Posted on 11/18/2002 3:03:17 AM PST by lysie
Got to watch those Trekkies..
Then today, I was asked to purchase the presents for our director and accompanist....Another trip to Borders!
Suffice to say.....Just now, listening to Shephard's report on ALL the medicines JFK took just to survive.....and kept hidden from the public....
...I mentioned to hubby, 'Looks like his sins caught up to him BEFORE he met his maker'....
I mean, the man was a philanderer, distorted the truth, scheemer, and manipulator.
He gave the world the impression that HIS White House was la la land.....Camelot.....and the media happily went along with it, and decieved the public.
But the man's lifestyle......his association with numerous women of ill repute......caught up to him.
Why else would he need anxiety medicine, sleeping pills, energy shots, etc. etc.....oh, and medicine for infections.
And of course, X-42 emulates & adores him....
..So hubby said 'How does X-42 get away with his lifestyle'....
..and I said...'How do we know he doesn't?.....We've YET to see his medical records!!'
Good grief, JFK's been dead 40 years, and we're JUST NOW hearing this!!!!!!
Sorry for the rant.....I'm just fed up with the deception!!....and the coverup by the media!!!
/john
Oops. I guess I should yank the loaf of bread out of the oven and feed it to the dogs. The only problem with that is that Trill and Bratling both have guns..
/john
Guennie I am not so sure about his womanizing....the list of serious meds he was on ....would floor a horse.
His back pain was caused by his bones becoming brittle from a drug he was taking to control the Addison...
Guennie....... JFK was most likely stoned out of his mind most of the time ....and couldn't party with the ladies even if he wanted to....
The Democrats problem is the Poor are now a minority, and so are they.The poor have been a minority for some time, at least as long as the first decade of the 20th century. The 1890s/1900s immigration threw us off, demographically, but despite the millions of incomings there were greater millions of hard-living, hard-working Americans for whom poverty was a meaningless word. The better half of these lived in rural areas. The great social transformation was the urbanization of the rural populations and the growth of the middle class. Poverty joined the lexicon as a result of immigration, not poverty. Before then, someone was destitute, or impoverished. But poor? Not in spirit.
The poor have always been a minority in this country. What empowered the Democrats was the urban poor. Rural poor have suffered, and suffered mightily, but they were always Jeffersonian democrats -- independent. Urban poor are modern democrats, dependent. They are a minority. The democrats don't need there to be a poor, anyway. They just need the rhetoric of poverty. So long as they can complain of some unfairness they'll have an issue. It's pathetic, especially since Democratic policies only help the poor stay poor and do not to assist the poor to get rich.
Really. Imagine a purely democratic response to the question, “how do the poor get rich?” Affirmative action? Abortion? Anal sex? Title 9?
It’s absurd. And it started a long time ago. In 1914, progressive Walter Weyl coined the phrase, "income gap" (he was probably originally a Republican.... but Taft kicked that kind out of the party, dammit!). Weyl was a real asshole. He fretted that the rich getting richer would get the professional classes all jealous and they'd go and.... well, he doesn't say what they’d do except that they'd feel real bad about it. In 1906 Woodrow Wilson, said "Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the automobile. They are a picture of the arrogance of wealth, with all its independence and carelessness." Automobiles, you see, were a rich man's toy. As we all know, the automobile did more for the poor than "all the howls of a thousand professional reformers" (to borrow from Taft). By 1914, all Weyl could complain about was that the wealthy had created a new class, the "automobileless." Weyl had to construct a crisis. The Democratic party has followed his advice.
Wilson, btw, in 1914 was tooling around in the bodacious Pierce-Arrows Taft put in the White House; Wilson was such an ass -- he canceled plans for an inaugural ball and he refused membership at the Chevy Chase club... how democratic...
Except in core impoverished areas, poverty in this country is fluid. Those areas where it is not are that way because of cultural, not economic issues. Democratic policies address only money, and they do it backwards at that. They give it rather than create it. Democrats avoid cultural factors because it's detrimental to their message that the poor need their help. Telling the poor to stop acting, thinking, and being poor is not a good way to keep them poor. The Democrats tell them to keep acting poor, keep feeling poor, keep thinking poor. They even pay them to do it.
The irony is not that Democratic policies don't help the poor; the irony is that Republican policies help the poor. Actually, the Constitution helps the poor. De Tocqueville predicted this, by the way. He saw that a nation of equals would be a nation of people trying to out-equal each other. He saw that if they had the liberty to pursue their self-interest, they would, through pettiness, jealously and what have you, try to out-Jones the Joneses. This is because "all men are created equal."
Ever pathetic, modern Democrats have changed that phrase to "all men are created equal, especially minorities, homosexuals, transsexual, union members, and lawyers.” And rather than kings, the rest of us can go to hell. Kings, they like.
In 1856, Abraham Lincoln wrote,
As a nation, we began by declaring "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except Negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except Negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.Sound familiar?
I think the Democrat's hypocrisy is catching up to them. It goes beyond the spread of stock ownership. I think that is a core part of the dynamic, and it certainly tempers Democratic governance. Look at that horrid cartoon of Bush pushing an old lady down the stock market. Implicit in that cartoon was the idea that the retired own stocks. The real irony of it all is that Democratic constituencies are as much the wealthy as those of the Republicans.
When Jesus said there will be poor always, he was not talking about Democratic politics. He was talking about the devil.
Talking today with a friend about concerns with elderly parents......
She just found out that her 80+ parents have been "team" driving. She handles the pedals, and he, the wheel!!!
I don't think we're accomplishing either of those goals. Our class discussions, while often interesting, are not really helping. So today I put it to them what they want or need and I did get some response. I do hope to improve on things and offer them some of what they want while still attaining my goals.
Just now one of the students submitted a vocabulary list for the C. S. Lewis piece we're doing tomorrow and I responded by letting her know I've felt some frustration at how things have gotten a little off track and that I want to improve things.
Attendance has always been a big issue in that class, especially by the 3 Arab Muslim students who show up only about half the time.
Actually part of the problem may have just been Monday morning. My first class seemed extra dead and unresponsive today. I was trying to keep things moving and lively, but felt like I was fighting a losing battle.
Regarding the whole job situation, it doesn't really make sense for me to drive an hour each way to a job where I get paid for 4 hours and actually put in 5-6. Working at Walmart I could come out ahead, I think.
Thanks for letting me dump.
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