Posted on 01/30/2007 8:23:21 AM PST by Allen In Texas Hill Country
I try and not waste space here and let others post more useful stuff. But I'm just letting others know it can be done.
When Clinton got elected I completely tuned out of the public/political world. I even finally canceled my LA Times subscription that I had for over 10 years. I participated in the Newsgroups but finally migrated over to FR in the late 90s.
And its happening again. I can't watch as the demos commit seditious acts by undermining the will of the military. Its back to the movies like The Great Escape and The Magnificant Seven (on now).
I have found I can't even watch Fox News because they have to give the demos air time and I get sick when they speak about wanting America to lose this war. And that IS exactly what they are committed to. Think about that, they are committed/totally invested to the US losing. They are some sick people that I can't watch.
All over again but one can escape back to the movies.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." --Edmund Burke
Uhhhh, Yeah...
I predict this will be a 1,500 reply thread before all is said and done.
The book is always better than the movie.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ditto
It feels better to be winning than losing, but we still have to fight the good fight.
Yes, during the clinton years I often felt like an exile in my own country. But we scored some successes, kept clinton from realizing some of his goals, and I believe FR made the difference in the 2000 election.
It is disgusting! If they pull this off they will have a lot of blood on their hands. But the battle is not lost!
Movies are cool. I like anything with Reese Witherspoon :-) Just listen to Rush. He watches the news so you don't have to. Personally I put myself into my work, not politics or entertainment.
Living in the USA during the 90's was like living in Germany during the 30's. Each day brought a new revelation on what your government was going to do to you.
I can relate. I have pretty much washed my hands of "popular culture" from Hollywood since most of it is a sewer. However, consider this....
1. We've had two election cycles now where the MSM completely dropped even a half-hearted pretence of objectivity and instead actively promoted one candidate (or party) against the other. This is unprecedented, at least in my lifetime (I voted for Reagan when I was 18).
e.g Macaca: We watched the WAPO systematically and unfairly target one senatorial candidate with a non-ending stream of negative reportage and instant analysis posing as journalism, while completely giving a pass (actually, promoting) to the other candidate. I think that the MsM will take lessons from this and repeat often.
For all our glee at the "dinosaur media" recent problems, this last election shows that it still has sharp teeth.
2. The standard meta narrative of the MSM is that conservativism lost big in the last election and will wander in the wilderness for a generation or two where it belongs.
In fact, with a switch of about 60,000 votes in the right elections, the Repubs would have maintained both houses. (One wonders what the MSM spin would have been if that had happened. ) Also, most of these new democrats ran as conservative, pro-life candidates.
Crescendo: I don't think that the political landscape has changed nearly as much as the MSM lectures us. I think they pound away on it to dispirit us. Chin up, Allen!
Remember: In victory, be magnanimous; in defeat, defiant.
While retired I am fortunate in that I have 2 acres of rock that have to be moved from point A to point B. That also takes your mind off things.
Yes, Rush!
Bait: a "right-wing" alternative to GHWB.
Switch: a lying, philandering creep with a leftist harpy WINO.
Dittos here. I am tuning out much more these days. Not even freeping as much. It just is so hard on us elders who lived when America was America. The number of people willing to act as traitors to the nation is sick.
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