Infantile? High school behavior?

So it's only okay when you do it?

• One stubborn King. - sm - Starcat
  • This poll truly makes me ill....sm - LVMT
    • How about this one? Is it any wonder - sm - Starcat
      • Easy to see just from the crashers on this board. - Liberal
        • I assume you are speaking of me. - Lydia
          • You assumed incorrectly. - Liberal
            • I don't see where anyone believes Bush has done no wrong - Hattie
              • Then I'm glad you know Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 - Liberal
                • Not true - Hattie
                  • Well, then, what has Bush done wrong in your opinion? - Liberal
                    • Not standing up to the liberal Democratic party - Hattie
                      • Thanks for responding. - Liberal
                        • And re not standing up to the liberal Democratic party: - Liberal
  • Freedom agenda in the Middle East? - Liberal
    • The Commander in Chimp's base is hopeless...sm - LVMT
      • I saw it on Scarborough. - Liberal
      • Personally, I am disappointed in Pres Bush, but namecalling is really infantile. - Lydia
        • Infantile? High school behavior? - Liberal
          • What are you talking about? - Lydia
            • You know my game? You don't even know your own words. - Liberal
    • Yup, up to the *spinners* now - LOL - sm - Starcat

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Down below somebody cites lack of opportunity as a reason for blacks in American having a high incarceration rate...  Well, yes, that's one piece of the pie.  I say that ALL of the reason can be traced to the rampant fatherlessness in the black community, where 69% of all black children in this country are born to a single mother.  Everything else from A to Z can be derived from the broken family syndrome.  But of course this has nothing to do with race other than than the statistic above.  Whites and Hispanice from the same social situation suffer the same fate described below.

WHAT HAPPENS TO CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THEIR NATURAL FATHERS

Compared to children in male-headed traditional families where their
natural parents are married to each other, children living in
female-headed single-parent, lesbian or other environments where they are
deprived of their natural fathers are:

1. Eight times more likely to go to prison.
2. Five times more likely to commit suicide.
3. Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
4. Twenty times more likely to become rapists.
5. 32 times more likely to run away.
6. Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
7. Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
8. 33 times more likely to be seriously abused.
9. 73 times more likely to be fatally abused.
10. One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.
11. On average have a 44% higher mortality rate.
12. On average have a 72% lower standard of living.

• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes.
  
  
  
• 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
  
  
  
• California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate and the nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate.
  
  
  
• Juveniles have become the driving force behind the national increase in violent crime; the epidemic of youth violence and gangs is related to the breakdown of the two-parent family.
  
  
  
• 71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents. Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have children during their teenage years than are daughters from intact families. Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare dependency.
  
  
  
• In 1983, a study found that 60% of perpetrators of child abuse were women with sole custody. Shared parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and to protect them.
  
  
  
• 18 million children live in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only 20% in two-parent families will experience poverty.
  
  
  
• The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody, as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle.
  
  
  
• Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-family abductions of 200 to 300, attributed to the parents' disenchantment with the legal system.

From the Conservative board.

The toxicity has become so potent that some of the cooler heads on the Left are starting to notice. Richard Cohen, writing in his Washington Post column  today, describes his email, traffic after a mildly critical reference to Stephen Colbert’s unfunny performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner:

It seemed that most of my correspondents had been egged on to write me by various blogs. In response, they smartly assembled into a digital lynch mob and went roaring after me. If I did not like Colbert, I must like Bush. If I write for The Post, I must be a mainstream media warmonger. If I was over a certain age—which I am—I am simply out of it, wherever “it” may be. All in all, I was—I am, and I guess I remain—the worthy object of ignorant, false and downright idiotic vituperation. [….]

But the message in this case truly is the medium. The e-mails pulse in my queue, emanating raw hatred. This spells trouble—not for Bush or, in 2008, the next GOP presidential candidate, but for Democrats. The anger festering on the Democratic left will be taken out on the Democratic middle. (Watch out, Hillary!) I have seen this anger before—back in the Vietnam War era. That’s when the antiwar wing of the Democratic Party helped elect Richard Nixon. In this way, they managed to prolong the very war they so hated.

The hatred is back. I know it’s only words now appearing on my computer screen, but the words are so angry, so roiled with rage, that they are the functional equivalent of rocks once so furiously hurled during antiwar demonstrations.

told to treat others as we would have them treat us. 

We didn't get pulled aside and have everything listed out.  You can't make fun of fat kids, ugly kids, sissy kids, kids with pimples, kids with body odor.  We were told to treat others as we would want to be treated.  That is all that needed to be said. 

If you want acceptance taught in school then you are going to have to list sex, color, sexual orientation, and all religions.  It is much simpler just to say....and always remember the Golden Rule.....treat others as you would have them treat you because bullying and teasing will not be accepted.  End of story.

It's a big country - enough sunshine for all of us.

I think everyone knows that he had prescriptions from more than a couple of docs.

No one on your side of the fence has answered my question posed above. If MJF had aired an ad against stem cell research, would you have had the same reaction? Would Rush have had the same reaction? I think not. I think you would have applauded him for his courage and his willingness to do such a thing especially in light of the seriousness of his disease.  Another question, what do you think about Nancy Reagan and her son Ron being pro stem cell research openly?

Most high school kids don't get a chance to see a presidential until they are of voting age.

I don't put any faith in anything MSNBC writes or talks about. They are are for the O.

is being closed. That's how much the governor cares. He also wants to turn 500 school districts in 100. Don't know how that would be possible. Yet, he will hand out money to professional sports arenas and others that does not benefit the citizens of the state.

So glad this is his last term and cannot be re-elected. Hopefully, there will be more qualified candidates (but doubt) running for governor next election.

P.S. Know his name is Barney Frank. I just like Barney Fife better.

for 20 years know it's 'twice as well to be thought half as good"?  And besides, that slogan was stolen from the feminist movement.  A woman has to work twice as hard and do twice as well to be thought half as good as a man." 

No points for originality.  Minus 1 point for grammar.

Throughout high school.  I'm not saying I would never put my children there, but at this point they have a good school and I am happy with it.  BTW, at their school they actually pray still, say the blessing, pledge the flag, etc.  Not sure how they get away with it, but yea they do it.

''Just don't do it in the street an scare the horses.''  

I don't particularly care about who's doing what with whom either, except I do think that the sneaking and the lying are still indicative of basic character.  There's this whole alpha-male thing where guys with a little power (businessmen, politicians, doctors, cops, lawyers, soldiers, etc.) seem to be irresistable to some women, especially the guys who would attract little female attention without the trappings of power.  I think they actually begin to believe they are mega-hunks and act accordingly. 

This was just so highly amusing, I couldn't resist I had to share.  I hope it makes you smile, it did me!

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/21/5933/