While perusing the internets I came across this excellent article by Bill Bennett this morning:
Fashioning men has never been easy, but today it seems particularly tough. Boys need heroes to embody the everlasting qualities of manhood: honor, duty, valor, and integrity. Without such role models, boys will naturally choose perpetual childhood over the rigors of becoming a man—as many women, teachers, coaches, employers, and adults in authority can quickly attest to today.
Too many boys and men waste time in pointless and soulless activities, unmindful of their responsibilities, uncaring in their pursuits. Have we forgotten how to raise men, how to lead our boys into manhood?
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We need to fight back against this culture and send our boys and young men a clear and achievable message of what it means to be a man. The founding virtues – industriousness, marriage, and religion, are still the basis for male empowerment and achievement. It may be time to say to a number of our young men, “Get off the video games five hours a day, pull yourself together, get a challenging job, and get married.” It’s time to bring back men.
Of course, when we fight back, we’re told we’re homophobic, racist, sexist, etc. Just ignore them.
Since my youth I’ve been somewhat fascinated with superconductivity.
Quantum Levitation
Found under “Dude” from Hot Air.
#99 (how appropriate);
Why is Mrs. Nelson’s “we will not remain quiet” shirt spelled backwards? Does she need to remind herself not to reman quiet every time she looks into the mirror?
The Nelsons are the picture perfect, “Why You Should Not Smoke Weed” moniker.
114 mharper42, Ditto
Tedtam, May the loving Lord grace your brother-in-law with dignity, remove his pain, and peacefully embrace him in His comforting arms.
#42 Pyro
I intended to praise this phrase earlier today but got distracted. Very funny!
I almost watched the video. Then I realized it would be 4 1/2 minutes of Alec Baldwin, and decided ti clean my fingernails instead.
Headline from link in #108
Alec Baldwin Visits Occupy Wall Street, Talks Federal Reserve
Headline should’ve read…
Alec Baldwin Visits Occupy Wall Street, Talks Federal Reserve But Doesn’t Give Any Of His Millions To Any Of The Left-Wing Losers, Leaches, Obumma Supporters.–Typical Liberal Hollywood Millionaire Hypocrite Useful/Useless Idiot!
Go Rangers. Win it for Nolan.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO RANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
bonecrusher #17;
Elmer Fudd would take care of those exotic animal problems.
At least the OWSers were lucid enough to say Heyyy….wait just a dang minute! when Capital One Bank spokesman Alec Baldwin showed up to support them today.
And I’m sure he’s got bigger pecks than He-Man.
#28; There are lots of stories about people who have been married for a long time and when one dies, the other follows shortly afterward. Wagonburner and all; I saw the title of theat story earlier today and that alone moved me. As for what I blockquoted, my own grandparents died within about four months from each other. Illnes struck… Read more »
#99 – OMG ROFL – Ole Willie still remembers TOKE but he seems to have forgotten to PASS dat stuff!!!
🙂
#73 Sarge
Haven’t seen you on The Couch much lately, everything OK with you & yours?
The founding virtues – industriousness, marriage, and religion, are still the basis for male empowerment and achievement. It may be time to say to a number of our young men, “Get off the video games five hours a day, pull yourself together, get a challenging job, and get married.” It’s time to bring back men. AMEN!!! Let’s toss in good… Read more »
Willie is a
walkingstumbling testimonial for the dangers of chronic Chronic usage.Uh, yeah. Okay, Willie. Whatever you say.
100, how’d this happen?
…and there is no fool, anywhere, as pathetic as an old fool…
Ask Cbr.
He has a rich history.
Hamous Our great-grandmother, Sadie Rush Alexander of Coryell County, always kept a big bottle of Garrett Snuff hidden somewhere in the house. When she was in the nursing home in Brownwood, I was visiting her one day and pushed back the curtain by the bed. There, on the sill, was a bottle of Garrett Snuff and a box of wooden… Read more »
I guess they dip when they’re tangoing, dip when they’re floating teeth, dip when they do eva’ thing.
Dunno. Never got that close to one.
Although I did shake ST’s hand once.
Besides a couple of old aunts born in the 19th century that dipped snuff, the first time I saw a girl dipping was at a carnival in the parking lot of Northwest Mall in 1981.
When doing the tango? 😉
He liked the ones that dip.
hater
I could almost handle that. It’s the combination of patchouli oil and BO I can’t abide.
They also smell like patchouli oil.
#85 Hamous
Picky, picky, picky.
They better get it in gear. When it gets cold and rainy, the true believers will be the only ones who stick around.
#78 Hamous Obama really needs TOTUS. That’s just one of a long list of things he needs. – a brain – a clue Feel free to add on. I have to get ready for my class this evening. I’m REALLY excited about my group this year. So far, they’re pretty well-behaved, for a bunch of teenagers who’d much rather be… Read more »
I think those types are a small minority. The bulk of the protesters are ignorant of the underlying politics. Precisely. Its those minds that are easiest to mold. Attract them with a “sensible” message that is only tinged with leftism, and has pot and chicks to boot, and in five or six years, you get a full blown Socialist. It… Read more »
Back in the day, I went to protests for the chicks. Then I found out protest chicks didn’t shave their legs or underarms so I went back to redneck girls.
I think those types are a small minority. The bulk of the protesters are ignorant of the underlying politics. The New Yorker poll I linked to earlier backs that up. “Hey man, let’s protest!” “K, dude, let’s go!”
I hope Olbermann’s ten million is guaranteed. And comes straight out of Algore’s pocket.
The more things change….
Same name. Different set of clowns. Different cause du jour. That’s kinda my point. Most of these folks are protesting for protest’s sake. Nope. They’re trolling fo future Socialists. They’re looking for people who are fooled enough by their more “sensible” demands to join in with them. Sorry Dood, but that’s been my experience. They don;t mean any of the… Read more »
“We’re not going to spike that football.”
Obama really needs TOTUS.
Sarge – love the puppets. The protestors were demanding an end to financial support for the nuclear industry and the action was part of the larger occupations at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant. The costumed figures on stilts are from the Bread and Puppet Theatre. Same name. Different set of clowns. Different cause du jour. That’s kinda my point. Most… Read more »
#63 doood: I can agree with points 3 and 4 for instance. Really?!?! 3. Prohibiting all federal public officials and their immediate family members, whether elected or appointed, from EVER being employed by any corporation they regulate while in office and/or holding any stock or shares in any corporation they regulate while in office until a full 5 years after… Read more »
Sister took my brother-in-law, her husband, to the hospital this morning. She told me that now she’s just hoping for as little pain as possible. Y’all pray, if you’re so inclined, for a more dignified and painless death as possible. Right now he’s suffering from a lack of the former and an abundance of the latter.
Ya fragot The One Man Who Can Save America.
Shoot. They’ve been around since 1979.
It’s good that they let us know when to avoid their shows.
When “The Last Word” is truly, the LAST word, I’ll feel better.
Not that I watch anyway, but I’ve heard clips of O’Donnell’s show, and the fact that anyone listens to him makes my stomach rumble a bit.
I truly doubt I will remember that.
#68,
That about as likely as the Tea Party forming into an actual political party.
Honestly, I think its a flash-in-the-pan movement. Those that vote are going to vote Democrat anyway, or for someone like Ralph Nader. The comparison to the Tea Parties is absurd, IMO. Most of those groups put their frustration into action and in less than two years fielded candidates sympathetic to their causes and got them elected. Sure some pols like… Read more »