Comments on: Hard-boiled World Trends 2008 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/ A dissident twist of reality... Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:19:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: JoeC http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32283 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:50:00 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32283 Blended Families: I think a lot of love in the form of nurturing AND discipline overcomes many problems blamed on non-nuclear families. Lynne: The power of TV news really hit me last summer on the way home from Six Flags Atlanta, sitting in one of those remodeled MacDonald's with the TVs on the walls -- it was tuned to CNN, and Wolf Blitzer was spinning the need to bomb Iran. And nobody was paying close attention. If they had been playing close attention, they would have detected the insane disregard for logic that the TV pundits were using to justify attacking yet another country. Instead, the TV was blaring the spin over and over, brainwashing all these folks on vacation who weren't even trying to listen, that Iran was bad and we needed to do something about it. A few weeks later I was at the airport...thousands of disgruntled passengers stuck as flights were rerouted due to bad weather...and in every terminal area, there was Wolf Blitzer, blaring more spin at the public. Now, I notice Fox News and CNN on about everywhere I go...it is really starting to seem Orwellian...harder and harder to get away from the news a corporation has decided you should hear. Pelmo: I love the Bourne movies, but haven't read any of the books. I'll put Ludlum's Sigma Protocol on my list! Thanks for the tip. Blended Families: I think a lot of love in the form of nurturing AND discipline overcomes many problems blamed on non-nuclear families.

Lynne: The power of TV news really hit me last summer on the way home from Six Flags Atlanta, sitting in one of those remodeled MacDonald’s with the TVs on the walls — it was tuned to CNN, and Wolf Blitzer was spinning the need to bomb Iran. And nobody was paying close attention. If they had been playing close attention, they would have detected the insane disregard for logic that the TV pundits were using to justify attacking yet another country. Instead, the TV was blaring the spin over and over, brainwashing all these folks on vacation who weren’t even trying to listen, that Iran was bad and we needed to do something about it. A few weeks later I was at the airport…thousands of disgruntled passengers stuck as flights were rerouted due to bad weather…and in every terminal area, there was Wolf Blitzer, blaring more spin at the public. Now, I notice Fox News and CNN on about everywhere I go…it is really starting to seem Orwellian…harder and harder to get away from the news a corporation has decided you should hear.

Pelmo: I love the Bourne movies, but haven’t read any of the books. I’ll put Ludlum’s Sigma Protocol on my list! Thanks for the tip.

]]> by: pelmo http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32282 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:23:45 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32282 Joe, I recommend reading a book by Robert Ludlum, The Sigma Protocol. It is a work of fiction, but does have a lot of true facts of events during and after WWII. It draws from these facts to come to the present day story. If you should take my recommendation, and read it; I would really love to hear your thoughts about Haliburton, and the people involved with it. Lynne, your not paying attention. On January 16, CNN broadcasted a real news story for a few minutes, before catching their error. Joe, I recommend reading a book by Robert Ludlum, The Sigma Protocol.
It is a work of fiction, but does have a lot of true facts of events during and after WWII. It draws from these facts to come to the present day story.

If you should take my recommendation, and read it; I would really love to hear your thoughts about Haliburton, and the people involved with it.

Lynne, your not paying attention. On January 16, CNN broadcasted a real news story for a few minutes, before catching their error.

]]> by: Lynne http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32281 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:49:37 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32281 There is still "news" on the t.v.? Huh, who would have imagined. There is still “news” on the t.v.? Huh, who would have imagined.

]]> by: Blended Families http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32280 Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:38:18 +0000 http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2008/02/10/hard-boiled-world-trends-2008/#comment-32280 Interesting ideas! Not sure that the rise of interracial blended families is what was feared. I think it was the loss of male role models in the home that had social scientists concerned, as that is one of the greatest precursors to the rise in violent crime. I hope to God that it is a slackening of racism being passed down through the generations that has caused a drop in lynchings. Teaching our children by example and precept that others deserve our hatred is the greatest disservice a parent can do to their child and their fellowmen. Interesting ideas!
Not sure that the rise of interracial blended families is what was feared.
I think it was the loss of male role models in the home that had social scientists concerned, as that is one of the greatest precursors to the rise in violent crime.
I hope to God that it is a slackening of racism being passed down through the generations that has caused a drop in lynchings. Teaching our children by example and precept that others deserve our hatred is the greatest disservice a parent can do to their child and their fellowmen.

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