Elmer's Brother

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2007/2/12

The left and the right

@ 03:49 AM (17 months, 2 days ago)

       You may be lost, but you are not forgotten. For those who have travelled far, to fight in foreign lands, know that the soldier's greatest comfort is to have his friends close at hand. In the heat of battle it ceases to be an idea for which we fight. Or a flag. Rather we fight for the man on our left, and we fight for the man on our right. And when armies are scattered and the empires fall away, all that remains is the memory of those precious moments that we spent side by side.   

                                                             - Jack Durrance (the Four Feathers)

If they'll not let us fight for freedom then let us fight to watch tragedy TV.

We'd rather pay attention to Anna Nicole's saga then the one of the soldier...then again she wasn't the first Gibson girl.


Comment(s) »

  1. rather ironic, dontcha think?

    i've become sick of this news(?) - she was a bimbo, she went against every decent grain known to womanhood - she died - bury her already.

    it's too bad the people of this world feel such a need to know "news" like this over much more important daily matters. as i stated at gayle's a few days ago - it has given our family a good reason to just turn the tele off!

    i want to know how condi went kissing olmert/abbas arse and what will become of that fiasco.

    our priorities as a nation are askew, elbro - we may never recover.

    Comment by nanc— 2007/02/12 @ 04:34 AM — (Reply)

  2. From Wikipedia:

    The author Lucy Maud Montgomery used a photograph of Evelyn -- clipped from an American magazine and pasted to the wall next to her writing desk -- as the model for the heroine of her book Anne of Green Gables (1906).

    Nesbit was portrayed by actress Elizabeth McGovern in the 1981 movie Ragtime, based on E.L. Doctorow's best-selling book, Ragtime, and by actress Joan Collins in the 1955 movie, The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing.

    I rather doubt that Smith will receive that much posthumus attention--unless the subsequent investigation comes up with a juicy scandal.

    Like Nanc, I'm sick of hearing the "experts" weigh in on Smith. Why can't they wait until the autopsy results come in?

    Comment by Always On Watch— 2007/02/12 @ 06:34 AM — (Reply)

  3. I cannot think of anything less relevant than Smith.

    Was anyone really surprised to hear that she died?

    Let's move on to more important things, as EB so succinctly said!

    Comment by Brooke— 2007/02/12 @ 07:21 AM — (Reply)

  4. The life of Evelyn Nesbitt was quite the scandalous one, attempted suicide, unwed pregnancies etc. I've heard that the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher's alleged adulterous affair received more newsprint than the whole civil war.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/12 @ 01:13 PM — (Reply)

  5. The underlying point is an excellent one. A case in point. I used to really enjoy Scarborough Country. Then all of a sudden, the second 30 minutes is devoted entirely to gossippy Oprah type stuff. I tuned in Thursday night and it was all Smith.

    Where can one actually access information about the really meaningful things that occur in the world on a daily basis? Not opinions, facts.

    Maybe Dugg is right. All of this is a huge distraction deliberately engineering to keep our eyes off the ball, the collect our money, run our lives, keep us oppressed without us knowing it because they have us mind numbed by items like the Smith story.

    Even if every broadcast outlet had thirty minutes of the Smith story on a daily basis, that would leave 23.5 hours of broadcast time per outlet per day.

    Why are spin doctoring and pundits so prevalent in our society today? Do you remember when there was actually suspense about political conventions?

    Comment by Barry G.— 2007/02/12 @ 02:34 PM — (Reply)

  6. We've become a society that places celebrity above virtue (i.e. Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears) so the coverage of Smith's death should not be surprising. One of her former managers said it best..."she was famous for being famous".
    I suspect Anna will be at the top of the headlines for quite some time. Celebrity, death, sex, suspicious circumstances, money, murder(?), what else could you want?

    Comment by American Crusader— 2007/02/13 @ 05:15 AM — (Reply)

  7. What the potential number of the baby's fathers up to now, four or so?

    Comment by Barry G.— 2007/02/13 @ 11:22 AM — (Reply)

  8. One of the reasons I mentioned the Gibson girls and Evelyn Nesbitt in particular is to illustrate that the media coverage of scandals like this are nothing new, it does show however that our priorities have been screwed up for awhile.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/13 @ 10:48 AM — (Reply)

  9. Point well taken, but isn't it getting much worse?

    Comment by Barry G.— 2007/02/13 @ 02:15 PM — (Reply)

  10. I don't know Barry I wasn't around in 1916 but I will tell you this...it's still disgusting.

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/13 @ 06:34 PM — (Reply)

  11. Hey EB, this is Daniel (FTGF!) and this is my new website!
    Being a Former Navy sailor, maybe you might like it.
    I can't stand the gossip news, and I can't stand tv!
    I only watch 24. Can't stand the mainstream media neither!
    Even the local news is getting to be a joke.
    FTGF!



    Great qoute!

    Comment by daniel— 2007/02/16 @ 03:55 AM — (Reply)

  12. I left ya a comment on Anchors away post too.
    Go Navy!'
    FTGF!

    Comment by daniel— 2007/02/16 @ 04:07 AM — (Reply)

  13. o.t. - they didn't put you in charge of the flowers, did they?

    casaba

    Comment by nanc— 2007/02/17 @ 05:21 PM — (Reply)

  14. nanc - why wouldn't they?

    hey daniel I saw that...i'll be by ftgf soon...busy with wedding plans etc. thanks for stopping by

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/19 @ 04:23 AM — (Reply)

  15. I'm so darn sick of hearing about Anna Nicole Slut. She had a tragic life and people want to glamorize her. Now Britany Spears is in rehab again--hope she doesn't follow the same path but it's probably inevitable. The more I read and hear about these so-called celebrities the more I thank God that I'm just a regular raggamuffin who shuffles chump-change in my pocket.

    Comment by Florian— 2007/02/20 @ 10:08 PM — (Reply)

  16. you and me both florian

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/21 @ 05:59 AM — (Reply)

  17. I was watching the news last night and they had a segment interviewing a soldier and asking him why he fought.
    His answer:
    Because my fellow soldiers are counting on me.
    It's as simple as that.

    Comment by American Crusader— 2007/02/21 @ 06:22 AM — (Reply)

  18. AC It's a kinship that you share isn't it?

    Comment by Elmers Brother— 2007/02/21 @ 03:01 PM — (Reply)

  19. it should have never happened

    Comment by MOS— 2007/02/23 @ 05:22 PM — (Reply)

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