When You’re Holding a Hammer…
…everything looks like a nail.
Not much into country music, but this video over at Ace of Spades is pretty good:
What’s amazing is the guy who co-wrote the song got fired from his teaching job after some parents complained and the school administration caved.
Which brings up, once again, the need to completely, totally and ruthlessly purge liberals of any stripe from the ranks of government jobs, boards and elected positions. They just have to go.
As Ace says:
This is how it is going to have to be: First of all, all of the school board members here have to be run against, and run hard against, and ejected from office. And then the principal needs to be fired, and every administrator along the way.
Second: Conservatives must begin, immediately, to get liberals fired from their jobs for any political expression. Any. Political. Expression.
We have tried to reason to them that this fascism is unfair. They don’t care, they don’t get it. All they see is the upside of fascism, the “good” side, the happy side, the I-get-to-coerce-my-opponents-and-hold-them-in-terror side.
They haven’t been held in terror themselves, worried that any stray comment they make may cause them to lose their livelihood (in the worst recession since the depression, no less). They do not “behave” as conservatives are forced to stay in line because they haven’t experienced the terror of of a hostile political bloc which has seized control of all the apparatuses of government.
They must be made to be afraid. And when a certain number of them have experienced the bad side of fascism, perhaps then they will be amenable to reason.
But they won’t be until then. It’s time to start using their despicable tactics against them. Not out of vengeance — but as a teachable moment.
Fire them all.
Mitch Miller RIP
Mitch Miller is dead at 99.
AP called him the “goateed orchestra leader who asked American’s to Sing Along With Mitch on television and records.”
I remember we had a couple of his albums: his holiday album and this one too.
Miller had a show in TV that started, I think, in 1961. Here’s a clip:
Here’s another:
Mitch Miller made singing fun and reminded people that really anyone can sing, you don’t have to have a “singer’s voice.”
Many years ago, we belonged to a Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America congregation in Pittsburgh. One of the distinctives of that denomination is that they don’t use musical instruments in worship services or sing anything but Psalms acapella.
Going there for a decade or so, I learned to read music, and sing bass (I have a very deep voice). I also learned that the four parts of four-part harmony make it possible for everyone to sing, regardless of whether you have a very high voice or very deep.
Mitch Miller’s music sounds corny now, but it was really a lot easier and fun to sing to than just about anything you hear on the radio today. In fact, most popular music is impossible to sing to.
As he said himself of rock and roll:
Rock ‘n’ roll is musical baby food: it is the worship of mediocrity, brought about by a passion for conformity.
Mitch Miller: RIP
Frozen Wasteland
Surefire Way to Build Strength and Stamina
Uhhh, no thanks.
More Snow Pics
Confluence in Winter
Took the daughter and dog for a short hike down to the confluence of the Rappahannock and Rapidan rivers.
Lots of snow on the ground.
Time Lapsed Vancouver
This is probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in along time:
Everyone’s Finally Equal
A short film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s story Harrison Bergeron:
The film is produced by these folks: The Moving Picture Institute.
Here’s the text of the original story, one of my favorite short stories.
Mr Blue Sky
‘We’ll Vote You OUTTA There!’
Good old Ray Stevens:
God & Dogs
Got this in an email today. Kind of schmaltzy…
Puts me in mind of the joke about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac…
Smart Doggy
Be Still My Soul
Merry Christmas
‘If It Weren’t For Bad Luck…’
“I’d have no luck at all.”
Just saying.
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