SICK OF HOLLYWOOD JUNKIES!

I am sick to death of hearing stories on ET, Access Hollywood, Oprah, and the MSM about all the junkies in Hollywood!
I am sick to death of hearing all the rehab stories about movie stars.
I am sick to death of hearing about all the drugs smuggled into the US from Mexico for their consumption.
I am sick to death of knowing that these Hollywood junkies influence our young people.
I am sick to death of hearing about their book deals and true confessions.
I am sick to death of seeing them reek on UTube.
I am sick to death of hearing about Hollywood drug parties.
I WISH ALL STORIES ABOUT HOLLYWOOD JUNKIES WERE TAKEN OFF THE AIR-----TOTALLY!!! OR PUT ON SOME LONELY SEPARATE CHANNEL THAT DEALS WITH TRASH LIKE THIS.

I agree. I think America has had enough of Hollywood junkies and smut.

The lowest ratings for the Oscars. I think AMERICA is raising the bar on what they want to be entertained with and I for one am very happy this is happening.

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Hollywood salutes its WMDs

Pat Boone
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Posted: February 22, 2008
6:04 pm Eastern

© 2008

Well, I've sent in my Oscar ballot. I'm a singer, an actor, a "member of the Academy," an entertainer. Believe it or not, for a while in the early part of my career, I was one of the top-10 box office stars, along with my pal Elvis. I've loved being in this unpredictable, exciting, universally influential phenomenon called entertainment.

But this year, as in the last several years, I've voted with great misgivings. When Elvis and I came into the business, we and the producers and the studio execs were all aiming at the vast "family audience," the moms and dads who gathered their kids on a Friday or Saturday night and headed to the local movie theater. Of course, we hoped to appeal to the teens, but we were aware that real success depended on our entertaining the whole age range – and certainly not offending parents by "going over the line," sexually or morally in any way. No nudity, no profanity, no brutality and absolutely no explicit, graphic sex scenes.

We had hit movies, one after another. Big bucks, huge audiences, worldwide acclaim. And the movie business itself was prospering like never before, with weekend family attendance a predictable ritual. I had "April Love" and "State Fair" and "Journey To The Center of The Earth," while Elvis had "Love Me Tender," "King Creole," "Blue Hawaii" and many more. There was no "X" rating, or even "PG"; movies were for the whole family, and families all over the world ate 'em up and envied the glorious country they reflected.

All that has changed, drastically. Today the movie studios belch forth silly, raunchy, titillating teen schlock, "chick flicks" (soapy, sexy women's stories), and over-violent car chase or bloodletting fantasies. Or they give us all-out soft porn – morbid, taboo-busting and hopelessly dark productions clearly intended to appeal to every base instinct known to man. The current "horror films" manage to combine all these elements into a mindless sensory blitz of blood, sex, violence and fear, a modern American staple.

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I don't think it's a stretch to call many of Hollywood's latest films – including the nominated ones this year – WMDs.

Why? Well, what's the definition of a WMD? The term still doesn't appear in most dictionaries, but the name itself tells you: It's a weapon, by its nature destructive, and it's aimed at masses of people. Right?

So look at what most of this year's Oscar nominees, for sad example, are accomplishing. All are beautifully produced and powerfully acted; they are fashioned and marketed by giant studio machines; and, because of their negative messages and content, they are like guided missiles. And the combination of major stars, provocative advertising and millions spent on marketing around the world effectively targets the masses.

It's the payload, the content, that makes them so destructive. I'm still a member of the Academy, so I get DVDs of almost all the films that are clamoring for nomination, in order to vote knowledgeably. I'm no prude, for Pete's sake, but this year I could only find five to vote for in any category, and some I quit watching after 10 minutes!

In the five nominees for "Best Picture," there's "There Will Be Blood," a magnificent trashing of America's early oil exploration. "Michael Clayton" dramatically "exposes" decadent money-crazy big business in our country. "Juno" charmingly documents a 15-year-old girl's unemotional sex with the neighbor boy, and her brave decision to have the baby and hand it off to a woman whose marriage breaks up during the pregnancy. The message: No harm, no foul; life goes on happily. "Atonement," produced in England but honored here, is the beautiful saga of early very graphic sex and lies, followed by later graphic sex and disillusionment. We didn't receive our copy of "No Country For Old Men," but the TV previews leave no doubt that it's the most violent, bloody, profane entry of the bunch.

That's the top five, but in other categories like Best Actor and Actress, we can choose among a musical "snuff film" in "Sweeney Todd," a mob violence and sadism romp in "Eastern Promises," or a murder mystery portraying American soldiers and police as murderous and duplicitous, right here at home, in war time, in "In The Valley of Elah."

Of course, there's "American Gangster," in which Australian actor Russell Crowe is the only honest cop in New York, trying to bring down the murderous black drug and crime lord, played by our much-honored Denzel Washington; all the New York police and government officials are seen as sleazy, corrupt and "bought off" … and it purports to be a true story!

These are just some of the "cream" films, the ones the industry likes most, but there are scores of others that racked up big grosses and millions of viewers worldwide – films that absolutely undermine the honor and integrity of our leaders, our military, our business leaders, and even Christian ministers and churchgoers.

Why do I refer to all these classy-looking but decadent films as WMDs? Because, while they rack up tremendous profits and self-acclaim, they cause as much permanent damage to America's reputation and standing around the world as would neutron bombs! They contribute to the immorality and degradation of Judeo-Christian principles among young people everywhere, much like poison gas released in cities, subways, high schools and places of worship. Instead of extolling America, our long-established way of life, our freedoms and ingenuity and commitments to valor, our neighborliness and our pursuits of legitimate happiness – as Hollywood used to do in history's most successful films – the industry seems intent on fulfilling the fondest hopes and expressed aims of the Communists in the 1950s. As Sen. Joe McCarthy and even Ronald Reagan, then president of the Screen Actors Guild, found, foes determined to destroy the United States realized they could most effectively undermine us by infiltrating and corrupting our image in the movies! These Communist sympathizers were routed, temporarily; but today, capitalist, money-motivated producers are furthering identical goals!

As an actor, as an American, I'm dismayed. As we watch the Oscars, I'll be remembering the Psalmist's observance:

"The wicked freely strut about
When what is vile is honored among men."

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=57067

I am sick to death of having uneducated 'stars' prance around 'playing' the role of educated people telling us who we should vote for.

I am sick to death of Oprah!!!

My husband asked me the other night "Don't you see enough of that?" when I changed the channel off Letterman and onto Glenn Beck (he can't stand Glenn's voice). I told him I'd much rather listen to Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, etc...than to watch the junkie celebrities preen over themselves and see the brown-nosing of Letterman and others. They all make me s-i-c-k!

Just came across this and had to post it.


America's Most Sinful Cities?

by Albert Mohler
http://www.crosswalk.com/pastors/11568955/
2/26/2008

What are America's most sinful cities? How could we know? Well, give Forbes magazine credit for giving this ranking challenge a try. The magazine recently offered rankings on the traditional seven deadly sins -- and ranked America's "top ten" on each sin.

The folks at Forbes determined a way of tracking statistics on each of the sins. As the staff explained, "For each sin we stretched our imagination to find a workable proxy--murder rates for wrath, per capita billionaires for avarice--then culled the available data sources to rank the cities. Some of the results were surprising: Salt Lake City as America's Vainest City. Some were not: Detroit as America's Most Murderous."

Here are the sins and the top cities in each sinful category:

Most Lustful: Denver ranked first, joined by San Antonio, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Boise, Washington, DC, Cincinnati, Columbus, Baltimore and Buffalo/Rochester. The research firm of AC Nielson used sales figures for contraceptives and sex items in ranking the list.

Most Jealous: Memphis tops the list, followed by Charlotte, San Antonio, Seattle, Providence, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Columbus, Oklahoma City, Chicago. The rankings were linked to crime rates for personal property.

Most Obese [Gluttony]: Memphis, Birmingham, San Antonio, Riverside/San Bernardino, Detroit, Jacksonville, Nashville, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, San Diego. Health statistics drove this listing.

Most Avaricious [Greed]: San Jose, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Boston, New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, Washington, Miami. The rankings on this sin were determined by looking at the concentration of great wealth.

Most Murderous [Wrath]: The crime statistics are clear -- the most murderous city is Detroit, followed by Baltimore, New Orleans, Newark, St. Louis, Oakland, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Buffalo.

Most Slothful [Sedentary]: Memphis tops this list as well, followed by New Orleans, Las Vegas, Detroit, Birmingham, Louisville, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Nashville, and Miami.

Most Vain [Pride]: "Pride is supposed to be a deadly sin. When it comes to their looks, however, fewer Americans are seeing it that way," say the reporters, who used plastic surgery as the marker for this sin. Perhaps surprisingly, Salt Lake City ranked first, followed by San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose, Miami, Louisville, Nashville, Virginia Beach, New York, and Los Angeles.

Interestingly, the Bible and the Christian tradition often associate sin with cities. The concentration of human beings in cities often fuels the business of sin and presents opportunities not available elsewhere. From the "cities of the plains" to Nineveh, Babylon, and Rome, cities often became symbols of human pride, lust, and egoistic sin.

Similarly, John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress -- perhaps the most influential book in English (other than the Bible) among Christians -- symbolized the sinfulness and allure of the city in its portrayal of Vanity Fair.

But what about the Forbes list? In the final analysis, it is probably not worth more than conversation points. Are the folks in Salt Lake City really more vain than those in Atlanta? Are citizens of Memphis really more jealous than those of Houston? Who can know? The statistics chosen for the report tell only part of the story.

Still, it is interesting to ponder the question of whether sins are particularly celebrated and concentrated in certain cities. It would be hard to ignore the self-advertisement of Las Vegas. Yet, it is not true that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. Sins spill over quite readily, and sin is a powerful contagion.

In reality, the whole world is a Genesis 3 world -- a fallen world inhabited by sinners. Sin is a universal problem and every single human being is a sinner. Put sinful humanity in close quarters, and sin inevitably multiplies.

If anything, the Forbes sin listings should remind Christians of the great challenge of evangelizing the cities -- a task that demonstrates Christian failure to date. In that sense the Forbes list is haunting, humbling, and heart-breaking. Yet, in another sense, it may also be motivating. We can hope.

---Albert Mohler is President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary www.AlbertMohler.com. Used with permission.






http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modu ... oryid=7805

CCUSA. Did you notice the date on that? It was just written. 2/26/08

Hey, nothing happens by accident. I guess I ran into the article at the right time. :lol:


I noticed New Jersey is not on the list, but I'm sure the jokes will coming pouring in to make up for not being on this particular list. :lol: They alway do for some reason. I for one, really like NJ. :lol:


OH, I STAND CORRECTED.

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Most Murderous [Wrath]: The crime statistics are clear -- the most murderous city is Detroit, followed by Baltimore, New Orleans, Newark, St. Louis, Oakland, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Buffalo.

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I don't live close to Newark, but my Dad grew up there and had a great childhood years ago. Things changed for the worse I see.