AuntiE Loc: 45th Least Free State

Dukes!

Bassman65

My wife is from Georgia, Her potato salad and coleslaw are superb, plus she makes a killer pound cake.

Steven smith

I close my eyes when on the mayo isle in the grocery store. Can’t bear to look at hellmans. But yes it probably is darker.

Parky60 Loc: People's Republic of Illinois

Yep... I like a little fish with my tartar sauce.

Radiance3

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Your statements are all relevant to events happening right now Auntie. Majority seems rapidly turning to the negative ways.

The children's Public School educational system is so degraded but emphasizes more on the immoralities and their sexuality.
Adults, and parents lack support to raising their children to a productive adulthood with morals, ethics, and most of all faith in God. Thus, immoralities are so pervasive among them. Atheist population grow faster.

Our Democrat leaders don't care. Fact is they cater to these kinds of behavior. No other purpose but feel good for them to aggrandize power to keep.

Steven smith

CounterRevolutionary

Actually, what you write is not true, even though you hope it is true.

The public is taking such a swing to the right against Common Core and Arne Duncan's destruction of education, that home schooling is becoming the norm. Trump will totally shut down the US Dept. of Education and advocate for school choice and vouchers.

The government will not steal our children. Parents will take apprenticeships and trade schools any day over commie indoctrination of their children.

This CRAP of teaching children to "share" amongst everybody, including parasites who suck off the state, when most people are capable of pulling their own weight, has to end. We trade amongst each-other and only rightfully offer charity to cripples.

Pick up a newspaper and get a job, Radiance.

jSmitty45 Loc: Fl born, lived in Texas 30 yrs, now Louisiana

You are so right. Abandoning God is the worse thing happening in the USA. I can’t believe the things I see, and hear. The kids today are so disrespectful toward their parents, grandparents, and those in authority over them.
My own grandson is part of this group, very cruel, no respect. I told him he better be glad he didn’t have my dad
as his father, he would have a belt on his bottom, and soap in his mouth. Most teens today worship these entertainers like Swift, Brianna, heavy metal bands, etc. so sad to see this happening. All the stealing going on,
drugs, letting these illegals in, bringing fentanyl and slipping some in pot, and other drugs, killing people.
I believe that our time here is most up. I don’t think God is real happy with us right now, and I don’t see us turning back to him, I see us having more of satan’s rule. We need to reverse this, and turn back to God, or we will lose our country.

Va21

Agreed!

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

The way things are going; It may not be that long away for Christ's second coming.
The physical signs keep on happening.

Earthquakes in diverse places for starters.

straightUp Loc: California

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.

eagleye13 Loc: Fl

Well here is my take. Liberals are in control of our education organizations. One of the planks of Carl Marx;s Communist Manifesto

Steven smith

I tend to agree with your response.
I did ask a wide open question.

straightUp Loc: California

This "problem" is most evident in black neighborhoods where males are often incarcerated for minor crimes that while males are only cited for. For instance, possession of weed. This has always been an intentional pattern that helps keep the black people down. The left keeps trying to solve this but the right doesn't want to change that pattern. Another factor is the divorce rate, which doesn't have to be that big of an issue as divorced parents can still spend time with their children. But there is another problem permitted by "pro-business" conservatives, and that is the hesitation to protect the interests of the working class. This has led to decades of stagnant wages and fewer benefits and eventually to the current state where single-income families are no longer possible.


Absolutely! Once again the result of "pro-business" conservative influence on politics. That electronic technology is the product of commercial trade that will fight against any effort to limit their influence on the market while also pushing their workers to work more hours for less pay to make more electronic stuff to sell. This results in children who's parents are too busy being corporate slaves to be around, filling in the space with consumer electronics.

This is not a new problem either... I did a research paper 30 years ago that compared the crusade for family values in America to France. I found that in France, family values were upheld by allowing families to actually spend more time together, which is why French families take more vacations together. In America, every last crusade for family values was obsessed with what children are exposed to on TV. This makes sense because in America, pro-business conservatism preserves the right for a business to keep family members at work for as much time as possible, leaving a lot of American kids in the company of the new American nanny... the television.


That's just a negative way to look at secularism. The truth is, you can still be a religious person in a public space, you just can't force other people to comply with your dogma. If you think that's what religion should do, I would say you have a problem. Otherwise, there really isn't anything religion can't do in a public that it CAN do in a private space.


Agreed.


No, it doesn't. The problem is that our kids are in public school for 12 years. That's a long time to limit their education to the basics of how to function as a cog in a machine. When kids reach their adolescents years, they naturally become more curious about how to live in a human society... or shall we just say, social issues. The problem is that a lot of parents who are socially dysfunctional get freaked out about their kids learning how to do better.


Too bad, I would love to hear what you have to say about sexual immortality... Immortality being the continuation of a person's existence beyond death. I didn't know there was a sexual aspect to that.


Yeah, that last one matters nil to me. When I started working at a major financial firm in PA a few years back it was after they finally relaxed their dress code because they couldn't retain their best engineers while they were forcing them to wear ties.

Dress codes are dishonest veneers that fail to reflect the true character of the person you are dealing with. I still wear a tie when I attend professional events but that's because it's a true reflection of the respect I have for the context, not because someone is forcing me to hide who I really am.

I would rather live in a world of honest people where judgement is based on their merits, rather than a world of fakes where judgement is based on their outward appearance. Notice how slimy salesmen and sleazy lawyers all wear suits? There's a reason for that.

straightUp Loc: California

Thought provoking nevertheless.