T.G.I.F.
This entry was posted on Friday, May 8th, 2009 at 5:24 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends!
You can say that again….. This gov’t is wearing me out. I can’t keep up with how fast I’m loosing my freedom.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
I’m with you, Sheldon. I hope they all take a few days off and just do nothing. That would be a nice change.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
It IS exhausting…and a bit depressing. i think i’m going to spend Saturday in the garden taking my anger out on the weeds!
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
oh i would just to express how pleased i am that the new adminstration is opening the statue of liberty to one and all….
FREAKIN’ IDIOTS! It was closed for a reason and i’d wager a very large bet that no one was unable to go on living because they could not get up to the crown.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/08/statue-liberty-crown-reopen-tourists/
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Barney, He goi’n Trolling
#
Studying Gay Sex — on Your Dime
U.S. government spending more than $400,000 in taxpayer money on study of gay sex in Argentina bars
http://www.foxnews.com/
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
News Flash
PELOSI DECAPITATED
Man Finds Snake Head in Broccoli at New York Diner
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Do we sometimes enable?
Last night a close associate proclaimed: “I’m a tree hugging liberal.”
It was a friendly conversation and I asked: “How do you know? I’ll bet you’re not as lib as you think and we agree on more things than not.” She was in a rush so we didn’t pursue it.
Another in the group, a conservative, said: “Well she’s young.”
IMO some issues need to come off the table when we say a person is con or lib based on their position. WHY? Most do not even know what the deal is to make an informed decision.
Example: How many high school & college aged peeps do you know actually have a working knowledge of either the constitution or how the 3 branches of gov’t work?
Far too many peeps are lib by default due to their gross ignorance of the constitution. Thank you NEA……….NOT!
Other than that…It’s Friday, It’s Sunny (I live in the rainy Pacific NW) and I’ve a gig tonight…Woot Woot!
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
Hi there you all! Happy Friday. I have a gig tonight myself – cheering on my 7 year old at his baseball game while trying to keep the 4 year old entertained:-)
So much more fun than witnessing our so called representatives at work.
Like or Dislike:
0 
0
GREAT STRIDES IN HUMANITY?
Origin: 1938
In the first part of the twentieth century, we made a startling discovery. There were teenagers among us! Until then, we had thought of people in just two stages: children and adults. And while childhood might have its tender moments, the goal of the child was to grow up as promptly as possible in order to enjoy the opportunities and shoulder the responsibilities of an adult. The girl became the woman, the boy became the man. It was as simple and significant as that.
Or was it? The reforms of the early twentieth century, preventing child labor and mandating education through high school, lengthened the pre-adult years. In earlier times, a person reaching adult size at age thirteen or fourteen was ready to do adult work. Now adult size was achieved as soon as ever, but preparation for adult responsibilities lasted until age eighteen or later. Thus the years ending in -teen became something new and distinctive. Depending on your point of view, these years were either to be savored as the best of times, combining childhood freedom with adult physical maturity, or endured as years of hazard, combining childish irresponsibility with adult urges.
To match our gradual recognition of this new phenomenon, we adopted new terminology. First, in the 1920s, we began to use teenage to speak of clothes and activities, girls and boys, in the latter cases recognizing the teen years but still assigning them to childhood. About two decades later, against the backdrop of depression and war, teenager was born. The exact date has yet to be determined; the word makes a matter-of-fact appearance in a 1941 issue of Reader’s Digest, but being derived from long-established teenage, it must have been around at least a few years earlier.
The teenager remade our world. The concept is profoundly democratic by right of chronology: every child, regardless of wealth or merit, can look forward to an age of vigor and independence. And it is subversive: why should any teenager enjoying freedom submit to the authority of adults? With the discovery of this new age, ours has been the century of the teenager ever since.
http://www.answers.com/topic/teenager
Like or Dislike:
0 
0