http://www.clareified.com/2004/06/28/good-gravy/ The good old days weren't always good Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:08:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.clareified.com/2004/06/28/good-gravy/#comment-8916 dawn Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:25:29 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/wp/?p=753#comment-8916 Bush has Jim Beam in his eye? I thought he couldn't touch alcohol. Bush has Jim Beam in his eye? I thought he couldn’t touch alcohol.

]]> http://www.clareified.com/2004/06/28/good-gravy/#comment-8917 pearatty Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:58:10 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/wp/?p=753#comment-8917 Its from the Bible. Sermon on the mount, I think. Jesus says, paraphrased, "don't go bitching about the speck in someone else's eye, look first to the beam (log) in your own." In other words, take care of your own business before you go saying other people are messed up. Completely inapposite in the context of this interview, unless Bush is trying to say that he has a personal relationship with God while the reporter couldn't possibily. Its from the Bible. Sermon on the mount, I think. Jesus says, paraphrased, “don’t go bitching about the speck in someone else’s eye, look first to the beam (log) in your own.” In other words, take care of your own business before you go saying other people are messed up. Completely inapposite in the context of this interview, unless Bush is trying to say that he has a personal relationship with God while the reporter couldn’t possibily.

]]> http://www.clareified.com/2004/06/28/good-gravy/#comment-8915 lk Tue, 29 Jun 2004 07:40:52 +0000 http://www.clareified.com/wp/?p=753#comment-8915 'Don't try to take a speck out of your eye if I've got a log in my own.' WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I KEEP THINKING IT IS A FRACTURED METPHOR. ‘Don’t try to take a speck out of your eye if I’ve got a log in my own.’
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I KEEP THINKING IT IS A FRACTURED METPHOR.

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