Thursday, January 05, 2006

• Currently Reading Whatever Happened to Justice? (Uncle Eric Book) By Rick Maybury, Jane A. Williams see related

  Righteous Awesome! I just watch the new Alamo movie.It was AWESOME. I loved it. It was very historically accurate, didn't pretend that the men there were perfect, but it didn't act like they were morons either. They were just... human. Billy Bob Thornton took the show with his playing of Crockett. He LOOKED like Crockett actually looked. Awesome, just awesome. Here are some movie quotes:

   

  Davy Crockett: If it was just me, simple old David from Tennessee, I might drop over that wall some night, take my chances. But that Davy Crockett feller... they're all watchin' him.

   

  [Davy Crockett is presented to Santa Ana]
  Davy Crockett: That is Santa Ana?
  [Mexican soldier nods head]
  Davy Crockett: I thought he would be taller.

   

  This quotation MADE the film...

  David Crockett: [Crockett is about to be executed by the Mexicans] You tell the general I'm willing to discuss the terms of surrender. You tell him; if he'll order his men to put down their weapons and line up, I'll take them to Sam Houston and I'll try my best to save most of them.
  

  William Travis: Perhaps, Colonel, they'll only execute the officers.
  Crockett: I think we all just got promoted.

   

  William Travis: One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.

   

   

  Juan Seguin: Davy, you said you wanted to see him.
  David Crockett: Where?
  Juan Seguin: [points to Santa Anna in the distance] There.
  David Crockett: That's Santa Anna?
  Juan Seguin: Yes, the "Napoleon of the West".
  David Crockett: [Santa Anna shouts to move the cannons] Quite the peacock, ain't he?
  [takes aim with his rifle and shoots off Santa Anna's lapels]
  David Crockett: [laughs]
  David Crockett: Wind kick in!

   

  
  

  Of unprecedented importance. This is the anniversary of the day that Crockett showed up at the Alamo. You wanted to know that.

   

  Warning: the next six or seven paragraphs are going to be quite serious. The rest of the entry... um... isn't.

   

  What can you do? The people I respect the most in this country are the elderly from the WWII generation and the Vietnam vets. The reason I respect them so much, is because of their understanding of the cost and the importance of the current freedom found in America. It grieves me to no end when I think about what this nation must look like through their eyes… freedom has turned into nothing but a cliché, something which is “celebrated” on the Fourth of July, with fireworks and patriotic songs rather than lifestyles, rather than actions. These are people who are so moved by the concept of freedom that it is not uncommon for them to wipe tears from their eyes after talking only a few minutes of such things. Their love of liberty knows no bounds.

   

  I’ve given the exact same speech (on what our commitment to Americas future should be) to two different groups of people. I’ve given it to a group of average Americans, and then to a group of vets, and the families of vets… the reactions were quite different. The average American responded with a polite smile afterwards, clearly unmoved. Their facial expression said, “Oh, yes, freedom. Nice isn’t it?” The response from the vets and family of vets was totally different. Well over half of them were brought to tears. It couldn’t have been the speech itself, because the speech didn’t bring anyone to tears but the older generation… Why? I’ve even given a speech on the battle of Gettysburg. Not a speech that would seem to make anyone emotionally moved… but when I came to the part of Chamberlains speech on how the war was different from other wars (the patriotic part of the speech), the tears flowed once again… Why?

   

  We have either two possibilities. Either the older generation that went the WWII, Korea, and Vietnam is soft and cries at the very mention of freedom... Or they know something about it that the average person doesn’t. I know what it is. It’s this:

   

  They know the price of freedom… because they paid it. I can only pray that someday, once again, the idea of freedom will move the average American.

   

  Tears. This is something that is hard for some guys to handle. “Be a man”. Maybe some guys think they’re too tough to cry. Maybe they think they have to be “strong”. Maybe they think it isn’t cool… I don’t know. But this much is clear: they need to grow up.

   

  Tears are nothing but a physical reaction to a great emotion that is within them. Jesus wept. Unless they’re saying that Jesus was a wimp, or wasn’t tough, or wasn’t a man, then they need to change their position.

   

  It’s been said by Martin Luther King Jr. that if a man has nothing to die for, he isn’t fit to live… I’d like to stretch that a little further. I tell you if a man has nothing which is important enough to drive him to tears, he isn’t fit to live. Tears when justified aren’t a sign of weakness, they’re a sign of understanding. That’s why the vets, and those who paid in part for our freedoms are often easily brought to great emotion. They understand freedom.

   

  And no. I don’t cry all the time. Actually, I haven’t cried in quite a while. I’m just saying that there is a time and a place for everything, including guys and tears.

   

  We survived. Whew! We made it through the serious stuff.

   

  True Dedication. A man and a friend are playing golf one day at their local golf course. One of the guys is about to chip onto the green when he sees a long funeral procession on the road next to the course. He stops in mid-swing, takes off his golf cap, closes his eyes, and bows down in prayer. His friend says: “Wow, that is the most thoughtful and touching thing I have ever seen. You truly are a kind man.” The man then replies: “Well, it’s the least I can do for my wife.”

   

  American Ingenuity. When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300 C. The Russians used a pencil.

   

  THAT’S IT! A general noticed one of his soldiers behaving oddly. The soldier would pick up any piece of paper he found, frown and say: “That's not it” and put it down again. This went on for some time, until the general arranged to have the soldier psychologically tested. The psychologist concluded that the soldier was deranged, and wrote out his discharge from the army. The soldier picked it up, smiled and said: “That's it.”

   

  Okay, now what do I do? A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?” The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's make sure he's dead.”

  *silence*

  *KABOOOOOM!*

  The guy's voice comes back on the line. He says: “OK, now what?"

   

  Hmmm… Can you go to heaven if you don’t like sweet tea?

   

  It's a sign. Literally... I have a sign on my door to my room which says, "Forget about the dog. Beware of owner.", and shows a picture of a firearm.

   

  Faster than a robbing snail. A turtle was walking down an alley in New York when he was mugged by a gang of snails. A police detective came to investigate and asked the turtle if he could explain what happened. The turtle looked at the detective with a confused look on his face and replied "I don't know, it all happened so fast."

   

  Good or bad news? A doctor says to his patient, 'I have bad news and worse news'.
  'Oh dear, what's the bad news?' asks the patient.
  The doctor replies, 'You only have 24 hours to live'.
  'That's terrible', said the patient. 'How can the news possibly be worse?'
  The doctor replies, 'I've been trying to contact you since yesterday'.

   

  Yes, I found a good joke place. These people actually did a year long study to find out what the funniest joke in the world was. :-p Wow… losers. http://www.laughlab.co.uk/

   

  It’s a lost cause! A scientist and a philosopher were being chased by a hungry lion. The scientist made some quick calculations, he said "its no good trying to outrun it, its catching up". The philosopher kept a little ahead and replied " I am not trying to outrun the lion, I am trying to out run you"!

   

  Two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says ‘Do you know how to drive this?’

   

   

  Ham and eggs. What did Porky Pig say when Daffy Duck made some eggs for breakfast?

   

   

  Th-th-that’s all yolks!

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