America the Beautiful (Superbowl 2014)

transcript:

BRENDA WOOD: But the fact that people are outraged over this ad is outrageous itself. People indignant that others would have the audacity to sing 'America the Beautiful' in a language other than English, when America was built on opening its arms to the world? The quote on the Statue of Liberty doesn't say 'give me your English-speaking only, Christianity-believing, heterosexual masses.' It says 'give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses tempest-tost.'
Have we forgotten that every one of us 'Americans' except for Native Americans, are descendants of foreigners?

That the English language is from England?

What makes America different from everywhere else is that we are a melting pot. We are not homogenous. It is our diversity that built this country.

How dare there be indignation over the very thing that makes us great.

And why not honor the beauty of that in song? What's so sacrosanct about this song that it can't be sung in other languages by other ethnicities, by those of diverse religions and diverse lifestyles?

A relevant question considering the words of 'America the Beautiful' were penned by a gay woman, Katharine Lee Bates, in 1895, an English professor at Wellesley who also wrote lovingly of her longtime committed relationship with another woman.

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I cannot add anything to this wonderful mocking of the crazy.

Tweet on SB48 ads

I just went to http://t.co/d9QrpZilia and bought a crate of Doritos and a Mazarati, and I cant even eat or drive. #SBCommercials -SG

— steve gleason (@TeamGleason) February 2, 2014

Separated at Birth

Hanging on to Steve Gleason

2014 Superbowl Commercial.
I bet you'll tear up.

The End Game of Democracy

Pay attention, LISTEN.

Windows Wednesday

Dauphin Island, Alabama. Thanksgiving week. A family taking a walk at sunset past a camp where another family is preparing a meal for a cold November evening.

R.I.P., Peter O'Toole

One of my favorite actors died this weekend. Peter O'Toole passed away at the age of 81.

He was a man of many characters, but my all-time favorite was "A Lion in Winter" with Katherine Hepburn Here is a cut from the movie:

Okay, Blacks versus Whites...Let's stop the hatred

Christmas Tree Harvesting at it's best

This guy rocks

R.I.P., Frank Davis

Frank Davis, a local celebrity in Southeast Louisiana, has passed on at the age of 71.

Frank was well loved for his sense of humor, his fishing tips, his cooking demonstrations and cookbooks.
He was always cheerful and had a personality that brought light into the room.

CIPD, an autoimmune disease, had Frank going from using a cane to permanent bed rest in a month. Here is the last video I know of on Frank dealing with this illness.

For those of you who don't have any of his cookbooks, WWL TV has an archive at this link.

Scuzzbucket of the Week

From Blacknews.com
Mark Ciavarella Jr, a 61-year old former judge in Pennsylvania, has been sentenced to nearly 30 years in prison for literally selling young juveniles for cash. He was convicted of accepting money in exchange for incarcerating thousands of adults and children into a prison facility owned by a developer who was paying him under the table. The kickbacks amounted to more than $1 million.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has overturned some 4,000 convictions issued by him between 2003 and 2008, claiming he violated the constitutional rights of the juveniles – including the right to legal counsel and the right to intelligently enter a plea. Some of the juveniles he sentenced were as young as 10-years old.

Ciavarella was convicted of 12 counts, including racketeering, money laundering, mail fraud and tax evasion. He was also ordered to repay $1.2 million in restitution.

His “kids for cash” program has revealed that corruption is indeed within the prison system, mostly driven by the growth in private prisons seeking profits by any means necessary.


- See more at: http://govtslaves.info/pennsylvania-judge-sentenced-28-years-selling-kids-prison-system/#sthash.8DQxk9ga.dpuf