Title: Rowdee You Are Confirmed So are you Anonymous something, sorry for the delay Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Jun 22, 2012 Author:The Big Stone Post Date:2012-06-22 21:11:46 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:64023 Comments:109
Although I took myself off the boards for a few years, that doesn't mean that I haven't sort of kept track of some of the old haunts. Sort of like keeping up with old acquaintances.
I did, and still do, love thoroughbreds, and horse racing, so I couldn't come down hard on Fred...unless of course he made a REALLY dumb bet or something like that!
And FU was a lot of fun for a long time, but after the big blow up, it as never the same. I tried a time or two to go back, but to no avail. I really liked Brett (unamused),but seems like when Scott died, he lost all interest in it.
While I went to 4um, it never had the pizazz for me. I didn't post nearly as much as I had previously.
When it reached the point that I said 'enough, I wanted to be away for a long time. I needed to come to terms with a lot of stuff. I didn't need the vile drivel and/or every conspiracy theory under the sun consuming any of my time.
I won't laugh at your Union Rags pick if you won't laugh at my Gemologist for the Derby!
I was a Zenyatta fan..and now follow her and her Bernardini colts' antics.
I've tried doing a virtual stable thing for about a month now. Am mostly interested in fillies. Am excited to see how Z's sister Eblouissante does when she races her first time--supposed to be by the end of the Hollywood meet.
Well, Frankel and Black Caviar are the big news right now. That Frankil is a freak. BC is probably the best sprinter ever or at least in modern history.
Personally, I think the racing industry is trying to make itself meaningless...witness the stupidy of how NY handled the Belmont; and how the California HR Board did their stupid announcement. And now KY coming out with a ruling on Salix, with NY doing the reverse, so who the hell knows. I do know I read research papers and came away thinking it isn't a big deal.
Top Australian racehorse Black Caviar came halfway around the world and proved herself on the international stage June 23, remaining unbeaten in 22 starts with victory by a short head in the $775,000 Diamond Jubilee Stakes (Eng-I) at Royal Ascot.
Yes, apparently all sports with big money involved are eligible for graft, cheating and corruption - not just horse racing. Of course all sports try to maintain a 'clean' product, they're just not always successful at it.
Yeah, I heard about that. i read where her jockey eased up--no doubt thinking she was uncatchable the last couple of strides....that kid should read the Shoe's story about the Derby loss!
Sorry I don't recognize your name. Were you ever at TOS, KP (TOS2), FU, 4UM, or LF?
What were you on when you had thoughts that Murron and I were one in the same? LOL.....not too many people I know would ever have thought along those lines.
We all have issues and on this forum, the real jerk is some guy named "AKA Stone." That is why we have Moderator X to watch him. Moderator X is paid up in advance, too. Moderator X shall survive long after we all pass away, too, long after the REAL LF took a dump.
"We all have issues and on this forum, the real jerk is some guy named "AKA Stone." That is why we have Moderator X to watch him. Moderator X is paid up in advance, too. Moderator X shall survive long after we all pass away, too, long after the REAL LF took a dump."
"A friend will calm you down when you are angry, but a best friend will skip beside you with a baseball bat singing, "someone's gonna get it"
Mike Brady (Robert Reed), widowed architect with sons Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight) and Bobby (Mike Lookinland), marries Carol Ann Martin (née Tyler) (Florence Henderson), whose daughters are Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen).
The wife and daughters take the Brady surname. Producer Schwartz wanted Carol to have been a divorcée but the network objected to this.
A compromise was reached whereby no mention was made of the circumstances in which Carol's first marriage ended.
America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.---Claire Wolfe
Maybe you could try doing some actual research before getting on your high-horse and pontificating to the rest of us.
Plot summary
Mike Brady (Robert Reed), widowed architect with sons Greg (Barry Williams), Peter (Christopher Knight) and Bobby (Mike Lookinland), marries Carol Ann Martin (née Tyler) (Florence Henderson), whose daughters are Marcia (Maureen McCormick), Jan (Eve Plumb) and Cindy (Susan Olsen).
The wife and daughters take the Brady surname. Producer Schwartz wanted Carol to have been a divorcée but the network objected to this.
A compromise was reached whereby no mention was made of the circumstances in which Carol's first marriage ended.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be so blunt about it, but there are plenty of shows that have contributed to the downfall of American society that are more subversive than Brady Bunch.
All in The Family, Family Guy, Married With Children, Roseanne are some of the worst of the lot.
America is at that awkward stage; it's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.---Claire Wolfe
I liked the Brady Bunch. They had good values on the show. But it seemed to me to send a message under the radar that said divorce is ok. Perhaps I was wrong.
(All in The Family, Family Guy, Married With Children)
All three were GREAT shows.
'All in the Family' wuz great - until it began getting too PC...Just like MASH.
IMO the Family Guy is too vulgar and subversive. That's just me.
Married with Children had its funny/sarcastic moments...but again, I think overall it's glorification of classlessness, irreverence for shock-value sake, and vulgarity attributed to the devolution and acceptance of disrespect for young AND old people alike - and our culture in general.
'Roseanne' may have been one of THE worst shows ever. It represented the promotion and agenda of the WORST possible traits of our culture - it was vulgar, low-rent, white-trash, perverted and irreverent of virtue.
IMO, there were several things which contributed to the current downward spiral we're facing.
First and foremost was when the S/C (government) said it was OK for the nurturers of society to kill their young. That put -0- value on life. Period.
Second was LBJs "Great Society"...the one that really put blacks on the plantation and pulled in a great number of whites, too. They encouraged women with the idea they didn't need a husband, that children didn't need fathers. That goverment would provide housing, food, medical, and other necessary things.
This extended to young girls in high school--the massive outbreak of out of wedlock births can be attributed here, I believe, when you consider the girls always had the 'government will take care of me' option if the guy they gave into didn't really 'love' them. They could play the role of head of house/home maker...be their own boss.
That, and them not getting the love and attention at home--which brings up @3.
Third was all levels of governement needing more and more $$$ to feed their bigtime programs, which meant that mommies had to go to work to help make ends meet--especially when taxation was competing with the family's deisre to own more and more goodies, to keep up with the Jones, so to speak.
#2 and #3 brought about the idea of 'entitlement'
Fourth, and on down the line would come the performing arts, fine arts, and other entertainment. All wanting to be on the cutting edge were actually trying to be a bit more outrageous/anything goes than the next movie, program, literary work, or 'work' of art.
All of these play to the baser nature of mankind. And it has been quite effective in reducing the morals and values of this once great nation to what we see today....whether it is in your face homosexuals, or teenagers on a school bus, or wall street crooks, the Kevorkians, the Susan Smiths, the Jerry Sanduskys, child murderers--what else can you expect from a society who diesn't have a problem killing the most innocent beings?
rowdee performed a good post but it doesn't get into "root cause" of the historical facts.
WW2 destroyed America's financial and social institutions. While America was a GREAT nation for a bit of time, the rest of the world rose up to compete with our failures. America became a wasteland of toxicity not because of Stone's dismay about the Brady Bunch but BECAUSE AMERICA TURNED ON THE TELEVISION SET to begin with.
The rest is history. We are a failed nation by own successes.