tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post5630817506127410393..comments2023-09-15T08:07:28.542-06:00Comments on Western Hero: Happy Mothers DaySilverfiddlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-8531326930833879872012-05-15T02:32:51.144-06:002012-05-15T02:32:51.144-06:00"Cleanliness is next to godliness."
Mak...<i>"Cleanliness is next to godliness."</i><br /><br />Making an effort to look one's best whenever one appears in public is not a sign of vanity, but rather one of respect and consideration for others.<br /><br />Making the necessary effort to look as attractive and well-put-together as possible is an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.<br /><br />My mother and all her friends went to the hairdresser faithfully once a week. Mother was hardly a clothes horse, and could never have been thought vain, but she made sure even her most informal outfits were color coordinated. <br /><br />It was the custom sixty years ago, but aside from that it was a gesture of respect to the community at large.<br /><br />I see too many women -- and men too -- walking around looking like so many unmade beds -- unkempt, unwashed, uncaring -- frankly insolent in their utter self-absorption. Casualness is one thing; slovenliness is another.<br /><br />When people took greater pride in their appearance -- when dress codes were enforced in schools and men were not allowed to enter high-quality restaurants without a jacket and tie, the world was a far more agreeable, encouraging, stimulating place than it is today.<br /><br />I was brought up never to go out the door to any kind of "function" without bathing first, combing and brushing my hair, putting on clean clothes and making sure my shoes were properly shined.<br /><br />When we took pride in our appearance, we also took pride in our society. We greeted each other politely, made pleasant small talk, passed the time of day pleasantly, and often dropped in to visit one another briefly, and were always served a cup of tea or coffee and some sort of food. It was never demanded, but it was expected, something you did graciously, whether you particularly felt like it or not. <br /><br />Such codes of conduct had a salubrious effect on all involved, believe me.<br /><br />Just as most people still brush their teeth and wash their groin and armpits to avoid halitosis and body odor, we took it a couple of steps farther and made considerable effort to avoid looking ugly and disheveled.<br /><br />Today, dandruff, crusty secretions at the corners of the eyes, greasy, stringy, uncontrolled hair, snot hanging out of the nostrils, and a general aura of grubbiness are "accepted." <br /><br />NOT BY ME!<br /><br />Sorry, but I think The New Normal -- a product of the Counter Culture in the era of Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n Roll -- is revolting.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-76814477811121861112012-05-14T18:46:20.550-06:002012-05-14T18:46:20.550-06:00Thanks for the kind words, Leticia!Thanks for the kind words, Leticia!Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-40949036906290883652012-05-14T15:27:53.276-06:002012-05-14T15:27:53.276-06:00I can't even begin to thank you for this post!...I can't even begin to thank you for this post!<br /><br />We are under so much pressure to stay thin, stay fit, exercise, eat right and to always look good. Well, that doesn't always happen. Some of us don't have that high metabolism and have to fight to keep the weight off, I am one of them. I am 4'11. So any extra pounds will show immediately! And there are days I wish I could just quit and eat all the Jalapeno Cheetos I want, darn it!!<br /><br />Unfortunately, we live in a society that wants women to be super thin and to always have makeup on and their hair done.<br /><br />Yeah, we aren't step-ford wives. We are human. And at least, I can say, that in God's eyes, we are all beautiful regardless of what man thinks of us.<br /><br />God bless you!Trekkie4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03226981394122557804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-8618483680349948732012-05-14T12:56:43.993-06:002012-05-14T12:56:43.993-06:00Saccharine sentiments set the teeth on edge
Like r...<i>Saccharine sentiments set the teeth on edge<br />Like roughly pruned parameters of a garden hedge.</i><br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-3410976651448696342012-05-14T12:42:13.765-06:002012-05-14T12:42:13.765-06:00Jersey, ditto on what SF said about your cookin...Jersey, ditto on what SF said about your cookin' ! I'd like to hear more about it...the kind of food, etc... I hope you had as good a night last night as you'd hoped! (or is that too capitalistic of me to say?)<br />but seriously...I wish you the best.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-67630602059548484332012-05-14T10:43:39.107-06:002012-05-14T10:43:39.107-06:00Awesome post SF. And who objectifies woman more th...Awesome post SF. And who objectifies woman more than Hollywood?<br /><br />I too am blessed to still have my mom at 81. I can't imagine life without her since she has always been my best friend.<br />By the way I am coloring my hair tonite.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02173702830006208833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-15119871619899442392012-05-14T05:26:53.280-06:002012-05-14T05:26:53.280-06:00Thanks Jersey, and you gone up in esteem in my eye...Thanks Jersey, and you gone up in esteem in my eyes since we've discovered you're a restaurateur.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-672798631009270872012-05-14T04:42:08.946-06:002012-05-14T04:42:08.946-06:00Hi SF, we do mother's day on a different date ...Hi SF, we do mother's day on a different date over here but hope you had a brilliant one. Your son's drawing sounds excellent, and particularly impressive since I understand he's only seventeen? ;)<br /><br />Duck Dunn was a side-man, so you're not really meant to know who he is... he's famous to other bass players, though.jezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14865247084509280406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-19062625250457240612012-05-13T23:39:08.832-06:002012-05-13T23:39:08.832-06:00Ingratiating words –– honeyed and prosaic
Possess ...Ingratiating words –– honeyed and prosaic<br />Possess the vital force –– of a mosaic.<br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-19469591622595080422012-05-13T23:33:05.003-06:002012-05-13T23:33:05.003-06:00Silver, you're a good man.
JMJSilver, you're a good man.<br /><br />JMJJersey McJoneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426560061830038806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-59360583582441191992012-05-13T23:20:54.720-06:002012-05-13T23:20:54.720-06:00Larkin's poem is exquisitely crafted. His work...Larkin's poem is exquisitely crafted. His work may be enigmatic, but it's always beautiful.<br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-4652138404210616312012-05-13T23:18:26.949-06:002012-05-13T23:18:26.949-06:00A Feminazi's Legacy
Blithely terminating fami...<i>A Feminazi's Legacy<br /><br />Blithely terminating family life<br />In mad impulse to boost her ego strength<br />The little woman ceased to be a wife.<br />Told by pop psychologists at length<br />Existence as a mother was a scam ––<br />Robbing women of Fulfillment’s joys ––<br />Outmoded –– overrated –– a flimflam ––<br />Like childhood with no candy and no toys.<br />Deserted and dumbfounded the poor father ––<br />Bereft of help –– was left alone to raise ––<br />In sorrow and chaotic endless bother ––<br />The little ones perplexed and in a daze.<br />Children so deserted often grow<br />Harpooned by every blade of grass they mow.</i><br /><br />~ FreeThinke - March, 2012Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-54891644296220110992012-05-13T23:06:57.355-06:002012-05-13T23:06:57.355-06:00Shaw...I'm so sorry you didn't know your m...Shaw...I'm so sorry you didn't know your mother...it really pained me to read that....it's a testament to your sisters that they kept her memory alive for you. And a testament to her that she was a mother deserving of such glowing adjectives. Since I have many sisters, your comment hit home. We're lucky enough to still have Mom, and your comment reminded me how lucky I am. Thanks.<br /><br /><br />SF: I thought the jabs at Hillary for going out for a night of fun at the club were ridiculous, too. And do you know they only stayed for thirty minutes? And I don't like the jokes about her 'fat butt', etc..very few men get insulted like that.<br />I do have to say that I wish she'd cut her hair as it looks sloppy and even unprofessional these days...she looks very neat and attractive when it's short, etc. Just a personal thing with me to expect our public servants to represent us well by looking their neatest and best.<br />I don't admire her viewpoints but I am impressed that the conservative Colonels spoke so highly of her. Nice to hear.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-22775921472351207042012-05-13T21:12:28.540-06:002012-05-13T21:12:28.540-06:00Philip Larkin - Mother, Summer, I
My mother, who ...Philip Larkin - Mother, Summer, I<br /><br />My mother, who hates thunder storms, <br />Holds up each summer day and shakes <br />It out suspiciously, lest swarms <br />Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there; <br />But when the August weather breaks <br />And rains begin, and brittle frost <br />Sharpens the bird-abandoned air, <br />Her worried summer look is lost, <br /><br />And I her son, though summer-born <br />And summer-loving, none the less <br />Am easier when the leaves are gone <br />Too often summer days appear <br />Emblems of perfect happiness <br />I can't confront: I must await <br />A time less bold, less rich, less clear: <br />An autumn more appropriate.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-64965173890591912292012-05-13T20:28:18.308-06:002012-05-13T20:28:18.308-06:00My artistic son just presented my wife with a Pica...My artistic son just presented my wife with a Picasso-esque Mothers Day drawing. Kinda looks like a cross between demoiselles d'avignon and Guernica. The head looks like that of a mandrill and one breast is blimp-like and the other is a deflated balloon, and Mrs Silverfiddle enjoyed it very much and embraced him and thanked him. Love conquers all... I guess...Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-27427378267758932972012-05-13T19:50:21.073-06:002012-05-13T19:50:21.073-06:00Nicely said Silver, happy mothers day to all the m...Nicely said Silver, happy mothers day to all the moms out there.MathewKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14385674205383405783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-67511307079711426942012-05-13T17:44:40.677-06:002012-05-13T17:44:40.677-06:00Christopher,
How could imagine post at a CONSERVA...Christopher,<br /><br />How could imagine post at a CONSERVATIVE-LIBERTARIAN blog saying nice things about HILLARY CLINTON that would NOT generate controversy?<br /><br />Proof, I suppose, that if you hang around long enough and keep your face in the news, eventually people will accept you and stop questioning your bona fides. <br /><br />Or, put another way, if there's a turd in the punchbowl at every party you attend, eventually you will accept the presence of turds in punchbowls as normal, and possibly even "fashionable."<br /><br />To this we've come.<br /><br /><b>GOD, <i>HELP</i> AMERICA!!!</b><br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-66702163792430699222012-05-13T17:36:58.268-06:002012-05-13T17:36:58.268-06:00To A Muthah We Know Too Well
Hating you for many’...<i>To A Muthah We Know Too Well</i><br /><br /><i><b>H</b>ating you for many’s now a hobby ––<br /><b>I</b>ncisive, bossy, proud iconoclast.<br /><b>L</b>usting after power, you may lobby<br /><b>L</b>oudly for the the poor –– the lowest caste ––<br /><b>A</b>massed -- applauding at the Polling Gate.<br /><b>R</b>ailing at the Rich, you scorn their gold.<br /><b>Y</b>ou would have us be Slaves of the State<br /><b>C</b>heering as our lives become controlled ––<br /><b>L</b>ost –– in endless snarls of red tape.<br /><b>I</b>nventiveness to you should harnessed be<br /><b>N</b>ot to bring fulfillment, but to rape<br /><b>T</b>he profit from creative energy.<br /><b>O</b>, Self-Appointed Goddess of the Ill,<br /><b>N</b>o one can afford to pay your Bill!</i><br /><br /><br />~ FreeThinke - The Sandpiper - Autumn, 1996Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-90118374055777932132012-05-13T17:15:01.864-06:002012-05-13T17:15:01.864-06:00That's sad news, Ducky. I have to confess, th...That's sad news, Ducky. I have to confess, the only reason I know about Duck Dunn is because I was a Blues Brothers fan.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-76831330579877489002012-05-13T15:32:12.108-06:002012-05-13T15:32:12.108-06:00I was talking to a buddy today when he mentioned t...I was talking to a buddy today when he mentioned that Duck Dunn of the MGs passed. Now how does this mesh with the topic? If you want to hear a rock steady soul groove just listen to the MGs backing Otis Redding on <i>Try a Little Tenderness</i>. Can't be beat.<br /><br />No how did we move from that to L'il Wayne and <i>Stupid 'ho</i>. I don't know but we would be well served to understand it.<br /><br />Now don't blame the 60's. I'd just as soon be back in the day listening to Otis. So just how and when did it happen?<br /><br />When did we get so mean tempered? Myself, I think we have to admit that women (and others) gaining some of that <i> freedom </i> that everyone talks about had something to do with it all. But its still a tough environment for a lot of women.<br /><br />My mother died before I reached my teens and I don't have much of a memory one way or the other of her. As a result women have been a bit of a cipher to me. Part of the landscape but I never felt women were obligated to go out of their way for men. I think that's still a minority view.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-20212066898350137502012-05-13T15:11:05.516-06:002012-05-13T15:11:05.516-06:00Nice post Silver and yet draws controversy?Nice post Silver and yet draws controversy?Christopher - Conservative Perspectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14102651466203156040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-32178735105366500672012-05-13T13:06:57.892-06:002012-05-13T13:06:57.892-06:00Sorry, Finntann, but I have yet to see a good pict...Sorry, Finntann, but I have yet to see a <i>good</i> picture of Hillary. The enemedia certainly did its best to make her look fetching during the build up to the Clinton White House Fiasco and beyond, but it never worked. The poor creature just happened to have been born with a face that would stop a clock. Short of asking her donning a burka, nothing could be done to improve her appearance.<br /><br />As for partying, I'd rather party with a den of rattlesnakes -- I'd feel a lot <i>safer</i>. ;-)<br /><br />~ FTAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-75129790310267888872012-05-13T12:36:56.393-06:002012-05-13T12:36:56.393-06:00FT, you just don't get it (although we know yo...FT, you just don't get it (although we know you really do).<br /><br />How many 'bad' pictures of any of us would surface if we had a camera pointed at us 4-6 hours of every day while we went about our daily business?<br /><br />The photographers take hundreds if not thousands of photographs at every event. The fact that 'bad' pictures get published says far more about the photographer than the subject - petty, and shallow.<br /><br />I agree with SF, and not just regarding Hilary, about photographers who publish 'bad' photos... what's the saying? "The art reflects the Artist"? <br /><br />Happy Mother's Day!<br /><br />Politics aside, I bet it would be fun to party with Hilary in a Columbian nightclub.<br /><br />Cheers!Finntannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09234170229108668040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-54701251790335208372012-05-13T12:24:24.237-06:002012-05-13T12:24:24.237-06:00A Few Quotations from Notable Women on Motherhood:...A Few Quotations from Notable Women on Motherhood:<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>"I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best I could bring to it."</i> <br /><br />~ Rose Kennedy<br /><br /><br /><i>"Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, 'Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.”</i><br /> <br /><br />~ Lillian Carter - at the 1980 Democratic Convention, where her son was nominated for a second term as US President<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>"If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very much."</i> <br /><br />~ Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis<br /><br /><br /><i>”The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires."</i> <br /><br />~ Dorothy Parker<br /><br /><br /><i>"Spend at least one Mother's Day with your respective mothers before you decide on marriage. If a man gives his mother a gift certificate for a flu shot, dump him."</i><br /><br /> ~ Erma Bombeck<br /><br />Submitted by FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7674333464171899932.post-185105080800036502012-05-13T11:40:01.007-06:002012-05-13T11:40:01.007-06:00If all you great adimrers of Hillary Rodham Clinto...If all you great adimrers of Hillary Rodham Clinton just can't enough of your idolette, I guarantee you will thoroughly enjoy this website:<br /><br />http://www.zombietime.com/really_truly_hillary_gallery/<br /><br /><b>};-)></b><br /><br /><br />~ FreeThinkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com