This young generation has not X-ed out responsibility, character

The Tennessean | 09-05-04 | Tim Chavez

[Pastnowfuturealpha]

Yes - Yes - Yes - Finally someone who can read -

I don't like what happened in Spain - where their first time voters went Socialist. Having a son who just grad. I know what is happening in our Schools. They are trying to turn them into being Socialist.

Now we read where there is a ton of first time voters registering and there is also information coming out about fraud being connected - And I was just saying I hope these first time voters weren't being told to do what the "flower children" did in the 60s - vote to disrupt the establishment. And I mentioned Spain - because that is what happened there, I believe -

Thanks for understanding what I was trying to say - that other poster just seemed to want to argue over it. I wasn't putting down any youth - just mentioning that maybe someone might have to sit them down if they had in fact been told to vote for a reason other than what a vote should be cast for -

[A Citizen Reporter]

"it's not my fault you can't understand".....

victim mentality....

"much like what was done before by the "flower children" of the 60s "

You invoked them, most want to forget them.

[Pastnowfuturealpha]

Feel better "A Citizen Reporter" -

[qam1]

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[John R. (Bob) Locke]

Just want to say "thanks" to you two for what you do, the most important job in the world: HOMEMAKER!

I'm a '69 model myself, and my wife stopped working outside the home two months before our oldest son (11 1/2) was born. She, too, has a college degree, and probably could have made more money than I did at that time (I was enlisted in the Navy). But I was totally unprepared to breast-feed, so we went the route of having her stay home instead, and three more additions to the family have followed.

My mom worked during my entire childhood, and I was determined that my kids would have it differently. My wife totally agreed. In fact, that had quite a bit to do with me leaving the girl I was seeing at the time I met my wife (her ideas about career versus family didn't square with mine) and taking up with her.

Sometimes my wife gets to feeling like society demeans SAHM's, and to some extent I think that's the case. But I'm seeing more and more women make that choice, and I totally applaud it. And I also believe that as more and more moms take that on, the perception about who they are and what they do will change for the better.

What can possibly be more important than raising your own children? It really is that simple, isn't it?

And I believe that's a cycle we're going to see both continue and expand as more and more mom's take up the challenge (and I know what a challenge it is) to eschew the workplace for the home place.

As I tell my wife all the time: she has a MUCH harder job than I do!

Way to go, all you SAHM's!

[backhoe]

I wrote this a while ago:

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The cowardly terrorists who struck us on 9-11, and many of their ilk, have badly misjudged the soul of America. Oh, sure, our popular culture is decadent and sometimes hopelessly vain, naive, and nasty- but that is not the real America.

The real America gets up every day, takes care of its family, and goes to work, doing things that will never be lauded, or even appear, on the media's radar.

But that doesn't mean we aren't real, or out there in flyover country.

Not too long ago, a largely agrarian America was jarred out of dreams of isolationism by a nasty group of totalitarians and mass-murderers called the Axis.

It took us, what? Four years to turn that "Thousand-Year Reich" into a smouldering heap of rubble.
A wee bit longer to hammer down the "Greater Southeast Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere."
( Don't you just love the names these Jackals give themselves? )
And we used nuclear weapons in the end to finish it.

I know one thing- it takes longer than a generation or two for the Iron to leech out of a nations' soul-- my Mom & Dad participated in WWII, because they had no other choice than to become Axis slaves.

When I look in the eyes of my two dear nieces- the closest ones to children I'll ever have- guess what? I see the Iron is still there. The blood runs true in America.

The self-deluded fools in the Middle East goosed the Eagle, and now, there's Hell to be paid.

The blood runs true...

[LibertarianInExile]

That's what the perception angle is all about. If you're not marching on Washington about some dumbass leftist cause, you're a slacker--to the leftist MSM.

They have done a fine job promoting themselves as what a generation ought to be.

[Maigrey]

But the perception is changing. The old media are dying, and the new media are emerging with a stronger voice, and clearer message.

[Maigrey]

Your last statement made me smile.

While I was off work, I thought long and hard for baby (and birthday) gifts. So, I used what resources I had, and made a set of building blocks for one child, and a wood playset for another. (all trash, after a roofing project)

Those gifts were the best for the kids, and they still play with them today, so their parents tell me.

[lasisra]

"But I was totally unprepared to breast-feed..."

LOL!!

Thanks for the chuckle. I love how you sneaked it in there. I almost missed it. :-)