Top 10 Labor Day Movies
Happy Labor Day! I love working men and women. I always have, but let’s face it every list I see of top Labor Day movies shows people getting all sweaty and dirty in a coal mine 16 hours a day or malingering on a picket line. That sure isn’t my idea of labor. Instead I searched my memory for the top Labor Day movies that I enjoy. You won’t find many unions in these my friends.
10. In Good Company (2004) – Dennis Quaid is an over the hill executive who still has a trick or two up his sleeve.
9. Pretty Woman (1990) – Richard Gere’s character works hard so he can play hard. When he discovers the woman of his dream he courts her with a yacht.
8. Philadelphia Story(1940) – John Howard has worked his way up through the company and he’s set to marry boss’s daughter. Unfortunately for him, she’d rather have Cary Grant who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Breeding is important.
7. Sabrina (1995) – Yes, it’s a remake, but I Harrison’s Ford character proves if you work hard for 30 or so years, you can eventually have a social life.
6. Slumdog Millionaire (2008) – A movie that proves we don’t need social programs as long as we have game shows.
5. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) – If there was ever a better movie about the dangers of the estate tax, I don’t know what it is. Wonka leaves his factory to the very deserving Daniel after torturing a dozen or so candidates in the pre-cursor of today’s reality shows.
4. Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) – The kind of high pressure business that built this country is the sight of a mystery. In the end the guilty party is caught and punished. I love happy endings.
3. Iron Man II (2010) – OK Batman is a millionaire, but he’s not an arms dealer. Tony Stark is everything a leading man should be in this movie where he takes no flack from super villains or Congress.
2. Wall Street (1987) -A great movie, but like Trading Places it suffers from a depressing ending. The first half of the movie can’t be beat though.
1. Citizen Kane (1941) – One of the greatest movie’s ever made. Charles Foster Kane is a hero to myself and many other people who manage people for a living.
Under Cover Investigation on Prayer in Schools
My friend Tom, has an old beat up van that he had no idea what to do with. At least he didn’t until he was inspired by Glenn Beck to start a ministry and he turned his van into a church van. Then last week I got a bright idea. I could borrow his van to do an under cover investigation of prayer in public schools. Public Schools like to say that while they don’t support public prayer, they are perfectly happy to allow students a few moments of silent prayer or meditation in the morning. God forbid, that little Mohammad or Cynthia who has two mommies be scandalized by some good old fashioned religion.
My experience though has been that public schools actively discourage prayer. With that in mind, we painted over the windows of the van to provide students with a quiet relaxing place where they could pray. I put on some dark sunglasses so that nobody would recognize me from the blog and I took the church van to 10 local school parking lots. I would wait for a student who was looking lonely or isolated and I’d encourage him or to climb in the back of the van and pray. It became pretty clear to me pretty quickly by the horrified reaction of screaming children, that their parents who taught them that prayer was something to fear.
I could have lived with this, but the reaction of the schools themselves was even worse. Not only did they not encourage students to pray, I got the police called on my 8 times, I got 2 large security guards chasing me around a parking lot, and I got maced twice. Is this the kind of attitude that we accept in our public schools towards prayer? No wonder Glenn Beck says we’ve lost our way. Something must be done.
Honor Restored in Washington
A crowd estimated at approximately 5,000,000 including yours truly made their way to our nation’s capital for a rally hosted by Glenn Beck and designed to restore our country’s honor. It was a heady mix of patriotism and religion and I got chills when one of the speakers spoke on how Catholics, Christians, and Jews were all gathered there in Christ’s name.
I first knew something was up when I was at the Denny’s on Benning Road. With all the people coming to Washington, the line was out the door and they ran out of food before people like myself could get in. It was no big deal though. The crowd had such a positive vibe as we moved on elsewhere. I made my way to the Bob Evans in Woodbridge and despite its long distance from the rally, it too was packed, but my daughter Emily and I got in and got seats. Word soon spread through the crowd to avoid the Denver Omelet because it wasn’t agreeing with people so we just had poached eggs and cereal.
The rally was truly amazing. There was a veritable rainbow. I saw people of all colors–white, off white, egg shell, pearl, and orange. We made are way to the lawn and despite five million people being there, I didn’t find it too crowded and we were able to get to good seats. Soon we were called to prayer and the speaker reminded us just how wonderful it was to see “Christians, Catholics, and Jews all gathered in Christ’s name.”
I felt very badly for the couple who were in front of us, they had a “Restore Onor and Stop Fashism” sign, but were told that signs were a no-no. I heard the event called Whitestock, but what it really felt like to me was a sort of Sturgis for mobility scooters. The irony of the event wasn’t lost on me. I saw so many people protesting for their second amendment rights and Martin Luther King who spoke on the very same day at the very same location in 1963 was silenced by an assassin’s bullet. If King had been armed, would things have gone down differently?
A big Indian chief came up to speak and I was kind of worried that he was going to guilt us about broken treaties, but he was just talking about the importance of keeping your word in a general sense. When Sarah Palin spoke though it was truly magic. She performed a montage of lines from other classic speeches with a few Springsteen lyrics thrown in for good measure before honoring several war heroes. She reminded us all of Martin Luther King’s “still spine” against communist aggression in South East Asia. I was very proud of the warriors, but very disappointed to see no minorities in with the group. I like to think they love this country too.
A sense of dread fell over the crowd as we heard that a couple from Idaho had gotten on the subway’s Yellow Line and encountered minorities. We felt terrible for them, but eventually they took a cab and got to the rally. They received a heroes welcome when they were introduced.
A very stirring moment was when Martin Luther King’s niece Alveda King spoke. It gave me goose bumps. Emily said it reminded her of when I took her to see Frank Sinatra Jr. sing his father’s song book. Beck later told us that some people who appeared really put themselves at risk. I know a few of the speakers only appeared with the agreement that the rally’s message wouldn’t be political or coherent.
Finally, the man we were all waiting for spoke. Glenn Beck warned us about the hate that was spreading over this country. I wish he would have told us where it was coming from so we could be sure to fight it. He also told us that we must insist that our churches stand up for things that are true, like Jesus appearing to the Native Americans after his death. All in all, it was a beautiful thing. The only awkward moment was when speaker Albert Pujols was reported to immigration authorities, but was able to prove he was here legally.
Please Come to DC
Well, my apologies for being so slow to post, but I usually use Firefox and Word Press has not been working with Firefox lately. I just tried Internet Explorer as a lark. I really don’t like it at all, but it’ll work for posting. Tomorrow, Glenn Beck will be trying to take back the Civil Rights movemement for the people who started it–The Mormons. I was actually inspired to write a song about the rally in DC which I will be attending. The song is based on the song Chicago by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young. If a karaoke version of the song was available, I would have even recorded it for you.
Please Come to DC
So your brother’s bound and gagged
And they’ve made him get health care
Won’t you please come to DC just like King
In a land that’s known as Freedom
How can such a thing be fair
Won’t you please follow Glenn Beck for the help that he can bring
You should buy more gold
The world may just explode
Goldline – Is our Sponsor
Politicians sit yourselves down
There’s a microphone for you here
Won’t you please come to DC for a ride
Don’t take the green or yellow line
‘Cause you’ll find black people there
Won’t you please come to DC so your grandma doesn’t die
{Refrain}
You should buy more gold
The world may just explode
Get buying – if you believe in justice
Get buying – and if you believe in freedom
Get buying – let a man live his own life
Get buying – rules and regulations
Who needs them, open up the door
Wealthy people must be free
I hope the day comes soon
Won’t you please come to DC, show your face
From the bottom of the ocean
To the mountains of the moon
Won’t you please come to DC, and meet others of your race
{Refrain}
We can buy more gold (4x)
The Hot Men of the GOP
First, I feel the need to address this first— I am not gay. However, a couple of days ago some conservatives created a video that showed how much hotter GOP women were then their Democrat counterparts. I thought this was awesome, but they got accused of my sogony, which I guess is a form of sexism. Anyway, wanting to sex the record straight, here is a video for the ladies out there showing that GOP men are equally hot.
The Ground Zero Mosque
New York Dolls is just one of the businesses being asked to allow a Mosque as their neighbor
First off, I want to go on record as saying that not every Muslim is a terrorist. Half the Muslims in this country are peaceful, patriotic, and love this country as much as anybody else. The problem we have is with the other half. I remember when I was a child growing up in the civil rights movement when there were marches and the spectre of integration, my dad would frequently tell me, “I have no problem with most black people. It’s just these uppity ones who aren’t happy with their own neighborhoods, they want to move into mine.” He really did love black people, but he wanted them to be sensitive to the effect that moving into a white neighborhood would have on property values and the neighborhood itself. He wouldn’t deny their right to move into our neighborhood, he just wanted them to be sensitive to our needs and be good neighbors by not moving into our neighborhood. It seems nowadays we are asking Muslims to do the same thing.
The events of 9/11 were horrific and remain forever on our national conscience. Putting a mosque of all things within 2 blocks of this site would be like building a federal cemetery on Robert E. Lee’s farm. Can you imagine how the South would react if we did that or put federal buildings along General Sherman’s path of destruction. Even as we triumphed over the Indians to claim America as our birthright, we would never build a tribute to our greatest Presidents on sacred Indian burial ground. Can’t the Muslims show the same restraint? Frankly, I’m still waiting for them to apologize to me for 9/11.
Now, defenders of so called freedom of religion point to the first amendment of the Constitution as proof that the Muslims have a right to build a community center on their own private property, but that’s not what the founding fathers wanted. You write a Constitution to protect your rights–not to protect the rights of people you don’t agree with. Our founding fathers to promise people freedom to choose their own faith, but they meant popular religions. Do you want to be a Baptist or a Southern Baptist? Take your pick.
New Yorkers don’t seem to be bothered by this potential terrorist training camp in their midst. Fortunately, the rest of the country has come forward to demand that peaceful Muslims refudiate this Mosque. Even Democrat Harry Reid weighed in against building the Mosque in this location. Nobody in this country knows more about where new construction is tasteful than Las Vegas’ own Senator. I have to wonder how
Rand Paul and John Belushi – A Double Standard
Rand Paul has recently come under fire after an article from GQ magazine. The article claimed that Paul and another student abducted her:
According to this woman, who requested anonymity because of her current job as a clinical psychologist, “He and Randy came to my house, they knocked on my door, and then they blindfolded me, tied me up, and put me in their car. They took me to their apartment and tried to force me to take bong hits. They’d been smoking pot.” After the woman refused to smoke with them, Paul and his friend put her back in their car and drove to the countryside outside of Waco, where they stopped near a creek. “They told me their god was ‘Aqua Buddha’ and that I needed to bow down and worship him,” the woman recalls. “They blindfolded me and made me bow down to ‘Aqua Buddha’ in the creek. I had to say, ‘I worship you Aqua Buddha, I worship you.’ At Baylor, there were people actively going around trying to save you and we had to go to chapel, so worshiping idols was a big no-no.”
Now, I must admit that this action didn’t particularly shock me. I think abducting people is perfectly natural and if it wasn’t, God would not have given us abductor muscles. Kidnapping, endangerment, and drug use are things that happen on every college campus across America on a regular basis. However, I see a very serious double standard. In fact, I see this as a plus because if the US is ever going to kidnap al-Qaeda leaders and bring them to justice, it’s nice to have experience in the legislative branch telling us what will and won’t work.
At the end of the movie Animal House, the Bluto character played by John Belushi showed up at the Faber Homecoming Parade and dressed like a pirate he proceeded to abduct a blonde coed to laughter and cheers from the audience. In fact, after showing this picture a caption came on screen to say that Bluto was later married to this woman and elected Senator. Bluto was a hero.
Compare the reaction to what Bluto did to the scathing attacks that it has brought on Rand Paul. Is the problem that Belushi and his friends were anti-establishment anti-military radicals, while Rand is a true blooded conservative? Whatever the reason, there is clearly a double standard here.
Jack Kimble Cracks the Liberal Media
[I mentioned before that I had joined the Jack Kimble campaign team. Well, I'm pleased to announce that my hard work has paid off. On Monday, Huffington Post's lead story mentioned the good congressman. Of course, I helped Mr. Kimble with his response.]
Jon Kyl Backs Republican 14th-Amendment Repeal Effort To Deny Citizenship To Immigrants’ Children
I applaud Senators Kyl and Graham for championing this battle in the Senate and my colleague Lamar Smith for proposing the Birthright Citizenship Act of 2009 in The House. Passing it will be one of my top priorities when we return from recess.
Unfortunately, repealing the 14th Amendment will take a very long time. If anybody remembers the battle for that silly ERA Amendment in the 1970s, you know I’m not exaggerating when I say this may take a decade to fix. That is why we must immediately close off our borders to any sexually active women of child bearing age. President Obama, if you are serious about stopping the problem of anchor babies than every sexually active woman is a ticking time bomb.
Repealing a Constitutional Amendment is no small task. It is a solemn task that our country has only undertaken once in its long history. However, the 14th Amendment is an antiquated reminder of the last half of the 19th Century–a time when there was very little immigration in this country to worry about. It is time for us to move forward.
Congressman Jack Kimble
54′th District California”
Senator Graham and Congressman Kimble Call for Repeal of 14th Amendment
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham and California Congressman Jack Kimble have announced that they are considering a Constitutional Amendment to repeal the 14th amendment. The 14th Amendment grants citizenship to all children born in the United States.
The problem is that these babies are often born to illegal immigrants serving as an anchor to allow the family to become legal immigrants themselves. The 14th amendment which allows birthright citizen was passed during the second half of the 19th century at a time when there was not much immigration in the United States. Now that our borders are practically exploding with immigrants, it’s time to stop this antiquated practice.
“I may introduce a constitutional amendment that changes the rules if you have a child here,” Graham said during an interview with Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren. “Birthright citizenship I think is a mistake … We should change our Constitution and say if you come here illegally and you have a child, that child’s automatically not a citizen.”
Asked how intent Graham is on introducing the amendment, the South Carolina Republican responded: “I got to.”
“Talking with Senator Graham has convinced me that a Constitutional Amendment is the way to go,” responded Senator Kimble, “I think we need to go in that direction, but the process is rather slow moving and we need to take emergency action now.”
When asked what those emergency actions should be, Kimble responded, “Abortion is not an answer and as a Catholic I don’t believe in artificial contraception either. The only way to make sure that immigrants do not have children in this country as 3/4 of the states vote on the convention is to not allow sexually active women or women who have had sex within the past 9 months into the country.”
Kimble went on to say, “I am perfectly willing to accept the honor system. I do not think we have to only allow women who are virgins or past child bearing age into the country, but that is certainly one way we could go.”
“I’m a practical guy, but when you go forward, I don’t want 20 million more 20 years from now,” said Graham. “I want to be fair. I want to be humane. We need immigration policy, but it should be on our terms, not someone else’s. I don’t know how to fix it all. But I do know what makes people mad, that 12 million people came here, and there seems to be no system to deal with stopping 20 million 20 years from now.”
“Immigration is a threat that previous generations of Americans didn’t have to worry about. I believe in following the original intent of the Constitution, but I don’t think we can always support the Constitution when it stands in the way of our freedom,” concluded Kimble.
