‘NOTHING TO FEAR’ WITH WINSTON CHURCHILL AND GEORGE CLOONEY

“Nothing to fear, nothing to see, move along.”

It’s just Winston Churchill strolling in his front yard.

We had a Churchill lesson at his place, then another in his London war rooms.

Our dude didn’t have smooth seas on the trip to joining the immortals of history.

Like many of his generation, Churchill’s parents were busy doing other things than manage their excitable boy, so off to boarding school at age seven.

They visited. Visiting parents for their kid. Why have kids?

He reportedly said he adored his mother . . . from a distance.

His upbringing was a fact of life he learned to live with on his journey forward.

He didn’t seem to whine about it incessantly.

 

This is a man who spent time in and out of office throughout his public life.

In the 1930’s he spoke up about Germany.

 

From his backbench seat in Parliament, Churchill badgered, “Germany is arming- she is rapidly arming – and no one will stop her.”

But Winston was seen as an alarmist distraction by the coalition government of Labour, Liberal and Conservative parties focused primarily on domestic issues.

 

When Germany spoke to England with the Battle of Britain Churchill was not ignored.

He knew a Nazi when he saw one and understood there was nothing they could offer to the free world as he understood it to be.

Nothing to fear? Churchill could taste it.

 

Alarmist Distractions And You

When I was a renter one of my promises to the landlord was I’d leave the place better than it was at move in.

Toward that end I negotiated a carpet deal.

The landlord was happy for new carpet and laid it down themselves; right over the top of the stained, stinking, carpet the place started with.

It wasn’t an ideal solution, but they were fine with it.

 

Aren’t we always encouraged to do better, leave a small footprint, and clean up after ourselves?

In Boy Scouts we learned how to camp and leave the place better than we found it on the first day.

In sports we learned how to win and lose graciously.

The Army taught us all to respect authority: You may despise the man in the officer’s uniform but you salute the uniform.

Fair enough?

Work life teaches us how to cooperate and listen.

Married life? Cooperate and listen.

Parent life: Same.

 

At no point do we get a green light to crap all over everything we see, touch, or feel.

No green light to lie, cheat, and steal.

No salute for those on the crapper doing crappy things.

 

Crappy Things

George Clooney?

I like his life story, I like his movies, his lifestyle choices, his friends, and think he’d be great doing one of the movies I’ve written.

He’s no kid, no innocent in the woods.

He’s navigated Hollywood like a pro where others have fallen into one hole or another from bad deals to drug addiction.

From what I know about George Clooney on TV, People Magazine, and the trades, is he’s a good guy.

It doesn’t change my opinion that he wrote an Op-ed for the New York Times.

My opinion is elevated that he got something in the NYT.

I made the Gray Lady with a quote during the destruction of the Fox Theater in downtown Portland where we discovered a third balcony for black movie fans.

What I didn’t do is ask the Times to print my opinion of the Biden candidacy for President of the United States Of America.

George Clooney had an opinion and wanted it aired out.

What. The. Fuck. George?

 

Here’s what we’ve learned, what I’ve learned, (and as a blogger you can never stop learning:)

George Clooney is no Winston Churchill.

Shit talking Joe Biden in the New York Times is not a pro move.

It’s more an alarmist distraction.

Saying that everyone says the same thing in private, shit talking Biden, but not in public, puts you in poor light, George.

How to say you’re connected without saying you’re connected?

We know you’re connected, buddy, but to who and what?

The Email Lady had her election all wrapped up until the late news on her unsecured server.

In the 2020 election Trump had it all wrapped up until the jolting conclusion.

Dear Mr. Clooney, please tell your friends to get off the No Joe bandwagon.

Nothing to fear?

Remember Fox News reporters telling basketball players with an opinion to “shut up and dribble?”

I didn’t like it, and I’d never repeat it, and by all accounts George Clooney is a hooper.

Look at the other guy, George, he’s no alarmist distraction.

 

In a two-man race the choices are one or the other, not one but only if he’s replaced.

I don’t need to pipe up for Biden.

All I need to know is he’s on the job, and if he’s slow, or tired, he’s got people on the job who know the drill.

Biden is a career man who might be slow quitting, but he’s not done.

Instead of taking cracks at him and his TV performance, why not talk about the other guy, the one who loves the camera so much he’s always ready.

This blog, boomerpdx, isn’t around to make lists about people with bad character, whether it’s education fraud, charity fraud, campaign fraud, or any of the nasty things he’s done with his wives, girlfriends, porn ladies, or lady columnists.

I don’t dip into the muckraking, but I’ll point you in the right direction.

 

History is full of bad ideas from fuckers who have no problem putting people at risk.

I’m thinking of the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union, and giving people an equal chance at living a good life, not one consumed by the sort of generational fear that occupies many communities across their countries.

Nothing to fear means you’ve never been afraid?

More like you’re blind to current threat.

What would Churchill do?