[Pokey78]

Ping. Not one of her better ones. but there it is.

[RaceBannon]

Actually, this needs to be linked to the story of the UGLIEST GIRL IN SCHOOL thread!

[gcruse]

According to Fox and Friends, Dingle did not tell the security people he was in the government.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

my wife and I think she hit the bullseye perfectly.

[hocndoc]

Good job, both to Ms. Noonan and you.

[SuziQ]

Cornel West is very, very angry at Larry Summers for suggesting that Prof. West shouldn't essentially perp-walk his way through the halls of academe.

Oh man, does Peggy have a way with words!! I don't know what's been going on about Cornel West. I saw his picture on TV the other day, and having heard things about him in the past, I suspected it was another one of his 'poor pitiful us' rants. I guess I was right, but 'perp-walk; that is just priceless!

But that story about Dingell; I had heard what had happened, and I wondered what his reaction had been. I loved Peggy's take "That's a man who understands everybody's been shot!"

[Happygal]

Another great piece by the wonderful Ms. Noonan! :-)

[firebrand]

Thanks, Pokey. She's on to something. A good piece. Although Pelham is right too---that would have been a good closing point for Noonan, that we should also remember that we haven't actually been shot.

[Eva]

No, I like it. She is saying the same thing that I have been trying to get across since 9/11. That is, the liberal splinter groups need to grow up and take responsibility for themselves and quit whining about what everyone else is doing. The adults have more important things to worry about.

I thought of two more of those saying that people used to use regarding the trials and tribulations of life. How 'bout, "I never promised you a rose garden," or that infamous bumper sticker, "shit happens"?

[BornOnTheFourth]

I think she nailed it. I'm soooo tired of the "what about me??" crybaby, axis mentality. As a friend of mine used to say, "suck it up!"

[TADSLOS]

FIDO.

[Letitring]

Thanks for the ping. :)

[ArGee]

Misery Industrial Complex.

Now there's a keeper. Too bad Noonan copyrights her work.

She has a good point about people today assuming that easy street is the norm, and difficulty is a sign of a problem that government should fix. I can still remember Rush Limbaugh freaking out on his radio show because some Gen. X'er told him that he didn't know how tough kids today have it.

"Everybody's been shot?" Probably more like, "Grow up, willya?"

Shalom.

[Guenevere]

Or, from Doc Holliday (as he lay dying from consumption) says to Wyatt Earp in the movie Tombstone.....after hearing Wyatt somewhat whining about wanting a normal life....

"There is no normal life.......there's just life"

I understand what Peggy is saying and she's ...spot on!

[1rudeboy]

This thread is in sore need of the following:

Main Entry: met·a·phor
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French metaphore, from Latin metaphora, from Greek, from metapherein to transfer, from meta- + pherein to bear
1 : a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money); broadly : figurative language

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Related topics: artistic license; fictional dialogue; history of postmodernism [you have to admit, the notion that the utterance of an actor reading from a script in a film representation of a historical event should prevent editorialists from drawing analogies is simply delicious]

[wtc911]

A little background on Peggy Noonan....

She grew up in the 50s-60s-early 70s in Massapequa, NY, which is on the south shore of Nassau County and an hour outside NYC. It was one of the prototypical post-war boomer towns. The population grew from 17,000 to 70,000 in the years between 1946 and 1970. In Massapequa almost everyone had grandparents in Brooklyn or the Bronx. The make up was Irish Catholic, Italian Catholic and Jewish (aka Matzoh-Pizza)

These other people lived in the same town at the same time...

Carlo Gambino ( THE Godfather)...Jerry Seinfeld....The Baldwins....Joey Buttafucco....Jessica Hahn....Steve Guttenburg....Stray Cats....Ron Kovic...it was quite a mix...

[RonDog]

"The movie, as you know, is about the Battle of the Bakara Market in Mogadishu, Somalia, in October 1993. In the scene, the actor Tom Sizemore, playing your basic tough-guy U.S. Army Ranger colonel, is in charge of a small convoy of humvees trying to make its way back to base under heavy gun and rocket fire. The colonel stops the convoy, takes in some wounded, tears a dead driver out of a driver's seat, and barks at a bleeding sergeant who's standing in shock nearby:

Colonel: Get into that truck and drive.
Sergeant: But I'm shot, Colonel.
Colonel: Everybody's shot, get in and drive..."

"This battle was the longest sustained ground attack involving American soldiers
since the Vietnam War."
from movies.com

See also, the OFFICIAL "Black Hawk Down" movie site, at http://www.spe.sony.com/movies/blackhawkdown/

[Brasil]

Peggy is eloquently telling us the same thing President Bush is saying, "Get on with your life."

[Joan_of_Argghh!]

Bump for a bookmark.

[wife-mom]

There is an old, old quote: "Man is born, he suffers, then he dies." I think it was pretty generally accepted in the 30's and 40's. People usually coped by counting their blessings and relishing every moment of happiness.

Now people accentuate the negative and eliminate the positive. Gee, that might make a good song!