Posted on 11/24/2017 3:27:39 PM PST by little jeremiah
The guys in his unit nicknamed him “Captain America” because of his gung ho attitude and actions.
You’ve met him - that’s interesting. Any personal anecdotes you can relate, post them if you want, and ping me.
I have no idea, but I’d hazard a guess - by 10%.
Actually I meant by 10 points
“Johnny Belyeu, Sr. is a former police officer with over two decades of experience with the Etowah County Sheriff’s Department and the Gadsden Police Department. He said in a statement, “I was an officer with the Etowah County Sheriff’s Department in the 1970s, which means I worked in the courthouse and knew who Roy Moore was since he was the Deputy District Attorney at the time. I was a regular customer at Olde Hickory House, and I never once saw Judge Moore come in there. If he had, I would have immediately recognized him. I also never met Beverly Nelson during any of the many times I frequented the restaurant, and I can’t say that she even worked there.”
Renee Schivera of Huntsville, Alabama stated, “I was a waitress at the Olde Hickory House during the summer of 1977, before my senior year of high school. When I heard Beverly Nelson’s story, the first thing that stuck out to me was that I don’t remember Roy Moore ever coming into the restaurant. I also don’t remember her working there. The other thing that struck me as odd is that from my best recollection, the dumpsters were to the side of the building. I just know they were visible from the road, and not back behind the building. But the main thing is that if someone came in almost every night we knew who they were, and I never saw Roy Moore there. As a Christian woman, I wouldn’t lie for anyone and I am only sharing what I know because it’s the truth.”
Did you also know he is a graduate of WEST POINT MILITARY?
AND that he has been married to the same woman for 33 years with four adult children and five grand daughters?
The media only wanted to share ‘negative’ stories and dirt on a good and honorable man...so typical of MSM...they FEAR this man...for he will assist our good POTUS, DJT and drain the swamp and stop the money gravy train...
Class and Character in a Military Officer means a lot to this wife of a Veteran ..Roy Moore prove beyond a doubt he has those two characteristics.
Maybe Yaelle has been in California too long..needs a relocation...
I found it interesting because I am sure it was a memory Laura had from childhood, that some girls that young, probably poorer girls with less options, were married off in their early teens, and that she couldn’t fathom it at that same age. I do feel that young teen girls as much as they love to play grownup really need some more parenting and nurturing and developing before they become a wife.
I had a grandmother who graduated high school at 16 and married. I know it used to be the norm. Her husband was maybe a year older though.
Are you really that stupid, or are you just pretending?
We’d have gone extinct, were everyone so frail.
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There's a biological reason for this. An older man who wants children would want a wife who was closer to the beginning of her child-bearing years, rather than at the end of her fertile years.
You are correct. Which is why it was traditional that a man gain the approval and agreement of the girl's PARENTS (who presumably WOULD have the wisdom and experience to decide if the man would be good for her) before being allowed to court her and ultimately marry her.
The current trend of women marrying later and later in life (in 1960, the median age of first marriage was 20, now it's 26), and thus having fewer children, is not good for society.
You are probably right. But life is overall longer so I can see how this all came about. Education is lasting forever instead of ending at 17. Older teen boys nor girls are not ready for responsibilities yet. And their parents can’t take over running the family compound or farm because they are at work full time still. It’s a different world.
You are correct. Which is why it was traditional that a man gain the approval and agreement of the girl's PARENTS (who presumably WOULD have the wisdom and experience to decide if the man would be good for her) before being allowed to court her and ultimately marry her.Today, we have the age of consent as 18. Maybe somewhat arbitrary, but high school girls just don’t have enough wisdom and experience to handle what thirty year old men know about sex and human relationships. - Yaelle
The current trend of women marrying later and later in life (in 1960, the median age of first marriage was 20, now it's 26), and thus having fewer children, is not good for society.
Anecdotally, the median age of first marriage seemed even lower than 20 in 1955 - seemed like every female H.S. graduate I knew in the Class of ‘55 was married before the Class of ’56 graduated.Let’s face it - “homemaker" is a trade traditionally learned under the supervision of a mentor known as “Mother.” And it is therefore understandable that a girl who expected to follow in her mother’s footsteps might consider high school as a social opportunity more than as serious preparation for life. Or was, before women stopped viewing motherhood as their life’s work. That, too, was “artificial.” The women were subject to “arbitrary” prejudice in any profession other than teacher or nurse (and the nursing profession itself is not exactly an ancient tradition, tracing back only to the Civil War era). But when there is no distinction between men and women in professions and jobs, and the man has no unique role in the economy and in the family, that creates its own problems.
Add in the occasional girl who is able to start on a Little League team (putting one boy on the bench, and knocking another one off of it) to discourage morale in the median-talented boy (who is not of course permitted to compete on the girls’ softball team) . . . If neither men nor boys are respected, what do you expect boys to learn? Can you say, “inner city?” I knew you could.
You’re hitting on a subject I’ve always been interested in. Once, it was possible for one member of a married couple to keep the home and care for the kids, on the other member’s salary. And now, both of the couple are working full time, the house goes empty and neglected, and the kids are raised by day cares and nannies who don’t speak English or even very good Spanish. And they call this “progression?”
What about churches and synagogues? Once, there was mostly male leadership in houses of worship. Then women started taking over, and the men don’t feel useful nor welcome. It’s kind of creepy to me how feminine the leadership is at reform or other liberal synagogues. Even though I am a woman, I don’t like it. It’s not a Women’s Convention where men can sit in the back. It’s phony now.
Sum Ting Wong.
Many churches had to start having women in leadership roles because there were more women congregants than men, or the men refused to serve. If there’s a qualified man who is willing to serve, that’s optimal, but churches are filled with wives whose husbands would rather go hunting or watch tv, than go to church. Same thing in the home. Nothing is more frustrating to a Christian wife, than a husband who refuses to be the spiritual head of the household. SOMEBODY has to lead, and if the man won’t, the woman has to step up.
Which came first, actually: men losing interest in churches, or churches becoming more feminist-oriented, and less fulfilling to the spiritual needs of the men?
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If more men would have been Godly leaders, there wouldn’t have been so many women in leadership roles in churches -—
regular churches, not “Feminist-oriented” churches. Those are a different animal altogether. Those types of churches are usually very liberal, and have evolved into places filled with openly gay men and lesbians, and “free-thinkers”. Read their statements of belief, and they almost always will have rejected The Apostles Creed, or have changed it to fit their apostate beliefs. They’ll also usually qualify the Bible as error-prone, instead of infallible. I’m all for gays and lesbians attending church, as long as the church doesn’t teach that it’s normal to be that way. After all, if only perfect people were welcome, they’d all be empty. I don’t have a problem with women teachers, but I don’t think women should be pastors.
I can remember, as a child, long before the feminist garbage came along, going to an Oral Roberts tent meeting. Mostly women and children present. I also remember visiting churches where few men showed up, as well as those where families, including men, worshipped together. Where I grew up, unchurched people were considered of almost a lower species. But a lot of those church-goers, men and women, went to church for social reasons. Belonging to the right church helped them along in business, kept them in the right crowd, etc. I’m sure there’s still that kind of hypocrisy in many churches, those in which all the leaders are men, as well as those with women in leadership. I just want to go to church where Jesus Christ, and Him crucified, is preached. Everything else is gravy.
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