Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 10:10:19 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I agree; we are a culture that is quite addicted to violence and dysfunctional behavior...It's not just the government, but the whole culture:Look at what passes for entertainment- it's getting more and more over the top..I worry about the kids growing up in this pollution.Their attitudes toward sex; their attitude toward humanity;Their level of compassion.We've seen the enemy and it is us. We, as a nation, weren't always like that. I started life at a time when people could leave their housesunlocked, keys in the car, neighbors actually knew each other and helped each other, teen pregnancy rare, out of wedlock birth even rarer, fathers took care of their families, mothers didn't need to work outside the home, taxes were low,and overallcrime rates were low. I'm not saying life was perfect then and we were without faults but things sure have changed since then. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 10:21:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yep. And most kids are rarely alone with their own thoughts or silence - cell phones, ipods, computers and busy schedules make it unlikely. what we had as free time while growing up is now devoted to special summer internships, specialty camps, SAT prep starting in grade 9, the push and pressure to stay busy and keep grooming the resume. I wonder how much the human physiology can take before it snaps. Maybe people will rebel and...start TM. Naa! they don't have time. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/26/06 9:36:07 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I still do. Have in my last three homes.What?! Texas is not such a paradise?neighbors actually knew each other and helped each other, still very much well and alive in many areas. Sorry to hear its not inTexas. Ooooh, do I detect regional bigotry here? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/26/06 11:17:24 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ooooh, do I detect regional bigotry here?Not at all. I have noted with pleasure and anticipation of yourcomments how wonderful Texas is, particularly Austin. I have only beento Texas 3-4 times on short business trips. People seemed nice.weather sucked some. But based on your comments, I have put Austin onmy list of possible cities to visit or even live (for a while.)Thus I was surprised and saddened to hear of its problems -- problemsI don't generally find in places I have lived. And, in fun, I was pulling your chain a bit to see if you would react.Mission accomplished. haha. :) Sorry, I don't live in Austin and I don't recall ever posting anything about how "wonderful" Texas is although I wouldn't want to live any other place. As far as changes in American culture in the latter half of the twentieth century I would say it is a pretty common experience to some degree or another most everywhere in the country but more so in larger population areas. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/26/06 10:53:10 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Look at
the entertainment we had growing up. Lots of gratuitous violence in
westerns and cop shows, and for the most part -- quite shallow
scripts, overt racism"overt racism" on TV?Even in the
'50s?Although I may have been born too late ('55) or they never showed
it in reruns, I never remember seeing overt racism on TV.
Can you give us some examples?
I do remember watching Amos and Andy as a child and loved it.
Supposedly the NAACP some how or another got it taken off the air. However
Sanford and Son wasn't any better, maybe even more stereotypical, yet is
considered classic black comedy. As for the Westerns and Cop shows of the
fifties, they dealt with themes of morality teaching the bad guy is a loser and
the good guy is the winner. Today you'll often find that crime pays as a theme.
As for the gratuitous violence, there is just as much today andit was not
near as graphic as it is portrayed today.
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Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/26/06 9:36:07 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the 60's we had 2-3 in my class. Girls usually left school. Shame,lots of whispering and crude jokes about the girl. Today, girls go toschool, proud to be (becoming) mothers, taking pre-natal classes.Seems much healthier today.fathers took care of their families, Still do. Any fathers here NOT take care of their families? So"healthy" that it has almost become popular. I have seenstats that say about 80% of black children born today are to single mothers and about 30% of white children are born to single mothers.While only about 30% of unwed mothers are teens, only one in five get any support from the fathers. The tax payers ends up taking care of the those children at a tune of over 7 billion a year or about $3,200. a year for each teenage birth. This says nothing about the increase of crime from the children that grow up in a one of these "homes". To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/26/06 1:33:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But as an outsider who came to the U.S. I have noticed -- even before I emigrated here when I made numerous visits to the U.S. throughout my life, like most Canadians -- regional bigotry against the South from Northerners.Not only have I noticed this in personal interactions but it is really prevalent on TV.Does anyone from the South on this forum feel the same way? Or am I the only one who has noticed this? We see it all the time. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/26/06 5:48:47 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: +++ Amos and Andy weren't black which maybe later turned into a problem. On the same note, I wonder if the NAACP will get changed from "colored people" to "African Americans" N. Amos and Andy on Radio were white, however on TV, they were black actors. Too many "a's". NP. Also too close to Npyheaded. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 2:25:29 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This Holier Than Thou attitude of those here in the US (or Canada) who would wage war to 'defend freedom' is such BS. To kill others in the name of lofty ideals does nothing except destroy those ideals, and cause incalculable suffering.Talk about a high horse. Anyone who thinks war is noble, justified or necessary in this day and age is sadly mistaken, imo. Do I read you right? That freedom is not worth dying for, not even if somebody else offered to risk death for your freedom? Would you submit to tyranny to avoidyour own death or anybody else's?Do you think you would have the right to even post such a comment over the Internet if you lived under a totalitarian government? Maybe you think you would have done well living under Hitler, Stalin or others. But I think not. The first public protest of your rights being taken away,* you* would have been taken away and never heard of again. The very idea that freedom and liberty are not worth dying for is every tyrants dream. And you know, all too many people never know when war is justified for those ideals until it's too late. History records it, century after century. Of course we all know the old saying, Hind sight is 20/20. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 3:08:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Look at China, they manage to bend us to their will without resorting to any military force, purely as a result of wisely using economic leverage. Why can't we do the same? Everybody has to be on the same page for such actions to work. Look at Saddam and Iraq for example. Economic sanctions had been placed on him for years but anybody that needed something Saddam had, like oil, or money from oil, managed to deal with Saddam under the table. Clearly Saddam had been working on breaking down sanctions over the years and it was working. One thing you will almost never get is The UN agreeing 100% on anything. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 4:18:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing you will almost never get is The UN agreeing 100% on anything.I totally agree, and if we had wanted to stop the back channel trading going on, we could have. Our embargo against Cuba has been near absolute for 50 years. Even a country as large and diverse as ours can act in a coherent willful way when it wants to. Often times though the powers that be will choose to just start a war. Really short-sighted and stupid behavior. Stopping back channel trading with Saddam would have meant stopping corruption. I just doesn't happen, at least for long. Especially when it became evident thatso many countries were involved like Russia, Germany and France. I don't recall whether China was dealing under the table with Saddam or not. As for sanctions against Cuba, there has rarely, if ever, been 100% effectiveness in that either. The Soviets supported them along with other Communist countries. After the Fall of the Soviet union Cuba had it ruff for a while but has allowed tourism from Canada and Europe to thrive there. And Cubans/Americans have been sending dollars as well, just as Mexican immigrants send money home. Now Castro has Hugo and his oil and is stirring things up in Bolivia and alsois doing well with the Chinese. The Cuban boycott is only a political tool for Cuban/ American votes. The only economics sanctions that I can think of off hand that has worked in my life time is South Africa and the world was dealing with another democracy then. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 5:14:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anything is better than sending in the troops... That's exactly what tyrants like to hear. Makes them feel safe and secure to proceed on with their tyranny. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 6:00:59 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: South Africa worked about as well as Iraq- The problem isn't so much corruption as it is US sanctioned, legal corruption. Congress allows US corporations like IBM and Halliburton to set up shell companies that can circumvent trade restrictions with these countries. If we were serious about enforcing sanctions, such things would not be allowed. The sanctions in South Africa worked. It toppled the government. However sanctions usually end up hurting the people the most that they intend to help, at least in the short term. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: No yellow stars
In a message dated 5/25/06 6:21:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You're aware that the permanent members of the Security Council were well-aware of many of the under-the-table dealings with Saddam, including the illegal pipleline that had been built to Syria, right? Of course! And they became even more aware of the many dealings once Saddam was toppled. The cat was really out of the bag then. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' SPONSORED LINKS Religion and spirituality Maharishi mahesh yogi YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.
