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AMERICA - The Right Way!! (Day 690) [Remember the Trade Center!!]
Various News Sources and FReepers | December 11, 2002 | All of Us

Posted on 12/11/2002 4:26:33 AM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society

Quick start. Ice storm. Already lost power once and don't know how long it will stay on. Up to 1/4" on trees.


TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!
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To: MozartLover
Unless that's not what he meant; in which case he should not let the door hit him in the rear on his way out.

Before folks throw the baby out with the bath water - what flavor governor do we have in Mississippi?

If it is a member of the Criminal Party - we would be signing up to giving away the majority - potentially.

We'd be back to 50 seats, and if the Criminal Party were to flip a Senator - guess what folks.

Step down as Majority Leader - absolutely. I've called for that for awhile now. Step down as Senator - no, I'm not willing to go that far because I'm not going to lose sight of the bigger picture.

201 posted on 12/11/2002 12:09:01 PM PST by Chairman_December_19th_Society
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To: gulfcoast6
My kids are appalled when I tell them about the rules and regulations we had in college ..... but, frankly, I think we were much better off.

As freshman, we couldn't even leave the campus for the first 6 weeks, not even to go home ..... especially to go home. This was to force kids to deal with homesickness rather than cater to them.

First semester freshmen were not allowed to go out on weeknights ...... and the dorms were locked. No one had keys except to their rooms. We could be out until 10:30 on Friday nights and until 11:00 on Saturday and Sunday nights. If you missed that deadline, you had to bang on the window of the dorm mother's suite and beg her to let you in ..... and you just didn't do that!

Rules were relaxed slightly after that first semester ...... we could stay out until 11:00 on Friday night and til midnight on Sat. and Sun.

There were no guys in the dorm ...... when someone shouted "Man on the hall!" everyone went scurrying ..... except move-in and move-out day, when daddies and brothers helped with the moving.

We were subject to dorm inspections at any time and could be reprimanded (i.e., lose priviliges) for not keeping our rooms somewhat neat and clean.

Alcohol was forbidden! Period! Even for upperclassmen. Even off-campus. A student could not go out to dinner with her parents off-campus and have a legal glass of wine .... if she were caught, there was instant expulsion.

These sorts of rules are horrifying to today's young people ....... but they taught discipline and were really a good thing.

Btw, that's the very same college my daughter attended some 25 years later.

202 posted on 12/11/2002 12:09:23 PM PST by kayak
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To: Jemian
That is so sweet (couldn't think of another word). Upbringing you can see.
203 posted on 12/11/2002 12:10:54 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: Jemian; MozartLover; Neets
I think that men having daughters over time has led to two modern developments: Open Heart Bypass Surgery and The Hair Club for Men....
204 posted on 12/11/2002 12:11:12 PM PST by Bitwhacker
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To: Miss Marple; gulfcoast6
See! Some children are being raised right.
205 posted on 12/11/2002 12:11:35 PM PST by Jemian
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To: MozartLover
#89...umm....not a good thing, dearie....

..scratchy throat AND wet hair!

My mama NEVER let me leave the house ...or go to bed....with wet hair :^
tsk tsk

206 posted on 12/11/2002 12:12:45 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Utah Girl
Thanks for the lemon bar recipe!!

My favorite!

207 posted on 12/11/2002 12:17:16 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Jemian
These kids will thank you in many years hence.

When I wanted to marry my wife I first went to her father and ask his permission to marry her. I then went to her mother and made the promises that I would take care of her, be good to her and be faithful to her, provide for her, forever and ever. You just did these things cause they were the right things to do.
208 posted on 12/11/2002 12:18:50 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: Guenevere; Bitwhacker
Oh great.....Sean Hannity is going to ask Trent Lott what is in his heart.....leave it to Sean to ask such a hard hitting question.

/sarcasm

209 posted on 12/11/2002 12:19:10 PM PST by Dog
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To: lepton
You have mail.

Actually, I meant it to go on the open forum. Now, should I try to recall what I said and re-type and post it or do I just let it lie? What to do? What to do?
210 posted on 12/11/2002 12:19:45 PM PST by Jemian
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To: kayak
And look at the lady it made.
211 posted on 12/11/2002 12:21:18 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: kayak
#140....THAT was my son too!!!

I was afraid he would never talk......he would point to things and use a made up word...like ...bukka.... for milk.....and

...SHEESH, silly me would give it to him...(at this point he's almost 3)

I'm despairing, afraid something is wrong......and

..all of a sudden, he starts talking in complete sentences.....

..and his favoirte pasttime was pouring through the encyclopedia...

I guess he got tired of the word games he was playing with us....:^

NOW I'm on to him :^)

212 posted on 12/11/2002 12:21:38 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: Jemian; Neets; Bitwhacker; MozartLover; gulfcoast6; JRandomFreeper
Sounds like you've done an outstanding job with parenting, Jemian ...... :-)

I have found out that the "yes, ma'am, "yes, sir" thing is Southern.

After we moved here, son changed quite a bit ...... another long story but it really hurt him deeply when we moved. Soon I noticed that he seemed quite abrupt and curt when speaking to me and attributed it to his resentment that we moved. I finally figured out, though, that he had simply quit saying "yes, ma'am" and "no ma'am" to me. There are many northern transplants in this area and he not only started picking up more of a northern accent but he dropped the "ma'am" thing. It made his remarks to me seem harsher.

Now, before you northerners on the thread get your dander up ...... what I was reacting to was the change in his speech. If he hadn't been raised to say "yes ma'am" there wouldn't have been a problem.

213 posted on 12/11/2002 12:22:25 PM PST by kayak
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To: Dog
That's why, in the day and age of 24x7 news channels, this thing is kept alive.

Worst case: Lott steps aside as Majority leader, everybody moves on....

Best case: Lott steps aside as Majority leader, we get a REAL Majority leader who can tell Dems to shove it when he has to, everybody moves on....
214 posted on 12/11/2002 12:22:27 PM PST by Bitwhacker
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To: Bitwhacker
No, I don't think Empty Lott will or should resign as Senator. He hasn't done anything that warrants that. But the Majority Leader is a political role, and he has lost his mo-jo....

That's what I think also. Lott has made some incredibly dumb moves over the years, but this last one shouldn't mean that he step down as a senator, just as majority leader.

215 posted on 12/11/2002 12:23:05 PM PST by Utah Girl
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To: Dog
#209..Hey, you're back!

HI!

216 posted on 12/11/2002 12:23:12 PM PST by Guenevere
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To: gulfcoast6
You just did these things cause they were the right things to do.

It bears repeating

217 posted on 12/11/2002 12:23:31 PM PST by Jemian
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To: Chairman_December_19th_Society
GOV IN MS!!! A DEMOFLOP!!!! Haley Baubour is going to run for gov next election, look for him to get elected, a pup for sure.
218 posted on 12/11/2002 12:24:34 PM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: Guenevere; Molly Pitcher
Gee nothing gets past you huh?.......LOL!....:-)

Yesterday the part came and I had it installed...

I missed you all..

Do you know why Molly hasn't posted today??

219 posted on 12/11/2002 12:26:38 PM PST by Dog
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To: kayak
#213...LOL, I would have been smacked up the side of the head...(well, not really :) ...if I forgot the ma'am part.

Our Tennessee schools expected it....certainly our parents, churches, etc.

My son grew up in Florida and the schools are really not Southern, but he still remembers most times to say it.

Hubbybear claims South Carolina as his home, although he lived everywhere......

..but was born in the north, and when he moved South, he almost got whacked when he didn't respond ...Yes Ma'am :)

220 posted on 12/11/2002 12:27:20 PM PST by Guenevere
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