tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post199080138815957474..comments2024-03-28T23:46:49.801-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: When are these pathetic, pacifier-deficient pantywaists going to get over it???Peterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-39793864968889058052016-12-01T22:50:43.375-06:002016-12-01T22:50:43.375-06:00Anyone paying attention knows that government scho...Anyone paying attention knows that government schools have been failing their obligation to their young charges for some time, and this furor over the election has been illustrative of it (and lest someone accuse me of being an old fart bitching about "kids today", I'm only 51. Oops--I just realized I'm an old fart).<br />The point of "freedom of speech" is to protect speech that is unpopular. If it doesn't bother anyone, it doesn't need to be protected. I abhor the idea of anyone burning the flag, but it's a symbol. I served in order that these fools have the freedom to burn the flag, although that certainly wasn't my object in serving. It's just a side benefit of freedom.<br />--Tennessee BuddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84091833093585317252016-12-01T13:45:18.304-06:002016-12-01T13:45:18.304-06:00SNL's opening sketch, the fake news, and the f...SNL's opening sketch, the fake news, and the fake commercial have continued to be intermittently funny. Regrettably, it is very hit or miss, and the rest is often pretty bad. I seldom watch it any longer.TheOtherSeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07141473483312725136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-72906265328529007522016-12-01T11:40:02.988-06:002016-12-01T11:40:02.988-06:00And, on the '70s channel on Music Choice, you ...And, on the '70s channel on Music Choice, you might hear both IMAGINE and SWEET HOME ALABAMA within the same hour alongside disco, James Taylor, Led Zeppelin, ABBA, Paul McCartney, Elton John, The Stylistics, The O'Jays, Gordon Lightfoot ....<br /><br />...you get the picture.Tal Hartsfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-12804244411883197782016-12-01T11:26:50.952-06:002016-12-01T11:26:50.952-06:00Lynrd Skynrd was very popular in the late '70s...Lynrd Skynrd was very popular in the late '70s----when Carter was President.<br />Southern rock bands were also popular in the early '70s as well----alongside the concept rock groups and singer/songwriters.<br /><br />So I don't know what the big deal is about a top-ten '70s hit like SWEET HOME ALABAMA getting played over a corporate satellite radio station.<br />Sure, the song has provincial connotations, but it was still an international hit just the same.Tal Hartsfeldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05077424958233740898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-76853724514000893342016-12-01T10:55:24.021-06:002016-12-01T10:55:24.021-06:00And I think it's telling that the older leftis...And I think it's telling that the older leftist wanted the music banned, while the younger leftist wasn't interested enough in taking control of her life to even try to figure out how the music could be turned off.<br /><br />The older one wanted everyone to fall in line with her beliefs, whether they want to or not.<br /><br />The younger one is probably used to having things done for her with no thinking or effort required on her part (helicopter parent/government).<br /><br />- Charlie againAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90196995446022074982016-12-01T10:49:17.007-06:002016-12-01T10:49:17.007-06:00When I was a teen, we had Nixon. As a very young ...When I was a teen, we had Nixon. As a very young man we got Reagan.<br />Both of these guys were seen as Evil Personified by the left, which included me in my younger years.<br />Well, Nixon opened up China, and Reagan helped tear down that wall. <br />Both men also did incredibly stupid things. <br />Hmmm, kinda like all guys everywhere, a mixture of great and derp.<br />Trump isn't even in office yet, but people act as if he has already destroyed the universe.<br />These weenies need to get together over a bucket of the Colonel's finest and a bottle of bourbon - they'll feel better after the hangover subsides.<br />- Charlie<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-76835611491611701272016-12-01T09:58:33.892-06:002016-12-01T09:58:33.892-06:00They are a product of the modern educational-indus...They are a product of the modern educational-industrial complex, which uses a monolithic and rigidly intolerant leftist view point enforcing constant aversion-therapy towards disagreement, conflict, discussion of actual differences. It's an indoctrination of WHAT to think, not HOW to think. I did my best to fight that, but as soon as a special snowflake complained... the student was offended by facts, so by definition what I said was offensive, and guess who's not there any more? They are being trained, quite deliberately, to not be able to handle conflict of any sort by always stamping it out, being told to drop it, or get an adult, or report it, or walk away, or whatever. They literally have no experience in dealing with any actual disagreement - anything that isn't "acceptable" is totally shut down. Anyone expressing an opposing view is *defined* as stupid, ignorant, evil, or some combination. Uncomfortable or inconvenient facts are "hateful" and cannot be mentioned. I was, quite literally, reported for saying that men and women (boy and girls) were different, with men being on average bigger, stronger, and faster, then having the audacity to back it up; it was considered a "sexist statement."<br /><br />The relief I saw expressed at my normal scientific skepticism of common leftist dogma (AWG, for example) was huge from some students, who <i>finally</i> heard a voice of reason supporting their views. The shock I saw from some of the well-indoctrinated students who couldn't conceive of any possible reason to be a "denier" who had an actual command of the facts was almost comical. That mankind, particularly high-energy-use western/white man, were bad and killing the planet was an article of faith for them (even if they were completely unwilling to give up any of the modern comforts it afforded them). <br /><br />The schools are brainwashing factories for leftist dogma; if you repeat the right mantras you are untouchable. If you violate the narrative, you are a walking dead man. I gave it my best shot, but now I'm now looking at a career change.Not at this timenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-64089498183378433112016-12-01T09:12:11.313-06:002016-12-01T09:12:11.313-06:00I would disagree with you on one point. o couldn&#...I would disagree with you on one point. o couldn't get anything past pilosi. That b... Is scared of her shadow, and wants to shadow everyone, she's just as bad as every one that's for "homeland" security. I'm for security, but adding homeland to it still envisions the past attempts to overthrow our government. It reminds me of a neighbor's dealing with a "homeland" and my relatives attempts for freedom of religion.Jim b.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06586320752813748542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-76212178658363072016-12-01T09:05:02.603-06:002016-12-01T09:05:02.603-06:00Nope, nope, nope!!! Let them remain in their fant...Nope, nope, nope!!! Let them remain in their fantasyland. If you wake them up, then they will be added to the front line of dissent. They are mere cannon fodder for the intelligentsia. Waking them up means having to slog through another line of "true believers" before we can get to the "brains" behind the problem.<br />SteveAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-32269530036578184212016-12-01T08:38:31.054-06:002016-12-01T08:38:31.054-06:00"After all, we can block out things we disagr..."After all, we can block out things we disagree with. We can unfriend people on Facebook, block them on Twitter, and decide not to let their negativity be a part of lives. For many progressives, this is the key to wellness."<br /><br />That part is telling, along with the belief that you can tell institutions to ignore laws you don't like. If only they could accord people who believe differently the same courtesy.<br /><br />The thing is, their so-called wellness, not matter how carefully calibrated, isn't actually something that leads to wellness. Their perception of wellness is a mirage that hides the fact that their inability to deal with anything that might not fall in line with their own beliefs only sends them spiraling down the rabbit hole. Are they so ignorant of history that they can't follow the quoted portion to its logical conclusion? The only way to truly live in that utopia they crave is to get rid of (usually by killing and "reeducating") anyone whose opinion is different. <br /><br />And there's that tiny pesky problem that no matter how pure their ideology, someone, somewhere a step above themselves is going to disagree with something they believe at some point. What then? It would be a little late for mercy at that point.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-90111576717227677942016-12-01T08:26:54.084-06:002016-12-01T08:26:54.084-06:00SNL hasn't been funny since the 70's so ex...SNL hasn't been funny since the 70's so except for the rare snippet on YouTube, I just don't go there.<br /><br />If this violence against Trump supporters keeps up, it is eventually going to cost some lives. Some of us are armed.<br /><br />Not welcome in Levis stores? Well, okay then.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108430731483801350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-32074775878774143772016-12-01T08:09:53.150-06:002016-12-01T08:09:53.150-06:00And they still don't get it.
And they're ...And they still don't get it.<br /><br />And they're doubling down. While SNL was able to poke light fun at the liberal bubble, they've doubled down in every other regard, ruining a moment in honor of Leonard Cohen, and still insisting on a caricature of Trump and Republicans which, for all their real faults, is completely imaginary.<br /><br />The ongoing violence against Trump supporters<br /><br />and oh, yes, Levis publishing an open letter that gun carriers are not welcome in their store while carrying.LastRedoubtnoreply@blogger.com