How it should be. We didn’t spend trillions propping up the horseshoe, canal, and Conestoga wagon industries. We let them die as the technology and market demand moved elsewhere.
Now isn’t that what all those “capitalists” surviving on government tax breaks and bailouts say they are actually for?
Here’s an idea: let’s quit feeding our kids crappy, unhealthy food. I love the idea of exposing kids to a variety of food that is actually good for them.
And yes, when parents stop thinking McDonald’s is a food group, maybe they’ll learn to eat stuff that actually looks like food and isn’t bland.
The world has a variety of people, cultures, religions, music, arts, languages, and, yes, food. Live a little, learn something, expand your palette and maybe even your life span.
Conservatives always go on and on about how they are the patriots. They are “compassionate” and “Christian” and defenders of freedom and liberty. They “support the troops”, implying of course that YOU do not. They have been “taxed enough already”.
In this political season, we have seen these put as a lie. Mitt Romney pays less in taxes than even a tight slot machine gives in payouts. Angry conservative debate crowds have yelled for people without medical insurance to die, have heckled gay soldiers, cheered on Newt Gingrich as he calls minorities lazy welfare cheats, and so on.
This past week, Jan “Bruja” Brewer, governor of Aryzona, decided to push this a little further, wagging her finger in the President’s face like he is a schoolchild in need of a lecture.
Here’s how it actually looks:
Folks still say this isn’t about race. They are either deeply deluded or just moronic.
This is not about policy disagreements, this is disrepect. From Joe Wilson a couple years ago to this (already established) racist governor, this is about the president being black. We’ve had parties since right after the dawn of this nation and barring slave owning senators beating other lawmakers, we normally don’t get this level of hatred and outright uncivil behavior.
This isn’t a drunk guy in a bar pissed off. We’re talking governors, and senators and representatives in the national government. Arguably among the top 600 or so folks in our nation, behaving like angry Klucker mob members.
It needs to stop. There is NO hope for any of that mob to ever earn my vote again, but for the good of the nation – and for their own good as the face of this nation changes – it needs to stop.
As much as I would truly love to see more Robotech, as this article suggests, a lot of remakes of late have been utter disappointments for longtime fans.
Either way, would be nice to see them try.