Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Let Me Tell You...: A Smart Joke Or Insensitivity
Let Me Tell You...: A Smart Joke Or Insensitivity: President Obama wants everybody to go to college. What a snob? -- Rick Santorum President Obama wants everybody to go to college. He wants...
A Smart Joke Or Insensitivity
President Obama wants everybody to go to college. What a snob? -- Rick Santorum
President Obama wants everybody to go to college. He wants everybody to be like him. -- Rick Santorum
First, I'd like to address the "snob" comment. Anyone who thinks the president is a snob needs to know this: That isn't a snob-type of comment. And here's why:
A snob doesn't care if anybody else gets educated. A snob's too arrogant and possibly narcisstic to care about anyone else's American Dream. A snob looks down on people because they aren't status quo of the rich and/or famous. A nobody has no right to education -- snob thinking.
In fact, to feel good about one's self, some people need to feel superior to others. It's a good thing that everybody is equal in God's eyes.
Here's what I know for fact. The president knows that to partake in the American Dream college or technical training allows everyone a viable chance.Those who don't think everyone needs an education, remember that those tax deductions rise with income unless you're millionaires who get large tax cuts.
A snobbish attitude is one's own business -- though wrongheaded -- unless they're president or vying to become one because that would tell people you're for the status quo. There's no need for higher education for all, and that shouldn't change, they'd think.
Yep! The snob's got his. Why worry about others less worthy? they'd think.
Everybody doesn't want to attend college. Many never want to complete high school. Santorum should check the high school dropout rates of all groups, and he'd know everybody couldn't go to college. Period.
I'm so sorry that higher education isn't a barometer for success in everyone's mind. Unless we get tens and thousands of manufacturing jobs back, the uneducated are not likely to get those good jobs that brought middle class status to their parents' generation.That's why I'm not laughing. Tough times and illiteracy are no joke.
President Obama wants everybody to go to college. He wants everybody to be like him. -- Rick Santorum
First, I'd like to address the "snob" comment. Anyone who thinks the president is a snob needs to know this: That isn't a snob-type of comment. And here's why:
A snob doesn't care if anybody else gets educated. A snob's too arrogant and possibly narcisstic to care about anyone else's American Dream. A snob looks down on people because they aren't status quo of the rich and/or famous. A nobody has no right to education -- snob thinking.
In fact, to feel good about one's self, some people need to feel superior to others. It's a good thing that everybody is equal in God's eyes.
Here's what I know for fact. The president knows that to partake in the American Dream college or technical training allows everyone a viable chance.Those who don't think everyone needs an education, remember that those tax deductions rise with income unless you're millionaires who get large tax cuts.
A snobbish attitude is one's own business -- though wrongheaded -- unless they're president or vying to become one because that would tell people you're for the status quo. There's no need for higher education for all, and that shouldn't change, they'd think.
Yep! The snob's got his. Why worry about others less worthy? they'd think.
Everybody doesn't want to attend college. Many never want to complete high school. Santorum should check the high school dropout rates of all groups, and he'd know everybody couldn't go to college. Period.
I'm so sorry that higher education isn't a barometer for success in everyone's mind. Unless we get tens and thousands of manufacturing jobs back, the uneducated are not likely to get those good jobs that brought middle class status to their parents' generation.That's why I'm not laughing. Tough times and illiteracy are no joke.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Birth Control? Who's Business Is It?
Anyone who is pro-lfe or anti-abortion, like Rick Santorum -- GOP's candidate vying for presidential ticket -- and other men leaders -- stand tall in a hypocritical posture. Mentioning or trampling birth control necessity for women is another political ploy to control women's bodies.
But they said the government shouldn't be involved with this and that. Why would they want to deny birth control or even discuss it, for that matter, if they're against abortion. Are they telling us that women must not have sex? One way or another, women need protection from unplanned pregnancy because if they have sex there's a good chance pregnancy (Oops) is likely to happen.
Where would these oversexed men get their ...? Let's see, married women ought not to use birth control or abortion to control their own bodies in case their libido runs wide. Single women ought to save it for marriage. Is that the message in the misguided political pill? Return to Good 'ol Boy Days? And guess what?
These women out there competing with men for political positions or high ceiling jobs would be "tied down" with babies. Men used to, and some still do, want to keep their women "barefoot and pregnant."
Is that what these bragadocio(s) are saying? Oh, maybe they haven't got that far in their "Bring back yesterday" rhetoric, but the protect women's body code is hidden in the sound bites.
Regardless, if we don't have birth control, there's a good chance pregnant women who want an abortion will opt for one -- more or less. Now opponents against women's rights, you cannot eat your doughnut and keep it unthawed in the fridge.
Besides, it's a woman's business about taking birth control, too, and she doesn't need politicians using the issue to plump up their political position by addressing that privacy. Aren't there enough political needs to discuss and fix?
Politicians -- state or federal -- should wrap their lips with duck tape on this personal matter?
But they said the government shouldn't be involved with this and that. Why would they want to deny birth control or even discuss it, for that matter, if they're against abortion. Are they telling us that women must not have sex? One way or another, women need protection from unplanned pregnancy because if they have sex there's a good chance pregnancy (Oops) is likely to happen.
Where would these oversexed men get their ...? Let's see, married women ought not to use birth control or abortion to control their own bodies in case their libido runs wide. Single women ought to save it for marriage. Is that the message in the misguided political pill? Return to Good 'ol Boy Days? And guess what?
These women out there competing with men for political positions or high ceiling jobs would be "tied down" with babies. Men used to, and some still do, want to keep their women "barefoot and pregnant."
Is that what these bragadocio(s) are saying? Oh, maybe they haven't got that far in their "Bring back yesterday" rhetoric, but the protect women's body code is hidden in the sound bites.
Regardless, if we don't have birth control, there's a good chance pregnant women who want an abortion will opt for one -- more or less. Now opponents against women's rights, you cannot eat your doughnut and keep it unthawed in the fridge.
Besides, it's a woman's business about taking birth control, too, and she doesn't need politicians using the issue to plump up their political position by addressing that privacy. Aren't there enough political needs to discuss and fix?
Politicians -- state or federal -- should wrap their lips with duck tape on this personal matter?
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Morality? What About Child Sex Abuse?
Those birth control pills were originally a political ploy until Obama reversed the decision to avoid a morality issue for Catholic leaders who would've had to pay for contraceptives for women employees. I was elated that this issue was solved without GOP ticket contender Rick Santorum continuing to blast off his misguided (Shall I say lie?) message about the president trampling on religious freedom. "This is not about contraceptives," he bellowed into living rooms across America.
Where was Santorum when the moralistic Catholics and the Evangelicals or Moral Majority pasted their lips with Elmer's Glue in the aftermath of child sex scandals across this country -- churches, schools, homes, and even Hollywood -- who've taken advantage of children -- in the worst way. Isn't that a lack of morality? It certainly is loss of freedom and dignity morality, and a destruction of boys turning to men or girls turning to women. Many turn to alcohol and drugs to assuage their guilt. Don't believe me? Ask Dr. Drew and other alcohol and drug experts. Besides I have personal knowledge about that, too.
It's aggregious that boys and girls are sexually abused in this land of freedom, but we churn and chew over freedom and morality about church's rights. Isn't this taking advantage of our most vulnerable? Where's freedom when neither girls or boys are protected? I want to see the outcry for freedom take a minute to mention children's freedom not just birth control or the unborn.
And, worse, morality over birth control is hardly one that we should be screaming about. Why the silence about child sexual abuse across the country? Oh, yeah. I forgot about the public clamoring and political pundits sounding off until stories burn to ashes or gets archived in the computer. Or until the next story breaks. Then: Nothing's done. It suggests that we care more about unborn babies than live children who suffer at the hands of grown, rusty pedophiles. What a shame? America needs to focus on how to clean up sordid acts of violence against children.
Where was Santorum when the moralistic Catholics and the Evangelicals or Moral Majority pasted their lips with Elmer's Glue in the aftermath of child sex scandals across this country -- churches, schools, homes, and even Hollywood -- who've taken advantage of children -- in the worst way. Isn't that a lack of morality? It certainly is loss of freedom and dignity morality, and a destruction of boys turning to men or girls turning to women. Many turn to alcohol and drugs to assuage their guilt. Don't believe me? Ask Dr. Drew and other alcohol and drug experts. Besides I have personal knowledge about that, too.
It's aggregious that boys and girls are sexually abused in this land of freedom, but we churn and chew over freedom and morality about church's rights. Isn't this taking advantage of our most vulnerable? Where's freedom when neither girls or boys are protected? I want to see the outcry for freedom take a minute to mention children's freedom not just birth control or the unborn.
And, worse, morality over birth control is hardly one that we should be screaming about. Why the silence about child sexual abuse across the country? Oh, yeah. I forgot about the public clamoring and political pundits sounding off until stories burn to ashes or gets archived in the computer. Or until the next story breaks. Then: Nothing's done. It suggests that we care more about unborn babies than live children who suffer at the hands of grown, rusty pedophiles. What a shame? America needs to focus on how to clean up sordid acts of violence against children.
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