Posted on 10/03/2016 9:48:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not that long ago, I could get away from the dystopian news environment and relax. I'd spend my weekends at the movies, chatting with friends over a latte or watching football on my oversized 4K TV, all things that bring a smile, take me away – just good old-fashioned fun. But one after another, these treasured pastimes have become something else – a reminder of the dark times we live in, another forum for angry political discourse. In their zeal to control every aspect of our lives, liberal activists have left no stone unturned.
My first casualty was the movies. Nothing saves you from reality more than a good flick. But one by one, my favorite Hollywood stars publicly inserted themselves into politics. Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Lawrence, Matt Damon, and Ben Affleck are on the growing list of actors and actresses who feel compelled to take stands on issues that have nothing to do with their films.
Now, I'd like to be the bigger person and not let personal politics affect my entertainment choices, but the fact is, their foray into politics changes my perception. Now, instead of seeing these actors and actresses as the characters they so brilliantly portray, I see the man behind the curtain, the flawed person behind the illusion. Gone are the days when I can separate the activist actor from his performance. Now their reality is in my face.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
At least George Washington Carver was a good man.
I took a look at that.
Those are some extremely strange people; a nice warm cozy room with rubber walls comes to mind.
No currywurst?
An American needed to represent.
George Washington Carver once said:
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
All through his life, George Washington Carver saw no conflict between science and his faith. He called his laboratory “God’s Little Workshop” and said that he never invented anything; God showed it to him.
He also said: “Why should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again.”
In a letter to the New York Times in response to an editorial attempting to discredit Carver, the Tuskegee Institute and blacks in general, he wrote: “I regret exceedingly that such a gross misunderstanding should arise as to what was meant by ‘Divine inspiration.’ … Paul, the great Scholar, says, … in Galatians 1:12, For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/experts-uncover-real-george-washington-carver/#0fJPlQ4TOm0O40jL.99
Sadly, I now hate my extended family. It’s official. They are dead to me, and I do not say that in jest, but as a bitter, elderly Jewish man, which I am not. Not Jewish, anyway.
Love was not enough to create a commonality between us; their extremist leftist views (which they parrot without any understanding or critical thought) makes them just like all the other credulous mouth breathers that would destroy what I cherish and value most.
It did not happen all at once; it was a dawning of understanding over time. When my wealthy aunt proclaimed solidarity with OWS even though they would wear her skin as a coat it killed me a little inside.
My wealthy cousin lives on the side of a mountain in CA, and is horrified that I seek to insulate myself from the violence of the underclass that lives mere blocks from my family. In his mind I should embrace that diversity.
When having a dialog with my father he reverts, literally, to “war is bad” with no desire to understand the complexities of our world or to acknowledge that peace without justice is neither.
And don’t get me started on my gay brother. He has morphed into a hateful militant homo who has no use for “breeders” and holds heterosexuals in utter contempt. He never leaves his homo world and lives surrounded by either homos or those that fawn over that lifestyle.
Thank you for letting me vent. A part of me has died, and it has caused me great sadness.
Wow! Great pic! Thank you for posting that. And for the reminder of times past.
In the immortal words of Homer Simpson, “Actors...is there anything they don’t know?” LOL.
...or maybe it was “rock stars”... same difference ;)
Entertainers are all-knowing and wise. /s
“Were they “Berliners”?”
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LOL! Literally!
LOL! I’m not usually political on FB, but I posted it because it is so funny. :)
How would we ever get along with out the pearls of wisdom from the likes of Sean Penn? ;)
OMG!!! So funny!
Mr. Douglas, you are making people cry! LOL.
did you do an ‘environmental impact’ statement???
HUH???? DID YOU?????????????
POKE HIM WITH THE FLUFFY CUSHIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was Booker T. Washington.
“Thank you for letting me vent. A part of me has died, and it has caused me great sadness.”
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I’m so sorry to hear that, T-Bone. My sister is a leftist and it saddens me, too, to see how divided the nation has become. If I lived near her, we probably wouldn’t be speaking either.
Prayers for you and your family.
POKE HIM WITH THE FLUFFY CUSHIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy cow, I finally watched that. Talk about lemmings. This is hilarious, yet oddly pathetic. :-D
Very welcome.
I was told the ride is from 1938.
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