The Golden Girls 25th Anniversary Collection Promises a Sickening Display of Humanity’s Bitter End | ChristWire

Another great, funny, tongue in cheek article from one of my favorite websites.  Here is an excerpt and a link to the full article:

“One of the great ideas of Western civilization,” philosopher Ross Douthat recently wrote, “is the celebration of lifelong heterosexual monogamy as a unique and indispensable estate.” Tragically, that celebration is winding down as more and more Americans sneak off to the afterparty of carnal depravity. Lured into the dark, humid spaces of homosexual relativism by activist judges and Hollywood stars, these people are now embarking on the complete reëngineering of society’s basic tenets of marriage and family. It is the culmination of a decades-long campaign that can be traced back, in part, to the messages broadcast in the 1980s by television programs such as The Golden Girls.

There was something subversively tawdry about the programming from that era. Whether it was Designing Women or Spenser for Hire, Hotel or Murphy Brown, each sketched out a flamboyant worldview in pastel hues that was specifically targeted at the confused and awkward. But there was one show in particular that recklessly upped the ante in this high stakes poker game of modern morality. What The Golden Girls postulated for America was nothing less than a neo-socialist landscape populated by same-sex “family” units composed of jobless predators whose lives revolved around food, clothes and brawny men. The women of this series embodied the antithesis of traditional marriage, publicly decrying that institution while reveling in divorce and sex. They spawned an endless cycle of Sexy and the City and Housewives of New Jersey types of shows and invented the idea of “cougars,” i.e. older women like Demi Moore who wear young mates on their lapels like fancy diamond brooches.

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This Golden Girls ideal of a same-sex household got passed along like a venereal disease until it landed in the lap of the nascent “gay rights” movement. Unsurprisingly, young homosexuals fell in love with this booze- and fornication-laden ideology. For them, Betty White became the forgiving mother they never had, Dorothy Zbornak the father whose expectations they could fulfill. Maybe Blanche was the bartender in their fantasy lives while Sophia sat on the next stool over, offering up pointless stories to pass the time like some gassy drunk. In the ensuing years, gays spread their vicious seeds far and wide and today we are seeing the musky fruits drop from those aging trees. Yes, those fruits are falling all over in the form of legislative and judicial maneuvers to redefine marriage, from Judge Vaughn Walker’s denial of Proposition 8 in California to the legalization of same-sex nuptials in Catholic Spain. In essence, this trend of “homosexual” marriage is nothing less than a cruel testament to the power of that loathsome foursome of libidinal Floridians.

via The Golden Girls 25th Anniversary Collection Promises a Sickening Display of Humanity’s Bitter End | ChristWire.

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The Few, The Proud, The Loud and Uniformed with Bus Tickets: Part 2

Since Glen Beck and Sarah Palin are having an Idiotathon in DC today, I thought it was time to re-run this video from the Tea Party’s Tax Day protest….

I really can’t believe these people have the nerve to hold this joke of a rally on the Anniversary of the March on Washington for Civil Rights and Dr King’s
“I Have a Dream Speech.”  I shouldn’t be surprised at the nerve of these fools, but I’m still shocked by the timing…

I can’t think of anything that has been worse for intelligent discussion in this Country than Fox News.  You can really see how it has brainwashed these people with Republican lies, distortions  and simplifications.  I almost-almost- feel sorry for these poor ignorant fools…

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Eileen Farrell

I discovered Eileen Farrell when I took a chance on a CD at Best Buy about 20 years ago.  I had never heard of her, but she was one of my great discoveries.  Steve and I both have loved her for years.

Eileen was an Opera Singer.  She was a Diva who sang at the Met, but  left it all to marry a Cop and move to Brooklyn.  She was later a college professor in Maine, but then she sang standards in her later years.

She’s not well known today, but she’s one of my favorites…

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Chapter 18: Drinking Again | My Southern Gothic Life

New post up on my other blog.  Here is an excerpt and a link to the full post:

There are three predominant themes to life in the South:  Sex, Religion and Drinking.  I’ve touched on each of these subjects and will do so more on the future.

For now, let’s concentrate on drinking.

That seems to be the through line in my posts so far.  We spend a lot of time thinking about alcohol in The South.  And, if we are honest, we spend a lot of time drinking in The South–or talking about why we don’t.  Or those who do…

Southern culture, as I know it, is built on hypocrisy.  We were trained at an early age to play a role and hide it if we deviated from the role.  This always lead to conspicuous alcohol consumption.

Therefore, we spent a lot of time focusing on these areas of thought about drinking:

Drinking too much

Lying about drinking too much

Lying about not drinking

Hiding from our neighbors that we were drinking.

It was both a very simple and very complicated situation.

via Chapter 18: Drinking Again | My Southern Gothic Life.

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New Robbie Williams Video

Robbie’s c0me a long way with this new “Brokeback Mountain” inspired music video  for his new single.  I guess now that he’s married-to a woman-he’s feeling  braver.

Still, I think it’s pretty good…

By the way, it’s a duet with his former “Take That” Boy Band member Gary Barlow.

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11 Very Reasonable Places Your Stimulus Dollars Went

I get so annoyed that the media never really calls attention to this…

Republican leaders insist, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that President Obama’s $800-billion-or-so stimulus package from last year hasn’t accomplished anything. (This is driving top White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein absolutely crazy.)

Progressive groups — and most leading economists — say the problem with the stimulus was that it didn’t do enough, because it wasn’t nearly as big as it should have been.

Lost amid those arguments is what exactly the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act did accomplish — which, by comparison to almost anything except the massive output gap it was supposed to fill, is a lot.

On Tuesday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the act added from 1.4 million to 3.3 million jobs during the second quarter of 2010.

In addition to $288 billion in tax cuts, the Recovery Act funded all sorts of worthy projects that created jobs, backstopped a number of safety-net programs, and made huge investments in infrastructure, energy independence, mass transit and other public goods.

Here are 11 projects that got stimulus money. Do you think they deserved your tax money?

via 11 Very Reasonable Places Your Stimulus Dollars Went.

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Hitler DNA Tests Show He Likely Had Jewish, African Roots, Daily Mail Says – Bloomberg

Talk about irony…

Adolf Hitler may have been descended from both Jews and Africans, DNA tests are indicating, the Daily Mail reported.Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders and historian Marc Vermeeren used DNA to trace 39 of the Nazi leader’s relatives earlier this year, the Daily Mail said.The relatives included an Austrian farmer, indentified only as a cousin named “Norbert H,” the Daily Mail reported.A chromosome called “Haplogroup E1b1b,” or Y-DNA, in the relatives’ saliva samples is rare in Germany, as well as Western Europe, the newspaper said.”It is most commonly found in the Berbers of Morocco, in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia as well as among Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews,” Vermeeren said.Mulders told Belgian magazine Knack that “[o]ne can from this postulate that Hitler was related to people whom he despised,” the Daily Mail reported.

via Hitler DNA Tests Show He Likely Had Jewish, African Roots, Daily Mail Says – Bloomberg.

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JetBlue case: The lost art of simple courtesy – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com

Another great column from Leonard Pitts….

The public is a bunch of rude, obnoxious jerks.

OK, so I overstate. A little. Yes, there are exceptions. I’m not such a bad guy and you, of course, are a paragon of civility. But the rest of them? A cavalcade of boors, boobs, bums, bozos, and troglodytes.

So it is small wonder the tale of Steven Slater has hit a nerve. The precise sequence of events is still being sorted out at this writing. The initial story was that Slater, a flight attendant for JetBlue, got into it with a woman who cursed him when he asked her not to stand up to retrieve her bags while the plane was still taxiing. At some point, Slater was apparently hit in the head; his attorney says the woman slammed the storage bin on him.

This much is certain: Slater went on the plane’s public address system and, as quoted by one witness, declared, “To the passenger who just called me a motherf———-, f—— you. I’ve been in this business 28 years and I’ve had it.” He then grabbed himself a beer from a service cart, deployed the plane’s evacuation slide, slid down to the tarmac and drove home. He was arrested shortly after.

To concede the obvious: Yes, it was a dumb stunt. He’s lucky no one on the ground was injured by the slide.

But still … it resonates, doesn’t it?

Some people are framing what happened as a cautionary tale of workplace stress. It seems to me, though, that the episode speaks more pointedly to something larger: the growing incivility of all our daily lives.

If the initial account stands up, we’re talking about the incivility of the passenger. If an alternate account turns out to be true — some passengers say Slater ignited the confrontation with his own brusque behavior — we might find guilt on both sides.

But either version vindicates a belief that simple courtesy has become a lost art. I’m reminded of how, when we kids would ask my mom for something, she would prompt us: “What’s the magic word?” The magic word was please. And when you’d received what you’d asked for, there was another magic word: thank you.

In the olden days, we thought manners mattered. Apparently we no longer do. And while that observation can’t be quantified, it is one many of us share. A number of surveys, including one from Rasmussen Reports in 2009, find that an overwhelming majority of us (75 percent, according to Rasmussen) think Americans are becoming ruder.

Link to full Column: JetBlue case: The lost art of simple courtesy – Leonard Pitts Jr. – MiamiHerald.com.

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Chapter 17: The Gym | My Southern Gothic Life

New post up on my other blog:

I am now a gym rat.  I know several people who read this blog and have known me since childhood have already fainted.  Please pick yourselves up off the floor and work with me…

I will readily admit, until I was in my late 40′s, I did everything I could to avoid the gym.  It was the source of too many bad memories of “not belonging” and being inadequate as a conventional guy.

I was always intellectually competitive, but I missed the physically competitive gene.

via Chapter 17: The Gym | My Southern Gothic Life.

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Why Can’t We Have a President Like This?

I think this is what many of us expected when we supported Barack Obama….

We have to adjust to reality…

Still, this is a great scene from “The West Wing” and is probably the source  for the infamous letter to “Dr Laura” that I’ve quoted previously.

It’s classic.  And classy.

If only TV were, in this case, reality…

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