Friday, August 04, 2006
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Your host is busier than a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest today. Y'all talk amongst yourselves.
Some possible topics:
Sooners: Oklahomans should be embarrassed that so many are treating the Bomar scandal like it's the End of the World when every Baptist preacher in the state will tell you that the End of the World is starting in the Middle East -- not in Norman, Okla.
Mel Gibson: One thing the media doesn't understand about "The Passion" phenomenon is that it was the story of the Passion of Christ itself, not the movie, "The Passion of the Christ," that moved so many. I personally think it's wrong to accuse Gibson of being "pious." I personally think he is a particularly spiritual stripe of Catholic, with an inherited anti-semitic bent and a fetish for the gore, specifically the blood, associated with the Crucifixion. Most of Christianity emphasizes the Blood of Christ, mainly because of concepts of sin and sacrifice inherited from the Hebrew faith, the Paschal lamb and so on. Which makes Gibson's obsession with it kind of ironic. Fundamentalist Christians put Gibson on a pedestal, Gibson didn't; and fundamentalist Christians, who take the concept of "spiritual warfare" seriously, not secular, or Jewish, Hollywood, will take him down from it -- if he is taken down.
Israel-Hezbollah: Dr. ER and I are pissed that it's already become an also-ran story on the cable news! We were sickened to see the Mel Gibson story take over. Israel, sadly, seems to have followed the Rumsfield theory of war, which I heard on one of the shows: Send just enough troops to lose.
Hillary-Rumsfeld: Hillary finally grew the balls to say what needed to be said three years ago. Rumsfeld should go. His idea of a lean-mean fighting force was shortsighted when he came up with it and seems to be sheer insanity now -- read the Foreign Affairs article he wrote on it! I think it came out summer 2001, maybe fall.
That's enough.
--ER
Some possible topics:
Sooners: Oklahomans should be embarrassed that so many are treating the Bomar scandal like it's the End of the World when every Baptist preacher in the state will tell you that the End of the World is starting in the Middle East -- not in Norman, Okla.
Mel Gibson: One thing the media doesn't understand about "The Passion" phenomenon is that it was the story of the Passion of Christ itself, not the movie, "The Passion of the Christ," that moved so many. I personally think it's wrong to accuse Gibson of being "pious." I personally think he is a particularly spiritual stripe of Catholic, with an inherited anti-semitic bent and a fetish for the gore, specifically the blood, associated with the Crucifixion. Most of Christianity emphasizes the Blood of Christ, mainly because of concepts of sin and sacrifice inherited from the Hebrew faith, the Paschal lamb and so on. Which makes Gibson's obsession with it kind of ironic. Fundamentalist Christians put Gibson on a pedestal, Gibson didn't; and fundamentalist Christians, who take the concept of "spiritual warfare" seriously, not secular, or Jewish, Hollywood, will take him down from it -- if he is taken down.
Israel-Hezbollah: Dr. ER and I are pissed that it's already become an also-ran story on the cable news! We were sickened to see the Mel Gibson story take over. Israel, sadly, seems to have followed the Rumsfield theory of war, which I heard on one of the shows: Send just enough troops to lose.
Hillary-Rumsfeld: Hillary finally grew the balls to say what needed to be said three years ago. Rumsfeld should go. His idea of a lean-mean fighting force was shortsighted when he came up with it and seems to be sheer insanity now -- read the Foreign Affairs article he wrote on it! I think it came out summer 2001, maybe fall.
That's enough.
--ER
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Whatcha doin, puttin out the cheeze?
Mel's the "Passion of Christ" was an excellent sado-masochistic film. James Casievzel hasn't been so well whipped since his ecstasy in the "Count of Monte Cristo". Certainly that is the type of performance that stimulates many men, and women too. A real human being would have gone into shock 15 minutes after the start of the whipping. The Roman's were smarter than that, they knew just how do do a little that ment a lot. They didn't want to work up a sweat over these things anymore than today's bureaucrat does.
Oh I did groove on Mary Magdalene in the movie played by Monica Bellucci (star of the hard core "Irreversible"). Now that's a gal worthy of being the bride of Christ.
Rosalinda Celentano, the Satan in the film, certainly earned her credentils for the part(Check her out on the web guys). Don't let your kids catch you. Say how does Mel know all these porn people?
Does Mel hate Jews? Well considering that he pulled off one of the biggest carnards against christians in film history, it says he hates them just about as much as he does Jews. I don't think he respects anyone.
But damn he is a talented guy, and I did love the passion of "The Passion", but maybe because I am steeped in irony.
Mel's the "Passion of Christ" was an excellent sado-masochistic film. James Casievzel hasn't been so well whipped since his ecstasy in the "Count of Monte Cristo". Certainly that is the type of performance that stimulates many men, and women too. A real human being would have gone into shock 15 minutes after the start of the whipping. The Roman's were smarter than that, they knew just how do do a little that ment a lot. They didn't want to work up a sweat over these things anymore than today's bureaucrat does.
Oh I did groove on Mary Magdalene in the movie played by Monica Bellucci (star of the hard core "Irreversible"). Now that's a gal worthy of being the bride of Christ.
Rosalinda Celentano, the Satan in the film, certainly earned her credentils for the part(Check her out on the web guys). Don't let your kids catch you. Say how does Mel know all these porn people?
Does Mel hate Jews? Well considering that he pulled off one of the biggest carnards against christians in film history, it says he hates them just about as much as he does Jews. I don't think he respects anyone.
But damn he is a talented guy, and I did love the passion of "The Passion", but maybe because I am steeped in irony.
# posted by 
: 12:45 PM
: 12:45 PM
My mistake. The Foreign Affairs article by Rumsfeld was in the May/June 2002 issue.
http://www.foreignaffairs.org
/20020501faessay8140/
donald-h-rumsfeld/
transforming-the-military.html
http://www.foreignaffairs.org
/20020501faessay8140/
donald-h-rumsfeld/
transforming-the-military.html
Grrr. I'm off next week. And I'm so wired, from bustin' it to be able to ake off that I have a bad feeling that it's going to be one of those "vacations" that take me until, like, WEDNESDAY to calm down and FRIDAY to actually relax! Arrrrgggghhhhhh!
OK, ER, you've lived in Oklahoma --and within OU fandamoniam even when you was in Tejas -- all yer life. You cannot be shocked at the "end of the world" mentality of the Schooner lovers. Like them Texans we discussed recently, Schooner fans honestly believe the world revolves around OU football.
Sing along with me, folks:
(to the tune of the Notre Dame fight song)
I hope the Sooners lose every game.
Then all their fans will go home in shame.
They will wimper.
They will cry.
But I hope the Sooners lose.
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Sing along with me, folks:
(to the tune of the Notre Dame fight song)
I hope the Sooners lose every game.
Then all their fans will go home in shame.
They will wimper.
They will cry.
But I hope the Sooners lose.
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