You aren’t cool with Kid Rock and Mixed Martial Arts?

I bet you drive an electric Volvo and sip white wine!!


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Grey Poupon!

I drove a Ford Ranger with more than 300,000 miles on it, and I’ve never liked white wine.

Hilariously, Trumpanzees are usually the laziest and most stupid people I’ve ever met.

The ones who worked for me were always more trouble than they were worth.

Good lord this country is at a low point in its history.

In the span of my lifetime this is how far we have fallen. What were Virtues are now Vices We now boast what was once Shameful. We can no longer point to those in power and encourage our Children to emulate their Ethics and Humanity. Religion no longer lights the Way for Seekers, but has abandoned the precepts set forth by their Savior in favor of Wealth and Power (Did Christ ever enter a Gilt edifice? Or use his "Bully Pulpit" to insult and berate women?).
"I Blame the Pastors" would be the epitaph I would leave. They have failed their Flock and made them the Wolves.
This Friday I will have completed my seventy-fifth trip around the Sun and I was hoping the World would be a better place.
Sorry.
Ain't Dead Yet.
Hoping to live long enough to see his name scourged from our Story.

Do they hear themselves when they openly mock the very precepts that their Savior taught in plain language?

You are correct with everything you posted.

I was about 11 and growing up in Saint Louis at the time. We all loved President Kennedy of course, and Leonard Bernstein was as close to godliness as you could get in those days. We saw this on TV of course, at my grandparents' house because they had a COLOR TV! I never played a string instrument but my sister and I had many years of piano lessons.

Thank you for posting this video!

It makes me smile and at the same time tear up.

Thank you, sheshe. We all need a lovely boost from time to time. This musical video certainly fills the bill.

with a phenomenal choir and out of this world acoustics while Barak and Michelle rocked out and Robert Plant sat in tears. Also sitting in the audience was Yo-Yo Ma. He was like the face of pure joy. Of course he was well into adulthood then, but I enjoyed his reaction so much. At the time I didn't realize that he had performed there at age seven. How far we have fallen is right.

...it seemed as if the United States might survive.

From "The Joffrey Ballet, Robert Joffrey and the Making of an American Dance Company":

"Jacqueline Kennedy's presence at the rehearsal was not an accident. She was instrumental in raising the president's awareness of the arts, coaxing him to speak out on behalf of artists. His words inspired those within the Senate, such as Humbert H. Humphrey, Jacob J. Javits, Joseph S. Clark, and especially Claiborne Pell and Pell's staff writer, Livingston Biddle, who were trying to legislate a government arts program that would evolve into the National Council on the Arts. The United States was the only country in the Western world that did not subsidize the arts, the only one.

"In the reception line afterward, Arpino was thanked by Rose Kennedy. He responded, 'Oh, I'm pleased you liked the ballet.' 'I'm not thanking you for that,' she said. 'But this is the first time I have ever seen my son Jack stay awake for a performance. That's what I'm thanking you for.' Later ... the president entered the room and spied Noel Mason, Joffrey's youngest and perhaps most attractive dancer. The president asked Arpino if he would be so kind as to introduce her to him. Joffrey intervened ... ."

What a wonderful read.

That is America.

Jackie Kennedy's French chef, elegant fashion sense, love of the arts. Now she'd be bashed as an upper class wealthy elite probably. So was FDR, but these days people are busy playing with their Socialist FDR dolls and No-Really-FDR-Was-Socialist New Deal Playset.