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Monday, February 27, 2023

Grab the Reins

 A recent change in America’s temperature has found not only a new year – 2023 – on the calendar, but also a renaming of a former staple in the movie industry.

 

America was amidst the throes of seemingly endless crises way back in the 1960’s: the Vietnam War was in full swing, Chevy’s Camaro was fighting it out with the

Ford Mustang, and I was desperately trying to make my way into high school and a reputable college.

 

First things first…the latest, greatest movie on the silver screen at that time just happened to be subject to a new system of rating movies from the National Motion Picture Association of America, (NMPAA.)

 

In case you’re unfamiliar with the NMPAA, it was established in 1968 to better assist parents who were, at the time, too stoned on weed, heroin, Sangria, cocaine, and LSD, to decide what their underage kids should be watching in movie theaters.

 

In 2023, the NMPAA title was summarily changed to the National Motion Picture Association (NMPA), while America awaited more exciting news from this brilliant maneuver.  Until then, we’ll simply wait for any further renaming updates.

 

The NMPA, not unlike other bloated industries, has a penchant for over complicating even the simplest tasks in society.  In other words, they turned an effortless process for making toothpicks into a complex, seven-day procedure of whittlin’ down telephone poles.

 


Their rating system is so overly complicated that it involves letters, numbers, as well as a stern finger-wagging to preclude innocent eyes and ears from bearing witness on the debauchery offered by the movie industry.

 

Let’s begin in 1968.  “Jack Valenti, a former aide to President Lyndon Johnson, replaced the Production Code with a system of voluntary film ratings, in order to limit censorship of Hollywood films and provide parents with information about the appropriateness of films for children.  In addition to concerns about protecting children, Valenti stated in his autobiography that he sought to ensure that American filmmakers could produce the films they wanted,” according to Wikiwand.com.

 

Wikiwand further stated, “Valenti also oversaw a major change in the ratings system that he had helped create – the removal of the ‘X’ rating, which had come to be closely associated with pornography.  It was replaced with a new rating, ‘NC-17’, in 1990.”

 

This is about the time you’re probably thinking now is an appropriate time to fake your own death.  But read on for the usual brilliance usually only found at www.EasternShoreFishAndGame/blogspot.com.

As of late, the world news has been busy hiding under their desks not doing their jobs.  Their jobs consist of locating and reporting items of interest to followers of the mainstream media ({MSM), to readers, watchers, and listeners of what has unmistakably morphed into MSM drivel.

 

It seems as though Kindergartens, elementary schools, scouting organizations, and coffee houses, have apparently joined with other ostensibly innocuous fraternal and scholastic meeting centers to help promote “drag races.”

 

Drag races of days of yore consisted largely of mechanically handy people who would scavenge parts and tools of old automobiles, in order to build and race quick cars known as drag cars; they competed in races on closed ¼-mile long tracks, eventually becoming an auto sport known as “drag racing.”

 

Today, however, the words ‘drag racing/drag show’ has been co-opted by people who are clearly of the opposite sex, yet dress as their anti-sex.  A man becomes a woman, while a woman becomes a man. 

 

Evidently, this behavior has been occurring behind closed doors at select homes across the world.  Unfortunately, their bedroom doors opened to the public with their odd conduct now on display to everyone with eyes and ears.

 

In essence, what was once hidden is now open for public consumption, like it or not, take your medicine!

 

If you failed to fake your own death and are, indeed, still reading, please bear in mind I am not a prude.  As a kid I spent some time with my equally nefarious movie critic cohorts, attempting to visit theaters using the then-new NMPAA rating system.  In fact, we were desperately trying to see an X-rated movie titled “Fritz the Cat.”

 

As an aside, I am sorry to report that I have yet been able to watch this 1972 animated movie.  I don’t believe any of my buddies have seen it yet, either.  Of course I’m neither mentally stunted nor psychologically superior for not watching Fritz.

 

In any case, the new version of drag shows are, simply put, another weasely way to attempt to normalize aberrant behavior of children and their easily swayed, weak minded parents and teachers.

 

The NMPAA/NMPA, and today’s schools, alike, should be playing off the same proverbial sheet of music to protect our children, families, and society.  Unfortunately, too many of today’s parents are frightened, or unable, to identify a sociopathic personality and point out its current and future problems.

 

While the federal guvment piously pushes for blinders to cover the eyes of impressionable children, the local and state counterparts seem willing – even agog – to ram it down the throats of kids and their parents, alike.

 

School boards are regularly caught lying to parents about their “educating” America’s rug rats about the virtues of cross-dressing, transgenderism, along with obtaining hidden abortions from their parents.

 

What seemed like a noble idea to shelter future generations from filth, violence, and age-inappropriate movies and television programs, has been jettisoned in favor of making our youngun’s more worldly by encouraging them to surgically alter their sex.  What could possibly go wrong?

 

Where are the sensible people to grab the reins when we need them?  Let’s find some strong adults to end this mayhem before it ends us.