Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi notes that in a new Rasmussen Reports poll, nearly 1 in 2 U.S. voters say the nation’s best days are behind it. “How is it possible that so many people believe the next generation will be in worse shape when nearly every positive indicator of the human experience is on a positive trajectory — from our standard of living to our life expectancy to our technology to the health of the environment?” he asks.
Another poll finds that “1 in 3 children ages 6 to 11 fears that the Earth will be destroyed by the time they grow up,” he says — not surprising after a “steady diet of model-projection Armageddon their whole lives.”
He concludes: “This next generation almost certainly will live through a few glorious bubbles, followed by a few scary recessions. Yet just as certainly, they will live ‘better’ lives than we do.”
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Generations have grown up expecting the government to provide more and more entitlements, servics, and rights.
Everyone, it seems, wants MORE FREE MONEY!!!!
Expectations are high. Expectations are mans greatest downfall.
Ask not what you can do for your country, instead, ask what your country can do for you.
It’s a commonplace myth CONs tend to worship that there once was a golden era of America-the-way-it-should be.
Try to pin ‘em down and they get pretty vague, rarely moving past vicarious “When I was a kid…” Leave it to Beaver memories.
Remember the black kid on Leave it to Beaver?
(Oh, yeah. You remember “Whitey,” but you don’t remember the black kid.)
Racist.
Just as with most other CONspiracy theories.
Oh, wait…
Didn’t happen. None of it did.
moowuk…you are the perfect example of a whiner………you are not happy with anything, including yourself and are full of untruths……….maybe you didn’t have any “good old days” and you certainly are not having any now………..i for one believe this country was happier then……now all the people like you in this country want is “what’s in it for me”, it’s somebody else’s fault, etc.and as to pinning down……….you run away more than anyone on this blog………..
“wichhick” demurred on the de-caf this morning and offers –
“moowuk…you are the perfect example of a whiner………
Hey, nobody’s perfect.
But a “whiner?”
Awwwwwwwww. You can’t prove that.
“you are not happy with anything, including yourself and are full of untruths……….
Yeah?
What “untruths?”
If I’m full of ‘em you could show some examples and reveal your version of the “truths.”
“maybe you didn’t have any “good old days” and you certainly are not having any now………..
I had my share of good ol’ days as a kid. Like when my Pa an’ me would git out the bamboo fishin’ poles and walk down the country lane to the fishin’ hole, whistlin’ all the way….
Wait.
That wasn’t me?!
Nevermind.
I must have been channeling your childhood.
“i for one believe this country was happier then……”
Remember that black family in Mayberry? They wuz so-o-o-o HAPPY!
Wait? You relate to Otis the Town Drunk and don’t remember that happy black family in Mayberry, North Carolina that was always out-smartin’ ol’ Barney Fife? But in a good way.
Oh wait….
Never happened.
“now all the people like you in this country want is “what’s in it for me”, it’s somebody else’s fault, etc.and as to pinning down……….you run away more than anyone on this blog……”
Well, GOLLLLLLLL-EEEEE!
Here I am, “wichhick.”
Monkeyhawk highlites his whines.
mudmunk……..see your still happyand whining
i didn’t spend much time watching tv….preferred to be outside doing things……..but i did like red skeleton
mukless……….i didn’t see things as black and white……..so i really don’t remember that black family in mayberry……you on the other hand sound like a racist.
if i remember otis was happy and on his own dime
“you on the other hand sound like a racist.”
And angry.
“nearly 1 in 2 U.S. voters say the nation’s best days are behind it.”
Why? Easy….they’ve lost hope.
Looking at the quality and performance of our leaders voters have lost hope things will get better but in fact anticipate things will get worse.
Free enterprise, capitalism, and liberty are the operating conditions that prevailed as this country was built into the worlds leader.
Those things are being torn down and replaced by a socialist overbearing nanny government.
happy munk……….whining on the open thread also………talented
“wichhick” –
WHOOOOOSH!
When bush brought us to the brink of economic collapse, you have to think that future expectations would also fall.
It’ll be a long recovery, but we’ll get back to where we were in 2000, eventually.
whooosh………….the sound of running away
Monkeyhawk is sitting around grumbling, WAITING on someone else to make him happy. A characteristic far too common in this country anymore, and yes all too prevalent in the black community as well.
It hasn’t occurred to him he is so negative and repulsive that no one really wants to subject themselves to the discomfort of being around him.
As I posted the other evening with regard to BlueJay:
BJ, let me give you a clue that at least I believe in.
I am not totally happy with myself, not at all, not even close.
Who’s fault is that?
It’s not anyone else’s but my own.
Go look in the mirror for your source of discontent…you will find it looking back at you.
Just as I do.
Complaining is easier than appreciating. Our lives are better and continue to improve. Critical stories are more interesting than normal life stories. We need to remember to balance information with a broader perspective of living.
The problem with being a democrat – is you can never really be happy.
Always reaching and struggling
for utopia.
Very stressful being angry and jealous of what others have all the time. It’s hard on the heart.
monkey.i mean phantom……….see it’s always someone else’s fault……..in your case it’s always bush’s fault………..there are a whole lot of people at fault (dems and repub’s) and the public but your “input” is to always blame it on bush……..
“see it’s always someone else’s fault……..”
And there is always a “victim”.
From today’s Bob Herbert column –
If Professor Gates ranted and raved at the cop who entered his home uninvited with a badge, a gun and an attitude, he didn’t rant and rave for long. The 911 call came in at about 12:45 on the afternoon of July 16 and, as The Times has reported, Mr. Gates was arrested, cuffed and about to be led off to jail by 12:51.
The charge: angry while black.”
lessee….we have ‘capn’ who admits he HATES the largest, most successful corporation in history; bj who declares all Republicans and anyone who disagrees as ‘the enemy’. We have ws clark who hates people on this blog and continually throws personal insults. Of course, there is mh and mp who continually attack others and are negative much of the time.
yep..a nation of whiners..anyone notice the similarity with the people who are whining?
Point out some of my alleged “attacks,” “Raptor.”
Be specific.
Don’t just, uhm, whine about it.
munkwortlus……..and you would normally be whining that the police did not respond fast enough BECAUSE the victum was black or no one reported it because the house is where black people lived.or?…………….continuing to whine aren’t you………
lived=livered……per monkey
Uhm, “wichhick” –
There are so many ways your latest post exposes your confusion it’s hard to know where to start.
Do your typing fingers have Tourette’s Syndrome or something?
“wichhick” begins a discussion of issues with –
“munkwortlus….”
Gotta hand it to ya, “wichhick.”
No way I can argue against logic like that.
monklus…………..so still whining and/or running!!!!
monkeyhawk……is it live or liver……….is it lived or livered?……….dang CONS……..
“wichhick” tries –
“monklus…………..so still whining and/or running!!!!”
Running?
From whom?
You?!
Ha!
Oh, yeah.
You’re really a threat to me.
And your logic just causes me no end of anguish.
Woe is me!
“wichhick” calls me names and thinks he’s somehow won a battle which does not exist.
“wichhick” gives me the 3rd Degree –
“monkeyhawk……is it live or liver……….is it lived or livered?”
What. Did your imagination run out of new name-calls?
And how long ago was that alleged typo of mine you’re obsessing on?
Best as I can recall the world should have been “live” and I probably hit two adjacent keys (i.e., the “e” and the adjacent “r” and didn’t catch it because spell-check didn’t check it).
That obviously makes you the superior intellect, “wichhick;” one whom I can never hope to emerge successfully in a battle of wits.
Except you keep showing up unarmed.
Actually, if you look at what’s happened to the country—the offshoring and outsourcing, the lack of jobs, the stagnating wages, the general lack of opportunity–it’s understandable that people would see a bleak future.
I don’t share their view, though I think it’s quite possible things could get considerably worse. I just don’t believe in sitting back and accepting it as a fait accompli.
It could be worse — or even bad.
Everything is on the uptick and improving. Our country will be back to where we were when bush the lesser took over in the very near future. From there, progress will continue. It seems President Obama will be able to take our country from the year 2000 to the year 2012 in only four years! His second term will be even more amazing.
OK, whiny Republicans, see who can be the most whiny, the most critical, the most complaining. It is a contest, isn’t it? Otherwise, why are you all working so hard at it?
“nearly 1 in 2 U.S. voters say the nation’s best days are behind it.”
Well, I’ve opined that we have been headed in that direction.
But now we have this hope and change thing actually, well, working.
For the first time in a very LONG time, I’m optimistic.
As one who remembers as a child the hiding under a school desk if the siren sounds the impending doom of a nuclear attack. And only when I grew older the ridiculousness of thinking a school desk would have saved my life from a Nuclear attack. As a child that was thought the way the human race would end. Children today are assaulted with the thought of the end of the human race by Global Warming.
Perhaps it really is the lose of hope, certainly in the fifties the concept of the American Dream seemed closer and likely to be obtained. I would tell my children there were no guarantees in life, you can carry a 4.0 through out school into the senior year of college. You can stay away from drugs and Alcohol living a clean and healthy life and still fall flat on your face. The why you should strive for doing all the right things is that even if you fall flat on your face. You can still hold your head up high and proclaim that it truly was not your fault.
Monkey I haven’t heard you once this morning say how glad you are that the republicans founght people like KKKBryd and and Al Gore Sr to get a vote on the Civil Rights Ammendment. If you are going to whine at least get your facts straight.
You have done nothing but whine this morning. Still nothing subatantive I see.
Linda,
I have found that working the 10th step of my program,really eliminates the need to whine but since I’m human I still find things that I whine about,but truth be told the majority of my issues are caused by the person I see in the mirror when shaving
Linda you and BJ should get some news at other sources than CNN and MSNBC. I am sure the over 5 million unemployed who are being told that this won’t change for at least 5 years aren’t too full of hope.
Recessions happen and they end naturally. This one is no different. I have said this all along. No matter who was prez this recession will end as they all do. The difference with this one is the trillions of debt this prez has racked up in the name of ‘change’ and the millions of unemployed sill waiting for those ’shovel ready jobs’.
Yep real hope for a change they can believe in.
My Mother’s wise advice was, “Young lady (that was me!), you can just get glad in those same shoes you got sad in!”
Mothers often say the funniest things, and almost as often they turn out to be exactly the life lesson we need to learn. I wouldn’t have given nearly as much thought to, “Attitude is everything.” But it is, and we can wallow in or we can improve our situation. And even if the ’situation’ doesn’t actually improve we can accept it with grace, humility, confidence and humor and feel much better about it anyway.
Freebird, I admire you and your attitude! Yes, we are all too human, but you recognize things many don’t and get yourself back on the right track. I can learn from you!
And even if the ’situation’ doesn’t actually improve we can accept it with grace, humility, confidence and humor and feel much better about it anyway.
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Dont know your views on religion but that sentiment can be found in the Serenity Prayer
I read Harsanyi’s editorial. What an idiotic piece of drivel.
1) Harsanyi apparently is looking through his (and my) generation’s childhood and youth with rose colored glasses. He appears to fail to remember the days of MAD, of war and environmental protests, of recessions and energy crises, and of Watergate and the cynicism that resulted. But no, OUR generation was optimistic. Hell, there were predictions of apocolypse in our day as well, and quite a number of kids in our generation were also pessimistic about growing up.
2) Harsanyi confuses pessimism with whining. You see, whining is complaining. You know, like using the latest generation’s pessimism to whine about the environmental movement…and pessimism.
Not saying that the pessimism is necessarily warranted, but it is understandable and it is certainly nothing new.
“Linda you and BJ should get some news at other sources than CNN and MSNBC. I am sure the over 5 million unemployed who are being told that this won’t change for at least 5 years aren’t too full of hope.”
Yeah, read REAL news sources like Faux and World Nut Daily.
My religious views are much too personal to discuss on a blog. I am encouraged by people who live in kindness, acceptance and love.
I am encouraged by people who live in kindness, acceptance and love.
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That,to me, is the key to livinmg a good life.
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Well, it was a very lengthy,
articulate,
whine.
And look what came of that!
Right NOW, we are hearing a great deal of whining. But this whining is concerned with protecting what is at the expense of what could be.
I’ll cast my lot with the folks that shout for change.
Ah, yes, the “good old days” of polio and iron lungs, my high school friend dying of leukemia, no air bags in cars, no air conditioning, one channel TV (now come to think of it, might be a good thing), etc., etc. I think I like the technological advances of this new good old day. Can’t say the same about the sociological stasis.
It is all hazy memories of old croaks who can’t accept that their best days are way behind them.
Dennis
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Robert Kennedy
What was the Declaration of Independence?
Well, it was a very lengthy,
articulate,
whine.
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Interesting viewpoint. I like to think of it as a group of people not whining but saying “we are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it anymore”
And you are right look what happened
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BlueJay
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy was the son and heir to a multi-millionaire’s fortune. He had no reason to whine.
But, thanks for playing…
Regular
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:48 am | Permalink
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BlueJay
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy was the son and heir to a multi-millionaire’s fortune. He had no reason to whine.
But, thanks for playing…
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Maybe it is just me but I don’t think that is an example of whining. I look at it as someone who had goals and aspirations for something bigger than himself
Money does not buy happiness! To think someone who had adequate money would ensure no challenges exist in life is attaching more importance to money than it deserves.
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Freebird1971
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:52 am | Permalink
Regular
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:48 am | Permalink
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BlueJay
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:37 am | Permalink
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
Robert Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy was the son and heir to a multi-millionaire’s fortune. He had no reason to whine.
But, thanks for playing…
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Maybe it is just me but I don’t think that is an example of whining. I look at it as someone who had goals and aspirations for something bigger than himself
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I just stated a fact.
So, maybe it is just you. :)
lindainks55
Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:54 am | Permalink
Money does not buy happiness! To think someone who had adequate money would ensure no challenges exist in life is attaching more importance to money than it deserves.
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Linda finally a statement that you and I agree on 100%. Contentment with your lot in life, self respect, love for your fellow men, the feeling you get when you are able to help someone else – this is real happiness.
“okobserver” tosses a curve ball –
“Monkey I haven’t heard you once this morning say how glad you are that the republicans founght people like KKKBryd and and Al Gore Sr to get a vote on the Civil Rights Ammendment.”
Well… yeah.
The subject of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hadn’t come up this morning. So I haven’t addressed it. I also haven’t addressed the earthworm problem in upper Bangladesh this morning, although I suspect Karl Rove is behind it.
I think the education and evolution of Robert Byrd is one of the more inspiring stories of personal moral redemption in American history. Especially when you compare him to Strom Thurmond who never changed from his Dixiecrat ways and converted to the Repubic Party where he was welcomed with open arms.
“You have done nothing but whine this morning. Still nothing subatantive I see.”
I’m not sure what kicked of the CON meme about “whining” this morning. I’ve asked for specific examples of same and get nothing; only demands I become “subatantive.”
I’m here to declare until any CON proves me wrong: I’m just as “subatantive” as the next guy.
“Money cannot buy happiness, but it can enable you to look for it in comfort.”
Alfred E. Neuman
money can’t buy happiness, but it is way ahead of whatever is in second place.
don’t know the source.
Dennis
Last night, I watched the first couple of episodes of the John Adams series that ran on HBO. What I like about the film is that it captures the spirit of the time, the willingness that Adams, Franklin, Jefferson and all the rest had to risk everything. The nation’s best days are only behind it if people abandon this idea. Currently, young people and their parents spend a ton of money on education, and the pattern is to assume that once the schooling is over, the person should get a job with an established company or institution. This is one way to go, but your fortunes tend to rise and fall with the fortunes of the company. All that education, all that money, and then one day when the stock market tanks, the person’s fate is in the hands of a few bosses who are huddled in some office, crunching the numbers. Getting the job with the established institution is, on the surface, the safer, more solid way to go, but risk is part of life and institutions are not immune. If you take the spirit of the John Adams film and apply it to the present day, then it might be argued that more risk-taking is needed on an entrepreneurial level. The trick is to avoid getting overly leveraged at a young age. If money is not owed, then the individual is a bit more free to pursue an innovative path. Of course, all of this is easier said than done. To be alive is to head up a blind alley with a flickering candle. But in the idealistic, Jeffersonian sense, the nation’s best days are ahead if more citizens become willing to walk an innovative path and take risks.
Royall this is hitting the nail right on the head. It is also a concept the liberals of the world find hard to embrace. Risk takers put it all on the line. They start their own companies. Hire employees. Risk their own futures on their faith in their own abilities. This is the future hope of our nation. Small businesses create 80% of all new jobs. This is a segment of the economy that the gov should cut some slack but very little if any of the stimulus or bank bailouts have came their way.
Monkey you had three or four posts in a row telling us how in the good old days there were no black faces in the picture. These were your posts weren’t they?
Then when I point out that because of the persistence of some republicans and over the objections of several key democrats the civil right bill was passed to bring those black faces out of the closet and into the picture of mainstream America you draw a blank on what you posted earlier.
Typical monkey brain fade to inconsequential.
From header, “Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi:
“How is it possible that so many people believe the next generation will be in worse shape when nearly every positive indicator of the human experience is on a positive trajectory — from our standard of living to our life expectancy to our technology to the health of the environment?” he asks.”
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Harsanyi foolishly seems to believe that some cold temperatures last January, in a region smaller than 1.5 percent of “global”, proves that AGW is over.
What will Harsanyi write in the future, as AGW continues to cause temperatures to rise, and people worldwide try to reduce GHG emissions?
“okobserver” persists –
“Monkey you had three or four posts in a row telling us how in the good old days there were no black faces in the picture. “
Care to cut-and-post those quotes so all can see the specifics of what’s got you in a tizzy?
Care to refute them?
I’m looking for you to present those “…three or four posts….”
Piece o’ cake, right?
Money might not buy love or happiness but you can buy a six pack and a hooker
Monkeyhawk
Posted August 1, 2009 at 6:56 am | Permalink
“When I was a kid…” Leave it to Beaver memories.
Remember the black kid on Leave it to Beaver?
(Oh, yeah. You remember “Whitey,” but you don’t remember the black kid.)
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Remember that black family in Mayberry? They wuz so-o-o-o HAPPY!
Wait? You relate to Otis the Town Drunk and don’t remember that happy black family in Mayberry, North Carolina that was always out-smartin’ ol’ Barney Fife? But in a good way.
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Monkeyhawk
Posted August 1, 2009 at 9:14 am | Permalink
From today’s Bob Herbert column –
If Professor Gates ranted and raved at the cop who entered his home uninvited with a badge, a gun and an attitude, he didn’t rant and rave for long. The 911 call came in at about 12:45 on the afternoon of July 16 and, as The Times has reported, Mr. Gates was arrested, cuffed and about to be led off to jail by 12:51.
The charge: angry while black.”
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Best I can tell MH these all were your words. You hitting the sauce this early?
Still nothing substantial – whining about being faced with his own words.
okobserver, MonkeyHawk is not worth the time to respond or address.
He doesn’t have a serious thought or thinking brain and doesn’t care that he doesn’t.
okobserver demonstrates her cluelessness with her lists of posts of Monkeyhawk’s “whining”.
Harsanyi’s confusion of pessimism with whining was bad enough, but to confuse satire and snark with whining is just…well…stupid.
“okobserver, MonkeyHawk is not worth the time to respond or address.
“He doesn’t have a serious thought or thinking brain and doesn’t care that he doesn’t.”
Re: Regular
DNFTT
Speaking of “stupid”, my 12:19 post I am afraid qualifies. For some reason, I was flashing back to okobserver’s charges of “whining”.
That being said, what okobserver did do was just as bad.
She took satire literally.
That’s still pretty damn dumb.
“okobserver” –
So who was the black kid on “Leave It to Beaver?”
Got an answer?
Who was that typical black family in rural Carolina that constantly appeared in “The Andy Griffith Show?”
Got an answer?
Refute it, “okobserver.”
I’m not sure how the quote-and-post from Bob Herbert’s column qualifies as “MY” words.
You might explain that, too.
Don’t just whine about it.
Make your case!
The ‘jawless fish’ is busy diddling with advanced reasoning associated with primates higher in taxonomic order.
Money might not buy love or happiness but you can buy a six pack and a hooker.
Hehe, Tom, we can always count on you to come up with a good one-liner!
“Regular” runs to “okobserver’s” defense –
“okobserver, MonkeyHawk is not worth the time to respond or address.
He doesn’t have a serious thought or thinking brain and doesn’t care that he doesn’t.”
You seem to be kinda worried ol’ “okobserver” might be losing in this exchange, huh, “Regular?”
Your compatriot “wichhick” loves to strut about how I allegedly “run away” from his slings and arrows.
(I haven’t heard from “wichhick” in a while, btw. Imagine that!)
“okobserver” would probably be better off taking your advice, “Regular.” Every time she responds to me she digs herself deeper into a pit of hypocrisy. You realize it. She probably even realizes it.
That’s why she’s so often reduced to avoiding the issues and arguments at hand and demanding “subatantive” arguments.
I contend my posts are “subatantive” as the next guy’s.
No WE Blog CON has proven any different.
“Contentment with your lot in life, self respect, love for your fellow men, the feeling you get when you are able to help someone else – this is real happiness.” [Okie]
OH the hypocrisy…. THAT was my entire point when I posted sometime back, that I took a Call to a somewhat poor congregation, because I LIKED THE JOB…
But, Okie, and others of her ilk, castigated me for taking that Call… But NOW, she talks of “the feeling you get when you are able to help someone else” —
So, which is it, huh??? IF I take a position where I LIKE the job, it’s wrong, because what?? My denomination has a requirement of congregations that they meet some bare minimums to be on the Call list??? OR, is it what you say now about “happiness”???
OH, the hypocrisy!! For Shame, for shame!!
MonkeyHockMonkeyHawk fails to understand that most of the time blog discussions involves discussion, not who wins or loses.Chas,
Do you drink alcoholic beverages?
Regular posted August 1, 2009 at 12:46 pm
MonkeyHawk fails to understand that most of the time blog discussions involves discussion, not who wins or loses.
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Regular,
Did you find those (non-existent) links to prove your (false) whining about how the Sierra Club “screwed” the New Orleans levees?
The anal retentive cosmos once again shows his obsessive, compulsive behavior.
And Regular yet again displays his “discussion” skills.
Is that a “no” again on those links, Regular?
Regular proudly represents “Kansas values” with his zero credibility.
Chas that whole argument was because you said you had received a job from a ‘poor’ man. You said your congregation was poor. That was what he discussion was about.
Chas try to keep up.
Only a moron and a coward like cosmos would continue to hide behind an anonymous nick and insult other posters.
And Regular yet again displays his “discussion” skills, and “Kansas values”.
And cosmos once again is irrelevant to any and all discussion because of his constant attacks on other posters.
Regular proves his relevance to this thread, by whining here about what he did to himself with his own posts on the WE blog.
cosmos, the constant agitator, devoted to tearing the fabric of the American society apart because of socialistic aims. cosmos has no shame, just perverted greed and self interest.
“Contentment with your lot in life, self respect, love for your fellow men, the feeling you get when you are able to help someone else – this is real happiness.” [Okie]
YOU and others claimed that what I said about my Call to a poor congregation was BAD… And NOW, you say that my MOTIVE in taking that call… y’know, what you NOW call “real happiness” was really GOOD…
I even posted that if that situation ever came up for a Call again… I would gladly go back…. Or did you forget that part??? Your memory gets more selective every day you post here… LOL
Who is it that needs to keep up, wench???
Outta here… Y’all have a great weekend!! I know I will!!
From post 12:46 on…
That’s what happens when you feed the troll.
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
Father Found Guilty in Daughter’s Death By ROBERT
WAUSAU, Wis. (Aug. 1) – A Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.
Dale Neumann, 47, was convicted in the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn’t walk, talk, eat or speak. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family’s rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.
http://news.aol.com/article/father-prayed-instead-of-getting-help/496034?icid=main|htmlws-main|dl1|link3|http%3A%2F%2Fnews.aol.com%2Farticle%2Ffather-prayed-instead-of-getting-help%2F496034
OMG!
Too funny!
DESIDERATA?!
“American_Way” is drinking again tonight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faU-SK0pHCI
It’s a shame Les Crane’s death this month was overshadowed by MJ.
Naaaaw. I was just pointing out where Chas stole his nighty-night post from.