Cartoon from 1934 (credit to Sleeping FReeper for the date and VeniVidiVici for the cartoon itself)

SO, Let me get this straight.
We're going to get a health care plan shoved down our throats that is written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it but exempts themselves from it, signed by a president that also hasn't read it, and who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes,overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke.
What could possibly go wrong?

"When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) US Founding Father ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Official Anti-Catholic Troll Hunter...on the hunt for “Sado-evangelism”

It is the system we hate, not the people who are being deceived.
2,423 posted on Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:41:39 AM by fortheDeclaration

Anti-Catholics please "minister" somewhere else!

Slash-and-burn evangelism will not be tolerated (Hat tip - Sandyeggo)

Sunflower, the censoring of a classic.

In society today, images from our past, words and phrases are considered in poor taste. To say or show some of these is downright offensive. How far should we go to keep from offending a person or group of people? Should one change a classic, such as "Huck Finn" to eliminate such words or edit characters from "Gone With the Wind" to be PC? It has happened and very few people know about it.

As I child, one of my goals was to see every Disney feature every made. Before the time of VCRs it was not an easy task. My Dear Departed Father fed into my obsession and would drive me all over Northeast Ohio to see films. In 1968, "Fantasia" [1940] was re-released by the Disney Studios. This feature is visually beautiful, as well as inovative in sound and image. While others remember this movie for the sequence with Mickey Mouse, I was enamored with the "Pastoral Symphony" a fantasy of mythology with flying horses, cherubs and centaurs. It shaped my teen years in Commercial Art school and now screen captures of the characters from the DVD decorate my daughters' rooms.

During the "Pastoral Symphony" there is a scene where a comical Nero-type character rides in on a unicorn donkey. He is escorted by two beautiful African centaurettes. Their horse bodies are zebras. One refills Nero's cup with wine and one cools him with a giant feather fan. They are clearly servants or slaves. I thought they were the only black centaurettes in the movie

In doing research to find pictures to decorate my daughters' rooms, "Sunflower" was revealed to me. As one can see from the pencil drawing above, she is not politically correct for today. She was in scenes of the "Pastoral Symphony", grooming centaurettes for the arrival of the centaurs and following the zebra sequence. She was removed by Disney prior to that 1968 rerelease, so therefore I have never seen this in it's entirety. She was a truly stereotypical character and not needed at all. The cherubs are doing a great job of preparing the centaurettes. However, the screen cuts that Disney did to eliminate Sunflower, yet keep the continuity of the soundtrack, are quite obvious and detract from the beauty of the DVD. According to the Internet Movie Database and The Memory Hole website (who holds the last remaining pictures of this character) Disney denies that Sunflower ever existed.

For political correctness and the African/American community, should Sunflower have been eliminated from the sequence? Of course! However, with the amount of space available on a DVD, the complete sequence should have been included as a special feature. By denying that she ever existed, Disney has altered a classic. It's wrong. A part of our history is gone. How can I teach my children the sins of the past if we sanitize everything?

Those who do not know the past are destined to repeat it.

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"My wife and I were also concerned that our children would miss out on the socialization available in the public schools...so once a week we take our kids into the bathroom, cuss at them, push them around, steal their lunch money, and offer them drugs, and that seems to take care of it." FReeper Oberon

Remember, I'm not misrepresenting your beliefs, I'm just disagreeing with you. -FR Hacksaw

FReeper- Hegewisch Dupa
Too many here can’t wait to unzip their dogma and swing it around in an obnoxious superiority dance.

The Pope on Co-redemptrix
“Yet when asked, in a 2000 interview by Peter Seewald contained in the book God and the World, whether the Church would go along with the desire to solemnly define Mary as Co-redemptrix, Ratzinger’s response doesn’t look good. He says that the title Co-redemptrix “departs to too great an extent from the language of Scripture and of the Fathers and therefore gives rise to misunderstandings” (53). He also says that “for matters of faith, continuity of terminology with the language of Scripture and that of the Fathers is itself an essential element; it is improper simply to manipulate language” (54). “