Interesting Items – 8/10 – Springtime
Springtime. I am a long time Mel Brooks fan. The first Mel Brooks movie I saw was Blazing Saddles in a theater in Dallas and roared when people got up and walked out during the campfire scene. The most recent Mel Brooks movie is a remake of The Producers, basically taking the long-running Broadway show back to film. It is a superb flick. One of the things that make it fun is that it absolutely excoriates Nazis; holding them up to ridicule and laughter. It is about 64 years since the fall of the Third Reich, and this sort of humor is widely accepted. Some day, some time and somehow someone is going to do a similar thing to our friends in Radical Islam. I do not think they will take it as well as the Germans have. But they will richly deserve everything that comes their way.
More later — AG
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
- Samuel Adams, speech at the Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776.
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