Posted on 07/03/2006 12:04:46 PM PDT by screamradish
You don't suppose Reid and Pelosi ever heard of this guy, do ya?
Wow, nice photo!
The right to keep and bear arms.
A story has it that a wealthy Brit was travelling through Texas in the 19th century, considering an investment in land. He came upon a man working in the fields, approached him, and said "I say, can you tell me where I might find your master?"
The man looked him in the eye replying, "That bastard h'ain't been born yet."
Boy is this ever true. I just hired a day laborer to do some weed-eating and hedge trimming. I hoped he'd come in the morning when the neighbors are gone because it is seen as wimpy behavior here to hire someone to do your own yard work instead of doing it yourself.
Unless you lucked out and found a conservative, patriotic teacher, the odds would stink.
Excellent piece and nice to read on the Fourth of July.
Nice.
But hey, at least they "support the troops". (massive sarcasm)
I just love your posts.
D'Souza gets a lot of things right in this article, but he missed badly on this one. The Founders knew that the success of America depends on its moral foundations.
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other. -- John Adams
D'Souza correctly points out numerous good things about America, but at the same time he fails to point out that many of those things are under attack from within, precisely because the "moral and religious" foundation of America has been greatly weakened.
To reduce America to a place of better financial transactions (as he seems often to do here) is to miss the real point of America.
Hey! Alaska is laying on Wisconsin...and I'm NOT that kind of girl, LOL! ;)
My favorite conversation stopper: Ask a Frenchman "Sprechinze Deutch?" and when he says "non!", tell him "You're welcome!" Free Republic is a wonderful example of America's return to it's roots. I tell people that a hundred years ago, men in bars would get in fist-fights over politics, and it was better than now, when so few know absolutely nothing about how and why they are governed, and seem to think that the Holy God of Tolerance is an excuse to have no opinion. At one time, everyone who could afford to could put out a pamphlet on what they believed to be true, and sway their village for the better. With the advent of the Internet, we've returned to that. No longer is the public discussion of ideas determined by liberal anchormen who opened and closed the floodgate of discussion. Today, everyone has a printing press that reaches the world! What better arguement for (representative!) democracy and the flow of ideas!
Vist http://my.ohio.voyager.net/~abartmes for outdated pictures of my family and interesting oddities.
Great link, thanks.
By Robert Rector
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----------------------------------------- Mr. Rector is senior policy analyst for welfare and poverty issues at the Heritage Foundation.
Today the Census Bureau releases its annual report on income and poverty in the U.S. As it has for many years, the report will show more than 30 million Americans "living in poverty." But a close look at the actual living standards of people defined as "poor" shows that the Census Bureau's report is misleading.
For most of us, the word poverty suggests destitution: the inability to provide a family with adequate food, clothing and shelter. But only a small number of the 30 million plus people classified as "poor" by the Census Bureau fit this description. Although real material hardship does occur in America, it is rare. The bulk of the "poor" live in material conditions considered comfortable or even well-off just a few generations ago. Indeed, total spending per person among the lowest-income one-fifth of households actually equals those of the average American household in the early 1970s--after adjusting for inflation.
How poor are the "poor"? Consider the following statistics, all drawn from federal government reports:
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In 1995, 41% of all poor households owned their own homes. The average home owned by a poor person has three bedrooms, 11/2 baths, a garage and a porch or patio.
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