Another WWII Hero Passes...

I just heard on the radio that Eddie Albert passed away today.

I know of others who have passed, friends fathers who served the Marines as a scout/sniper in the Pacific, a famous WWII P-38 ace withering away, neglected, in a VA Hospital*.

The backbone of this country is crumbling like the hip on an osteoperotic octagenarian and no one seems to notice. These good men are passing.

This posting is taking a turn from where I was expecting it to go...

There's been some griping about Anakin and Obi-Wan being effeminite. Look where they came from, Hollywood.

Recently I read a posting/comment on Vox Populi about how Vox's progammer brother was referred to as being 'to macho' by a Hollywood babe. The poster was reviewing this comment through the eyes of a Minnisotain and saw humor in it.

Sounds to me that Hollywood is so far removed from the rest of the country, at least the country I know, that what they see as 'to macho' we would see as just a normal guy.

Maybe this is why Anakin is not as masculine as we think he should be.

Now imagine Obi-Wan, if Eddie Albert had some say in Hollywood. Obi-Wan would probably had taken Anakin out back behind the Jedi Temple and 'explained' to him why it was wrong to butcher a whole tribe of sand people and not stop till Anakin got over his pride/anger/guilt and admitted it was the wrong thing to do.

Instead they have some PC feminized scriptwriters writing about something they know nothing about. Where's Eddie when you need him?

oh yea, Eddie's dead, his kind are dying.

*If there is ever an arguement against government run health care, it's the level of care and professionalism that the VA system distributes. Our vets have earned and been promised health care and the government is failing them on so many levels. Now I ask this: If our government can't give health care to a small minority who deserve it, how do we expect them to provide better care for the rest of the nation?