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style as something more reasonable and desirable than traditional marriage hundreds of tv writers are homosexual and their agenda quickly permeated much of the tv viewing will and grace which i have never seen is probably just the most egregious but gay characters abound starlets kiss each other on the mouth whenever they can get a chance so as to tell america this is ok in one of her books ann coulter made the point that the raunchy language and behavior of the immensely popular sex in the city was written by gay men for other gay men the characters seem so unlike any women any of us have ever known because they are just the gay ideal in drag all this being said i have mixed emotions about my tv i have been watching the box since my parents bought our first tv in 1950 the first show i ever saw was the lone ranger tv in the early days was didactic it did teach maybe in a sophomoric way but the virtues and lessons were easily understood i always wanted to be the kind of father ward clever was in truth he was a bumbler but he was always patient in listening to his boys talked to his boys i can honestly admit that i have not always yelled at my two sons and have actually invited them into my den for a few fatherly chats i also was able to catch an obscure tv show in 1960 it was a show like glenn beck s but without the apocalyptic angst that permeates beck s show it was called a way of thinking and it was hosted by a dr albert burke i vowed to become just like him i was enthralled by his scholarly analysis of the issues of the day racism the environment and discrimination against women as a young married couple with small children my wife and i watched a lot tv especially the cop shows on the 1970s and 80s there was the bald headed cop the old fat and female detective shows they were all clean and with just a modicum of violence and most of all they were entertaining now that has all changed tv is on a secular soapbox to sell a way of living that is offensive to mainstream america tv is a vital part of our culture without it i don t think i could talk to as many people as i do like a poor man s burke i have really become a cultural commentator in 2006 while recovering from an illness and the lethargy that went with it i spent 3 4 months watching the box sets of 24 a solid show whose main character jack bauer vacillated between world savior and a dark machiavellian figure after watching four years of the frenetic activity i was a nervous wreck but my strength was fully restored i have just started watching a similar set of lost which deals with serious theological issues and moral issues and let s not forget sports i have spent countless hours watching games as a boy growing up in new york they televised every home game for three different teams i was never without a game if i wanted see my dodgers or even the hated yankees i only watched the giants when i was truly bored then there s football the nfl has become part of the cultural landscape now there is fox news my wife could not exist without fox she has become a news and interview junkie i do turn off the tv for about two hours every night so i can read my 100 pages this is my form of intellectual exercise so while i admire ben s courage i see too much of the positive side of the medium for me to emulate him like so many inventions in our world it can be used for good or evil i am saying that every viewer has to be very selective about what one watches if you spend your time watching filth and garbage you will think filth and garbage my advice is to watch tv selectively tune out the garbage and look for programs that actually have a point that s the only way we can recapture our culture from the marxist iconoclasts posted in uncategorized tags a way of thinking ann coulter archie bunker ben wiker elvis hilaire belloc jack bauer jr mary crosby kojak lone ranger lost maude nfl robert goulet sex in the city the brooklyn dodgers the honeymooners uncle fultie ward clever boris cow september 12 2010 5 comments i have a candidate for the most memorable character column in the readers digest i am talking about boris a russian cab driver from my local company he is one of the funniest and most charming drivers i have ever had a couple of years ago he asked us if we could recommend a girlfriend for his son who was having trouble meeting nice young women every time he has driven us since then we ask about his son this past summer boris picked us up at the airport and when asked he said that yes his son had found a steady girlfriend now 28 his son was seriously dating a blonde polish girl he volunteered that at first her parents were not crazy about the idea of her getting serious with a jew but they were growing to accept him boris went on to tell us about how he came to get married 30 years ago he said in a dialect that is a joy to the ear o ne morning i wake up and say to myself boris you need a son he was not married at that time but still wanted a son so he proceeded to go through his little black book eliminating most of the entries because they were too fat too ugly etc he finally settled on one lady who still looked pretty good so he called her up and said how about i take you to movie then we get married she said boris i like you and we go to a movie but i can t marry you cause i don t know you so they went to the movie and after it was over he said to her i handsome man i give you four days then i call and ask you again so he did and after some initial hesitation she said ok i marry you two years later their son was born my russian cab driver prompted me to think of another boris there is an old russian legend that seemed apropos for soviet russia there were two men boris and ivan the only difference between them was that boris had a cow and ivan did not one day while walking in the country a genie appeared to ivan and offered him just one wish ivan said i want boris cow to die ivan s death wish ivan s class envy was so intense that rather than enhance his own situation with anything the genie could give him he drew more pleasure from having him take away his rival s cow it was unfair that boris had a cow and he didn t for three generations the left has been conditioning the american people to think of fairness and equality as the hallmark civic virtues more important than patriotism and religious faith since fdr all we have heard is that the rich and how bad these fat cats were for being wealthy as a result they have convinced millions of american voters it would be preferable to be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom this is a sick attitude that has been poisoning the minds and hearts of millions of americans who have bought their perverse message the left s idea of human equality is far different from that of the founding generation who believed that all men were made equal in the image and likeness of god they never meant to imply that they were equal in height skills intelligence and drive they believe that human equality has nothing to do with god and everything to do with government they use it effectively as a political slogan the ruling has skillfully wrapped its big government agenda in the rhetoric of the declaration of independence just as lincoln had done during the civil war in practice the left subscribes to the orwellian notion all are equal but some are more equal an illustration involved abc s charlie gibson s pointed question to senator obama during one of the primary debates with hilary clinton in 2008 all about fairness gibson explained to obama that the empirical data showed that when tax rates are low more money flows into the government coffers obama did not challenge gibson s facts but merely said that to him it was more an issue of fairness like the legendary ivan according to our president there is something basically unfair about someone having something more than someone else in obama s mind he should be the arbiter of america s wealth and poverty it is not above his pay grade to take it away from those that have more like boris and his late cow so even if his tax increases on those who have more wind up increasing the deficit because he has made no effort to rein in his lavish spending on union payoffs and bailouts as long as the rich are suffering then it is ok does this false logic makes sense to anyone is president obama living in the real world does that not validate my early post about liberals being mentally ill because they cannot live in a real world of facts and truth many people would like to give the president the benefit of the doubt that he is just inexperienced and we should be granted more time so he can learn how to change things yeah and nero just needed some more music lessons and boris didn t need his cow needed music lessons posted in uncategorized tags boris charlie gibson class envy fat cats mentally ill liberals nero obama born on a labor day september 6 2010 10 comments today is my birthday i have always looked forward to celebrated the day i was born at first it was just the presents now it is something much more to me though i still shake out cards to see if there is any money in them i find a birthday is and should be a celebration of the act of being alive i am so thankful that my mother and father gave me the gift of life in ways it is better than new year s day because for each of us it really is the beginning of a new year with all the reforms reconciliations and new leaves embedded i think it fitting that i was born on a labor day i was born on a monday 67 years ago also a labor day i guess you could say i have come full circle my mother always told me how ha rd my birth was i guess that s what they mean by hard labor she made it sound like she was in a gulag or something but she later told me it was her labor of love a labor of love personally i don t remember a thing i often think of all the other important days on which i could have been would you like to have a birthday on april 1st or september 11th how about april 20th or june 2nd then you would be sharing a special day with adolph hitler or marquis de sade i have only met two other people with whom i share a birthday i think september 6th was an off day in the last 150 years there was some lady at a dinner a few years ago my new dermatologist is the only other one i saw her on friday and wished her a happy birthday and she looked me with a scary look of disbelief how did i know she told me a year ago when she checked my file this one is her 50th and i think she is a little uneasy about it her staff had draped her office is black crepe paper and i ll bet that she has already received a bunch of old lad y cards i think she ll be fine because after all she volunteered her age what woman does that i remember fearing 50 avoiding the angst of 50 i decided to avoid all the angst by throwing a surprise party for myself with printed invitation i had 35 of them printed even though our room at the ritz only held 17 i did not want gag gifts but leather fine wine jewelry i got gag gifts i gave my extra invitations to friends who did not make the cut just made the cut i will not repeat what they told me i could do with them i always check the celebrity list on my birthday as well as my horror scope very few famous people have been born on my birthday only jane curtin and joanne worley curtin was the recipient of dan aykroyd s memorable line in a saturday night live skit jane you ignorant slut and worley was the loud mouth comedian on laugh in back in the 1970s somehow i am not surprised comedians head my list because i think we were all born under the sign of the clown my very first joke the older i get the more philosophical about what this special day means to me you cannot read the old testament without becoming aware of the providential aspects of human life all lives have a purpose and when we come into being in our mothers womb did not happen by accident even the accidents were not really accidents the catholic church celebrates the date that its saints died or were martyred as their feast or one might say their eternal birthday for the rest of us i think it is very important to celebrate the beginning of our journey i think both frank capra and roberto begnigni had it right when they spoke of it s a wonderful life and like is beautiful i never had a real birthday party oh there was cake and ice cream with my parents and my two maiden aunts but i never had a party with other children on my 21st birthday i was in the middle of a religious retreat in gloucester massachusetts i spent that birthday in prayer and silence those are two things that i have never been very good at for the 22nd i was in charleston missouri with the extension lay volunteers we had a small gathering with the other volunteers we sat on the floor and drank wine like a real party my 1st real party i was a newlywed my next birthday and can t remember a thing about that birthday by my 24th we had our first child and from then on family and kids were an integral part of all of my birthdays as it should be as a child going to a baseball game was my special treat for my birthday in 1954 i begged my dad to take me toa sunday afternoon double header with pittsburgh he balked at spending six hours in the hot sun but offered me a thursday evening game with the giants at the polo grounds even though the dodgers lost to the giants i think it was 4 1 he always knew best well almost always on the 6th a buck 90 hitter dick skinner of the pirates had a career year by hitting a couple of homers and driving in 11 runs in the twin bill see my comment 7 his pirates ruined my 11th birthday i almost went up to him at a dinner many years later in st louis to berate him for ruining that birthday but i didn t forgiving is easy forgetting is the hard part several years later the pirates had another twin bill in st louis also on my birthday so i took our youngest to the old ball park to make up for what my dad had denied me 28 years prior we got there an hour early and eight hours later with the second game somewhere in the late innings my son looked at me with sad eyes and said daddy can we please go home now my most memorable birthday was the night birthright counseling of st louis awarded me their prestigious hartnett aw ard this was named about monsignor james hartnett who not only baptized my son matthew but more importantly introduced me to stan musial it was my biggest party ever just me and 700 of my closest friends 700 of my closest friends i had three tables and for some reason i was hoping that bob costas would be there my cousins and i had been out to see his home and for some inexplicable reason i had said a little prayer hoping that maybe his wife was a member and he would be there well as i walked into the dinner who should be standing there in all of his glory but mr c now bob and i are not bosom buddies but there is a mutual respect that dates back to 1973 we chatted for a while and i real...
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