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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 29, 2022 12:22:49 GMT -8
To be fair to all the mass-abusers (someone has to play the role of Timothy) – that is, to be fair t0 the harry-palm people in the right (those pud-pullers on the left can all go to hell or Cuba) – anyone who grew up in America and remembers watching Leave it to Beaver has a right to grasp at straws (or whatever else is at arm's length). And if you don't remember The Beaver, you'll remember your Yeats:
There are qualities to Putin (disengenous though they are, but I'm talking about some of things he's said) that resonate with conservatives. And some of the policies of the Red Chinese Communist Bastards resonate with conservatives. We're left grasping at straws, which is how we got Trump, for better and for worse.
If we can't get Ward and June Cleaver back in charge of the kids, a lot of people are going to take what they can get.
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Post by artraveler on Dec 29, 2022 18:23:47 GMT -8
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world Not to quibble with Yeats, but when ever has anarchy ever been mere?
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Post by Brad Nelson on Dec 30, 2022 9:05:24 GMT -8
That's a fair point.
Mere tsunami. Mere asteroid impact. Mere Apocalypse.
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Post by kungfuzu on Dec 30, 2022 16:24:30 GMT -8
I believe Yeats was using the archaic meaning of mere, i.e. "pure, unadulterated."
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Post by Brad Nelson on Jan 11, 2023 8:30:02 GMT -8
This article is ostensibly behind a paywall, but I found a link that took me to it: Fat Chance That the New Victoria’s Secret Marketing Strategy Would WorkIt may shock you that I don't keep up with the fortunes of Victoria's Secret (but who can't look at some of those frilly bras without a sense of longing?) But this was news to me. This article isn't mostly about Victoria's Secret. In fact, it's such a hodgepodge, I wonder why they would expect me to pay for this unfocused rant posing as journalism. Still, it did contain some interesting commentary: And we are not stupid? He might go a little too far there. But point kinda-sorta taken.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 9:52:31 GMT -8
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 9, 2023 12:00:42 GMT -8
Another of Kung's maxims applies. Arrogance breeds stupidityThis applies to all areas of life. I know this from a study of history as well as painful personal experience.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 9, 2023 12:47:33 GMT -8
Many families simply no longer want to take their kids to the theme parks (which incidentally are now financially out of reach for many of them. Disney problems go way back to the 80s at least. After Walt died the family lost control and a series of west coast progressives took over. Thinking the movie business and parks were a sure bet to print money they set about spending it as fast as they could make it. They gave in to extortion from unions, government and the Hollywood crowd. As fast you could say Mikey Mouse prices at the parks doubled and doubled again and again. Today a day at one of the parks is a budget buster for a family of four. Admission is over $100 a day and unless you live next door additional cost for lodging, food and trinkets are sure to add at least another $100 per day. Thus, four people for three days 4X$200X3=$2400 add in airfare, call it $500 per and a Disney three day is just short of 5 grand. And that would be before the KFF and Bidenflation. The sad fact is Disney is no longer family centered but a corporate monster comparable to the mega casinos of Vegas and Reno, but without the gambling. The difference is the gambling casinos are honest about what they do and why they are there Disney pretends to be family oriented but is now just as rapacious. It will take a generation of careful management aimed at gaining the trust of parents before Disney recovers, if ever. Walt would hang his head in shame.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 13:17:06 GMT -8
I wouldn't doubt there's a lot of that going on in the company. I also wonder if their artistic content isn't more or less controlled and formed by a cabal of homosexuals. Everyone blames the Jews for these things. They control the media. They control this. They control that. Blah blah blah. But I think there is an unwritten story there at Disney. Homosexuals tend to be highly over-represented in the field of arts. And that perverse mob is oriented to smearing, sneering, and otherwise besmirching normality.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 13:24:46 GMT -8
Yes, that's about what I've read elsewhere. We're not talking about a family a four dropping $300 for an afternoon's entertainment (which is not particularly cheap either if you ask me).
The results are in. This is self-evidently so to all but the ideologically blinded.
Yep. Just like that one hockey player in (Philadelphia?) refused to wear all the rainbows and ribbon. As another article pointed out (was it Prager?), this isn't about "celebrating" perversion. It's coercive indoctrination.
And that aspect has been rubbed into the product that Disney has been producing of late. They're like taking the worst aspects of the casinos and combining it with Drag Queen Story Hour.
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Post by artraveler on Feb 9, 2023 13:49:18 GMT -8
They're like taking the worst aspects of the casinos and combining it with Drag Queen Story Hour. Yep well said. I might add without any positives. When I lived in CA we used to go to Disneyland on a regular basis. I remember being awed the first time. I still have some E tickets from the 50s. I was about 8 or 9 and broke my arm on a Sunday and pestered my parents to get me home in time to watch Disneyland on TV. The Mikey Mouse Club was an afternoon staple, especially after I realized Annett had breasts. On of my favorite movies was Song of the South, zippie, do da it has been relegated to the trash bin of PC. www.bing.com/videos/search?q=song+of+the+south&docid=603549214139625842&mid=C808801FF322B6BD5AE0C808801FF322B6BD5AE0&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 16:44:02 GMT -8
So why the hell is the father leaving his family at the plantation? No...don't answer that. I'll find out. There's a distinct difference between Uncle Remus and Al Sharpton. It's a subtle quality. There could be no more graphic example of the Disney of then and now. You can absolutely trust your child to Uncle Remus. But no way in hell can parents trust their children to the perverts running Disney now (or, hopefully, who are no longer running it).
What do you think would best forward racial harmony? If everyone watched Song of the South or gave lip service to Black Lives Matter?
There's a rift between the husband and the wife. Given that this is a Disney film before the perverts took over, it's not likely that the film will delve into that. But Uncle Bradley can already tell what the problem is. She's miffed because he actually HAS TO WORK FOR A LIVING and thus can't shower her with nonstop attention.
Those two boys are future White Trash. Or maybe they've already reached that status.
And what a dried up c-word the mother is. Man...this movie anticipated feminism by twenty years.
Disney can't make them like this anymore. It's funny that the cunt-woman was the proverbial snake in the Southern Garden of Eden. Foreshadowing? I don't know.
But it all works out...but not before a quite possibly tragic ending. No bull.
The child acting is superb and generally better than anything they can do today. James Baskett is good as Uncle Remus. Hattie McDaniel has a relatively small role as Aunt Tempy. But we all know Hattie.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 18:42:32 GMT -8
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Post by artraveler on Feb 9, 2023 18:44:17 GMT -8
James Baskett was voted an Academy Honorary Award for his portrayal of Uncle Remus, the first African-American man to win any kind of Oscar. Critics say that Song of the South does not represent the pre-war south accurately. Of course it doesn't but it also should not as it is right there in the title "Song". A song is an idealized story that is not necessarily fact. And Remus is a story teller. This was one of the first movies made after WWII that presented a Black actor in a staring role. Also in this movie is Hattie McDonald who was in the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind. Yes, there are patronizing aspects to the movie but don't let the attitudes of almost 80 years ago influence the charm. Instead of pulling the movie from distribution Disney should have asked all the CA progressives where they were in promoting Black actors in 1946.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 9, 2023 19:53:38 GMT -8
Yeah, like any of the libtard movies represent reality. Here's a hint for them: It's a movie.
I like watching biographies too. But this one was a movie. And this whole "does not represent the pre-war South" is false on the face of it. There were indeed plantations that were run by benevolent owners. And although I in no way apologize for slavery, it's arguable that many were living better lives than they would have been back in Africa where they would have been subject to being slaughtered by any wandering tribe (assuming they weren't first sold into slavery by those same tribes).
Every person is born into circumstances. We strive to better those circumstances, but real life continues even so...and often quite outside the preferred narratives of the Leftist monsters.
I can't think of a better movie that shows blacks and whites living together in harmony. This is, of course, not the preferred narrative of those who want to sow victimhood and grievance between the races. However real or unreal this movie was, it was not sowing racial grievance. In fact, it was doing exactly the opposite.
Yep. Like Rush used to say when all the actors used to make a big show about how minorities don't win as many Oscars, and I paraphrase: But you're the people who do the voting. So if you don't have enough blacks winning Oscars, the problem is with you liberal Hollywood actors. It's not my problem. It's not the problem caused by average Americans who have no vote in the academy."
I have come to loathe everything about Hollywood. They are deserving these days of nothing but our scorn, and certainly not our dollars.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 10, 2023 8:03:53 GMT -8
By the way, I saw Br'er Fox as Nancy Pelosi and Br'er Bear as Chuck Schumer.
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Post by kungfuzu on Feb 11, 2023 13:56:53 GMT -8
The discussion got me wondering if we had an old VHS of "The Song of the South." I checked, and unfortunately, we don't. As to those who find Uncle Remus degrading, I remind them that in most of America, as in many places across the world, calling an unrelated older man "Uncle" is a sign of respect. It was not only an acknowledgement that someone has more experience in life than oneself, but that one's comportment is also somehow proper, non-threatening at the very least, generally kind. Calling someone uncle shows much more respect and attachment that calling them Mr. I believe I have previously mentioned, the only man I called uncle, who was not a blood relative, was a German Jew who got out of Das Reich in 1938. He was a good man who was kind to my family, but especially to my father and me. I knew I was old when a beautiful young Chinese nurse in Singapore called me uncle. I hope that I have picked up a certain amount of wisdom with the years. I need some compensation for getting old.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 11, 2023 14:08:11 GMT -8
Good points. That reminds me that in the Chee and Leaphorn novels, younger men would often call older men "Uncle," whether they were in the immediate Navajo clan or not.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Feb 21, 2023 17:57:49 GMT -8
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Post by Brad Nelson on Mar 12, 2023 9:17:47 GMT -8
NYPD Cops Are Fleeing At Record Rates Due to Ravaging CrimeTalk about people voting with their feet. It's not fair perhaps to call them rodents, but it seems the rats are leaving the sinking ship. New York must be the most over-rated city in the world. Don't give me that "If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere" nonsense. You can't even protect what you have. You keep voting in politicians who are ruining whatever good is in your city...and all because you're married to your sick religion of Progressivism. You will live on lawless streets rather than admit you were wrong. No doubt New York will hire more officers. But there's no way that quality people will migrate to New York for a job. No good cop will want to "make it there." The NYPD will likely just lower its standards even more and put warm bodies into the positions. And the exodus of sane people will continue as the loonies become more and more concentrated in the City of Doom.
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