Posted on 11/14/2004 11:17:08 PM PST by goldstategop
"My God, man, have you an eye in your head, an ear on the side of your foolish face, a sole to your foot so used to treading ground-in chewing gum and spilled soda, a print to your benumbed fingers tracing the worn lines of graffitti-soaked commonplaces, a hair upon your body to feel the passing breeze of dreams gone by?"
......................yawn.....................
"The one "entertainer" who really irks me is Emenim."
Agreed. DH & I got around the "M&M" influence in our home a number of years back in a fun (for us) way. Our three (pre-teens) at the time borrowed one of his CDs from a friend. Of course we wouldn't have allowed them to buy that trash in the first place, so one day when we heard it playing (behind closed doors; they knew it wasn't "family friendly") we sat down with them and listened. And then we talked. And then we asked them pointed questions such as how they'd feel if Dad talked about Mom that way. How this freak was ripping people off for huge sums of money and was basically scammin' them, how this no-talent hack is not creating "music" or "art" and anyone can write a song that's all swear words; that requires no brains whatsoever, etc.
And then DH & I mocked "M&M" until the cows came home, until we had the kids mocking him too (we all love Weird Al, so we're great with the parody songs) and within a week the bloom was off the rose, and that was that. We really should've copyrighted our version of "Lamp Shadey." LOL!
It's not tough to do. It's called positive reinforcement. You use it when you train your dog and it works equally as well with teaching kids not to "pee on the carpeting." ;)
This method hasn't been proven to work on Socialists, though. Their continuing yammering is proof of that! :(
Schmuley Boteach used to be Michael Jackson's "spiritual advisor," and at one time the were involved in some kind of children's charity together. Now he's apparently seen the writing on the wall and decided to work the other side of the street. There are plenty of bona fide conservative pundits out there. I can do without the preaching of this johnny come lately opportunist.
It's hard to tell if the Hollywoodies and Muslims (and several other aggravating aggregates of the irresponsible) are truly children of a lesser god, or if they just haven't yet evolved to the level of decent humans. Whatever the case, they sure make it rough on those of us who try to hold it in the road.
"My God, man, have you an eye in your head, an ear on the side of your foolish face, a sole to your foot so used to treading ground-in chewing gum and spilled soda, a print to your benumbed fingers tracing the worn lines of graffitti-soaked commonplaces, a hair upon your body to feel the passing breeze of dreams gone by?"
This I actually like better than the bit about Amercan culture.
Cheers
What I want to know is why 85% of the Jewish vote went to Kerry. Are they that immoral? Perhaps Boteach needs to be preaching to his own people.
"You, like many (especially in your pique) assume automatically that culture is a positive attribute....."
Like French culture? Long history there of disconnecting reason from morality and from faith. It hasn't worked out so well for them. No automatic assumption of positivity there....hahaha. But perhaps pkok's pique, like mine, has little to do with assumptions about the nature of 'culture' and has more to do with your characterizing American culture as whorish. Ugly thought and untrue; just more anti-Americanism seems to me. Eloquent baloney sir. You took a shot and you are getting called on it.
"... the key to understanding culture is to realize that it develops over time and amounts to its sum only through persistence and knowable only upon future examination."
'...knowable only upon future examination'? Only? Naw, it's not like that. It is knowable immediately, presently, viscerally for any who care to notice what the character of a culture is in any moment. Now whether they find it whorish (aspects are, but that's true of any culture) is a matter of opinion. pkok, I will wager, will join me in disagreeing with you, Professer, about the nature of American culture. The perception of whorishness, like so much else, is in the eye of the beholder.
"America is, and has always been, a work in progress." But once tarred by the jaundiced eye will always look like a cheap trick to some.
Now you confuse the vulgar with whole.
And yet, the greatest President in a century was an actor who was a conservative and one of the few entertainers who is taken seriously (Arnold) is a conservative (detractors notwithstanding).
Why is that? Because any fool can be a liberal and most think they are great thinkers, when their every utterance proves the complete inability to connect A to B to C.
A thinking person can connect A to B to C and see how that influences R through Z. This is conservative thought.
To quote anonymous:
You cannot reason someone out of an idea that they didn't reason them self into.
Yes. And I agree with you, too. It appears the "ol' perfesser" is much in love with his "space-suit" so to speak.
To quote anonymous:
You cannot reason someone out of an idea that they didn't reason them self into
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Any way you slice the eloquent baloney- it's still baloney
His hate-filled, anti-Christian polemics against Mel Gibson and The Passion of The Christ turned me away from this guy forever. And I don't ever recall seeing him apologize to Gibson after his predictions of a surge in anti-semitic behavior (in the wake of this movie) failed to materialize.
I think what he is saying here is why people overwhelmingly said the country is going in the wrong direction when polled--they did not mean as being led by Bush, but as being mislead culturally by the celebs.
If I had been polled I would have had a hard time answering that. I believe Bush has been leading mostly in the right direction; H'wood and the media and academic elites and the Dems special interest groups have been culturally degrading the country. In that way, we have been heading in the wrong direction.
vaudine
Of all the reasons that kerry lost, this one pleases me the most. ;9)
As I mentioned to another person with the same sentiment, I hadn't heard him make those comments. I've only heard him go after rabid lefties with great flair. But, those kinds of comments are certainly something to consider.
Should I say, "In light of new evidence..."?
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