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Bidding My College-Bound Son Good Riddance
Pacific Standard PSMag.com ^ | 9/9/15 | Ronnie Cohen

Posted on 09/19/2015 9:42:38 PM PDT by Huntress

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To: super7man

Good story!

We were at a restaurant one night with our niece and a friend of hers. The friend announced to the waiter and the whole restaurant really that “ she would not be ordering a steak that night because she was saving the rain forest” .

She was so proud of herself and we were so embarrassed for her!


61 posted on 09/20/2015 7:36:54 AM PDT by Ditter ( God Bless Texas!)
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To: sakic
...the notion that we can spew as many toxins into the air and water as we want, and believe that Mother Nature will protect us, is equally nuts.

Who is there, in reality, who ascribes to that notion? You may be falling into the leftist trap that any deviation from their preferred policies of tofu, wind and solar is evil.

Those who knowingly "spew toxins" are simply the amoral, who just don't care, 'cause they'll be dead anyway when it comes back to bite us.

62 posted on 09/20/2015 7:47:08 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: .45 Long Colt

What is TULIP-believing?


63 posted on 09/20/2015 8:50:19 AM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: Jane Long

I don’t know. I saw it linked on Legal Insuurection.


64 posted on 09/20/2015 8:52:38 AM PDT by Huntress ("Politicians exploit economic illiteracy." --Walter Williams)
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To: miss marmelstein

I’m not sure what it is but liberal whites in general do it

I just first noticed it with Jews


65 posted on 09/20/2015 9:30:36 AM PDT by wardaddy ("The Reset Will Not Be Televised".....Gil Scott Wardaddy)
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To: sakic

It went way beyond that

Women have liberalized the culture more than any other facet since then especially they diverged from their husbands vote in the 50s

They especially fell for the homosexuals and obviously feminism

In a harsher environment like the 1700s and 1800s I can sure see why women should have had less power

Their power grew out of urbanization

I don’t women in general tolerate stress same as men etc

It never was men keeping women down but rather protecting and having them where it worked best for the culture and family

Women thrown to their own unless rich had a rough time

It’s still that way to a degree contrary to conventional wisdom


66 posted on 09/20/2015 9:37:30 AM PDT by wardaddy ("The Reset Will Not Be Televised".....Gil Scott Wardaddy)
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To: Huntress
That means we believe like almost all Baptists believed up until about a hundreds years ago--we believe in God's sovereignty in all things, including salvation. Another way to say it is we are Calvinists. Another way to say it is we believe in free and sovereign grace.

TULIP is the acronym that has arisen as a shorthand way to refer to the five major points of Calvinism, but it's an acronym that can be misleading if not properly understood.

T = Total Depravity

U = Unconditional election

L = Limited Atonement

I = Irresistible grace

P = Perseverance of the saints

Ephesians 1:3-14 (ESV) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. 7 In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, 8 which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight 9 making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his purpose, which he set forth in Christ 10 as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.

11 In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will, 12 so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory. 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit, 14 who is the guarantee of our inheritance until we acquire possession of it, to the praise of his glory

67 posted on 09/20/2015 9:39:02 AM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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To: Buttons12

You’re post interests me in that you are describing pretty much the guy who Chris Christie told to sit down and shut up a year or so ago. That guy, who I knew personally, was the biggest, loudest self-satisfied liberal Catholic I have ever met!


68 posted on 09/20/2015 9:51:18 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
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To: Huntress

The nut didn’t fall far from the tree.


69 posted on 09/20/2015 10:09:57 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Huntress

What a child abuser!


70 posted on 09/20/2015 3:17:50 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: JimRed

Those who believe there should be no outside regulation at all on corporations must ascribe to the belief that endless toxins are okay or they are insanely trusting.


71 posted on 09/21/2015 1:03:15 PM PDT by sakic
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To: wardaddy

I believe women tolerate stress better than men.


72 posted on 09/21/2015 1:04:36 PM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic

Who believes that? It is when regulation starts to interfere so much that everything costs more and fewer innovations are made that I get upset. I’ll be the first one to turn in Mr. corporate Polluter if I catch him at it!

Then there’s that terrible greenhouse toxin...CO2... < /sarc >


73 posted on 09/21/2015 2:35:51 PM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: Huntress

Lady, you think your son’s bad now? Wait till college gets its hooks into him.


74 posted on 09/21/2015 2:53:14 PM PDT by Rainbow Rising ("If America was a house, the left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutfeld)
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To: sakic

Then you are one dumbass


75 posted on 09/21/2015 3:18:00 PM PDT by wardaddy ("The Reset Will Not Be Televised".....Gil Scott Wardaddy)
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To: Huntress

read later!


76 posted on 09/21/2015 3:20:02 PM PDT by moehoward
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To: wardaddy

Jewish, or not, this kid sounds like too many west coast kids who received a very leftist education. I wonder where his daddy was while the kid was getting this “education”?

To the kid’s credit, at least he doesn’t sound like an eco terrorist.


77 posted on 09/21/2015 7:20:49 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (Crazy, wacko bird hobbit, and proud of it!)
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To: Huntress
What is a "Raffi"?

Is it a song you sing as you are floating down the Mississippi on a boat made of logs?

78 posted on 09/21/2015 7:30:18 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: JimRed

No one here believes that?

Really.


79 posted on 09/22/2015 3:26:48 AM PDT by sakic
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To: sakic
Those who believe there should be no outside regulation at all on corporations must ascribe to the belief that endless toxins are okay or they are insanely trusting.

Who believes that? (Note question mark.)

It left the door open for you to quote FReeper so-and-so or FReeper thus-and-such who opposes ALL regulations. You did not do so.

No one here believes that?

Really.

Reading comprehension is your friend. I ASKED who believes that; I did not state that no one here believes it, though it may well be the case.

There are amoral people who will try anything they think they can get away with. I like to think that you will find darned few of them here, unless they are trolls.

80 posted on 09/22/2015 9:50:09 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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