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Blokes and TwitsPosted Tuesday, August 4, 2009, at 11:44 AM
*News about women who don't mind being called TWITs. Teenage Women In Their Thirties, the Sunday Herald Sun reports. Women who put relationships and family on hold to party party party. Nightclub owners are thrilled that clubs are filling up with TWITs. One TWIT, model Kelly John says, "If I found the right man I would settle down and have kids, but I am not going to sit at home waiting." Oh, she will have no problem finding the perfect man of her dreams right there in the bar. The article seemed to say, that not only was this a movement against responsibility, it was more of a finger in the eye to older citizens. The Sunday Herald quotes a man they refer to as a "social researcher", saying, "Society values youth. We don't look up to older people the way we did last century." You mean clear back to 1999? (Back at home, our governments' health care takeover attempt pretty much demonstrates that fact) *Blokes are bad husbands down under. According to a British "study". From Oxford, (big surprise there) an Economist, Dr. Almudena Sevilla-Sanz, said Aussie men make terrible husbands because they don't do housework. The "study", titled: Household Division of Labor and Cross-Country Differences in Household Formation Rates, is due to be released in the Journal of Population Economics.
Men in the US actually got high marks in this "study", so it looks like American men have been properly domesticated. I'm so proud. *A different kind of Twit... According to The Daily Telegraph, down under, Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett's department, issued stop work orders to the New South Wales timber industry that would wipe out the entire town of Deniquin in the State's south. They are killing over a thousand jobs, because the Aussie Government thinks the green leak parrot may be in danger. Those who are opposed the government's killing of an industry, and a town, to save a parrot that thrives in the area, are calling the Environment Minister a "warbling twit." Wacky leftists are not just at home in the USA. In this instance of environmental wacko abuse, eleven sawmills were closed overnight. Over eight hundred workers were fired on the spot. The main concern of the government, the parrot's "flight pattern" might be disturbed. The fight against leftists, and creepy leftist thinking, it not just a fight for us here in the USA. It is a global fight. We conservatives in America will have to lead the way, and we are beginning to fight back. Comments Showing most recent comments first [Show in chronological order instead] |
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Mikey, Obama is a lying dog,or should I say all the political BS'es in government.Hope you love your parents and kids enough.
Scared about what? Maybe the fact that in the last week or so, thanks to the middle east type protests that are occurring one Democratic Senator has been hung in effagy, several senators are recieving death traps, and one has already been physically assaulted.
It is interesting what some think protesting is supposed to be about. My favorite is when someone yells at a senator to stop lying to him, when, in fact, that person had been yelling for fifteen minutes solid about lies he was providing. Kind of hard to lie or tell the truth, for that matter, when you won't even let the other person talk.
Mikey,everyone had better get scared!
Please let us never miss a chance to barb one another concerning wildly distorted propaganda.
CFC is successful because it puts money into the hands of the people who worked for it; the American people; and gives them the opportunity to make a choice affecting their own life on their own terms.
As far as it being a government success; I would submit that therein lies a contradiction in terms. CFC is only foreshawdowed in success by the wildly successful Amtrak line, and the never ending black hole called the United States Postal Service.
Mike:
I don't think all conservative objection to the Cash for Clunker's(CfC) program is outright obstructionism as many imply. For many the concern isn't that the program wouldn't be successful, rather that the expense is unwise. Who is paying for the 3500-4500 rebate? Sure, people line up around the block for handouts but they don't think about the long term consequences. Additionally, when the government approved the plan they were fine with 1bln, why then when it works as was intended is there a push to expand it? Where does it end? I recall you talking about the European programs it is based on, what has been the result there? Have the governments successfully transitioned beyond the handouts and recouped the money invested?
Yeah um Mr Eldridge there was 100 years in the last century not just 1999.
But I appreciate your taking of a story that is taking place in Australia to what's going on over here, even if you missed the mark by a football field.
And your reference to the health care reform here in the United States is right out of the GOP talking points. Scare the elderly into thinking the government is wanting to kill them, when in fact, which social security, medicare and medicaid, they are able to live on their own much longer (government run programs mind you, that dreaded socialism you are trying to fight).
Of course the GOP talking point is a complete fabrication but one thing politics 09 has taught us is that Republicans and Conservatives will say anything to try to bolster their election chances. Even coming out against the cash for clunkers which has been so successful that they have ran out of money and Ford has posted its first positive sales in five years.
But, Mr Eldridge, don't let the truth get in your way keep telling everyone they are wrong and trying to scare them.
Sam,
In the late 40s, attending family and community reunions in rural America, there was a noticeable lack of respect and appreciation for the elders among the teenagers.
You can expect youngsters under 11 or 12 to show respect only when "coached" by parents.
But teenagers should be developing some maturity. Instead for urban teens as early as 1946, the respect was lacking.
With more than a thousand people at one community reunion where those who had left during WWII for the military and jobs in bomber plants and shipyards, etc. were in the heavy majority -- Young people growing up in Dallas/Fort Worth, Wichita, St. Louis, California, Washington and the Great Lakes area -- clearly did not consider the "country seniors" worthy of their time or respect.
WWII was a major cultural divide in more ways than one. People who remained on the land were earning in the range of 50 cents to $3.00 daily. Farmers and ranchers sold everything under Office of Price Administration restrictions, rarely recovering cost of production and almost never recovering production, land and other costs.
Their high paid "Defense Industry" parents never failed to claim superiority because their cash incomes were so much greater.
After that, millions of veterans achieved college and university educations and the gap was dramatically widened.
Not only were the Country Elders less affluent, but now they lacked education and urban polishing in the eyes of their newly urban kin and friends.
The young people followed the lead.
The baby boomer generation began showing some respect as their parents t ook them to the rural homes to visit grandparents who still worked the land, gathered eggs, slopped hogs and milked cows.
But in the main, urban adults taught their children to forego respect for elders.