Posted on 12/07/2008 10:05:02 AM PST by UB355
I mostly listen to my MP3 player while driving during the work week . My selections are supposed to be mostly calming
My current stuff
2 Christmas albums
Enya
And Winter Came
Manheim Steamroller
Christmas 1984
Enya
Watermark
1 Celtic Women Album
A New Journey
4 Thomas Newman soundtracks
Cinderella Man, Road to Perdition, Horse Whisperer, Shawshank Redemption
1 John Grisham Audio Book The Innocent Man
1 David McCullough Audio Book 1776
Denis Miller Radio Show Podcasts About an hour and three quarter each.
December 4th, December 5th
Is that the same Leo Laporte that I am thinking of?
Wasn’t Karen Carpenter great?
A young woman was about to finish her first year of college. She considered herself to be a very liberal Democrat, but her father was a staunch Republican. One day she was challenging her father on his beliefs and his opposition to high taxes and welfare programs.
He stopped her and asked her, “How are you doing in school?”
She answered that she had a 4.0 GPA, but it was really tough. She had to study all the time and ever had time to go out and party. She didn’t have time for a boyfriend and didn’t really have many college friends because she was spending all her time studying. On top of that, the part-time job her father insisted she keep left absolutely no time for anything else.
He asked, “How is your friend Mary?”
She replied that Mary was barely getting by. She had a 2.0 GPA, never studied, but was very popular on campus, didn’t have a job, and went to all the parties. She was always complaining about not having any money, but didn’t want to work. Why, she often didn’t show up for classes because she was hung over.
Dad then asked his daughter why she didn’t go to the Dean’s office and request that 1.0 be taken off her 4.0 and given it to her friend who only had a 2.0. That way they would both have a respectable 3.0 GPA. Then, she could also give her friend half the money she’d earned from her job so that her friend would no longer be broke.
The daughter angrily fired back, “That wouldn’t be fair. I worked really hard for my grades and money, and Mary just loafs. Why should her laziness and irresponsibility be rewarded with half of what I’ve worked for?”
The father slowly smiled and said, “Welcome to the Republican Party”.
A good joke always has an element of truth. :-)
Pretty much all you need on your mp3 player to be set is the complete recorded works of Bob Wills & his Texas Playboys. It also happens that not much will beat that in terms of coolness; even though that’s something I couldn’t care less about.
Yep, all necessary ingredients to a kinky night in the sack. Oh, wait, you're talking about bands....
I’ll be honest, the three kids close together in age did me in with the metal.
I LOVE it, don’t get me wrong. I just can’t handle it in megadoses anymore. Nerves too frayed.
BUT, that being said, I would SO go to a show. If I can just focus on the music and not having little kids trying to talk to me THROUGH the music, I’d be ok, haha.
You assumed I was being rude, but instead I was genuinely sad. I would be sad if my kids were Obama supporters - or if they believed in the ideals of liberals. I genuinely hope that each of the posters who decided I was the big bad meanie of the thread will have people in their lives who will change their leanings and become conservatives. I don't wish liberalism on anyone.
And your other post to me, with the lesson in conservatism is great. I would suggest to anyone with a liberal leaning child that they teach them the consequences of liberal thought - using their own money. Allowance or gifts - whatever - give a portion back to the parent as taxes, mandatory donation to the poor, and let them see what is left. Maybe then can buy some $1 songs for their IPODs.
I didn’t mean that sarcastically, about your kids BTW. I mean seriously, I’m glad it has worked! I just recognize that some are going to go through their “my parents are so uncool and anything they think is right is stupid and wrong”. Usually, that doesn’t last long. My son went through that for about 2 years out of highschool. But putting himself through college (he lived with us, but he paid his car insurance, eating out, fun stuff, etc...) made him go back to what we had taught all along. Now he is a conservative with a nice church going wife and they have a beautiful daughter.
That is great news about your son. My daughter is also in college and doing well.
Apart from Mannheim Steamroller, you are a dork. ;)
But you know what, parents are always dorks in the eyes of their teenage children, so it wouldn’t matter what it was. Besides, if you were so in sync with your daughter that she liked all of your stuff, I’d say you’d have a much bigger set of problems (ie like not being a parent, for one).
I disagree. The young people were just the front for the Dem voter fraud that was perpetuated with the assistance of the new early voting laws.
if we just sit back and say "they will grow out of it, hopefully", then we aren't really doing our jobs as parents, or conservatives, are we?
Who said I was doing that? My children's friends know me as the political mother, always explaining the value, and consequence of actions.
You assumed I was being rude, but instead I was genuinely sad.
Yes, I did. If I were sad "for" someone, I would use words to describe how 'sorry' I was for their challenge, instead of saying "how sad".
I don't wish liberalism on anyone.
Of course not, what FReeper would?
And your other post to me, with the lesson in conservatism is great. I would suggest to anyone with a liberal leaning child that they teach them the consequences of liberal thought - using their own money.
Yes, their own money, and their own effort. They'll learn.
What’s an MP3 player?
I have Sirius and now they’ve mixed with XM and I don’t like it as much.
XM is more lefty DJ wise than Sirius which is bad enough and the XM selections more goofy.
I listen to everything.....except thug music which is forbidden in my presence.
“The Tech Guy”
No iPod, but various Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Helloween, and other stuff that doesn’t come to mind right now.
Have you heard the new Motorhead album? Or Iron Maiden’s most recent one, put out in 2006; A Matter of Life and Death?
I miss Call for Help... and Tech TV for that matter.
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Are you open to introduction to some of the most inventive, amazing bands of America’s history?
Modern rock is deeply philosophical. It’s something else. Most of the people making music have been in recovery for drugs or alcohol, and the program of recovery often gets people interested in a healthy spiritual life.
So the music put out today can be very deep indeed.
My boys used to question my older rock selections but now play many of those same songs on their Rock Band video games.
Current playlist includes these bands and about a hundred more:
3 Doors Down
AC-DC
Apocalyptica
Bach
Blue Oyster Cult
Boston
Coheed and Cambria
Chris Rea
Damn Yankees
Dragonforce
Enya
Gladiator Soundtrack
Journey
Judas Priest
Kenny Chesney
Kutless
Liz Phair
Metallica
Mozart
Petshop Boys
Pink Floyd
Rush
Sixx AM
The Fixx
Tim McGraw
Van Morrison
Yes
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