Posted on 08/17/2014 3:00:02 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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This week, KISS rocker Gene Simmons not only embraced assimilation and the importance of English for immigrants to succeed, he gave a textbook example of how to successfully--and forcefully--do so on hostile turf.
He did so with no apologies--and plenty of compassion.
In an entertaining interview on HuffPostLive, Simmons said he was "given all the advantages of native-born children" after coming to the country when he was eight years of age, which he said was "astonishing" compared to other nations.
Why? Because he learned "[expletive] English" and embraced America's melting pot instead of separatism (salad bowl).
"I'm actually saying the thing that needs to be said because the politically correct climate is bulls**t," Simmons said. "You don't want to upset anybody by saying, 'Learn to speak [expletive] English.' So, as an immigrant, I'm telling you: Learn to speak [expletive] English. It is the key that will unlock the keys to the kingdom. If you make the effort, then all the possibilities of this culture will open up for you and give you all the rewards that I've gotten.
He said immigrants must "agree to one culture that we can all communicate with and then go off and speak Swahili and Farsi and whatever you want to talk.”
“In America I’ve learned you have an inferred fiduciary duty to learn how to speak English,” he said. “Get rid of your accent. I did. Be a legal immigrant. I’m a legal immigrant. Come to the country, just buckle your knees a little bit, make the effort to learn the culture, assimilate to the point that you can, you are all proud of who you are and where you come from... great, whatever you are proud of, just tip your hat to America. which is the melting pot that makes it all possible."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Jeez, do you ever sleep?
When I can, have a terrible toothache right now and can’t get into a dentist until Wednesday.
To the tune “It is finished” by Petra:
“For english I’m pressing two, and this menu is so screwed. It’s messing up the day for me and you! It’s in spanish!”
More I hear Simmons talk about America the more I like him. Never could stand Kiss, though.
Bump
“Kids In Satan’s Service”
Is that what the letters actually stand for with this group?
I’ve never to my knowledge ever heard one of their recordings. Never desired to. “What concourse hath Christ with Belial?” I’ve heard that’s what those letters represent for 30 years or more, and I’d really like to know.
wikipedia:
“Stanley came up with the name as he, Simmons, and Criss were driving around New York City. Criss mentioned that he was in a band called Lips, so Stanley said something to the effect of ‘What about Kiss?’”
As for their satanism, they worship the Dark Lord through such lyrics as “I want to rock and roll all night and party every day” and singing about “Detroit Rock City”. Right up there with backwards Lord’s Prayers and alchemical incantations, if you ask me.
Simmons is quite good at promotion and business management. A rock group with garish makeup and outfits? It'll never work. Oh, wait.....
It’s just the name of a rock band. Jeez.
KISS. Depending on the accuser, “Kids In Satan’s Service,” “Knights In Satan’s Service,” “Knights In Satan’s Servitude,” “Knights In Satan’s Satchel,” “Kids In Satan’s Slipknot,” or during the holiday season, “Kids Ingesting Santa’s Spleen.”
According to Paul Stanley, is that they chose the name KISS because it “just sounded dangerous and sexy at the same time.”
FYI Gene Simmons is one hell of a business man With a career spanning more than 40 years and multiple hit records to his credit, his secret for success is simple. “Don’t allow that guy - the drug user and the alcoholic - to be in your band,” he said. “Get rid of that cancer early on because they will be like vampires.”
Simmons recently revealed in an interview that despite his larger-than-life stage persona, he’s never been drunk or high in his life.
“It’s what I sold. Big, bad,” Simmons said. “Going up on stage and turning it on …and then when the show’s over and we finish blowing up Earth, you’ve got to get off the stage and become a father, a man, ethical and responsible.”
His aversion to drugs and alcohol was a personal decision he made out of respect for his mother, who survived a concentration camp during World War II. “Our entire family was killed off in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. There is nothing that I would do ever to break my mother’s heart.”
Amen. Somebody is saying what should be said. I see an IRS audit is Mr. Simmons’s future.
Please take care of that tooth! You don’t want the infection to spread - we don’t want to lose you.
And thanks for all your posting. I don’t know where FR would be without you!
I agree with your assessment, especially of late when I’ve seen him talking about respecting women the old fashioned way by opening doors, etc. I get the impression he’s a good guy - never got into a lot of his music, but when you see him in mufti, he talks like a decent individual. Won’t matter to many of the holier than thou folks here who need someone to cut down so they can feel superior and holy by comparison - some of the same ones mock the Left for their own, “It’s not the truth that matters, it’s the seriousness of the charge”.
Please take care of that tooth! You don’t want the infection to spread - we don’t want to lose you.
And thanks for all your posting. I don’t know where FR would be without you!
LOL!
According to Paul Stanley, is that they chose the name KISS because it “just sounded dangerous and sexy at the same time.”
That and Stanly had formally been in a band called “Lips”.
FWIW, I was never a big KISS fan when they came out in the mid 1970’s. I was more into Steely Dan and you really don’t want to know where that group’s name came from. ; ),
Keeping them boxed in dumb and numb keeps them on the rat plantation
It’s an absurdity dreamed up by nutjobs. There’s plenty not to like about Kiss - their music isn’t generally very good (with some exceptions), their attitude toward women is abominable, Gene Simmons is often an insufferable blowhard - but any idea that they’re “satanic” is just crazy. Simmons and Paul Stanley are just two workaholic Jews who made it real, real big. Nothing more, nothing less.
He also took a lie detector on live radio which proved he had never cheated on his woman.
“Kids In Satan’s Service”
Is that what the letters actually stand for with this group?
No, that is just silly rumors.
In fact, Simmons is Jewish and Jewish people do not believe in the concept of “fallen angels” like dualist religions O(Islam and Christianity), so such a title would not make sense in the first place.
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