I have questions today.
When the Dixie Chicks won Grammies this year for a bad album (it was), why was there was an uproar over the “politics” of the voting (which I agree with, BTW, because it was politics that won those Grammies, it sure as hell wasn’t the music), but when Toby Keith won “Entertainer of the Year” the same year Natalie Maines called his song “ignorant” (which it was), why wasn’t there any admission from the right that his Entertainer award was political (which it was)?
Why is Barry Bonds still allowed to play baseball, and Sammy Sosa allowed to come back, and Bud Selig still allowed to be the commissioner?
Why is it that Tony Stewart gets put on probation and fined for asking a fair question (”what debris?”) and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. has actual points taken away, costing him big money, for a slipping up and saying “shit” on the air, but Jimmie Johnson gets to keep victories and points and money despite having illegal cars?
Why is this country so afraid of showing a bare boob on TV, but doesn’t mind showing graphic, bloody murders or brutal torture?Â
Why can the same people who say “you can’t tell me if I can own a gun or not” think it’s okay to tell complete strangers thousands of miles away what they can or cannot do with their own bodies?
Why is it whenever the left questions the right, they are immediately told to leave the country and “go live in Canada or Cuba”? Why do they think they’re the ones that get to stay? Why don’t THEY leave if they don’t like what the left has to say?
Why is organized religion allowed to help shape our political scenery when they don’t pay taxes like the rest of us? Instead of “taxation without representation”, it seems to me that churches have “representation without taxation”.
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11Bravo
// May 1, 2007 at 6:26 pm
Why is it the left always think their answer is the right answer?
Why is it the left thinks I don’t have the right to know what kind of prcocedures my kids are undertaking when they are not yet adults?
Why is it the left thinks “entertainer of the year” has to be great art, its called ENTERTAINER not Picaso.
As for the NASCAR and TV comments I agree though. And liberals are usually the ones who do leave and go to Canada or Cuba or claim they will when something doesn’t go their way. I think it goes along way in showing that their allegiance is to their own personal ideology as opposed to the foundations this country was built upon.
Churches don’t shape our political scenery the people who attend those churches, and pay taxes, do. Church, just like business, isn’t some kind of monolithic being that controls people’s minds (although there are a few exceptions). Its a group of people who come together because of a common belief so why are they not allowed to articulate their belief like you do on this blog? Do you pay a blog tax in order to use this as a soapbox
Both sides play these games with one another, its not solely the left or solely the right. The situations you are complaining about and the same ones I am complaining about represent a small portion of those political groups, most on both sides are good people who want the best for all of us. To say one or the other causes problems is to be part of the problem.
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Anon E. Mouse
// May 1, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Why hasn’t anyone shown any shred of evidence that Sammy was juiced? Yeah, he probably was, but there isn’t the smoking gun like there is with Barry and McGuire.
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bjstone
// May 2, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Bravo, first of all thanks for responding. Glad you made it over here.
To respond…the left doesn’t always think it’s “right”, but the current power on the far right is always wrong.
I don’t get the connection to your kids. What’d I miss?
You missed the point about the awards. I don’t think the Dixie Chicks should have won awards for that music. It wasn’t any good. They won the award politically. I don’t think it has to be Picasso, but it sure as hell oughta be good music, can you agree with that? My only question is why won’t people acknowledge that Toby’s award was JUST AS political?
Yep on NASCAR and TV. Outside of Alec Baldwin (who said he was going to leave and didn’t…and therefore is full of shit), I have never heard a liberal say he/she is leaving. I was born here. I’m stayin’. And I can say whatever I think, and shouldn’t be told “if you don’t like it, leave”.
Churches DO affect political policy. When clergymen get up and tell people from the pulpit who they should vote for, when religious leaders and the Vatican make no bones about what candidate they favor, but don’t pay taxes, then that’s wrong. I will provide links to back my statement in another new post.
And I totally agree about that game playing, and that most people want what’s best. I’ve always said you’ve got 20% on the far left, 20% on the far right, and 60% in the middle. Unfortunately, the 60% is also the 60% that is too lazy or uninterested to vote. But there IS a problem WHENEVER one side gets control of everything. The framers had a system of checks and balances. From 2000 to 2006, there were no checks and balances, and the country went right in the shitter. No doubt about it.
Huge deficits, class warfare resulting in a disappearing middle class, attacks on our own freedoms by the closest thing we’ve ever had to an Imperial government, tax breaks for huge corporations and unlimited and unprecedented profits for oil companies while you and I pay twice as much for gas as we should be. Healthcare and insurance costs spiraling uncontrollably while the drug companies get richer and richer. An unjust war and the first time in 225 years this great country has attacked, UNPROVOKED, a soveriegn nation. Iraq had NOTHING to do with Bin Laden and 9/11. I know it, you know it, Bush knows it, the country knows it. So is one side to blame? You tell me.
Mouse, you go ahead and keep thinking Sosa was clean. Any chance you defend him because he was a Cub? Don’t tell me that doesn’t play into your thinking.
Sosa admitted to Creatine and Andro, gained 30 pounds in one offseason, bragged about his willingness to take a piss test, then got indignant when Rick Rielly called him on it and brought him a container in the locker room, and even with all the ‘roids in his system still saw the need to use a corked bat. What a hero. He’s not AS big a joke as Bonds or McGwire, he’s a BIGGER joke, mainly because of the “I’ll take a test and prove it” bluff.
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ilstateredbird
// May 14, 2007 at 3:02 am
Churches also gets out the vote. I was recently in VA, the area is home to Pat Robertson. His group can get the vote out on local and National issues. They also can raise large sums of money.
With the US Representatives running every two years they get out and support their candidates. If the Dem’s would ever put somebody up to run against Ray LaHood you would see a lot of these outside groups throwing money, people to help their candidate, and just plain electionering for their candidate.
They have passion for the cause, they have organization, and they have a large organization to protect.
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