The dumbest McDonald's TV commercial

Most TV commercials are an insult to ART - not just  to

     the moral and ethical values of the common people of America - the

    very backbone of democracy. In the make a buck business world FREE

    SPEECH is really just the right to lie or the right to exaggerate

    outrageously in order to make a deep mental impression on a potential

    consumer. A long time ago Vance Packard wrote a book -still worth

    reading -on the advertising industry : " The Hidden Persuaders ".

               Most TV commercials are not just innocent promotion of

    useful or useless products. They are collectively ruthless brainwashing

    - like something out of  " The Manchurian "  candidate : BUY THIS OR

    YOU WILL NEVER KNOW TRUE HAPPINESS !

               Pretty sinister stuff - SMILING FACES, lying faces !

         The latest McDonald's TV commercial - showing all those manic

    McDonald's customers - looking as if they were all high on speed

    or cocaine -  ranks with " Plan Nine From Outer Space " as a true

    classic of boob tube idiocy.

                  In fact frequent trips to McDonald's would make all

    these characters  fat and lethargic. Fast food does for your body in

    general what cigarette smoking does for your lungs.

          So the McDonald's commercial is as big a lie as any  cigarette

    advertising - showing all those happy, healthy KIDS !

                But thank God for FREE ENTERPRISE and the AMERICAN WAY !

Sad Catholic school girls

 I know how a Catholic school -whatever the sins of the Church -

    can own your heart.  What a sad picture in the Boston Herald today ( page 14,

    Jan. 30 ) showing two Monsignor Ryan Memorial High School students, Alyson

    Wuschke and Jessica Hayes , who " try to hold back tears upon finding out

    that the school is closing its doors permanently at the end of the school

    year ".

               Can money be the measure of ALL things, even mental torment ?

    Is it really so insensitive to asks if the victims of sexual abuse  are

    OWED millions by a religious institution that is funded by its numerous

    faithful, humble Catholics who give whatever they can afford to THEIR

    Church - founded by Christ Himself, they believe ?

            Do the victims of sexual abuse have an unlimited claim on the

    Church's treasury ? Can the righteous demand for justice hide GREED ?

                Let me ask a very unholy question : Just who OWNS the

    Catholic Church anyway ? Perhaps the next pope might wisely  put a

    FOR SALE sign on all church properties and  withdraw the 2000 year old

    religious institution  completely from the  BUSINESS world. All the

    cash collected can be sent to a United Nations trust fund for the world's

    most desperate poor people.

              It is not inconceivable - considering the totalitarian political

    organization of  the Vatican state - that it could just collapse just as

    suddenly and dramatically as the old Soviet Union  - which was also OWNED

    by the FAITHFUL - by the working people, you know.

                  Like  Russia, the Catholic should return to its original

    " socialist " innocence - minus a privileged and dogmatic bureaucracy.

                A simple faith and mysticism might characterize a purified

    Catholic Church.  A belief in Jesus as God unaided by Aristotle and Thomas

    Aquinas. A humble faith in the Church's oldest rituals.

            And ancient Latin IS the language of the faith just as  modern

    Italian  IS the language of opera .

             Just keep the Vatican Library with its Secret Archives. And

    Catholics can begin again at the beginning.

                  Caution : True believers might again be fed to the lions !

Bush's chance for re-election

Was it in March of 1968 - that awesome year ! - that Mr. Hubris

    himself, LBJ , said  in a solemn and melancholy tone : " I shall not

    seek.... "  He was FINISHED as president of the United States , destroyed

    by Vietnam , a war he could just not stop. He could not say NO to the

    mad bombers in the Pentagon.

               Next year around this time  President George W. Bush - a

    Texas cowboy like Lyndon Johnson - will, I bet, make a similar speech.

              It seems that the only way we could  save Iraq was to destroy

    it. But there were unexpected consequences. The American people asked

    themselves : " Are we safer from terrorism than we were four years ago ? "

             They asked : " Are we better off economically than we were four

    years ago ? "

             A smiling Hillary Clinton has just  won the New Hampshire

    primary.  Husband  Bill is beside her holding her hand -and smiling

    too, his face blushing its primary colors.

             Who says  history is bunk ?

WHJJ rude to Rodney Driver

           WHJJ invites the controversial pacifist Rodney Driver on

    its morning TALK RADIO yesterday but then The Independent Man , John

    DiPetro and  a regular caller, one  Peter Anthony -  now a militarist

    crackpot TRUE BELIEVER - were downright rude to this " guest " Driver.

          I recall the polite and restrained gentleman saying : " Is there

    any reason for  ME to be here ? "

               Fanatics are, of course, alike everywhere - on the Left and

    on the Right. Once you hear the VOICE OF GOD , democratic debate is

    almost insufferable. Just exhort the infidel to examine his wicked,

    wicked, soul. And direct him to the Ministry of Truth.

               I am no fan of Rodney Driver. He seems like a monomaniac.

    But he is a mental giant compared to the likes of The Independent Man

    and the pipsqueak militarist, Peter Anthony -of Craaanston .