Most television shows had a moral to the story. No filthy language, blood, guts. I loved Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, the Ed Sullivan Show. No VCRs. If you missed it, you missed it!
Well if someone really wants to take a trip down Memory Lane, an increasing number of older television programs are being packed into various DVD collections.
I’m a big pimp for Netflix (and similar competitors) and a quick skim of their inventory suggests you can score a lot of the television programs going back to the days of Desilu et al
There is a lot of yearning here for things back in the 60’s and 70’s that the Republicans, Corporate America, and the Rich have taken away from the working class.
Back then these price increases were negotiated into the next collective bargaining agreement and the unions were somewhat able to help the working folks keep up. Reagan Republicans destroyed the labor unions when they fired the Air Traffic Controllers and started the trend of selfish greed by corporations.
People said that the Unions were no longer needed.
Well - I hope the time is coming where we realize that the corporation is also something we no longer have need of. The corporation exists to “enhance shareholder value” or in other words to take wealth circulating in the society and re-allocate that wealth to the top 1%.
Republicans beleive the top 1% will then take the wealth and trickle it back down to the workers. That clearly never happened. The middle class instead got trickled on.
Since the unoins were destroyed - the only other viable option is socialism to re-build the working class.
Most television shows had a moral to the story. No filthy language, blood, guts. I loved Leave it to Beaver, I Love Lucy, the Ed Sullivan Show. No VCRs. If you missed it, you missed it!
Well if someone really wants to take a trip down Memory Lane, an increasing number of older television programs are being packed into various DVD collections.
I’m a big pimp for Netflix (and similar competitors) and a quick skim of their inventory suggests you can score a lot of the television programs going back to the days of Desilu et al
Thanks for the tip, I’ll most certainly check it out!
Ayuh...Netflix “3 at a time” plan is less than $20 a month with tax included.
You order the first three DVDs you want (I think they’re doing BluRay now as well) and they’re at your house within two days.
They come in an easy to handle tearaway envelope into which you reinsert the completed DVD and drop in your mailbox.
The post office has obvioulsy set up a joint tracking system with Netflix, because as soon as the mailman picks up your completed DVDs, he scans them and within a couple hours, Netflix immediately sends out the next 1 to 3 DVDs which you have already listed in your online Queue.
If one were wont to do it, it wouldn’t be hard to rotate 15 to 20 (or more) DVDs a month through your house for that $20
We’ve been doing about a dozen a month with emphasis on HBO-produced television series like Six Feet Under, The Sopranos and The Wire.
Plus in two weeks, Season Three of WEEDS from Showtime will be available and I kinda gotta watch that to keep up with the subculture doncha know
One of the reason these guys command such a big salary is because instead of figuring out how to get more oil they’re spending a lot of time in front of a bunch of A-holes who don’t know S##t trying to explain the facts of life
On cutting jobs and/or cutting pay - These Guys are where you start.
To not even know your compensation to within the nearest million says something. It’s also a disgrace the Republicans have the IRS out chasing single mom waitresses for tips instead of going after the corporate executives. If they understate their pay like this there’s a good chance they’ve also underpaid what little in taxes they are supplosed to pay iin the first place.
What’s interesting is that the vote stands at about 50-50 right now. People wax nostalgic about the past, but many times the past is not as great as you remember. I think a big factor in answering this question is whether one’s lot in life is better now. Personally, I think if you answer ‘yes’, you’re a ‘glass half empty’ type.
What’s interesting is that the vote stands at about 50-50 right now. People wax nostalgic about the past, but many times the past is not as great as you remember. I think a big factor in answering this question is whether one’s lot in life is better now. Personally, I think if you answer ‘yes’, you’re a ‘glass half empty’ type.
Most people can sense the glass was a lot fuller before Bush took over.
What’s interesting is that the vote stands at about 50-50 right now. People wax nostalgic about the past, but many times the past is not as great as you remember. I think a big factor in answering this question is whether one’s lot in life is better now. Personally, I think if you answer ‘yes’, you’re a ‘glass half empty’ type.
Personally I think that those who answer yes, have a grasp on reality. Those who answer no, wear the rose colored glasses of eternal optimism and refuse to face reality.
If one is emotionally attached to past images of “America” which include a society relatively isolated from non-American citizens as well as having a major portion of the northeast population reliant on manufacturing-based jobs, it’s understandable why you might have a less than rosy outlook for the coming century.
However, if one becomes more accepting of the realities that “America” is increasing in racial and ethnic diversity and that the economy will no longer run directly through the northern half of the current USA, it’s not all that difficult to forsee many far better days ahead during the coming century.
If one is emotionally attached to past images of “America” which include a society relatively isolated from non-American citizens as well as having a major portion of the northeast population reliant on manufacturing-based jobs, it’s understandable why you might have a less than rosy outlook for the coming century.
However, if one becomes more accepting of the realities that “America” is increasing in racial and ethnic diversity and that the economy will no longer run directly through the northern half of the current USA, it’s not all that difficult to forsee many far better days ahead during the coming century.
America can become increasingly racially and ethnic diverse and remain America. But there is a major difference between ethnic diversity of yesteryear, ie the melting pot of old, and what we have today going on. Too many coming don’t want to melt into a cohesive society they want to cling the dump they left and turn here into there. And don’t give me no sh!t about the dump comment because if it wasn’t a dump in one form or another, they wouldn’t have left. We can have a strong manufacturing base that can be located through out the country. I don’t see too many strong economies that don’t have strong manufacturing bases. When manufacturing is gone, service industries can not prop up the entire country, and with out a strong manufacturing base you can not have fair trade, it will always be one sided, because if you don’t make anything, you don’t have anything to trade do you.
And what to hell is a non-amercian citizen? Its an oxy-moron statement, if their not an American citizen that means they’re a citizen of another country and that means most likely here illegally.
Nonsense. There are at least several million non-citizens in the USA at all times. They are here on legal work permits, travel visas, educational visas. Many are working to legally become citizens.
Much of that will become moot as we modify our currently flawed immigration policies to make it easier for more people to become legal citizens. And further modification of the current society will occur as the countries of Canada, Mexico and the USA combine to form a North American Union.
I see where you are coming from now, or where you want to be, you are a proponent for the one world goverment movement, and conversation on this topic is a waste of time, because I dont believe in the world goverment movement and nothing you can say will convince me of it being a good thing. It also explains your support of Obama.
I’m no particular proponent of the supposed “OWG” because I believe such a concept in my lifetime is neither needed nor possible given the incredible diversity of seven billion human beings around our planet.
But a North American Union? Sure.
It’s not even important whether “I” am a proponent. It’s a fairly inevitable assimilation that must happen unless we propose to directly obliterate tens of millions of non “Americans” during the coming century.
I never said you had to like it.....(smile).
I’m simply submitting it as a good reason why America’s Best Days Are NOT Behind Us...But rather, are ahead of us - bright and shining.
At age 48, I pray for good mental and physical health so I can enjoy at least the next 50+ years of watching our country and our world get better.
I’m no particular proponent of the supposed “OWG” because I believe such a concept in my lifetime is neither needed nor possible given the incredible diversity of seven billion human beings around our planet.
But a North American Union? Sure.
It’s not even important whether “I” am a proponent. It’s a fairly inevitable assimilation that must happen unless we propose to directly obliterate tens of millions of non “Americans” during the coming century.
I never said you had to like it.....(smile).
I’m simply submitting it as a good reason why America’s Best Days Are NOT Behind Us...But rather, are ahead of us - bright and shining.
At age 48, I pray for good mental and physical health so I can enjoy at least the next 50+ years of watching our country and our world get better.
While I can’t find fault with your ideals of “watching our country and our world get better”, I think it’s highly over confident and naive as well.
If it’s strictly economics you’re talking about, then it may be possible that something such as the European Union in which the countries of Europe came together in which to share the same currency, thus making the money and economy stronger for everyone. But I don’t see America going in that direction for a very long time. If ever.
And,even though the countries of Europe joined their economies, each and every country has maintained their individuality, flavor and language. I think it is ridiculous to think that to be a melting pot, the country has to lose it’s identity in order to do so. Nothing is further from the truth.
To me, it is an issue of respecting the country you’re living in if you’re there as an immigrant, and a LEGAL one at that. You should assimilate. And not expect/demand changes to conform to your needs. If you expect that, then you should have stayed in your own country.
If one is emotionally attached to past images of “America” which include a society relatively isolated from non-American citizens as well as having a major portion of the northeast population reliant on manufacturing-based jobs, it’s understandable why you might have a less than rosy outlook for the coming century.
However, if one becomes more accepting of the realities that “America” is increasing in racial and ethnic diversity and that the economy will no longer run directly through the northern half of the current USA, it’s not all that difficult to forsee many far better days ahead during the coming century.
by “far better days” do you mean a third world nation where the population is 450 million and the customs and traditions that made this country great have been traded for voodoo and a multitude of languages that should be left in the gutter. the rosy image of America’s future is far from what will actually happen.
look back to the 50’s and see what they thought today would be like.
not what they expected at all.
