“Come Monday…” is a weekly series that will
involve a review of (or commentary about) websites, movies, documentaries,
television shows, sports, music, and whatever else may tickle my fancy at the
time. Be assured that these reviews will
be generally positive, as in accordance to the Jimmy Buffett song “Come Monday.” This is subject to change, however. In fact, I would be most derelict in my duties
to neglect going on a rant every once in a while. For rants promote change, and change can be
good—right? Therefore, since good is
generally considered as being a positive force in 99.3% of the parallel universes
that I am aware of, even a rant could be considered as being something
positive, and a genuine hissy-fit would be even better (so I’m told).
If you are regular,
you already know that my very poor physical health forces me to live a fairly
miserable life. There are, however, four
months out of every year that affords me some very welcome relief. ‘Tis the season for this. For the time for real football to be played
is upon us again.
Oh, but my joy has
been seriously threatened by the resurrection of political-correctness. In all fairness, it is arguable that the PC
virus has been just lying dormant for the past few years. For with with the liberal democrats holding
the reins of political power, bleeding hearts are loathed to go around staining
their reputations.
Ah, but the
barbarians of the National Football League and their fans are more than fair
game. First came the outrage over
concussions, next was the Washington Redskins refusing to change their name,
and now hysteria over domestic abuse allegations off of the field leaves me
with no escape from reality to be found during the broadcast of a football
game.
Yeah, “they”
finally got [Ray Rice] after the [video] of what happened in the elevator
finally came out, and this has me feeling abusive. For the fact of him hitting his then fiancé hard
enough to render her unconscious was never in question due to his own
admission, but “they” refuse to see a difference between someone truly sorry about
what he did and someone merely sorry about getting caught afterward.
To connect the
dots, there is no need to further punish someone truly sorry about what they
did because the shame of their actions is punishment enough for an honorable
person while someone who does not really believe they did anything wrong needs
to have it proven otherwise by all means necessary. Be assured that [Ray Rice] is of the
former—certainly not the later, category.
It is a somewhat
different story with [Adrian Peterson], and until I can find the strength to
hear more about his situation, I will withhold my right to rant. Well, not completely. For to all who believe that no child should
ever feel the sting of a switch, I can only point to the most recent crop of
kids in our country, and if it can be proven to me that more than 30% have any
true respect for/recognition of authority, I will shut up.
No, this is not to
say that all children should be handled in the same way. For a disappointed look toward some can
accomplish more good than a serious whoopin’ ever could, but a fairly high
percentage of children desperately need to feel a little pain now in the hope
of avoiding incarceration later.
Please understand
that this is coming from someone who received three whoopings a day during
second grade in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Yeah, one could say that I can be rather slow to get with the program at
times. For I would get one whoppin’ from
a teacher at school, one from my mom when I got home and then another from my
dad after he came home from work. This
pattern repeated itself every school day for almost the entire second semester,
but I suffered no permanent scars.
Speaking of such,
my dad once told me of his dad whipping him with an electrical cord until blood
was running down his legs. I recoiled in
horror at the mere thought of this, and I swore (to myself) that I would run
away if he ever did that to me.
Thankfully, my dad never did, and I think any parent who did should be
prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
On the other hand, what punishment is just for a parent, who raises
their child without any respect for/recognition of authority?
Oh, and there is a
big difference between truly having respect for/recognition of authority and just seeking to
go along until they can figure out how to get over.
So, with watching
football no longer being a safe haven for me for at least the time being,
another means of escaping the realities of my daily existence for short periods
of time needed to be found, and hooking up a computer to our living room television is paying
some dividends. For there are literally
thousands of documentaries and other educational programs available to be watched for free online, and the [Documentary Addict] site serves as a great database
when you are not quite sure of what to look for.
Be assured that I
thoroughly enjoyed watching the documentary on the Byzantine Empire embedded
below on the much bigger screen of our living room television. I sure hope our Heavenly Father does not have
this world last long enough to allow for a documentary like that to be made
about American political-correctness someday.
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The DA channel looks good.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Adullamite!!! I think you will find lots to like about the site.
DeleteDocumentary Addict has saved me from boredom many times.
DeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Ian!!! Your site certainly looks interesting. I sure hope it's legit. When one has their online name linked directly to a site, it makes me nervous. In fact, I will be preforming a full system virus scan after leaving this reply.
DeleteIt used to be easy, things were right or they were wrong. No everything is grey, and I don't like it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Shadow!!! Yeah, going your own way sure sounds wonderful until you crash into someone else going their own way, and in a no-fault society, all pay for the damages. Alas, why is the only choice we seem to always come down to is between totalitarian-rule and anarchy?
DeleteWhat I don't get is why nobody learns from history. And history IS repeating itself...
DeleteThanks for stopping by again, my dear Shadow!!! Well, most would say (scream, actually) that I am a blithering idiot for seeing things as I now do, but a study of history sure seems to make it clear that there is more going on in this world than what naturally comes to meet our physical sight. For we do keep repeating the same disastrous mistakes, which is by design--be assured. For our Creator has never wanted us to believe that we can do just fine on our own. Now, if our existences in this world was all that there was ever meant to be to our lives, His treatment of us would be grossly unfair, but since He promises to more than make up for all of the apparent bad in this world to all who will but want to give Him the full benefit of their considerable doubts, all willing to humble themselves enough before Him will spend all of eternity being very thankful for our Creator being who He truly is at heart.
DeleteI would argue with you that liberal Democrats are in charge in Washington. Liberals are not happy with Obama because he hasn't been able to govern as a liberal. Conservatives in the Senate currently block nearly all legislation. Conservatives in the House control the purse strings. The problem: without compromise no one is currently in charge in Washington. In the meantime, our infrastructure crumbles and our country burns.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Stephen!!! You make some very good points, but there was much that President Obama could have done while he had a super majority at his command. In fact, the opportunity to implement a new "New Deal" was handed to him on a silver platter after his first election, but he spent all of his political capital on Obamacare, which aside from being very poorly designed, could only be as good as the doctors and nurses in the system, with far too many of them merely working at a job these days. In all fairness, however, the conservatives are strictly focused on just opposing anything the president wants to try--regardless of what it may be, and we are all suffering for it.
DeleteI could go on a long winded rant about discipline or the lack thereof but I won't. I'll just say that there are far too many kids out there in need of a good butt whoopin
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by, my dear Ann!!! AMEN! (LOL?)
DeleteIn my opinion, I think Price should be hung out to dry by his balls! And I don't mean his football. He's a crumb! But then again, after he did he has no balls...and his fiancee now wife is stupid to still be with him!
ReplyDeleteSorry just doesn't cut it with me; and I give no apology or sorry for feeling this way.
It saddens me deeply that you would take such a hard-core position, my dear Lee, and that you are most certainly not alone with such sentiments. Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteWhy would it sadden you, Jerry? I do not in any way condone or excuse domestic violence...and it would be hypocritical of me to be otherwise. It's how I feel about it...how I've always felt about it...and how I always will feel about it. As a young child I witnessed my mother being beaten to a pulp by our stepfather until he was run out of town by the police, ordered never to return...I give no apology for my "hard-core" stance/position. No man has or will ever lay a hand on me...if he did, it would be to his detriment, of that I can assure you.
ReplyDeleteIt saddens me, my dear Lee, that you do not want to see a difference between someone, who deeply regrets losing their composure for a split-second and someone like your stepfather. Men like your stepfather should be hung by the balls while men like Ray Rice should not--plain and simple. Now, if the second video had of shown where Rice kept pounding on her, the current wave of hysteria would be justified, but the second video did not show anything that he had not already freely admitted to when he could have claimed that she just passed out from being too drunk and hit her head on the way down. His free admission alone goes along way toward convincing me that Rice is indeed an honorable man, who messed up really bad.
DeleteYou are entitled to believe and feel as you do, Jerry...as am I. I won't sway in the way I feel...and I can see that you won't either.
ReplyDeleteI can clearly see the difference between a man who strikes a woman and one who doesn't. I don't give a damn how many strikes...that's not going to change my mind. One strike is enough...one strike and you're out as far as I'm concerned.
Thanks for stopping by again, my dear Lee. Yes, you have every right to feel that way when it comes to your own personal relationships, but the Rice situation has gone way past that. In other words, you have every right to kick a man to the curb for simply talking too much, but did others have the right to keep him from making as good of a living as he could afterward? Yes, there is a big difference between talking too much and hitting a woman, and if Ray Rice was of a mind to believe that she got what she deserved, I would be wanting his mind changed (along with all like him) by any and all means necessary.
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