Thought this might be appropriate for this thread.
Posted on 02/24/2003 6:59:05 AM PST by Michaelman
XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN FEB 23, 2003 23:59:11 ET XXXXX CROW CHARGES: GRAMMY COMMITTEE WARNED ME In New York City on Sunday night, Sheryl Crow claimed GRAMMY reps called her management telling her to refrain from making anti-war statements during the live awards show! "I was [going to do something] and then the GRAMMY committee called up my manager... they said they wanted to keep it all neutral," Crow bravely revealed backstage. MORE GRAMMY officials quicky moved in to action -- "categorically" denying Crow's charge. "No one contacted any artist to talk about content," GRAMMY President Neil Portnow said sternly. On Friday the DRUDGE REPORT disclosed that a CBS executive warned microphones could be unplugged if live performances turned political. "It, of course, is a final option [to cut the microphone.] But it's a very real option," said the top source, who demanded anonymity. "There is a time for political commentary, this is not one of them!" On Saturday CBS's official spokesman Chris Ender publicly denied the DRUDGE story: "There will be no restrictions on artistic expression or opinions expressed during acceptance speeches." Crow, whose guitar strap featured the words "NO WAR" during her on-air Sunday night performance, stopped short of her AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS turn when she wore a 'War is Not the Answer' sequined t-shirt and told reporters, 'I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies." Developing...
You called that a SONG???
I was wondeing too. How about the goofy kid co-presenter who said something unintelligible like I hope we can aggrecious not to have a war. SHEESH, too much to drink I suppose.
In NY, Hitlery was booed big time by FDNY members. Now, how's that going to play in the Heartland? Isn't it going to make Hitlerly look bad to be booed by her constituents? I know that we sure thought it did.
Now, if the Celebrinazi's spew forth their anti-American diatribe, who's going to look bad in the Heartland? Not President Bush, it's the stupid celebrinazi's that will come off looking stupid.
BOTH of these instances further indict liberal hollyweird.
Thought this might be appropriate for this thread.
This is a total non sequitur. What she should have said is "the best way to solve problems is to not have problems."
or
"The best way to resolve problems with our enemies is to not have problems with our enemies."
Which reminds me of a joke:
Once there was a man who seemingly had it all. He was an exceptionally talented surgeon and so was much admired and sought after. He had a beautiful wife who, aside from being the publisher of the world's most popular fashion magazine, had provided this man with three perfect children, each with talents unrivaled among their respective peer groups. He had properties all over the country, and hob-nobbed with the best and the brightest from all around the world.
Yet, with all of this, the one thing the man lacked was inner peace and he worried incessantly about everything and nothing until one day he could take it no more. He up and left everything without a word and started searching everywhere for the peace he lacked.
Soon a decade passed, and then another. He had followed lead after lead, legend after legend, whisper thin hope after whisper thin hope, all leading nowhere but to blind alleys and dead end streets. When the man finally came to the end of his means and near the end of his wit, he found himself in the dankest dive in Nepal.
"I've had everything," the man sobbed to the goat-skinned garbed bartender, "but it wasn't enough because I never knew peace in my heart. I've followed every fad. I've listened to the best minds of every major religion. I've even tried deadening the pain by joining several of the more popular mind-control cults, but nothing...nothing has eased my burden. And now, it is the absolute end. I have no more leads to follow and no more hope in my heart."
The man then rested his head in the crook of his arm, which itself rested on the dirty, unvarnished bar, and sobbed softly. The bartender was moved to great pity and said, "once there was a man just like you who felt he had come to his reasonable end in my establishment. As a last desperate act, he tried to disappear into the mountain, but instead of finding his doom there, it is said he found the peace he had given up looking for. They say he has built an abode in that mountain, and offers his secret freely to all who ask."
The man lifted his head slowly, the newly ignited spark of hope in his heart was reflected in his eyes. "What mountain?" was all he could manage, and the bartender drew him a map.
It took the man two weeks to scale the mountain, but after two decades of searching with nothing to show, two weeks passed like no time. At the end, his hands where bloody and raw and his toes frost bitten as he pulled himself over the last precipice, to where the map signaled his last hope. And as the man rested at the edge of the cliff, exhausted, he was suddenly blinded by a great white light. In the center of the light was an ancient man with a long white beard and finger nails that hadn't been trimmed in years. The ancient man was seated in the lotus position and hovered two feet above the ground and there was such a look of peace in his face, there was no mistaking who this ancient man was.
The man crawled over to the ancient hovering man and sobbed out his story ending with a plea "Please, master, tell me the secret to peace and happiness, for you are my last hope and all that stands between my soul and doom."
Then the ancient hovering man opened his eyes for the first time and smiled. The ancient hovering man's eyes were so full of wisdom and his expression so full of compassion that it warmed the aching, frostbitten flesh of the lost man. "The secret to peace and happiness in this life," began the ancient hovering man, "is to always agree with everyone about everything."
"What!" sputtered the lost man, filled with outrage at such nonsense, "that's not the answer!"
Without a moments hesitation, the ancient hovering man shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Okay, so its not."
I'd presonally make Lawrence Keeley's War Before Civilization manditory reading in colleges. He notes the long history of human conflict and makes two important points relevent here. First, civilization offers the best solution to homocide and isn't the cause of it. Second, the only way that any group has ever avoided conflict and war is to isolate themselves from everyone else. Indeed more interaction between groups often leads to more conflict, for the obvious reason that people have more to fight over.
picture originally posted by Freeper ewing
Coldplay singer hand apparently said Make Free Trade or something similar, not Iraq oriented.
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