Random stuff that catches my eye with links to prove I’m not making it up!
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country. ~ Margaret Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. ~ Margaret Thatcher
Godless Morality
It is no coincidence that as German atheist philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche boasted, "God is dead ... we have killed him ... must we not ourselves become gods[?]" (which, by the way, is the entire basis of humanism dating back to the Garden of Eden), he simultaneously predicted that the 20th century would be the most murderous in human history.
That Nietzsche was right is actually of secondary importance. Most significant is the apparent recognition Nietzsche had that man, left with no moral authority beyond his own impulses and passions, would devolve into self-destruction.
Indeed, the banner slogan of "No god? No problem!" could hang poignantly over the ovens of Auschwitz, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the trash bins of Planned Parenthood.
Though it might be more difficult to squeeze onto a billboard, the American Humanist Association needs to correct its jingle to convey the more accurate message: "No God? No problem...except the one that even the greatest atheist thinkers have recognized: when a belief in God dies, man dies."
Revolting College
Writing in the U.K.'s Guardian, Gary Younge (a writer based in the U.S.) has suggested that current and recent student revolts around the world are a good thing. He wants that "their energy, enthusiasm, militancy, rage and raucousness might burn in us all."
Younge sees the protests as nothing surprising because "[m]ore than one in five people under the age of 25 in the EU is unemployed. In Spain the figure is 43%; in Greece 30%; in Italy 26%. Meanwhile the principle that education is a public good, to which all are entitled, all contribute, and all benefit through a more competitive economy, is in its death throes." Did you catch that? The issue is that education is a basic good or right "to which all are entitled."
When everything becomes a right, then who are the privileged? What is there to work towards?
Happy season of values
If Obama is a Christian (which he says he is – not mine to judge – that responsibility is GOD’s), then why do most of his policies not align with Christian values?
Minority Report
Blacks are the only minority; because, there aren’t other types of minorities that should be recognized. As long as we’re clear on whom the special interest group’s important people really are…
Things NOT to do in LA
Lessons my dear children: 1) when you are hanging out at night with your peeps, don’t carry guns – even toy ones. 2) Don’t stand in the middle of the street with your guns. 3) don’t run when the police say “POLICE!” This makes you look guilty. Drop your ‘weapons’ and your bodies to the ground. 4) When the police say “DROP YOUR WEAPONS”, do it. If you’d been paying attention to lesson #3, (not to mention #1 or #2) you wouldn’t’ be hiding out behind a van with the cops drawn down on you.
Of course, we could just not let anyone ever carry any kind of gun (toy or not) ever again. Because it is definitely the fault of the gun (and ammo) companies that guns are killing or injuring people. And then there would be peace and love throughout the land.
Voo Doo
I so can think of a couple of people I need these for…
Soda is Bad
This is obviously McDonald’s fault for marketing to small children with toys.
Reverse Feminism
Being a woman is only clearly defined if you have an out-of-the-home-career as is clearly reflected by the women of “The View”. Oddly enough, they wouldn’t have anyone at home watching their every lip service if there were no stay-at-home moms. Kathryn Jean Lopez states it quite clearly:
Therein she hit on something almost as powerful as motherhood: the current backlash against feminism as we know it. There is a growing discomfort with the worldview that women should want to “have it all.” That girls should do anything and everything. Certainly, you can choose not to have children. You can have a fulfilling life in other ways. But for too long now we have acted — in our schools and in pop culture and in our social lives — as if the woman who is on The View is superior to the woman who lives in Wisconsin with the man she loves.
It’s apparently only feminism and “girl power” if you do what you’re told to do; not if you’re doing what you want to do.
Must Have Job FIRST!
What I LOVE about articles like this is that they seem to forget we have people out of work, foreclosures left and right and the money tree has shriveled up to dust. REALLY? $24 for a rechargeable Wine Bottle Opener?
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