I thought of titling this piece: How kids learn. Then I thought of “How liberals teach”. Anyway, this is part of how really bad liberal revisionist history ends up being taken quite seriously. Have a look:
“Cortez The Killer” (more…)
I have a great idea for a reality television show that is a sure fire hit if done correctly. I’m throwing it out to the readers: How do you go about pursuing your idea when you know almost zip about the biz? Any thoughts on that one? –fog
I have always marvelled at the Oscars. What is the figure? 1.5 Billion people will tune the show in? Take a step back. What is really happening here? (more…)
If there was a “Weird Mass” magazine, then I’m sure that they have covered this at some point. Mrs. Pinetar and I went up to Mass for the weekend and around the corner from where we stayed, was this house. This is a completely residential area in Scituate, MA. It’s a beautiful area near the estuary and nothing was out of the ordinary–until this.
Of course I stopped and took some fog-fotos because really, there is just no explaining a shrine to JFK on someone’s front lawn.
It appears to be a custom-built, stone covered, well…er…ahh, “shrine” is what it says so we’ll go with that.
As I got closer to it, the name they gave it seemed appropriate. Inside, directly in front of the storm door, was a half or 3/4 life size statue of Jesus laying down with stigmata. At the far left was a candle holder that looked to be right from a church and a full size statue.
The right hand side had the statue of Mary and the well-worn church style kneelers. I did not go inside. I probably could have if I wanted to now that I think of it but you tend to feel a little self conscious when you’re taking photos of someone’s private JFK shrine. Now, if it was a shrine to General Patton, or Tommy Agee or Secretariat, then perhaps.
There was no one around and no one came out. I am thinking that this thing has been here for years and they are used to the gawkers by now.
Was it because JFK was the first Catholic President that he has all the hoopla? It’s funny about the whole JFK thing. He was young, he was handsome, he had the pretty wife and then he was killed so publicly so the media, understandably, just ran with it for the last 40 years. Face it, there’s money to be made on the guy by selling books and TV shows and movies–I get all that.
But what no one seems to want to deal with is that the party that he worked for has moved so far to the Left since he was alive, that the OTHER party can now use JFK’s speeches in their marketing! The Republicans, in fact, did just this in the 2000 election as Bush was running on a platform of a tax-cut-for-the-middle-class. That’s the same thing JFK ran on, and fought for: an economy-stimulating, middle class tax cut. And championed by the Democrats!
And when the Republicans used the sound bites from 1960, of a Democrat recommending the same thing, the Democrats just wigged out. “You can’t use our guy!”. And the media has made him this bigger than life icon and the Democrats never get tired of using the icon–but they want to rewrite the script that went with it. They don’t want people to realize that what was a Democrat in 1960 is basically a Republican now because that might remind people just how far left the whole Democratic party has gone in the meantime. Seriously, if JFK came back to life right now, he’d have to be a Republican (and he’d HAVE to be embarrassed by his brother Teddy).
And that’s really my problem with the Democrats. They had a lot of nice ideas. Really, I’m not kidding. But those nice ideas were long ago turned into LAWS. But a party has too much momentum (and too many people deriving power from it) to simply say, “…hey, we nailed all of our objectives, let’s just call it a day”. No chance. They simply move the first down marker 10 yards to the political left and try for another, and another, and another and bigger and bigger government (socialism) and higher and higher taxes, meanwhile our paycheck and our freedoms shrink and if we beef about it, we are called rascist, white, greedy, insensitive, rich, homophobes (etc) for wanting less of our money squandered in Washington and more of the decision making kept local.
Give the Democrats what they want today, and by God, they will be back at your door tomorrow, insisting that more people are victims and that more money needs to be bled from the producing base to address their “victimness”. Help us JFK! –fog
[A friend of mine who works in television sent me this casting call. Anyone interested? Shoot them an email. Good luck.] (more…)
