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Dear Friends

The current auto-landscape very much reflects the spirit of the nation who produces the cars. Look at America for example. Proud American brands like Chrysler, General Motors and Ford building cars that are comfortable, big and just make you think: It’s good to be an American!

My former employee Tristan Shuddery once said: “Everything worth owning has been either invented or developed in the USA.” This rings especially true when it comes to cars. Lets take a look at the insignificant rest of the world: They stole a term invented by Apple Inc. which is “Nano” and basically means “Small” or “Tiny” and use it to market their cars! I am talking about the so called “Nano Effect”, the obsession to make everything as small as possible.

Why is it that safety and comfort don’t count to Europeans? The simple answer is: They can’t afford it no more! They refused for years to adopt the American business models of free enterprise and therefore their economy is going down the crapper! It also doesn’t help that they let millions of towelheads into their countries that loot the welfare offices.

Some people say that the German car models we know are not even sold in Germany any more. The average Porsche you know, or the Audi or the Mercedes are only built for the US-market, in Germland however, they have their “Nano-style” models.

Let’s all get down on our knees and thank the Lord and the Leader for keeping the American economy strong and the American spirit vibrant, so we don’t have to suffer the “Nano-effect”. We in America still enjoy all the comfort and luxury we can buy, because God wants us to!

Thanks for reading!

Shelley N. Goodman

Dear Readers

I am honored to present to you this short and exclusive interview with one of my favorite artists, Denny Blaze. I hope you’ll appreciate this completely non-political article, here on STR, the Freedom Blog.

STR: Denny, thanks so much for talking to us. We at ShelleyTheRepublican were quite thrilled that you agreed to this interview.

DENNY: Thank you for your interest in me and my music. I appreciate the coverage.

STR: As you might be aware of, STR : The Freedom Blog is a Christian conservative project. We dedicate your work to the Lord Jesus Christ and try to present a deeply religious viewpoint. Let me come right out and ask you: Do you believe in God and accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior?

DENNY: Yes, I am a Christian. My favorite scripture is John 3:16.

STR: A good friend of mine sent me the link to your youtube video in which you perform as the Average Homeboy. I fell in love with the video right away. There is a certain quality to it that is extremely appealing to me. I must say I am deeply impressed by the dedication and passion you presented. It makes me extremely sad that you didn’t get any significant recognition up until so many years later. How did it make you feel?

DENNY: I’ve seen many major record labels use my ideas in their material. That was disappointing. Though, I enjoy making music. So, I just kept making more and more material. It does feel good to finally have my material being downloaded around the world. My most exciting music moment (so far) is…when I was standing in Times Square in New York City when we were making the recording for the Vh1 TV Show, “The Top 40 Internet Super Stars.” New York is such a powerful city, and I was thankful for Vh1 to give me recognition.

STR: In the iTunes store there is the old as well as a new version of the average homebody for sale. I bought the old one, but not the new one. I have to admit that I like the original much more. The new version is too diluted by fancy background voices. To be honest I wish you would have been more loyal to the original concept. Your thoughts?

DENNY: The original keyboard version of Average Homeboy does seem to be more popular on iTunes. I think that version has a comical appeal to it since it was made so long ago. Most younger people don’t understand the technology from the time period when Average Homeboy was made. It was recorded with nothing more than a keyboard sample beat and a microphone that went into a cassette recorder. There were no CDs back then, and I didn’t edit the song at all. I just pressed “play and record” and went one time through. Also, there was no Internet back then.

STR: There are certain lines in the lyrics of the Average Homeboy song that could be considered slightly “racist”. Quote: “I don’t live in a box - nor was I raised on the street - as you can see - I’m not black - I don’t do drugs and I’m not on crack”. I personally believe that you are accurate and fair saying that, but did hateful liberals ever accuse you of insinuating that Negroes take drugs and are raised on the street?

DENNY: Anybody who knows me…would laugh at that. I judge people individually. There are good AND bad white people. There are good AND bad black people. You probably noticed that my friend Jeff, who happens to be black, was featured in The Average Homeboy video. Still, at the time when I made Average Homeboy, there weren’t really any white solo artists who were making rap videos. Even today, the few white rappers who made it to the major record labels, don’t share my middle class perspective. There has always been a ghetto and gangsta appeal to rap music, and I’m neither of those. I’m an educated, middle class guy…who likes to rap. You don’t have to be “Riding Dirty” to like rap music, and I don’t “Ride Dirty,” lol. I don’t smoke, drink, or do any kind of drugs. Really, if your are not “Riding Dirty” in the first place, then, the police or anybody else…won’t catch you “Riding Dirty.”

STR: I imagine it must be incredibly hard to become successful in the music industry. Are you still hopeful it will happen for you? What are your plans for the future? How can your fans support your efforts?

DENNY: With all of the amazing technological advances, the music industry is rapidly changing. I’m a perfect example of it. These days, via the internet, you can get your material out to the masses instantly, and consumers aren’t going out to the record stores as much. With “File Transfers” you don’t even need a physical product. I think that “Success” is being able to do…what you love to do. I’m very blessed to be able to do that. Currently, I’m still working on smoothing out my rapping, ha ha. I’m also working on another CD project, and I’ve been contacted by a few television and movie producers. Hopefully, you’ll be seeing The Average Homeboy on Network TV again and on The Big Screen. I keep all of my friends and fans updated on my website: dennyblaze.com . My CDs and DVDs are available there, and I have all kinds of merchandise such as: T-Shirts and Ringtones!

STR: Let me close this interview with a nonsensical question: Do you still eat Froot Loops?

DENNY: Yes, I love all kinds of cereal. There’s no doubt that Froot Loops are my favorite.

STR: Is there anything else you like to add?

DENNY: Thank you for sharing my story, and I hope that your readers will just be BLAZED!

STR: Once more, thanks so much for taking the time to answer my questions, Denny. It has been a privilege. Please keep in touch.

Denny Blazin’, the Average Homeboy, Ladies and Gentleman. Please support him by visiting his website, rating his amazing video on youtube or, even better, buying his music on iTunes.

God bless you. Thanks for reading,
Shelley N. Goodman

Good Day.

Perhaps a brief word of introduction before I attend to the “meat of the matter”, as some may say.? My name is Newton Wilcox.? I am on the board of Shelley The Republican.? In general, the board prefers to remain behind the scenes but due to some recent unpleasantness I find myself thrust forward into a somewhat more public role.? In the course of working through said unpleasantness I was asked by Shelley Goodman to consider the occasional article for this fine example of Christian and Republican news and commentary.? I do not expect to become a regular gazetteer but I admit that the occasional dabble in wordsmithing piques my interest.

With that out of the way…

A recent insightful article by Billy Bob Neck (see Hollywood - America’s Shame) provoked?a pathetically predictable response from the vocal minority that run roughshod over STR.? Naturally, the board supports the conclusions of this article but we do occasionally like to spot check comments made by the wrong-headed opposition to insure that they are “as dumb as they look”, to use a popular phrase.?

A typical campaign rally for Dennis Kucinich.? Those
who attend these rallies are generally too high on drugs
to care about the substance of what is being said.?

One comment popped out at us by a Mr. Random Aussie/ New Zealander.? While we are suspect of those with dual citizenships, he mentioned a movie that interested us.? “Toy Story”.? Could it be, we thought, that Hollywood consented to produce a documentary on the marvelous One 2 Believe toy company, makers of the Daniel and the Lion’s Den Tales of Glory Figurine Set?? Sadly, no.? This was merely another salvo in Hollywood’s attempt to corrupt the minds of our young people and turn them away from God.? But let me not get ahead of myself.? The board, out of curiosity, asked that I screen the film and report my findings and this I now do.

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It is a mixed blessing that our church library does not have a copy of this abomination.? I say “mixed” as it removes the sin of temptation from children grabbing for its brightly colored packaging but as a result of this I was forced, for the first time in my life, to open an account at the local video store.? Despite my reasonable suggestion that, rather than give out personal information, I leave a $100 US Savings Bond I was forced to give them my credit card number (which I immediately reported as stolen in order to “head them off at the pass”).

Once home, my familty ate supper, prayed??and?my wife and I put our children to bed with strict warning that under no circumstance were they to leave there bedroom.? My wife and I prayed again for guidance and protection from the Lord and proceeded to watch this song of Sodom.

If you’re like most Americans, then you insult God nightly
by not thanking him for the food He provided for you out
of the kindness of his heart.? Also, if you are like most
Americans, you will be going to Hell.

The hazards of fantasy have been well catalogued on this site.? What is less discussed is adverse effects of animation particularly computer animation.? Time prohibits a full discussion of this but the possibility of the inclusion of Satanic messages increases exponentially when a filmmaker relies not on what can be reproduced in reality but on an “artistic” interpretation of reality.? What’s to prevent a homosexual, for example, from discreetly penciling in a pictures of hardcore homosexual intercourse on every single frame of the film?

The two main “heroes” of this wickedness are “Buzz” Lightyear and “Woody”.? From this fact alone, the discerning viewer knows to turn the television off.? “Buzz” is drug slang for intoxication.? The character’s name, therefore, implies an almost permanent state of “buzz”.

Example - “Jackson, I have taken so much marihauna that I will be buzzed for a lightyear but I am unable to stop.”

This leads the little boy in the film to exclaim at one point, “I’ve lost my Buzz”.? Shameful.

The other name, “Woody” derives from a base term for a male erection.

Example - “Lakeesha, your dark chocolate skin is giving me a woody.? I can’t help myself.? Be prepared for a U.S.E.

To put it another way, the “heroes” represent drug abuse and non-consensual, pre-marital intercourse.? Are these really a proper basis for a children’s movie?? How, I ask you, can that in any way, shape or form be considered appropriate for children?

Both of these unfortunate young women were the
victims of watching Toy Story as young children.? Now
they have drug-induced lesbian sex on table tops in
public.? Heed this warning!

The other “human” toy appears in the form of Little Bo Peep who in this incarnation emerges as a hyper-sexual woman intent getting as much “Woody” as she can.

Other toys catalogue present a virtual encyclopedia of sins.

Pig - gluttony
Binoculars - voyeurism
Dinosaurs - a not-so-subtle swipe at Creationism
Potato - Foul mouthed and judgemental
Magic 8 Ball - Occultism

I shan’t bore you with the full list as I believe these examples serve to illustrate the point.

Satanic atheists like nothing better than to trivialize
the Seven Deadly Sins.? One such gambit is to make sin
“funny” by issuing items such as these Seven Deadly Sins
wristbands.? The plastic will sear into your flesh when
exposed to intense heat, like that found in Hell.

The basic premise of the film is that toys become human when humans leave the room.? Leaving aside the trauma that this can cause impressionable children (”Mother, my teddy bear wants to kill me”) ponder for a moment who would get pleasure out of giving children such dread?? Jews?? Close.? Satan, is the correct answer.? It is true that, should He wish to, God is more than capable of causing inanimate objects to come to life however He has no cause for such cheap parlor tricks.

The film opens with a “saloon” fashioned from a cardboard box in the process of getting robbed.? How Christian.? The boy who owns the toys then proceeds to launch into an implausible flight of fancy involving physics, evolution and other scientific principles, the foundations of which have no biblical basis whatsoever.? At this point, my wife’s face went wan and she asked if she may be excused from watching the rest of this profoundly disturbing film.? Would that I had been allowed that option, as well.

The plot, such as it is, follows a?sick and blasphemous parody of the Cain and Able story with “Woody” unsuccessfully attempting to kill “Buzz”.? Woody spends the rest of the movie in a rescue attempt.? Many reading this might believe that this rescue is a bid for redemption but that is an incorrect assumption.? “Woody” merely rescues “Buzz” to save his own plastic skin.? There is not one iota of the selflessness of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross to allow us eternal life in Heaven.

I would like to report that this still represents Woody’s
awakening to his need for the grace and comfort of
Jesus Christ in his life.? Sadly, this is not the case.

Recounting the myriad of crimes against God would prove fruitless and dull.? However, one scene stands out in my mind.? At a pizza “joint” filled with electronic games and other traps of the Devil, “Buzz” climbs into a “space ship” believing that it will take him back to his planet.? In reality, the “space ship” is a claw game and inside are alien figures who await the fate of the claw which they deemed to be a god.? This, more than any other part of this “kiddie film” angered me to the point of physical nausea.? The fingerprints of Richard Dawkins loom large over this mockery of the Christian religion.? Even more, these aliens make references to other occult practices by invoking the name of “Nirvana”.

Toward the end of the film, “Woody” and “Buzz” find themselves captured by the villain, a true and accurate portrayal of the type of Satanist your child will become if you allow them to watch this trash.? Proving that a Christian must have at one time worked on the script before getting fired, the evil and venal boy takes the Jewish name of “Sid”.? “Sid” steals toys and mutilates them into horrific monstrosities.? In a simplistic metaphor, he transforms Good into Evil.? How do “Woody” and “Buzz” escape what should be a fitting end of their own godless lives?? Do they ask God for forgiveness?? Do they witness to the other toys that the “Sid” transfigured?? Do they, like the Christians of old, accept their fate and wait for the jaws of the lion to take them home to the Father?? No.? Instead, they “break a few rules”.? Simply put, they cheat.? How convenient.? Isn’t it any wonder that children no longer listen to their parents and teachers and instead roam the hall of our schools with automatic weapons and a pocket full of condoms?!

In juvenile detention centers, “Buzz” Lightyear costumes
are still quite popular especially amongst the so-called
“whigger” children.? Had their parents not let them
watch this vile movie, perhaps they would not be
in jail.

The movie ends with the two toys turning their backs on their friends and assuming a position of power over them.? Toy pride goeth before a toy fall, but, of course, the viewer would never be shown that part.

I switched off the TV and prayed.? In His guidance, God instructed me to destroy the DVD so that others might not be infected with Satan’s sting.? The glory of God shone down upon me as I realized I had already cancelled my credit card and?thus could not be charged for it.

I walked upstairs to find that my wife spent the movie praying for God’s protection over me.? I knelt down to join her and together we prayed down the devil and went to sleep wrapped in a blanket of?God’s Love.