The Boxer: George Washington

I was watching Rocky (first one) this after and I still love it! The Bill Conti theme, especially the Gonna Fly Now montage where Rocky runs through the streets of Philadelphia and ascends the top of the Philadelphia museum.

There's a lot I didn't remember about the movie from when I first saw it at the drive-in with my parents. Rock was born in Philadelphia, the night before Thanksgiving. He's a right (Orthodox) fighter by nature but fights with his left hand (a south paw). He explains the boxing term to Adrian. His explanation is different from the boxing definition, but I like Rocky's much better:

"There was a boxer in Philadelphia noticed that his left hand was facing South Jersey. 

 

 “A long time ago, a couple of hundred years ago, this guy was fightin'. I think it was around Philadelphia. He was left-handed. His arm was facin' towards New Jersey. And that's south, so they called him Southpaw. You see? Southpaw, South Jersey, South Camden, Southpaw ... you know what I mean?"

 

Yep. I love the historical reference thrown into the movie. Rocky fights Appollo on Thanksgiving Day in '76. The reference to George Washington, Philadelphia, and '76 are obvious, so, too, the reference to beating the British (okay Hessians) who were drinking it up at a bar on Christmas Day (I think Rocky fought Appollo on either Christmas Day, but it was definitely close to New Year's Eve at least (short attention span when I get into a movie).

 

 

I love when Rocky (Rocky II?) a right handed, orthodox by nature fighter who uses his southpaw switches to his natural right hand midway through a fight, throws Appollo off and wins the fight. Ah, Rocky beat him the right and honest way. Interesting that he learned to fight with his left, but to defeat Appollo switched back to his right/orthodox way of fighting, yet had to train to use his right hand.

 

But he won. Oh, and Rocky Italian. Of course, but it took me a while to figure that out lol. I have no idea what the name Appollo might refer to regarding the American Revolution, though.

 

Just a great movie and a great theme song. I think I posted some of this before but the movie and song...wow.

 

American history through a boxing movie.

Gingrich Was Right

I've become more and more of a Rick Santorum fan and would love to see him as the Republican presidential candidate. Still, something Gingrich said in the last debate impressed me. He brought up the Obama's silence on the atrocities of the young Iranian students protesting election fraud. I have two major reasons for not voting for Obama.

I couldn't believe Gingrich said that! I've read plenty of opinions on why people shouldn't vote for Obama for very valid reasons, but this is the first time I've heard anyone bring up the Iranian protests, and certainly the first time it's been mentioned this election season.

My jaw dropped.

Voter fraud and civil rights/human rights abuses are supposed to be the sacred cows of Democrats and here Obama was silent and only after the liberal media questioned him did he respond. Another case of a politician who constantly wants to be on the right side of history? Righteousness doesn't work that way.

Either your moral compass is properly set or it isn't. IMO those kids were protesting against a modern day Hitler. After the fact righteousness? I don't think so.

It's interesting. Iranians seem to be the only people in the Middle East truly fighting for reform and freedom from forced Islam (not necessarily from Islam, but Islamic governmental control). They seem to despise it as much as many Cuban Americans despise Communism.

OT but it just occurred to me--people keep calling the US a Democratic nation. I thought it was a Democratic Republic. Someone mentioned to me that there is a difference. It would be interesting to find out.

Off to check I go.

Hopefully...

This will solve my Blogger, Email, and You Tube problems. Resetting the email passwords and screen names was easy and I can remember the passwords. Ditto with the new You Tube account. SOL on Blogger in Draft. It's still me but at least I can remember how to log in and log out. Hopefully, hopefully this solves my Blogger problems and I'll be able to continue blogging.

I felt kind of stupid adding 613 (cliche, well maybe not that, but overused by a lot of bloggers) to my user name here, but I wanted the Keli Ata name and tried so many times to create other blogs with Keli Ata (don't ask, I can't explain it myself), that 613 was the most creative one I could think of and that I would remember. Keep your fingers crossed that this works from me.


I have no idea if I am posting this in Blogger in Draft or regular blogger, but at least it seems to be working.


UGH. Word of advice--never combine all of your Google accounts. It's a royal pain!


Still tinkering with the template.

Back in the Saddle Again

Here were go again! I had to create yet another blog. But at least now I can remember all of my email addresses and passwords, so things should be okay for now. I'm hoping this works. Keep your fingers crossed for me.

This isn't the template I wanted but at least I am connected with the Blogger world and can rant and rave and "talk" in circles once again.