Fourth of July <S>Open Thread</s> DENIED!
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I've seen these referenced on a few other blogs, and I want to see if I've gotten the formatting right. First, "No More Kings":
...but this one is my favorite (besides "Elbow Room", of course) AmericaRock:
God, were these things subversive! When I was in grad school, I once had the opportunity to sing the Preamble in class. By the end, everyone was singing along... except for the professor, who had never heard it.
Draw your own conclusions.
Update [2006-7-4 15:23:44 by Moe Lane]: Besides the conclusion that I didn't see the open thread craftily hiding in plain view, of course. But that doesn't exactly need to be drawn, does it? It's just sort of... there.
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First, "Truth, Justice and all that stuff" now Captain America is Captain Ecotopia ?
I'm glad ONE of us knows what I am saying, even if it is YOU! :-)
can get a dvd of all 46 of them for under $20 (shipped).
not good at posting links:
my favorite, btw: "i'm just a bill...yes i'm only a bill..."
We were traveling the other weekend and Captian America was on the TV where we were eating! (NOSNARK about our choice of restaurants, please!)
Anyways, I mentioned to my friend that CA was leftist claptrap all about how corporate America was polluting and evil...sure enough, the evil corporations (looking strangely like nazi pigs) started dumping toxic waste everywhere and CA had to save the day. It gave me indigestion! (OK, it might have been the food!)
No nieces as an excuse -- I bought the tapes for myself some time ago. Also have the CDs for some of them. They make great travelling music!
katey
These are some really supergood videos. They rock!!!
Todays pampered, self-indulgent kids sure miss out on not getting a dose of this with their saturday morning commercials....errr....cartoons.
Sheesh. Do you people ever give up? How do you get out of bed in the morning with the crushing weight of your hate, anger, and / or paronia bearing down on you?
Professors who have never heard the preamble, P.C police (they must be undercover ... I've never seen one) running wild, and of course pampered kids. Geez, "lions and tigers and bears OH MY!" Hey, no "liberal blah blah blah blah" rants to round out the thread?
You people need to get a grasp on whats real. Santorum makes you guys like sane and he is nuttier than a fruit cake.
It's fairly clear from context that what I had wrote was that the professor in question had never heard the song; and as for your first question... actually, I sleep like a baby and wake up with a smile on my lips.
Except on Thursdays. Thursdays are a chore.
Moe
PS: Moderate your tone in the future.
School-House Rock!
I Hated that stuff! Still do. Had the first video going for about 5 seconds before I realized what I was watching.
I first had to suffer through it in High School as a Junior. Felt like my teacher had just assigned some Golden Books for book reports...
...really good teaching tool. BAD idea to introduce it to 16 year olds...
... his union pension is going to be capped. Oh, and is just now starting to realize his team is not going to win anything this fall except more spam from planet Kos.
Um, it might not be the best choice of metaphor to compare the space shuttle to a powder-laden rocket that goes up in the air a short way before exploding.
Just sayin'.
And do they still show stuff like this? I'm pretty certain today's version would have Indians helpless slaughtered by greedy colonists, and diatribes about how the excessive taxation of George I was vastly preferable to the borrowing spree that the country went on in its earliest years.
ANybody know if the series has ever been available for purchase? (and under what name?)
- The Capitol was not in that form, or indeed in any solid form, in 1787. Schoolhouse Rock lied, people of many cultures cried!
- The clear-cutting of trees at the end clearly shows why Bushitlerhallibenron is trying to steal the Middle East's oil and right to leave peacefully on top of the corpses of the Joooos!
/ Koslim mode off
Actually one of the most interesting thing I saw in watching the DVDs was that there were people of many backgrounds. Bizarrely enough they all seemed to be Americans. Who woulda thunk?
Robot Chicken had a great parody of Captain Planet, showing Ted Turner dressing as Captain Planet and doing boneheaded things. Much more entertaining than the original show!
Nobody on this blog has commented on the greatest fireworks show of the day (the greatest fireworks show in the country IMHO and of course, the demonstration of American know-how, technological power and will).
God Speed Discovery and her crew.
That lefties can make a common criticisms of them--they they are humorless, oppressively negative, and egregiously paranoid and conspiratorial in their thinking--stick to right-wing pundits simply lobbing empty criticisms.
While this may work in some arenas--everybody lies about sex!--trying to make a simple comment about a class professor being unfamiliar with School House Rock (an observation of a generational difference, nothing more) into some sort of mouth-frothing rant against liberal America ain't going to fly.
In other words, the answer to the Democrat's and the left's woes in America, brought on in no small part by their humorless antipathy towards everything remotely conservative, their politically correct intolerance, and the venom of their invective, is not to make lame attempts to tar Republicans and the right with that same brush. Even when there is some truth to it, there's no comparison of degree that will make any sense except to comitted left.
They need to reign in their own behavior (and focus on social policy, which, ironically, they could often win on, if they could stop running on how much they hate Bush and don't like the military except when they die) .
But running on spelled-out policy initiatives is apparently too complicated, or too boring. So . . . you guys are nuttier than Santorum! That's the ticket for winning the hearts and minds of the American people.
Heh.
I only had to replay that first clip for my kids 15 times.... ;)