It makes me crazy when I see unions strike companies that are struggling to stay afloat, like there is some bottomless pit full of money and benefits that they are somehow entitled to. Union people live in a fantasy world where normal rules need not apply.
Well, speaking of normal rules, you reap what you sow in this life and below is a union that is reaping the harvest of striking Hostess and putting the company out of business. Good luck guys as you enter the Obama Unemployment Lines.
A recent article linked below tells of a transgender student born male, who has won access to the women’s restroom at Evergreen College in Olympia, WA. And because the politically correct state of Washington has a nondiscrimination law protecting “gender identity”, the college must allow this person to go into the women’s locker room which is not only used by college women, but by the Capital High School swim club and a children’s swim academy.
Political correctness is anything but correct. We should be basing our law on right and wrong, common sense and historical and religious values that call these things what they are; deviant.
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Who would have ever thought that in America a statement supporting the traditional and biblical definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman, would be viewed as hateful and discriminatory??
This nation has elements that have strayed so far from the truth that they live in a sea of deception. To say that marriage is between a man and a woman is tantamount to saying the sky is blue. I am just amazed.
“The administration of Barack Obama embodies the worst characteristics of the worst Presidents in our history – the abuse of power, the incompetence, the laziness, the bigotry, the disinterest, the dishonesty, the arrogance. The reason he’s still personally popular is the same reason we know the names Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Perez Hilton or that TMZ exists – A large portion of our culture now celebrates what it used to shun, cheers that which used to drive people into hiding and rewards existence over accomplishment.”
“The fund of ideas of the “liberals” has run dry, though excuses still pour forth from them and their apologists. In the face of failure, they can only call for more of the same that has produced the failure in the first place. A man standing on the verge of bankruptcy will plead with his creditors to make yet another extension of the loan. His project will be successful yet, if he can only pour more money into it. So it is with the “liberals.” The problems, they say, are very complex and it will take many more years to solve them. Much larger appropriations must be made in order to lick particularly tenacious problems.
Deeper than this, there are increasing signs of paralysis of will and failure of nerve by the Liberal Establishment, as M. Stanton Evans has called it. This is not new, but it is becoming more widespread. It has been apparent for many years now that the farm program was a failure, but “liberals” have been unable even to confess their error or to abandon the programs. The failure of foreign aid has hardly diminished their cry for more for the future. That communists have not been pacified by concessions becomes the “liberal’s” case for further concessions. Looting and pillage are greeted by calls for more far-reaching aid to the inner cities. Those in power can hardly muster the courage to deal with looting and pillage in the only way that has ever been effective — that is, by shooting looters until they stop. “Liberals” can neither pursue wars to a victorious conclusion nor withdraw. They can neither consent to vigorous punishment of criminals nor to the guilt of those who commit crimes. They can neither pay off the national debt nor even balance the budget.
In short, the “liberals” cannot cope with the situations which they have largely created.”
Read this on some FB page:
“If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.” B. Lester
Here is my response from a conservative perspective:
If you are down and out, you are championed by liberals. If you struggle to make your situation better, work hard, start a business, hire employees and achieve success and become wealthy, you are then demonized by the very same liberals. You are now the enemy. There is a fundamental hitch in the liberal mind that despises success. But success is the American dream. Hmmmm. Is it any wonder when liberals get control of the nation’s purse strings, the nation goes into a tail spin.
Couple more comments: Your average millionaire in the USA today is a hard working small business owner who employs people. This nonsense about “pathological money hoarder” can only be found in the wild imaginations of these goofy liberals. Secondly, one of the most basic misunderstandings in the minds of liberals is that our economy is a closed system. If I make a ton of money, that means that much less money for you and others. WRONG!!! Our economy is open-ended. That money I made is not something taken away from you. It represents what I call “sweat-equity”. It is the worth of what my business has CREATED that did not previously exist. Just because I make a fortune does not mean that you now CANNOT make a fortune. People who are successful are not stealing your piece of the pie — they are making the pie BIGGER!!
Think of it this way: You sell hot dogs on a street corner. You charge what the market will bear. Now if a guy on the opposite coast designs a new computer or a better mouse trap and gets rich, does that mean people in your town can no longer buy your hot dogs? Of course not. You haven’t been hindered in the slightest. You are still free to make your own fortune. You can franchise your business, go nationwide, get rich and move next door to the guy who made the better mouse trap! The only thing stopping a liberal is their bankrupt philosophy.
Liberals entire argument stems from a BAD ATTITUDE. Their whole philosophy of life is based on breaking God’s 10th commandment which tell us not to ENVY anything that is our neighbor’s. Liberals are ALL about envy. But envy is fleshly, ungodly, unhealthy and an unhappy view of life. An envious person can have all of life’s pleasures, but be totally unhappy because that bastard on the other side of the tracks has way more than him. It’s just like the driver on the freeway who is constantly bobbing and weaving because he doesn’t like having someone in front of him slowing him down. That’s a LONG freeway — there will ALWAYS be someone ahead of you. Always!
Today’s kids don’t get dating. And the misunderstanding has been long in coming. Frankly, I didn’t understand dating when I was young. Dating is like shopping. When you’re going down the aisle at the grocery store, you’re not falling in love with every cereal, every mayonnaise, every apple, every pork roast in the store. You’re looking them over to see which one deserves to go home with you. After all, you’re the one that is going to have to eat it. Dating should be more like judging and rating, rather than seeing what base you can get to. It should be more about planning for the future than about even falling in love. Because once you have fallen in love, there is no return receipt. At that point, you better hope you fell for the right one. If not, there is only trouble up ahead.
Hopefully, the trouble can be limited to an uncomfortable breakup so you can both get along the way of your lives. But nowadays, too many kids not only allow themselves to fall in love before they have a clue who this person is they are with, they often end up with kids on the way before they know this person they are with. Now you REALLY have a serious problem.
When I was young, I had good motives in dating. But I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. I fell in love at age 20 with a woman 3 years my junior. I fell all the way. Way too serious, way too soon, not a clue where I was headed. Two years later, my heart was crushed as this young woman realized she wanted to go in a different direction. She had become seriously ill and almost died. She matured quickly in a short amount of time. The bottom line; I was devastated and crushed.
At age 22, I had reaped what I had sowed. And I was bitterly lonely, sad and desperate for love again. Now at age 60, a word to the young. Bitterly lonely, sad and desperate is the WORST place for your head and heart to be while dating. Everything inside you is pushing you with tremendous pressure to find that love again. What should you do? Moving to a deserted island with a same-sex friend would be a good idea; a deserted island so there are NO opposite sex people around — you need to get your head together. And the same-sex friend for support in the hard times. You MUST heal before you will ever have a clear enough head to start dating again. Lest you grasp at the first glimpse of love and end up in a bad relationship.
People who are desperate overlook incompatibilities and problems with the people they are grasping for. But that is what dating is for — finding the RIGHT person, not just the NEXT person.
I did this when I was desperate. And ended up not only hurting me, but the person I married the first time around and our kids.
I am a strong believing Christian and generally like biblical answers to these kinds of issues. But in those young days, I got some really bad and stupid advice from my spiritual leaders. It went something like this:
“Should we get married?”
“Do you love eachother?”
“Yes.”
“Then get married.”
That’s about as deep as it got. It was the worst advice I have ever been given. With the smallest bit of probing, our pastors giving this advice would have discovered that we both found each other on the rebound from other broken relationships. That should have been the first of many BIG red lights.
As much as I appreciate pastors and spiritual leaders these days, my advice would be simple, short and to the point. And I wouldn’t even have to open the Bible. I would just give the couple a CD of an old Tanya Tucker song with the lyrics and tell them to listen to it over and over. And consider it very seriously because the person they are with is a potential life partner. And it’s best to find out NOW if its really going to work instead of years and kids later.
Lyrics
I know a man, a good friend of mine;
He spends all his time tryin’ to make love work out right.
But the woman he loves, she don’t feel the same, no;
I don’t know much about love but at least I learned one thing:If it don’t come easy, you better let it go.
‘Cos when it don’t come easy, there’s no natural flow.
Don’t make it hard on your heart, you might be better off alone,
If it don’t come easy, you better let it go, yeah.I know a woman, she’s got a heart of gold.
You know she’d do anything to make her man feel right at home.
But the man she loves, now, he’s a restless kind of guy,
I wish there was a way I could make her realise.That if it don’t come easy, you better let it go.
‘Cos when it don’t come easy, there’s no natural flow.
Don’t make it hard on your heart, when you might be better off alone,
If it don’t come easy, you better let it go, yeah.Let it go, though it’s hard I know;
Let it loose, I tell you, it’s no use.If it don’t come easy, you better let it go.
‘Cos when it don’t come easy, there’s no natural flow.
Don’t make it hard on your heart, when you might be better off alone,
If it don’t come easy, you better let it,
You better let it,
You better let it go.If it don’t come easy, you better let it go.
‘Cos when it don’t come easy, there’s no natural flow.—————————————–
Presently: I am happily married these days to a woman I met in 1994. We’ve been together most of that time and married since 1998. We are compatible and happy because it HAS come easy. I’m a slow learner, but at least I got the lesson! The worst mistake I have made in my life was hurting my kids when their mom and dad split. God bless them both. They deserved better.
People have visited San Francisco but may have never noticed a very picturesque area about 30 miles east of the city. In 1967, my family moved to the San Francisco area from the east coast. We moved to the town of Walnut Creek. Our neighborhood was at the base of Mt Diablo and was a very pretty area. It was quite different from the east coast. The grassy hills and oak trees were very different from what I had ever seen back east. But it was Mt Diablo that made the place so nice.
I used to hike through the hills and make trips up Mt Diablo just to take pictures. I have pages of negatives of photographs taken in the area back then.
I found some photos online that show Mt Diablo’s location from San Francisco. This is what visitors may never have noticed. I think San Francisco is a very beautiful city, but our area was just as nice. I have very fond memories of Walnut Creek.