E.C. Everett
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12 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Part Five: Bringing Am... · 0 replies · +2 points
12 years ago @ Big Peace - Egyptian Presidential ... · 0 replies · +2 points
Ah......community organizing at its globalist, multicultural best.
12 years ago @ Big Peace - A 2006 Taqiyya Warning... · 0 replies · +2 points
12 years ago @ Big Government - The Ayers Brothers Con... · 1 reply · +8 points
#occupy Womyns studies...
#occupy Black Studies
#occupy queer studies
#occupy Marxist dialectic studies
...I bet the cost of education would fall dramatically overnight.
12 years ago @ Frontpage Magazine - Commies and Nazis and ... · 0 replies · 0 points
If this OWS lot are antsy now, just wait and see the cities on flame with rock 'n' roll in two years time. I'll bring the marshmallows. They should only set me back about 12 bucks per bag by then. 28 dollar a gallon gas, anyone? 30% inflation?
That is when the revolution will begin in earnest, and it will only worsen and prolong our national miseries. Pray, America. Pray hard. This coming collapse/depression could make the 30's look like the 90's, and the 60's look like the 50's; the 50's in Budapest, that is....
13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Peter Beinart: Funding... · 0 replies · +1 points
Does he really think that the average apolitical working stiff is pining for some NPR programming so that they can scratch that curious itch for information about the Indian subcontinent?
NPR is nothing more than a remote outpost along the left media's Maginot line and Beinart's plea an extension of the "net neutrality" and fear of talk-radio meme. The networks are lost (Univision is now the number 1 TV network in the US!), the newspapers are broke and need government bailouts, and now those dastardly conservatives want the holy grail of NPR to falter, too?
If NPR is vital to national security because they alone service the need for information about foreign events, then NPR goes to the front of the line of leftist initiatives that suck money and fail to deliver the goods. It's an example of their abject failure, not of their vital necessity, Beinart, since it's been on NPR's watch that the very ignorance of foreign nations/events that Beinart laments has materialized.
Leftist solution? Blame the conservatives! After all, conservatives dominate the ranks of professors, teachers, unions and media-types that should be provoking and informing a curiosity about Indonesian jurisprudence amongst the troglodytes in flyover country, right?
Clueless leftists!!!!
13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - SNL's Brand Of Politic... · 0 replies · +2 points
Tag it with, "Unfortunately, in the real world the mess that our politicians in Washington have left won't just disappear with a wiggle of the chin. Vote for me if you want real change in Washington, without all of the hocus pocus."
Disarm the critics with humor, like Underzog points out. Always effective.
13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Crooks and Liars Pansy... · 0 replies · +1 points
That liberals actually buy books like this speaks volumes about the "compassionate personality."
13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Media Ignoring ObamaCa... · 0 replies · +4 points
13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - The New Miley Cyrus, P... · 0 replies · +10 points
From it's beginnings, "rock and roll" (for lack of a better catch-all term) has been about rebellion against traditional values. It's beginnings, like it or not, are rooted in West African tribalism, imported to the New World with the slaves, and transformed by exposure to the dominant Christian culture. The first "rock concerts" were no less than public voodoo rituals in New Orleans, from whence were birthed Creole, Jazz, Ragtime, as well as influenced traditional Celtic-style arrangments carried to America with immigrants and then transformed by the remnant Western African animist rhythms, and the slaves interaction with an imposed popular music into "negro spirituals" and eventually western swing, country, gospel, r&b and rock and roll.
The terms themselves derive from the Western African traditions. "Jazz" is a reference to the ejaculation of the practitioner under the influence of the Loa/gods, akin to "speaking in tongues." "Cool" comes from a similar-sounded West African expression meaning the manner in which the priest/priestess handles the rituals.
So this sexualization effect is at this popular music's roots. Unpopular in its implications, but nevertheless a fact.
What I find most amusing about Cyrus' rationale, as well as with any other "artist" trying to justify their image or music, is when they use the "empowerment/ free speech/ push the envelope/ anti-authoritarianism/ stand up to "the man" meme, and are supported by the largest corporations on the planet in doing so. You don't get more mainstream than Disney or Sony music group. You aren't rebelling against "the man," sweetie. You're working for him.
The pertinent question to ask would be, "why is 'the man' packaging rebellion and sexual promiscuity like ramen noodles, to be distributed to any and all members of the demographic with the largest disposable incomes in the world?" Sadly, by either the "fans" or the "artists" that question never seems to be raised.