Now let me see if I have this right.

There's no guidance or discipline in the home. The family situation is so unstable, 'Junior' doesn't even know where or to whom to send a Father's Day card.

Junior gets dumped into the education system where he is socially promoted because the overwhelmed school district can't deal with the undisciplined whelp. Junior's major formative influences are 'gangsta' rap videos and a corresponding peer group of gangsta wannabes.

At age 18, Junior is turned loose on society carrying a bad attitude, a broken compass and little respect for authority. Junior gets himself in big trouble with the law and meets dire consequences.

Then, the situation diagnosis is that the police need more training and understanding?

Pardon me for asking, but do you really believe this bulls**t?

Free people are not equal. Equal people are not free. "A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll probably never need one again."
The definition of the word Conundrum is: something that is puzzling or confusing.

Here are six Conundrums of Socialism in the United States of America :

1. America is capitalist and greedy - yet half of the population is subsidized.

2. Half of the population is subsidized - yet they think they are victims.

3. They think they are victims - yet their representatives run the government.

4. Their representatives run the government - yet the poor keep getting poorer.

5. The poor keep getting poorer - yet they have things that people in other countries only dream about.

6. They have things that people in other countries only dream about - yet they want America to be more like those other countries.

Think about it! And that, my friends, pretty much sums up the USA in the 21st Century. Makes you wonder who is doing the math.

These three, short sentences tell you a lot about the direction of our current government and cultural environment :

1. We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.

Funny how that works. And here's another one worth considering...

2. Seems we constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. But we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money? What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the second didn't.

Think about it.....and Last but not least:

3. Why are we cutting benefits for our veterans, no pay raises for our military and cutting our army but we are not stopping the payments or benefits to i*****l a***ns?

Am I the only one missing something?

fiatlux thats a very broad general statement.

The problem is, that neither party will talk about the issues and have a true civil conversation or a debate on many subjects.

The Constitution was founded and were well thought out to limit the power, of presidents, parties or individuals.

Where have the courts weighed in on this issues, Partisan Politic's and political appointees.

So the political discourse is:

Democrat = Liberal 10%

Republican = Conservative 10 %

indépendant = ? 10 %

No political affiliation, non v**er ? 70 %

I'm an indépendant conservative Constitutionalist.

If you want change to the law, use the Constitution for the guideline and the debate process. Not this watered down version of the Constitution.

Even the Constitution was amended and repealed on occasion.

Yes a consensus is usually best, but they will not budge from their ideology and personal opinions and even come up with a consensus.

Your thoughts ?

No healing of a conservative or his ideology is necessary. There is one big difference between name-calling from the right and name-calling from the left. When we on the right, call you 'scum', 'psychopaths', liars, c***ters and thieves, and maybe even murderers we do so with honesty and integrity because honesty, integrity and having character is what the right stands for, is all about, and what are the prime values for conservatives. When liberals say such things against the right they are just following Saul Alinsky's rules to "Call them what you are & accuse them of doing what you do" because the unscrupulous dishonest tactics of Alinsky's rules of how to gain power are all built on deceit. Saul Alinsky's community organizer's handbook Rules for Radicals is something that only the dishonest & degenerate losers of the Left, who believe "might makes right" & that "the ends justify the means" would want to use. And yet the l*****t scum, in their self-delusion, are always arrogantly and narcissistically trying to claim the moral high ground.
You people of the left must admit you have nearly all of societies unproductive complaining malcontents, criminally minded degenerates and uneducated low information v**ers on Your side. They are like the mean kids in grade school who pick on the intelligent polite child who dresses neatly. I see their nitwittery as being like the rebellious teenager who thinks he knows more than his parents or the criminal who thinks he's smarter than the cops. The liberals say t***h isn't knowable since everything is relative and besides we all are too culturally and ideologically biased to know t***h. They say this because if there is no more absolute right, or absolute wrong, well then anything is acceptable, like knowingly lying, abusing power and corruption, any and everything is just fine, because the ends justify the means, it's the hallmark of not only moral tyranny, but all tyranny. It should make even them wonder what will be the character of their l*****t utopia when it is born out of deceit. They even play with the language, excusing evil and degeneracy by using words that elicit sympathy. - A degenerate who, through his own choices in life, has become a bum has now become worthy of your sympathy as a "homeless person". But would a liberal ever think of teaching morals, ethics, values, personal responsibility, personal accountability, honesty and discipline to fight poverty ??? Hell no he wouldn't. Instead the liberal teaches him that he is a victim who is deliberately being oppressed and held back, but not to worry, the liberal is there to give him entitlements.

The left is trying to scrub America clean of her Judeo-Christian, constitutional-republican founding principles. In the process the left is unwittingly taking us down a path to self destruction in their effort to bring about their l*****t utopia. The conservative idea is that government should keep out of our lives. It is based on the idea that we have free will and that means that we make choices that lead to the level of success we achieve and who and what we will become in life according to our values, ambition, drive, creativity, talent, intelligence and wisdom. The agenda of the left crushes entrepreneurship, stifles incentive and encourages an entitlement mentality; encouraging you to believe you are a victim or oppressed and the government is there to help you. The purpose for this is to assist the government in amassing ever increasing power by appealing to an increasingly degenerate populous with entitlements until the conservatives lose all power forever leaving a l*****t elite to have their way with society. (Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely) This is why we are now hearing so much negativity towards the conservatives, the capitalists and the Christian. The left has to turn them into the enemy and they do so with such noble sounding things as social justice, economic justice and political correctness. The purpose of all this is to assist the government in amassing ever increasing power , as well as developing hatred for the conservatives by making unfair judgments against conservatives and their values. The liberals penalize the productive to redistribute to the lazy and incompetent (yes, some people need and deserve assistance) The view of the left is that conservatives are mean-spirited h**eful r****ts and bigots, stupid, selfish, and greedy war mongers; NONE of which is true. And neither is what the liberals believe of themselves true.

Following is yet another essay from Dr. Williams posted in Townhall.com - He'll be called an Uncle Tom - an Oreo - t*****r to his race and many other slurs, but few will deal with the facts he states or the issues he raises - those are far too dangerous to the Democrat Party whose dependency on minority v**es requires minorities to never consider such information.


"Hustlers and people with little understanding want us to believe that today's black problems are the continuing result of a legacy of s***ery, poverty and racial discrimination. The fact is that most of the social pathology seen in poor black neighborhoods is entirely new in black history. Let's look at some of it.

Today the overwhelming majority of black children are raised in single female-headed families. As early as the 1880s, three-quarters of black families were two-parent. In 1925 New York City, 85 percent of black families were two-parent. One study of 19th-century s***e families found that in up to three-fourths of the families, all the children had the same mother and father.

Today's black illegitimacy rate of nearly 75 percent is also entirely new. In 1940, black illegitimacy stood at 14 percent. It had risen to 25 percent by 1965, when Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote "The Negro Family: The Case for National Action" and was widely condemned as a r****t. By 1980, the black illegitimacy rate had more than doubled, to 56 percent, and it has been growing since. Both during s***ery and as late as 1920, a teenage girl raising a child without a man present was rare among b****s.

Much of today's pathology seen among many b****s is an outgrowth of the welfare state that has made self-destructive behavior less costly for the individual. Having children without the benefit of marriage is less burdensome if the mother receives housing subsidies, welfare payments and food stamps. Plus, the social stigma associated with unwed motherhood has vanished. Female-headed households, whether black or white, are a ticket for dependency and all of its associated problems. Ignored in all discussions is the fact that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits since 1994.

Black youth unemployment in some cities is over 50 percent. But high black youth unemployment is also new. In 1948, the unemployment rate for black teens was slightly less than that of their white counterparts -- 9.4 percent compared with 10.2. During that same period, black youths were either just as active in the labor force or more so than white youths. Since the 1960s, both the labor force participation rate and the employment rate of black youths have fallen to what they are today. Why? Are employers more racially discriminatory today than yesteryear? Were black youths of yesteryear more sk**led than w****s of yesteryear? The answer to both questions is a big fat no.

The minimum wage law and other labor regulations have cut off the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Put yourself in the place of an employer, and ask: If I must pay $7.25 an hour -- plus mandated fringes, such as Social Security and workers' compensation -- would it pay me to hire a worker who is so unfortunate as to possess sk**ls that enable him to produce only $5 worth of value per hour? Most employers view that as a losing economic proposition. Thus, the minimum wage law discriminates against the employment of low-sk**led workers, who are most often youths -- particularly black youths.

The little bit of money a teenager can earn through after-school, weekend and summer employment is not nearly so important as the other things he gains from early work experiences. He acquires sk**ls and develops good work habits, such as being prompt, following orders and respecting supervisors. In addition, there are the self-respect and p***e that a youngster gains from being financially semi-independent. All of these gains from early work experiences are important for any teen but are even more important for black teens. If black teens are going to learn anything that will make them a more valuable employee in the future, they aren't going to learn it from their rotten schools, their dysfunctional families or their crime-ridden neighborhoods. They must learn it on the job.

The bulk of today's problems for many b****s are a result of politicians and civil rights organizations using government in the name of helping b****s when in fact they are serving the purposes of powerful interest groups."