Our boycott Amy Adams effort has picked up steam with some Christian parent reviews of the movie Enchanted.

Just because Hollywood perverts have lowered the bar for family decency does not mean you have to follow in their footsteps.

Who do you want your child to follow: the good teachings of the Bible or a Hollywood pervert?

Neutral - I enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I would. My daughter loved it, and this is always a good thing. The problem was, for me, that the world has gotten too comfortable injecting adult material into children’s movies, and we as viewers have obviously gotten comfortable enough to allow it. Though this movie is charming and sweet, uplifting and beautiful, it is also quite inappropriate for the ears of children. The reality is, my little girl doesn’t need to see naked, wet women wrapped in towels, or hear about how people sleep together before they are married. She doesn’t need to see movies with sexual content. She is a child. I am growing really tired of this trend.
My Ratings: Offensive / 3.5
—Misty Wagner, age 31

Neutral - I enjoyed the film for its humor and fairytale quality. It also had an encouraging message about a marriage being saved. The parts that were offensive were the lack of modest clothing worn by the women and the scene where Nancy is first introduced. This scene about adult relationships seemed inappropriate for children. I also thought the line ‘men only want one thing’ was in bad taste.
My Ratings: Average / 3.5
—Terri Kirsch, age 45

Neutral - A good film overall, but with one grievance. The movie doesn’t end with the marriage you would expect. It’s as if it’s trying to say in real life, marriage isn’t necessarily what people do who have found each other. There was a girl in the row next to me who asked her mom how come they didn’t get married at the end, so your kids will notice even if you don’t.

Combine this with “Fred Claus” blatantly moving in with his girlfriend at the end of the movie “Fred Claus,” without marriage, and you can see that Hollywood has a not so subtle agenda that they’re putting into the minds of your children with their “kids movies” this season.
My Ratings: Average / 3.5
—Bill Bagot, age 42

—(christiananswers.net)

“Cut ‘em and cut ‘em deep!”

“Get that non-confrontational nicey-nicey church center mentality out of them.”

“Cut ‘em! Cut ‘em deep! Just before they walk out the door because they don’t like your sermon. [They] get up in the middle of your teachin’ with their arrogant selves destined to die a horrid death because they left the strength and the power of the word of God…” —Pastor Manning

White people and coffee:

There is no doubt that white people love coffee. Yes, it’s true that asians like iced coffee and people of all races enjoy it. But I promise you that the first person at your school to drink coffee was a white person. You could kind of tell they didn’t enjoy it, but they did it anyways until they liked it - like cigarettes.

White people all need Starbucks, Second Cup or Coffee Bean. They are also fond of saying “you do NOT want to see me before I get my morning coffee.” White guys will also call it anything but coffee: “rocket fuel,” “java,” “joe,” “black gold,” and so forth. It’s pretty garbage all around.

If you want to go for extra points - white people really love FAIR TRADE coffee, because paying the extra $2 means they are making a difference. —(stuffwhitepeoplelike.com)

Given the latest news of the ongoing economic disaster, we thought it prudent to bring back our “How to Survive The Depression of 2009!” guide for you below.

But first, a few words on investment schemes:

Now, while intelligent investing in businesses is a worthwhile endeavor, it is rare. If you are intelligent and savy, and a little unethical, then pumping money into the NASDAQ business investor framework, otherwise known as the U.S. stock exchange, can be very lucrative even during down times.

Few people, however, are of that type of intelligent investor, so they either take all their money and spend it on the lotto or booze, or they blindly hand over their fortunes to some financial management entity.

At this point in the crashing stock market, if you don’t know exactly how your money is invested in uninsured stocks and bonds (meaning which companies and their financial stability during a downturn), then you have no business playing a stake in them. Sell now and get the cash. When the market collapses, buy up the good values.

To get a complete grasp of where you are at financially, review your uninsured investments, complete a financial inventory worksheet, and start a budget.

The least we can do is provide you with a few tips to peruse on weathering the coming economic onslaught:

How to Survive The Depression of 2009! Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Frugality! Survival Guides!

The time to change your lifestyle is now. Here are a few tips to help you survive The Depression of 2009, and worse:

1. Gasbuddy.com can show you where to shave a few pennies at the gas pump. While you’re out getting gas, pick up a “For Sale” sign for your SUV and second car. Sell the SUV now, it will be worthless shortly. To further reduce transportation costs, start carpooling, riding the bus, or walking. Walkable.org can assist you in converting your community over to becoming walkable. You’re not out of the woods yet, though.
2. Forget about the house you bought within the housing bubble—it’s worthless, like the SUV. Sell your overvalued property now. If you keep waiting like everyone else, it will be worth little of what you paid for it. Owning some cheap property is good, as is converting most of your material wealth and investments to cash.
3. Cash is king during a recession. Banks are insured to $100,000 so they should be safe, unless the dollar is ravaged by inflation and wheelbarrows of green paper will be needed to buy a loaf of Wonder® Bread. When real estate and investment markets collapse, use your cash to snap up good values.
4. Learn to scrimp and save, cut coupons, eat less but healthy (like one slice of deli turkey-ham), and drink water instead of packaged drinks. Shop at thrift stores, discount grocers, and used and dented goods outlets. Forget about big purchases. Check craigslist.org, ebay.com, slickdeals.net or fatwallet.com for deals. Haggle with salespersons for a lower price. Go to the library and read a book on saving money. Read some frugality tips at frugalfolks.com
5. When the economy turns really ugly, hoard dry goods such as flour, rice, canned beans and fruit, etc., and barrels of clean drinking water. Grow a vegetable garden and raise some chickens. Purchase a gun with sufficient ammunition, and know how to use it responsibly for hunting and defense. Familiarize yourself with survivalist information (survivalist.info).
6. If you find yourself living on the street, study up on tips for success at homelessness: (homelessness.blogspot.com). When that gets old, retire to the wilds and live off nature: US Army Survival Manual FM 21-76 (outdoors-magazine.com).
7. When economic hard times turn into widespread disease, crop failure, fighting, and then global nuclear war, learn what to do when the world has been irradiated: Nuclear War Survival Skills (oism.org).

Mrs. Louetta Toadvine, a faithful reader, has sent in yet another picture of a roadside billboard she spied with her glaucomic eye on one of the charming byways of the Eastern Shore.

Thank you, Mrs. Toadvine!

Question:

Dear Outraged Richard,

Should I go around correcting or chastening strangers? But what if it’s teenagers making out in public or girls (or guys) swearing on the street?

I encountered two teenage girls with a baby buggy both using ‘F’ words on the main street of our town, and yes, I told them I didn’t appreciate that kind of language. Their response? “F*** you!”

What are we teaching today’s youth? “Do whatever you like and attempt to shock those around you!?”

Answereth Outraged Richard:

The lack of people correcting others is directly responsible for society’s straight plop down into the current cesspit of manners.

Correct them straight away, with directness and intelligence, and perhaps a dash of humor. Always mean what you say and be prepared to back up your corrective stance with defensive posturing if the conversation turns sour and battery is threatened.

For these and other situations, this is why you must be strong of body, heart, and mind. Words and moral principles are worthless without the ability to physically defend them.

Approach those cursing scalawags with admonition. Tell them they do not sound very intelligent and that to be successful in society requires a minimum of eloquence. Ask them where there parents are and have they not taught them better manners.

Recommend them to attend a School of Manners, if their loudness grows. Motion a friendly neighborhood law officer over to scold them as well. Let others take over where you leave off.

Was the entire American economy for the last twenty years a growing bubble of fantasy and speculation? If dog spas, hip hop dance studios, and babyGap stores are any indication, then the question has been answered.

Our regular news compilation from the homeowner front, or rather, the mortgage meltdown, continues below, courtesy of Patrick Killelea:

Tue Jun 24 2008

House slump harder to reverse than usual (biz.yahoo.com)
Harvard Says Housing Crisis Worst In 50 Years (allheadlinenews.com)
Housing slump deepest in 60 years (marketwatch.com)
Other mortgage shoe is poised to drop (fresnobee.com)
How low must housing go before families can afford to buy? (millionairemommynextdoor)
Subprime meltdown took economy with it (honoluluadvertiser.com)
Karma catches up with real estate industry (msnbc.msn.com)
Lesson from real estate agent’s arrest (news-press.com)
Cities Desperate Measures To Keep Prices Too High (nuwireinvestor.com)
Home Not-So-Sweet Home (nytimes.com)
Goldman Admits It Gave Very Bad Advice (nytimes.com)
Ruling adds to trapped buyers’ remorse (palmbeachpost.com)
New Buyers Bitter in Virginia (washingtonpost.com)
Assessments confound property owners with wildly inequitable taxes (philly.com)
Bank in Jeopardy (heraldtribune.com)
New Crisis Threatens Healthy Banks (washingtonpost.com)
Canadian Realtors brace for “money laundering” backlash (lfpress.ca)
Houseowner Begs Bank To Foreclose (Mish)
Food Shortages, Rising Prices, Stagnant Wages: Welcome to 13th Century (Charles Hugh Smith)

—(patrick.net)