Eagle eye, is Hitler your hero? Just checking.

You, sir, may believe this anti-Semitic crap, but I don't buy it. Yes there may be bad Jews just like there are bad people who claim to be Christian. Personally I choose to believe God's Word in Genesis 12:3, "I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you." My wife and I always pray for the peace of Jerusalem (as commanded by God) and for the protection of Israel. We want to be on God's side when He separates the goats from the sheep. Come quickly Lord Jesus!

A couple of years ago they stopped using energy and food prices when figuring the C.P.I. and the rate of inflation. It makes no sense at all except it allows the Govt. to claim inflation is much lower than it really is. It would make as much sense to not include the cost of aluminum when figuring the cost of an airplane.
Anyone who regularly goes shopping at a supermarket knows that food prices have doubled in the last five years. And energy prices have increased except for the recent dip in gasoline prices. Remember that Obama said "energy prices will necessarily have to skyrocket under my policies." I'm sure the dip in gasoline prices really burns their asses since they have repeatedly tried to keep prices high by opposing the Keystone pipeline, fracking, and coal fired power plants. Look for a big push for higher gasoline taxes while prices are down.
This unscrupulous way of figuring the C.P.I. certainly hurts those whose benefits are tied to it, especially Seniors on S.S.

My friend's son-in-law worked at a plant that was required to hire a black for every so many w****s. A new black hire was assigned to him. As he was trying to explain the job to the black man, the black said, "Look, you'd better do the work 'cause they ain't going to fire me. I'm takin' a nap!"

Alright fellas, pop open a cool one and chill out. In the words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"

That story just makes me feel really sad. Sad for the pig that is!

Amen! And every time we bow to the wishes of the Muslims it emboldens them to push for more concessions. They call this stealth jihad. This is how they plan to implement Sharia law and take over this country.
Too many of our leaders are like the proverbial frog in the pot who is cooked before he realizes what's happening.

Yep! And the weather is a little different every day. I guess that's cause for alarm. (lol)

I've noted that some of the meteorologists that I trust the most say that the whole G****l W*****g/C*****e C****e thing is a h**x. And I think that "97% of all scientists agree with it" is a fabricated figure they throw around trying to convince us that it is true. Where is this poll? Probably taken from the Society of Left Wing Scientists.

Yes, the Left always preaches tolerance. But in reality their tolerance only extends as far as you agree with them. They remind me of the puppeteer Jeff Dunham's puppet Achmed the Terrorist whose answer to most situations is, "I k**l you!"

You say that these students are the sons and daughters of someone , someone who taught them that they are right and everyone else is wrong etc.

But I wonder if parents don't often drop the ball when it comes to teaching our children what we really believe. Perhaps we think that our ideals are absorbed by osmosis. Perhaps we think our college children are learning what we did when we went to college. You know we were taught that the U.S. was a great country founded by honorable, idealistic men of faith. But we forget that the hippy, bomb throwing radicals of the Sixties are the revered professors of today like Ayers and Dohrn. They teach our children that our country is terrible with no redeeming value. They are taught ideals that may be abhorrent to us. Then we wonder why our students say the things they do?

This was brought home to me when my son was ranting about how terrible pollution is today. I told him that when I was young several rivers where I grew up were so polluted by mine drainage and human waste that there were no fish in them and that you wouldn't think about swimming in them. I believe it was the Cuyahoga River in Ohio that was so polluted with volatile waste products that it had been ignited and was on fire. I explained to my son that these rivers had been cleaned up by building sewage treatment plants, curtailing mine drainage and industrial waste being dumped into the rivers. I don't know about the Cuyahoga, but now there are fish and you can swim and boat in the rivers where I grew up. I told him that pollution today is nothing like it was fifty years ago. He seemed surprised.
It amuses me that students protest Capitalism, but it is because of Capitalism that their parents are able to afford to pay for college and let their children enjoy their lifestyle. I wonder if those patents cut the purse strings how it would change their children's tune?
So I believe parents need to be more vocal in expressing their beliefs and why they hold those beliefs. They need to warn their children that they are going to hear many ideas that are contrary to what their parents believe. Tell them that just because an idea is expressed by a professor it doesn't necessarily mean that is correct or true. They need to be taught to think for themselves and to question what they may be taught in college. Otherwise they will become little parrots regurgitating what they hear their professors say.

After secession the South actually precipitated the war by firing on the Federal Fort Sumpter in Charleston Harbor, SC.

Awww! Don't be so hard on the Caddys. Over twenty years ago my Caddy got 25 mpg on a trip while my 4 cyl Ford Tempo got 26 mpg on the same trip. The Caddy was 8 cyl and out weighed the Tempo by half a ton. My current '05 Deville gets 20-22 mpg locally and 26 mpg on a trip.
BUT, in 1967 I had a 4 cyl Renault R-10 that got 35 mpg on a trip. No one believed me. It had a 4 speed, Michelins, and rack and pinion. Handled like a sports car.

"I'm so wet! Give it to me now!"

I thought it was going to be an illegal demanding a Green Card.

I'd v**e for Fred Reed!

Why don't the b****s demand r********ns from the Muslims who captured them and sold them into s***ery???

PoppaGringo
Hmmmm! Way too close to home!

[quote=grace scott]You paint a very dismal picture. My social security check is gone, my pension check is gone; and I am left with the 3rd leg of my retirement stool. Except for a new kitchen and new bathrooms, I haven't touched it. It would last a few years, but no more eating out. I would have to relearn to cook, which I h**e to do. I would have to cut my own grass, and do my own minor repairs. At one time my husband traveled, and I knew how to do a lot of things, but I have forgotten. Some of us old folks would survive, but I wonder about my son and step daughter. Brrrr I refuse to think about it.
At least I have done a better job of managing my finances than the government has done.

Yes, it would be a dismal picture. The elderly would be at risk because many are no longer able to work to provide for themselves. They would be more vulnerable to marauding bands of thieves. They would be more at risk than the young if healthcare and medication was interrupted. And I am in the same boat. We probably have close to a year's supply of food, seeds to plant a garden, and means of protection. We have tried to prepare if things get crazy. But we continue to pray that the country changes course, and we pray for the soon return of our Lord Jesus!