Important Stuff -- Or Not: I Left My Brain in San Francisco

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

I Left My Brain in San Francisco

I'm going to turn in early tonight. I'll deal with the following when I wake up. Feel free to comment before I put my two cents in.

Legendary singer TONY BENNETT has slammed his home country of America for not contributing anything other than jazz music to world art and culture. The IF I RULED THE WORLD crooner feels that Europe and Asia offer far more culturally than America does. Bennett says, "I have traveled around the world to Asia and Europe. They show you what they have contributed to the world. The British show you theatre, the Italians show you music and art, the French show you cooking and painting, and the Germans show you science. "The only thing that the United States, which is still a young country, has contributed culturally to the world is jazz - elongated improvisation. It's tragic." And Bennett feels that Americans don't even appreciate the impact of jazz in popular culture. He says, "Fifty years from now people will be bowing to DIZZY GILLESPIE and CHARLIE PARKER, just like impressionist painters like MONET, who were starving in their day. The Americans don't even know what they have come up with."

I'm up. What's going on with these people who earn unbelievable fame and fortune in this nation and then turn around and trash the country that gave them everything they have? Tony Bennet made his fame and fortune in recordings, radio, television and movies. Where were recordings, radio, television, movies -- and the worldwide industries that followed -- invented? Right here. I've traveled around the world to Asia and Europe myself and can tell you that I always breath a deep sigh of relief whenever I return to my homeland. The conveniences we take for granted here are unknown in much of the world. Mr. Bennet is very selective with his examples. Germany gave us science? What world-changing inventions or discoveries have come out of Germany since the turn of the 20th century? There's the first pregnancy test. But the Germans also brought us two world wars, the Nazis and the Holocaust. The French show you cooking and painting. What, nobody else cooks and paints? I have some black-eyed peas and hamhocks bubbling in my crockpot right now that I'll put up against any French cuisine. The French also gave us the Reign of Terror, colonialism that is still causing disruption all over the world -- and a knife in the back every chance they get. This is all senile nonsense. Tony Bennet denies that America has contributed ANYTHING to culture other than Jazz? Well, let's see. In the field of literature, there were such American authors as:

Willa Cather Kate Chopin James Fenimore Cooper William Faulkner F. Scott Fitzgerald Charlotte Perkins Gilman Nathaniel Hawthorne Ernest Hemingway W.D. Howells Washington Irving Jerzy Kosinski Herman Melville Vladimir Nabokov Edgar Allen Poe Ayn Rand J.D. Salinger John Steinbeck Harriet Beecher Stowe Mark Twain Edith Wharton Walt Whitman

And those are just some of the ones who are dead. How about American composers? Well, I was going to post a list of names like George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Scott Joplin, etc. But the list I found was a thousand names long and didn't even include Dolly Parton (snooty music critics). It has become more than clear now that the way to spot a fanatic, a liar, a moron, or just someone who's going senile, is whether they make anti-American comments. If they do, they're wrong, wrong, wrong every time. This is the greatest country in human history and anyone who says it's not is nuts.

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Talking Points

I don't use talking points, I create them.

1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

7. The race card is the first refuge of people who have nothing to say.

8. Ignorance is the cornerstone of arrogance.

9. Which is more racist, to hate someone who is not white or to assume someone is racist because he is white?

10. Children are not stupid. If a child is taught, the child will learn. If a child is not learning, the child is not being taught.

11. To express righteous indignation, one must first be righteous. And that's a label that doesn't stick to liberals.

12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

25 Immutable Truths About Liberals

Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.