Kultur Kwizz- Part VII

25.  According to a popular joke of the 1960s, "Why does an elephant paint his toenails red?"

A) To hide in strawberry patches  B) To advertise for Revlon  C) To match his lip gloss  D) Because he's a screaming f****t!

26.  Larry "Buster" Crabbe dyed his hair what color so that it'd appear blonde in his 1930s role of "Flash Gordon"?

A) blue  B) green  C) white  D) shocking pink

27.  Billy Mumy, the top child star of the late 50s and early 60s, was particularly famous for doing what in the movies?

A) Dating Brigette Bardot  B) Goosing Brigette Bardot  C) Kissing Brigette Bardot  D) Censored!

28.  The character of Nancy Drew was first portrayed in the movies by which actress?

A) Pamela Sue Martin  B) Pamela Anderson  C) Emma Roberts  D) Bonita Granville

Enough Is, Indeed, Enough

Dear Readers:  I posted this commentary in response to J. Matt Barber's column (as it appeared in WND.com) entitled, "Kids Say: Enough With The 'Gay' Stuff".  In it, Barber outlined the "Day of Silence" program from the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network in which 3,000 schools around the country (including middle schools!) participated on April 25th.  Apparently, many thousands of students stayed out of school that day or held off-campus prayer rallies.  Mr. Barber is a prominent officer in Concerned Women For America- of which I, too, am a member.  Almost needless to say, these counter-events received little media attention.

Dear Mr. Barber:

It's encouraging that this growing and overt movement on the part of organized homosexuals to forward their agenda in the schools is finally meeting with some roadblocks.  Despite their absurd "genetic predisposition" line, it's an evident fact (of which they, themselves, are perfectly aware) that most sexual deviancy results from experiences and traumas from childhood.  With such programs as "Day of Silence"- utilizing the pro-gay agenda of the left, to which the teachers' unions are committed- they are seeking to spread their spiritual poison to an entire generation of children.  In doing so, they stand to both expand their future power base and grant themselves a psychologically necessary measure of self-justification in their perverted lifestyle.

It's important to note here that this corruptive attack on our children's minds, bodies and souls is not confined just to the schools.  We're seeing this forwarded on the internet and in the popular culture as well.  At this year's Sundance Film Festival, for example, one of the most visible premiering films was "Phoebe In Wonderland".  While the quoted plotline was that of a "troubled" girl with Tourette's Syndrome in a primary school play of "Alice In Wonderland", the underlying (and real!) plot was that of the "bullying" of a "transgendered" boy being forced by his classmates to play the Red Queen.  The film was written, produced and directed by a couple named Barnz... two "married" homosexual men who have somehow been granted custody of two little boys in their own household.  Their "inspiration" for this movie is readily discernable!

We might well ask ourselves, "What responsible parents would allow their children to participate in such corruptive and potentially dangerous events; either in the classroom or, God help us, on a film set under the direct supervision of openly practicing homosexuals?"

Movies like "Phoebe" are every bit as destructive a weapon against the moral values of children, as they appeal to them by using other children to enact false and immoral premises.  "Phoebe" herself was portrayed by rising child star Elle Fanning (now 10).  It must be noted that her sister Dakota (14) starred in the movie "Hounddog" at age 12, a film that represented the first overt attempt to legitimize child porn in feature films.  "Hounddog", by the way, disasterously premiered at Sundance 2007 and now, in yet another re-tooled version, is scheduled to appear in theaters this summer.  Perversity breeds perversity.

The spiritual assault on children continues unabated on all fronts.  Schools, films, TV, (the Philadelphia Boy Scouts!), the internet, music, games... and other venues.  In such once-revered institutions as recognized church denominations (as the Episcopal Church), the Walt Disney Corporation and even the Girl Scouts, they have achieved victory.  Liberal politicians and the Hollywood elites stand with them.  Counter-demonstrations, such as the school walkouts you mentioned, are little enough and will garner no attention from the mass media... who are likewise disposed in homosexuals' favor.

In this politically charged season, we can expect many such events to occur under its cover; their proponents relying on the attentiions of moral people to be focussed on the campaigns.  Questionable and, now, openly depraved films utilizing children (the once-darling Fanning sisters at the forefront!) will be coming en masse to theaters this year... with our children as the target.  Other attacks- and wherever children can be made an audience- will occur concurrently.

Family groups, church organizations and political committees need to conclave and recognize that this IS a major and defining issue.  Both in the secular and spiritual context.  And, in that broader context, the implicatiions and inherent consequences are literally staggering.  After all, it's about our children.  What more important issue can there be?  

Kultur Kwizz- Part VI

Hokay!  Here we go.

21.  What famous British Prime Minister was half-American?

A) Winston Churchill,  B) William Pitt,  C) Tony Blair,  D) Edmund Blackadder

22.  In what kind of setting was the U.S. Marine Corps formally established?

A) A church,  B) A tavern,  C) A bordello,  D) It wasn't

23.  The line "He's dead, Jim." was most famously (and frequently!) used by which Star Trek character?

A) Commander Scott,  B) Mister Spock,  C) Doctor McCoy,  D) Any wandering Klingon

24.  Who was famous as Monty Python's "Minister of Silly Walks"?

A) Eric Idle,  B) Michael Palin,  C) Benny Hill,  D) John Cleese 

Vanity Fair Heralds Kids' Downfall

Dear Readers:  I wrote this today in reponse to Ben Shapiro's column on "townhall.com" entitled "Hannah Montana Does Playboy?"

Dear Mr. Shapiro:

I see that a number of the usual pedophilia apologists have come online with their usual talking points.  "She's a big girl now", "it's ART", "she's mature for her age", "her parents were okay with it", "it'll raise awareness"... and others with variations thereof.  All the usual excuses for leading children into perversity for perversity's sake.  The Hollywood trend of corrupting, sexualizing, traumatizing and adultizing children at ever younger ages has grown steadily since Jack Valenti's heyday.  Recently, it even passed the threshold of actual child porn on at least one occasion.

Disney probably remains the most child-friendly environment for children and child actors in Hollywood.  But it is still IN Hollywood.  The depraved climate and business practices of the entertainment industry as a whole are pervasive.  Even where normally loving parents are concerned, money and fame can all too often lead them into making compromises (and then greater compromises) with their children's good names and, thus, their futures as decent adults.  It's not a new story in itself.  What IS new is the potential extent of those abuses.

Children's acting careers should be secondary to their upbringing.  Also; what their parents need to keep in mind is that, when their performing children attract a peer-aged following, they, as parents, essentially become secondary parents to those other children, as well.  Thus, both child actors and their parents incur a vast responsibility.

Of course, beyond the gates of the Disney Compound, the situation worsens.  14 year old star AnnaSophia Robb is just coming off two disasterous R-rated films in which sexuality, morbidity, gross violence and her own sexualization were in evidence.  Little Irish actress Saiorse Ronan (14); much the same.  Dakota Fanning (now 14 as well) helped to bring child porn into the "mainstream" with her infamous "Hounddog" role when she was only 12.  What happened to her afterward, both personally and professionally, is a sorrowful (and largely untold) story for a kid who was once phenominally popular herself.

Child actors are children, too... and FIRST.  This is what so many of us tend to forget.  When we allow them to be degraded in the duplicitous name of "art", we likewise forward the degradation of all children (our own included!) through them.  The Cyrus incident is only the latest.  Vanity Fair similarly heralded Dakota's moral downfall in 2006... just three months before the filming of "Hounddog".  Is history about to tragically repeat itself?

Miley Cyrus is likely at a crossroads, here.  It's now for her and her parents to decide which comes first; the "show" or the young soul.  If, God willing, the latter prevails, then her duty is clear.  It's not enough to merely apologize to her heartbroken young fans and their angry parents.  An act of restitution is in order.  She needs to come forward (with her parents), explain how it happened, take full responsibility and point out to us all how easy it is to be compromised by Hollywood's culture czars when you're unwary and influenced (as kids so easily are) by honeyed words of deceit.

Dakota Fanning never did this.  Thus, she threw away the incredible, God-given opportunity to put her name and face on an entire generation of kids growing up with her.  Miley Cyrus has that same opportunity, now.  She can still be that shining face of her young peers; both on screen and in numerous other and better ways that extend beyond the entertainment field.  Her previous good example is what modern kids so desperately need.

But that opportunity is fast slipping away.  If she truely holds to any sense of worth beyond herself and has any care for the millions of kids who love her, then she needs to take quick, remedial action.  In the final analysis, those children owe her nothing.  She, however, owes them EVERYTHING.  Now's the time for her to come through for them. 

Dakota's Co-Star Sounds off!

Imagine this.  A rich, young singer (and new actress) who's gained her every heart's desire in America, wears an "AK" symbol around her neck and openly states (to Oprah!) her belief that the Bush Administration provoked the East/West Coast war between "gangsta rappers" to prevent new black leaders from emerging.  Are we talking about Sista Souljah here?  No.  We're discussing Alicia Keys, the lovely 26 year old pop idol who starred in the recent production of "The Secret Life of Bees".

Let's consider her self-proclaimed mindset, here.  This girl actually believes that a viable and respected voice for black people in America can emerge from murderous thugs (turned "artists") who spew hate and profanity in their performances, treat women and children like animals, openly do drugs and murder rivals of their own kind.  And the "AK" medallion she wears next to her heart.  Does she realize what it means?  The AK Gang formed out of members of the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods crime cartels.  They were too violent for those others.  The name "AK" stands for "Anybody Killa"!  Got that, Alicia?!

The prevalence of these twisted concepts among younger black Americans has only recently come to the forefront- thanks largely to the story about Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, the Trinity Church of Chicago and the (until now) underreported phenomenon of "Black Liberation Theology".  What we see in the open cultural spectacle of murder, corruption, race-hatred and radical politics among young blacks has many antecedents.  The rise of quasi-religious cultism is one such.  The insanely "tolerant" pop culture climate (for profit) is another.  So is the political party that panders to their self-destructive concepts for votes.

The majority of black people in this country are fine people.  Nor is this sort of blasphemy confined to their ranks.  Yet, the trend of the black populace, especially among its younger members, since the death of Dr. King has been a grim one indeed.  50% drop out of high school.  Three quarters are born out of wedlock.  For their role models, they turn not to distinguished Americans like Justice Thomas, Doctor Sowell or General Powell, but to exhalted icons of evil, murder, drugs and obscenity... who are allowed to profit from their activities.  They are taken to "churches" and mosques where hatred of America in general and of white people in particular is preached in the name of a "Black God".

The popular culture reflects and promotes this.  Hollywood, as the centerpiece of that culture, does no less.  The result is the radicalization of yet another new generation... through their own self-abasement!  Again, this isn't just confined to young blacks.  It merely exemplifies it to its most terrifying degree.  In a larger sense, this cultural pollution afflicts all segments of the younger population.

As I mentioned, Alicia Keys, obviously infected with this disease of the soul, recently made a relatively cheap film in North Carolina.  The film was based on a depressing story of racism and parental betrayal.  It featured an all-black cast but for one; a lone, 13 year old white actress named Dakota Fanning.

Little has been written or said about what occured on that set during its production.  At least, on a personal level.  Of course, it was a minor effort to begin with and, with the possible exception of Queen Latifah, had no big names in its credits.  (Alicia is prominent as a singer and Dakota is fallen from the A-list.)  Yet, amid a production crew that oversaw the pornography of her "Hounddog" movie, portraying the best friend of an "actress" who holds vicious racial attitudes (and unchaperoned on-set by any family member or friend for two months of filming!) sat little Dakota Fanning.  Hopefully, there is no other story in the backdrop to be told, here.  But, given all else and considering the degradation inherent in her life and career since her last visit to North Carolina, can it be discounted? 

It is a troubling thing that, in this day and age, such questions must be raised.  Still, if the Ku Klux Klan went into the movie business and a black child star was alone amidst an all-white cast in a film with racial overtones (both on and off set) wouldn't those same questions be raised there as well?  We're talking about child safety, here.  We're also talking about a culture that fosters those dangers, glorifies bigotry and rewards corruption... and has become essentially beyond the law.  With such "artistry" in play in our times, what else is to be forthcoming?  And will Dakota Fanning again emerge as the centerpiece victim of it?