It depends on the time frame you are looking at. Some times we evolve ....some times we devolve.....depends on the era. In good economic times we tend to morally devolve.....bad times tend to reverse the process.
Posted on 02/08/2011 4:41:39 AM PST by scottfactor
I have heard recordings on YOUTUBE of her at hockey games and it seems to me that she doesn't. She looks like she is about to experience an orgasm rather than an affirmation.
It is an uplifting song but it is about a terrible time in American history when our country was attacked and the future outcome lay in the balance.
I just miss Robert Merrill!!!
That is why I found a recording of his on YOUTUBE before posting this. GOD BLESS.
Roy Masters - Marxian Opiates Redefined
Marx - the icon of choice when deceiving people into abandoning true freedom for addictive slavery.
Socialism, whether you call it communism, liberalism or whatever, is the opiate dependent ideology.
Alcoholism was a major health and social problem in the Soviet Union and remains a problem in the Russian Federation. Efforts by the communist government to combat alcoholism were largely unsuccessful. Alcoholism had a serious impact on the Soviet economy that could not be overlooked. But communism had a serious impact on the human spirit, and that was deliberately overlooked.
While socialist countries recognize the damaging effects of alcoholism, they do much to suppress its use and nothing to address the cause. Hereditary factors influencing alcohol abuse are insufficient to explain the widespread abuse, and when alcohol becomes difficult to obtain because of state regulations, other escapist drugs take its place. Socialists simply refuse to accept that the societies they have created drive people to flight, even if by drug induced fantasy.
I’m not suggesting capitalist societies are free of drug abuse. Escaping the realities of life by artificial means will always have a public following. There is however a stark difference between capitalist and socialist reality and what the individual can do to change that reality or choose to escape. Despite the hallucinatory ranting of liberals about the “evils of capitalism” and oppression, we have considerably more choices than those living in the truly oppressed “socialist paradises” of Cuba, China, Zimbabwe or Vietnam. Escapism remains a choice under capitalism, but one less likely to be exercised where liberty and morality reside.
My “capitalist masters” are not dictating where I work, where I live, what school I attend, what I eat, what healthcare I obtain, what news programs I watch or what beliefs I hold. In every case, I am the deciding and limiting factor. Socialist masters would make all those choices for me. Instead of choosing what I think is best for me I would be expected to accept their decisions because they allegedly know what is best for society. It is slavery and cannot overwhelm the human desire for liberty, hence escape by whatever means possible becomes the alternative liberty.
American liberals haven’t quite convinced the American public to abandon the capitalist system for rule by an oligarchy of socialist elites. To advance their cause, liberals employ opiates. The attack on capitalism using opiates to diminish free will and abandon moral responsibility.
Capitalism without morality is no better than socialism. Liberal attacks on religion serve two purposes. The first is to bring about amoral capitalism that will be rejected and self-destruct, as it should. The second purpose is to remove any obstacle to the absolutist rule of the socialist elite by eliminating the idea that a higher moral authority might exist. The elite will determine what is right or wrong, good or bad and we will obediently follow since there is no higher moral authority.
The welfare state is an opiate. The recipients receive their fixes in exchange for political support. It may not be paradise, but it sure beats working, saving and having to struggle for a living, at least for those whose greatest aspiration is to not miss their favorite television talk-show host or win the lottery.
The most powerful opiate on the liberal menu is sex. It is highly addictive and produces exactly the stupor needed to sedate the public. It costs nothing, is readily available, and to a large extent can be made consequent free. Sex sells and that message has never been lost on liberal politicians. Under the guise of “sexual freedom”, “reproductive rights” and the “right to privacy”, the gullible are buying it wholesale.
The destruction of the family is of little concern to socialists. The states opportunity to shape young minds is enhanced by dysfunctional families. The socialist elite are addicted to control and families are just a nuisance competing for obedience. Loyalty to the socialist state must be paramount and not impeded by a misguided sense of family.
Drugs, sex, a welfare check and other government “gifts” are a means to an end. Why bow to a God that would deprive you of these carnal pleasures and a life of ease when you can elect a politician that guarantees them? Why struggle with concepts of right and wrong when the government can do that for you? Why burden yourself with responsibilities the government will gladly assume? Why not just swallow the liberal opiates and accept life in a stupor?
No, the whole pop and r&b culture uses “autotune” since they can’t sing. Now they have enhanced it to sound “cool”. That’s the weird bending, robotic effect you hear.
Communists have been using Negro culture as a weapon against us going back to the Scottsboro boys.
They should have had T-Pain do an auto-tune anthem. That would have been interesting.
Thanks for that.
Here’s a few more. Not all the Anthem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJI_rlar68M
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE <— includes flyover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvpxVE_kQXg <— during Gulf War 1 (1991 - great visuals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E <- Lee Greenwood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvj6zdWLUuk <— nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwL_9Z3jSmk <— this one still hurts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWrMeBR8W-c <— a PERSONAL favorite
I don't even argue with fools about Sports anymore. Why bother with politics.
I saw one player get penalized in the end zone for unsportsmanlike conduct when he got on his knees and held both arms up to God.
Wow, somehow that's on a par with a late hit on a quarterback!
I can't understand why football players don't get kicked in the face for their antics. Maybe all that padding protects them from harm. I also think the fact that players only play one side of the ball makes a difference too. Anyway, NFL football, generally speaking, is a bad influence on culture, imo, or at least a reflection of a sick, ignoble culture.
I never understood that. Celebrating after scoring an actual touchdown, especially one that causes a lead change, is one thing, but after routine plays like this? Lame.
What troubled me more, with a bit more research, is that their hit "Boom Boom Pow" uses the word "Sh!T" like 8 times, in places where it rhymes and the lyrics don't make sense without it (OK, they don't make sense anyway, but hey . .).
It's surprising that the NFL, after the "Little Brown Jug" incident (Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction), would allow them to perform that number if they knew a profanity was a key part of the lyrics.
It’s not like they just pump their fists either. They’ll do a dance, wave their arms around, shout and taunt. An uncontrollable burst of emotion is one thing. Taunting and showboating is another. It makes me sick to watch it. I don’t get why more people aren’t reviled by it.
I don’t believe that ‘ghetto’ and ‘negro’ culture are the same thing. My understanding of ‘ghetto’ is that it is an american-grown product, cultivated in the last 50 years of the ‘great society’. ‘Negro’ culture, on the other hand, is not only diverse but rich. The two may seem to intercept on a grand scale, but one is still worthy to be celebrated. The other needs to die a quick death.
This WWII Marine is still performing, why isn’t he in any halftime shows? This was American music forty years ago, even an embittered old curmudgeon like me can’t watch it without getting misty eyed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEMT93yX2ZU
And this next link is his first big hit that stopped me in my tracks when I was 12 years old in 1956. Ray Price served in World War two and is still performing now, imagine!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuOvllD8Baw
How on Earth The Cherokee Cowboy can keep standing up and walking out on stage after seeing what has happened to this country is beyond my understanding. Contemporary music? Contemporary noise is all it is.
It depends on the time frame you are looking at. Some times we evolve ....some times we devolve.....depends on the era. In good economic times we tend to morally devolve.....bad times tend to reverse the process.
http://www.clipsyndicate.com/video/playlist/13492/2193475?cpt=8&title=truveo_full_feed&wpid=2541
CONSERVATIVES!!!! WE MUST WORK TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS! Godlessness, socialist-funded, collectivist run can NOT be fixed!
Yes, I am shouting, jumping up and down, and having a fit! Socialist and godless government schooling is one of our nation's most urgent and serious threats! We may win a few more elections, but we will lose eventually if we continue to turn our kids over to the Moloch fires of socialist and godless government schooling.
Since God was removed from the public schools in the 1960s,
God, was removed from the government schools by my grandmother's day ( born 1894). Already, by then, she had a completely secular government education with a sprinkle of prayer in the morning. Yes, this godless secularism was mitigated for her because her teachers were, for the most part believing Christians. There was a HUGE difference between her godless government education and the Catholic parochial education that my mother and I and my siblings received.
In the mid-1800s, Horace Mann, a progressive Unitarian and one of the founders of our modern government schools, imposed upon American children a generic and lukewarm Protestantism in the new system of compulsory government schools. We know what Christ does with the lukewarm. He spits them out of His mouth!
The plan for government schools since their inception in the mid-1800s to early 1900s has **ALWAYS** been to continually move toward increasingly godless secularism. The governments schools are NOT failures. They are succeed fabulously well in achieving this and other goals.
If children attend godless government schools they **WILL** learn to think godlessly. They will either learn to be godless secularists themselves or at minimum learn to compartmentalize their faith. They MUST do this merely to participate in the godless program, do the godless homework, read the godless textbooks, and turn in godless assignments.
The author's statement above implies that if we returned the schools to the 1960's that they would somehow be fixed. NO! They wouldn't. I attended 11th and 12th grade in a government high school from the fall of 1962 to the spring 1964. They were godless then, with a sprinkle of prayer in the morning. The teachers and godless secular curriculum were already pushing the boundaries of "edgy".
Government schools can NOT be fixed. It is impossible to fix collectivism, socialist-funded, government managed, collectivist run, compulsory, prison-like schools whose moral direction takes its cue from voting mob comrade committees ( school boards)!
And...Merely by attending these schools children will learn to be comfortable with godlessness, collectivism, socialism, godlessness, compulsory prison-like programs, that are run by voting mob comrade committees!
the degeneration has been progressing more each year,
Well!...Duh!...Whereas my grandmother ( born 1894) was subjected to a godless curriculum with a sprinkle of prayer in the morning, she did have the benefit of Christian teachers. This is much less the case today.
and we are now left with the results of a watery “education” with no moral foundation—a nation overrun with people who have never gained even the most basic knowledge of God’s truth and why it matters.
Yep!
John Dewey, the Fabian socialist ( communist), would be so proud of his creation. Our schools are like a grown up Rosemary's Baby.
Part of that is certainly the dumbed-down public school curriculum. Despite being given billions of dollars of taxpayer money year after year, the schools are no longer providing a quality education to students. Instead, the schools churn out kids who can’t even write a legible paragraph and who do not know the correct history of our nation and world.
No wonder our nation's children are failing academically. ""The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" (Prov. 1:7)"
what ever kind of singing it was it was awful.
I’;m fed up of hearing the anthem being sung in a way where notes are carried for 30 secs, lets get back to how the song should be sung
Vocal gymnastics . . . hate them for the most part. In small doses it’s nice. Every time I see Jennifer Hudson doing the Weight Watchers commercial and she’s braying I have to turn it off. These gals could learn a thing or two from listening to singers like Cleo Laine or Jane Olivor. But everything has to be over the top these days to the point of being clownish.
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