albefree69 said:
Thordaddy watching the wrong media:
Well ya know if the media was responsible they'd all be gay, cuz that's the only agenda I see being "pushed"
Civil rights, climate change, sane drug policies, EPA, protection of all the constitutional amendments, protection of animals and species, reduction of crime, job creation and women's rights to name just a very few. If you watch the right media. Come on over to my house and you can see it on my TVs all day long (except when I'm napping). I'll provide the beer and pretzels.
Gotta step out of the box you're in and stretch your eyes and mind if the only agenda you're seeing pushed is LGBT rights. :ww:
There is a difference between pushing an agenda and reporting on it Al, your box ? I've BEEN IN the liberal box before, was FWIW before you , WORE an All the Way With Alalai iridescent campaign button to school. YUP that's right I was a Dem supporter in 1956 when Stephenson lost for the second time to Eisenhower.
So I've had those pretzels and FYI they are stale the beer is flat ,the phylosophy is trite and built around emotional satisfaction instead of applicable solutions,that BTW is why discussions turn angry,you can't disagree with people who center their belief in their self worth upon their political positions, they just go back to intent instead of results.
NOW back to the REAL point of my post which was that the media follows more than it leads, for ALL their belief that they do and arrogance about it ,there was no Fox a short time ago they didn't lead people to believe the side of the news they allegedly taut and report they discovered there was a huge segment of the population who didn't agree with the liberal bent of the media.
Today Fox is number one because people aren't lead, they seek,Rush Limbaugh's success is not because he is some imagined Pied Piper as his detractors proclaim, it is, as he has said repeatedly, because he says what his listeners already think and want said.
Our culture leads the media and if they don't give us what we want they go broke.
The "gay " comment was a metaphor AL ,for the fact that ESPN didn't cause the culture , Aaron Hernandez and the rest of the NFL gun culture didn't materialize because someone with so little power you could shut them up by changing channels lead us anywhere. NO our government has unwittingly orchestrated this culture through inescapable policies backed by scads of poorly conceived laws, billions upon billions of dollars spent upon forceful ,doomed to failure ,behavior modification.
Our government has done this by believing they could change people by making a law. Laws don't govern ,they prescribe penalties ,fear of penalty governs. When desire overcomes fear,law fails,when desire is prompted by nature,law that ignores nature is bound to fail and ignorant "governors" redouble their fanatic desire to change nature and the more violent they become in their obsession the more violent the society will become in it's defiance.
We've skirted race here and it's something that political correctness will always demand .
Here's the fact ,hockey and baseball don't apparently have the culture football and basketball do because they are more predominantly white sports where skills have to be honed and fostered young by interested adults and the economic reality is that black kids don't have the dads who help them .
I've watched it transpire over the years, it's the same in wrestling.
Football and basketball lend themselves to the family and cultural dynamics of black youth.
That alone would mean nothing , but then when you compound it with the demographics of prison occupancy promulgated by the drug prohibition you come up with an alarming percentage of young black men who are ex cons so many it is almost hard to believe it isn't planned,big brother, dads uncles , fresh from prison on mid to low level drug charges, unemployable because they dropped out of HS and have prison records, ready cash if they go back in "the trade" , "you always carry weapons cuz you always carry cash" and the formula is pretty well on auto pilot.
It has frankly become a near right of passage in ghetto thug life to "pop your cherry" by being arrested for drugs.
Rush BTW is way off the mark on this ,he's pro prohibition but has indulged his own humanity in illegal drug commerce to the extent he needed cochlear implants,doesn't mean he doesn't have part of the answer,he just misses on where the seeds really get planted and how to short circuit the whole thing if in deed we aren't beyond a tipping point.
I know someone in another thread said even with legalization there'll still be black markets, which is true IF we are so imprudent as to let excess taxation become a de facto re institution of prohibition,I recommend reading the prologue to "The Fatal Shore" ( the story of the Botany Bay colonists).
It's a mistake to politicize peoples positions on this ,politics is how power brokers divide people but if I can break from that for just a single post, most know I'm regarded as an arch conservative ,pretty well I'm guilty but JMO few conservatives are pure in their ideology when it comes to drugs, most are happy to see the government intervene and try to save people from themselves in what I consider to be about as liberal a use of government as anything I've ever seen.
I don't blame anyone but Aaron Hernandez for what he did or is accused of, he was given choices ,I do blame the people who made his choices too easily made wrong for not being honest with themselves about their part in the whole.
Gotta get our heads out of our arses here, the people who own AB don't shoot the people who own Jack Daniels ,but if beer and whiskey were illegal they'd still be shooting each other.
