tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post5282617358694304114..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Assistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-71924190140284593832009-06-27T22:11:45.278-04:002009-06-27T22:11:45.278-04:00And something I'm reminded of when finally lis...And something I'm reminded of when finally listening to the songs -- are the Civil War, WWI, and the depression over-represented in the 1960s? Where were the songs protesting WWII?<br /><br />Anyway, I remember living in a shack in the mountains without electricity or running water and my mother cooking on a wood stove. I know what an icebox is. <br /><br />What irritates the dickens out of me is that those singers didn't see or experience those things, they merely heard about them.<br /><br />And what they refused to see and recognize is the opportunity that so many had to better their situations.<br /><br />I almost typed "better themselves" but that is not what happened at all. In fact, their situations were not bettered, so much as they were eased.<br /><br />What worries me so much is that it wasn't the "silver" in the "marble bank" that eased things so much as it was cooperation among several related families that took a risk together.<br /><br />Enough of that because I am on the verge of becoming sentimental. <br /><br />FF to the present. My father is 86 years old and has outlived too many wives. He married for the 5th time a year and a half ago. <br /><br />Unfortunately this wife has turned out to be either crazy or the poster girl for liberalism.<br /><br />While she both hates and is jealous of my father's wealth and then can't seem to understand that everything he owned before he married her is not necessarily hers also... she spends his money like crazy then tells him he shouldn't let her do that.<br /><br />She is becoming for me the icon of a "liberal". <br /><br />There is little to no reality that I can discern from liberal economics.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-36522181760231493822009-06-27T14:15:38.810-04:002009-06-27T14:15:38.810-04:00haha Jonathan, I can relate. I despise that song. ...haha Jonathan, I can relate. I despise that song. <br /><br />I haven't listened to any of the songs in years and still haven't got the sound working reliably on my computer. Yes, I'm too lazy to pull it out and fix it.<br /><br />But, I remember all except the Seeger ones. None of them are likely to make a liberal again, because they didn't manage to do it when I was younger. This is perhaps because if I was really impressed with a song, I bought the music. I'm still impressed with a lot of the music but always thought most of the lyrics were illogical hooey.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-25262701705983511212009-06-27T08:01:58.804-04:002009-06-27T08:01:58.804-04:00There's something about the smug self-satisfie...There's something about the smug self-satisfied nature of that song that makes me hate it quite irrationally. Though it might also be the fact that people really believe the idiotic lyrics.GraniteDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04851407860883846133noreply@blogger.com