What I Saw at the Obama Revolution

Pajamas Media ^ | November 6, 2008 | Rick Moran

[Betty Jane]

When I was young, I would go to Catechism classes at someone's house once a week. All the Catholic kids in my grade in the neighborhood went there. It was taught by a mom. My brothers and sisters went to someone else's house.

I offer this as a preface to an idea. We should do this with middle and high school kids. Start with your kids and a couple of their friends. Teach the founding principals, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Teach about the hero's of American History. If many of us started small groups like this, it would have an effect.

[Scotswife]

That’s how they ran youth group when I was a kid.

A group of 5 -10 couples would volunteer their sunday evenings throughout the school year and choose a topic.

Kids were broken up into groups and rotated among the different homes until everyone got the various lessons.

It was nice - parents only had to learn one lesson plan.
Kids didn’t get bored with one leader.
Nice social gatherings.

It fell through when the diocese decided that anyone working with the youth had to get a certificate from the diocesan seminary. Which - btw- is a hotbet for heterodoxy.

[cajungirl]

black dresses for little girls are “in”,,I have a six year old who has a black velvet party dress and she looks wonderful in it.

I was surprised at that trend but since seeing it on some girls, it works.

I thought Michelle was trying to have the same color on as both kids or vice versa. The red middle made her look pregnant and I kept saying “is she pregnant”,,she has as big stomach and sometimes it sticks out. But the dress wasn’t as bad as the fashionistas say.

[Mac from Cleveland]

I’m 48, and I’m still good at calculating percentages. Here goes:

Your post is 100% correct. Every word.

[pepperdog]

I think you are too hard on the parents. I would like for all children to be informed and shaped by their parents. But I know a bunch of good parents who have scrimped and done without to send their children on to higher education only to discover during this election that the kids are Socialists. These are not parents who ignored their children, didn’t take them to church etc. The educated children now view their parents as ignorant and the kids know what’s best. It was the educational system that did it, along with the other things you mentioned. If we don’t take back the schools, and I haven’t a clue as to how you do this, we will never have our freedoms again. JMHO.

[Miss Behave]

Yes, I agree that they are “in,” but not traditional, not in this setting, and not at night, outside. (As would also be choosing black attendants’ dresses for an outside, night wedding.) Just as Michelle’s dress was so situationally wrong.

[upchuck]

Excellent.

BUMP!

[greyfoxx39]

Black and red bisected symbolism

The red-and-black flag is the symbol of the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist movements.

Black is the traditional color of anarchism, and red is the traditional color of socialism. The red-and-black flag combines the two colors in equal parts, with a simple diagonal split. Typically, the red section is placed on the top-left corner, with the black on the bottom-right corner of the flag.

This symbolizes the co-existence of anarchist and socialist ideals within the anarcho-syndicalism movement, and to symbolize the more socialistic means of the movement leading to a more anarchistic end.

 

Anarchist symbolism

[Miss Behave]

Any of the most savvy stylists and fashionistas worth their money would collectively groan at the mother's choice.

Michelle took a little knowledge of current trends and ran with it...in the wrong direction.

[hop1ite]

Public education trains the shallow to conflate feeling with thinking - to the Republic's detriment.

Such teachers should read Death By Government by R.J. Rummel.

Democide

Death By Government

[Aquinasfan]

The church has to step up one life at a time. This isn’t a political battle. It is a spiritual one.

Well said.

[Syncro]

He was elected by trust fund babies, blacks and those on the government dole.

And of course that wing of the DNC, the MSM.

And women voters brought him in in some swing states.

The PUMA's didn't vote enough for McCain

[driftless2]

"bring back the draft"

One of my young and very liberal step-daughters was firmly convinced that after he was re-elected in 2004, Bush was going to reinstitute the draft. She and her husband actually made plans to go to Canada. Also Bush was definitely going to invade Iran...and probably declare martial law so he could remain president.

[driftless2]

I agree though it would more likely for Dems to bring back the draft. I don’t think Obama will do it. There would go his base.

[The Sons of Liberty]

AND HOW ABOUT REQUIRING THAT ELIGIBLE VOTERS HAVE SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE CANDIDATES AND ISSUES ON THE BALLOT?

Mississippi used to give a short test, one that any 3rd grader could pass without studying, but of course the Federal Government (under LBJ) declared it to be racist and a method to deny blacks the vote.

If it were around now, from what I saw at the polls, there would be quite a few, both black and white, who would have problems passing.

[Miss Behave]

Cajungirl, I'll bet your daughter does look wonderful in her party dress. Actually, this has called to mind a long lost memory (tucked away way back in one of those memory drawers in the back of my head,) of a sleeveless black panne velvet dress with a white taffeta petticoat and large white satin rosette that I had at about age nine...and my two younger sissies had the same dress...which of course we all wore at the same time...with white lace anklets and black patent Mary Janes. It was a special occasion dress. Now I'm going to have to ask my sissy about it. Not all black but close to it. And now I miss my sissies.

Have a good day.

[cajungirl]

Dont you love the memory of those party and Sunday dresses. We got Easter Sunday dressed and Christmas dresses.

My fave was one with a nylon top and unlining and a full taffeta skirt that rustled and a petticoat that made it stick out. I love taffeta to this day.

I hated that I got blue and my little sister got pink. She used to get all the ruffles,,my Mother and Grandmother were wonderful seamstresses. And I got the plain version with no ruffles,,my Mother used to say I wasn’t the ruffle type,,I was a tomboy!!

My Grandmother supported hr three daughters when left a young widow as a seamstress in the early part of last century. She became quite well known and women from all over the state and other states came to her for her dresses. She was very good with hand sewn sequins. She could look at you and design a dress with no pattern. Mom said they were poor but the best dressed girls around.

[Miss Behave]

I could hear the "rustling" as you wrote that. ;-)

I'll bet it was adorable. That's so funny what you said about you getting blue and your sissy getting pink--I always got blue too...but for some reason I remember liking it...maybe because it was usually powder. Maybe that's why I was such a tomboy, too!

It sounds like you all were (are) very fortunate to have such a talented and loving grandmother (and mother,) and were blessed with the REAL riches in life.

My mom's only sewing talents were stitching up my petal-pushers from a ripped-out butt, or patching my pant-knees (after applying band-aids on my skinned knees.) ;-)

Sounds like you and I single-handedly kept "Band-Aids" in business? ;-)