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What kind of culture would embrace Paris Hilton?
Creators Syndicate ^ | June 1, 2005 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 06/01/2005 9:27:48 AM PDT by UltraConservative

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To: Goodgirlinred

I would say more than that. The kind that just did not care. What a waste.

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She's an heiress, a trust fund baby. That's not a bad thing, but in her case, I get the feeling that she was never taught to be responsible.

Saw something not long ago in print about an interview done with her where the interviewer tried to ask her about current events. It could have been an act, but the woman came off as being completely and utterly clueless. I suppose there are some who think she doesn't need brains when she has money, but I wonder...what would she and others like her do if the money dries up? They have utterly no preparation for life in the real world.


61 posted on 06/01/2005 10:00:13 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Ronnie in the White House
Reagan was no cultural conservative. His FCC appointees believed in the power of the channel changer and the on-off switch. If there was one agency the moral majorettes would love to have controlled, that was it...and he gave it to their opposites.

Look at the popular culture in 1989 compared to 1981, and look at his popularity among its adherents at the end of his term. Or even in 1984...the Dims were giving birth to porcupines (breech presentation) over his share of the under-30 vote.

-Eric

62 posted on 06/01/2005 10:00:45 AM PDT by E Rocc (If God is watching us, we can at least try to be entertaining)
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To: fatnotlazy

Very, very, very, very wealthy ones! As is Monica, Paris, Madonna, Jane F., Pamela whatever......sex sells and our non-judgemental audience revels in it. Trash is trash - no matter how it rationalizes itself and its attitudes.


63 posted on 06/01/2005 10:01:00 AM PDT by NHResident
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To: TheBigB

LOL


64 posted on 06/01/2005 10:01:26 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55 (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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To: UltraConservative
I think Paris Hilton is a physically attractive woman. The thing I find most disturbing about her is the complete vacuousness of her eyes. The are empty of any emotion or thought.
65 posted on 06/01/2005 10:02:38 AM PDT by Durus
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To: andyk
LOL, I loved that episode!
I can pretty much guarantee the author of this article did not. At least not publically.

The cultural collectivists hate South Park. It's also the libertarian-right's most effective voice among the generation that is otherwise being soaked in PC-left. For many of the same reasons.

-Eric

66 posted on 06/01/2005 10:03:09 AM PDT by E Rocc (If God is watching us, we can at least try to be entertaining)
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To: UltraConservative

Calendars showing more skin were found in garages all over America in the 1950's, and were usually called "cheesecake", not porn.

The problem here, is not the skin, but the fact that she was umm ... "dancing" with the car. (Yea, that is what she was doing, "dancing".)


67 posted on 06/01/2005 10:03:59 AM PDT by NathanR (Mexico: So far from God; So close to the USA.)
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To: UltraConservative

What kind? A capitalist one. She's worked what she has hard and has made a mint from it, to add to her inherited wealth.


68 posted on 06/01/2005 10:05:12 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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To: wideawake

People spell it a different way?


69 posted on 06/01/2005 10:05:57 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (In Mercuristan, such questions are not tolerated.)
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To: UltraConservative
And we still regulate morality: see drug laws, murder laws, etc.

Drug laws are pure morality regulation, but laws against murder and theft are the purview of the government because they are protecting personal rights and property rights (the only regulation the govt should be involved in, IMO).

70 posted on 06/01/2005 10:06:34 AM PDT by cryptical
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To: Bella_Bru

I often see it spelled "ny." And so few people realize that nigh has a comparative and a superlative.


71 posted on 06/01/2005 10:08:52 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: wideawake
an atmosphere where hyperslutdom is the norm

Glad they set their goals high ... and achieved them.  "You've come a long way, baby".

72 posted on 06/01/2005 10:09:14 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: cryptical

Yes, they can be justified that way as well. But there is certainly a heavily moral component to murder laws -- otherwise, killing someone is self-defense would be difficult to justify. And a rights theory, as Locke wrote, is derived from Biblical injunction. Besides, there are plenty of other laws based on morality: laws barring statutory rape, for example.


73 posted on 06/01/2005 10:09:34 AM PDT by UltraConservative
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To: GraniteStateConservative
What kind? A capitalist one.

Thank you for pointing that out. It's usually missed in these converations.

74 posted on 06/01/2005 10:09:38 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (In Mercuristan, such questions are not tolerated.)
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To: UltraConservative

" The moral among us have been forced into tolerance of immorality"

Bingo.

Once madison Avenue realized sex sells, the whole damn dam opened up.


75 posted on 06/01/2005 10:10:16 AM PDT by Voir Dire (I'm seeing and saying.)
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To: NathanR
Calendars showing more skin were found in garages all over America in the 1950

Yeah, but those are calendars, this is a TV and print ad.

76 posted on 06/01/2005 10:10:36 AM PDT by softwarecreator (Facts are to liberals as holy water is to vampires)
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To: wideawake

Probably because nighest and nigher sound a little odd.


77 posted on 06/01/2005 10:11:16 AM PDT by Bella_Bru (In Mercuristan, such questions are not tolerated.)
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To: Bella_Bru

As Robert Bork has written, everyone agrees with capitalism -- we just disagree on what kind of products should be allowed in the marketplace. Pornography should not be allowed in the marketplace. That doesn't mean we should be socialists with regard to other products.


78 posted on 06/01/2005 10:11:17 AM PDT by UltraConservative
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To: Bella_Bru
Probably because nighest and nigher sound a little odd.

Actually it's irregular, like good-better-best.

It's nigh-near-next.

79 posted on 06/01/2005 10:12:36 AM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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To: El Conservador
So he wants government regulating morality???

He lost me here.

You mean you want no regulation of societal mores like laws against theft, rape, violence, slavery, public drunkeness, age of consent, etc.?

Or do you want the government only regulating the morals you like, and ignoring the ones you want to be free to violate?

80 posted on 06/01/2005 10:12:49 AM PDT by LexBaird ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats" --Jubal Harshaw (RA Heinlein))
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