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You Can't Call a Pretty Girl Pretty; What Kind of Country Are We Becoming?

AD15 Wrote: Jan 11, 2013 12:03 PM
It is far better that your daughter NOT be pretty. I have observed over the years just how much trouble attractive girls have gotten into. They are vain, selfish and are easily manipulated by flattery. An attractive woman with two children was turned by the flattery of her boss. She divorced and married him, probably only to find out that he was shining the apple. It happens time and time again. Better to be good, smart moral and godly than to be pretty. WHY? Because the beauty WILL fade. And all you have to live with then is the vanity and selfishness.

Before examining the ridiculous controversy stemming from Monday night’s college football championship broadcast, let us stipulate that there are more urgent and scary ways to describe the current changes in America.

We are becoming a culture of dependency. We are becoming a neo-socialist experiment. We are becoming a dumbed-down nation unappreciative of its founders. We are losing touch with the Constitution and the very concept of liberty.

I do not argue that today’s essay is our most pressing problem. But as scores of fine writers address the various angles of our republic’s dangle from a precarious thread, I thought I’d venture...

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