Note to editor: You need to study a good editing book (like the Chicago Manual of Style) on the use of hyphens. "[O]nce handed-off" is wrong. It is "once handed off." "[F]or girls to nine-years-old" is wrong. It is "for girls to nine years old." You would have a nine-year-old girl, but you would have a girl who is nine years old. "[L]ess than 10-years-old" is wrong. It is "less than 10 years old." "[G]irls under 18-years-old" is wrong. It is "girls under 18 years old." Pretty basic stuff. Check it out.
Wrong headline -- that was Tarzana Joe, who often has poems on Hugh Hewitt. But it was not Hugh's words.
Many tears being shed. Waiting to hear more. Surrounding his family with love.
Ha. The trailer wasn't far off from reality ... not that I would know anything about this.
Not sure who I'm voting for yet, but.....here is food for thought.
This does sound like the correct job description: save Western civilization. The author apparently thought this would be to Newt's detriment to "expose" this, but it elevates my respect for Newt. He knows what his job is supposed to be. Just wish all the other politicians knew this as well. And perhaps this IS the presidential temperament.
But, of course, it doesn't follows the Judeo-Christian rules for proper humility, and that''s the problem here, correct? See this reference and countless others:
2 Corinthians 12:5-12 ESV: "On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses. Though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth. But I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me."
We just like our leaders humble, and consider it a character flaw if humility isn't practiced. Humility is attractive; conceit is not. You want to see humility, watch Mitt Romney. Perhaps this is why Mitt is so boring. On the other hand, Ron Paul is humble and NOT boring. True integrity from the gut is absolutely electrifying.
Guess you can see where I'm leaning....
Tried, judged and executed by Taser in the hands of police. The perfect weapon of a police state.
Ivanhoe, understood. A person like this cannot negotiate life without dedicated help from others, but may be belligerent and hard to help just because she doesn't understand. She wants to hold on to the little she has -- sounds like in her case, it was pillows. The cops aren't social workers. So she falls through the cracks. It took a team of us -- three of us, working with the lady I mentioned -- plus the social worker at the local hospital where we finally took her for out-of-control diabetes -- to convince her that she should be in assisted living and not living alone. Some people just don't have family, and have had bad breaks in their lives, and then are left to fend for themselves in a state of impairment. That's where church groups or other volunteers step in, hopefully. But are we going to then pay for all expenses of the impaired person for the rest of their lives? That's where social security and medicaid step in. But even then, there has to be volunteers to connect them up with those services. Volunteers can make a huge difference in the lives of the elderly. Thanks for your interest.
"Special needs" is the key. I do volunteer work with elderly people. One lady was like this. She wasn't rational. It was very difficult to help her, and she needed help for everything, from laundry to cooking to shopping to banking. She just couldn't make a rational decision, and just didn't understand that she wasn't fully functioning, or that she couldn't still live independently and support herself. Turns out she had brain injury from two accidents. It can cause dementia. She was losing everything in her life and didn't understand why. We didn't understand it either until we tracked down her medical history. Then, slowly but surely, step by step, we got her into an assisted living situation, thanks to Medicaid. I am about as conservative as you get, but this is the exact person who needs our help desperately, both from charities (a charity paid her rent one month during a financial crisis), and, yes, the government, which enables her to have a roof over her head and three meals a day in her extremely impaired condition. If a cop can't treat a "special needs" person with understanding they have no business being a cop. I'm so glad for "citizen journalists" with cameras. This man is a brave man for coming forward and I hope blessings are showered on him for his integrity.
Wrong target. The target is not the children. It is the professionals who created this culture of ass douchery. It is pure educational psychology. Started in the early 1900s. Columbia University. We can bitch and bitch about the children who had the misfortune to be dumbed down by these people, who just really wanted to make sure that they had a dumbed-down, materialistic work force that will vote socialist. So will we go after who is doing it to the kids, or do we go after the kids? Takes a lot less courage to go after the kids.
Here's an idea. If you read the statistics on the level of debt of countries, Libya has one of the lowest debt rates in the world (3.3% of the GDP as of 2010). That must have really, really p-------d some folks off at the International Money Fund. I, myself, personally, me-myself-and-I, feel that Libya was invaded because Gaddafi wouldn't bend over and submit to the IMF like a good boy, wouldn't submerge his country into massive debt and wouldn't become beholden to the debt-master. Can't have that, not in the New Feudalism. Off with his head! See statistics at
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_pub_deb-eco....
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