Posted on 06/13/2015 12:28:01 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
ON Saturday mornings, I love to watch reruns of the TV Western The Rifleman. Each show is a little moral fable, with Chuck Connorss widowed rancher and crack shot, Lucas McCain, teaching his son, Mark, about actions and consequences.
If you neglect to do this now, you will pay a penalty later. If a corner is cut here, you will regret it there.
The president might want to catch some shows, as the lame ducks chickens come home to roost.
At this pivotal moment for his legacy at home and abroad, his future reputation is mortgaged to past neglect.
Like Prufrock, Obama must wonder if the moment of his greatness is flickering.
The president descended from the mountain for half an hour on Thursday evening, materializing at Nationals Park to schmooze with Democrats and Republicans at the annual congressional baseball game.
It was the first time he had deigned to drop by, and the murmur went up, Jeez. Now? Really?
Obama has always resented the idea that it mattered for him to charm and knead and whip and hug and horse-trade his way to legislative victories, to lubricate the levers of government with personal loyalty. But, once more, he learned the hard way, it matters.
His last-minute lobbying trips for his trade package to the ballpark with a cooler of home-brewed beer from the White House and to Capitol Hill Friday morning to lecture Democrats about values reaped a raspberry from House Democrats.
The Democrats even most of the Congressional Black Caucus, which Obama courted agressively and which has been protective of him showed their allegience to themselves, their principles and their labor allies, and not to their aloof president.
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92 posted on 6/13/2015, 5:14:04 PM by ansel12
Phew! But down the bottle and go to bed.
Thanks. I was only aware of his baseball career.
Tell us why you have been claiming falsehoods on your home page.
As a fake, pretend “”published novelist””, you have been posing on this thread.
You aren’t actually a “published novelist” are you?
The rest of your lies, we will just have to uncover.
Dude, you’re starting to look a little desperate here. I’ve questioned people on the Net myself and the next day...what was I thinking? How could you possibly know an anonymous poster is not what they say? I may not even be a Navy veteran. How would you know? As others have told me at times, go to bed.
I dug into his bio once, he lived a full life.
Connors was one of those guys who just seemed to do it all. He wasn’t just a big time actor, but all kinds of a successful guy.
Better to check out Clara Bow’s bio than mine! Just did - a remarkable lady. Nice chatting about movies and tv with you. Back to bed I go.
For crying out loud.
You see the screen capture in post 141, right? That is her long time , perhaps all time, home page.
It is an internet lie, a fake persona.
Now look at post 82.
Also add posts 71, and 84.
She is NOT a “published novelist”.
By the way “dude” you do realize that is a screen capture don’t you, of her home page?
Now read the thread, and her admission, and see if your post makes sense.
He has better things to do, dude. Go to bed.
Why would you base your freerepublic home page on being a “published novelist” when you knew it was a lie that YOU made up, out of thin air?
You seem to be the kind of poster that would make your posts, on this entire thread.
“Im just saying 1 name....Lonesome Dove....that is the best ever made.”
Another one of my Fav’s. Robert Duval is great in westerns. Broken Trail is also very good.
Yup. He was the partner of Kevin Costner's character in "Open Range". The chemistry between the two was palpable, starting from the first dialog between the two. But then, Robert Duval can do no wrong. He usually just steals the scene in any movie.
BTW, just watched, "The Judge" starring Duval and Robert Downey Jr. Duval's subtle acting so countered Downey's over-acting (facial experessions going everywhere all times).
Also in the The Judge was Vera Farmiga who is a highly under-rated actress (although got a Oscar nomination) just recently. She first got my attention in the 2011 sci-fi movie, "Source Code", with Jake Gyllenhaal.
That movie is what a sci-fi movie should be about, rather than robots turning back in forth into cars/trucks. What nonsense, but the teen boys love that crap. When I was their age, I was reading Wells, Asimov, Clark, Heinlein, etc., and watching the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits.
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