E.C. Everett

E.C. Everett

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12 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Part Five: Bringing Am... · 0 replies · +2 points

I was thinking of a title such as " Main Street and Madness". Or, perhaps, "The Perplexed."

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

As a convinced opponent of Barack Obama's trainwreck of an administration, hurling us breackneck towards disasters large and small, I am puzzled by this "knee-jerk" posture of dubiousness towards Obama and the State Dept., as if their naivete' about a flourishing of democracy-Islamic-style were any greater than the previous administration's own willful blindess' and historical and cultural illiteracies w/regards to Iraq and Afghanistan. This of course doesn't get Obama off the hook, so to speak; but, let's not forget who launched this ME democracy- hit parade in the first place. The sad truth remains that "compassionate conservatism" (status quo RINO-Globalism) came with an *R* next to its name. Conservatives will do well to counter neoconservative ambitions, as they mirror the globalist visions of the democratic party by and large. But lets be fair in this regard and call the globalists out regardless of party affiliation. Bush=Obama=Romney=Hillary....One party, one foreign policy, and it's bad for America.

12 years ago @ Big Government - The Ayers Brothers Con... · 1 reply · +8 points

I think it's time to #occupy Media. Forget marching on the Capitol. Let's march on CNN; MSNBC; Fox; ABC; CBS; NBC; NPR; NYTIMES; WAPO; etc. etc. And then we will go #occupy universities and demand the appearance of every leftist lunatic professor who has advocated for the destruction or downfall of the USA.
#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

Indeed the democrats will be "punished " for their leftward lunges and aloof indifference, scapegoating and the rest. The real problem lies with the looming collapses of the housing market, the dollar being devalued by impending inflation and interest rate hikes to combat it, and the worst is far from over. It will likely hit just as the new GoP house, senate and President are sworn in, thus, the left will once again profit from blaming it all on the "extremist right-wing under whose watch the American economy imploded..."

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

Beinart is missing the obvious. NPR has been around for decades, and it is precisely on NPR's "watch" that his pet-grievance, "clueless-about-foreign-country- Americans" has actualized. Can't we all see what's coming next from the left w/regards to NPR? They need MORE FUNDING to do their vital national security work!!!!

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

O'Donnell should do a "Bewitched" style blurb leading up to the election; a little 30 second ad showing her, just as Mr. Klein said, riding into D.C. on a broom Samantha style to sweep out corruption. Barack Obama as "Larry Tate"; the "bearded Marxist" as "Uncle Arthur" and Nancy Pelosi as the mother-in-law "Endora."

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

We must keep in mind that the left actually thinks "The Authoritarian Personality" is scientific, and therefore, factual. It ranks right up there with "McCarthyism" as things that "everybody knows" on the left. Everything to the "right" of their politics passes through those (and many other) lenses and comes out with a funny little mustache, a goose-step and bad intentions by rule.

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

That could have been a devastating "October surprise" had the media bothered to actually cover this. The dissatisfaction level with incumbents is directly tied to the way that PPACA2010 was passed without popular consent----among others passed without popular consent----so this news would've sent voters, especially elderly voters, to the polls with a fresh insight into what our elected officials foisted upon us by ramming Obamacare down our throats without popular support.

13 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - The New Miley Cyrus, P... · 0 replies · +10 points

After seeing the beginnings of this transformation in Cyrus' image a couple of years ago, I'd made the comment to my wife several times that her dad needs his arse kicked. As a show business veteran he, of all people, should have seen what was coming and prepared his daughter accordingly. They even made a movie with roughly the same premise that is now playing out in real life. Shameful.

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.