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Tuesday, September 14. 2010

PDS: Is it "status anxiety" or simple politics? Tiger

Dr. Helen: How rich people think

Dalrymple: On the perils of postmodern moral reasoning

"If others want to defer adulthood until after a big portion of it has passed away, that�s their business."

Thad McCotter: Leftist Dogma�s 3 Core Conceits

The Anti-American President?

Senate Could Vote on Partial ObamaCare Repeal This Week

Insty: COLLEGE RANKINGS BASED ON A SURVEY OF EMPLOYERS. Very different from U.S. News.

EU Ref: Who governs Britain?

Venezuela on the brink

Lieberman Comes Out against Tax Hike

Race and the modern Republican Party

Obama's America: Record Increase of People in Poverty, Blacks and Latinos Hardest Hit

Surber: �Political Correctness is silencing an important debate�

Obama and sex: The world is not a sexual allegory. It is not a fiction where copulation is the meaning of life.

From a commenter here: 'I've got about an hour to feel your pain, then I've got a tee time and a party at the White House with my pals. We're having lobster.'

What are the Dems running on this fall? And what are they running away from? Well, they are running away from Obama, climate change, healthcare, tax increases, and the economy. It's a tough year to be a Dem, unless you happen to be very popular locally.

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FYI--the untruth goes on and on and on . . .

http://www.fastcompany.com/1687613/leadership-when-women-rule-the-c-suite?partner=leadership_newsletter

#1 another one on 2010-09-14 09:51 (Reply)

"Emerging adulthood"? I blame the parents. I have too many associates who just can't seem to turn loose of their adult children (including my wife!) and want to continue to make excuses for their children's continuing childhood.

I guess I was a truly old-fashioned father, who started making it clear to my boys who was exactly responsible for their behavior... and it was not me. Put into the dadism category "Life is tough, then you die" and "grow up, leave home, get a job, get an education", I love you son, but life is outside my four walls, its time to get your own. Started that second mantra during their high-school years.

Even found out my wife blamed me for their leaving home. One time during an argument her true thoughts came out "I'M not the one who kicked your son out!". The empty nest comes hard to some people.

So I did make it clear to my sons I expected them to leave home the soonest they could. I encouraged college, the military, and trade schools for both of them. Both of my sons left home, got jobs and moved away. They both are law abiding, tax paying, job holding home owners and one even saw fit to get married and present us with two grandsons.

I won't say it was easy for either of them, learning to budget their own money, do their own laundry and house cleaning and car maintenance, etc. etc. etc. My youngest did move home for a year at 24 when his lease expired and he needed an excuse to get away from a 'friend'. It was at the end of that stay we had that above argument.

(They're 28 & 29 by the way)

So again, I lay the total blame of the kids not wanting to grow up on their parents. Why should they? Mommy does the laundry and the dishes and the house cleaning and their only responsibility is to breathe. If they are not EXPECTED to do anything, then the parents and society gets just what is expected.

#2 JoeC on 2010-09-14 13:37 (Reply)

Testify, Joe!

#2.1 Bird Dog on 2010-09-14 20:13 (Reply)

JoeC ... You sound like the one grown-up living in your house. Congratulations. Has your wife decided when she plans to join you? Your attitude sounds to me like the way I was brought up -- You are responsible for your own mistakes, and for solving them, but we'll help you try to do it. We'll give you the best education we can afford, but you'll have to help, too. I'm informed by my husband and dear friends that I turned out pretty well, but I know it was a group effort. If either my mother or my father had opted out of the group effort, it wouldn't have worked.

I watched a PBS program a year or two ago about Italian young males, many of whom are still living at home into their late 30s. As you say, Mommy, who is old and gray and has arthritis, is still doing their laundry and all the cooking and the dishes and will probably continue doing it until she drops dead at the sink.

Now, I ask you ... does a young man brought up this way sound like a good husband or a burden?

Marianne

#3 Marianne Matthews on 2010-09-14 15:00 (Reply)

Excellent, JoeC. I've told mine - 2 girls - that if they expect to be happy through a long and varied life they need to find, develop and manage their own lives. Their lives, whatever and wherever they are, are not and cannot be, within mom's and dad's four walls.

They have and will continue to receive help under the single condition that hey are helping themselves by moving forward. Regression is not acceptable. Stagnation is not acceptable. It is joyfully obvious that they are each happier as they struggle forward under their own steam. Much more pleasant to be with than when they are aimlessly "exploring their potential". They are fast learning sensible frugality and the value of work, rest, and play. I am enjoying their blossoming adulthood even more than they.

"...think of ways to expand some of the programs that now work so well for the elite, like the Fulbright fellowship or the Peace Corps, to make the chance for temporary service and self-examination available to a wider range of young people."

Hogwash! Think of ways to reduce, not expand, this sort of nonsense.

Many parents, both mothers and fathers, are strangely reluctant to push the fledglings from the nest. I love my daughters dearly but we've given them just about all that it is beneficial for us to give. We are enjoying our journey back to being primarily husband and wife rather than mom and dad. What goes around comes around.

#4 Knucklehead (Link) on 2010-09-14 17:43 (Reply)

That DOJ suit against Arizona? Next target - ICE!

http://www.wtop.com/?sid=2051253&nid=25
"Immigration officials now plan to incarcerate illegal aliens when they're arrested for drunken driving"

#5 John A on 2010-09-14 19:31 (Reply)

I read the Powerline item on race and conservatives. The Dem leadership and the race-baiters made themselves look like the champions of minorities by giving them goodies. Not equality, not opportunity, goodies. And the conservatives are saying, "Goodies are stifling you. We want you to have opportunity." So the Dem leadership and the race-baiters can claim, falsely, that the conservatives are trying to take away the hard-won prizes that minorites have gotten.

#6 Geoff Brown on 2010-09-15 10:21 (Reply)

I read the "Leftist Dogma" bit and came to the conclusion that currently we have one political party in America and the main difference between the two factions is cultural.

#7 M. Simon (Link) on 2010-09-18 08:19 (Reply)

My #2 son is in Russia on a Fulbright. He teaches English and American Culture to Russians at Smolensk University. He has a rather subtle and subversive turn of mind. Well schooled in libertarian thought. A delayed action bomb for the Ruskies.

BTW his major in college was Russian Language. Graduated with honors from a nice mid-west school.

He worked for two years after graduation and only went the Fulbright route when the job market hit the skids and he was laid off.

So how do I feel about all that? Well he is learning how good he had it in America (you have no idea of the morale value of regular hot showers until you have done without). And a Fulbright always looks good on the resume. He will be back permanently in a year and we will see where we are then.

He hasn't lived at home since he left for college (full ride).

#8 M. Simon (Link) on 2010-09-18 08:39 (Reply)

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