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Apr 24, 2024 00:21:22   #
AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State
 
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
Should senior citizens with the advantage of the 3Rs tutor our grandchildren for free?


Yes.

Should retirees, who have fully qualified in defensive shooting, be allowed to volunteer as guards in schools?

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Apr 24, 2024 00:26:40   #
Lily
 
AuntiE wrote:
Yes.

Should retirees, who have fully qualified in defensive shooting, be allowed to volunteer as guards in schools?


Yes.

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Apr 24, 2024 01:11:06   #
straightUp Loc: California
 
Steven smith wrote:
I could take time to offer some insight into what you stated about my post so I will boil it down to the essence of all of this political rhetoric.
Our country has left its roots and no longer has an anchor to survive the storms on the way. Sure there are millions who believe in constitutional government as it was written. In the end they will survive because they have an anchor in something more than man’s ideologies. I propose that the anchor is the Bible with Jesus Christ as preeminent above all. This will all end as the Bible states no more no less.
That’s my view and I hope God gives me the strength to live up to what I have stated.
I could take time to offer some insight into what ... (show quote)

Well, that has absolutely nothing to do with what I said about your accusations but maybe you were biting off more than you can chew. I often see baseless accusations about "liberals" and when I question them, it's pretty common for the accuser to back off and resort to wide sweeping generalizations.

But there's an interesting conversation to be had here, given what you said.

You emphasize a need for an anchor that takes a more "substantial" form than what is merely man's ideologies. I'm not sure how our Constitution qualifies in that respect. The Constitution is literally a set of rules for creating and limiting a government.

For a culture that emphasizes a small government, it seems odd how it also seems to insist that the government should be a throne for such expansive authority over our lives.

I prefer the idea of keeping the government focused on statutory issues and letting communities guide their own flocks in their own way.

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Apr 24, 2024 01:12:04   #
CounterRevolutionary
 
AuntiE wrote:
Yes.

Should retirees, who have fully qualified in defensive shooting, be allowed to volunteer as guards in schools?


Of course we should, but what a tragic state of affairs.

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Apr 24, 2024 02:41:03   #
AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State
 
CounterRevolutionary wrote:
Of course we should, but what a tragic state of affairs.


I shall refrain from one of my diatribes on law enforcement’s contribution to said ”tragic state of affairs”.

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Apr 24, 2024 04:27:04   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
AuntiE wrote:
But the question becomes, who makes the potato salad in your house?


Mostly me.

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Apr 24, 2024 04:29:40   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
AuntiE wrote:
Yes.

Should retirees, who have fully qualified in defensive shooting, be allowed to volunteer as guards in schools?


You mean like former MPs who repeatedly qualified as expert pistol/rifle and have actually been in a shooting fight?

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Apr 24, 2024 04:40:11   #
Knightlady
 
Steven smith wrote:
You are what is known as a classy lady.
I wish the world had a lot more women like you.


Well, darn. I wear sweats and a t-shirt to a physicians office.

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Apr 24, 2024 04:40:12   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
straightUp wrote:
Well, you bring up three points...

1. There is going to be a reckoning in the United States.
What exactly do you mean by a reckoning? 'Cause that can mean a LOT of different things. Take the gentrification that's sweeping the major cities today as an example. That is a form of reckoning resulting from a failure to provide our children with decent education. They grow up into young adults that can't compete with the immigrants that are taking top notch jobs in these cities. As this happens the immigrants are creating a demand on housing that lesser-qualified Americans can no longer afford and they are being pushed to the streets.

2. There is so much immorality.
Again, you're not being specific so I'll continue with my example. Pride and greed are examples of immorality that have allowed us to fail our younger generation. The greed that compels us to NOT spend money on education and the pride that precludes us from understanding the consequence or from taking any responsibility for it.

3. Half the country could care less.
I don't actually know the ratio but it makes sense, given the cultural divide that for every concern raised on either side of that divide, there is a large number of people on the other side, that could care less.
Well, you bring up three points... br br 1. There... (show quote)


There was nothing wrong with our education until Carter decided to foist a brand new bureaucracy, the Department of Ejuhmuhkashun on this country. Now, foreign students come to this country to major in the Sciences while US students get degrees in "Gender Studies" and expect someone else to pay for it.
Failing grades are not given to failing students because of "racism." Math, English and History are no longer emphasized for the same ridiculous catch all excuse. Kids graduate high school today with what would have been considered a mediocre 7th or 8th grade education in the early seventies when I finished high school. Throwing more money at it is not the solution. Lowering educational standards is like sanctifying the pigpen.

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Apr 24, 2024 04:45:24   #
Smedley_buzkill
 
AuntiE wrote:
I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You were supposed to have come with one as standard equipment. LOL I am one of those fortunate people who drink so much coffee it's actually a soporific.

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Apr 24, 2024 06:47:52   #
jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
 
Steven smith wrote:
My wife tends to be an insomniac. I tell her to work harder during the day so she will be tired and sleep better at night.
I have regretted that statement and will never say that again!!!!!


Best you not.

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Apr 24, 2024 06:51:40   #
jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
 
AuntiE wrote:
I do understand saying work harder. For most people, that would work. Unfortunately, for a group of us, it completely ramps up our system making it harder to sleep. Then you add trying to sleep, cannot and here comes another keep you awake thing. Melatonin use to help; however, am now immune to it.

I must find the joke about the retired man offering his wife advice on how to accomplish her chores.


I am too, took it for a long time. I haven’t slept well for years. I take my Kindle to bed, and read, it does help me sometimes. But I wake up during the night, and grab it again. I do my treadmill for an hour 5 times a week, that helps some.

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Apr 24, 2024 06:52:27   #
jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana
 
AuntiE wrote:
I want one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Me too.

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Apr 24, 2024 06:52:31   #
AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State
 
Smedley_buzkill wrote:
You mean like former MPs who repeatedly qualified as expert pistol/rifle and have actually been in a shooting fight?


Yes!

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Apr 24, 2024 06:54:23   #
AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State
 
Smedley_buzkill wrote:
There was nothing wrong with our education until Carter decided to foist a brand new bureaucracy, the Department of Ejuhmuhkashun on this country. Now, foreign students come to this country to major in the Sciences while US students get degrees in "Gender Studies" and expect someone else to pay for it.
Failing grades are not given to failing students because of "racism." Math, English and History are no longer emphasized for the same ridiculous catch all excuse. Kids graduate high school today with what would have been considered a mediocre 7th or 8th grade education in the early seventies when I finished high school. Throwing more money at it is not the solution. Lowering educational standards is like sanctifying the pigpen.
There was nothing wrong with our education until C... (show quote)


What on earth are we going to do about you? When will you learn such failures are verboten to mention!

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