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Posted on 01/20/2008 12:43:48 PM PST by Jim Robinson
I'll lend them my cheese truck.
“Post TWO memorable scenes of your choice. (This will be called a PAIR. You may post one pair now, or one pair now and one later as the contest progresses.)”
In keeping withthe Freepathon spirit, I’ll have to say the first one is:
“Show Me The Money!” Tom Cruise - Screaming into phone - Jerry McGuire
And the second, I’d dedicate to the Liberals:
“You Can’t Handle The Truth!” Jack Nicholson - Screaming at Tom Cruise’s character - A Few Good Men
very good!!! (IMO)
FIREARMS REFRESHER COURSE
1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it’s about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don’t know your rights, you don’t have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution ©1791. All Rights Reserved.
11. What part of “shall not be infringed” do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don’t shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the gun control laws we ALREADY have; don’t make more.
24. When you remove the people’s right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.
Thanks, they popped right into mind when I read the challenge. Good seeing you, it’s been a while...
I think a commonly accepted meaning to "Rosebud" which Citizen Kane whispered while dying was that it was the name of his little sled that he is remembering from his happier youth.
Your potent entry is duly inscribed in the The Book of Memorable Movie Moments where it will be judged by the Great Ozma herself aka Louella Parsons, hostess of this contest.
Thanks for participating for the benefit of FR!
Louella
51?
53?
"Leave the gun, take the cannolis" from The Godfather is a great quote. It's so funny in a black humor sort of way.
Your choice of the scene of Cary Grant being chased by the cropduster shows you have a very Latin bent for the classic......which this scene is. It's unforgettable!
If you win, you'll be responsible for a nice donation to FR. In addition, this contest's hostess, Louella, will crown you with a laurel wreath and drape you with a senatorial toga. You'll look like Richard Burton, yum, yum.
Remember, you have another entry coming if you wish. Six days till the end of the contest, folks.
Bona fortuna, Sulla!
Louella Parsonus
Okay, Gpapa, here's 51:
TO WHAT expedient, then, shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in the Constitution?
The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.
Without presuming to undertake a full development of this important idea, I will hazard a few general observations, which may perhaps place it in a clearer light, and enable us to form a more correct judgment of the principles and structure of the government planned by the convention.
In order to lay a due foundation for that separate and distinct exercise of the different powers of government, which to a certain extent is admitted on all hands to be essential to the preservation of liberty, it is evident that each department should have a will of its own; and consequently should be so constituted that the members of each should have as little agency as possible in the appointment of the members of the others.
[ Snip ]
There are, moreover, two considerations particularly applicable to the federal system of America, which place that system in a very interesting point of view.
First. In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is submitted to the administration of a single government; and the usurpations are guarded against by a division of the government into distinct and separate departments.
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.
Second. It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. Different interests necessarily exist in different classes of citizens. If a majority be united by a common interest, the rights of the minority will be insecure.
There are but two methods of providing against this evil: the one by creating a will in the community independent of the majority -- that is, of the society itself; the other, by comprehending in the society so many separate descriptions of citizens as will render an unjust combination of a majority of the whole very improbable, if not impracticable.
The first method prevails in all governments possessing an hereditary or self-appointed authority. This, at best, is but a precarious security; because a power independent of the society may as well espouse the unjust views of the major, as the rightful interests of the minor party, and may possibly be turned against both parties.
The second method will be exemplified in the federal republic of the United States. Whilst all authority in it will be derived from and dependent on the society, the society itself will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority. In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights..."
The Federalist No. 51
That’s it.
LOL! Thanks Gpapa. :-)
“I rather read, stay away from the squabbling, backstabbing, etc., etc....”
Sometimes that’s best :) We all have our coping mechanisms (lol). No secret that I post where I can and when I can. Until the freepathon concept goes away...I’ll always pop in to bump and say hey.
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