But I had a soft spot for the Lone Ranger. They made a remake about ten years ago and the original guy was still around opening supermarkets or something, but he still upheld the code of the west, kind of a, well I guess, role model for all the kiddies. But you know Hollywood, they picked some young stud who soon got into trouble for drinking or drugging or whoring or maybe all three and the movie was a big flop. Did that cause the younger generation to give up the code of the west for broads with fake butts, and the healthy outdoor life for plinky plonking video games? The reader may well wonder.
Role models, you know that's how they market athletes, but just because somebody can hit a curve ball, or throw a curve ball, or run like the dickens, why would anybody think they had a superior moral character which us duffers would do well to emulate? I was a big fan of Captain Video, but I never thought of him as a role model. I can't say that I ever had any kind of role model,and verily, I find the whole concept repugnant. Aren't we supposed to think for ourselves?
How about that Sue the Saudis bill, which I don't have all the details here, but basically would allow the September 11 victims to sue the Saudis for that attack, that recently passed the Senate 99 to 1, with only that stalwart role model Harry Reid voting against it, Well who likes the Saudis? Whose heart doesn't go out for those weeping relatives? The prez, said, hey wait, if our citizens can sue the Saudis, what's to keep other countries from passing laws where they can sue the US, like for example the Afghanis for all those wedding parties we blow up by mistake?
Aw Pshaw said the republicans who don't like anything the prez has to say anywhere about anything, and I am ashamed to say my dems went right along with them, and the bill was passed and immediately they were saying, like they had suddenly noticed it, this bill could have some unwelcome consequences and we will have to rejigger it, So there you go, those rotten politicians passing a bad bill because they are craven.
But why are they craven? Because they knew that if they voted against this stupid crappy bill, come election time their opponent would be trumpeting their vote to the high heavens and after November they would have to look for honest work. So isn't the real fault with, as the Rolling Stones sang in Sympathy for the Devil, you and me?
Well not you and me, or that other Beaglestonian, because we are deep thinkers. As are our followers, if we had any. Well you see, there's the problem, we don't have any followers to enlighten. Probably some bill should make it's way through congress where the people would be required to read our posts daily, and it probably wouldn't hurt to include a modest but generous stipend for the Beaglestonians. After all you don't want your role models living hand to mouth do you?
Role models, you know that's how they market athletes, but just because somebody can hit a curve ball, or throw a curve ball, or run like the dickens, why would anybody think they had a superior moral character which us duffers would do well to emulate? I was a big fan of Captain Video, but I never thought of him as a role model. I can't say that I ever had any kind of role model,and verily, I find the whole concept repugnant. Aren't we supposed to think for ourselves?
How about that Sue the Saudis bill, which I don't have all the details here, but basically would allow the September 11 victims to sue the Saudis for that attack, that recently passed the Senate 99 to 1, with only that stalwart role model Harry Reid voting against it, Well who likes the Saudis? Whose heart doesn't go out for those weeping relatives? The prez, said, hey wait, if our citizens can sue the Saudis, what's to keep other countries from passing laws where they can sue the US, like for example the Afghanis for all those wedding parties we blow up by mistake?
Aw Pshaw said the republicans who don't like anything the prez has to say anywhere about anything, and I am ashamed to say my dems went right along with them, and the bill was passed and immediately they were saying, like they had suddenly noticed it, this bill could have some unwelcome consequences and we will have to rejigger it, So there you go, those rotten politicians passing a bad bill because they are craven.
But why are they craven? Because they knew that if they voted against this stupid crappy bill, come election time their opponent would be trumpeting their vote to the high heavens and after November they would have to look for honest work. So isn't the real fault with, as the Rolling Stones sang in Sympathy for the Devil, you and me?
Well not you and me, or that other Beaglestonian, because we are deep thinkers. As are our followers, if we had any. Well you see, there's the problem, we don't have any followers to enlighten. Probably some bill should make it's way through congress where the people would be required to read our posts daily, and it probably wouldn't hurt to include a modest but generous stipend for the Beaglestonians. After all you don't want your role models living hand to mouth do you?
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