yes this was WAAYYY Too long i had to sit through this crappy movie for my wife (girlfriend at the time). ah well what we do for love ;)
Posted on 06/08/2010 10:06:39 AM PDT by This Just In
Is “Ever After” Just Too Long? Marriage and Modernity
We have become a culture that believes that staying together unto death is just too much to ask.
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
The announcement that Al and Tipper Gore are separating after forty years of marriage has captured the attention of the American public to a rather surprising degree. After all, divorce is hardly uncommon these days, and the Gores are famously part of the Baby Boom generation — the generation of couples with the highest divorce rate in history.
The Gores made their announcement in an email sent to friends and associates, and released also to the press. Their statement was short, expressing the separation in straightforward, but rather final, terms. The couple had simply moved in different directions, they explained. They described the decision as one “that we have made together following a process of long and careful consideration.” Their statement was released jointly, and the couple pledged to say no more.
Nevertheless, the entire nation soon began talking about the Gore’s separation and marital breakdown. Some political pundits jumped immediately to the emergence of the Gores who, along with Bill and Hillary Clinton, were catapulted onto the world stage as the ultimate Baby Boomers. Who would have guessed, asked columnist Margaret Carlson, that it would be the Gores, and not the Clintons, who would make such an announcement?
The Clintons’ marriage is famously conflicted, but the Gores seemed to be the ultimate power couple. Al Gore, not known for public displays of emotion, famously kissed his wife in a rather amorous embrace as he accepted the 2000 Democratic nomination for president. But here it was, the separation announced in the cold digital form of an email. Go figure.
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Communist Goals (1963)
Documention below
Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35
January 10, 1963
Current Communist Goals
EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, January 10, 1963
Mr. HERLONG. Mr. Speaker, Mrs. Patricia Nordman of De Land, Fla., is an ardent and articulate opponent of communism, and until recently published the De Land Courier, which she dedicated to the purpose of alerting the public to the dangers of communism in America.
At Mrs. Nordman's request, I include in the RECORD, under unanimous consent, the following "Current Communist Goals," which she identifies as an excerpt from "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen:
[From "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen]
CURRENT COMMUNIST GOALS
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use ["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction [over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction] over nations and individuals alike.
Yup. I also see why the US population is barely even replacing itself.
Huh?
Bill Ayers interview, published in the NY Times on 9-11-2001
“He [Bill Ayers] also writes about the Weathermen’s sexual experimentation as they tried to ‘smash monogamy.’ The Weathermen were ‘an army of lovers,’ he says, and describes having had different sexual partners, including his best male friend.”
Hasn’t “captured” me.
I cannot understand how Tipper stayed with that flatulent (both ends) idiot this long.
He is a repulsive idiot who clearly is at home serving the Obamaloon and his collection of college marshmallows.
That’s a basically Western problem. But what can you do about it? “Forcing” people to have children is no better than forcing them not to like China.
Speaking from personal experience, I'd say 49 years is just fine. I'll update when 50 rolls around...
yes this was WAAYYY Too long i had to sit through this crappy movie for my wife (girlfriend at the time). ah well what we do for love ;)
That awesome- congratulations!
(I bet we'd be hard pressed to find that statistic on any liberal board)
With her first hello!
She gave a meaning to this empty world of mine,
There’d never be another love, another time,
She came into my life and made the living fine,
She fills my heart . . .
She fills my heart with very special things,
With angels’ songs , with wild imaginings,
She fills my soul with so much love,
That anywhere I go, I’m never lonely,
With her along, who could be lonely ?
I reach for her hand, it’s always there . . .
How long does it last ?
Can love be measured by the hours in a day ?
I have no answers now, but this much I can say,
I know I’ll need her 'till the stars all burn away
And she’ll be there . . .
She’ll be there . . .
No its not. I do not know anyone who gives a rats crap about it. It's only the media left that has been caring about this.
“Is ‘Ever After’ Just Too Long?”
No.
Not really.
What we have is a culture which doesn't realize and doesn't teach that committed relationships are God's will NOT just because God is stubborn and old-fashioned, but because He knows what he's doing.
God knows that romantic and intimate relationships between a man and a woman cause the emotional and psychological roots of two people to grow together (just like when planting two tomato plants side by side).
In a divorce, these root systems are ripped apart, and permanent, eternal damage is done to the psyches and souls of the humans involved.
The reason such roots are not ripped apart when one partner dies is that it isn't the absence of the partner that does the damage (though that hurts like h$ll and requires God healing)...it is the anger, hatred, hedonism, and selfishness of divorce. Divorce is a betrayal of one's partner and one's self.
Plus the fact that divorce is not just a betrayal of a partner, it is also a betrayal of God (and while a person may be unaware of this superficially...his conscience knows it quite well).
ping
Let’s hear it for 26 and going strong. Perhaps the Boomers are just weaker and more self-absorbed than previous generations. (I am one).
I dare Democrats to campaign on the issue that marriage should be considered a temporary arrangement. The Republicans would suddenly start winning clear majorities of the female vote.
Exactly my reaction. Only the media paid this the least bit of attention.
Thanks for the quote.
We’re the new Europe.
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