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Mornin’ Hamsterville
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It is a good morning
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Growling Bear and I went to Academy yesterday afternoon. They had a huge table full of Texans t-shirts and a line at the cashier’s for them that must have had 30 people.
The other cashiers were pretty busy, but the one that looked like it was dedicated to Texans stuff was looooooong. If I wanted one of those shirts, I think I could stand to wait a day for it. -
But what if they don’t make no more?!
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I saw that picture a little while back. I almost made it one of my PODS. It is really cute.
Just want to hug ’em all until they’re squishy little messes, I do. 😀
I’m just getting my act together this morning. I was wide awake around 4:30 am, for some reason, even though I went to bed around midnight. Weird. I fell asleep again about sixish for another coupla hours.
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The article around this clip calls it “ridiculous,” but I’m afraid that there are portions of what this Muslim says that are true.
We have too many looking after selfishness than values.
We are in a huge debt crisis.
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Looks like we might need to ban Connecticuters.
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CUTE lil Wascals!
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Probably some dude planting his winter garden, carrying a shovel.
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The world is getting wider, says Charlotte Howard. What can be done about it?
Two-thirds of American adults are overweight. This is defined as having a body mass index (BMI, a common measure of obesity) of 25 or more, which for a man standing 175cm (5’9”) tall means a weight of 77kg (170 pounds) or more. Alarmingly, 36% of adults and 17% of children are not just overweight but obese, with a BMI of at least 30, meaning they weigh 92kg or more at the same height. If current trends continue, by 2030 nearly half of American adults could be obese.
Clearly there is only one thing to do. We need to pass legislation banning the sale, possession and use of flatware.
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Highly paid Romney Campaign Consultant recommends Republicans go soft on Gun Control.
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#10 hamous
You were on this topic the other day.
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Nope. I’m happy with my rotundness.
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#13 hamous
I thought “curvy” was better. -
Stand back! Or I swear you’ll never get hit by rain!
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Mr. Orwell, call your office.
http://rt.com/usa/news/smart-tv-security-access-092/
on Drudge
Reminds me why I don’t have one in the house. -
#16 – Yet ANOTHER reason NEVER to connect a TV to a personal computer system
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This dropped into the mail box, from a Co-Op;
“On a side note, I also wanted to take a moment to share with you the “NASA Johnson Style” video that the Fall 2012 co-ops put together. We all worked very hard to put this together so I hope you enjoy it. With that said feel free to watch it as many times as you’d like and share the video to your family and friends!”
NASA Co-Op’s Leaving.
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BTW: I love today’s picture.
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As far as the shooter in Ct. goes, there is a pattern to discern:
1) Almost all (99%) of the shooters in the last 20+ years were hard core players of violent video games. While not all hard core players of violent video games turn into mass murderers, all the mass murderers were hard core gamers.
2) Almost all (99.9%) of sexual predators in prison have an addiction to pornography. While not all viewers of porn become sexual predators, all of the sexual predators in prison are addicted to porn.
3) Almost all (99.9%) of the acts of terrorism have been mooslimes performing said acts of terror in the name of islam. While not all devout mooslimes are terrorists, all the terrorists are mooslimes.
Notice a pattern here? Hard core violent video games, pornography and islam are all inherently evil and are almost always associated with violent behavior in the unstable. -
Clearly, the difference between Planned Parenthood and Planned Parentage is that in the first case, parenthood AND parentage rarely if ever ensue. Seems the whole purpose of that organization is the prevention of parenthood.
I had also seen those cute triplets on FB, and what struck me most was the disparity in the size of their heads. The guy in the middle is the runt of his litter. 🙂 -
#20 Bones
The issue isn’t really guns. Guns are how they avoid talking about the ugly realities of human nature while building sandcastles on the shores of Utopia. Mostly it’s about people who are sheltered from the realities of human nature trying to build a shelter big enough for everyone, a Gun Free Zone where everyone is a target and tries to live under the illusion that they aren’t, a society where everyone is drawing unicorns on colored notepaper while waiting under their desks for the bomb to fall. -
#11 Sarge
Hmm, there’s another volunteer gelding. 🙂 What a maroon. -
I have gotten to the point with gun control nuts that I ask them if they are familiar with the existing laws. I then tell them to become knowledgeable with these so we can discuss it intelligently or it’s not worth wasting time with them.
Have a look-see here:
The Gun Control Act of 1968
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/laws/gca68.htm
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THE FIREARMS OWNERS’ PROTECTION ACT of 1986
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I see where the Pope now has a Twitter account and was taking confessions on line.
There were glitches.
No one could list every sin they committed in under a hundred and forty characters, much less do it while driving.
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Here’s a beautiful story about un-Planned Parentage.
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#22 OTL:
The issue isn’t really guns.
Correctamundo! The issue is mental illness. A known mentally ill person who is a likely danger to himself or someone else can not be incarcerated/institutionalized against thier will for more than a month or so. If and only if they are an imminent danger to themselves or someone else can they be “detained.”
I want to make it clear that not all mentally ill people are a danger to themselves or anyone else.
There are those who are likely to do harm to themselves or others but impossible to determine if they are imminent and therin lies the trouble.
Probably 1/3 of the homeless are severly mentally ill and 2/3 of the rest have pretty severe drug/alcohol problems. Not all of the above mentally ill people are a danger but clearly some are.
Of those who are unwillingly detained at a mental institution, most get out after a month or so, because they have not displayed violent tendencies while in the institution and they are on meds. The problem is that there is no way to make them take their meds when they are not institutionalized, many declare that they will not once released. -
BTW, I noticed that the other two toddlers were definitely unplanned, they only had one pair of socks between them.
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#27 Bones
If we peons can figure this kind of stuff out, how come our duly elected leaders and the minions of do-gooders can’t? BTW, that is a rhetorical question, I realize that “those” folks couldn’t even pour pee pee out of a boot if the directions are written on the heel. -
#28: It’s Monday, Triplet #2’s day to have warm feet. 🙂
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Limbaugh is speaking right now with a woman who argues the point: Why is it that people (lefty moonbat terdnozzles) can’t recognize that some people are inherently evil (like Ted Bundy) when they have no problem recognizing that some are inherently good, like Mother Theresa.
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I heard this story last night about the Clackamas Mall shooting on 1090 AM “Armed America” radio show. The story of the shopper who had a gun and aimed it at the shooter, but decided he didn’t have a clean shot, is just now coming out. May explain why only 2 + the shooter died there.
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“those” folks couldn’t even pour pee pee out of a boot if the directions are written on the heel.
Ifn the urine actually left the boot it would wind up on thier shirt.
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What really befuddles me is this: Seeing as how there are already a plethora of laws on the books which were broken by the terd in CT, and that terds have no respect nor intention of following the laws; why then do these idjits think that more laws restricting the peoples right to keep and bear arms are gonna help?
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#29 OletimerLin
The problem has its roots in the Progressives of the 1960’s who decided that we should not deprive anyone of their liberty without due cause. This lead to the closing of most of the mental hospitals, since most of their patients were turned out onto the streets, where they became homeless/drug abusers/alcoholics/dead people. -
WB,
Politicians trying to cut budgets and voters pressuring for the cuts were the more likely culprits in the closing of mental institutions and not liberals.
Read the last 10 -15 posts from last night on this very subject. I do agree that we need to institutionalize folks who are a danger to themselves and others, but as someone pointed out they do have rights.
There was a time in Texas when the only “proof” required to get you a short stay up in Austin was two witnesses and a willing JP.
I had an Aunt who was locked up in Austin. She was a danger to herself and others, but had not seriously hurt anyone to that point. My Mom and I went to visit her and I can still remember the horror of what I saw.
By the way….Bones is completely wrong on the causation of this violent behavior. The problem begins shortly after birth and escalates. The tacky video games may only accelerate the process. Read the posts and links.
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“Guns aren’t even the most lethal mass murder weapon. According to data compiled by Grant Duwe of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, guns killed an average of 4.92 victims per mass murder in the United States during the 20th century, just edging out knives, blunt objects, and bare hands, which killed 4.52 people per incident. Fire killed 6.82 people per mass murder, while explosives far outpaced the other options at 20.82. Of the 25 deadliest mass murders in the 20th century, only 52 percent involved guns. The U.S. mass murder rate does not seem to rise or fall with the availability of automatic weapons. It reached its highest level in 1929, when fully automatic firearms were expensive and mostly limited to soldiers and organized criminals.”
Duwe’s research is worth reading in greater detail, considering how much it runs against the reports seen in the media about the historical record of mass murders.H/T Ben Domenech
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Politicians trying to cut budgets…
I’d describe it as “Politicians pretending to try to cut budgets”.
Cutting budget growth ≠ cutting budget
But to the mentally ill – it seems to me there are a limited number of mutually exclusive choices that must be made:- Institutionalize the potentially violent – There’s no pretty way to do this no matter how much money you throw at a state or private hospital. And if you visit them it’s going to be ugly, horrible, and very depressing.
- Let them out in society – Despite outpatient treatment we know how this will eventually turn out.
Those are pretty much the choices we face. It sucks, but if we want to decrease violence perpetrated on society by the deranged then they will have to be institutionalized. If we want to let our hearts outweigh reason then we better be willing to accept events like Newtown occasionally.
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One other thing I’d like to see the medical community investigate is the long-term effects of all these ADHD drugs they’ve been prescribing to a generation of kids. Could there be a causal relationship? It sure seems to me that we’ve seen an increase in the number of young murderers over the last 20-30 years.
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Hubby’s oldest brother was severely retarded. I never heard him speak, only grunt. They raised him at home until his late twenties, when “the state” made it so difficult that they eventually put him into a home, where he was actually very happy. It was a good place for him. He and the other residents were given work, which was putting together those knife-fork-napkin “culinary packets” that come with your fast food items. The mentally retarded never really get bored with that type of work, and he was able to earn his own money, which the family used to buy him things that he could use or have fun with.
I saw early pictures of this brother, and he looked normal for the first few years. It took the folks a while to realize that he how serious it was that he wasn’t reaching his milestones. (I ran into the same problem with my pediatrician – he downplayed the problems with my son whenever I asked about his development issues.) By the time they realized their firstborn was seriously developmentally delayed, MIL was pregnant with her second. Hubby’s second brother was “normal,” (I put that into quotes for reasons too long to explain here) but the folks were watching carefully while raising the first one. When HSB started walking and talking on schedule, there was relief. But she was pregnant with Hubby before the determination on the second could be made. I can understand the consternation. They have friends who had a retarded child, were assured that a second retarded child was a million to one chance – and had a second retarded child.
While explaining this history to me one day, MIL confessed that if abortion had been legal at the time, she would have aborted my Hubby. Her hands were full with raising two toddlers, one of which was retarded and the second she was unsure of, her emotional tank was probably drained, and then she had the physical and emotional stress of a third pregnancy.
It’s a good thing she carried that third, unplanned pregnancy through. Not just for me, but because Hubby is the one to whom she turns when she needs help with anything. He handles her dog and her rental properties when she’s out of town. The two are almost joined at the hip. If she had aborted Hubby, she would be soooo screwed. Her second son took forever to grow up (actually, he’s still working on that) and has never been dependable.
I’ve always admired their dedication to their first son. I’ve heard numerous stories about him. He was a savant about putting the Sunday newspaper back together, even if you separated every page. They had the cleanest parking lot for miles, because when he cleaned the lot, every teensy scrap of paper and cigarette butt was retrieved. MIL wrapped every little trinket and deck of cards in the house one year for Christmas, because he loved to unwrap stuff. He’d put it down as soon as it was unwrapped, but he loved to pull that paper off! Hubby loved his brothers, and when the first one died, it was hard on him. MIL was thoughtful enough to let me know at the funeral (I was well pregnant with Lovely at the time) that she asked for certain tests to be done and let me know that the retardation was not genetic. They couldn’t be run while her first son was alive, but she asked for them to be run when he died. That was a kindness I had not expected.
When Steve heard that the Palins kept their baby after finding out it was abnormal, his respect for them went through the roof. -
Oh, and one morning Hubby’s family woke up to find that the first son had unwrapped every can in the kitchen. For weeks, they’d open a few cans for dinner, having no idea what it was they were going to have for dinner. They still laugh about that.
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This is what happened, Simple, and it had nothing to do with budget cuts or less spending by government.
It is critical for people to understand the truth about how we arrived at this point today regarding mental health programs after a sequence of events beginning over 50 years ago.In the 1960s, the United States embarked on an innovative approach to caring for its mentally ill: deinstitutionalization. The intentions were quite humane: move patients from long-term commitment in state mental hospitals into community-based mental health treatment. Contrary to popular perception, California Governor Ronald Reagan’s signing of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act of 1967 12 was only one small part of a broad-based movement, starting in the late 1950s.13 The Kennedy Administration optimistically described how the days of long-term treatment were now past; newly-developed drugs such as chlorpromazine meant that two-thirds of the mentally ill “could be treated and released within 6 months.”14
At about the same time, two different ideas came to the forefront of American progressive thinking: that there was a right to mental health treatment, and a right to a more substantive form of due process for those who were to be committed to a mental hospital. If there was a right to mental health treatment, then judges could use the threat of releasing patients as a way to force reluctant legislatures to increase funding for treatment.15
The notion of due process for the mentally ill was not radical. American courts have been wrestling with this question from the 1840s onward.16 While perhaps not up to the exacting standards of the American Civil Liberties Union, by the end of the nineteenth century, there was something recognizably like due process before the mentally ill were committed.17 What changed in the 1960s was the result of ACLU attorneys such as Bruce J. Ennis, who claimed that less than 5 percent of mental hospital patients “are dangerous to themselves or to others” and that the rest were improperly locked up “because they are useless, unproductive, ‘odd,’ or ‘different.’”18
Until the 1960s, courts used a medical model when considering commitment: the government’s actions were part of “the historic parens patriae power, including the duty to protect ‘persons under legal disabilities to act for themselves.’ . . . The classic example of this role is when a State undertakes to act as ‘the general guardian of all infants, idiots, and lunatics.’”19 Instead, public safety alone became the legitimate basis for commitment, and with it, a more exacting standard, a bit less than is required for convicting criminal defendants. 20 -
#35 Wagonburner
Yep, you are correct. The root goes back earlier than that teamed with the ACLU’s intervention and the Progressive idea about childrearing–let the kid express him/herself, do not stifle creativity, with a big dash of building self esteem that grew like Jack’s beanstalk. That Beanstalk grew to dizzying heights where oxygen thinned and then was no more…. Such thought was prevalent in Madison, a bastion of Progressives since the heyday of the Progressive Party in the 30s. The state mental hospitals eventually were mostly closed, though the criminally insane were and are kept locked up.
Good friends of my parents in the 50s lived next door to a married couple of UW professors deeply steeped in Progressive ideas–which at that time stood out as really far out but these days not so much. Their daughter was not to be repressed lest her creativity be damaged, so they thought nothing of letting her pretty much do whatever she wanted no matter how absurd. She used to run around the house and yard buck naked if she wanted to. But she was about 5 one midwinter day when she decided to go out in the backyard barely clothed and swing with her dog in subfreezing temps, no coat, hat, mittens, boots; mother in attendance eventually trying to entice her back in the house. The dog had more sense and wanted to go in.
My folks’ friends remarked about having seen her, and the mother casually replied that she would come inside when she was ready. At that time nobody in the neighborhood speculated the parents might be experimenting with drugs. They were just plain goofy and weird. Never did know what subjects they taught at UW, but I bet it was not any of the hard sciences or engineering. 🙂 -
39 Hamous,
I have the same concerns, but before the drugs random violent outbursts were a every other day event with our Angel. The same with my 5 year old grandson.
Angel has had temper tantrums on steroids with no shortage of violent behavior and just so Boner knows….I do not allow violent video games or movies the house.
Corporal punishment only ratchets the excitation level higher. You actually have to become more Zen-like in your demeanor as ASD kids are coming unglued.
We went to the drugs out of desperation and as soon as Angel develops coping tools, then we will wean her off of them. I share you concerns about the long term effects of these drugs.
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Idiocy defined in this video.
She simply cannot wrap her teeny tiny little mind around the facts. And the strain of trying to do so causes her to not be able to listen to reason and to cut off her guest in mid-sentence. Repeatedly. -
No brains, no headaches.
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#41 Tedtam
Amazingly, I have not ever heard of any mental problems in my family line. But I have several friends who are struggling with some. One isn’t even a problem from birth, but an accident at age 12 that left a boy with substantial brain damage. He functions, and even completed college, but is unemployable due to his deficit. He has been on psychotropic meds for about 15 years to try to control his temper and behavior. Has been in jail, on probation, and even in Huntsville for 2 years, due to violent conflicts. His mother is terrified of him and for him. He now lives in managed housing for unstable men, and his finances are supervised by a court-appointed conservator. A family trust pays his bills, but otherwise his mother is the only family member who ever sees him. His brothers have written him off.
The other case is a boy about 10 now that I haven’t seen in person since he was 6. He is clearly ASD, but I have not heard my friend who is his grandmother ever say exactly what his diagnosis is. She moved to Pearland to be on the scene to work with the boy every day. I see his pictures posted in FB and it is very sad to see his little brother look happy and normal, while he usually has at best a quizzical smile on his face. More often, just an unfocused, even a blank expression. Whatever they have tried, it has not erased the deficit. -
After I met the family friends who had the two retarded sons, and having been dating Hubby and being around his brother, I marveled that of all the twelve children my mother birthed, none of us suffered from some kind of serious birth defect. Given the odds, you’d think that at least one of us would be missing a finger or something.
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#39 Hambone
One other thing I’d like to see the medical community investigate is the long-term effects of all these ADHD drugs they’ve been prescribing to a generation of kids. Could there be a causal relationship? It sure seems to me that we’ve seen an increase in the number of young murderers over the last 20-30 years.
No doubt about it!! About 20 some odd years ago we had close friends that put their son on Ritalin because he was real active. I told them that there was nothing wrong with him other than he was real smart and got bored in school. After a couple of years they took him off the drug and he came out just fine. Another couple put their daughter on this crap and she had a kid @ 16 and wasn’t sure who the father was, could have been one of three! Her mom is raising the kid now. She had another one when she was 18 and married a useless POS.
To make a short story long, I said all along that way too many kids were being drugged up because the teachers/parents didn’t want to deal with their kids. I was proven right a few years ago when a couple sued one of the drug companies after their son committed suicide. It seems that the drug in question was ONLY used in institutions on people that were really screwed up, it came out in the 50’s and the drug company decided to market it to hyperactive kids. They sent flyers to psychologists and even school counselors . This came out in the trail. BTW; It was settled out of court. There is NO TELLING how many kids are screwed up for life because of these mind altering drugs. ~ Spits 🙁 -
I feel uncomfortable getting too critical of other parents. My kids were so well-behaved, they spoiled me as a mommy. I’ve seen other kids that were spawn of the devil or seemed to have an always-unwinding spring inside of them. Don’t know what I would have done with those.
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I understand there are times when a child may need such medications but as SD says, they dispense them out like candy. When a drug comes with a warning that begins with “if you have thoughts of suicide…” common sense should say it’s not a drug you should give to your kid.
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Daniel Inouye dead at 88. Sad to see all these old soldiers pass.
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#43 Texpat
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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has appointed conservative Congressman Tim Scott to fill the Senate seat being vacated by the resignation of Senator Jim DeMint.
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#51 Tedtam
I feel uncomfortable getting too critical of other parents. My kids were so well-behaved, they spoiled me as a mommy. I’ve seen other kids that were spawn of the devil or seemed to have an always-unwinding spring inside of them. Don’t know what I would have done with those.
With all due respect to the parents of those kids, they would NEVER be your kids, or mine for that matter, because your kids had good rasin’,…the fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree,….just sayin’
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52 Hamous
Angel is on Medicaid and is being treated by the excellent doctors at UT Mental Health and Mental Rehabiliation Center in concert the the Texas Childrens Hospital.
I can tell you that the process TODAY to put a child on these drugs is quite exhaustive. It took us months to get them started and only after a lot of medical testing and mental evaluation by a Child Psychaitrist. We meet with the Psychaitrist and a Pediatrician once a month to review dosage and how effective the drugs are on Angel. The prescriptions are all written for 30-day supply and no refill. We have to obtain a new prescription each month.
I don’t know what the doctors at the private clinics are doing, but they are supposed to be using the same protocol as the TCH & TMHMR doctors.
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‘Bout my # 50, don’t get me started on the couple’s divorce and the fact that the kids stayed at one parents house every other week!! Never had a real home, with their mom they got away with anything, with their dad they couldn’t do anything. I always told my wife that why didn’t the parents live in two houses? That would be more fair, after all the kids didn’t have a choice as to who their parents were. 🙁
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SD
I can remember plenty of “good kids” who were adept at pulling the wool over the parents eyes. These were kids with good parents.
I knew several kids of preachers-ministers and those kids were rotten.
In general I do agree with you that good parenting will produce a good kid, but sometimes there are factors beyond the parent’s control.
Asberger’s Syndrome or ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) is now believed to have a genetic cause; therefore some of your “fruit falling close to the tree” comment may have a little truth in it, although not what you intended.
Looking back…I can see my father had ASD as did my brothers. My sister did not. Still, I would think of us as “good kids”. Indeed, we were all Merit Scholars in High School. My brothers and I became Engineers, although Engineering does not automatically qualify one for sainthood in my experience. None of us have ever been charged with a felony and we are all still on our first marriages.
I have had two daughters. They were polar opposites. The oldest is a responsible person and possibly the hardest working person that I know, whereas the younger daughter is a drug addict and a drag on society.
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53 Hamous
Agreed. He and Bob Dole were true heroes and never ever talked much about
their sacrifices. We are less for his passing.
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Seeing the updated links, I’m sure most if not all hear have already heard about this:
Cobarruvias has a blog, called, “Bay Area Houston.” According to the headline, “Hard hitting political commentary, consumer activism, and always full of wit.” Of particular interest to libertarian Republicans, Cobarruvias appears to be a bit of a Ron Paul hater too. One of his recent articles has a photo of a pick-up truck decked out with Ron Paul bumper stickers, headline: “Laughing and puking on GOP Tea Baggers.” (The Bay Area where Cobarruvias lives, borders Ron Paul’s 14th congressional district, and Paul is a Lifetime NRA member).
Earlier this morning, it was discovered by libertarian Republican columnist for The Examiner and friend of this website Joe Newby, that Cobarruvias may have just stepped over the line from “hard hitting political commentary,” to advocacy of assault and yes, even murder.liberals on Twitter called for the murder of NRA members. One of those making the calls was identified Sunday as John Cobarruvias, a blogger, Democratic precinct chairman in the Houston area and a member of the Texas Democratic Executive Committee.
“Can we now shoot the #NRA and everyone who defends them?” he tweeted.
After reading about the tweets on another site, Yvonne Larsen noticed a familiar name.
“Among the selection of tweets advocating for the murder of NRA President Keene and all NRA members was a name familiar to me; probably familiar to many readers of Houston’s Liberal blog sites,” she wrote at Big Jolly Politics.
Larsen said she “pasted a screen shot from the Freedom’s Outpost story in case NASA employee and Democrat Precinct 699 Chair John Cobarruvias of the Houstonblog Bay Area Houston tries to delete his tweet.”Democrat Party office holder says solution to gun violence is to “shoot” NRA members
(via Breitbart)
I just went to Cobarruvias’ site and posted the following:“One thing is for sure, while we are working up the courage to forget this horrible stain on the soul of this country, the NRA and their simple minded minions will be preparing for battle to protect the profits of the gun industry and every right wing, gun nut, wacko’s right to have every imaginable gun firmly planted in their hands regardless of their state of mind.”
I support the NRA. including their advocacy to use firearms *responsibly* and by responsible citizens. Would you like to shoot me?
http://www.libertarianrepublican.net/2012/12/democrat-party-office-holder-says.htmlAll comments have to be accepted by the blog author so we’ll see if this gets published.
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Dude, the best thing you can do with Cobarruvias is completely ignore him. He is a certifiable raving lunatic. A thoroughly dangerous man. He makes Alex Jones look like Mr. Rogers. He’s a tiny-dicked egomaniac that should (and for the most part is) be shunned by the civilized world.
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Thanks for the heads up. I’ll try to not link to him on your site in the future.
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although Engineering does not automatically qualify one for sainthood in my experience
Amen, brother.
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Shannon #37;
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Hamous;
I clicked back to the bay area website to close that window and it reopened like an infinite amount of times. I don’t want others to get hacked so why don’t you remove my post to be safe?
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In the wake of the massacre at an elementary school in Newton, Conn., that left 20 children, six adults, and the shooter dead Friday, the gun-control debate has been reignited.
But if the suspect, Adam Lanza, got his mother’s legally purchased and registered guns after murdering her, questions burn about how enacting more laws to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill would have helped.
The Libertarian Party said today the focus should be on ending the prohibition of self-defense in schools.
“We’ve created a ‘gun-free zone,’ a killing zone, for the sickest criminals on the face of the Earth,” said R. Lee Wrights, vice-chair of the Libertarian Party. “We’ve given them an open killing field, and we’ve made the children of this country the victims.”
Wrights argued that the presence of guns on campus would be a strong deterrent: “They’re not going to walk into a police station, and why not? Because that’s where the guns are,” he said.
The Federal Gun Free Schools Zone Act prohibits carrying firearms on school grounds in most cases. Without that law, the party argued, adults on campus could have been armed and ready to defend themselves and the children in the case of an attacker.http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/16/libertarian-party-repeal-law-designating-schools-as-gun-free-zones/
I saw that after reading in the Tatler about Harrold Independent School District, home of one campus from K-12 and counting 110 students allows its teachers to carry concealed handguns.
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/12/17/texas-school-district-allows-teachers-to-carry-concealed-firearms/
The Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1995 was a rewrite of the Federal gun-free Zones Act of 1990 law which ended up being struck down by the Supreme Court. The 1995 bill was brought to the floor by Speaker Newt Gingrich. It passed and was signed into law. -
#54 Adee
I linked to that review paper this past weekend here.
I introduced it in this way:Clayton Cramer, historian and early Second Amendment blogger, was given credit and frequently cited in briefs filed during the famous and recent landmark Heller vs DC and MacDonald vs Chicago gun rights cases before the Supreme Court. Cramer’s widely read blog was among the more prominent casualties of the notorious Righthaven infringement lawsuits.
It is not well known, however, that Cramer’s brother has a life long history of severe mental illness inspiring him to research and write about the deinstitutionalization of the mentally ill and the correlation with increased mass murders in America and Europe over the last 50 years.Cramer is a highly respected Second Amendment and gun rights historian and researcher. He first rose to fame when he questioned celebrity academic and historian, Michael Bellesiles’ book, Arming America, which claimed early Americans didn’t really own very many individual firearms.
Cramer proved his research to be a lie and eventually forced the Board of Trustees of Columbia University to rescind their granting of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for historical authorship. Bellesiles was run out of academia and became anathema most everywhere.
Clayton Cramer blogs here. -
#70 Texpat
Another winner. Thank you. -
Police say a gunman, identified as Jesus Manuel Garcia, chased patrons from the nearby China Garden Restaurant into the lobby of the Santikos Mayan 14 movie theater at around 9 p.m. on Sunday. Garcia, an employee of the restaurant, reportedly walked in the establishment looking for a woman.
When the woman, also reportedly a restaurant employee, wasn’t there, Garcia pulled out a gun and attempted to open fire in the restaurant but his weapon jammed.
“It started at the restaurant and then went into the parking lot and then into the movie theater,” Deputy Lou Antu told 1200 WOAI news.
The commotion sent horrified restaurant patrons into the movie theater lobby, but the gunman followed. He again attempted to open fire, and this time his gun didn’t jam. Garcia reportedly shot one man in the chest before Antu says an off-duty sheriff’s deputy working security the theater shot him once, dropping him to the floor. -
Moving away from the gun comments (though the related comments on the mental health crisis in the country has been very enlightening tonight), Tim Scott will take Demint’s place for two years in the US Senate before a special elections is held. I only vaguely recall Scott when he was elected to the US house but as I read about him now, he seems like a great pick from Governor Haley.
Jim DeMint was known for his very conservative credentials and voting record; Tim Scott will likely honor that legacy, as he boasts a lifetime ACU rating of 96.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/12/17/tim-scott-sc-n1468621
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Tonight I saw a cute baby girl at SAM’S Club. I quickly noticed that her hair pattern was very similar to Aedhun’s. The baby girl also had her feet exposed. But, my unbiased opinion is that Aeduhn’s hair and feet are cuter. 🙂
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