Nah, I'll just wait for the Barack, for the Barack speaks for Democrats and Democrats have no brains.
Just walked past a display in a big box store and there it was (the book) prominently displayed.
Don’t tell me it’s just chance, the left is going full bore.
This has been going on since I was a kid. The Borrowers was a cartoon series at one point, and The Butter Battle Book was a Seuss special that aired a lot and was clearly about the nuclear arms race. My teens prefer Top Shot and The Walking Dead anyway.
I was born a conservative. I couldn’t stand Dr. Suess and Sesame Street even as a 5 year old. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but they just seemed fake and smarmy. Give me Bugs Bunny any day.
A person's a person, no matter how small.
And the Clock family have noithing in common with OWS. They have no demands on government for societial "fairness". They just want to live their own lives off the grid following their rules of acquisition.
Japanese have absolutely no concept of American conservative or liberal politics. Dobbs is finding shapes in the clouds.
And then I explain to them that the global warming stuff is a bunch of dopey hooey. Like anything the television tells them is "free" really isn't free at all. And the sugary food they pretend is healthy isn't even a little bit healthy.
All my kids know that the television lies to them everytime they look at it. They get it.
We’ll see the one based on The Borrowers at least. I generally haven’t liked movies based on Dr. Seuss books as they don’t translate well.
Studio Ghibli films are usually very respectful of families, and I’ve yet to see a bad one.
Lord of the Rings?
The first ‘The Lorax’ cartoon had the same greenie-weenie message. It’s just an updated version of the same indoctrination message my generation received.
Of course a lot of it went back to WWII, and seeing Nazis and fascists under every Truffula Tree.
This caught my eye on the book's Wikipedia page:
In a retrospective critique written in the journal Nature upon the 40th anniversary of the book's publication, Emma Marris described the Lorax character as a "parody of a misanthropic ecologist". She called the book "gloomy" and doubted it was good for young children. Nevertheless, she praised the book overall, and especially Seuss for understanding "the limits of gloom and doom" environmentalism.
And this from Seuss's wikipedia page:
But right now, when the Japs are planting their hatchets in our skulls, it seems like a hell of a time for us to smile and warble: "Brothers!" It is a rather flabby battle cry. If we want to win, we’ve got to kill Japs, whether it depresses John Haynes Holmes or not. We can get palsy-walsy afterward with those that are left. — Theodor Geisel [Dr. Seuss]