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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: AmericanPatriot on February 03, 2013, 09:11:26 PM
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It was a commercial for Ram trucks but it had an essay by Paul Harvey
So God Made a Farmer
And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker!". So, God made a farmer!
God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer!
I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and mean it. So, God made a farmer!
God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain'n from "tractor back", put in another seventy two hours. So, God made a farmer!
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So, God made a farmer!
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend the broken leg of a meadow lark. So, God made a farmer!
It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight...and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does". So, God made a farmer!
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It was a great spot until they dedicated it to "the farmer in all of us." For me, that would be like showing all of the sacrifices that our soldiers make and then dedicating the ad to "the soldier in all of us." I just thought that line was disrespectful after the touching buildup.
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It was a great spot until they dedicated it to "the farmer in all of us." For me, that would be like showing all of the sacrifices that our soldiers make and then dedicating the ad to "the soldier in all of us." I just thought that line was disrespectful after the touching buildup.
I agree, Trap. I'm in another room and I heard that and had to go see what it was about.
The last line ruined it. Now a bunch of people who carry hand sanitizer and wet wipes and sip their Starbucks on the way to the organic farmers market are going to think they're farmers when they drive around in their Ram truck.
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There was another commercial that I had to go back into the room and check out.
It mentioned churches and prayer so I was curious.
Oprah narrated it and it was for the USO.
I was just amazed that they said "church" and "prayer"
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A week or so ago I posted an article on my facebook page about a Stanford study showing that much of the produce certified "organic" by Unca Shuggah is no healthier or less toxic than its industrial farm counterparts.
My hippie brother's hippie wife responded, "I didn't know you were a farmer."
Now I can say that I am...
... except that on HER facebook page today, she said she hates football, and if that makes her a bad American then so be it, to which my brother chimed in, "If you don't watch the game the terrorists win."
So I don't think they'll be responsive to me claiming to be a farmer based on the Super Bowl ad.
::facepalm::
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Love Paul Harvey! My favorite was the Bud Clydesdale... made me tear up LOL and my husband likes funny, so his favorite was the Doritos goat.
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A week or so ago I posted an article on my facebook page about a Stanford study showing that much of the produce certified "organic" by Unca Shuggah is no healthier or less toxic than its industrial farm counterparts.
My hippie brother's hippie wife responded, "I didn't know you were a farmer."
Now I can say that I am...
... except that on HER facebook page today, she said she hates football, and if that makes her a bad American then so be it, to which my brother chimed in, "If you don't watch the game the terrorists win."
So I don't think they'll be responsive to me claiming to be a farmer based on the Super Bowl ad.
::facepalm::
You should ask them how many little brown people they're willing to condemn to starvation and malnutrition with their holier-than-thou attitudes asserting the moral supremacy of organic. Because we could not even begin to feed this world without the wonders of synthetic chemistry in the form of fertilizer and pesticide.
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I didn't see all the commercials, but of the ones I did see easily the worst was that GoDaddy commercial of Bar Rafaeli (or whoever she is) kissing that nerdy kid. The mouth noises were just gross.
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A week or so ago I posted an article on my facebook page about a Stanford study showing that much of the produce certified "organic" by Unca Shuggah is no healthier or less toxic than its industrial farm counterparts.
My hippie brother's hippie wife responded, "I didn't know you were a farmer."
Now I can say that I am...
... except that on HER facebook page today, she said she hates football, and if that makes her a bad American then so be it, to which my brother chimed in, "If you don't watch the game the terrorists win."
So I don't think they'll be responsive to me claiming to be a farmer based on the Super Bowl ad.
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You should ask them how many little brown people they're willing to condemn to starvation and malnutrition with their holier-than-thou attitudes asserting the moral supremacy of organic. Because we could not even begin to feed this world without the wonders of synthetic chemistry in the form of fertilizer and pesticide.
Their response would be that Monsanto is poisoning people while in the process of attempting to control the world food supply through genetic modification and lobbying politicians with dirty corporate money to eliminate legacy seeds, and that there are better ways to feed brown children. Of course, the needs of those children in the here and now are not considered in their utopia. It's all about what should and shouldn't be - not ever what is.
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It was a commercial for Ram trucks but it had an essay by Paul Harvey
So God Made a Farmer
And on the 8th day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker!". So, God made a farmer!
God said I need somebody to get up before dawn and milk cows and work all day in the fields, milk cows again, eat supper and then go to town and stay past midnight at a meeting of the school board. So, God made a farmer!
I need somebody with strong arms. Strong enough to rustle a calf, yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild. Somebody to call hogs, tame cantankerous machinery, come home hungry and have to wait for lunch until his wife is done feeding and visiting with the ladies and telling them to be sure to come back real soon...and mean it. So, God made a farmer!
God said "I need somebody that can shape an ax handle, shoe a horse with a hunk of car tire make a harness out of hay wire, feed sacks and shoe scraps. And...who, at planting time and harvest season, will finish his forty hour week by Tuesday noon. Then, pain'n from "tractor back", put in another seventy two hours. So, God made a farmer!
God had to have somebody willing to ride the ruts at double speed to get the hay in ahead of the rain clouds and yet stop on mid-field and race to help when he sees the first smoke from a neighbor's place. So, God made a farmer!
God said, "I need somebody strong enough to clear trees, heave bails and yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink combed pullets...and who will stop his mower for an hour to mend the broken leg of a meadow lark. So, God made a farmer!
It had to be somebody who'd plow deep and straight...and not cut corners. Somebody to seed and weed, feed and breed...and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk. Somebody to replenish the self feeder and then finish a hard days work with a five mile drive to church. Somebody who'd bale a family together with the soft strong bonds of sharing, who'd laugh and then sigh...and then respond with smiling eyes, when his son says he wants to spend his life "doing what dad does". So, God made a farmer!
As I was in mixed (aka some dems were watching) company at a Super Bowl gathering, I couldn't help myself after the Harvey spot......so I struck. I asked what the heck was that. A farmer? ( I drew some stares) .....then proclaimed god didn't build that.
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Personally, IDP, I do think there is enough evidence to question the safety of GMO foods.
Also, some of the touted benefits of Monsanto's stuff is already getting diminishing returns.
BTW, I'm not an organic fanatic.
Growing up we used manure because we had it.
I don't have a lot of it so I do use fertilizer.
Back to Monsanto.
I raise heirloom corn and save my seeds.
The farmer next to me uses Monsanto seed.
His seed contaminates mine.
Legally, I am not allowed to use my seed because it infringes on Monsanto's patent.
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Personally, IDP, I do think there is enough evidence to question the safety of GMO foods.
Also, some of the touted benefits of Monsanto's stuff is already getting diminishing returns.
BTW, I'm not an organic fanatic.
Growing up we used manure because we had it.
I don't have a lot of it so I do use fertilizer.
Back to Monsanto.
I raise heirloom corn and save my seeds.
The farmer next to me uses Monsanto seed.
His seed contaminates mine.
Legally, I am not allowed to use my seed because it infringes on Monsanto's patent.
Oh, believe me, I get the whole argument against Monstano and the danger of genetic modification. My point in bringing it up is that to my brother and his lovely bride, any and all evidence and reason that counters their narrative can be swept away by snidely pointing out that I'm not a farmer.
Anyhoo, didn't mean to totally hijack.
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I didn't see all the commercials, but of the ones I did see easily the worst was that GoDaddy commercial of Bar Rafaeli (or whoever she is) kissing that nerdy kid. The mouth noises were just gross.
It was odd...I was laughing and disgusted at the same time. I guess that one got voted worst of them all.
Made me want to see the goat commercial again. (Damn, that sounded kinda gay in a jislamic sense, sorry!)
Missed the horse one and the farmer one. The Audi commercial "have fun tonight" was OK but I like the VW one with the Minnesota guy speaking like a hopped up Jamaican, that one was just silly.
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I didn't see all the commercials, but of the ones I did see easily the worst was that GoDaddy commercial of Bar Rafaeli (or whoever she is) kissing that nerdy kid. The mouth noises were just gross.
It was odd...I was laughing and disgusted at the same time. I guess that one got voted worst of them all.
Made me want to see the goat commercial again. (Damn, that sounded kinda gay in a jislamic sense, sorry!)
Missed the horse one and the farmer one. The Audi commercial "have fun tonight" was OK but I like the VW one with the Minnesota guy speaking like a hopped up Jamaican, that one was just silly.
That's the one that has the raaaacisss screamers screaming .. err ..... RAAAACISSS!
Funny thing Gunsmith told me this morning: his boss is Jamaican (been here for quite some time, however) and imparted to him the fact that Jamaica has four different .... groups; one your usual Black, one Oriental, one Indian (dot, not feather) and one White. Picture "Jamaican" coming out of the mouth of a guy with the turban and beard.
So, only far-fetched and silly if one didn't know that, which we didn't.
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I thought the Clydesdale horse ad was the best and the cutest. It also brought a tear to my eye.
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I thought the Clydesdale horse ad was the best and the cutest. It also brought a tear to my eye.
Hey, welcome welcome welcome!
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I didn't see all the commercials, but of the ones I did see easily the worst was that GoDaddy commercial of Bar Rafaeli (or whoever she is) kissing that nerdy kid. The mouth noises were just gross.
It was odd...I was laughing and disgusted at the same time. I guess that one got voted worst of them all.
Made me want to see the goat commercial again. (Damn, that sounded kinda gay in a jislamic sense, sorry!)
Missed the horse one and the farmer one. The Audi commercial "have fun tonight" was OK but I like the VW one with the Minnesota guy speaking like a hopped up Jamaican, that one was just silly.
That's the one that has the raaaacisss screamers screaming .. err ..... RAAAACISSS!
Funny thing Gunsmith told me this morning: his boss is Jamaican (been here for quite some time, however) and imparted to him the fact that Jamaica has four different .... groups; one your usual Black, one Oriental, one Indian (dot, not feather) and one White. Picture "Jamaican" coming out of the mouth of a guy with the turban and beard.
So, only far-fetched and silly if one didn't know that, which we didn't.
Well, heck, if it is being labeled the raaaacist ad by libiots, then it is my #1 ad I want to see played more!! ::whoohoo::
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This one hit home for me.
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HotAir's recap of SuperBowl ads included this one, (http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/04/super-bowl-ads-the-power-of-sweetness/) "The Power of Sweetness".
Budweiser Super Bowl Ad 2013 - The Clydesdales Brotherhood (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNWURTYwn3k#ws)
If that don't grab you by the heart, you ain't got one.
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But this one ...
Budweiser 9/11 tribute commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZIxFd5I280#)
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It was a great spot until they dedicated it to "the farmer in all of us." F.
Come, on Trap. Get with the Twenty-First Century Progressivism! We all equal, doncha know! All you suckas toiling 60 hour weeks in your small businesses so that the poor and downtrodden gets dey 60 inch big screen t.v. and dey welfair check!
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Maybe instead of the farmer in all of us the commercial would better serve if it stated we need to find the farmer in all of us.......again.
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The first one was good Pan, the second one...
I got something in my eye...
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It was dusty here when I watched that first one Pan
Dust always irritates my eyes
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Man, that Clydesdale ad really does pull the heartstrings Pan. Even though my brain knows that horses are about as far from being able to demonstrate loyalty as a cockroach, it still warmed my heart and brought a tear to my eye.
::stirpot::
::exitstageleft::
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Man, that Clydesdale ad really does pull the heartstrings Pan. Even though my brain knows that horses are about as far from being able to demonstrate loyalty as a cockroach, it still warmed my heart and brought a tear to my eye.
::stirpot::
::exitstageleft::
Is that so? I don't "know" horses; everything I've seen comes from movies and tv. Do they not get attached to "their" people out of love, then?
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I've never been around horses much, but I have heard from many sources that they are indeed capable of great loyalty. Many famous battlefield commanders throughout history were very attached to their horses (Alexander and Bucephalus, Robert E. Lee and Traveler, just to name two).
Most mammalian species have emotional capacity to some extent. I know it is absolutely true with dogs. My dogs are attuned even to subtle facial expressions.
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I've never been around horses much, but I have heard from many sources that they are indeed capable of great loyalty. Many famous battlefield commanders throughout history were very attached to their horses (Alexander and Bucephalus, Robert E. Lee and Traveler, just to name two).
Most mammalian species have emotional capacity to some extent. I know it is absolutely true with dogs. My dogs are attuned even to subtle facial expressions.
Barrack and Michelle?
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I think horses are capable of recognizing someone they know.
I don't know if love is what they're capable of.
Watch the movie War Horse
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Even though I grew up in suburbia, somewhere along the line I was instilled with a farmer's attitude about animals and caution about becoming emotionally attached to them. Not only do I not feel emotion emanating from them, I feel little emotion towards them other than the pleasure or misery they bring to humans. I realize that I am in the very extreme minority, so by bringing it up I was more making fun of myself and stirring that pot.
I remember when I was about 12 I came home from school to learn that our schnauzer had been killed by a car. My mom was in tears, and I cried for a grand total of about 15 seconds before I thought to myself, "why am I crying? It's only a dog, and we'll just go and get a new one like we did when the last one died." As soon as the new dog was there in a couple days, the old one was out of sight and mind for me.
So for whatever reason I always stop myself short of attaching human emotion to any animal. Even in household pets, I see a beast where others see a friend.
I've no doubt that among mammals, at some very basic level, they experience something akin to emotion on a wide spectrum ranging from the great apes down to a mole, and therefore it is natural for human beings to acknowledge and address a given animal's place on that spectrum. I've just never looked into the eye of a horse and seen anything but a blank trainable beast staring back at me.
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Even though I grew up in suburbia, somewhere along the line I was instilled with a farmer's attitude about animals and caution about becoming emotionally attached to them. Not only do I not feel emotion emanating from them, I feel little emotion towards them other than the pleasure or misery they bring to humans. I realize that I am in the very extreme minority, so by bringing it up I was more making fun of myself and stirring that pot.
I remember when I was about 12 I came home from school to learn that our schnauzer had been killed by a car. My mom was in tears, and I cried for a grand total of about 15 seconds before I thought to myself, "why am I crying? It's only a dog, and we'll just go and get a new one like we did when the last one died." As soon as the new dog was there in a couple days, the old one was out of sight and mind for me.
So for whatever reason I always stop myself short of attaching human emotion to any animal. Even in household pets, I see a beast where others see a friend.
I've no doubt that among mammals, at some very basic level, they experience something akin to emotion on a wide spectrum ranging from the great apes down to a mole, and therefore it is natural for human beings to acknowledge and address a given animal's place on that spectrum. I've just never looked into the eye of a horse and seen anything but a blank trainable beast staring back at me.
Fine. You get to kill and butcher the animals, the rest of us will cook. ;D
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Even though I grew up in suburbia, somewhere along the line I was instilled with a farmer's attitude about animals and caution about becoming emotionally attached to them. Not only do I not feel emotion emanating from them, I feel little emotion towards them other than the pleasure or misery they bring to humans. I realize that I am in the very extreme minority, so by bringing it up I was more making fun of myself and stirring that pot.
I remember when I was about 12 I came home from school to learn that our schnauzer had been killed by a car. My mom was in tears, and I cried for a grand total of about 15 seconds before I thought to myself, "why am I crying? It's only a dog, and we'll just go and get a new one like we did when the last one died." As soon as the new dog was there in a couple days, the old one was out of sight and mind for me.
So for whatever reason I always stop myself short of attaching human emotion to any animal. Even in household pets, I see a beast where others see a friend.
I've no doubt that among mammals, at some very basic level, they experience something akin to emotion on a wide spectrum ranging from the great apes down to a mole, and therefore it is natural for human beings to acknowledge and address a given animal's place on that spectrum. I've just never looked into the eye of a horse and seen anything but a blank trainable beast staring back at me.
Fine. You get to kill and butcher the animals, the rest of us will cook. ;D
As long as I get to eat, I'm good with that! ::beertoast::
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They tell me horse meat is pretty good
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I shed a tear when Random's kitty died (you'll never convince me that she didn't die of a broken heart), but life goes on. I got another kitten and this one has a different personality than any of the other cats I've had.
I don't anthropomorphize the critters but I do see unique personalities.
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I've never been around horses much, but I have heard from many sources that they are indeed capable of great loyalty. Many famous battlefield commanders throughout history were very attached to their horses (Alexander and Bucephalus, Robert E. Lee and Traveler, just to name two).
Most mammalian species have emotional capacity to some extent. I know it is absolutely true with dogs. My dogs are attuned even to subtle facial expressions.
Barrack and Michelle?
::rolllaughing:: ::rolllaughing::