Posted on 04/20/2017 3:30:15 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
If you weren't complaining they called for a medic.
I would like some extra “fairy powder”.
Starbuck employee: We have a unicorn here!
See what a unicorn is.....!
Hot Crazy Matrix - A Man’s Guide to Women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKWmFWRVLlU
I have decided these perpetual children are without essential humanity; empty, ignorant, feckless, emotional, overactive, and under challenged. They must be the product of multi-generational psychological incest so severe as to fracture their DNA.
I choose to remember the many extraordinary men who surrounded me growing up
My most often contact with these men started about age nine when my dad began taking me out golfing on the weekends. There was a man who used the first golf cart I ever saw, because as a brigade commander of the 41th Infantry in New Guinea he was debilitated by sickness. My Economics professor in college served with one of the first UDT teams clearing barricades and mines in the surf zone before Pacific landings. On TV I watched a John Wayne movie called The Flying Tigers, and then on the first tee at our golf course met a man who was an ace in the Flying Tigers. I remember watching the Longest Day in a theater. Then one day while washing dishes at the country club I noticed the chef always limped as he moved around the kitchen. He saw my puzzled look, and said he got the limp from a wound received when he was with the Rangers at Pointe De Hoc.
As a youth though, these young and middle aged men seemed so common and behaved as if they had experienced an ordinary rite of passage.
Those are just a few of the stories I remember among so many others I could tell or have forgotten.
There is such a contrast between this barista and the men in this link below who were close to his age when these events happened.
We Stand Alone Together – Band of Brothers Documentary
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=band+of+brothers&adlt=strict&view=detail&mid=DEA303F1FDAE0D33129EDEA303F1FDAE0D33129E&FORM=VRDGAR
You were exposed to some good lessons, and your had the aptitude to think and reason things out on your own too.
I suspect this was in part because growing up things were expected of you at home. You had to evaluate yourself, and keep in line. You excelled at something, because you liked it and you wanted to be the best.
Nothing is demanded out of today’s kids. Even in competition they are showered with praise for participating. Who could blame them for thinking life worked like that. Mom and dad and teachers too, that’s what they’re told.
They don’t mind. They don’t respect their parents. They don’t respect society. They don’t respect their teachers. They don’t respect each other. They don’t respect their town, state, or nation. They’re totally adrift.
They don’t respect the military. They think that if you’re in the military you’re evil.
Toss in gender confusion, moral relativism, and indoctrination into socialism and Islam, it’s a wonder our kids are worth anything at all. And yet, many are still resilient.
Hard to figure without good homes factored in, but even then some kids rise above.
We need to get back to the model you and I lament.
It will take us ripping the education system out by the roots, and starting over. It will require is to put our foot down and put and end to the absolute filth Hollywood is presenting to our youth.
Hate to say that, but it’s true.
The army exists for one purpose only: to kill the enemy and break all his toys. Please explain to me the contributions to that end which Precious Poppet the Barista is uniquely qualified to provide,
That word belongs in the dictionary.
If a troop ain't complaining, he's up to something ...
Of course, you know that “snobatorium” was made famous by Rodney Dangerfield in the classic comedy “Caddyshack.”
Whether some wiseacre coined it earlier than that, I can’t tell.
But it’s a word well worth preserving today, when the bicoastal elites grow every more out of touch with the American heartland.
Now here’s an idea — let’s take FR nominations for “America’s Biggest Snobatorium.” Besides Starbucks, that is.
I did not know that. One of the perils of watching movies while drunk is that you miss (or forget) things like that.
let’s take FR nominations for “America’s Biggest Snobatorium.”
Indeed. I nominate Harvard University.
At least my two sons are not in that unfortunate mold. My older son now makes about three times as much money as I ever made after fighting three years to make a success of a computer software start up. My younger son served in Marine Presidential Security Forces his first job out of high school. Immediately before leaving for boot camp he was welcomed to the Corps by a family friend who landed on Tarawa the first day. He is now an Investigator with the Federal Protective Service, which is part of Homeland Security.
By the way, thank you for your post about the unemployment rate. Maybe I just couldn’t follow the reasoning at sites like Shadow Economy, but I never could understand a 20% plus unemployment rate. I was able though to duplicate your Excel spreadsheet using the same files you used. I get the impression that a demand for unemployment has been increasingly subsidized by the government. Reversing that trend doesn’t look easy.
Hey that’s great to hear about your two sons. Congrats dad.
Impressive...
I’m glad you were able to look at that study and gain some meaning from it.
It’s sometimes hard to come up with the best way to present information like that.
I appreciate the idea you were able to replicate the numbers too.
Great.
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