In "Dutch," Mr. Reagan's authorized biography, the author, Edmund Morris, writes that Mr. Reagan once said of AIDS, "Maybe the Lord brought down this plague," because "illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments".
Reagan, our only divorced president, a delinquent father who was estranged from various children in his lifetime, who courted the Christian right but never went to church regularly in Washington, would wonder: "maybe the Lord brought down this plague" because "illicit sex is against the Ten Commandments".
Out of such seemingly trivial conversations, mountains can be moved and barriers brought down...well, maybe.
"It's better to err on the side of protecting children than to err on the side of maybe a priest having his name brought down in the eyes of his parishioners," he said.
You could also argue that it goes back even further to 1969, or 1933, or 1927, or 1895, or maybe even 1832 when William Carson and Patrick Morris first brought down this wretched curse of settler self-government upon all future generations.
Reed and his newly empowered buddies Sue Storm (Kate Mara, Johnny Storm Michael B Jordan and Ben Grimm Jamie BellBell) do their best to forge a new identity for themselves working either inside or outside a corporate machine that seems determined to exploit them to its own ends, while Victor von Doom (Toby Kebbell) strives to go it alone and maybe even bring down the whole system.
O.K., maybe you had to be there, but it sort of brought down the house.
This brought down the house.
"We were just brought down".
And it brought down all of Target.com.
