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Weekend Music Thread – Got Change?

Sam Cooke, “Change Gonna Come”

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On July 9, 2011 @ 1:00 pm

Weekend Music Thread – Love and Marriage

Congratulations to the Gays on the right to get hitched! Kiss Kiss!

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On June 26, 2011 @ 1:48 pm

The Georgia Satellites, Keep Your Hands to Yourself(till I get a wedding ring, of course!)

If You Want to Be Happy for the Rest of Your Life – Jimmy Soul

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On June 26, 2011 @ 1:23 pm

The Weekend Music Thread – Water

Once in a Lifetime, The Talking Heads

This May Be Love(Waterfall), Jimi Hendrix

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On June 18, 2011 @ 9:17 am

Weekend Music Thread – Armegeddon Rock

I woke up and the world was still here. Because….

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On May 22, 2011 @ 4:58 am

Happy Motoring!

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On April 30, 2011 @ 8:11 pm

Bageant and Webb: Virginia Will Miss’Em

Joe Bageant was a great voice in the wilderness, and I am going to miss him. We have far to few of his kind: a smart Bubba who didn’t turn his back on his background, but who spoke up for the people around him and their suffering, without ignoring their many flaws.

Both parties have thrown the working class under the bus, for the most part. Individual politicians will occasionally try to bring it up, but if they start getting anywhere, they are accused of ‘class warfare’ and ‘socialism’. The powers that be(the wealthy elite) do everything they can to keep people divided into parties, red vs. blue, North vs South, coasts vs. middle America, black vs white, white collar vs blue collar. Anything to keep the masses from joining forces against the people who use them up, rob them blind and throw them away without a second thought.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 30, 2011 @ 7:17 am

To Censor Or Not To Censor

What’s, I think I do understand your point. Your point is that certain ideas should be outlawed because you find them extremely disturbing. While I sympathize with you, and agree on the disturbing part, I can’t agree with you on the outlawing of the free expression of ideas.

When you espouse the concept of the ‘human spirit’ and ‘thought sphere’, you are endorsing ‘group think’, and basically saying that if any individuals think anything different and actually try to express themselves, they should be prevented.

I come from a very conservative place. I am very familiar with the kind of person who wants to shut down any speech or acts that ‘don’t fit in’. They consider expression of certain ideas ‘pollution’. Ideas like questioning religion. Ideas like evolution. Ideas like women having sexual freedom or the right to contraception.

Everybody thinks some ideas are so harmful to others that they ought to be silenced, and I’m sure you don’t agree with most of them. Why is it when it is the idea that you think is so dangerous, it’s different?

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 29, 2011 @ 7:30 am

“Thought sphere?” Really? I’d be willing I think a lot of things you wouldn’t care for. I bet you a lot of a things I don’t like at all. I’m all for your right to think ’em, and even speak ’em, and if you try to censor me, it will need to be enforced by force. Is that what you are willing to do? Punish me for thinking?

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 29, 2011 @ 5:46 am

Heh, I can so relate to that. I’ve frequently ranted about what I would do if I woud do if I were in charge and how we’d all be better off, blah, blah, blah, but I try to always make sure to let my listeners or readers know that I don’t really think I should rule the world! *grins*

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 28, 2011 @ 8:15 pm

“You would not bother to distribute this if there was absolutely NO money to be made from it.”

You do realize the internet is stuffed to the gills with free porn? Photos, art, fiction, movies, all produced and distributed by people with zero commercial interest, simply because it is something that appeals to them. A lot of it is dark and scary, too. Do we ban that as well?

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 28, 2011 @ 8:07 pm

“The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes

While this is not always easy to sort out, I am pretty sure we can’t hurt each other by thinking, or I would be committing homicide in traffic pretty much every day.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 28, 2011 @ 7:59 pm

What facts are crystal clear? Lots of things are sold that are potentially harmfull, and I don’t care for you having a right to tell me I can’t have them. Bacon, cigarettes, chocolate, etc. If you try to ban me from eating twinkies, why can’t I ban you from rock-climbing or roller-blading? I might wind up diabetic, and you might wind up paraplegic.

Porn is like donuts. I am sure that compared to other foods, donuts could be argued to have little or no nutritional value. Most people who eat donuts seem to come to no harm. Some people who eat lots of donuts become obese and die. No one was deceived into thinking they were eating salad; they knew they were eating donuts. No one was deceived into thinking donuts were healthy.

Maybe you find donuts disgusting, and people who eat donuts contemptible, but as long as no one is pinning you down and forcing the donut down your throat, hands off our donuts.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 28, 2011 @ 7:50 pm

If you don’t like torture porn, don’t watch it. I certainly don’t, and there are a lot of things I’ve watched, read or merely skimmed that made me want to bleach my brain afterwards, but I have never found anything I thought should be banned.

Adults should be able to watch, listen to, read and think about anything they like, regardless of how much it makes other people cringe, shudder, retch and gag. They are adults, and supposedly able to differentiate between weird, squicky fiction and reality, and if they can’t, it probably isn’t due to what they were watching on telly.

ss I am dead set against the patronizing attitude that a group of upright and clever people should get to make the decision on what the general public should be exposed to, for their own good. Especially since I don’t believe there are many upright and clever people, and the few that their are generally don’t end up in positions of authority.

Grown ups can sift the wheat from the chaff for themselves, and if the chaff is what gets them stiff, so what? Unless they go out and inflict harm on the unwilling, no f*cking harm done, and imo, them that wants to inflict harm don’t need no freaking prodding from bad movies. Vlad the Impaler and Jack the Ripper didn’t require instruction from the media, after all.

All censorship is the thought police. If you don’t like something, don’t consume it.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 28, 2011 @ 5:38 pm

We Are Aiding and Abetting the Republicans

I think a lot of Left-leaning folks like myself are sick unto death of being held hostage by the Democrats. Candidates like Obama make a lot of progressive promises when they are running for office, but after they win and don’t come thru, or even seem to be trying, we are supposed to just sit down and shut up, because otherwise we are TRAITORS who will cause the boogeyman to be elected next time. You know what? I say let the boogeyman get elected, if that’s what it takes to get progressives back out in the streets screaming about civil rights, torture, Guantanamo Bay, money corrupting politics, green energy and the other issues that I for one care about more than which damned party wins. A pox on both their parties.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 24, 2011 @ 7:39 pm

Time Out for O/T – Vol. 15

This video is an example of behavior that makes me cringe, both from the ‘Park Police’, who have a bad case of ‘respect our authoritah!!’, and the protesters, who could have played it a little cooler and made a better impression.

However, this law does need to be opposed. I would prefer it was protested by appeals to the media and the legal system, but if people must protest by breaking the law, I do hope they can do it with both non-violence and not argue with the cops who are just the enforcers, not the law-makers.

Why do I think this law should be opposed? Because of the asine and totally terrifying reason it was passed: “in order to maintain an atmosphere of calm, tranquility, and reverence”. In other words, it is a law enforcing a few people, or even just one judge’s sense of decorum. The dancers were completely silent, and nowhere near anyone else, or likely to be a hazard to other visitors. They were clearly not bothering anybody until the Park Police did their storm trooper imitation.

As a life-long nonconformist, I have no words strong enough to express my sense of alarm at that. It’s too easy to let small things slide, too easy to say ‘just let them go dance somewhere else’. But our legal system works by precedents. What else might offend a few people’s sense of decorum? What about tasteless or politically opinionated tee shirts? Really short skirts or skimpy tops? Kissing in public? Or maybe just gays kissing in public? There are a lot of things that offend a few people, and if we start passing laws against them, we may wake up living under the American Taliban and wonder WTF happened to our country.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On June 1, 2011 @ 6:42 pm

This is the most infectious laugh I’ve ever seen.

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On May 18, 2011 @ 4:24 pm

Just who are these people preaching to you, and are they holding you at gunpoint to prevent you from saying ‘not interested,’ or ‘I don’t discuss religion’? I mean, I know zealots can be annoying, but as a recovering Baptist turned anti-theist, I assure you that you are not winning any arguments with your clever little movie.

This kind of thing is preaching to the choir, so to speak. So are you actually trying to change hearts and minds, or is this just a smug expression of how much smarter you are than believers?

» Posted By Crazy Cat Lady On March 24, 2011 @ 3:18 pm