There's a reason some entertainers continually get work, while others do not.
@Evad, I'm speaking from my experience. I live in a small town and practically know everyone. I'm talking about the bums pan-handling on the interstate exit with cardboard boxes, most covered in tattoos, looking like Grizzly Adams...they're not going to work. The people in my town that ride bikes who are covered in tattoos are ex-felons and high school drop-outs into rap music, none of which own automobiles...it's starting to become popular here for these drop-outs to get tattoos of the high school mascot. What a shame they couldn't get an actual diploma...what makes me laugh all these people are liberals who think they're entitled and everyone owes them something.
It's not so much tattoos I got a problem with as much as the people who have them. Most of them are show-offs, as somebody else mentioned the women who show-off their lower back "tramp stamps" or wearing cut-off shirts exposing their belly tattoos, most of which are the last people who need to be exposing their excess skin and blubber. It amazes me how many homeless, people begging for money, and people on bicycles and/or on foot I see covered in tattoos but they cannot afford a car or rent. I'm also annoyed by these "tattoo acceptance in the workplace" groups sprouting everywhere, business owners have reputations to uphold...I know I personally wouldn't want someone in cut-offs or tank-tops covered in tattoos representing me. I'm not one of these stereotypical up-tight conservatives, in my younger years I was a long haired heavy metal freak...I probably would have gotten tattooed if it didn't get so popular, when girls started getting them that did it for me, but even when I wanted tattoos I'd of only put them in areas not visible like upper arms, legs, etc. I wish this tattoo craze would go away and die already, I'm sorry but 90% of people I see with tattoos are trashy. I think it was Greg Gutfeld who said in 10 years people who specialise in removing tattoos are going to be making a lot of money.
I got to say being a Cuban-American it always makes me laugh that people who are not Cuban are always commenting that Al Pacino's "Cuban accent" in Scarface is horrible...actually it's pretty dead-on! Even more his mannerisms are perfectly Cuban, it's only when he says one word in spanish that happens to be a bad word that it sounds weird but Pacino pulled if off and most Cubans would say the same thing.
The deals we have with the communist dictator of Cuba are because of leftist politicians who purposely support their regime. With your logic we might as well normalize relations with Kim Jong Il and Qaddaffi, hell Joseph Kennedy financially contributed to Hitler.
I wish more people would point this out, I'm not religious but him and his family's malicious characterizations of Christians are beyond insane and so obviously done on purpose so as to slander people of faith.
Fontova did mention that Page's visit was reported by Cuban dictatorship's press. It's different criteria for celebs if they visit an oppresive state runned by leftists than vice versa. Believe me the press would've been screaming bloody murder had Page visited Aparteid era South Africa...I remember when Black Sabbath played there in the late 80s and were getting flack from national news outlets.
I'm a nearly lifelong metalhead/headbanger/hard rocker my entire life, first album I ever got was Kiss' Love Gun when I was six in 1978...Led Zeppelin was never my favorite band, I always thought they were overrated...their first album is practically an all covers album which they didn't credit the actual song writers...it annoys me that practically their entire music catalog is played ad nausium on classic rock stations nationwide...I'm so sick to death of Led Zeppelin's music I haven't listened to any of their albums in over 25 years...note to classic rock programmers: Deep Purple and Black Sabbath actually have other songs besides "Smoke on the Water" and "Iron Man"...Ritchie Blackmore who's more legendary overseas was always better than Page IMO.
I've always known about all those guys being conservatives, in fact I've met Clapton and talked politics with him in a TCBY in Florida...however, I've never in my life ever heard of Page being a conservative, in fact I've always suspected him and pretty much the other Zeppelin members of being kinda lefty.
Considering the track records of the communists, whatever Pinochet's faults Allende would've been worse had he lasted longer. Fortunately he didn't.
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