Stupid gene is at work in today's domestic, foreign policy
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Soul_Venom — 6 years ago(February 27, 2020 08:15 PM)
In 2004, Gretchen Wilson won the Best Female Country Vocal Performance Grammy award for the song "Redneck Woman." It was a milestone in a music career that was nearly derailed time and time again.
"I went through enough in my life that I could have gone off the rails," Wilson told Fox Nation host and fellow musician John Rich. "And most people, doctors, friends, most of everyone would have said, 'Well, yeah, she had every right to go off the deep end and just lose it.'"
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"But I saw that in front of me… that opportunity to better myself, to better my future, to better maybe my family's future. And I took it. I think there are those choices in life," she said, "You can choose to just wallow in your own pity and sorrow and say, 'I can't, I can't.' Or you can just take the bull by the horns and say, 'I can and I will. And even if it takes me forever.'"
In an emotional new episode of Fox Nation's "The Pursuit!" John Rich sat down with Wilson to talk about her difficult upbringing, their early days pursuing careers in the music industry, and the day she decided she could be a mother and a musician.
Musicians Big Kenny, Gretchen Wilson and John Rich of Big and Rich perform on stage at the 2011 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee.
Musicians Big Kenny, Gretchen Wilson and John Rich of Big and Rich perform on stage at the 2011 CMT Music Awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2011 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Mike Coppola/WireImage/Getty)
Rich, who became friends and collaborators with Wilson after a chance meeting in a Nashville bar, said that he remembered receiving a panicked phone call from Wilson shortly after she secured her first record contract.
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"You are hyperventilating on the phone, bawling your face off. I can barely understand what you're saying," he said thinking back to that day. "And you said, 'I need to see you and I need to see you right now.'"
They met in the parking lot of a Kroger supermarket outside of Nashville in the middle of a rainstorm. A soaking wet Wilson jumped into the passenger seat of Rich's truck.
Nov. 2, 2008: Gretchen Wilson plays her hit "Redneck Woman" at a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at Marietta Collage in Marietta, Ohio.
Nov. 2, 2008: Gretchen Wilson plays her hit "Redneck Woman" at a rally for Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at Marietta Collage in Marietta, Ohio. (AP)
"I'm looking, "I said, what is going on?" remembered Rich. "I said, 'Gretchen, what is going on? What was happening?'"
"I said, 'I'm pregnant,'" said Wilson, recalling the panic she felt at the time. "'I don't know what to do because I've got you all involved in this now… we've got the record deal now. We're in the studio, we're trying to get things started. And I'm about to just put a big wrench in everything here. And I don't know what I'm going to do… I probably should just pack up and just go back to Illinois.'"
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For Wilson, it was an overwhelming moment in her life when two of her greatest dreams were being realized — at the same time.
"From the time I can remember, I thought in my head and in my heart that a child would complete me," she said. "If I could have something to love and take care of and do better with than anyone ever did with me, that it would make my life make sense. And so more than anything, I wanted Grace, my daughter."
May 1: Gretchen Wilson and her daughter, Grace Frances Penner, arrive at the Barnstable Brown Derby party in Louisville, Ky.
May 1: Gretchen Wilson and her daughter, Grace Frances Penner, arrive at the Barnstable Brown Derby party in Louisville, Ky. (AP)
"But my second biggest dream in the world was happening," Wilson told Rich. "I was in the middle of recording and in big-time studios in Nashville, Tennessee, with big-time people. And my career was taking off and it was amazing. And then all the sudden boom… I thought I thought it was all going to come to an end."
"Then you said… 'Gretchen?" Wilson remembered. "How many kids does Loretta Lynn have?"
"And I said, 'Oh, I don't know. There's a bunch of them."
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"And you said, 'If Loretta Lynn can have a career slingin' five, six, however many babies around the country with her, I'm pretty sure you'll be able to do it with one."
When it was all said and done, Wilson had her career and her daughter.
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Soul_Venom — 6 years ago(March 01, 2020 12:24 PM)
Now don't get me wrong. I think it is stupid and in poor taste to do so as a political statement. However I support the right of people to do so. In fact I'd like to have a bunch of carts scattered throughout all the major muslim cities selling American flags. I would then have a group that posted inflamatory rhetoric online to cause muslim rioting. I'd sell out as they bought flags to burn. I'd end up with a pocket full of cash and those fools would end up poorer with a handful of ashes.
For a long time I was politically conservative. However, I eventually noticed a flaw in the conservative philosophy. Even worse this same flaw is shared by the hated liberals. It is an urge to ban activities that people find personally offensive regardless of an individuals right to practice said activity.
What sense does it make to attempt to defend a symbol of freedom by depriving others of their freedom? I chose to serve, potentially putting myself in harms way. I swore an oath to defend the freedom of others. I may not agree with what those people say but I will defend to the death the right of those people to say it. While our constitution may afford one the right to express their opinion it does not give one the right to curtail them freedom of others to do the same.
Another issue I see is the idol worship mentality. Lets go back a couple thousand years. A man heads into the woods to chop down a tree. He tosses part of the tree in the fire to cook his meal. He carves the other into a idol which he sells at the local market. The buyer takes it home, sets it up in a shrine and worships it as a god. Was the tree divine? What about the part he burned? Can god be bought or sold? And in the old days when an idol was destroyed it was treated as sacrilege. People could get killed for disrespecting this wood carving. Does this not strike you as a primitive nutcase mentality?
Now fast forward. A farmer grows some cotton. The cotton in harvested and baled. One bale is sold to a flag maker another to an underwear maker. Now true, a flag is a symbol of the freedom we cherish but it it just a symbol. It is not the freedom itself. At the end of the day this flag is a piece of cloth. Does the fact that a certain pattern has been printed on it make it sacred? It came from the same field as the cotton that was made into boxer shorts that cover peoples asses. Are the shorts sacred too? What if the the shorts have a flag pattern printed on them? What if they crap their pants? Is that sacrilege? Should they be shot?
Hopefully a light bulb has come on and you have realized that opposition to flag burning is based in magical thinking. It is understandable. Still throughout history people have had their freedoms curtailed and even lost their lives just because someone got offended. That is wrong.
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Barbagay — 6 years ago(February 29, 2020 07:46 AM)
In the United States, we often equate health with access to medical care. However, researchers have long recognized that medical care contributes only about 10 to 20 percent to the health of individuals.
One crucial component of good health is access to education. However, the Trump budget includes cuts of more than $300 billion across the entire education spectrum from Head Start to grants that support college education.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.