Displaying 0 To 0 Of 0 Comments Sally » Posted By SueInCa On November 16, 2011 @ 2:27 pm Child sexual abuse – a moral failure Em Not only did the school know but there is info floating around that the people who helped him run the foundation also knew at some point. Not one person thought about the victims for very long, if they had, there would have been reports. Is it any wonder that victims do not come forward themselves? I like football as much as the next gal or guy but in this country we have taken all sports to a ridiculous level. the players are heroes, no matter what they do, Michael Vick comes to mind. They are paid salaries that are far more than their play is worth but it is the almighty Super Bowl, World Series, World Cup,Basketball Championship that is the be all end all of sports. What if they played those games for charity? Would that be so bad? It might just earn the respect people give freely because they are entranced with hero worship. The same goes for Actors and Actresses whose salaries are out of sight. They both have their “behaving badly” issues, some worse than others. » Posted By SueInCa On November 13, 2011 @ 3:29 pm KQ Another thing folks can do is support them year round by supporting the kids. I was buying school supplies for kids at Beale AFB when I lived in Rocklin. This is the organization I give to year round. http://www.mvpsoa.org/index.asp » Posted By SueInCa On November 11, 2011 @ 1:29 pm Weekend Music Thread – Animal Attraction Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 1:41 pm KT Some other girls did Spanish Flea and were making fun of us saying they were going to win, too bad for them……….not » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 1:39 pm Jenuin I hear you we had a Beagle named Cheney and the day we had to put her down was so sad at our home. Looking at pics every now and again, that sadness comes back, she was so sweet » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 12:48 pm Cher » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 12:28 pm Cher » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 12:27 pm » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 10:50 am How Much is that Doggie in the Window » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 10:42 am Lobo – Me and You and a Dog Named Boo » Posted By SueInCa On November 12, 2011 @ 10:41 am Funk You know I ave always been on the fence with Gates. He always seemed to be reasonable and honest but I have been known to make errors in people judgment before. From reading this I believe he would be fascinating to sit and talk to about all his exploits. He has some pretty deep thoughts about people and countries around the world. There is definitely nothing shallow about Gates. » Posted By SueInCa On November 15, 2011 @ 4:24 pm Cher http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-29.htm https://planetpov.com/2010/04/01/coalition-of-church-and-state-the-influence-of-the-rrour-response/ https://planetpov.com/2010/03/22/coalition-of-church-and-state-part-3-the-players-and-organizations/ https://planetpov.com/2010/03/15/a-coalition-of-church-and-state-part-2/ https://planetpov.com/2010/03/10/a-coalition-of-church-and-state-part-1/ https://planetpov.com/2010/03/09/a-coalition-of-church-and-state-introduction/ https://planetpov.com/2010/03/27/coalition-of-church-and-state-the-family/ » Posted By SueInCa On November 11, 2011 @ 12:48 pm Cher The assumption that moral absolutes exist as surely as mathematical or geological absolutes constitutes the first. These moral absolutes include many of the oldest and deepest assumptions of Western culture, including the fixity of sexual identities and gender roles, the preferability of capitalism, the importance of hard work, and the sanctity of unborn life. More importantly, not only do moral absolutes exist, they are clearly discernible to any who wish honestly to see them. The Christian Right has developed this sense that they are constantly under siege and are always defending their civilization from outside attack. Perils posed by the “mainstream media”, public schools, enemies of traditional family values are particularly sinister. They feel they are attacked constantly by the media and they especially object to the “perceived” way their children are treated in our schools. Their children are manipulated with the teachings of evolution, while “creationism” is not a part of the public school ciriculum, they are not allowed to pray in school, unless they do so privately. They claim the old-fashioned academic standards have been watered down and schools do not “clarify values” but rather teach students that their parent’s ideals are replaceable at will. They feel the traditional family is beseiged on all fronts, the media, schools and the government whose policies encourage abortion. They also believe that the ERA encourages divorce and fatherless families as it denies security to woman and corrodes the tether that has kept men bound to responsibilities of home and family. There was even more in part two regarding their mindset. This piece just brought it all back. » Posted By SueInCa On November 10, 2011 @ 3:28 pm LIVE BLOG: GOP Debate on CNBC – 5:00pm PST Night all, I have had enough of the GOP for one day. Sleep well everyone » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 7:26 pm Wow my daughter has some, I am gonna take one lol » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 7:25 pm Hell I am bringing the whole pharmacy » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 7:20 pm I could never do a GOP debate. I would spend too much time asking for explanations of their wacky ideas, then taking a bottle of adavan to calm myself down. » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 7:16 pm Thanks Sally I thought I had missed it for good. » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 6:33 pm Chit, I went outside and missed Perry’s flub » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 6:28 pm Are these people forgetting who turned F&F into a quasi government agency and bailed them out? ARe the moderators too dumb to hold their feet to the fire? Yes and yes » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:47 pm hands up » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:44 pm CNBC did not show one regular citizen with their opinion. They just proved, we don’t matter » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:33 pm You and me both » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:30 pm Newt the salamander “What?” » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:24 pm Republicans are so stupid, Huntsman right before them and they are backing jokers. » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:19 pm Cain your backers have no values » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:17 pm We are not going to talk about character issues Maria » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:15 pm Taxes solve all the problems, plus fences on our southern border says batshitcrazy Bachman » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:14 pm Me too Sally » Posted By SueInCa On November 9, 2011 @ 5:07 pmComments Posted By SueInCa
I read your story this morning but was not sure how to respond. It touched me very deeply and I just was not sure how to react to that. I am lucky. I guess, I have never known someone personally who (at least) admitted to such a situation and quite frankly I am not sure how I could handle it. We all have our stories of what we may have presumed as abuse, restriction for a week, the phone taken away, no social activities for a week etc, but they truly pale in comparison to your husband’s story. I know you remind him all the time how much he is loved and hopefully someday it will help to lessen the scars somehow. I am praying it will for him.
The Lonely Bull
When I was in the 8th grade, my friends and I had a slumber party and decided to teach other how to dance. We played this song all night long trying to get our dance moves right. It worked too, one of the girls, Joanne and I did a routine for PE and we won the competition. Only we did our routine to this
Me and my mom too. We used to sing it in the car when we were out on errands. I think it was sung by Patti Page.
We have a Shih Tzu and he is as far from admitting guilt for anything as George Bush. He sometimes acts like a cat. He will lay on the sofa and lick his paws then rub his ears to clean them. Of course he is spoiled beyond belief, probably why he refuses to look guilty!
Read Howard Zinn’s essay on Nationalism. You will get a hint of at least a partial reason. I was thinking about doing a post here on it. Also posted the series on the christian right for you, not necessarily in order
In reading this, my mind went back to my series on the Religious Right. I covered some of this in that series but focused mostly on the Religious Right. One thing that really struck me was this explanation by Harvey Wacker, Professor of the History of Religion in America at the Duke University Divinity School these are degrees to which they take their thinking:
The assumption that metaphysics, morals, politics, and mundane customs stand on a continuum constitutes the second cornerstone of the Christian Right’s world-view. Specifically, ideas about big things like the nature of the universe inevitably affect little things, such as how individuals choose to act in the details of daily life. And the reverse. What one thinks about the nature of God, for example, inevitably influences one’s decision to feed—or not to feed—the parking meter after the cops have gone home. Contrary to the facile assumption of mainline Protestants, influenced by the Enlightenment, it is not possible for the Christian Right to draw easy lines between the public and the private spheres of life. (There is evidence that the Christian Right abandoned Jimmy Carter at precisely this point—when he announced that abortion should be legally protected in the public sphere, although he would not countenance it in the private sphere of his own family.)
The Christian Right further assumes—this is the third cornerstone—that government’s proper role is to cultivate virtue, not to interfere with the natural operations of the marketplace or the workplace. The Christian Right remains baffled by the secular culture’s apparent unwillingness, on one hand, to offer schoolchildren firm moral guidance in matters of sexuality, truthfulness, honesty, and patriotism while, on the other hand, proving ever-so-eager to engineer the smallest details of the economy. Why should conscientious, hardworking law-abiding citizens be penalized by mazes of government regulations? Why should the irresponsible, the lazy, and the unpatriotic be rewarded by those same public institutions?
Finally, the assumption that all successful societies need to operate within a framework of common assumptions constitutes the fourth cornerstone. Since the Western Jewish-Christian tradition has provided an eminently workable premise for the United States for the better part of four centuries, it makes no sense to undermine these premises by legitimating alien ones. The key issue is not so much what would be permitted as what would be legitimated. Many, perhaps most members of the Christian Right feel that it is one thing to permit dissidents to live in peace, quite another to say that any set of values is just as good, or just as functional, as any other set.
Professor Wacker describes the Christian Right in this way:
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