Open thread for Sunday, May 25th: She’s Lost Control
Here is the open thread for Sunday, May 25th; please feel free to post links to interesting articles and to discuss whatever issues arise during the course of the day. Nothing is off-topic here.
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This week’s musical selection is a song entitled ‘She’s Lost Control’ by ’80’s alternative rockers Joy Division. There is very little live footage of this band due to Ian Curtis’s untimely demise just as the band seemed poised to make a breakout in the United States.
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The official trailer for “Control” – the film about the life and death of Ian Curtis, who was the singer of a pioneering band called Joy Division. Directed by Anton Corbijn, and based on the book by Deborah Curtis: “Touching From A Distance”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_(2007_film)
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Thanks for sharing, I have watched clips of this movie on youtube but have not seen the whole thing. Someday I will watch it. A great band, so sad their career was so short. I like New Order but they don’t compare to Joy Division in my opinion.
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The so called “progressives” (more accurately named democratic socialists in Germany) say they want to get rid of traditional practices and traditions in America, They want “change”. They want to “fundamentally transform America”. Well, of course they want to get rid of things they don’t like. But there are several traditions they really do like, foremost is the modern equivalent of the public stockades. There is nothing they like more than putting people who have “offended” them out in the public square, virtually put in stocks, and mocked by the “politically correct” public. Pillory would be another way they would like to subject an offender to scorn. But the one they like best is the making the accused to wear the letter of the crime. Like the scarlet letter used for adultery, the left has several they like to award.
As Dennis Prager says the letters most favored are S I X H I R B, Sexist, intolerant, xenophobic, homophobic, Islamophobic, racist, bigoted.”
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When Obama said he wanted to fundamentally change America it should have raised red flags with everyone. Change is one thing, but when you express a desire to change the foundation on which the country is based that is another thing altogether and not many people seemed to question what he meant.
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So true Steve. Sadly, we have people trained NOT to think for them selves. The Universities and the media have trained the ‘sheeple’ that the elite know what is important, and if the liberal elite don’t think it is important, then we need not be concerned.
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Exactly Bruce!
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Mention must be made of the murders here on the left coast. Tragedy, in it’s truest sense, is the only description of the events. Nothing is more tragic than to have loved ones mowed down for absolutely no reason but being in the wrong place. It is a tragedy that those families will have to live without their loved ones. It is a tragedy that we can’t agree on the best way to handle/care for mentally ill people with violent tendencies.
Not at that level, but it is a tragedy as well to use this event, as they have all previous similar events, as a way to shame the good people of America to give up their second amendment rights. I am sure it reflects on my character, but the moment I saw that one distraught father, I knew he would channel his grief not at the murder, or the problems with letting violent mentally disturbed people move freely in society, or the fact that this same person, with this mental issue buy a gun. But rather at the fact that the second amendment allows good citizens to use their second amendment rights.
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It is a tragedy and I feel for all of those who lost loved ones, it is so senseless. It sickens me the way these politicians jump on these things are politicize them, it is almost as if they are waiting and hoping something like this will happen so they can use it to push their agenda.
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Another question for for your readers on open thread Sunday.
“Marginalized” is a word we hear constantly. from the left. What does it mean? Who decides when a person or group has been marginalized? Is it always wrong to marginalize a group no matter who that group is? Does a person or group troubled by marginalization have an obligation to fight marginalization anywhere they see it?
Obviously I have a purpose to my questions, but i would love feedback, especially from TGY to help me formulate my ideas.
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