people that forgot how we were briefly united after 9/11, you idiot. (I mean that with love.)
‘K, I’m gonna go pick at something now.

I always thought it took years for the theories and the story they wouldn’t show us about things like this to come out in the public arena. Only a few weeks? That’s quick.

Eric,

Does that mean we have to point and laugh at the “Well, now it doesn’t matter if there were really WMD” folks who think that a president lying to the American people is just fine provided it’s not Bill Clinton lying about getting head?

Susan,
Not to encourage “bickering” and other unpleasantness that might spoil our lighthearted appreciation of death, horror, mayhem, and assorted cluster bombing, but, in your opinion, what exactly is it that Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon did wrong?

As I have indicated, like a lot of people living in the Tribeca area of New York, they pitched in. They did what they could according to ability. Steve Buscemi, a former NY fireman put on his old uniform and searched the rubble. Many restaurants in the area began giving out free food and floor space to rescue workers. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon did what they could. It’s rather, well, disingenuous for people like Charlie Daniels to rant incessently about the pampered Hollywood crowd (although, when I last checked Manhattan wasn’t in Hollywood) and then, just to prove that nothing is good enough, have others put down people for not doing enough.

Then again, if you have “better things to do” than discuss this war, the direction this country is taking, and how it is that basically good, well-meaning people can be blacklisted for having a conscience rather than, for example, patriotically able to dismiss dead innocents as “collateral damage”, it must be one huge earth-shakingly BETTER thing you have to do. Hopefully it is not like Barbara Bush not wanting to trouble her “beautiful mind” on the thought of dead servicemen. I have never consider self-centered solipcistic masturbation, even when you are a former First Lady, to be a particularly elevated pursuit.

However, although you have “better things” to do, thank you for taking time from your busy schedule to imply that Tim and Susan, short of running into collapsing buildings and augering passenger planes into the ground, have fallen short of your standards.

Well, if we get to boycott actors for expressing political views, is it too late to run a steam roller over old copies of Planet of the Apes and tell sponsors that we refuse to buy products being sold in conjunction with Magnum PI in syndication?

Or does that only work to blacklist leftist actors?

You see, I have this really traitorous commie-pinko idea that there is something un-American in punishing people, economically or otherwise, for expressing political views. Economic boycotts are for people who can’t close a sale in the marketplace of ideas. I can watch the Adventures of Robin Hood, even if Erol Flynn was a Nazi double agent, because my ability to refute ideas I don’t like extend to expressions a little more sophisticated than boycotting an actor.

And let’s face it. Boycotting an actor isn’t a counter expression of free speech. It’s an attempt to punish the actor, other actors he/she works with, the director, the production company in order to blacklist and create an air or prior restraint. Is just HUAC by another name. It’s the actions of people who have to put a gun to other people’s heads as proof of their own intellectual vacuousness.

The answer to speech people don’t like is more speech, not coy and cutesy ways to shut them up.

Destroying Beatle’s records because John Lennon said they were bigger than Jesus is not proof one way or another whether the Beatles really were bigger than Jesus. Just that the remark, true or false, pissed people off.

Well, Susan, Rev. I think we’re all on a similar mindset… just different temperaments.

My whole reason for the post was twofold:

1) to offset the negative publicity and impression people have of Sarandon and Robbins (Like I said… I’m only just hearing about this. )

2) To piss off those idiotic Warbloggers.

I don’t believe in boycotting people for their views (for funding dangerous people, maybe… but I can’t think of any instances.) Walt Disney was reportedly pro-nazi, that’s not going to stop me from taking my kids to the next movie.

My link list is filled with people that have opposing views from mine, on a wide variety of subjects. A couple have even point-blank opposed me on some things, cursed me out, and de-linked me… and I wont delink them.

I find that stimulating, calm & cool, conversation on an issue can do wonders… sometimes I even learn something.

Whatever. *snicker*
Seriously, folks, that three-way was very exciting. Made my day. Took a break from mundane housework to check in on my new friends, and lookee what I found. A wonderful triathalon. I’m tickled pink it ended so well.
“…we’re all on a similar mindset, just diff. temperaments.” Personally, I feel MOST of the world’s disagreements are because of the multitudinous ways we all “see” words. Language is the charged barbed wire we trip over to get to each other’s hearts and minds. So Eric’s intro about same minds/diff. temperaments I think would be an excellent motto for the world to try and embrace.

If warring factions, heads of state, and sibling bloggers could all come to the table assuming that we basically want the same things, it would eliminate much time-gobbling bickering and end a lot of world strife. It has worked for hostage negotiators, diplomats, Native Tribes, real estate agents, indigenous peoples of the Amazon, certain members of the animal kingdom, schools of fish and plants.

An evolved Humanity could make it work for our modern global society as well.