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If you must listen to Wagner, do it in private
The National Post ^
| 5/22/2013
| Barbara Kay
Posted on 05/22/2013 10:41:35 AM PDT by Borges
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:41:35 AM PDT
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Borges
To: .30Carbine; 1cewolf; 1rudeboy; 31R1O; ADemocratNoMore; afraidfortherepublic; alarm rider; ...
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:42:14 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
Oh sorry that was the classical ping!
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:42:30 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Borges
From the title I thought the author was talking about Porter Wagner, in which case I would have agreed 100%.
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:43:40 AM PDT
by
gov_bean_ counter
(Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,)
To: Borges
Ridiculous perspective.Indeed. That article was a "look at me; I'm an idiot!" moment.
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:46:07 AM PDT
by
Sans-Culotte
( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
To: Borges
Ah, the German version Orson Scott Card (the sci-fi novelist, hailed for the Ender’s Game series of stories, but derided because of his stance on gay marriage).
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:46:47 AM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
To: Borges
I agree with you.
On the other hand, I will NOT put money into the pocket of Sean Penn by attending his movies. Penn has worked tirelessly to destroy my country, and finances his treason by acting in movies. And he is doing it NOW.
I have never seen most of them.
While Wagner may have been an antisemite, his music was terrific.
While on a trip to Israel, I was shocked to see Mercedes, BMW, Volkswagen, Pfaff Sewing machines, and even Krupps Appliances. Those companies have a lot more to do with Hitler than Wagner’s music.
Evidently, Israel goes for the best product rather than the politics of 75 years ago associated with it.
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:53:01 AM PDT
by
left that other site
((Ban the ubiquitous and deadly solvent, Di-hydrogen monoxide!!!))
To: Borges
I guess this twirp would ban all German cars, return all the technical documents for rockets, atomic research.
This would be the same type of moron who would have a conniption fit if someone wanted to ban a book.
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:53:10 AM PDT
by
Wurlitzer
(Nothing says "ignorance" like Islam! 969)
To: Borges
Wagner (who is universally acknowledged to have been a racist and anti-Semite) Applying modern standards to 19th Century Europe, 99% percent of people were racists and a slightly smaller percentage were anti-Semites.
To: gov_bean_ counter
The work is what it is, and should be judged as if one knows nothing of its creator.
Isaac Newton was a truly great man, but a real a-hole. The same could be said of many other great contributors to western Civ.
To: Borges
Anyone poo-pooing Wagner needs to sit down to this album:
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:55:14 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
To: Borges
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT
by
mikrofon
(Cue the Fat Lady...)
To: Borges
The irony being, of course, that Wagner was a first generation Communist who had been exiled from Dresden following the failed revolution of May 1849.
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posted on
05/22/2013 10:58:20 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: Timber Rattler
Wagner gave up his youthful radicalism later in life. Exchanging it for a sort of pagan hero worship culture. With himself being the primary hero.
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posted on
05/22/2013 11:04:27 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: mikrofon
The Fat Lady Sings the Wagner:
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posted on
05/22/2013 11:06:49 AM PDT
by
Slyfox
(The red face of shame is proof that the conscience is still operational.)
To: Slyfox
I prefer Wagner Without Words. I think the voices take away from the beauty of the horns.
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posted on
05/22/2013 11:49:40 AM PDT
by
angry elephant
(Endangered species in Seattle)
To: Borges
Say what you want about Wagner, there's still nothing better to listen to when you're coming in to land on a hot LZ.
CC
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posted on
05/22/2013 11:56:42 AM PDT
by
Celtic Conservative
(tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
To: Borges
Please ........ Mozart.
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posted on
05/22/2013 12:27:33 PM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Borges
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posted on
05/22/2013 1:02:24 PM PDT
by
Pyro7480
(Viva Cristo Rey!)
To: Borges
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