dave123williams
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Wed Feb-08-06 04:17 PM
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Political Funerals have something of a long tradition...case in point: |
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Brutus didn't fair too well at Caesars, I think. I wonder what the nattering nabobs of network news would have said about this funeral:
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest-- For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men-- Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
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NYCGirl
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Wed Feb-08-06 04:20 PM
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1. Limbaugh would say that Shakespeare is a damned commie! |
movonne
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Wed Feb-08-06 04:24 PM
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2. I remember turning on TV and watching a plane waiting to take |
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Reagan back to CA.for appx 3hrs on cnn...
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Wed Feb-08-06 04:32 PM
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I was thinking about that too!
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