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  1. My wife and I like to series too. Along with tackling some current issues, there seems to a a moral imperative to do the right thing when all is said and done. I see a terrible contrast with the current NYC mayor and the desire on his part to do what I think is the right thing.

    I remember traveling to NYC on business when I was cautious about walking alone at night in Manhattan and then things changed and I felt as safe as if I were in Disneyland on a sunshiny day.

    I am under the impression that those days might be gone now. Of course I no longer have to go up there so I wish the best for all those folk who do.

  2. I’m also struck by the interesting portrayal of the Mayor’s character in “Blue Bloods”…seems very like the current occupant of Gracie Mansion. One of the better shows on TV this or any other season.

  3. I never miss a Bluebloods episode. I never get over feeling that the dinner scenes are homage to the Waltons.

  4. Yes, a very well done show!

    It is true that the dinner scenes are something that most everyone can related to, or wish they could be a part of.

    And while Wahlberg, Selleck, and the others are terrific my favorite was Jenifer Esposito playing Jackie.

    Unfortunately, she is no longer a part of the cast. Apparently she has celiac disease which was interfering with her work and was written out of the show.

  5. The Waltons tended to have big family dinner scenes sometimes-always liked that show also.

  6. Donnie Wahlberg’s character is the worst type of police officer, sanctimonious about criminals but constantly breaking the law by abusing suspects and violating their constitutional rights. At the end of every episode, he should be charged with a crime. Portraying him as a hero only encourages real officers to be abusive.

  7. If you are the least bit serious, texas, and not just dropping off a bit of ill considered satire, you need either immediate regoupment or professional help.

    In case you are kidding, I won’t go into the mean of creating dramatic tension in character development.

  8. Oh, by the way. there have been several episodes dealing with his character’s police methods and departmental and civilian review boards have always found him not guilty.

    In one episode, Selleck is asked if he thinks his son steps “over the line” when it comes to police methods. Selleck’s response? “No, but I think there are times when he steps on the line.”

  9. Can’t get the show here, but I’d love to hear about a show that showed family dinners in poor families, maybe one in which the ritual was contrasted with the coolness scene that the kids experience when they leave the house. Maybe they could invite a very cool boy who is a friend of one of the kids to stay for dinner and for the first time experience the parents talking with one another and the kids about a variety of topics. Follow this up with him asking his host whether his mom made mac and cheese often for the family.
    I think the society desperately needs a way to show young people what a functioning family is. I hear of so many young girls who don’t know the first thing about cooking or the importance of dinner for their kids.

  10. I am absolutely serious. I’d be interested in why, because I don’t worship at the alter of police infallibility, you think I need professional help. Since I have a different viewpoint than you I guess you think I need brainwashing.

    Because police have the power of death over us, I think they need to be held to a higher standard rather than a lower standard. An officer who “steps on the line” needs to be fired if not imprisoned and a superior who tolerates stepping on the line needs to be fired.

  11. NEO: The public seems to love it.

    which public? the caucasian public or the african public? what you like is racist to that group of militants… to you its a family, to a group whose families are broken, made up of various mom and pop mixes, and so on, its a white supremacy thing to be angry at…

    even the name of it speaks culturally towards the racialists target group “blue bloods”

    membership in a royal or socially important family
    a member of a noble or socially prominent family

    The acrimonious nature of racism against blacks made me look for a recent confrontation between blacks and whites. The invention of the colour line in the US pinpoints the date of US racism to 1691. So we should be able to date racism in general to 1770 when according to Appiah (1985), nations were divided by colour, and not geography or language and culture. The only confrontation around this date is The French revolution of 1789-1795, when nobles, the blue bloods, were slaughtered and fled France. This revolution provoked more revolutions in the whole of Europe where in many states the nobility was abolished. To free white Europe from black oppression racism was invented, to show that blacks were inferior and ugly and beastlike.
    Racism can now be deconstructed as an overwrought liberation ideology to free Europe from black oppression. They made Europe to what it is but were despotic and cruel. The idea of a united Europe began with the black noble elite. When they first appeared they might have been a blessing, bringing civilisation to Europe, but the system became corrupted and was violently brought down with the beheading of the French king and his wife, erstwhile divine beings.

    http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2009/10/black-history-black-european-nobility.html

    in a comment

    The whites were considered shoe leather, until the invention of human races to elevate these whites to human level. The historical Declaration of Human Rights was on their behalf; the white serfs were asking to be regarded as humans by their brown and black skinned nobles. In this way the bourgeois philosophers of the Enlightenment forged a coalition between whites who were the majority and the bourgeois, who in defiance of the nobility identified themselves as Caucasians, or black Caucasians; to defeat the hated nobility

    now the truth..
    Славянофильство, мессианизм отсталости, строило свою философию на том, что русский народ и его церковь насквозь демократичны, а официальная Россия — это немецкая бюрократия, насажденная Петром. Маркс заметил по этому поводу: “Ведь точно так же и тевтонские ослы сваливают деспотизм Фридриха II и Ñ‚. д. на французов, как будто отсталые рабы не нуждаются всегда в цивилизованных рабах, чтобы пройти нужную выучку”. Это краткое замечание исчерпывает до дна не только старую философию славянофилов, но и новейшие откровения “расистов”.

    “Slavophilism, the messianism of backwardness, has based its philosophy upon the assumption that the Russian people and their church are democratic through and through, whereas official Russia is a German bureaucracy imposed upon them by Peter the Great. Mark remarked upon this theme: “In the same way the Teutonic jackasses blamed the despotism of Frederick the Second upon the French, as though backward slaves were not always in need of civilised slaves to train them.” This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelations of the ‘racists.'” – Leon Trotsky’s 1930 “The History of the Russian Revolution”

    the term had no existence before 1930…

    but why would neo read what is under the radar in other neighborhoods that when combined with innocuous shows, becomes toxic social explosive?

    i grew up in a black slum…
    recieved more than one education (several)

    most dont even know that there are different realities in which the poeple that confuse them spring forth from

  12. Artfldgr:

    “The public” in general, reflected in the fact that the show is popular and long-running (ratings info here).

  13. and its unusual depiction of a family that eats together every Sunday.

    A lot of Japanese shows seem to highlight that as either normal or as a cultural should be.

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