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Showing posts with label Clint Eastwood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Clint Eastwood. Show all posts

August 6, 2016

Clint Eastwood: Advice On Affairs Of The Heart

Clint Eastwood usually doesn't have much to say, but when he does, people talk about it. Clint and his son, Scott Eastwood, both agreed to be interviewed by Esquire magazine and neither one pulls any punches about their likes and dislikes.

Most have already read something about Mr. Eastwood's lack of regard for the "pussy generation" that he voiced in his interview with Esquire magazine. He simply has no use for politically correct speech and people who are easily offended.

But Clint also revealed his views on how a rich and famous movie star/director should manage his love life:
ESQ: Collecting wives is an expensive hobby.

Clint: Yeah, cut out the middleman. Just find somebody you hate and buy 'em a house.

Scott: I gotta write that down.

Clint: When you call your lawyer and you tell 'em, you know, "I'm gonna get married to this girl" and there's a long pause on the other end of the line, you know damn well they're thinking, "How are we gonna set this up, and then how are we gonna dissolve this?"
This just cracked me up. Here's a guy who has lived a full life.

September 5, 2014

The Empty Chair


Remember the 2012 RNC nominations and Clint Eastwood's speech to the empty chair?
President Obama was nowhere to be found during the beginning of a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine commission in Wales on Thursday.

Obama was "noticeably absent" from the start of the meeting, according to a White House pool report, although U.S. Ambassador to NATO Douglas Lute was in attendance.

Obama was late to the Ukraine meeting because of other meetings on Afghanistan and a meeting with King Abdullah of Jordan, according to a White House official.
These are the things that were not said by Obama. Once again, his chair is empty.
Back at the Ukraine meeting, leaders were addressed by NATO Secretary General Anders Rasmussen, who urged Russia to stop the "illegal" annexation of Crimea.

“We call on Russia to end its illegal and self-declared annexation of Crimea,” Rasmussen said. “We call on Russia to pull back its troops from Ukraine” and stop the flow of arms to separatists.

Rasmussen said the gathering of the leaders should telegraph a "clear message" to Ukraine that NATO stands with the nation and supports its reforms.

He said leaders would work with Ukraine to modernize its army and improve the ability of Ukrainian and NATO forces to work together.
Story here.

The President Who Wasn't There

Yesterday, NATO had an empty chair,
America's President wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away...

He spends much of his time on a golf tee,
The President isn't there for you and  me.
And when they looked around NATO's hall,
They couldn't see him there at all!
Go away, go away, don't you come back any more!
For you only protect traitors like Sgt. Bergdahl!

Francis Scott Key wrote our anthem by the rocket's red glare,
But now we have a President who isn't there,
He wasn't there again today
Oh, how I wish he'd go away...

This is my version/rewrite of "The Man Who Wasn't There,"  by William Hughes Mearns.