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Alex[_6_]

John H. wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 18:09:24 -0500, Justan Olphart wrote:

On 2/2/2016 5:02 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/2/2016 4:21 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 15:30:17 -0500, Keyser Söze wrote:

On 2/2/16 3:28 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 12:01:05 -0800 (PST), True North
wrote:

Y'all seem to want to bend over backwards to protect hate speech.
No wonder ' merica is so screwed up and getting worse. Sure hope it
doesn't spill over the border when y'all implode.
Freedom of speech is EXACTLY protecting the speech you hate.

As soon as you let the government decide which speech is worthy of
protection and which is not, you are on your way to a dictatorship.

Bull****.
I bet you were not saying that when guys like me were still defending
the rights of the protestors in the 60s, right up until they started
blowing stuff up.
I disagreed with what they said but I understood they still had the
right to say it.

It seems that the left is actually the least tolerant of anyone else's
views. You only have to look at a college campus now to see that.

In our lifetime we have witnessed a transformation of the USA from a
creative, resourceful nation populated with people who demonstrated self
initiative, responsibility and accountability. Those classic values
have been replaced with a dependence on "government" to provide for and
take care of all. That mentality also comes through
loud and clear among the young college students. They don't know any
better because they don't know anything else. It's only us old farts
that remember what it was like 40-50 years ago. Sad.

My next door neighbor's son graduated college last year. He's been
laying about her house and he isn't looking for work and doesn't
volunteer to do any chores around the house. She doesn't know what to do
with him. So she's enrolling him back in school. That'll make him so
smart he'll be over qualified for any job he's capable of doing. What a
life!
When my daughter graduated high school she went to George Mason University. At the
end of her first year she was on probation because she played around too much. Told
her I wasn't going to foot the bill for that anymore, and that she could go to a
community college and get her grades up. She wanted to just hang around the house -
no job and no college, much like the kid you mentioned.

I told her she could stay, but it would cost her $250 a month for food and lodging if
she wasn't going to school. She moved out, and moved in with a bunch of other girls
in a townhouse. That lasted a bit over three months. She then decided to go to
community college, got her grades up to a 3.0 average, got accepted to George Mason's
nursing program and became a nurse.

Sometimes a bit of 'tough love' is called for.
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Ban idiots, not guns!

Perfect example on why it DOESN'T "Take a Village..."