Posted on 02/26/2014 4:15:32 AM PST by Kaslin
Filthy Ageist!
Free republic has a pretty bad case of the cat disease.
Hope he’s still happy when the next generation thinks it’s only sensible to kill everyone over 75 because they are too expensive to support on ObamaCare. We are witnessing a future generation with no moral training. It won’t be pretty.
This debate was a surprise. Who’dathunk Stossel, who has reported fairly honestly on the deplorable state of education in the country, would contend that children are better off today than they were in the 50s? Better off HOW?—why, because they have IM and iPhones! BOR, for a change, was on the right side of this argument. But any mostly conscious adult should have reached the same conclusion. Maybe that description of libertarians is true: at best they’re childless conservatives.
Lately, I’ve taken to teasing my wife’s cats by mentioning all the delicious dishes I could make using them. It’s as simply as replacing the word “chicken” with “kitten”:
Kitten Noodle Soup
Kitten Pot Pie
Kitten Cacciatore
Oven Roasted Kitten w/Boiled New Potatoes
Kung Pao Kitten
etc.
This seems to alarm and disturb them - although they have not tried to kill me in my sleep... yet.
The anything goes attitude is where I run into problems libertarians. Heck, I know quite a few libertarians who have problems with it.
You’ve got to have societal norms or society collapses into mush. Its why we have a GOP desperately pandering to clearly liberal groups like GOP proud.
Pretty good piece by Stossel.
I believe he is 100% correct that older Americans decry the modern age because they simply don’t understand it. Numbers and facts. It’s the same old story from 20 years ago....40 years ago.....60 years ago....and beyond. New fangled inventions mess with the young peoples’ minds they think all while forgetting about how their elders thought the same of radio, cars, TV, surfing, and, computers. People communicate today more than they have at any point in human history. They do so in a way different than years past, but, they do it. With sex and violence blasted across the waves to them, they are doing less of both.
It’s rather incredible actually.
There’s a huge difference, though, between having societal norms, and having the Federal government enforce those norms. That is where libertarians and conservatives ought to be in agreement on many issues.
> Hope he’s still happy when the next generation thinks it’s only sensible to kill everyone over 75 because they are too expensive to support on ObamaCare. We are witnessing a future generation with no moral training. It won’t be pretty
I’m sure they will lower it to whatever the date that you are supposed to receive your first social security check, you know, to streamline the government’s expenditures and keep costs down.../s
While this may be a subjective topic, on the "violence" scale, "Halo" is generally much lower than the original "Doom" or even "Wolfenstein 3D."
How could you miss “kitty fricassee”?!
FELK . . . the other other white meat.
Disappointed in Stossel. Reading and smoking marijuana are not comparable activities, and the persistent sexual revolution has done nothing to help aborted babies or broken families.
True.
What about reading WHILE smoking marijuana?
Get off my lawn!!!
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