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This Day in Art History
Media-savvy advice for a New Emperor.
Above: A fragment of Jacques-Louis David’s oil painting of the Coronation of Emperor Napoléon I and Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the Notre-Dame de Paris, December 2, 1804
Description: Joséphine kneels before
Napoléon during his coronation at Notre Dame.
Behind him sits Pope Pius VII.
•••••
You’re Napoléon Bonaparte, and you were destined to be both the crowner and the crowned. Someday people will understand that the Revolution was for idealists. For now, it takes a tough man to finish the job.
You have many reasons to be smug. In the eighteenth century, who would have thought that a short, solitary Jacobin from Corsica could rise to become Emperor? But avoid that temptation: amongst all human emotions, there’s a reason why there will never be a perfume named “Smug.”
You understand the moment — but do you understand the potential of the moment? We’re lucky that Jacques-Louis David is running today’s oil opportunity. The optics will be memorable.
You’re off to a great start. Today you’re more than a General, you’re more than First Consul, and you’re more than an Emperor. Today, your highness, you become a brand.
You’re a natural. But, respectfully, here are some time-honored (both past and future) best practices for absolute rulers:
• Be audacious, but look humble — even though you memorably and solemnly put the crown on yourself — and David already has the historic moment in his sketches — we’re going to go in a different direction.
• Flaunt your biography — your foreign-island birth should evoke romance and mystery. Anyone who questions your French-ness is a counter-revolutionary who deserves what happens. Focus on the critical low-information peasants, and just keep repeating to them that you, NB, made France proud again.
• If you think alpha-male, you can be alpha-male. Don’t let your wife get off her knees. And don’t move off that step — the angle makes you look a foot taller.
• Yesterday’s gone: act accordingly. You astutely patched up your family squabbles, so now the whole clan is on the same program. Even though they were absent at the coronation, we’re putting them in the picture. Just because it never happened doesn’t mean it’s not true.
• Include religious leaders, but show them who’s boss — His Holiness blew in all the way from Rome, and it almost chokes me up to see how the artist has him giving you that little blessing with his hands. He still thinks he’s Pope – but you made him an atmosphere extra. Well-played.
• Turn your opponents into enemies: Make it visceral. Nobody hikes through snowy Alps for just an idea.
• The one-percent can be useful, as long as they’re your one percent. You’ve ended this revolutionary fetish against the establishment. Well done. Selfish, preening, and out of touch, their loyalty can be acquired for a pittance. As a bonus, they’re your last best source for excellent cuisine.
• The law codes are your friends - as long as you’re the one writing them. Centralize the power, but make it user-friendly – and that genius who thought up the ten-day week… keep him out of the room.
Finally: Never believe your own murals. A lifetime of brand-building can be wiped away by one nasty winter.
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Robbins Mitchell| 1.18.13 @ 6:14AM
All hail Barokeydoke the 1st...Kiug of the Shithouse
Rhoetus| 1.20.13 @ 4:00PM
Emperor Bokkasa II (Jan. 20, 2008- infinity)
Al Adab| 1.18.13 @ 8:23AM
What painter will be on hand to create the beautiful "Coronation of Barack I" or subtitled, "End of the American Republic". Whichever name is used we need a painter of great talent to record the moment for posterity. Blessings of Liberty, no. Centralized command economy and paternalistic tyranny better describe it. "For what", future historians will ask, "did an educated self-governing people demand of their government a rule of men"?
c. j. acworth| 1.18.13 @ 8:24AM
Good one Mr. Magilnick. Can't wait 'till Obama is sipping the sweet wine of Elba.
Al Adab| 1.18.13 @ 11:20AM
St Helena, Bonaparte returned from Elba.
This is timely. The civil unrest likely to occur when the dollar collapses under the pressure of taxes, spending and debt will not result in a restoration of Liberty, but in the arrival of Ceasar or Bonaparte. At least that is the historical patter. Can American exceptionalism overcome the desire for order?
fmm| 1.18.13 @ 12:33PM
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
hrgfue | 1.18.13 @ 10:17PM
2013 Happy New Year,NFL,NBA,Fashion kickoff for u
Ralph Novy| 1.19.13 @ 1:28PM
Hmm.
If I'm correct, this is a first for The American Spectator: first-rate, honest historical analysis with delicious facetious thrown in as a bonus.
If I'm wrong, well ... fuck y'all. But .... LOL
Waiting for the "other shoe to drop."
Ralph Novy| 1.19.13 @ 1:29PM
oops
... "facetiousness" ...
(blush)
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 8:20AM
Hmm.
If I'm correct - and I always am - that was the upteenth time that this Pole Munching @ss fck has written a bag a Sh*t, about nothing.
And, he's blushing.
What a pathetic waste of flesh and blood.
Lube up your brown eye, sweetheart, and go sit by the phone waiting for your Garbage Man to come by and Compact all that Junk in your Trunk.
He's blushing, again.
Warrior| 1.20.13 @ 8:51AM
We have a winner.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 9:07AM
I don't know what to say.
I wanna thank The Academy, of course. I wanna thank all of the Writers and the Extras, as well as all of the Bit Players (all of you) that make it possible to get up from my IPad and take a dump when I have to.
I wanna thank my Parents for not Aborting me, and for screwing me up so badly during my most formidable years, that I sought Peace of Mind from MAD Magazise, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and any old Playboy Magazine that, by the grace of God, I got my hands on.
Seriously. Was Barbie Benton the HOTTEST chick that you ever saw, or what?
Of course she was.
TLP| 1.19.13 @ 3:10PM
The second Inauguration of the second Coming (Newsweek) of "Our Lord and Saviour Barack Obama". (Jamie Foxxsucker)
Not since the Coronation of Caligula, have we seen the likes of what is coming.
A Madman, Hellbent on the Destruction of his own Empire. A Narccissist of the first order. A man who would make his Horse (Michelle) first Consul.
This Muslim Boy, who would make of himself, a King, will, undoubtedly, take the Bible from the hands of John Roberts, and Swear Himself in, as the first Anti-Christ - Napolean - (Nostradamus) did, lo those many years ago.
Like the second Anti-Christ - Hitler - (Also Nostadamus) he will Rule with an Iron Fist, supplementing The Rich, and The Middle Class, for the Jews.
He will abrogate the limits of his Treaty of Versailles (The Constitution) and bring about a World Wide Holocaust, starting with Israel, and finishing with the rest of The Free World.
My analogy to all of this can be boiled down to two words: The Scream.
The Painting by the Norwegian Artist - Edvard Munch.
That Painting, as with all pictures: Paints a Thousand Words.
None of them good.
God help us all.
TLP| 1.19.13 @ 3:20PM
There are no prizes, as this one is a Prize unto itself.
You get to Remember the Sacrifice of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with an Analogy Contest about the Destruction of everything that he fought so hard to achieve, by a Man who has done everything he could to divide this Country by Race, and Class, and pit one American against another, solely by The Colour Of Their Skin, and to Hell with The Content Of Their Character, of which he has none.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.19.13 @ 4:16PM
For my first entry, as Dear Leader begins his second term, he owes a debt of gratitude to what has now been classified as The Low Information Voter. Of course, these folks alone did not thrust this regime upon us, as Professor Trebach’s confession earlier in the week demonstrated. Still, a dedication of a song is in order for those who fell for The One’s rhetoric not once, but twice.
For those who recall the Doobie Brothers hit of the late 1970s, “What a Fool Believes”, please sing along (in your head) to the tune, with slightly altered lyrics, with this little ditty in honor of what brought us to this point:
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.19.13 @ 4:16PM
He came from somewhere about fifty years ago
The record of birth you don't see
Tryin' hard to recreate
What had yet to be created but once given life
He musters a smile a foreign student tale
Never to release all his college time grades
Only to realize
It never really was
He had many gaps in his life
The Press never thought to ask twice
As he gives the world an apology
Anybody else would surely know
Our country could go
But what a fool believes ... he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems ... to be
Is always better than nothing
He’s nothing at all keeps giving them ...
Free stuff and stories that long ago
Where you better believe that they took it all from you
Someday, somewhere, he will return it
We had a place in this life
He filled it all with great strife
As he gives the world an apology
Anybody else would surely know
He's laying us low
But what a fool believes ... he sees
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems ... to be
We’ll all be left here with nothing
There's nothing at all
What seems ... to be
His promises are worth nothing
There's nothing at all
But what a fool believes he sees ...
No wise man has the power to reason away
What seems ... to be
We’ll all be left here with nothing
Joellen| 1.20.13 @ 6:10AM
Alan - masterful - and so true - what fools, they believe and yet it kills us that they do not see.
Joellen| 1.20.13 @ 6:11AM
Good Morning - that was to be Albert - but confirming Alan's Girl wise comment:)
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 8:26AM
I'm having a hard time singing that one.
Is that a song from The Monkees?
And, thanks for coming.
Tell your friends....................
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 3:07PM
Just channel your inner Michael McDonald.
Alan's Girl| 1.19.13 @ 7:28PM
Mr. C, you are, indeed, a genius. Snap X 3.
Joellen| 1.20.13 @ 7:03AM
"Training Day"
Denzel is a cop, a very bad cop/Obama, Very bad President.
Denzel gets around with his charm, but in reality, he uses people for his own gain/
Obama uses the low information voter. Although I cite Denzel's charm, notice I dont obama's, like clinton, both so obviously phoney, yeech, I continue
Enters the good but naive cop, Ethan/America
Ethan goes along for the ride (literally); things get out of control real fast/socialize medicine; takes over the auto, banking, gun control (you'll have your guns, just no ammunition)
Finally, Ethan comes clean and wants Denzel to - Denzel not to be punked has some hoods take care of him/Americans who defend the Constitution; Obama has the media do his dirty work in eliminating them
One of the hoods who is about to chop Ethan up, finds out that Ethan actually saved his sister from being raped, he lets him live
Now here is where I must admit I am stumped folks, cause I cant think of one Democrat, knowing we are being destroyed, who'lll come to America's defense;
So although ususally my stories have better endings, I think we have to wait to see, who will finally stand up to Obama & his elite group and say no more -
and fights like hell to best Obama, like Ethan did Denzel
If you didnt see the movie, Ethan does win
Lets pray that we get our Ethan, cause there is no sequel
R Martin| 1.20.13 @ 7:29AM
Good one. Nice parallel between the creepiness of Denzel's character and Obama.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 8:51AM
7:29 am?
Be careful, or you'll miss all your Cartoons.
CJW| 1.20.13 @ 9:36AM
I agree that Denzell's character resembles O.
Good choice, Joellen.
R Martin| 1.20.13 @ 9:54AM
We have a puppy in the house. He doesn't sleep in like some of you slackers.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:16PM
So, you're not missing your Cartoons?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 8:19AM
The movie "Training Day" is based on a real life blue on blue police shooting, and while the plot departs almost entirely from what took place in the real case, either works for your analogy.
Could you imagine a plot in a movie where someone high up in the US Department of Justice thought it would be a good idea to direct that gun dealers sell high capacity high powered weapons to straw purchasers already known to be selling weapons to drug cartels? Before 2009, most producers wouldn't touch such a storyline; it would require too much suspension of disbelief.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 8:50AM
Like the saying goes: You can't make that shit up.
What if I were to tell you that I have a Plot for a Movie, wherebye a U.S. Consulate is attacked in an Arab Country that we just got finished Liberating from a 40 Year Dictatorship? The Ambassador is Captured, he's Raped by the Mob, and then summarily Executed. We have Former Navy Seals, on site, requesting Military Strikes against the attackers. One of them, actually has a laser painted on the attacker's Mortar Position.
Meanwhile, back home, the President and his team, have been watching all of this happen in real time, as a Predator Drone flies overhead. Instead of sending the Military Assistance that was requested? The President turns off the Screens and goes to bed.
The next morning, he does not put together a Group to discuss a response to the first Murdered US Ambassador since 1979. He gets up from bed, goes downstairs for Breakfast, and then heads out to Air Force One for a Flight to Las Vegas to raise money, and then it's off to Jay Z's House to Party. All the while, having his People back in Washington, weave their Tangled Web all over the Sunday Shows about a Video Trailer that nobody saw, in a well calculated, concerted effort to deflect everyone's gaze from the Cluelessness of this President, and everyone around him.
Well..................What do ya think?
Too unbelievable?
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 9:04AM
TLP,
Excellent. May I suggest a side contest. The contestant with the best movie title to your story gets one of those Viagra's?
I don't really have a title but those Police Academy films sum up the incompentency of this presidency quite nicely.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 9:41AM
What am I? Made of Contests?
You wanted this one, and I gave it to you. Now, you just sound like my 12 year old.
We spent $280 yesterday, getting him into a Great Indoor Baseball Training Fascility, where Good Ballplayers - Little Leaguers, High School Players - go to become Great Players.
No sooner does his Private Session end, then he starts wanting this and that, and he wants to go over to this place and that place.
Not only should you be THANKING me
You should be thanking yourself, for coming up with the idea.
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 9:46AM
You created this monster. Deal with it!
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:21AM
"Leaving (for) Las Vegas"?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:22AM
"The (not so) Professional"?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:24AM
"The Slaughter House Rules"?
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:19PM
I'm thinking: Anything from The Three Stooges, or The Marx Brothers.
Pecos Pete| 1.20.13 @ 10:27AM
Excellent! BTW, King O seeks a "fuller understanding" of the Algerian massacre by the peaceful religion.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:37AM
"You mean a rescue raid can kill both the hostage takers and the hostages you presumably care about? Call Janet Reno, I have a new job for her in my administration!"
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 12:02PM
Most people would just say "get to the bottom of this" but our DB in Chief must say "fuller understanding" because, don't you know, he's the smartest president our country has ever known.
Meanwhile, his clown VP thinks HE's the POTUS based on the remarks at his swearing in today.
Oy vey, what a clusterfarke we've got going at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Of THIS, I have a full understanding!
Job| 1.20.13 @ 12:39PM
Obama: magic mirror on the wall, who is the smartest man in the room and all.
famed is your intellect youre majesty but i just found a person commenting on AS that is smarter than thee.
alas for him reveal his name,
he's smarter than you an funny as hell too TLP is his name.
find some way to make it look natural and there dispose of him and you know the penalty if you fail.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:25PM
WINNER!
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:25PM
The rest of you could learn a lot from Job.
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 7:24PM
Good Job...Job.
Pecos Pete| 1.20.13 @ 7:36PM
Ooooooh Bob! Tim's gonna get you for that. But, I like it.
Job| 1.20.13 @ 9:25PM
nyuk nyuk
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 8:52AM
Joellen,
Good one. You lost me, however, when you're analogy was a movie starring Denzel Washinton. I think, oh, Malcomb X was the last one I've bothered to watch.
Your statement about waiting for a Democrat to stand up to obama is spot on but you'll be waiting for h**l to freeze over because there are too, too many RINO's bending over backwards to "work" with this guy, and thus, providing cover for the moderate Democrats who would otherwise be fleeing from him in droves right about now.
As always, the blame goes 100% to the RINO's.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:28PM
I think you mean: Bending over FORWARD, don't you?
R Martin| 1.20.13 @ 7:24AM
Little Timmy has set the tone for this contest with his example of Edvard Munch’s painting, “The Scream”. That image is certainly evocative of how one feels about four more years of Obama, but it is strictly one dimensional. A better analogy, in keeping with the scream theme, might be Cameron Frye’s yell in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” when Cameron discovers all the miles racked-up on his father’s prized Ferrari.
Cameron’s scream is multi-dimensional—you see it, hear it and you feel it. The camera starts in the back of Cameron’s throat, all black, then it pans out through his lips, his teeth, his face, to the street where he is riding, to the whole block, to all of Chicago. It is a primal scream, emotive, deep seated and it reflects perfectly how most of us feel about what’s happening in this country and what is likely to happen over the next four years. Or longer if we can’t produce some winners and reverse things.
And for this we’re having an inauguration celebration?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 8:10AM
Excellent, R M, or as Ferris himself might sing (or lip sync to Wayne Newton): "♪♫Danke ♪Schoen".
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 9:44AM
If I may add to your Ferris Bueller's Day off analogy, recall the scene when Ferris (the too-clever-by-half dipshits who bought into HopeNChange) hands over the Ferrari (the stewardship of the country, constitution, etc.) to the garage valet (obama).
The uptight Cameron (the collective citizens who know the end to this tragic story) reluctantly hands over the car to the valet and which point he stares at Cameron and says with smarm "relax"....
"uh, you fellas have nothing to worry about, I'm a professional".
Cameron: " professional what????"
R Martin| 1.20.13 @ 9:52AM
I always thought the casting in Bueller was excellent, and that garage attendant was particularly good.
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 9:59AM
A classic indeed.
So the takeaway from the movie clip is we should all just chill out as obama takes our country on a little joy ride, as the valet did with the Ferrari.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:40AM
If you are going to do a remake, might I suggest TLP in the role previously played by Ben Stein. Tim did such an impressive job spoofing Mr. Stein the other day, I am convinced that he could reprise that teacher with great vigor.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 6:09PM
Albert?
Albert Constantine Jr.?
Has anyone seen Albert Constantine Jr.?
Has anyone ordered any Pad Thai from the Bangkok House?
Has anyone seen Albert at the Cineplex 12, in Dover, Deleware?
Has anyone seen Albert at the Wawa, in Dover Deleware?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 6:36PM
How are you with "Clear Eyes"?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:16AM
Richard Edson played the attendant, and his future in this film was much brighter than his part in Platoon (where, as Sal, he opened up the booby trapped ammo can in the bunker complex HQ, resulting in his maiming and death).
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 11:11AM
I smell a good metaphor in this one scene alone.
And no, I don't have a clue what a metaphor smells like. I can imagine like a musty old book with a slight hint of tobacco, but hopefully not like one of TLP's prizes.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 11:20AM
...ammo can labeled in strange foreign language, which translates to "Obama Second Term Agenda"...
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:31PM
It smells way worse than that.
But, why am I telling you this?
You'll find out, soon enough.
Kwan| 1.20.13 @ 8:57AM
One fine day at the Obama Coronation
Let us all arise and sing our National Anthem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXr1mkYWeCU
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 9:35AM
Do we kneel before the song starts, or at the end?
Kwan| 1.20.13 @ 10:15AM
Just give up all your money and guns to our savior Obama if you wish to be saved from the Fires of Hell my son. For he is the truth, the way, and the light, the One who will lead us to the promised land.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:18AM
...and not to forget (in a nod to "Wayne's World") all of the " We're not Worthy" lamentations...
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:42PM
You're words ring truer than you think, Mr. Kwan.
Everything he has done, or will do, he PROMISED he would do, in 2008.
Such is the way with Tyrants.
Hitler kept his Promises. Lenin kept his promises, so did Stalin and Mao, as is I'mahandajob and Morsi.
As did Obama's Manwife, when she said that "Barack will change the way we live our lives. He will change our History, our Traditions, and the way we look at ourselves".
We underestimate these people, at our own risk.
Pecos Pete| 1.20.13 @ 10:39AM
Kwan: Sickening. I had not seen this one. How is it possible that there are citizens of the USA who actually believe King O is the messiah? Stupidity is one reason. Education is another.
BTW, while not a painting, your contest submission fits the times and, if there were prizes and if I was the Judge, which Tim won't relinquish the title thereof, you'd get a bottle of Australian MAX, empty cause I'd drink it before sending. Maybe that's why Tim is The Judge, he'd only drink 3/4 of the bottle before sending it.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:43PM
I'm sending a Bottle of Squid Sauce, as we speak.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 5:19PM
...Everyone's favorite brand of nam pla'...
Warrior| 1.20.13 @ 9:03AM
Please allow this to serve as my tribute to the main stream media. We must acknowledge their brilliance, their command of the news and their pain staking detail to verify the information prior to airing. Peter Jennings is the dupe. What makes this truly funny is how fake the "black" voice is. What makes it truly tragic is the last words which fit the MSM perfectly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP8TwjRMdS0
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 9:38AM
If it wasn't for Al Michaels, Jennings would have likely never caught on.
Speaking of Howard Stern, when Frank Drackman began posting here last year, I suspected he was really Howard Stern pranking the site.
Kwan| 1.20.13 @ 1:27PM
As long as we're on the subject of Stern Henchmen let's not forget the valiant efforts of Bulldog Reporter Benjy Bronk to pry the hard truths from disgraced Congressman Anthony "da Nebbish" Weiner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcNvHqR3O_k
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 7:49PM
Al,
Have you noticed Frank Drackman doesn't post on weekends?
Is it because he's always with a boatload of cute little southern belle's on some private lake OR is it because his work release program doesn't allow access to the internet?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.21.13 @ 10:16AM
He doesn't seem to post much in the evenings, either. My guess is that it's a computer at work, and someone is getting billed for a consult each time he hits the "submit" button.
Kwan| 1.20.13 @ 9:52AM
The one and only Captain Janks in action doing what he does best.
Joellen| 1.20.13 @ 3:02PM
Warrior - the other day at a friends house, they had on Diane Sawyer - so of course I had to watch the gabage spewed and lo and behold - THEY are BLAMING the flu for the low turnout for the coronation for obama tomorrow! You just cant make this stuff up!
CJW| 1.20.13 @ 9:43AM
Last night I saw the movie Quo Vadis, and there it was, inspiration.
Emperor Nero wanted to build a new Rome but had to destroy the old Rome. He burned Rome and then blamed the Christians for starting the fire. Sound familiar?
Emperor O wants to transform the USA. We do not need transformed. We are fine, everyone in the world wants to move here. But the Emperor wants to transform (burn) and build a new Rome to his liking in his image.
And who stands in his way, those bitter people clinging to their guns and religion. Unfortunately the Christians in Rome were unarmed, but Nero could only kill their bodies and not their religion and spirit.
Aditionally, Emperor Nero issued daily proclamations, like executive orders, surrounded by sycophants, some scribes, the present day MSM.
While Rome burned Nero played the fiddle, while our deficity hits 20 billion, emperor Obama sings on TV and plays golf, travels to Hawaii, empress Michele vacations in Spain, Manhattan, Martha's Vineyard, and their children have sleepovers in Mexico.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:10AM
I watched a few minutes of it, as well, on TCM. Where is our Robert Taylor (oh wait, he was killed by the Japanese at the end of my "Bataan" analogy on the other contest thread)?
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 10:38AM
Al,
I believe Robert Taylor had a role in EVERY movie from that era. O.K., a slight exaggeration , but the guy was busy.
I could have sworn he had a role in Bridge on the River Kwai but IMDB told me otherwise.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 10:43AM
To add to the confusion, Rod Taylor probably had some of his checks mistakenly sent to Rob.
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 11:13AM
as Rob went about his business... :-)
CJW| 1.20.13 @ 12:50PM
remember the Three Stooges joke, Larry said his tailor was so expensive he was a robber; Curley said, yeah Robber Taylor.
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 3:06PM
and Moe said: "eh, quit clowning around and get back to woyk."
C, perfect tie-in.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:47PM
All right. What just happened, here?
Joellen| 1.20.13 @ 4:04PM
I dont know - but I am still laughing!
CJW| 1.20.13 @ 12:53PM
Does anyone know why in all the ancient Roman movies the actors all spoke with a clear distinctive English accent, like Olivier and Richard Burton. These were Italians, they should be speaking like Paulie and Tony and Clemenza and Tessio.
BTW, there was a Petronious in Quo Vadis who slit his wrists. We have a Petronious on this site. We need him to check in.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 3:48PM
And, they all spoke Engish.
What's up with that?
Pecos Pete| 1.20.13 @ 10:43AM
CJW: Exactly.
Job| 1.20.13 @ 12:41PM
good one
Rhoetus| 1.20.13 @ 4:03PM
http://www.cato.org/cult-of-the-presidency
Pecos Pete| 1.20.13 @ 10:57AM
The Sting (either I or II).
King O is Gondorff.
Harry Reid is Hooker.
Veronica (in II) is Valerie Jarrett/Nancy Pelosi.
The USA is Lonnegan.
The allegory is today's coronations of King/Queen O and Prince JB.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 11:23AM
The curious thing about O is how he seems to be running the long con and the short con simultaneously.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 4:03PM
Gondorf?
Don't you mean: Lord of the Rings?
davidh| 1.20.13 @ 1:03PM
Passover is celebrated because the angel of death passed over the first born protected by the blood of the perfect lamb.
Herod killed all boys younger than two years of age to kill the Christ at the time of his birth.
America has killed 55,000,000 since Roe V Wade. (Revelation)
Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. He is the perfect lamb.
His blood now covers the door (us).
Confess with your mouth.
May 14, 1948. “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its buds become tender and its leaves begin to sprout, you know without being told that summer is near. Just so, when you see the events I’ve described beginning to happen, you can know his return is very near, right at the door. I assure you, this generation will not pass from the scene before all these things take place. Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will remain forever.” Matthew 24:32-35 (NLT)
King Obama's coronation is indeed very significant.
Isaiah 14:12 How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
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Matthew 4:10 Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: 'Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'"
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Revelation 12:9 The great dragon was hurled down--that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his
Angels with him.
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 4:06PM
JESUS rode into Jerusalem on an Ass.
Black Jesus rode into D.C. AS an Ass.
And we've been eating Shit, ever since.
Rhoetus| 1.20.13 @ 4:02PM
http://www.cato.org/cult-of-the-presidency
Beware the Cult of The Presidency!
TLP| 1.20.13 @ 4:08PM
Everybody say Thank You to Bob Grant.
This was all his idea, which makes you wonder why his Entries aren't better than they are.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 5:21PM
He's saving his best for the inauguration ceremony, as a sacrificial offering to Dear Leader.
Bob Grant| 1.20.13 @ 7:21PM
TLP,
I appreciate the shout out but my request is for selfish reasons.
Tomorrow will not be a day of joy, nor optimism. I will be more like a funeral procession than inauguration; more dread than hope for the future. It will be nothing like Clinton's second in '97 when it was more of an irritation than anything else. We knew our strong economy
couldwould survive his presidency.No one in their right mind believes this about The obama Presidency.
I simply needed a place to vent tomorrow. Thanks for making that possible.
And BTW. Yes, I will add my usual low-brow analogy to the mix of outstanding ones.
BL in AK| 1.20.13 @ 6:46PM
Since TLP used Braveheart on contest uno, I will use Rob Roy for contest dos. The scream I am thinking of is the young relative of RobR after he wakes up from his perch along the shoreline to see the Brits leaving in their boats after Tim Roth's character raped Rob's wife. That character Tim Roth played (Archie something, a bastard of some sort) is BHO raping the constitution right in front of our eyes.
On a SB note, wouldn't it be fitting to see the Harbaugh brothers teams duel it out, brother against brother. Kind of analogistic to BHO's putting the classes and races against each other under his reign. Go '9ers and Ravens! and '9ers going all the way since I grew up in NorCal SF Bay Area.
cheerz
BL
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 7:55PM
Tis a shame Mike 3/505 isn't here, with all the references to the Scotch.
hrgfue | 1.20.13 @ 7:37PM
2013 Fashion kickoff for u
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.20.13 @ 7:53PM
The Rockford Files Episode 48
Rockford is hired by the man that runs the bait stand at the fishing pier to help him. The man, Charlie Blaylock, embezzled $500,000 when he was an oil company executive, and wants Rockford to help him return the money now that the statute of limitations is about to expire. Meanwhile, mobsters kidnap his daughter, and he is forced to use his ill gotten gains to pay the ransom. Rockford is arrested when he learns the statute of limitations hasn’t expired (it starts when the theft is discovered, not when the thief actually steals the money), and then the previous police investigator kidnaps the daughter. In the end, all the kidnappers are caught, the hostage recovered, and Charlie is relieved of the burden to his conscience that the stolen money represented. Then, the IRS shows up, advise him that because he had not reported the stolen money as income, he had a tax liability of $250,000. The episode closes with Charlie staggering down the beach, at which point he lets out a primal scream to rival Cameron’s in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”.
Of course, for the purpose of the contest, we know who the IRS represents. Charlie represents liberal guilt. So, for trying to promote hope & change in his life, he endangered his family and destroyed his economy.
“Four More Years!” has gone from a slogan to an epitaph.
TLP| 1.21.13 @ 8:36AM
That was pretty good.
We should do this again, sometime.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.21.13 @ 9:35AM
Keep it open a while. I have a feeling the day will get worse before it gets better.