The first thing I thought about when I read the 'kitchen workers' had been working 18 hour days to make meals, only to have them mooched off by homeless and recently-released criminals, was this: "From each according to their ability, baby. To each according to their need. They need it, and you have the ability. You want Marx and the socialist utopia, and this is a perfect example. Why aren't you smiling?"

Where did the money go? Good question. Nobody knows. I saw a quote somewhere, but unattributed, of a "former employee" who said "they wasted money right and left" (at Solyndra). Well, it went to line somebody's pockets. I know it didn't line *mine*.

I actually have a lot to say about this, but I can't. No matter what I do, I get the 'inappropriate language' flag. I've read over my post with a fine toothed comb, and I can't figure out which words are bad. 'State'? 'angry customers'? Sigh.

I was in line the other day behind a woman who claimed to have taught school for 36 years. She was very angry that day, ranting about how the "next time she saw some Tea Party people protesting in front of the post office, she was going to knock one of them down." I offered for her to hit me, but she declined. Then she went on to rant about Governer Whats-his-nose in Wisconsin, and how she has a cousin in Wisconsin who was just fit to be tied, and something equally angry about those horrible vouchers. I declined to inform her that one of the reasons (among myriad) why I homeschool, is because I wouldn't want to subject my children to somebody like her for 7 hours a day. (This was in Marysville, WA).

Almost every woman I know who has children conceived at least one of them despite correct use of contraceptives. I myself conceived a year after a "successful" sterilization using the Essure procedure. And I think, having made every effort to avoid conceiving, abortion thus becomes genuinely justified in the eyes of the pregnant woman, her family, and/or the man in question. You didn't want a kid, so you used condoms/the pill/the sponge/whatever. Didn't you prove you didn't want one? Now you're pregnant anyway, so dammit, the kid's got to go. I wonder what percentage of women are bullied (directly or through abandonment by their support structure) into abortion, who would otherwise never carry it through?

Years ago, my parents ran a fast-food restaurant in a small town. They paid their employees, mostly unskilled workers in their teens, the going minimum wage, with opportunities for merit raises. But along came the state every so often and said, you have to pay them more because they have to have more, regardless of whether they have earned it, or deserve it. The fast food industry is a razor-thin profit margin business. My parents were stuck with the three unpleasant choices as follows: Pay more, but give people fewer hours to work (meaning poorer customer service), Pay more, but fire the lower performing people (meaning poorer customer service), or raise their prices. Customers disliked all three choices. Only those earning the...

For the dwindling population of Great Depression survivors like my grandmother, voting Democrat is like breathing. My father tried very hard to get her to THINK before voting for Obama, but he was a Democrat and so she had to vote for him. She is 97. She is entirely unaware, and not interested in learning, that the Democrats of today are very unlike the Democrats she think saved the country, when she was a young woman. She would no more vote for a Republican than flap her arms and fly. I suspect a lot of people are like that.

"...I could write for a lifetime on the problems with the 50 serfdoms that masquerade as states..."

This is quite possibly the most important line in this entire article. The states have become serfdoms. Or as I have described it, the states have become counties in the Great State of DC. Money funnels out of the states, directly into DC (via income taxes and I suppose other taxes) and then DC decides how much, if any, will be returned to those same states. If the states do not obey, they are punished financially by not having their money returned.

I wonder what would happen if the states refused to take that money back? What if they refused to have their internal affairs controlled by money? Of course they would suffer...

I picked up a book by this title, a withdrawn paperback from the local public library. It looks hip and fresh, looks like the sort of thing you can hand to your teen and let her read - about body changes during puberty. Right? Wrong.

In this book are: at least one chapter on sex, where they list "good reasons to have sex" as "If you want to" "If you love your partner" "If you are using a condom" and reasons not to as mostly, don't get pushed into it. Oh yes, and parents are subtly mocked for not understanding you.

There is also a chapter on abortion. It guides young women who do get pregnant, to have abortions. Adoption isn't mentioned. How to get by, get a diploma while your child is in the school's daycare, and be...

http://evilslutopia.com/2007/01/gardasil.html

There is zero chance I will be taking my 4 daughters for this vaccination. Even if it is mandated. Period.