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Thursday, August 29. 2013

I Say, How Did Hard Work Become a Conservative Value, Rather Than a Human One?

When was hard work a human value, other than in Northern Europe? A human necessity at times for most (other than the warriors and the princesses), but a "value"? In Genesis, wasn't labor a punishment? Those of us who love hard work and 14-hour work days may be the crazy ones.

Top 5 Reasons Why Vegan Diets Are a Terrible Idea

Also, bear in mind the statistical fact that most people preoccupied with diet and food and health are a bit neurotic. "Health nuts," as they are termed.

Annals of Intolerance, Tulane Edition

America's Race Grievance Industry

A Devastating Affirmative-Action Failure

Plenty of black kids aren't too smart. Plenty of white and hispanic kids too. What's the big deal? Most people are not exactly scholars, are they?

Prager: A Speech Every American High School Principal Should Give

Sex hurts

I have seen more lives damaged or destroyed by sex than by drugs or alcohol.

The WaPo oversimplifies the value of college education

Are You Ready for the Post-College SAT? Employers Say They Don't Trust Grade-Point Averages (WSJ paywall)

DOJ Declares Atheism A “Religious Movement”, Eligible For Religious Tax Exemptions

Let's make Maggie's Farmism a religion.

Photo: The Anti-war protest rally over Syria

Syria: "So let’s get this straight: 100,000 people are killed by bullets and
nothing happens, then 500 people are killed by gas and it’s War!"

Kentucky students tell Michelle Obama: Your food “tastes like vomit”

Newark plans a toy gun exchange on Friday.

Israel wants fertility, but...

Colorado Boy Asks Nation Not To Find His Missing Little Brother

DOJ
Declares Atheism A “Religious Movement”, Eligible For Religious Tax
Exemptions - See more at:
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/08/insane-doj-declares-atheism-a-religious-movement-eligible-for-religious-tax-exemptions/#sthash.hU5WRAPA.dpuf

The
Washington Post Oversimplifies The Value of College - See more at:
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2013/08/the_washington_post_oversimpli.html#sthash.5tVG3Ced.dpuf

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Regarding your comment about "hard work," it is clearly a virtue in Judeo-Christian theology. When is the last time you read the book of Proverbs in the Bible? There is a nice treatment of the value of "hard work," drawing on Proverbs, here .

#1 blcjr on 2013-08-29 07:17 (Reply)

Re: the Kentucky child's opinion of Ms Obama's lunch menu, knew he was from Harlan County when I saw the headline. They don't take much guff up there. Or maybe I need to quit watching Justified.

Read Sowell's, Black Rednecks and White Liberals then ponder how deeply the virtue of hard work is ingrained in Scot/Irish culture.

Sex hurts, well anything done irresponsibility and immoderately does.

#2 walt moffett on 2013-08-29 08:48 (Reply)

The value of hard work....it's not that the Progressives don't "get it", it's that they can't sell it.

I was thinking the other day about how difficult it was to counter the Leftist "ideology". Not because it is substantial or well-thought out. No, it is candy in a world with a sweet tooth. It's not hard to get people to take candy when they really like candy and all they they have to do is get in the van. It's harder to get them to delay the instant gratification and continue that long trudge, often in the rain, evan though taking the candy can mean something terrible down the road.

#3 JKB on 2013-08-29 08:56 (Reply)

Well as the old saw goes, you can't reason people out of beliefs they can't have reasoned themselves into.

That's why one of the best counter-Leftist strategies is to point and laugh, loudly. They don't have to get why you're laughing, so long as everybody watching does.

#3.1 T.K. Tortch on 2013-08-29 09:39 (Reply)

Re: Vegan Diet

Most of the creatures I eat were vegans or vegetarians before they got to my plate. That's good enough for me.

#4 Bodie on 2013-08-29 08:59 (Reply)

re Employers Say They Don't Trust Grade-Point Averages

This may be a similar story:

The test, called the Collegiate Learning Assessment, was developed with employers in mind, specifically those who distrust the grade point average that is supposed to indicate if a college graduate is ready for work, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

A recent study of grade point averages has shown they have risen for the past seven decades with the percentage of As given out in 2008 triple the percentage given out in 1940.

But many employers say that college graduates, despite higher grades, are not necessarily prepared to join the workforce, the Journal said.

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/2013/08/26/New-test-post-graduation-to-cut-through-GPA-doubts/UPI-88171377540343/

#5 feeblemind on 2013-08-29 09:01 (Reply)

re DOJ Declares Atheism A “Religious Movement”, Eligible For Religious Tax Exemptions

It is interesting given what California is trying to do:

A California bill that could strip tax-exempt status from Little League, the Boy Scouts of America and other “discriminatory” nonprofit youth-serving groups could come up for a final vote this week.

One critic said it could even threaten an exemption status held by a church.

“Traditional values regarding heterosexuality are being branded as the legal equivalent of racism, and so there’s the quite genuine fear that the tax code really is the battleground against the traditional churches,” said Alan Reinach, executive director of Church State Council, which opposes SB 323.

“It’s not about ‘live and let live.’ If the churches do not conform to the values of homosexuality, then we will lose our standing in society,” he said

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/aug/26/california-bill-targets-tax-exempt-status-for-disc/

#6 feeblemind on 2013-08-29 09:10 (Reply)

Read Sowell's, Black Rednecks and White Liberals then ponder how deeply the virtue of hard work is ingrained in Scot/Irish culture.

All True Scot-Irishmen know that it's very hard work to stay shiftless and idle all the day long, and that a drink or two helps one bear the strain.

#7 T.K. Tortch on 2013-08-29 09:23 (Reply)

The irony of Obama attacking Syria because of WMDs that originated in Iraq is priceless. So who benefits from this attack? Al qaeda or Hezbollah? First he is in bed with the muslim brotherhood now with al qaeda!

#8 GoneWithTheWind on 2013-08-29 10:45 (Reply)

Re Syria: We are 99 years, two months, and one day past the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, which began the events that led a month later to the first world war. That's just a reminder of how quickly things can get out of control. The leaders of our government and governments around the world today are no brighter or more clairvoyant than those who bumbled their way into WW I, but they have a lot more powerful array of weaponry at their disposal. Even for President "I'm the Smartest Guy in the Room," stupidity at the highest level of national leadership is a constant of the human condition. As far as the public can see, there's nothing happening in Syria's civil war that warrants precipitous US involvement, no vital US national interests at stake that require military rather than political action on our part.

#9 Agent Cooper on 2013-08-29 13:48 (Reply)

Just saw this over at The Volokh Conspiracy. It defies comprehension and signals surreal world

QUOTE:

Is Martin Luther King’s Dream Unconstitutional?

by Nick Rosenkranz on August 28, 2013 3:11 pm in Affirmative Action, Constitutional Law, Equal Protection

Fifty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke these immortal words: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” He would have been mystified, one imagines, by the question presented in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action: “Whether a state violates the Equal Protection Clause by amending its constitution to prohibit race- and sex-based discrimination or preferential treatment in public-university admissions decisions.”

#10 JKB on 2013-08-29 18:59 (Reply)

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