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OUR SOULS!!

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 25, 2007 1:48:51 PM
11/25/2007 9:26am PST

     It is scary.  I truly begin to worry about the future my grandchildren and great grandchildren will inherit.  Maybe I read too many different kinds of things.  The brain has been and is one of my most favored subjects.  I have tried to read as much a I could about the progress being made in the brain.  No so much how we think, as to why we think as we do.  Science is getting particularly scary.  While you and I discuss the price of stuff, buy and sell stuff, live our lives and look forward, too many of us have no idea just what the "scientists" are discovering, nor, how those who wish to dictate to us how to live will use the new information coming from every place on the planet.
    When I was much younger, I had that naive belief that humankind would overcome the obstacles inherent in just being alive.  That what ever good was being discovered would help everyone, everywhere, equally.  That, is not, however, how it happens.  For a very long time I couldn't understand why it happened that way.  Today, of course, I do.  It is not economic but a political reality.  Not all humankind will get the help and attention it needs, no matter who says differently.  No matter what the demands may be.   And even when, as our "artists" have discovered, something is attempted, it usually doesn't get too far without the corruption of the locals.  Ask Madonna and Angelina!
     Stalin certainly didn't care about humankind.  Millions on millions of his own people were killed and others as well because he could, in spite of his personal political world view do as he wished and there was no one to stop him anywhere on the planet....like,  Mao, Pol Pot, Idi Amin Dada and so many others around the globe.  No matter what you and I think, feel or want, these types of evil don't care.  And, no makes them have to care.  We, the Western world, has attributed to these maniacs and those that have have followed in their footsteps for decades, the equality of law and diplomacy.   As if they care
     But, is that any different that what we have done in our countries?  In Europe, the remnants of their past continue to plague.  For the Europeans, diplomacy is the only way to secure your own while holding off the inevitable.  They have finally begun to see, perhaps too late, what Islamofascists actually are and want.  What they need to understand is that their leaders of all sides gave these folk a legitimacy necessary for their success not to mention that they sowed the seeds of their own destruction.
     In America, we have done much the same with the gangs that now plague every sector of society, one way or another from poor to rich.  We did not deal with the problem and therefore, gave them a legitimacy necessary to prosper.  They themselves never did anything but take care of their business as they saw fit regardless of what "normal" society wanted.  Today, we continue to pay for that blindness(?) and lack of will.  Who profitted from the decades of mayhem and murder as they grew into drug cartels all over America?  Corruption permeates every level of society.  Nothing is immune....hmmmmm.
     But, the scientists continue to delve deeper and deeper into what makes us "human"...the why and how of it.  Someday, they will be able, in vitro, to clean up the personality to a great degree.  But, they will never be able to penetrate the soul of us.  Perhaps that is where the hope lies, our soul.  Let's hope so.
    
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FREE SPEECH?????

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:16:00 PM
11/25/2007 8:56am PST

     Nah!!  At the San Francisco Chronicle and various left wing sites, they are using a cute little widget thingy that deletes comments they don't like, but...and here is the whole point, the deletion doesn't show up for the commentator....only, I suppose if the commentator uses a different ISP address or computer.  There are cookies to follow.
     Hillary Clinton should be asked about this but probably won't be.  However, I think this is pure silliness.  But I bet those people who advertise on these sites might not think this is good business.  Deleting comments without letting the commentator find out about it is deceit!  But it is also deceit for the site to promote larger numbers than they have if, eventually, the deleted commentators drop off as they surely will.   Foolish!  This is crazy stupid to think preventing free speech on your site by deleting does away with it.  Why else would they take this road?  It is a road they think is less traveled....they forget about Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Muslim Brotherhood and, of course, their friend, Hugo Chavez.  Start with the Net move on to guns.  Different road, same end for the those that wish to dictate to us how to live.
     The left has tried for decades to drown out any speech but theirs and it worked very well.    The Internet has changed all of that.  Not completely, but certainly has made it much harder for them to hide.  I can not only read what they said, but often I can watch them say it.   Then, I can watch as they change their tune and restructure what they said in print or video.  But, their words live on and I can compare what they said yesterday to today and make up my own mind.  I do not have to be a zombie.  I have a brain and can use it.
     What I truly have a hard time with is people I know who see storm clouds overhead on a clear sunny day!  That scares me.  I wonder what type of mentality you have to have to end up like the tinfoil hatted leftist loons.
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ANTI Who???

Posted by Sue on Monday, November 19, 2007 1:04:04 PM

11/19/07  10.00 am PST


ht/  littlegreenfootballs.com and Robert Spencer of jihadwatch.com:


The Truth About Anti-Islamic 'Hate Crimes'

Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 9:28:49 am PST

Robert Spencer links to an FBI report on US “hate-motivated crimes” during 2006, showing the truth behind the constant claims of victimhood from Islamic advocacy groups: FBI hate crimes report for 2006: Jews over 5 times more likely to be attacked than Muslims.

Anti-Black 3,136
Anti-Jewish 1,027
Anti-White 1,008
Anti-Male Homosexual 881
Anti-Hispanic 770
Anti-Female Homosexual 192
Anti-Islamic 191





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Smart, Smarter, Smartest

Posted by Sue on Monday, November 19, 2007 12:36:58 PM
11/19/2007 7:46 am PST

I read about these stats (which Prof Campos says I can't understand) decades ago.  At the time the scientists were shut up.  Hammered at because "equality" was a New, albeit a stressful need in our society.  I personally didn't understand why they couldn't speak.  Today, I do.  But, I distinctly remember that "EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY " for all was the consuming dictate in the very late 60's and early 70's.  That was the premise of the NOW chapter I was a member of.  Of course, when the bra burners took over the Movement, things changed.  But, realities are realities and must be faced.  Short is short, tall is tall and all the rest is important too!    

From PoliPundit.com with permission:                                        


"The Right Conclusions

Bring up the words “IQ” and “race", and you’re stepping into a minefield. But Slate’s Will Saletan draws the right conclusions:

Last month, James Watson, the legendary biologist, was condemned and forced into retirement after claiming that African intelligence wasn’t “the same as ours.” “Racist, vicious and unsupported by science,” said the Federation of American Scientists. “Utterly unsupported by scientific evidence,” declared the U.S. government’s supervisor of genetic research. The New York Times told readers that when Watson implied “that black Africans are less intelligent than whites, he hadn’t a scientific leg to stand on.”

I wish these assurances were true. They aren’t. Tests do show an IQ deficit, not just for Africans relative to Europeans, but for Europeans relative to Asians. Economic and cultural theories have failed to explain most of the pattern, and there’s strong preliminary evidence that part of it is genetic. It’s time to prepare for the possibility that equality of intelligence, in the sense of racial averages on tests, will turn out not to be true.

If this suggestion makes you angry—if you find the idea of genetic racial advantages outrageous, socially corrosive, and unthinkable—you’re not the first to feel that way. Many Christians are going through a similar struggle over evolution. Their faith in human dignity rests on a literal belief in Genesis. To them, evolution isn’t just another fact; it’s a threat to their whole value system. As William Jennings Bryan put it during the Scopes trial, evolution meant elevating “supposedly superior intellects,” “eliminating the weak,” “paralyzing the hope of reform,” jeopardizing “the doctrine of brotherhood,” and undermining “the sympathetic activities of a civilized society.”

The same values—equality, hope, and brotherhood—are under scientific threat today. But this time, the threat is racial genetics, and the people struggling with it are liberals.

Evolution forced Christians to bend or break. They could insist on the Bible’s literal truth and deny the facts, as Bryan did. Or they could seek a subtler account of creation and human dignity. Today, the dilemma is yours. You can try to reconcile evidence of racial differences with a more sophisticated understanding of equality and opportunity. Or you can fight the evidence and hope it doesn’t break your faith.

I’m for reconciliation. Later this week, I’ll make that case. But if you choose to fight the evidence, here’s what you’re up against. Among white Americans, the average IQ, as of a decade or so ago, was 103. Among Asian-Americans, it was 106. Among Jewish Americans, it was 113. Among Latino Americans, it was 89. Among African-Americans, it was 85. Around the world, studies find the same general pattern: whites 100, East Asians 106, sub-Sarahan Africans 70. One IQ table shows 113 in Hong Kong, 110 in Japan, and 100 in Britain. White populations in Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States score closer to each other than to the worldwide black average. It’s been that way for at least a century.

Remember, these are averages, and all groups overlap. You can’t deduce an individual’s intelligence from her ethnicity. The only thing you can reasonably infer is that anyone who presumes to rate your IQ based on the color of your skin is probably dumber than you are.

Indeed, there’s no point in trying to deny the results of decades of IQ tests, and the realities of today’s world. But every one of us deserves to be treated as the unique individual that he or she is. If there’s one constant that’s truer than experimental data, it’s the ability of people to defy expectations and surprise you.

I’m going to paraphrase some advice on how to use this data in everyday life: Labels are for canned food, not people. I am what I am.

-- PoliPundit"

With this said, it is more important in the long run, in my humble opinion, that every individual have equality of opportunity.  Without it, it doesn't make any difference how "smart" you are anywhere in the world, but especially here in America!  I fought for equality of opportunity but I lost that battle and have lived to see the road to hell paved, not with gold, but the liberal intentions of the past forty years!!
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Which side?

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 18, 2007 6:54:13 PM
11/18/2007 3:05pm PST


     Have you or do you know, read or hear someone that you honestly believe must  live on Mars because their viewpoints are so faaaaar away from yours?  I know a few that I know and can avoid discussing anything other than pleasantries when we're in the same room.  I generally don't "listen" to anyone that is outside my life view.  But, you can't help read them if you're on the Internet or read magazines, even occasionally read a newspaper.  Honesty demands that you "link" over even though your blogger is telling you that you won't believe this or that.  Or, you're considered in my book, hard headed!!  I try not to be too hard headed.  But, ladies and gentlemen, it is very hard work. 
     I pay for a Friday-Sunday newspaper delivery.  I know, I know..it is a waste of time according to most, including me.  But, I am still old fashioned enough that the Sunday paper has some decent stuff.  There are sales brochures for all those nifty stores (I did say I was old fashioned) and then there are the coupons, which I use when shopping and that actually pay for the subscription which is truly a pittance.  So on Sunday armed with scissors, reading glasses and coffee I sit down to "read" the Sunday Paper!
     This week is was unfortunately the week that my local rag the Orange County Register lets Professor Paul C. Campos, Colorado,  do his editorial bit.  Every time that man writes, I read to see if, per chance, this particular Sunday the man might manage to come somewhere near my universe.  Today I didn't even look at his headline,  just his picture and put the Commentary Section (as the editors call it) off until I got back from, yes, shopping!!  I started this post because of Professor Campos, he of the other Universe and when I needed to actually see the correct spelling of his name, I also read the headline and lo and behold, my blood pressure started to go up.  This changed the slant of this post.  Here is his headline:

               "Average American can't be accused of overthinking things"

     The esteemed Professor has a word there that the software of the blog underlined in red...in other words, something is wrong with the word.  So I ask "Answers.com" and this is just a bit of what I get about the word:  overthinking

             "Analysis paralysis is an informal phrase applied to when the opportunity cost of decision analysis exceeds the benefits..." 

              Then there is this:

            "Casual Analysis Paralysis can occur at any time, regarding any issue in typical conversation. Usually however, analysis paralysis occurs during more elevated, intellectual conversation. Analysis paralysis involves the over-analysis of a specific issue to the point where the issue can no longer be recognized, and the subject of the conversation is lost."

     Gosh, the Professor actually has written a piece that is paralyzed by his very own analysis, and in the process calls the Average American like you and me,
dumb, dumber and stupid.   The Prof thinks it is because of a "anti-intellectual populism".  This is found "as part of the right-wing backlash" or Fox News viewers when there are "smarty-pants professors!" His exclamation point.   Wow!!  He can actually see you and me when we are watching Fox News.  How's that for new technology....or according to Orwell, maybe not. We are not very smart.  We don't read books he says or understand statistics.  We are ignorant of other countries or our own history.  Wow!!  Professor Campos, have you put me in my place.  Thank you very much your Intellectual Genius, Sir.  I am too dumb to see that 95% of the educational establishment in this country hates it.  Too dumb to see that the politicians want money and power and from their places in office they get it....think Murtha, Byrd, Steven, Hillary, Reid, Pelosi, Feinstein. 
     Why yes,, professor big brains, you are so smart.  You know so much.  Somehow your job (tenured? is it?), making above 100K per annum PLUS all those perks your union has gotten you at the expense of my taxes and my kids gives you the insight to call me stupid!  Wow, talk about analysis paralysis!!!
     It is truly too bad that professor campos (he does not deserve any capitals) is so analytically paralyzed.  He might actually discover that we are human beings unlike his holiness campos who is a member of the Hominidae.
     For now folks, I will go get a cup of tea and hope this campos nut gets out of my brain.
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What would you say?

Posted by Sue on Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:26:54 PM
11/14/07 12:08 pm PST

     I was just sitting at my computer reading news, blogs, opinions etc., and  I had a thought....this one stuck, however, so I am blogging it: 

           If 90% of the educational apparatus is LIBERAL,

           If 90% of all the reporters, publishers, writers in the media are LIBERAL,

           If a large portion of the government bureaucracies are Liberal,

           If the agencies that protect Americans at home and abroad are 90% LIBERAL,

           If 80% of actors, movie studio personnel, staff, writers, producers are LIBERAL,

       and they only represent about 20-30% of the American population, WHY DO WE LET THEM GET AWAY WITH THEIR LIES?  Why do we allow them to brainwash our children?  Why we do allow them to use our tax money to help and support illegal aliens, criminals, crooked politicians at all levels to name just a few categories?
     I believe it is because we were not paying attention.  It's tough to pay enough attention when both you and your spouse must work to keep food on the table, a roof over the family's head and on and on and on.  So for most Americans who have kept their noses to the grindstone for decades making sure this country worked, it is a surprise to find themselves on the short end of every stick out there. 
     We bought the toys, cars, furniture, houses, watched DVD's, paid for movie tickets, donated to every "glitch" the earth went through, our churches, our schools, our communities and kept the damn economy above water.  All we get today is in your face "ignorance, stupidity, gross negligence, hatred, racism, Jesus bashing". 
     Time to tell 'em, every one, to stay the hell out of your house, your television, your movies, your perks, your money...time to tell 'em to go away or we they will forfeit the benefits of living in this great country.  No more nice guy!  We will not rent DVDs, go to the movies (oh well, we're not going now), but we will prevent our kids from going and listening and question every assignment of every teacher of every level of school from K to Phd if we have.  Time, ladies and gentlemen, to get it "ON". 
      WHAT DO YOU SAY?
    

   
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17 Million!!!

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:54:31 AM
11/11/07 8:47 am PST


     That's how many illegal, er...undocumented aliens there are in the U.S.   But wait!!  That 17 Million is adults only!  What that means it that there are over 30 million undocumented (illegal) aliens.....(the average family consists of 2.87 people...but I didn't include kids).

     If the Libs are right that there are 47 uninsured Americans, then they are asking you and me to pay for the health insurance of over 30 million undocumented.  How are you with that?

     I take it personal that the Libs want to protect undocumented aliens before they want to protect our kids.  Instead of making health insurance something we can get a credit against taxes, they go and propose a tax increase of over 2 TRILLION (thank you Rangel!).

I mean, folks, let's get real!
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Extra cash???

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:47:27 AM
11/11/07 8:44 am PST



(57 million households) to 63.5 percent (73 million households).”

Summarizing, here is the progression of Americans with discretionary income:
– 1983 - 33%
– 1987 - 30%
– 1997/1998 - 52%
– 2002 - 52.1%
– 2003/2004 - 51%
– 2006 - 63.5%

Wow, I thought the tinfoil hatted leftist loons and their presidential candidates have said America is very bad, not doing well and unless we elect them, America is lost?

Do you believe that stuff?

Me either!
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Competent Integrity????

Posted by Sue on Tuesday, November 06, 2007 12:04:42 PM
11/06/07 8:44 am PST

This sounds great, in theory:

     "Undermine guerrilla cause and destroy their cohesion by demonstrating integrity and competence of government to represent and serve needs of the people - rather than exploit and impoverish them for the benefit of a greedy elite."

     Now, of course, you must find sufficient people who have integrity and are competent enough to govern.  And, you now need to find sufficient people with integrity and competence to be governed.  The USA is, in fact, the first experiment of its kind in human history precisely because we tried to become a society of people with integrity and competence.  Our Founding Fathers knew that it would take a long time to achieve a majority of just such people.  They did not, in my humble belief, believe that it would turn our any other way.  Today in America, we have finally seen that this wonderful experiment appears to be failing.  A majority of its people hate this country precisely because it wants to be what they hate the most: honest and competent.  The majority of human history back tens of thousands of years has demonstrated that the difficulty of finding sufficient numbers of good and honest people willing to govern the ungovernable is almost nonexistent.  Torture and death have been the result in every period of human existence.  We think this past century, because most of us are alive in it, is different.  It is not.  Those whose hate is so deep will never see what their future truly is because they are led by those whose goal is to kill the American experiment fully and finally!!

     The post I responded to is on Windsofchange.net and had to do with torture.  Primarily,  the actual concept of torture and what could or could not be achieved, how others responded to it, etc.  However, in my viewpoint, the issue is far more basic: are there enough "good" people in the world that are competent and have courage and integrity to try and undertake helping others govern  the ungovernable?  That you see, is what I think Bush did and he thought, at the time, that it was something feasible.  But, is it?  An old adage I heard long, long ago was it takes three (yep 3) generations for a "concept" to pass away.   I have seen it begin to happen with race, gender, sexual mores and more.  What I don't think anyone thought would happen was that a group of people, aided and abetted by America haters, would be able to move the bar of living to such a low and disgusting degree.  Those of us who thought we had embarked on a competent path full of integrity were naive.  I know that I felt good about getting rid of race hatred and giving all genders the equality of opportunity.  I never thought, then, that there were people in this country who hated it enough to destroy it from within.  But, from what I've seen these past few years it is so obvious I am ashamed I didn't see it sooner.  That awful hatred  has been there decades or more and I truly believe that the majority of it adherents are not aware of exactly what they have brainwashed to do.   I pity them and us!





 
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NOW? No Way!!!

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 04, 2007 11:53:56 AM
11/04/07 8:50 am PST

LATE 1960's
     Back in the day, I marched at what was then the ABC Entertainment Center;co-busted my company's dress policy with my gay, female boss; threw out my dresses and bought only pants and helped found a local NOW Chapter...all before the gals burned their bras and became Feminazies. They did nothing for me, a middle class mom with three kids whose ex did not help support. The choice I had from them then was leave the kids with someone and go to college. As has been the case for centuries, the poor or the very rich make it. The middle class, a fairly new group on the planet, pays for everyone else's assistance, but gets no help. Make no mistake, these are females, not women. That they do not and many don't know the difference is a sad state of affairs in 2007 of the new century!! Ask Hillary and the current prez of this group what exactly, with specificity, have they done for the middle class woman these past forty years...you won't get an answer cause there isn't one. Hillary is a Queen Bee and those women 40 and over will remember what type of insect this is on real women everywhere, but particularly in the workplace.

p.s.  NOW= National Organization for Women (an oxymoron)

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Worth a 1000 Words...

Posted by Sue on Sunday, November 04, 2007 11:49:44 AM

http://www.clevelandseniors.com/images/quiz/famous/bill-hillary-clinton.jpg

Hippies will always be hippies.

SEE WHAT I MEAN???
11/04/07 8:48 am PST
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Return to life???

Posted by Sue on Saturday, November 03, 2007 7:44:42 PM
11/03/07 4:31p.m. PST

I am an atheist, have been for a long time.  And, yet I do not find the following brief examples anything  but hopeful for those family and friends of individuals in comas.  There are mysteries in the Universe which many would choose to call miracles of their gods.  I don't.  But that doesn't stop me from understanding that our understanding is so minuscule as to be laughable.  Unlike Hitchens, I have respect for others'  belief systems.  The only people who offend me are those who use religion to exact death to others.  The entire article appears in the Weekly Standard and I encourage everyone to read it:

 Awakenings
The Schiavo case revisited.
by Wesley J. Smith
11/05/2007, Volume 013, Issue 08


.....Beyond these and other unexpected spontaneous awakenings, there is the news that some patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state may actually be cognizant.
.....On October 19, only months after being nearly dehydrated to death when his feeding tube was removed, Jesse Ramirez walked out of the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix on his own two legs...
...,,there is the news that some patients diagnosed with persistent vegetative state may actually be cognizant. This discovery stunned the scientific community after doctors conducted a sophisticated brain scan upon a supposedly deeply unconscious British woman. Unexpectedly, the scan looked, well, normally reactive to stimuli.

"This article is reprinted with permission of The Weekly Standard, where it first appeared on 11/05/2007. For more information visit www.weeklystandard.com."
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Bile rising.....

Posted by Sue on Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:17:52 PM

Sometimes, the bile arises early when reading the leftists responses to posts on the blogs I frequent and then the response is something I keep and so I will keep it here.

Posted by Sue at November 3, 2007 11:13 AM

No matter how long I live I will never be able to understand people like Tom in Houston and others above that just make the concrete assumption that every reader/listener/commentator is conservative. They cannot understand that in order to make good, honest choices in anything, to know the product thoroughly is the only way to decide. As to the "we've made up our mind" issue....in my particular case, you are right. I got spine jitters about Johnson, Carter and both Clintons..all before they got nominated. It has to do with the projection of a person's self. That Hillary has tried to hide behind her wall is indicative of the fact that she understands completely, as do her handlers, that if she were ever to be who she really is, even 20% of the time, she would turn off voters like the plague. When and if the Liberals find a good honest person willing to help all Americans achieve success without ideology, then you bet your bippy I would support them. Just short of voting age I loved Kennedy and his brother even with what I now about them now, I still love them. But something bitter and ugly began to slither in the underbelly of this country with their deaths and subsequently the Johnson Administration and the Hippie Generation...nothing good can come out of drug induced and free sex exploitation on a generation and nothing did or has. Go back, read history and it not only repeats itself over and over, it get nastier and nastier as each rollover occurs. I just thank the Universe that I had a chance to live my life in a country that was the one and only great experiment on the planet for a hope of freedom and justice for all. That hope for the future is gone and I pity the future inhabitants of the planet.
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Sometimes.....

Posted by Sue on Friday, November 02, 2007 3:35:12 PM
11/02/07  12:24 pm PST

     Sometimes my thoughts are ahead of the news....such was my post on Hillary Clinton nee Rodham.  How was I to know that she would begin to prove my thesis at the Democratic Presidential Debate just ended?  Even the iron lady has a difficult time keeping every bit of every bit in the world at her fingertips.  Oh well.  That certainly won't last once nominated.
     And, then today, lo and behold, a picture of Hillary at her college graduation pops up on MichelleMalkin.com! How lucky is that for me?  Check it and make your own judgement about what I said in my previous post.   If I were more techie, I could probably find a way to reprint that here, but I am not, alas!!
     Then, I find that fully 8 out of the top 10 blogs are my daily reads.  But not just that, I come across a site that shows the most visited blogs and again 5 of mine are in the top 10.  What are the odds of that?  Again, if I were a bit geekier, I would post the image of the Internet put together by MIT students I believe.  It is a picture that resembles a galaxy and the denser points are the most visited blogs.  But, not only can't I post it here, I have to spend lots of time trying to find it again.  I am sure I bookmarked it, but to which bookmark?  And although I try not to bookmark all, there must be a couple of hundred sub marks under the 4-6 dozen bookmark folders.  See what I mean....I am helpless.  Too old, not enough time and not geeky enough.
     Boy, but am I having fun!!
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Life Sucks for College Graduates!!

Posted by Sue on Friday, November 02, 2007 3:22:30 PM

11/02/07

The World's Smallest Violin
Think you've got problems? Let Ken Ilgunas offer you some perspective. Ken's got problems, and the Buffalo News has generously offered him space to tell the world about them:

I am 24, live with my parents, can't find work and am floundering in a sea of debt five figures high. I think of myself as ambitious, independent and hardworking. Now I'm dependent, unemployed and sleeping under the same Super Mario ceiling fan that I did when I was 7.

How did this happen? I did what every upstanding citizen is supposed to do. I went to college. . . .Upon graduating, I was helplessly launched headfirst into the "real world," equipped with a degree in history and $32,000 in student loans. Before ricocheting back home, I would learn two important lessons: 1) There are no well-paying--let alone paying--jobs for history majors. 2) The real world is really tough.

At one point, Ken was so "desperate" that he even considered working for a bank or an insurance company! "I had hit an all-time low. Could I surrender my soul for health coverage and a steady income? Could I sacrifice my ideals by falling into line?" Our hero stood firm:

My loan payments can't wait much longer, and soon I must leave home to find work that doesn't compromise my integrity. Although I sometimes wonder what it would be like if I had declared as an accounting major and got a cushy job punching numbers somewhere, I'll take my history major, my debt and my mom's cooking any day of the week.

Of course, if he had majored in economics, he might understand that government subsidies are a reason college costs are so high. Anyway, he can always take the Brady Center approach: You don't like debt? Drop out of school.


Permission granted to reprint via James Taranto of Opinion Journal courtesy
of the Wall St. Journal published October 26, 2007.  Why waste everybody's
time when good writers put it out there.  Thanks James!!
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