"Hate My Father??? NO, MA'AM!!!"

Glenn J. Sacks ^ | April 8, 2002 | Glenn J. Sacks

[The Giant Apricots]

Glenn has a LOT of great articles on fatherhood, what it means, how it should be treated. Check out his website, and other articles.

[SBeck]

All of them have been forgotten, in part because there is no natural constituency which would like to remember them--the right generally does not dwell on yesterday's struggling blue collar workers and heroic union men

I'd rephrase that to say that the baby-boomer right rather than the right in general.

[The Giant Apricots]

That's true. Conservative should mean conservative-populist, for the hard-working grassroots folks.

[browardchad]

the right generally does not dwell on yesterday's struggling blue collar workers

This right does -- maybe more rights should.

[The Giant Apricots]

This right does -- maybe more rights should.

I agree. In principle, and due to pragmatism: with all the RINO demands that Republicans should go hard-left on moral issues, appealing to average-joe worker interests would draw a lot more votes. The Republican Party lets it self be cast as the party of Ivy League elitists.

[thrcanbonly1]

The university professor began the first class of the semester by announcing that she was an "anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist Marxist-feminist."

Is that the same as a "Bull dike commie whore traitor?"

[The Giant Apricots]

The phrases are, indeed, synonymous.

[linuxnut]

A few years back, looking at the crop of baby-boomers growing up, I opined that we are in for one hell of a ride as the sixties generation became old enough to be in positions of power. Now all we have to do is hold on for a decade or two until they die off and become old social security addicts. Honestly, I never thought it would be this bad....

[The Giant Apricots]

Now all we have to do is hold on for a decade or two until they die off and become old social security addicts.

Consider though that they are incubating a new phalanx of feminazi ideologues in the schools/colleges...

[Howie66]

My maternal Grandfather joined the Navy on 8 December 1941. Although he was married, the father of 4 with #5 on the way and 37 years old, he managed to persude the Navy to sign him up. He sent his tour in the Navy with the SeaBees building airstrips, hopping from one God-forsaken island to the next. The guys that served with him called him "Pappy". I was fortunate enough to have had him around throughout my early and formative years. He joined the Lord when I was 13 years old. I still miss the man, sorely. I just pray that Grandpa is as proud of our country now, as he was then.

I'd suggest that the so-called "professor" take a "sabatical" at a neighborhood mental health facility, and learn to deal with whatever the hell it is that has her panties in a wad. Failing that, I'm more than willing to help her relocate to a place that would be more conforming to her outlook, such as Saudi Arabia.

[higgmeister]

Edited out of our history are the tragedies of millions of American men who were killed or maimed on what early
trade unionists called the "battlefield of labor."  The miners who died in cave-ins, explosions, or of black lung
disease.  The sailors and fisherman who died at sea. The oil refinery workers killed in explosions. The factory
workers killed in industrial accidents. The construction workers who died carving train tracks and then highways
through majestic mountain cliffs or the scorching desert.  The construction workers who died building our
bridges, dams, high rises, stadiums, and apartments. >>>>>>>

(Reprinted with the permission of SheThinks.org, a publication of the Independent Women's Forum)
 
 

Shouldn't that read;  a publication of the Ignorant COMMUNIST Women's Forum

Those evil business men that created jobs for people to earn money at the risk of their lives should have been shot!
Those Robber Barons giving people the ability to put food on their tables and a roof over their heads in exchange for
the possibility they could die on the job instead of death from Tuberculosis or Yellow Fever or Dysentery or even Starvation from lack of work.  Who did they think they were!

 </sarcasm>

Noble Builders of Human Civilization!

[The_Expatriate]

she added "Kill is too strong. Hate your fathers, not your mothers."

Now, now, that's not very Christian of you; Jesus wants you to hate your mother, too.

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." (Luke 14:26)

"I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household." (Matthew 10:35-36)

[WFTR]

The differences between "the right" and the blue-collar union-types go both ways. I'm an engineer, and I've generally been lucky not to have problems with unions. However, things I've experienced and heard from others have justified a distrust and dislike of strong union sentiment.

When I was a graduate student, I needed a great deal of repetitious glasswork done for my thesis research. We had one glassblower for the entire college and just enough work to keep him busy. My work would not justify hiring a second glassblower, but it would take much of his time. Furthermore, waiting for him to do my work delayed my experiments.

At one point, he offered to show me how to do the work myself. This arrangement was great for both of us. It kept him from having to do a boring repetitious job. It allowed him to keep his other customers happy because he wasn't delayed with my work. It allowed me to have my samples done more quickly. It also provided an opportunity for me to enhance my education with some hands-on work with the glass-blowing equipment. The situation was a win/win situation.

Unfortunately, someone in the union complained. The union idiot said that it violated some rule for me to be allowed to use the tools in the glass shop. While I could almost understand this concern if I were endangering a union job, I wasn't endangering anyone's job. I was simply getting things accomplished.

I've heard similar stories from others. There have been cases where a light bulb burnt out in someone's office and the union light bulb changer didn't change it for several days. When the person in the office bought a bulb and changed it himself, the union filed a grievance. Expecting someone to sit in the dark until some union idiot has time to change a light bulb is not reasonable.

Undoubtedly, the blue-collar men of the past faced tremendous challenges and bore heavy burdens to make this country strong and get things accomplished. Reforms to improve their situations were warranted. However, there are many people today hiding their own laziness and lack of initiative in union rules that don't allow their employers to fire them or even to reward other workers who are willing to work hard and accomplish things.

Maybe we can't protect ourselves against every lazy idiot who gets on the board of directors and receives huge compensation for doing nothing. However, adding the burden of thousands of lazy idiots who take the lowest union jobs and still receive compensation for doing nothing only increases the burden of the modern worker both union and non-union. The good blue-collar workers would find more friends on the right if they would help us to escape the burden of bad union workers. Likewise, if they know how to help us escape the burden of white-collar lazy idiots without instituting socialism, we are with them.

WFTR
Bill

[ctonious]

A few years back, looking at the crop of baby-boomers growing up, I opined that we are in for one hell of a ride as the sixties generation became old enough to be in positions of power. Now all we have to do is hold on for a decade or two until they die off and become old social security addicts. Honestly, I never thought it would be this bad....

I've thought the same thing. The thing is, they'd better watch it, as the stupid things they continue to do will affect their Social Security retirement. Either indirectly or as just desserts.

[Congressman Billybob]

The Independent Women's Forum publishes some excellent work, like this article. They did the study that became one-third of my latest column, second link below.

Congressman Billybob

Click here to fight Shays-Meehan.

Latest: "This Column is About Truth."

[The Giant Apricots]

The IWF is very cool.

[The Giant Apricots]

Good points. I want a populism that stands up for the average working person, while avoiding pandering to the lowest common denominator, as for example the NEA and AFT do. It's an interesting balance to strike, but one very worth pursuing.

[concerned about politics]

"Honor thy father and mother."

Opps. I forget God is not allowed in the public schools. Never mind. Satan controls that area.

[browardchad]

Note that I didn't include "and heroic union men." I agree with your points about unionism -- while yesterday's "heroic union men (and women)" were struggling against life-threatening conditions, the movement has outlived its usefulness to become a socialist entity.

My point is that Republicans are perceived as upper-class white-collar workers, and often act as such. It's time to rework that image, but certainly not by coddling unions.

[Happygal]

anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist Marxist-feminist

That's one heck of a way of saying lesbian! *L*