The future belongs to those who show up. It's not left vs right, it's anti-life vs pro-life. Burning Man, trans, abortions, self-indulgent consoomerism are pure demoralization. Be a rebel - raise a family. Perhaps soft arranged marriages will return: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/natal-conference-2025-remarks
Have you seen a young leftist progressive lately? Between the female obesity, facial piercings, odd hair coloring, tattoos, low testosterone scrawny males...The idea of summoning up a sexual urge and completing it appears to be as repugnant to them as it is to me.
Mike, some also opt out of disciplining their children. My daughter is seeing this. And the children act out with hitting and not listening BECAUSE they want limits!
I wonder how those statistics on birthrates would change if they factored in the murder of unborn human beings by abortion? Progressive birthrates would shoot up if they'd stop murdering their own flesh and blood? But I don't think they will, these are evil people. Also, with all the LGBTQ abominations these cretins further reduce their genes from the gene pool.
I think God will also hold them accountable for all their evil ways in perpetuity. We might be witnessing a two fer? One, by reducing their population here on earth, and two by burning in hell for murdering their children and participating in deviant relationships which cannot create life but does devastate it like the disastrous sickness of grooming children into transgenderism and homosexuality.
A glimpse of the countries that have the highest birth rates is ogrounds for dejection, perhaps making you wish to make your own personal birth rate zero. 😐
India always comes to mind. But I remember seeing decades ago that the entire population of India could be fit into Texas. (I was corrected; actually the quote was that the entire world’s population could fit in Texas.)
The numbers are not the problem, it’s governmental mismanagement.
Poor people without land get crowded into cities.
Anyway, India’s problems are not ours, and a poor excuse to not have children, IMHO.
In my area, majority highly educated leftists, the trend is to have dogs and cats, not children. The trend is so strong that a historical hospital, an anchor of the neighborhood, recently shut down its birthing center because of lack of need. Many of these middle aged and young professionals and ‘trust fund’ recipients were probably born there. One of my DILs was.
They pay thousands for their dogs, who will be dead in a dozen years or so and claim to be their mommy’s and daddy’s.
@Willing Spirit actually it is even more profound than that. The entire population of the world can fit inside the state of Texas! The over population myth has always been a lie from the pit of hell. I think of Mother Teresa, who said “saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers.” 💐
And what a beautiful quote from Mother Teresa about children and flowers. I know she spoke to how very impoverished we are in the West to believe we can’t afford children.
I had four with midwife deliveries, both my daughters had midwife deliveries, also- a total of 13 babies delivered with little fuss or muss and nothing like hospital costs.
In contrast, I recently experienced another situation in which 8 to 10 professionals were involved in the pregnancy and delivery and a crazy amount of equipment was purchased for the child care.
I thought if this is how complicated and expensive having babies is viewed to be these days, no wonder no one wants to do it.
Plus so many women have to be breadwinners and back in the workforce ASAP.
Muslim countries are the ones that come to my mind. They have many ‘wives’ and each one has several children. And talk about a ‘death cult’. They worship death, but know that they need many children to use as human shields and those they can strap a bomb to, if need be. They hate Christian’s and Jews more than they love their children.
Exactly on target CStone. 'Emigration' by muslims is simply a method of conquering land. Do you hear me Minnesota? Do you hear me Indiana? Do you hear me Michigan, California?
Wake up people! These states are also pushing for Shariah law. Womens rights? Non existent. Honor killing, FGM, slavery is the rule.
Golda Meir: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us".
Totally accurate. We’re just back from the land of uber Progressive Seattle, where dogs *easily* outnumber children.
On a side note, please pray for us: yesterday we welcomed a 15-year old boy (that we used to know as an 11-year old from Seattle) to foster.
In my mind’s eye, this kid was supposed to still be the 4-foot- something little Afro-headed child we knew from 2021.
He stepped outta the social worker’s car at now 6’2” and probably 210. (I’m sure I looked ridiculous trying to hug him.)
What a life change for all three of us! My wife (57) and myself (almost 63) have raised 5 responsible productive adults. We are as “white bread” as white bread gets. (Next challenge is to figure out how to take him on vacation with us to St. Maarten.)
They obviously should keep their best and brightest. I believe what President Trump says about Biden’s unvetted flood of illegals. A country would ‘have been’ stupid not to unload their undesirables onto us.
Also, being retired, I’ve seen or sampled a lot of movies and there are quite a few about evil, scary children that might make vulnerable insecure young adults think they don’t want any.
Between the population explosion lies and the negative depictions of life with children, a lot of people have deprived themselves of the joys of parenting.
But if they fell for the deceptions, maybe it’s best they didn’t reproduce.
I wish the ones ‘transitioning’ the children had remained barren.
So true. The Democrat's party faithful embrace abortion on demand, sexual perversions, same-sex "marriage" and government over God. It's not a winning formula once fully exposed which is what Trump and the GOP have been pretty successful doing in recent years.
Speaking of Burning Man…..consequences of Biblical proportions at their ‘festival’? Their ‘orgy Temple’ destroyed, fierce dust/dirt storms/floods, disease, possibly an electrocution?
It’s interesting that a Bay Area tech-oriented group decided to retreat to the desert for a week-long meeting-of-minds and thus generated an entire new ecosystem of computer science. Yeah, interesting.
I went with a friend, back then - a very nerdy academic guy. It turns out that lots of seminars are held from thought leaders around the world, meetings he attended and I didn’t because I was focused on a different objective.
You seem to believe that with freedom comes licentiousness, which imo speaks more to what is in your own heart.
Lots of misconceptions about BM. I went from 2005 to 2010, back when there was no internet connectivity, which has probably ruined it a bit. It's like any city, if you are looking for seedy orgy-type stuff you can find it. There's also an AA camp and different denomination church services on Sunday morning for example. One thing is for certain, the art is amazing and it's mind blowing the creativity that people put into their camps, especially when you consider that they have to drag it out there then home again when it's all over. And yeah, weather happens. Go figure.
I went in 07. Basically to experiment with a tiny-house idea I had, made of SIPs- Structural Insulated Panels, but also to try and see what kind of life I could craft for myself, like if I was living on mars. Total self-reliance. It was a big experience for me. I vowed to go again but with my wife, but unfortunately haven’t yet.
Cool project! Yeah back then tickets were like $50. Now it's cost prohibitive, to me anyhow, which is my major beef. It's not like they added infrastructure. '07 was the year that guy (forget his name but he's since committed suicide sadly) climbed up the man on Monday night and lit him on fire during the full lunar eclipse. They charged him with arson and rebuilt the man just to burn him again as scheduled. I though that was lame. Went against the whole ethos IMO. They shoulda just went with we decided to let the man burn early this year.
I haven't been there, but I've been to smaller similar events and I agree. It's also worth mentioning that psychedelics when used properly and carefully can be amazing for moving through personal blocks, trauma and other issues, or they can turn into just another party drug used for escape.
I haven't vetted the accuracy of all the facts alluded to, but I have read other articles claiming the festival was a 'peace' rave. Many of the kibbutz attacked apparently were a very liberal segment of Israeli society.
Thank you for that. I had heard it was a psytrance festival, but didn't make the connection. About 3 years ago, I attended a smaller psytrance festival. A large number of the people seemed to be dealing with trauma and perhaps other mental health issues. The music seemed to be an escape for them, enough so that when the sound system went down for about 20 minutes, a number of them got quite anxious. The drugs of choice were MDMA and ketamine. The serotonin depletion crash the next morning was palpable especially to me given that I hadn't partaken in anything more than a small dose of a certain fungal medicine. I can't imagine what it must have been like at that festival, although perhaps most of the attendees were not dealing with as much as those at the festival I attended.
Two more thoughts: First, it gives me hope that there is a subset of Israeli society that is working towards peace. I wonder if there have been any efforts among them to build bridges with the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
Second, I heard a story this week about a physics professor who, as a grad student, loaded a water gun with enough LSD dissolved in DMSO to give a near instant trip to whomever was squirted. DMSO is a universal solvent and will quickly transmit anything dissolved in it through the skin and into the bloodstream. I wonder what would have happened if the ravers were armed with such water guns and sprayed them on the Hamas terrorists.
Pre-dating Newscum's Law Enforcement surge in CA, is Denver Mayor Mike White Privilege Johnston; More Cops hired and deployed downtown, Layoffs to save his City budget and pissing off his City Council as he culls out some internal opponents and trims largesse due to his Sanctuary City Immigrant Expenses that FEMA and Feds failed to reimburse him for. Our future CO-Dem Machine selected Governor or Senator building his "centrist, mainstream" resume without jettisoning too much of his LEFTIST Bonafides
I have long said, Chjunke, that homosexuality is a choice, another sin. The oft claimed adage 'I was born this way' is a tacit admission that all of us were born into sin with the ability to opt out through the grace of Jesus. Will we struggle? Yep all the time.
If homosexuals were 'born that way', it would be eliminated in one generation. Thus they constantly recruit new members into the lifestyle.
You mean those folks crowing about my choice, my body? (where were they during the covid vaccine mandates?) And then there's all that singing about about sexual freedom, and not needing a man? Why... if I didn't know better, they're bitter old crones, with nobody to love them, grow old with them, and then, nobody to care for them as they die alone.
Yeah, you had your freedom. And your choice. And you mocked God's plan for families.
Maybe you'll wake up and have regret, and choose to support and promote the choice to have families - avoiding the mistakes they've made.
Or they can continue to be bitter old crones - too selfish and angry to think about others.
Two of my brother’s 3 daughters married last year. One hyphenated her name, the other kept her maiden name, no hyphenation. Need I add, they are east coast progressives.
Ouch. But just to be clear, LM, not all east coasters are progressives. I have spent my entire life on the east coast and am as conservative as can be. And there are lots of us.
Same for the West Coast. I have lived in California most of my life. Most of my 10 siblings and I are all firmly conservative and have now raised conservative children of our own. We were all fighting hard against the government overreaches of 2020 and are still fighting.
Yes, my sister & hubby moved to So Cal due to a job change about 15 years ago. Strong conservatives who managed to pass that on to their 2 kids who now live in OK and TX. With the kids gone she has gotten involved in some political groups and said they are growing.
Bill - you’re right. They’re there. It’s just a bit difficult to find conservatives in New England and many are leaving. I grew up in Florida but my husband and I were in MA for 15 years because of business. Thankfully I met five other conservatives volunteering politically and the six couples became fast friends over the years - truly wonderful women and fabulous husbands and we all got along so well!
But I just couldn’t take the authoritarianism of the elite MA mentality during covid and because my husband could work remotely, we got outta Dodge and back to Florida. It was night and day different re the freedom. Two of the other couples also left for the South (one here & the other SC) - and these two had roots elsewhere. You’d think the leftist states would examine why they’re losing population but it seems, instead, they’re just doubling down. It’s insanity. We enjoy the common sense governance here!
My brother and sister in law are both from conservative area of Michigan. Settled in Delaware and started their own company. All 3 girls were born out there. I sometimes think my brother and SIL became liberal just to spite their relatives back home. The two older girls are definitely liberal, the one asked for donations to Planned Parenthood for her birthday. Needless to say, the only one who donated was her mother. And now my brother and SIL have retired to the coast of North Carolina on the South Carolina line. 🤪
Hyphenating or not changing your name may have little to do with politics.
It’s a lot of paperwork to change your name, & also if you’re married to an Italian it’s not common to change your last name. Maybe people are just busy!!!
Working multiple jobs is very tiring & changing your name is not a big deal when you have a lot of other things to think about.
I’m a happily married conservative woman who kept my maiden name for multiple reasons. My husband is not a soy boy (in the least, lol). There are some times when it makes sense and it’s not a political statement.
I kept my maiden name as I had already established myself in business under my maiden name. Names are important in my line of work. I didn’t have kids which I deeply regret, but I’m still married for almost 39 years!
Brought up conservative, became liberal in college and slowly found my way back. Owning your own business does that.
Back in 1984 when I married, I considered the options. My “maiden” name was just my father’s surname and hyphenated names were destined to break down with the next generation. I opted for taking my husband’s name, which I liked, and then when we divorced, I kept it after checking with my 3 boys who wanted us to share a last name. Once established in my career (went back to law school, graduating at 40), I wasn’t going to change my name. Lots of valid considerations at play for people. As a divorce lawyer, I have not seen any “trend” or correlation between name choices and marriage breakdown ;)
Valarie…. And I as well… and a conservative… and married to my first husband, no remarried do overs for half a century… and as odd as it may seem, I kept my maiden name and hyphenated out of heritage pride. When asked back in the bride to be stage why I wanted to hyphenate, my answer then is how I still feel… “ why should I give up my proud of Irish name to my soon to be new husbands German name?” Eventually that custom for us evolved into naming our ranch a symbolic combination of Irish and German… “Claddagh~Haus Ranch” so the inspiration way back in the early 70’s to hyphenate was purely 100% individual Irish heritage pride… my identity is Irish not German, but I married a German heritage conservative so proudly combined the names into my new married life… nothing to do with politics.
"Heritage pride." That's the way I feel. As a newly-married, I considered hyphenating my own last name to include my mother's (hidden) heritage, and was happy if my wife wanted to do the same. If the kids wanted hyphenated names, I was okay with that too, figuring that primitive tribes probably have difficulty with their family trees too.
In the end I opted against it because neither my mom's nor my dad's surnames reflected their own bifurcated ethnicities. "To represent everybody in my gene pool" would have required a BOATLOAD of hyphens... ...and I'd never have been able to remember how to spell my surname the same way twice (and would have ultimately, naturally, resorted to abbreviation WHICH I submit might be the rationale for all those nearly-all-consonant last names).
It’s actually how they officially name people. Typically the mothers name is on the end and although the fathers name is in the middle it is still the last name. First names many times are the same as the parent depending on the sex of the child and it’s the same as the mother or father. Not always but very often
So say the mother’s last name is Gomez and the father’s is Rodriguez and the mother’s first name is Maria then the female child would be “Maria Rodriguez Gomez”.
I can respect that, but not knowing the multiple reasons, I can only go by my own experiences with maiden name keeping, all I know have ended in divorce. But then I am also surprised by how many long pre marriage relationships ended in divorce, after figuring out one of the couples wanted kids, the other not. That would seem to be something to discuss over the years together.
Welllll my first marriage I took my husband’s name and it was a terrible marriage and ended in divorce. This one has been going strong for 23 years. Guess I’m just an anomaly. 🤷🏼♀️
I've got one of those too. Second marriage after being married 13 years to a card carrying witch, We're on our way to 43 years MARRIED! Another anomaly I guess.
Same! First marriage was AWFUL! Second time around, I kept my maiden and tacked on his, we celebrated 20 years last week. No kids though. Between first marriage ptsd and health things, wasn't in the cards. You really can't judge a girl by her name and whether she has kids.
I was in a long term relationship (12 years) and it felt like a divorce. I would not have changed my name to his. I didn’t respect his family and we wouldn’t have ever had kids so no need
I knew a woman from an old New England family, now in her 80s, who said it was common there for women to be given no middle name at birth, the assumption being that their maiden name would become their middle name upon marriage. They were very proud of their surnames.
Agree...same here. Never minded being called Mrs. Husband's Last Name. Both daughters took their dad's last name. One is now an attorney and the other a dentist, both with 2 kids. They have kept their maiden names like I did.
If you think about it, in today's society husbands may come and go, but you will always be your parent' daughter!
Ditto... I was married before when young and took my husband's name then -- it never fit (I'm an Anglo and his family was from a different ethnic background). We lasted two years and I reverted to my maiden name and kept it the next time. It was a bit inconvenient when our son was in school, but it's never been a real problem. Doesn't make me feel any less married or committed.
Mine too, 50 years ago when it simply wasn't done. Caused a lot of problems in the first few years, with banks, airlines, and especially my English traditional parents.
Way back when we used a travel agent to go somewhere she put my husband’s last name on my ticket. It was easy to change a ticket at the airport in those days and luckily we had time, but it cost me 25 bucks! I was pissed, that was an entree at a really good restaurant! 😆
yeah, well in 1979 + / - we accompanied my English parents to Cornwall and London for a vacation they paid for. They used my last name on my wife's ticket. Fine coming over. Not so much on the return. The ticket agent asked for ID, and when her passport did not match her ticket., she said no can do. Had to go two levels up the line to finally get on board. My wife has never had an ID of any kind in my name. I told my parents once and for all, knock it off. Not funny anymore.
My mom writes checks to us for Christmas and puts our first names and my husband’s last name. Grrrrr, she’s old, but it’s hard to complain about Christmas checks …. and they go through! 😆
I am almost 47 getting married for the first time and I am not sure if I will change my name. It’s been a long time with my last name. Not in a career field I feel I need to keep my last name. I’m leaning more to changing it but not sure
We were in our mid 30s when we met. Married soon after, but my wife, an M.D. adopted my surname nearly 35 blissful years ago. Not at my request, but as an act of love/faith.
When your husband is Italian it actually causes more complications to take his name. Especially if you don’t change all the documents. Some countries just don’t do it like America so it’s not a reason to judge anyone. It’s a ton of paperwork on top of already tons of paperwork for your husband to get a green card..
the US makes it very hard to marry another citizen, especially if you aren’t rich!!
They expect them not to work while you wait for their documents. For like 6 months. It’s quite absurd, and the alternative is living in separate countries for months right after getting married, or living together in the same country and one person working illegally. It really needs to change because why can’t the spouse work immediately after getting married & remain together.
Why should regular people suffer for other people who use marriage fraudulently to be in the country?
It really is dumb if you’ve ever experienced that system you would know.
So expensive and also we used a lawyer to help because everything is so complicated.
It’s especially infuriating when you see the ease *illegals* have had getting in the country and staying here, getting all kinds of free stuff too 😡While those who do it the right way have to jump through millions of hoops and make all kinds of sacrifices.
My daughter-in-law kept her maiden name and gave our grandkids her name instead of our son’s, (ours). I thought we raised a strong young man, but underneath he’s spineless. Even took the shots at his wife’s nudging. All we can do is pray!
Well i am conservative even though i did not change my name when i got married. Of course i was already a published author and well known in my field. My husband says he kept his maiden name. ;-)
When I remarried, late in life, I kept my maiden name... for a couple of reasons. I am the LAST person in my family (one of two girls) and have no kids to carry on the name. My dad was the only male in the line. Secondly, I've been known by this name for so many years, online and otherwise, I'm not sure if anyone would know who I was with a new name. We are moving to another state (soon I hope) and at that time I will change it on documents etc. My husband doesn't mind and thank goodness understands my reasons. Has NOTHING to do with feminism. 😊
Why does keeping your birth name make one a progressive? Are women property? Are we living in medieval times? Should we really care if a woman keeps her birth name?
The most disturbing part of your comment to me is using the label ‘progressive’ which continues the division of humans….using LABELS (specifically government/political labels). And this is exactly what big government/world government wants!……to keep us divided.
Don’t label a book by its cover. 😊 We humans are so much more than a label.
Just to be clear, you can't judge a book by its cover as they say. Some countries require a woman keeps her birthname upon marrying, so many of them hyphen that to their partner's name; doesn't make them progressives. The kids, they get dad's name...
After a span of close to 50 years I learned that my "first love"-who never married following the ending of our 5 year relationship in '78 when she "just needed a little more time"-finally DID marry...and hyphenated her name. Did I dodge a bullet or what??
I hyphenated my name in 1986 when I got married. I liked my maiden name and my married name so I kept both. Dumb idea in practice though…long name. It was kind of trendy too since Farrah Fawcett-Majors led the way on that idea back then.
Just found out that the "Orgy Dome" (apparently ~5,000 revelers each year partake) at Burning Man was destroyed this week by a howling sandstorm. What a fitting symbol of mother nature saying enough is enough.
To those that can grasp it… the future is bright in the midst of falling birth rates… if you choose to raise a large family in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
Rush Limbaugh was telling us 30 years ago that the Left was going to abort itself out of existence. Just shows how incapable progressives are in recognizing and anticipating unintended consequences.
Yuri: the family is placed at the heart of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love. (Credit JPII.)
It only takes a couple of generations for a population committed to self-pleasure and self-worship to begin (literally) disappearing. They've aborted and contracepted themselves into oblivion. And YET they remain committed to their cult religion of self-worship.
You left out the trans-mutilation and the homosexual part. It is nihilism. The demons and their father satan hate everything that is lovely, every good report, and humans are at the top of their hate list.
Demons/nephillim/fallen angels/satan are irredeemable and their jealousy over the plan of Redemption is hate-hate-destroy.
Yuri, I think your conclusion not unlikely, as this generation of unvaxxed children of unvaxxed parents will need to be extremely cautious about future romantic engagements, and may well wish to involve their parents in the search for spouse. I am thinking of my own grandchildren.
I wonder how those statistics on birthrates would change if they factored in the murder of unborn human beings by abortion? Progressive birthrates would shoot up if they'd stop murdering their own flesh and blood? But I don't think they will, these are evil people. Also, with all the LGBTQ abominations these cretins further reduce their genes from the gene pool.
I think God will also hold them accountable for all their evil ways in perpetuity. We might be witnessing a two fer? One, by reducing their population here on earth, and two by burning in hell for murdering their children and participating in deviant relationships which cannot create life but does devastate it like the disastrous sickness of grooming children into transgenderism and homosexuality.
I have come to realize the tenets of the far left affected citizens are TOTAL REBELLION against God-given precepts...and they are suffering the consequences of their rebellious folly--JEHOVAH reigns supreme.
All this talk of "reforming" the CDC makes me scratch my head. The CDC started out by spraying DDT all over the south, then inherited and ran the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment for almost 30 years, have been active in gun control, pushed many unsafe and ineffective vaccines, and was at the forefront of the Covid madness. They are a leftist dominated political organization that is funded by the very industry they are supposed to govern. We would all be better off if there was no CDC at all!
re: "I’ll leave it to you to speculate over why progressives are so deeply devoted to this failing “public health” agency."
They are deeply devoted to ALL of the government agencies THEY HAVE BUILT to dictate to us how are lives will be run, what we can do, where we can go and how we will end - the pLandemic and the jab being two of the worst crimes against humanity THEY CREATED with their "public health agencies". Every created crisis ("climate change", energy shortages, housing and appliances, public education, mental health like these deeply sick and crazed "transgender" retards and the rest of the LGBTQ loons, mass murders at gun free zones) we have endured for decades has BEEN CAUSED BY THEM and their agencies!! Create a crisis, impose your draconian stupidity on the rest of us, and hopefully kill us, or incarcerate us if they can.
So, you are right Jeff, "many other gov agencies" are not only not necessary, they are a deep and continuous threat to our lives and our children's lives. It is the "Institutional Democracy" they have built to ruin our Constitutional Republic. They are obscenely devoted because these agencies have for years been run and staffed BY THEM. They are why government is so damned big and an octopus like leviathan pulling us under, and into their ocean of disdain, despair and death. Everyone saw what they look like in the dysfunctional wide spread slime and abominations of the autopen tyranny.
Thank God for giving us President Trump back to hopefully do as much damage as possible to this unholy bunch of evil damn people. We must continue to massively support our President as they will never stop trying to use their "institutional democracy" to destroy him, and us.
They create a problem. Then create and staff an agency to address the problem, but not solve it. Continuous problem. Continuous employment. Luckily, we're finally able to fight back. Long slog ahead.
I’ve always thought of the CDC as a useless, inaccurate and ineffective agency. Their only proficiencies are bending over for Pharma and fear mongering. Truly a failure and a waste. We don’t need that agency any more than we need herpes.
They are the opposite of scientific.
Every single one of those people can be replaced by unbiased AI.
Can you imagine these employees of the CDC (Cry Demoncrat Cry) crying and shaking? What if they had to face something really life altering? And these were the lowest common denominators making and enforcing mandates. Round them up and run them out. All they are good for and capable of are cleaning toilets.
Floridation was the third “accomplishment.” All touted as beneficial modern day medical interventions but all lead to death. The first on the list is immediate death, the other two are slowly killing us over the years. Demonic. Makes me question everything said about “medicine.”
For years my friends and I wondered what was going on, what was causing all the cancer, illness, mental deterioration. Little did we know (until recently) it was our medical system!
The CDC needs more PhD's from the hard sciences and less PhD's associated with "policy." And I believe the sign was moved into that spot for a picture op. I live about 7-8 miles from the CDC and I saw that sign, but in a neighborhood.
Those jobs won’t last long; will soon be fully automated. That may be why the big fast food places are encouraging (by offering discounts) the use of their app for ordering. Automate food processing, packaging and handling right out the window to pre-purchased via credit card. No need for those pesky employees.
I love that TOO for a bumper sticker. (You just have to add the kicker line, you know, explaining the car...)
I do too btw. It's just that every time I try to get it out of my vein, I think I'll probably die without it. THIS, social media, has been for me MOST addictive.
Or.....be a plumber. Apparently, the "God Father" of AI says that in order to maintain one's livelihood in the AI age, becoming a plumber will always require.....for now.....a human.
LOL. Too late. Those coding jobs already replaced by progressive’s AI. Not to worry. Now that crime is down in DC, they can open up a boutique Wi-Fi cafe, where former colleagues can come and update resumes, or write tell-all novels.
I grew up an only child. I have 3 children. My best friend grew up with one sibling, she has 4 children. I have several liberal friends who are very wealthy who have only one child. Some of my old lib friends have never married. I don't encourage my liberal friends to have children or tell them of the joys of motherhood. I noticed this trend about ten years ago when I didn't have a single conservative friend with less than three children while my liberal friends had none or one. I knew there would be societal effects in my lifetime.
My wife and I had two girls. Both girls have four children. They also home schooled them. They now have four in college. They all look to turn out conservative. Fingers crossed.
I tell my children now that they will be a wonderful mommy or daddy. I ask them how many kids they would like to have. They are too young to grasp, but somewhere along the way our society quit cherishing families and children and quit making that the goal. Now, education is the goal. I lived in Houston, and when I was pregnant my first child, the foreigners were always over the moon when they saw me. Americans didn't care. Same with the baby. Foreigners adored my babies in public. Americans almost always look annoyed if they look at all. I gush when I see babies in public in front of my kids. I'm not sure how we are getting this so wrong as a nation.
I'm the same way, Ashley! I'm very conscious of being a happy and joyful mom in my children's eyes. It's not difficult to do, because I truly am! I encourage all my kids, but especially my 2 girls, to think generously about their future families and to look for spouses who do the same. Family is such a joy and blessing!
I think you have stated it well. I also have encouraged my sons, from the beginning, to love the idea of marriage and children. Even to the point of taking care of babies in my home and teaching them infant care when they were teenagers. Today 5 out of 6 are married and have children at a much younger age than their peers. Money is always tight but joy, real joy is not in short supply!
This made me laugh. When my girls were little whenever we would see, say a mother duck and chicks, we would always look for the daddy duck, etc. I ingrained that there could not be babies without a mom and dad to take care of them. (Not totally correct in the animal world, but....) They both married in their early thirties and started having kids a couple years later.
Whenever we saw a degenerate sleeping out in public, they would ask why. I did not tell them he was down on his luck, etc. I told them he hadn't studied for his math test, or whatever was pertinent at the time. (Also not totally correct, but they got my point.)
I have been talking about something similar for a few years now. I am 71 with 3 kids in their esrly to late forties. Without even thinking hard, I can name half a dozen men, my son’s age, (mid forties), who have never married. Not gay, some have long relationships with women, some not. All are working but not millionaires by any standard, but enough to own homes, and buy “toys” for themselves. They seem to have no desire to have families. Everything is living right now.
I believe it is more than living right now. The feminists, and then the wokies, have done everything they could to emasculate men. Now the women are complaining they an't find real men anymore. What goes around, comes around.
The unmarried guys I know aren’t emasculated. They are conservative, but they have found that they can have all their toys, anything that makes them content in the moment, and not have to share. The men I am thinking of come from two parent families, friends and family, yet they don’t believe marriage and a family is worthwhile. I think that’s the key word: worthwhile. The other thing is there is a lack of faith and God, with the church as a community with values for these men.
There's a selfishness there and perhaps they miss what the heart of conservatism is: protecting and passing down goodness to the generations. I have seen this, too, and it saddens me.
I'm sure there are plenty more like them, just like there are now a majority of young women who are not seeking mates. Pretty sad, as they are missing so much. And I agree few of them have any faith or believe own a higher power. this is what the Deep State has been working towards for decades
Some males old enough to be called men remain immature boys. Marriage & raising children, the responsibilities of family help make boys men. Not all, but most. If dating couples had the important conversations early on in the dating; about values, having children, raising children, religion, etc. the bad matches & divorce rates could decrease. Gets down to the nitty gritty.
In my opinion, Emotionally immature men or women should figure that out before they marry and raise a family. Otherwise they pass down their bad behavior and responses or anger.
I feel like some men are too immature for a woman to want to be with them.
They don’t take responsibility for their own laundry, cooking or dishes, or cleaning and think a woman wants to?
I think women have been raised differently these days and may equally not be good at cooking or doing all the house things, & have been working just as much as their male partner.
I think men who still think women should do house things while both of them work is probably the reason for many failed marriages.
Why should women have the responsibility of the house on top of work?
I think some men hold on to a messed up idea that a woman should take care of them when really it should be the opposite. The man in the 60s was the provider, and so it was easy for the woman to take care of the home when she wasn’t also working 8 hours a day outside of home.
Probably because young people in America often don’t work until after 18 & sadly their mother has been taking care of them.
Laundry is so easy, I will never do my husbands laundry unless I’m at home with plenty of time, or if my only job is being a mom.
My husband cooks almost every single dinner for us. We both work full time, but his job is more tiring.
I clean, but he often does the dishes too or cleans the kitchen.
Why should the woman do more?
Why should I cook if my husband is an Italian chef??
I will cook sometimes but I kind of am not great at it.
Especially in our society where women work equally with men?
If men are stronger they can work more and take better care of their wives. I think if men would change their mindset to take care of women rather than be cared for like a baby, maybe women would be with them.
It’s immature to not be able to care for yourself & expect a woman to feed you, wash your clothes, clean your house.
That’s probably why some men stay single, they make a lot of money so that they can hire women to clean their house & still take care of them but they are paying them. Becuz any woman would be annoyed at their laziness and not find them to be a “partner” at all.
I am speaking to a specific type of man who probably would get angry to read this post.
For example— Channing Tatum bought new t shirts for a year so he wouldn’t have to do laundry.
That is literally disgusting and lazy. He literally has all the means to have someone even pick up his Laundry and drop at a fluff and fold.
I just find it very annoying when some men just expect women to take care of them or else they are slobs and they don’t even know basic cooking and especially not cleaning.
They actually may never ever learn even into their old age, which is why it’s so sad.
These kind of men need to grow up because they don’t even know what a sad existence they are living.
Would any man want to be with a woman this incompetent?
Absolutely not so why expect any woman to want that?
And yet some men still expect these things.
Men need to change and step up because our society is totally different. Married Men and women should be more equal in their taking care of house duties or the man does more.
That’s my opinion and my husband and I are happily married. I don’t boss him around and neither of us are controlling. He has just been living on his own before being with me and being a responsible adult, & so we each take responsibility for our own things and he even does most grocery shopping.
Men who don’t know it should learn to live alone and be clean, responsible & organized, & take care of themselves and be fully self sufficient & be able to cook most meals and not eat out All time.
I think that’s what women are looking for, because a lot of women are already self sufficient in this way.
I don’t understand the immaturity of some men (or women) to just stay like this without changing. These men should never get married until they learn it, or else the woman is falling into a trap.
I guess these things can be true about women that’s for sure. So not trying to be sounding sexist. We all have to work on it, it can be hard if you have ADD, so no problem asking or help.
It’s hard to balance jobs and keeping the house in order but at least have a willingness and desire to improve..
The other toy that is wholly unattractive to a woman is gaming. A man who plays video games displays a laziness that is incredibly unattractive, except to a woman who is a gamer and also just as lazy. I’m not talking an occasional game here and there, but the lifestyle and wasting of precious life in pretend worlds. It sucks the masculine out of a man and makes them doughy and pale. That and a man into pornography. Nope. Not attractive at all.
I know large families and small families. What makes large families click, (I know ones that didn’t), is the love and want of kids. Faith is the cornerstone to that love. There is so much happiness in a family of faith and love. One leads to the other.
Absolutely. My parents were open to life as God planned it for them. It wasn’t easy for them, but my mom entirely trusted in God and help always came through when we needed it. We were never wealthy but never went hungry and had everything we needed. My dad worked tirelessly for us so my mom could be home with us ragamuffins. You learn to live with and appreciate and love all kinds of personalities and how to work with them because you have to. You learn to work as a team and also to appreciate alone time. You do what needs to be done because the family relies on things getting done and survival can depend on you being dependable and responsible. But we also had so much fun and I never felt like I couldn’t be a kid. We had so much freedom even with the responsibilities required of us. They are precious memories for sure.
After reading all these replies today, it is very interesting. Charlie Kirk and Mike Rowe have differing and yet similar responses to our present family situations. Charlie Kirk is concerned about the breakdown of family and faith. He feels the young on college campuses are hungering for both. The generations above them, but below the Baby Boomers are the ones who bought the whole “women can have it all”. Men have slowly been taught to go into tech jobs where everything can be done by computer. Mike Rowe’s angle is men don’t want to do the vocational work jobs any longer but they are finding there are less and less of these tech jobs. Women can do them also. The AI that is coming will require 700,000 new workers trained in vocational areas and the technical schools can’t fill them fast enough. It all works together, but the bottom line is the family is being replaced and Biblically that is the foundation for God’s teaching.
When my son became Catholic years ago he told me he didn’t believe in birth control. While in my brain dead slumber so many years ago -I argued against that. Then a few years later it hit me right between the eyes! I realized those are my grandkids he’s talking about!!! My son just got married and I told him, “have as many children as you want! The more the merrier. And we’ll help with them in any way you want us to. Lots and lots of grandkids for us!” 🙌 🙌 We are now thrilled at the idea of a huge family!! 💃🏻 💃🏻 💃🏻 😊
Some forms of birth control (I worked in a pharmacy once upon a time) do actually cause abortions. They don’t tell women that of course. And Plan B kills the baby and is horrendous on the woman.
Birth control also allows a form of “use” of the other person by using them for the pleasure part, but not allowing for life which is also part of the sexual act, if not THE reason for the act. Pleasure is the icing on the cake so to say. By disconnecting the two, you are using the other body for pleasure but not allowing the act to do what it was designed to do: create life.
Agreed!!! I knew about plan B, but crazily enough it was my son who educated me on what bc pills actually do. I’m so thankful he is very aware of these things and passed them on to me. And so thankful he found a wife who agrees and they are on the same page. They are working together nicely on these issues.
And what an amazing and courageous son you raised too! To not be afraid to share what he learned and to live it in a world that is fully against it and actively working against what he’s trying to do. Not an easy task and too few men embrace the challenge. Women too.
He was the one who challenged me on my pro life stance too. Wow. I was the Christian who bought into pro-life EXCEPT for…... I listened but was a little mad about being challenged in that way. Then the Holy Spirit nudged me to really listen to what he was saying and BAM! We had a great discussion and I have been truly truly pro-life no matter what since. All unborn babies have the same value no matter how they were conceived. Anyway. I credit my son with lovingly showing me the error of my thinking.
Is there a good article you can share about this information about birth control pills? I’m not really sure where to look at this point. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you, and God bless…
Probably more scientific based… I’ve heard various things about birth control can cause all kinds of havoc on a woman’s mental/depression status as well as being carcinogenic and hard on the heart, but I just cannot remember where I seen this information… 🤔
BTW, my husband is an elementary music teacher in our county… There are six of them. Five women and my husband. Of those five women, four of them are on all kinds of medicine… One of them even tried to commit suicide and is back at school now… 😱
I’m not really sure what’s making us women so fragile… could some of this be birth control pill related?
Almost all chemical “birth control” controls birth *after* conception but before implantation by making the mom’s womb slough off the newly created life.
I learned this by reading JP2’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” in 1995. (We weren’t even Catholics then.)
Shocked to my core, I verified this by reading my wife’s birth control pharmacy insert.
They’re not “contraceptives”, they’re abortifacients.
PS: my first “red pill” about the evil of Big pHARMA was *The* Pill.
Here's another reason not to use traditional birth control pills . They contain a lot of estrogen, which, believe it or not, is carcinogenic in quantity. . Check it out. All the many cancer books I have read say that.
Yes! In fact it was my son who really made me think about bc. Although I used it for a couple months 34 years ago, my body did NOT appreciate it so I went off of it. Never took it again.
My son went to a pre-marital counseling day retreat and the guest speaker was non other than Dr. John Littell. He and his fiancé loved hearing about the female body and birth control and pills, natural family planning etc etc. They discussed it all! Then they shared it with my husband and I. It was very interesting. It should be required for anyone getting married to hear the facts about bc.
There are so many things people take for granted are safe that are actually carcinogenic. Most sunblocks, most artificial sweeteners, soy, BC pills, even sunglasses. Assume nothing, and do your own research is the only safe way to live.
I’ve heard people who switch from BC to natural family planning talk about how their relationship with their spouse deepened and became much more intimate and closer.
That’s what my son told me. This is helping them become closer and more intimate because he is involved in every step of their natural family planning. It takes communication and vulnerability to work together. He said it also causes him not to view her as an object, but rather a woman whose body was made for bearing children and as such goes through lots of different changes. He is appreciating that rather than seeing it as an obstacle.
Yes! And her (and his) body isn’t merely a machine to give pleasure as birth control reduces them to. In turn also objectifying the person as a giver of pleasure.
Information about NFP is required for marriage prep in the Catholic Church. There are a few methods and dozens of APPs to teach and do it. Much more natural and no drugs or hormones.
A little known side effect of bc - women on bc would choose a different male partner than they would if not on bc pills. Wonder if that’s why so many women are attracted to bad boys?
The study was done several years ago, and psychology today did a rehash article last year.
What is also exciting news is that Catholics who attend the TLM (Trad Latin Mass) have a much higher rate of fertility than Novus Ordo. The demographics toward conservatism is rising even within the Church. When I attend TLM Mass all I see are married couples with 4 -7 children streaming in behind them. Lovely!
My parents had 4 of us, all of us married with 19 grandkids in total now + 1 on the way (our 5th). Already 13 great grands :)
Mum's 2 unbelieving brothers married but only had 1 kid each, and only 1 of them is married and has 1 kid.
That's a 20:1 thrashing haha.
My in-laws had 10 of which 8 are now married plus 1 engaged, and another close. Total of 35 grandkids so far (including 2 adopted) and 4 bubs on the way ATM.
So my kids have ~50 cousins so far and half of their aunts on my wifes side here in the USA are just getting warmed up. Heck we might even add another as all my kids love babies and help babysit their younger cousins and, except for our 5yr old, they get paid.
All 10 of my American BILs and SILs are going hard after God, as are myself and 2 of my sisters and their kids too.
I had only 2 cousins until I was a teenager and then 4 more but was never very close with them. It's so fun watching our kids enjoying our large extended family.
My first marriage failed, and a big attraction to my wife was her, and her family's belief that children are a blessing. Children are hard work for sure, but hard work can be fun too, and it gets easier once the older kids are big enough to help out. I can't believe the homemaking and baby tending skills my kids already have.
I respect that, kids can be a lot! But I do wonder if our capacity to handle more kids is our lack of community and support? My mom talked about when she was raising my older siblings how there were many Moms in her neighborhood and they gathered together regularly and supported each other. As she had more kids, that support wasn’t there as women went to work and my mom stayed home. Also putting into that factor how families move away from each other (some families need to do this if their family is more damaging than good for them) and cut off all that support grandparents and aunts and uncles can provide and they do it all alone.
I agree about the support factor. Support is crucial for families raising kids. And, truthfully, for grandparents and parents when the kids have left home.
We stopped at two also because one was special needs and that freaked us out. Looking back I WISH I hadn’t been so against more. I would love more NOW 😂 and there would have been a lot of advantages for both my kids had they had more siblings. But, being a grandma to lots of littles is what I look forward to now. 😊
Having a kid with special needs would make it so hard to contemplate another, I can see where the you at the time would be coming from! But like you said, now you can enjoy being a grandma!
Sometimes having a child is a life altering event that causes a paradigm shift for liberals. One can't be a total narcissist when they have a baby with his or her own needs. (Unless of course they are rich enough to afford a nanny.) It is much harder to maintain the "unborn child should be disposable" at the mother's whim mentality when a liberal pregnant mother falls in love with her unborn and later born child. It is much harder to maintain the belief that gender is a social construct when one knows that "it's a girl or it's a boy!" is patently obvious during ultrasounds or upon birth - not something "assigned". Education and safety become more important when one has a child that the parent has high hopes for and needs to protect. The benefits of marriage and having a committed partner helping raise and care for a child becomes more obvious. The list goes on. What percentage of liberal parents go through a paradigm shift and eventually have a more conservative worldview? I have no clue. I just know that it happens sometimes. And it is a beautiful thing to witness.
My parents just had me. I had a bad first marriage with no children, remarried in my 30s and just had one, due to infertility issues. I loved raising an only—until she left for college. Would have loved more time with kids in the house. My girl repeated my pattern, but is trying for her second. We’re all conservative, just not very fertile. 😫
I find it interesting that in Hollywood movies made since the '50's, the "parents" typically have only one child. The sit-coms were different and, most of which, had conservative leanings, like Father Knows Best.
The libs have been touting over population for decades and, thankfully, believe their own rhetoric.
What's really driving the left crazy about the CDC is the destruction of their industry. The industry of public health? No. It's the industry of government employment. The government employee class has become sacrosanct to these people. They will always support more government and oppose less. Whether the CDC, State, USAID, you name it. It's generational, too. Mom and Dad worked for the government and so do little Billy and Sally. They go to college to earn their permission slip and eagerly support student loan forgiveness. It's an entire culture, something us regular folk can barely imagine. They get special holidays, work from home Fridays, generous benefits and pensions, and an aura of superiority to the people who fix their toilets and repair their cars. It is nothing short of classism, and their class is now threatened by a blue-collar billionaire from Queens.
Thank you your prayers helped!! She made it like the champ she has been for 25 years. Outperformed all the newer cars we drove there. Lol
However, I DID contract a “Covid” like virus and have been sick for the past five days. The last time I was sick this bad was two years ago when I tested positive for Covid within seconds of my sample even getting within a whiff’s distance of the test and it flew off the charts as a positive immediately upon contact m. 🤣 So I’m pretty sure it’s whatever flu has been going around from that bug given my symptoms and duration are the exact same. As with the first time, the severity of my sore throat disappeared after the first treatment dose of IVM, but the lesser severe symptoms are still pretty miserable. I’m taking HCQ with Zinc, Azithromycin, and extra vitamin C. And my netti pot 3x day. I already have daily regimen of NAC and spike protein detox. But I am missing something that probably could shorten the duration I’m sure. I don’t have other recommended treatments, or nebulizer setup type stuff. So I’m just suffering through. I postponed my flight back from Sept 3 to Sept 10 to give me time to get better.
Thank you for asking! I literally thanked God for all of you every mile of my drive. ❤️
I am so glad your trip went well! Isn't it amazing how well those older cars perform, compared to newer models. Kind of reminds me of the older generations of people, steady, reliable, just get on with the job at hand. Then you have a significant percentage of the younger generation complaining about everything, life has to be just so, or they can't function!
I am sorry you caught "the bug" and are still feeling "puny"! Praying for quick resolution of the rest of your symptoms. Feel better, my dear.
McCullough recommends Quercetin in addition to what you are taking. You can check his site for the dosage because I don't have my notes closeby... Also, the nasal spray with iodine.
Considering the CDC was created to eradicate Malaria in the South maybe they can reorganize and figure out how to wipe out mosquitos entirely instead of people.
CDC and other three-letter agencies should be prohibited from weaponizing the insect world. Mosquitos and ticks, to mention a few, are enhanced as carriers of bio-weapons to plague humanity. Eradicating any one species on earth could have cascading unintentional consequences.
Would love that! This year has been particularly bad with all the rain we’ve had. Hubs usually sprays for mosquitoes (sorry, but it’s the only way we and our pup aren’t eaten alive), but his accident has prevented him from spraying this last month. The “skeeters” have taken over and even get in the house!
Maybe this will help… This is relatively close to the bug repellent at Buc ee‘s… I make my own in a brown spray bottle: filtered water and some witch hazel and these essential oils… Citronella, geranium, Peppermint, Cedarwood, Rosemary and lemon grass.
When I use this homemade bug spray, I rarely get bit… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
The disciples of John reported to him about all these things. Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?” When the men came to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, to ask, ‘Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?’” At that very time He cured many people of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits; and He gave sight to many who were blind. And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them. Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”
They're not just in love with governance, they are absolutely dependent on it.....a subconscious desire to be an Establishment slave relieves them of the stress and hardships of personal responsibility let alone the bugaboos of independent thought. I'd bet Jeff's paycheck that these people are melancholy (hopelessly adrift?) about not seeing directional arrows on the floors at the grocery store. Ah, the good 'ol days. "We’re all in this together"......morons.
This mindset has evolved I believe, from the late 80s/90s to now of helicopter parenting and extreme focus on what a child is doing every second of every day. I cringe when I hear people want an open floor plan so they “can keep an eye on the kids in the other room when the parents are cooking.” I get toddlers and babies, but that’s what containment is for. But school age children??
It creates dependency. Hell, we were running around 24 acres our whole childhood and as long as my parents didn’t see smoke or blood we were free to make good and bad choices. They allowed us to feel the weight of those consequences as well as protecting us from greater harm because we learned with little good and bad choices made in the freedom and protection of childhood, we learned how to make choices as adults and live with the consequences, good or bad and learn from both.
The difficult thing for parents now is the crucifying of them when something happens to their child, big or small, so I get it a little bit. But man, I feel bad for kids who are surveilled their whole life…
Yes, I’m grateful there are like minded parents on our street who didn’t keep their kids occupied by every after school program known to man. They roamed the street, then the neighborhood as they got older. They had a blast.
My husband's contention: that unmarried women who tend "progressive" (looking straight at two of my cousins, here) and want more government are seeing government as a replacement for the man missing in their lives. "Govern me harder, Daddy!" No doubt these words will offend some. Tough.
I don’t know about liberal women, I think they probably scare men off because they are trying to be manly. Or perhaps looking for family and find it in the government?
But I know a lot of conservative women I know who stayed single had a difficult time finding a man who wanted to be a man and not a boy with his mommy or the men who wanted things that the women found immoral.
People on the left, especially the women, supposedly take more SSRIs. These drugs are notorious for killing libido, even causing permanent damage in some people’s sexual functioning after stopping the drug. Hence, less babies.
First-hand knowledge here: My office was next door in the SOPH to the original CDC for 14 years (1993-2005). Then we had real bona fide scientists working there; they were tight.
After they constructed the new facility, the adminstration changed from primarily research scientists to scientists who were mostly administrators. Ain't been the same since.
Random: Am I the only one who thinks this when you see a person with a hog clip (ring) in their nose? https://tinyurl.com/mwp7bpzx
I had my Lib client yesterday say RFK needed to be fired because of his stance in the Covid shot. I tried to tell her they don’t work. She proceeded to tell me vaccines are the miracle of the 20th century. Turns out she worked for the CDC in Chicago for 12 years.
Just to give you an idea on how they think, they won’t accept any evidence against their worldview. Even if you have a Pub Med study. I don’t now how they’re going to accept the Autism news when it comes out next month.
In previous conversations she’s told me Gavin Newsom is a fantastic Governor (even though she’s never lived in California like I have.) And, Pritzker is swell too!
I still have no idea how anyone who claims to be rational can think Newsom is a great governor if they look at the decline of CA over the last 10-20 years.
That’s what I tried to explain to her! I had another person I met through a lady’s group I’m in. She tried to tell me that there isn’t any voter fraud in California. Turns out she moved away 30 years ago. And when she’s gone back to visit she hasn’t “seen” anything like I was describing. They literally have to turn a blind eye to the trash, graffiti, homelessness in general filthiness of the entire state, not to mention the Palisades fire.
To paraphrasing The Conservative Treehouse, in order to be a Democrat you have to pretend not to know a lot of things.
It's a naturally and self survival tactic when faced with real and clear danger of insanity. That's what they've done to us wih COVID-19, created entire world culture of insanity and fear and running away or ignoring it which is of course it's own insanity.
It depends on one's "bent." In the dems case, it's one that "Failure of our policies PROVES 'We weren't BOLD enough!'" With that, failure only REINFORCES their calcification/ossification. (I can't find the word for the process of buried dinosaur bones metamorphosing into solid rock, but THAT.)
This was like my neighbor that was trying to sell me on roundup to use on my dandelions that I don’t mind as much as he does. He gave me all the arguments to “counter” people’s concern with the cancer producing fluid, but then quietly mentioned something about working for Bayer…
I look at dandelions as a gift. They are an herb. You can eat them, add them to baked goods, make oils and tinctures. They have excellent medicinal qualities.
Yes! I love dandelion tea and enjoy the happy little yellow flowers. I leave them in my backyard and “meadow” amongst my fruit trees, but keep the neighbor and city happy by keeping them down out front. Kinda. 😄 And NOT with weed killer…
Why poison your lawn and any child or animal walking on it for a futile cause. The only way to really keep them away is for constant poisoning. They are ubiquitous.
Exactly. I pull them or spray a little vinegar on them to convince the city I’m “doing” something about them. And then just live and let live which ones want to everywhere else. I don’t like the idea of the poison staying in the ground either like it’s been proven to do.
I watch a lot of farming videos/podcasts--have learned that most weeds flourish where there's an absence of calcium in the soil. (Jay McCamon book, "When Weeds Talk")
Yep. But lets not forget the Never Trumpers who are still out there who totally have TDS still! I am blown away. People who seem conservative but cannot stand him. Negate all he has done or is doing. Oh ya and they think Trump is the cause of disastrous and embarrassing tactics of Newsom such as saying F-U to Bed bath and beyond.
I find conservative people who don’t like him always say it’s because of how “mean” he is. To me, I’d take a mean person who gets things done, to an eloquent, slimy snake(Obama) who plots our destruction behind closed doors… and honestly Trump is “mean” to those who are awful to him and incredibly kind to the vulnerable.
That’s exactly right. They think he is mean or he has “taught” or “set the tone” for people acting like that. Blaming our Ca office’s behavior on Trump. 🙄 Either hes mean or they think he has worse character than many of the wolves in sheeps clothing.
I rember when folks at CDC and American Heart Association (right across from Emory SOPH), would have lunch and discuss the latest research without hold a position. Such is rare today. Now 7 out of 10 come with presupposed postions - the antithesis of science.
My neighbor, who spent his career working in the financial sector of Merck, told me that aside from improved sanitation, vaccines were the most important factor behind the improved health of the 20th C. (at the time, I silently rejoined, "Shill!). And cousin (took 5 jabs), when I had dared to make some tiny remark about their negative effects, advised me to talk about the marvel of vaccines "with our cousin's daughter--who works for Pfizer".... Pritzker certainly is swell. And perhaps ever swellinger? I don't understand politicians (Chris Christie) who care so little for their physical bodies.
The Wall Street Journal piled on this morning with a hit piece on RFK by three (youngster?) writers. “Anti-vax” in every sentence. The pitch was that he was dividing MAGA—when we all know that on the other side it’s just Senator Cassidy and the other bribed ones.
Kids who are experiencing behavioral problems usually are part of families with problems. The problems may be mental, chronic stress, death, divorce, parental conflict, sibling or parental illness, etc, etc. Or the kids have toxic overload, vaccine injury, or other chronic inflammatory state. Or both (family stress and physiological stress).
Kids already are screened for developmental issues.
AAP is demonstrating *again* that they are anti-child and anti-family. This is downright despicable.
I agree. They got almost $35 million in 2023 in federal grants. Maybe some will get taken away especially since they are still recommending 6+ month Covid vax. Such a damn racket.
Happy Labor Day to you too Torrance. Your stack on the nose ring is perfect. And yes, a woman's body is a work of art as God intended. It may sag a bit over time or sustain some wrinkles or stretch marks but a work of art nonetheless! Your resume must be a work of art as well as it appears you have been everywhere gleaning much experience and observation.
Torrance I agree with you on the nose ring thing. I cannot take this person seriously and think they are marking themselves as a slave of something or someone else. This sentence made me laugh out loud. “When it looks like you fell face-first into a hardware drawer at Home Depot, you're going to have a hard time in life, and deservedly so.” I enjoy reading your posts.
Just finished reading your article on "hog clips". I've noticed, in the last 10-ish years, the growing number of fat women with many tats. And I contend that, by virtue of their obesity, recognizing that they are unattractive, they print their skins as a way of calling out, "Hey! Look at me!" I have similarly found distasteful any ear-piercings beyond one per ear. Two of my 3 daughters (38, 42) still have the earlobes they were born with.
Listen up, Jen Psaki, THIS is why we pray and THIS is why we wake up each new day and recommit to righteousness, even if we failed the day before. We choose God, and for those who authentically do that, their prayers matter.
Translation, The righteous are Christians, the ones who put their faith in Christ for their hope and salvation have the imputed righteousness of Christ.
Regarding the FT story - as a conservative Catholic, that's a replacement theory I can support.
Sadly, it means it's unlikely I'll be a grandfather, as my adult sons are progressive. But I have hope that life will mug them soon - as it did me at their age - and they'll make saner, godly choices.
You just have to pray they find a conservative woman that sweeps them off their feet and leads them back to their Catholic upbringing. Their upbringing is still in there and I’ve seen it happen!
My son shared our conservative views until he married a progressive woman. Then, Lo and behold, Covid hit and they were appalled with the shutdown and the draconian rules being forced on us, and they changed to conservative! Yeehah! All my kids and grandkids are. Except I’m finding the older ones at public school dislike Trump and support gay and trans rights. Those schools ruin kids!
Often prayers to St Monica, for intercession, work wonders. Her example of fidelity to prayer brought her husband, mother-in-law and of course her son, St Augustine, back to the Faith. I belong to “Millions of Monica’s” weekly prayer group and a monthly Monica Meeting, including a Holy Hour beseeching Our Lord for my family members return to the Lord, the Church and Magisterium.
Democrats are Trash-Talking about their upcoming Big Beautiful Blue Wave for the 2026 Mid Terms; a National RNC Convention is the BEST IDEA since SECURING the Southern Border. Let's Go!!!!
Simple and Genius...of course the DEMS will Now need to plan doing the same
However, at least here in the Southeastern US, the RINOs have taken over the county and state Republican party organizations. Once rabidly anti-Trump, they gleefully don MAGA gear in an attempt to woo the unsuspecting - unfortunately, quite successfully :(
So glad that you are aware of this. Spread the word.
Our GOP leadership is so very corrupt - Not a single US Senator will okay a recess so President Trump can get his people on board even just temporarily. The current US Senate and House have not encoded into law the wonderful Executive orders that President Trump has issued.
Everyone needs to make sure that their LOCAL GOP organization is not controlled by RINO's since they are the gate keepers (They and their State GOP organizations).
Uhm, if Mike Johnson is enthusiastic about it - We, the People , and Maga - should RUN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Let's not kid ourselves - look how the Republican Senate has gone awol - along with our "vaunted" Speaker of the House - and the rest of the Re(tards) who felt the need to worship at the Wailing Wall.
Trump is actually trying to do shit - as are MTG and Massie. The rest of the RINOS are running out the clock and riding Trump's coattails - while doing NOTHING.
There are a few of us who still would like to go back to a culture of ediquette when men watched their mouths and thoughts around when and children. Don't blame others for your own choices to bow to a lower level. Thank you.
Maybe a good opportunity to also REIGN these Relucticants back into line and remind them Sternly yet ominously that they're to work for The Country and People, NOT some Uniparty DeepState Corporation of Secret Society Congenial Country Club Frat Boy Elitists
—“with buzzwords like “authoritarianism” and “no kings.”
Huh. They didn’t seem at all concerned by those things during Covid when governors and health department heads engaged in authoritarianism and acted like kings 🤔😑
Good morning. Will this weekend see the National Guard take over Chicago? I hope so, and please arrest Pritzker too.
On a bright note, the garden spider that was absent all summer made her return to my back porch a few days ago. I just watched her take down her web after daylight this morning. Moths are scarce this year.
The moths must have moved north to my region in Michigan. We are loaded with moths, butterflies and unfortunately, Japaneses beetles. I am waiting for my first orb weaver in years. I tend to think they like large vegetable gardens. Mine has shrunk as I only mess with salad veggies and squash any longer.
I think I have seen one butterfly this year, unusual for here. But I must have a ton of cicadas, they are very loud most of the day. I don't have room for squash, but my cherry tomatoes and serrano peppers have done well.
I’ve seen many butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, birds, and other fauna come to my garden this year. But I think it’s because all the things I crammed in it are finally growing and blooming. There was one bush on the entire property when I bought it and I barely saw a bird visit. Just lawn and bark dust. It’s been amazing seeing life come back into the garden! Woodchips do wonders for your soil and increases so many beneficial critters as well!
I have the tree frogs as well, a soothing sound at night. The cicadas are unusually quiet right now, the last few days the buzzing and droning was very loud all day.
Unfortunately the Japanese beetles start at the top of my lone birch trees. I know they have arrived when leaves, completely skeletonized start drifting down. Then they moved to my peach tree which was loaded, thankfully, dozens of them on single peaches. Not sure chickens could get to them. I hate those things.
" The greatest trick the right ever pulled,” he warned, “was convincing the left that talking about families and children is conservative-coded. " I don't care who you are, that there is funny. 🤣
The future belongs to those who show up. It's not left vs right, it's anti-life vs pro-life. Burning Man, trans, abortions, self-indulgent consoomerism are pure demoralization. Be a rebel - raise a family. Perhaps soft arranged marriages will return: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/natal-conference-2025-remarks
As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.
-Genesis 9:7
You can only show up if you exist…
So true. Plus the left thinks there are only so many slices of the pie. We on the other hand, bake more pies!
Or, maybe more appropriately, put buns in ovens. 😉
Oh! That’s perfectly said!
Lindsay Graham has long been trying to put a bun into the wrong oven!
"We on the other hand, bake more pies!" What a great rejoinder to the zero sum posture.
I like baking pies!
Me too! Lard and butter only.
Have you seen a young leftist progressive lately? Between the female obesity, facial piercings, odd hair coloring, tattoos, low testosterone scrawny males...The idea of summoning up a sexual urge and completing it appears to be as repugnant to them as it is to me.
They do seem to want to make themselves as unattractive and undesirable as possible.
I’ve seen girls do that in situations where they were likely to be sexually abused by mama’s new boyfriend or the like.
That would be a means of self preservation, and I can't say as I'd blame them. Hopefully they give it up when they are safer.
Mike, some also opt out of disciplining their children. My daughter is seeing this. And the children act out with hitting and not listening BECAUSE they want limits!
You mean... like those shown in this AI music video?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tLCv_ryJAE
SWEET!! I really enjoyed seeing DJT and Melania in THEIR "good jeans"--didn't you, Justin!
That is awesome! Thanks for the link.
Thank you for this!! It’s exactly what I meant!!
I saw another one with more "diverse" examples than just the keyboard "warriors"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBoV8X29u-E
See 💖yourself as a child of God; not an excrement of evil. Soar on an eagle's wing. say "no thanks" to all who wish to harm you. 💖
There’s somebody for everyone?
That’s what we used to say
The over population lies were a direct rebellion against this command.
Guess that means I can no longer use my calculator app but am going to have to do my multiplying by scratching with a stick in the dirt?
Not what that means, but cute😝
I wonder how those statistics on birthrates would change if they factored in the murder of unborn human beings by abortion? Progressive birthrates would shoot up if they'd stop murdering their own flesh and blood? But I don't think they will, these are evil people. Also, with all the LGBTQ abominations these cretins further reduce their genes from the gene pool.
I think God will also hold them accountable for all their evil ways in perpetuity. We might be witnessing a two fer? One, by reducing their population here on earth, and two by burning in hell for murdering their children and participating in deviant relationships which cannot create life but does devastate it like the disastrous sickness of grooming children into transgenderism and homosexuality.
A glimpse of the countries that have the highest birth rates is ogrounds for dejection, perhaps making you wish to make your own personal birth rate zero. 😐
India always comes to mind. But I remember seeing decades ago that the entire population of India could be fit into Texas. (I was corrected; actually the quote was that the entire world’s population could fit in Texas.)
The numbers are not the problem, it’s governmental mismanagement.
Poor people without land get crowded into cities.
Anyway, India’s problems are not ours, and a poor excuse to not have children, IMHO.
In my area, majority highly educated leftists, the trend is to have dogs and cats, not children. The trend is so strong that a historical hospital, an anchor of the neighborhood, recently shut down its birthing center because of lack of need. Many of these middle aged and young professionals and ‘trust fund’ recipients were probably born there. One of my DILs was.
They pay thousands for their dogs, who will be dead in a dozen years or so and claim to be their mommy’s and daddy’s.
I think it’s really sad and such a waste of life.
@Willing Spirit actually it is even more profound than that. The entire population of the world can fit inside the state of Texas! The over population myth has always been a lie from the pit of hell. I think of Mother Teresa, who said “saying there are too many children is like saying there are too many flowers.” 💐
Oh, thanks for the correction! That is profound.
And what a beautiful quote from Mother Teresa about children and flowers. I know she spoke to how very impoverished we are in the West to believe we can’t afford children.
I had four with midwife deliveries, both my daughters had midwife deliveries, also- a total of 13 babies delivered with little fuss or muss and nothing like hospital costs.
In contrast, I recently experienced another situation in which 8 to 10 professionals were involved in the pregnancy and delivery and a crazy amount of equipment was purchased for the child care.
I thought if this is how complicated and expensive having babies is viewed to be these days, no wonder no one wants to do it.
Plus so many women have to be breadwinners and back in the workforce ASAP.
Muslim countries are the ones that come to my mind. They have many ‘wives’ and each one has several children. And talk about a ‘death cult’. They worship death, but know that they need many children to use as human shields and those they can strap a bomb to, if need be. They hate Christian’s and Jews more than they love their children.
Exactly on target CStone. 'Emigration' by muslims is simply a method of conquering land. Do you hear me Minnesota? Do you hear me Indiana? Do you hear me Michigan, California?
Wake up people! These states are also pushing for Shariah law. Womens rights? Non existent. Honor killing, FGM, slavery is the rule.
Golda Meir: "We can forgive the Arabs for killing our children. We cannot forgive them for forcing us to kill their children. We will only have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us".
Totally accurate. We’re just back from the land of uber Progressive Seattle, where dogs *easily* outnumber children.
On a side note, please pray for us: yesterday we welcomed a 15-year old boy (that we used to know as an 11-year old from Seattle) to foster.
In my mind’s eye, this kid was supposed to still be the 4-foot- something little Afro-headed child we knew from 2021.
He stepped outta the social worker’s car at now 6’2” and probably 210. (I’m sure I looked ridiculous trying to hug him.)
What a life change for all three of us! My wife (57) and myself (almost 63) have raised 5 responsible productive adults. We are as “white bread” as white bread gets. (Next challenge is to figure out how to take him on vacation with us to St. Maarten.)
If we are accepting their best and brightest, how come their country is a ‘third world’ nation status?
They obviously should keep their best and brightest. I believe what President Trump says about Biden’s unvetted flood of illegals. A country would ‘have been’ stupid not to unload their undesirables onto us.
Also, being retired, I’ve seen or sampled a lot of movies and there are quite a few about evil, scary children that might make vulnerable insecure young adults think they don’t want any.
Between the population explosion lies and the negative depictions of life with children, a lot of people have deprived themselves of the joys of parenting.
But if they fell for the deceptions, maybe it’s best they didn’t reproduce.
I wish the ones ‘transitioning’ the children had remained barren.
evil, scary children? That's the two-year old's, right?
😂🤣😂
Used to be. I guess now they’re the result of 2 years old never being told ‘no’, then needing mind warping drugs for behavior control.
Wasn't it said that smoking weed froze your brain that that age of mental development? Maybe two can go on for a whole lifetimes.
I.. I know.. strike me down for suggesting that a 2-year-old would be tokin' on a joint.
Don't watch "The Bad Seed."
Thankfully the leftist loonies have forsaken Genesis 9:7 swearing not to "multiply" because of MAGA.
So true. The Democrat's party faithful embrace abortion on demand, sexual perversions, same-sex "marriage" and government over God. It's not a winning formula once fully exposed which is what Trump and the GOP have been pretty successful doing in recent years.
I think it has also revealed how deeply depressing their lifestyle choices and how empty a soul without God really is. 🙏❤️
Speaking of Burning Man…..consequences of Biblical proportions at their ‘festival’? Their ‘orgy Temple’ destroyed, fierce dust/dirt storms/floods, disease, possibly an electrocution?
And a year or two ago it was flooded into a mud field. The poor thing's cars got stuck and they had to walk out.
It is interesting that Burning Man is primarily funded by the AI production crowd, hmmm?
And their temple? It’s called Blackrock.
It’s interesting that a Bay Area tech-oriented group decided to retreat to the desert for a week-long meeting-of-minds and thus generated an entire new ecosystem of computer science. Yeah, interesting.
It’s a festival of orgies. And you call it ‘a meeting of the minds’…X
A meeting of demons, you mean.
I went with a friend, back then - a very nerdy academic guy. It turns out that lots of seminars are held from thought leaders around the world, meetings he attended and I didn’t because I was focused on a different objective.
You seem to believe that with freedom comes licentiousness, which imo speaks more to what is in your own heart.
Lots of misconceptions about BM. I went from 2005 to 2010, back when there was no internet connectivity, which has probably ruined it a bit. It's like any city, if you are looking for seedy orgy-type stuff you can find it. There's also an AA camp and different denomination church services on Sunday morning for example. One thing is for certain, the art is amazing and it's mind blowing the creativity that people put into their camps, especially when you consider that they have to drag it out there then home again when it's all over. And yeah, weather happens. Go figure.
I went in 07. Basically to experiment with a tiny-house idea I had, made of SIPs- Structural Insulated Panels, but also to try and see what kind of life I could craft for myself, like if I was living on mars. Total self-reliance. It was a big experience for me. I vowed to go again but with my wife, but unfortunately haven’t yet.
Cool project! Yeah back then tickets were like $50. Now it's cost prohibitive, to me anyhow, which is my major beef. It's not like they added infrastructure. '07 was the year that guy (forget his name but he's since committed suicide sadly) climbed up the man on Monday night and lit him on fire during the full lunar eclipse. They charged him with arson and rebuilt the man just to burn him again as scheduled. I though that was lame. Went against the whole ethos IMO. They shoulda just went with we decided to let the man burn early this year.
I haven't been there, but I've been to smaller similar events and I agree. It's also worth mentioning that psychedelics when used properly and carefully can be amazing for moving through personal blocks, trauma and other issues, or they can turn into just another party drug used for escape.
You may be interested in reading this Steve Y:
https://www.tabletmag.com/feature/psychedelic-mental-health-nova-october-7-terrorist-attacks-israel
I haven't vetted the accuracy of all the facts alluded to, but I have read other articles claiming the festival was a 'peace' rave. Many of the kibbutz attacked apparently were a very liberal segment of Israeli society.
Thank you for that. I had heard it was a psytrance festival, but didn't make the connection. About 3 years ago, I attended a smaller psytrance festival. A large number of the people seemed to be dealing with trauma and perhaps other mental health issues. The music seemed to be an escape for them, enough so that when the sound system went down for about 20 minutes, a number of them got quite anxious. The drugs of choice were MDMA and ketamine. The serotonin depletion crash the next morning was palpable especially to me given that I hadn't partaken in anything more than a small dose of a certain fungal medicine. I can't imagine what it must have been like at that festival, although perhaps most of the attendees were not dealing with as much as those at the festival I attended.
Two more thoughts: First, it gives me hope that there is a subset of Israeli society that is working towards peace. I wonder if there have been any efforts among them to build bridges with the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs.
Second, I heard a story this week about a physics professor who, as a grad student, loaded a water gun with enough LSD dissolved in DMSO to give a near instant trip to whomever was squirted. DMSO is a universal solvent and will quickly transmit anything dissolved in it through the skin and into the bloodstream. I wonder what would have happened if the ravers were armed with such water guns and sprayed them on the Hamas terrorists.
Sounds like it's just another Nascar RV park weekend race party....
Not hardly. There is nothing like Burning Man. It is awesome.
At least we now are fully aware there are some demoniacs reading Jeff’s substack.
Thanks. I was just about to say the same thing!!
Pre-dating Newscum's Law Enforcement surge in CA, is Denver Mayor Mike White Privilege Johnston; More Cops hired and deployed downtown, Layoffs to save his City budget and pissing off his City Council as he culls out some internal opponents and trims largesse due to his Sanctuary City Immigrant Expenses that FEMA and Feds failed to reimburse him for. Our future CO-Dem Machine selected Governor or Senator building his "centrist, mainstream" resume without jettisoning too much of his LEFTIST Bonafides
It's ironic that this commentary appeared yesterday... about the abortion pill.
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/making-america-healthy-again-requires-restricting-this-drug.html
But CT Dems are working hard to provide medical coverage to help same-sex couples have babies. “Infertility treatments” or some such nonsense.
Basic biology is not a Progressive strong suit.
Same-sex couples have made a personal choice; it’s not a medical issue.
I have long said, Chjunke, that homosexuality is a choice, another sin. The oft claimed adage 'I was born this way' is a tacit admission that all of us were born into sin with the ability to opt out through the grace of Jesus. Will we struggle? Yep all the time.
If homosexuals were 'born that way', it would be eliminated in one generation. Thus they constantly recruit new members into the lifestyle.
People are mostly mad at Christianity for reasons below the waist.
The lure of desire CaplT. well said. Is this simply the need to reproduce gone amuck, breaching the firewalls God established?
There is no need to reproduce in lust. The need to reproduce would include consideration for the care, health and upbringing of the child produced.
This says it best. It’s pro-humanity vs anti-humanity. And we’re on the right side of history: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-feminism-and-dei-destroy-humanitys
Indeed, we are. History texts will document this, in particular, since we will be the ones writing them.
We will record history lesson ke this. https://tinyurl.com/mwp7bpzx
History belongs to the victor!
You mean those folks crowing about my choice, my body? (where were they during the covid vaccine mandates?) And then there's all that singing about about sexual freedom, and not needing a man? Why... if I didn't know better, they're bitter old crones, with nobody to love them, grow old with them, and then, nobody to care for them as they die alone.
Yeah, you had your freedom. And your choice. And you mocked God's plan for families.
Maybe you'll wake up and have regret, and choose to support and promote the choice to have families - avoiding the mistakes they've made.
Or they can continue to be bitter old crones - too selfish and angry to think about others.
Two of my brother’s 3 daughters married last year. One hyphenated her name, the other kept her maiden name, no hyphenation. Need I add, they are east coast progressives.
Ouch. But just to be clear, LM, not all east coasters are progressives. I have spent my entire life on the east coast and am as conservative as can be. And there are lots of us.
Same for the West Coast. I have lived in California most of my life. Most of my 10 siblings and I are all firmly conservative and have now raised conservative children of our own. We were all fighting hard against the government overreaches of 2020 and are still fighting.
Yes, my sister & hubby moved to So Cal due to a job change about 15 years ago. Strong conservatives who managed to pass that on to their 2 kids who now live in OK and TX. With the kids gone she has gotten involved in some political groups and said they are growing.
“Good genes” indeed, Donna.
💗🙏🏼
Bill - you’re right. They’re there. It’s just a bit difficult to find conservatives in New England and many are leaving. I grew up in Florida but my husband and I were in MA for 15 years because of business. Thankfully I met five other conservatives volunteering politically and the six couples became fast friends over the years - truly wonderful women and fabulous husbands and we all got along so well!
But I just couldn’t take the authoritarianism of the elite MA mentality during covid and because my husband could work remotely, we got outta Dodge and back to Florida. It was night and day different re the freedom. Two of the other couples also left for the South (one here & the other SC) - and these two had roots elsewhere. You’d think the leftist states would examine why they’re losing population but it seems, instead, they’re just doubling down. It’s insanity. We enjoy the common sense governance here!
that can't be easy
Especially in NoVA…..quite the challenge…but raised 2 conservative girls 💜
May your tribe increase!
My brother and sister in law are both from conservative area of Michigan. Settled in Delaware and started their own company. All 3 girls were born out there. I sometimes think my brother and SIL became liberal just to spite their relatives back home. The two older girls are definitely liberal, the one asked for donations to Planned Parenthood for her birthday. Needless to say, the only one who donated was her mother. And now my brother and SIL have retired to the coast of North Carolina on the South Carolina line. 🤪
I’m not sure there are any conservative areas of Michigan left . Protests in 20 different areas on Labor Day 😭
Paid for by Soros. Or us.
Hyphenating or not changing your name may have little to do with politics.
It’s a lot of paperwork to change your name, & also if you’re married to an Italian it’s not common to change your last name. Maybe people are just busy!!!
Working multiple jobs is very tiring & changing your name is not a big deal when you have a lot of other things to think about.
And some people have a first name that doesn’t go well with their husband’s last name or his last name is an unfortunate word 😆
I'm one of them. Husband too. That's why we are married.
Holding the line!! 🇺🇸
I’m a happily married conservative woman who kept my maiden name for multiple reasons. My husband is not a soy boy (in the least, lol). There are some times when it makes sense and it’s not a political statement.
I kept my maiden name as I had already established myself in business under my maiden name. Names are important in my line of work. I didn’t have kids which I deeply regret, but I’m still married for almost 39 years!
Brought up conservative, became liberal in college and slowly found my way back. Owning your own business does that.
Exactly- owning your own biz does bring you back, among other things
Certainly does! I had NO IDEA about all the business taxes let alone regulations ect. Names in business matters
Not to mention coming face-to-face with progressive anti-small-business venom...
"Bumper Sticker of the Year" is a "thing" in another, highly popular conservative (lady's) column. May I submit:
"Became liberal in college, but found my way back."
for consideration?
(I won when I read your comment...)
Sure! Let me know if you win!
Back in 1984 when I married, I considered the options. My “maiden” name was just my father’s surname and hyphenated names were destined to break down with the next generation. I opted for taking my husband’s name, which I liked, and then when we divorced, I kept it after checking with my 3 boys who wanted us to share a last name. Once established in my career (went back to law school, graduating at 40), I wasn’t going to change my name. Lots of valid considerations at play for people. As a divorce lawyer, I have not seen any “trend” or correlation between name choices and marriage breakdown ;)
You--graduated, law school, at 40, after divorce...--R.O.C.K.
Valarie…. And I as well… and a conservative… and married to my first husband, no remarried do overs for half a century… and as odd as it may seem, I kept my maiden name and hyphenated out of heritage pride. When asked back in the bride to be stage why I wanted to hyphenate, my answer then is how I still feel… “ why should I give up my proud of Irish name to my soon to be new husbands German name?” Eventually that custom for us evolved into naming our ranch a symbolic combination of Irish and German… “Claddagh~Haus Ranch” so the inspiration way back in the early 70’s to hyphenate was purely 100% individual Irish heritage pride… my identity is Irish not German, but I married a German heritage conservative so proudly combined the names into my new married life… nothing to do with politics.
"Heritage pride." That's the way I feel. As a newly-married, I considered hyphenating my own last name to include my mother's (hidden) heritage, and was happy if my wife wanted to do the same. If the kids wanted hyphenated names, I was okay with that too, figuring that primitive tribes probably have difficulty with their family trees too.
In the end I opted against it because neither my mom's nor my dad's surnames reflected their own bifurcated ethnicities. "To represent everybody in my gene pool" would have required a BOATLOAD of hyphens... ...and I'd never have been able to remember how to spell my surname the same way twice (and would have ultimately, naturally, resorted to abbreviation WHICH I submit might be the rationale for all those nearly-all-consonant last names).
I love this!
Many Hispanics get married and keep their maiden names.
It’s actually how they officially name people. Typically the mothers name is on the end and although the fathers name is in the middle it is still the last name. First names many times are the same as the parent depending on the sex of the child and it’s the same as the mother or father. Not always but very often
So say the mother’s last name is Gomez and the father’s is Rodriguez and the mother’s first name is Maria then the female child would be “Maria Rodriguez Gomez”.
I can respect that, but not knowing the multiple reasons, I can only go by my own experiences with maiden name keeping, all I know have ended in divorce. But then I am also surprised by how many long pre marriage relationships ended in divorce, after figuring out one of the couples wanted kids, the other not. That would seem to be something to discuss over the years together.
Welllll my first marriage I took my husband’s name and it was a terrible marriage and ended in divorce. This one has been going strong for 23 years. Guess I’m just an anomaly. 🤷🏼♀️
I've got one of those too. Second marriage after being married 13 years to a card carrying witch, We're on our way to 43 years MARRIED! Another anomaly I guess.
That is a completely valid reason!
Same! First marriage was AWFUL! Second time around, I kept my maiden and tacked on his, we celebrated 20 years last week. No kids though. Between first marriage ptsd and health things, wasn't in the cards. You really can't judge a girl by her name and whether she has kids.
I was in a long term relationship (12 years) and it felt like a divorce. I would not have changed my name to his. I didn’t respect his family and we wouldn’t have ever had kids so no need
I took my husband’s last name but changed my middle name to my surname.
I knew a woman from an old New England family, now in her 80s, who said it was common there for women to be given no middle name at birth, the assumption being that their maiden name would become their middle name upon marriage. They were very proud of their surnames.
If you do family history, it’s wonderful to see a maiden name used as a middle name. It makes the lines easier to trace!
My wife did the same.
I did the same.
Agree...same here. Never minded being called Mrs. Husband's Last Name. Both daughters took their dad's last name. One is now an attorney and the other a dentist, both with 2 kids. They have kept their maiden names like I did.
If you think about it, in today's society husbands may come and go, but you will always be your parent' daughter!
Just needed to add..."wives come and go" as well.
Ditto... I was married before when young and took my husband's name then -- it never fit (I'm an Anglo and his family was from a different ethnic background). We lasted two years and I reverted to my maiden name and kept it the next time. It was a bit inconvenient when our son was in school, but it's never been a real problem. Doesn't make me feel any less married or committed.
Mine too, 50 years ago when it simply wasn't done. Caused a lot of problems in the first few years, with banks, airlines, and especially my English traditional parents.
Way back when we used a travel agent to go somewhere she put my husband’s last name on my ticket. It was easy to change a ticket at the airport in those days and luckily we had time, but it cost me 25 bucks! I was pissed, that was an entree at a really good restaurant! 😆
yeah, well in 1979 + / - we accompanied my English parents to Cornwall and London for a vacation they paid for. They used my last name on my wife's ticket. Fine coming over. Not so much on the return. The ticket agent asked for ID, and when her passport did not match her ticket., she said no can do. Had to go two levels up the line to finally get on board. My wife has never had an ID of any kind in my name. I told my parents once and for all, knock it off. Not funny anymore.
They did it on purpose? Evil!
My mom writes checks to us for Christmas and puts our first names and my husband’s last name. Grrrrr, she’s old, but it’s hard to complain about Christmas checks …. and they go through! 😆
I am almost 47 getting married for the first time and I am not sure if I will change my name. It’s been a long time with my last name. Not in a career field I feel I need to keep my last name. I’m leaning more to changing it but not sure
I found using my maiden name as my middle name & husband’s as my last name was a good balance for me. I didn’t marry until I was 33.
Maybe I should add that shortly after we were married we moved to England, my home country for 10 years, but have now been Texans (ish) for 25 years!
We were in our mid 30s when we met. Married soon after, but my wife, an M.D. adopted my surname nearly 35 blissful years ago. Not at my request, but as an act of love/faith.
@Patti congratulations and best wishes! 🥂💖
When your husband is Italian it actually causes more complications to take his name. Especially if you don’t change all the documents. Some countries just don’t do it like America so it’s not a reason to judge anyone. It’s a ton of paperwork on top of already tons of paperwork for your husband to get a green card..
the US makes it very hard to marry another citizen, especially if you aren’t rich!!
They expect them not to work while you wait for their documents. For like 6 months. It’s quite absurd, and the alternative is living in separate countries for months right after getting married, or living together in the same country and one person working illegally. It really needs to change because why can’t the spouse work immediately after getting married & remain together.
Why should regular people suffer for other people who use marriage fraudulently to be in the country?
It really is dumb if you’ve ever experienced that system you would know.
So expensive and also we used a lawyer to help because everything is so complicated.
It’s especially infuriating when you see the ease *illegals* have had getting in the country and staying here, getting all kinds of free stuff too 😡While those who do it the right way have to jump through millions of hoops and make all kinds of sacrifices.
Thanks for your comment to, hopefully, get some people to be less judgmental.
I’m gonna guess that you are Irish and your husband is Italian. It’s the only time I’ve seen it done- over and over again
Yes! Agree!
My daughter-in-law kept her maiden name and gave our grandkids her name instead of our son’s, (ours). I thought we raised a strong young man, but underneath he’s spineless. Even took the shots at his wife’s nudging. All we can do is pray!
And where did your daughter-in-law get her maiden name? Probably from her father! So what did she prove? Nothing.
Well, I don’t blame her, who wants to be called coyote-genius? 😉😆😉
That is odd- she should have just gone to a sperm bank.
Need I add, they probably married soy boys with low t?
You are assuming they married non-birthing-people.
Big assumption.
hahaha
Not really.
Well i am conservative even though i did not change my name when i got married. Of course i was already a published author and well known in my field. My husband says he kept his maiden name. ;-)
When I remarried, late in life, I kept my maiden name... for a couple of reasons. I am the LAST person in my family (one of two girls) and have no kids to carry on the name. My dad was the only male in the line. Secondly, I've been known by this name for so many years, online and otherwise, I'm not sure if anyone would know who I was with a new name. We are moving to another state (soon I hope) and at that time I will change it on documents etc. My husband doesn't mind and thank goodness understands my reasons. Has NOTHING to do with feminism. 😊
Why does keeping your birth name make one a progressive? Are women property? Are we living in medieval times? Should we really care if a woman keeps her birth name?
The most disturbing part of your comment to me is using the label ‘progressive’ which continues the division of humans….using LABELS (specifically government/political labels). And this is exactly what big government/world government wants!……to keep us divided.
Don’t label a book by its cover. 😊 We humans are so much more than a label.
Jeff cracks me up!
“By the third round, it [hyphenated names] breaks down under its own weight like an RV that’s seen one too many wild parties in the Nevada desert”
Just to be clear, you can't judge a book by its cover as they say. Some countries require a woman keeps her birthname upon marrying, so many of them hyphen that to their partner's name; doesn't make them progressives. The kids, they get dad's name...
2 of my 3 children are getting married in the next 9 months.
One's 24. The other will be 22. AND we live in Massachusetts.
All 3 of the kids are conservative.
It CAN be done, even in the East Coast!
After a span of close to 50 years I learned that my "first love"-who never married following the ending of our 5 year relationship in '78 when she "just needed a little more time"-finally DID marry...and hyphenated her name. Did I dodge a bullet or what??
Our daughter in-law kept her maiden name. Hoping God changes her heart on that.
husbands, or merely slightly-Toxic Male life accessories?
Not all East Coast ladies that don't change their name upon marriage are "progessives."
I hyphenated my name in 1986 when I got married. I liked my maiden name and my married name so I kept both. Dumb idea in practice though…long name. It was kind of trendy too since Farrah Fawcett-Majors led the way on that idea back then.
Just found out that the "Orgy Dome" (apparently ~5,000 revelers each year partake) at Burning Man was destroyed this week by a howling sandstorm. What a fitting symbol of mother nature saying enough is enough.
Was it last year when the participants tried to flee through mud (and their vehicles were mired) after heavy heavy rain?
Yep. & they've had a bit of that this year, too.
They had both this year.
A lot of people wrote suicide notes.
Not ‘mother nature’…….YAHWEH.
To those that can grasp it… the future is bright in the midst of falling birth rates… if you choose to raise a large family in the fear and admonition of the Lord.
Go out and seize the day!
Amen.
Rush Limbaugh was telling us 30 years ago that the Left was going to abort itself out of existence. Just shows how incapable progressives are in recognizing and anticipating unintended consequences.
And how prescient Rush was, Kenpowoman.
I still miss that guy...
About this and so many other things, too. Same here... we really could use his insight and humor now.
Yuri: the family is placed at the heart of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love. (Credit JPII.)
It only takes a couple of generations for a population committed to self-pleasure and self-worship to begin (literally) disappearing. They've aborted and contracepted themselves into oblivion. And YET they remain committed to their cult religion of self-worship.
What did they think was going to happen?
You left out the trans-mutilation and the homosexual part. It is nihilism. The demons and their father satan hate everything that is lovely, every good report, and humans are at the top of their hate list.
Demons/nephillim/fallen angels/satan are irredeemable and their jealousy over the plan of Redemption is hate-hate-destroy.
Yuri, I think your conclusion not unlikely, as this generation of unvaxxed children of unvaxxed parents will need to be extremely cautious about future romantic engagements, and may well wish to involve their parents in the search for spouse. I am thinking of my own grandchildren.
One of my college aged grandsons has already pronounced himself to be against artificial birth control and desiring to have many children.
I wonder how those statistics on birthrates would change if they factored in the murder of unborn human beings by abortion? Progressive birthrates would shoot up if they'd stop murdering their own flesh and blood? But I don't think they will, these are evil people. Also, with all the LGBTQ abominations these cretins further reduce their genes from the gene pool.
I think God will also hold them accountable for all their evil ways in perpetuity. We might be witnessing a two fer? One, by reducing their population here on earth, and two by burning in hell for murdering their children and participating in deviant relationships which cannot create life but does devastate it like the disastrous sickness of grooming children into transgenderism and homosexuality.
I have come to realize the tenets of the far left affected citizens are TOTAL REBELLION against God-given precepts...and they are suffering the consequences of their rebellious folly--JEHOVAH reigns supreme.
Be fruitful indeed!!
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
To the CDC employees looking for jobs… learn to code
All this talk of "reforming" the CDC makes me scratch my head. The CDC started out by spraying DDT all over the south, then inherited and ran the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment for almost 30 years, have been active in gun control, pushed many unsafe and ineffective vaccines, and was at the forefront of the Covid madness. They are a leftist dominated political organization that is funded by the very industry they are supposed to govern. We would all be better off if there was no CDC at all!
No CDC. Or many other gov agencies. Not necessary.
re: "I’ll leave it to you to speculate over why progressives are so deeply devoted to this failing “public health” agency."
They are deeply devoted to ALL of the government agencies THEY HAVE BUILT to dictate to us how are lives will be run, what we can do, where we can go and how we will end - the pLandemic and the jab being two of the worst crimes against humanity THEY CREATED with their "public health agencies". Every created crisis ("climate change", energy shortages, housing and appliances, public education, mental health like these deeply sick and crazed "transgender" retards and the rest of the LGBTQ loons, mass murders at gun free zones) we have endured for decades has BEEN CAUSED BY THEM and their agencies!! Create a crisis, impose your draconian stupidity on the rest of us, and hopefully kill us, or incarcerate us if they can.
So, you are right Jeff, "many other gov agencies" are not only not necessary, they are a deep and continuous threat to our lives and our children's lives. It is the "Institutional Democracy" they have built to ruin our Constitutional Republic. They are obscenely devoted because these agencies have for years been run and staffed BY THEM. They are why government is so damned big and an octopus like leviathan pulling us under, and into their ocean of disdain, despair and death. Everyone saw what they look like in the dysfunctional wide spread slime and abominations of the autopen tyranny.
Thank God for giving us President Trump back to hopefully do as much damage as possible to this unholy bunch of evil damn people. We must continue to massively support our President as they will never stop trying to use their "institutional democracy" to destroy him, and us.
They create a problem. Then create and staff an agency to address the problem, but not solve it. Continuous problem. Continuous employment. Luckily, we're finally able to fight back. Long slog ahead.
Exactly correct.
It went on for 40 years— 1932 till 1972. Shameful.
No wonder African-Americans are way ahead of most of us white folks in terms of not trusting the government, and being skeptical of vaccines.
I’ve always thought of the CDC as a useless, inaccurate and ineffective agency. Their only proficiencies are bending over for Pharma and fear mongering. Truly a failure and a waste. We don’t need that agency any more than we need herpes.
They are the opposite of scientific.
Every single one of those people can be replaced by unbiased AI.
Unfortunately unbiased AI does not exist yet.
True. How silly of me.
Add ‘Agent Orange’ to the list
And good riddance to them, the CDC is not our friend, it needs to be abolished.
Can you imagine these employees of the CDC (Cry Demoncrat Cry) crying and shaking? What if they had to face something really life altering? And these were the lowest common denominators making and enforcing mandates. Round them up and run them out. All they are good for and capable of are cleaning toilets.
Maybe they are shaking because they are worried about their heads … or tar. Just saying.
So funny how they were placing bouquets of flowers at the buildings door as if someone died.
that is beyond ridiculous.
Often symptoms of brain damage.
Now that's a shitty job!💩
Tis true!
And urinals.
I don't know Lori, cleaning a toilet requires disinfecting it... they would be infecting it.
I thought of that too Dan but could not name what else they were capable of doing well. Perhaps a cesspool/septic tank cleaner instead???
Lori, are you opining that they would be the bacteria which eats sh.., errr, I mean human feces, in septic tanks??
I say, graveyard inhabitants. Permanent graveyard inhabitants.
“Cry- democrat- cry” love it!! 😂😂😂
Stealing!!
Please steal it and pass it around!
The number one accomplishment touted by the CDC is abortion. How is that health care? It’s neither healthy nor caring.
Linguistics, like "planned parenthood."
Good one!
Later Jay
I saw that, they cited three things, abortion, vaccines, and something else equally harmful
Floridation was the third “accomplishment.” All touted as beneficial modern day medical interventions but all lead to death. The first on the list is immediate death, the other two are slowly killing us over the years. Demonic. Makes me question everything said about “medicine.”
For years my friends and I wondered what was going on, what was causing all the cancer, illness, mental deterioration. Little did we know (until recently) it was our medical system!
Yes, thank you.
It’s evil.
The CDC needs more PhD's from the hard sciences and less PhD's associated with "policy." And I believe the sign was moved into that spot for a picture op. I live about 7-8 miles from the CDC and I saw that sign, but in a neighborhood.
The WORLD needs, more PhD's from the hard sciences and less PhD's associated with "policy."
Later Jay
Or, "learn a trade skill".
Liberals don’t want to work, they want to sit in offices and spew their hate.
Well, they are better than the rest of us. Or so they have been told.
Agreed
Except all the coding jobs have been outsourced to all the H1-B visa holders
Wait until the cheaper labor from Bangladesh and Mali starts taking the jobs from Indian 'remote placement' services.
"We can't find qualified tech workers (*) in Calcutta or Bombay, so we must hire foreigners to do these jobs in order to remain competitive."
(*) insert "who are willing to work for peanuts"
Boom!!! There it is! Wonder who'$$$ behind that? Follow the money.
Later Jay
Or AI!
Actually, with AI coming quickly, learn a trade.
NO!! 47 years in IT taught me there are already too many bad coders.
I used to work in the industry when the company would give you the software to get you to buy the hardware. ....but you are correct.
Later Jay
Nevermind coding, they need to learn a trade. With AI, the world will need electricians.
Learn to work the drive-thru.
Those jobs won’t last long; will soon be fully automated. That may be why the big fast food places are encouraging (by offering discounts) the use of their app for ordering. Automate food processing, packaging and handling right out the window to pre-purchased via credit card. No need for those pesky employees.
I generally wait in line rather than using the automated tellers as i see no reason to help the stores get rid of more real employees.
I gotta stop writing my own comments. I gotta start using AI?
Wait... you haven't been??!!
Haha. Not yet. I hate technology.
"I hate technology."
I love that TOO for a bumper sticker. (You just have to add the kicker line, you know, explaining the car...)
I do too btw. It's just that every time I try to get it out of my vein, I think I'll probably die without it. THIS, social media, has been for me MOST addictive.
South Korea has some restaurants with robot waiters!
Likely there's a connection; their birthrates are some the most abysmal on the planet.
Later Jay
Lol, I know of a billionaire who did that!🤣
Or.....be a plumber. Apparently, the "God Father" of AI says that in order to maintain one's livelihood in the AI age, becoming a plumber will always require.....for now.....a human.
I can't be silent on this one: "Plus, there’s always podcasting. Just saying." Thank you for the entree Jeff!😁 BumpInTheRoad.Substack.com
Dammit…I knew I should have read responses before I posted my comment. Apologies for the plagiarism. 😖
Haha! That happens to me all the time too!
Me too, but further down.
LOL. Too late. Those coding jobs already replaced by progressive’s AI. Not to worry. Now that crime is down in DC, they can open up a boutique Wi-Fi cafe, where former colleagues can come and update resumes, or write tell-all novels.
AI will take over all the coding jobs.
Haha. I bet they enjoyed hearing that said to the muscular business sector, but for them? How dare you!
I wrote the same 🤣🤣
I grew up an only child. I have 3 children. My best friend grew up with one sibling, she has 4 children. I have several liberal friends who are very wealthy who have only one child. Some of my old lib friends have never married. I don't encourage my liberal friends to have children or tell them of the joys of motherhood. I noticed this trend about ten years ago when I didn't have a single conservative friend with less than three children while my liberal friends had none or one. I knew there would be societal effects in my lifetime.
My wife and I had two girls. Both girls have four children. They also home schooled them. They now have four in college. They all look to turn out conservative. Fingers crossed.
I tell my children now that they will be a wonderful mommy or daddy. I ask them how many kids they would like to have. They are too young to grasp, but somewhere along the way our society quit cherishing families and children and quit making that the goal. Now, education is the goal. I lived in Houston, and when I was pregnant my first child, the foreigners were always over the moon when they saw me. Americans didn't care. Same with the baby. Foreigners adored my babies in public. Americans almost always look annoyed if they look at all. I gush when I see babies in public in front of my kids. I'm not sure how we are getting this so wrong as a nation.
I'm the same way, Ashley! I'm very conscious of being a happy and joyful mom in my children's eyes. It's not difficult to do, because I truly am! I encourage all my kids, but especially my 2 girls, to think generously about their future families and to look for spouses who do the same. Family is such a joy and blessing!
I think you have stated it well. I also have encouraged my sons, from the beginning, to love the idea of marriage and children. Even to the point of taking care of babies in my home and teaching them infant care when they were teenagers. Today 5 out of 6 are married and have children at a much younger age than their peers. Money is always tight but joy, real joy is not in short supply!
This made me laugh. When my girls were little whenever we would see, say a mother duck and chicks, we would always look for the daddy duck, etc. I ingrained that there could not be babies without a mom and dad to take care of them. (Not totally correct in the animal world, but....) They both married in their early thirties and started having kids a couple years later.
Whenever we saw a degenerate sleeping out in public, they would ask why. I did not tell them he was down on his luck, etc. I told them he hadn't studied for his math test, or whatever was pertinent at the time. (Also not totally correct, but they got my point.)
I have been talking about something similar for a few years now. I am 71 with 3 kids in their esrly to late forties. Without even thinking hard, I can name half a dozen men, my son’s age, (mid forties), who have never married. Not gay, some have long relationships with women, some not. All are working but not millionaires by any standard, but enough to own homes, and buy “toys” for themselves. They seem to have no desire to have families. Everything is living right now.
I believe it is more than living right now. The feminists, and then the wokies, have done everything they could to emasculate men. Now the women are complaining they an't find real men anymore. What goes around, comes around.
The unmarried guys I know aren’t emasculated. They are conservative, but they have found that they can have all their toys, anything that makes them content in the moment, and not have to share. The men I am thinking of come from two parent families, friends and family, yet they don’t believe marriage and a family is worthwhile. I think that’s the key word: worthwhile. The other thing is there is a lack of faith and God, with the church as a community with values for these men.
There's a selfishness there and perhaps they miss what the heart of conservatism is: protecting and passing down goodness to the generations. I have seen this, too, and it saddens me.
I'm sure there are plenty more like them, just like there are now a majority of young women who are not seeking mates. Pretty sad, as they are missing so much. And I agree few of them have any faith or believe own a higher power. this is what the Deep State has been working towards for decades
How interesting, their perspectives. I suspect with age, they make rethink their view. Hopefully, for their sakes.
Some males old enough to be called men remain immature boys. Marriage & raising children, the responsibilities of family help make boys men. Not all, but most. If dating couples had the important conversations early on in the dating; about values, having children, raising children, religion, etc. the bad matches & divorce rates could decrease. Gets down to the nitty gritty.
In my opinion, Emotionally immature men or women should figure that out before they marry and raise a family. Otherwise they pass down their bad behavior and responses or anger.
I feel like some men are too immature for a woman to want to be with them.
They don’t take responsibility for their own laundry, cooking or dishes, or cleaning and think a woman wants to?
I think women have been raised differently these days and may equally not be good at cooking or doing all the house things, & have been working just as much as their male partner.
I think men who still think women should do house things while both of them work is probably the reason for many failed marriages.
Why should women have the responsibility of the house on top of work?
I think some men hold on to a messed up idea that a woman should take care of them when really it should be the opposite. The man in the 60s was the provider, and so it was easy for the woman to take care of the home when she wasn’t also working 8 hours a day outside of home.
Probably because young people in America often don’t work until after 18 & sadly their mother has been taking care of them.
Laundry is so easy, I will never do my husbands laundry unless I’m at home with plenty of time, or if my only job is being a mom.
My husband cooks almost every single dinner for us. We both work full time, but his job is more tiring.
I clean, but he often does the dishes too or cleans the kitchen.
Why should the woman do more?
Why should I cook if my husband is an Italian chef??
I will cook sometimes but I kind of am not great at it.
Especially in our society where women work equally with men?
If men are stronger they can work more and take better care of their wives. I think if men would change their mindset to take care of women rather than be cared for like a baby, maybe women would be with them.
It’s immature to not be able to care for yourself & expect a woman to feed you, wash your clothes, clean your house.
That’s probably why some men stay single, they make a lot of money so that they can hire women to clean their house & still take care of them but they are paying them. Becuz any woman would be annoyed at their laziness and not find them to be a “partner” at all.
I am speaking to a specific type of man who probably would get angry to read this post.
For example— Channing Tatum bought new t shirts for a year so he wouldn’t have to do laundry.
That is literally disgusting and lazy. He literally has all the means to have someone even pick up his Laundry and drop at a fluff and fold.
I just find it very annoying when some men just expect women to take care of them or else they are slobs and they don’t even know basic cooking and especially not cleaning.
They actually may never ever learn even into their old age, which is why it’s so sad.
These kind of men need to grow up because they don’t even know what a sad existence they are living.
Would any man want to be with a woman this incompetent?
Absolutely not so why expect any woman to want that?
And yet some men still expect these things.
Men need to change and step up because our society is totally different. Married Men and women should be more equal in their taking care of house duties or the man does more.
That’s my opinion and my husband and I are happily married. I don’t boss him around and neither of us are controlling. He has just been living on his own before being with me and being a responsible adult, & so we each take responsibility for our own things and he even does most grocery shopping.
Men who don’t know it should learn to live alone and be clean, responsible & organized, & take care of themselves and be fully self sufficient & be able to cook most meals and not eat out All time.
I think that’s what women are looking for, because a lot of women are already self sufficient in this way.
I don’t understand the immaturity of some men (or women) to just stay like this without changing. These men should never get married until they learn it, or else the woman is falling into a trap.
I guess these things can be true about women that’s for sure. So not trying to be sounding sexist. We all have to work on it, it can be hard if you have ADD, so no problem asking or help.
It’s hard to balance jobs and keeping the house in order but at least have a willingness and desire to improve..
Sorry for long rant!
The other toy that is wholly unattractive to a woman is gaming. A man who plays video games displays a laziness that is incredibly unattractive, except to a woman who is a gamer and also just as lazy. I’m not talking an occasional game here and there, but the lifestyle and wasting of precious life in pretend worlds. It sucks the masculine out of a man and makes them doughy and pale. That and a man into pornography. Nope. Not attractive at all.
This is beautiful!! I love it. I came from a big family and LOVED it! Still love it, but as a kid it’s something special.
I know large families and small families. What makes large families click, (I know ones that didn’t), is the love and want of kids. Faith is the cornerstone to that love. There is so much happiness in a family of faith and love. One leads to the other.
Absolutely. My parents were open to life as God planned it for them. It wasn’t easy for them, but my mom entirely trusted in God and help always came through when we needed it. We were never wealthy but never went hungry and had everything we needed. My dad worked tirelessly for us so my mom could be home with us ragamuffins. You learn to live with and appreciate and love all kinds of personalities and how to work with them because you have to. You learn to work as a team and also to appreciate alone time. You do what needs to be done because the family relies on things getting done and survival can depend on you being dependable and responsible. But we also had so much fun and I never felt like I couldn’t be a kid. We had so much freedom even with the responsibilities required of us. They are precious memories for sure.
Love the way you're talking with your children 💜💜💜
After reading all these replies today, it is very interesting. Charlie Kirk and Mike Rowe have differing and yet similar responses to our present family situations. Charlie Kirk is concerned about the breakdown of family and faith. He feels the young on college campuses are hungering for both. The generations above them, but below the Baby Boomers are the ones who bought the whole “women can have it all”. Men have slowly been taught to go into tech jobs where everything can be done by computer. Mike Rowe’s angle is men don’t want to do the vocational work jobs any longer but they are finding there are less and less of these tech jobs. Women can do them also. The AI that is coming will require 700,000 new workers trained in vocational areas and the technical schools can’t fill them fast enough. It all works together, but the bottom line is the family is being replaced and Biblically that is the foundation for God’s teaching.
Yay!
When my son became Catholic years ago he told me he didn’t believe in birth control. While in my brain dead slumber so many years ago -I argued against that. Then a few years later it hit me right between the eyes! I realized those are my grandkids he’s talking about!!! My son just got married and I told him, “have as many children as you want! The more the merrier. And we’ll help with them in any way you want us to. Lots and lots of grandkids for us!” 🙌 🙌 We are now thrilled at the idea of a huge family!! 💃🏻 💃🏻 💃🏻 😊
Some forms of birth control (I worked in a pharmacy once upon a time) do actually cause abortions. They don’t tell women that of course. And Plan B kills the baby and is horrendous on the woman.
Birth control also allows a form of “use” of the other person by using them for the pleasure part, but not allowing for life which is also part of the sexual act, if not THE reason for the act. Pleasure is the icing on the cake so to say. By disconnecting the two, you are using the other body for pleasure but not allowing the act to do what it was designed to do: create life.
Agreed!!! I knew about plan B, but crazily enough it was my son who educated me on what bc pills actually do. I’m so thankful he is very aware of these things and passed them on to me. And so thankful he found a wife who agrees and they are on the same page. They are working together nicely on these issues.
And what an amazing and courageous son you raised too! To not be afraid to share what he learned and to live it in a world that is fully against it and actively working against what he’s trying to do. Not an easy task and too few men embrace the challenge. Women too.
He was the one who challenged me on my pro life stance too. Wow. I was the Christian who bought into pro-life EXCEPT for…... I listened but was a little mad about being challenged in that way. Then the Holy Spirit nudged me to really listen to what he was saying and BAM! We had a great discussion and I have been truly truly pro-life no matter what since. All unborn babies have the same value no matter how they were conceived. Anyway. I credit my son with lovingly showing me the error of my thinking.
Wow! What a testament to you too being open to hearing him out even though it ended up upsetting you. 😊 It makes sense once it makes sense…
Is there a good article you can share about this information about birth control pills? I’m not really sure where to look at this point. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 thank you, and God bless…
Here is a brief synopsis of Natural Family Planning if you’re interested. It was the first thing I came across😊:
https://www.usccb.org/topics/natural-family-planning/nfp-basic-information
I’ll see what I can find on it. Are you looking more faith specific or more scientific specific?
Probably more scientific based… I’ve heard various things about birth control can cause all kinds of havoc on a woman’s mental/depression status as well as being carcinogenic and hard on the heart, but I just cannot remember where I seen this information… 🤔
BTW, my husband is an elementary music teacher in our county… There are six of them. Five women and my husband. Of those five women, four of them are on all kinds of medicine… One of them even tried to commit suicide and is back at school now… 😱
I’m not really sure what’s making us women so fragile… could some of this be birth control pill related?
Blessings… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Almost all chemical “birth control” controls birth *after* conception but before implantation by making the mom’s womb slough off the newly created life.
I learned this by reading JP2’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” in 1995. (We weren’t even Catholics then.)
Shocked to my core, I verified this by reading my wife’s birth control pharmacy insert.
They’re not “contraceptives”, they’re abortifacients.
PS: my first “red pill” about the evil of Big pHARMA was *The* Pill.
Here's another reason not to use traditional birth control pills . They contain a lot of estrogen, which, believe it or not, is carcinogenic in quantity. . Check it out. All the many cancer books I have read say that.
Yes! In fact it was my son who really made me think about bc. Although I used it for a couple months 34 years ago, my body did NOT appreciate it so I went off of it. Never took it again.
My son went to a pre-marital counseling day retreat and the guest speaker was non other than Dr. John Littell. He and his fiancé loved hearing about the female body and birth control and pills, natural family planning etc etc. They discussed it all! Then they shared it with my husband and I. It was very interesting. It should be required for anyone getting married to hear the facts about bc.
There are so many things people take for granted are safe that are actually carcinogenic. Most sunblocks, most artificial sweeteners, soy, BC pills, even sunglasses. Assume nothing, and do your own research is the only safe way to live.
I’ve heard people who switch from BC to natural family planning talk about how their relationship with their spouse deepened and became much more intimate and closer.
That’s what my son told me. This is helping them become closer and more intimate because he is involved in every step of their natural family planning. It takes communication and vulnerability to work together. He said it also causes him not to view her as an object, but rather a woman whose body was made for bearing children and as such goes through lots of different changes. He is appreciating that rather than seeing it as an obstacle.
Yes! And her (and his) body isn’t merely a machine to give pleasure as birth control reduces them to. In turn also objectifying the person as a giver of pleasure.
Great job raising your boy!
Information about NFP is required for marriage prep in the Catholic Church. There are a few methods and dozens of APPs to teach and do it. Much more natural and no drugs or hormones.
A little known side effect of bc - women on bc would choose a different male partner than they would if not on bc pills. Wonder if that’s why so many women are attracted to bad boys?
The study was done several years ago, and psychology today did a rehash article last year.
What is also exciting news is that Catholics who attend the TLM (Trad Latin Mass) have a much higher rate of fertility than Novus Ordo. The demographics toward conservatism is rising even within the Church. When I attend TLM Mass all I see are married couples with 4 -7 children streaming in behind them. Lovely!
Interesting! It makes me smile when I see the large families as I remember my own wonderful upbringing in one. Not all are perfect, but they try.
You rock, Pamela!
Let them self depopulate, better for the world! Thanks for not encouraging them.
My parents had 4 of us, all of us married with 19 grandkids in total now + 1 on the way (our 5th). Already 13 great grands :)
Mum's 2 unbelieving brothers married but only had 1 kid each, and only 1 of them is married and has 1 kid.
That's a 20:1 thrashing haha.
My in-laws had 10 of which 8 are now married plus 1 engaged, and another close. Total of 35 grandkids so far (including 2 adopted) and 4 bubs on the way ATM.
So my kids have ~50 cousins so far and half of their aunts on my wifes side here in the USA are just getting warmed up. Heck we might even add another as all my kids love babies and help babysit their younger cousins and, except for our 5yr old, they get paid.
All 10 of my American BILs and SILs are going hard after God, as are myself and 2 of my sisters and their kids too.
I had only 2 cousins until I was a teenager and then 4 more but was never very close with them. It's so fun watching our kids enjoying our large extended family.
My first marriage failed, and a big attraction to my wife was her, and her family's belief that children are a blessing. Children are hard work for sure, but hard work can be fun too, and it gets easier once the older kids are big enough to help out. I can't believe the homemaking and baby tending skills my kids already have.
What a blessing from the Lord! 🙏🏽🥰🙏🏽
WOW! How blessed!
I know many conservative families who have 4 kids for the same reason…smart McSmart-Smarts (pardon the hyphen). I could only handle two…!
I respect that, kids can be a lot! But I do wonder if our capacity to handle more kids is our lack of community and support? My mom talked about when she was raising my older siblings how there were many Moms in her neighborhood and they gathered together regularly and supported each other. As she had more kids, that support wasn’t there as women went to work and my mom stayed home. Also putting into that factor how families move away from each other (some families need to do this if their family is more damaging than good for them) and cut off all that support grandparents and aunts and uncles can provide and they do it all alone.
I agree about the support factor. Support is crucial for families raising kids. And, truthfully, for grandparents and parents when the kids have left home.
Same for me, two was all I felt capable of handling. But we’ve made up for it In grandchildren and great grandchildren. They’re a growing tribe!
We stopped at two also because one was special needs and that freaked us out. Looking back I WISH I hadn’t been so against more. I would love more NOW 😂 and there would have been a lot of advantages for both my kids had they had more siblings. But, being a grandma to lots of littles is what I look forward to now. 😊
Having a kid with special needs would make it so hard to contemplate another, I can see where the you at the time would be coming from! But like you said, now you can enjoy being a grandma!
Thank you.
Amazing!
I could only handle two also 😅
Sometimes having a child is a life altering event that causes a paradigm shift for liberals. One can't be a total narcissist when they have a baby with his or her own needs. (Unless of course they are rich enough to afford a nanny.) It is much harder to maintain the "unborn child should be disposable" at the mother's whim mentality when a liberal pregnant mother falls in love with her unborn and later born child. It is much harder to maintain the belief that gender is a social construct when one knows that "it's a girl or it's a boy!" is patently obvious during ultrasounds or upon birth - not something "assigned". Education and safety become more important when one has a child that the parent has high hopes for and needs to protect. The benefits of marriage and having a committed partner helping raise and care for a child becomes more obvious. The list goes on. What percentage of liberal parents go through a paradigm shift and eventually have a more conservative worldview? I have no clue. I just know that it happens sometimes. And it is a beautiful thing to witness.
My parents just had me. I had a bad first marriage with no children, remarried in my 30s and just had one, due to infertility issues. I loved raising an only—until she left for college. Would have loved more time with kids in the house. My girl repeated my pattern, but is trying for her second. We’re all conservative, just not very fertile. 😫
I find it interesting that in Hollywood movies made since the '50's, the "parents" typically have only one child. The sit-coms were different and, most of which, had conservative leanings, like Father Knows Best.
The libs have been touting over population for decades and, thankfully, believe their own rhetoric.
My right leaning son has 3 children. My left leaning son one and they don’t intend to have more 😕
Yes!
What's really driving the left crazy about the CDC is the destruction of their industry. The industry of public health? No. It's the industry of government employment. The government employee class has become sacrosanct to these people. They will always support more government and oppose less. Whether the CDC, State, USAID, you name it. It's generational, too. Mom and Dad worked for the government and so do little Billy and Sally. They go to college to earn their permission slip and eagerly support student loan forgiveness. It's an entire culture, something us regular folk can barely imagine. They get special holidays, work from home Fridays, generous benefits and pensions, and an aura of superiority to the people who fix their toilets and repair their cars. It is nothing short of classism, and their class is now threatened by a blue-collar billionaire from Queens.
Love this: “It is nothing short of classism, and their class is now threatened by a blue-collar billionaire from Queens.” Bam!
Good morning, Juju! Off topic question: How did your trip go? I was praying everything would go smoothly and that the car would "behave".
Mrs. "the Knife"
Thank you your prayers helped!! She made it like the champ she has been for 25 years. Outperformed all the newer cars we drove there. Lol
However, I DID contract a “Covid” like virus and have been sick for the past five days. The last time I was sick this bad was two years ago when I tested positive for Covid within seconds of my sample even getting within a whiff’s distance of the test and it flew off the charts as a positive immediately upon contact m. 🤣 So I’m pretty sure it’s whatever flu has been going around from that bug given my symptoms and duration are the exact same. As with the first time, the severity of my sore throat disappeared after the first treatment dose of IVM, but the lesser severe symptoms are still pretty miserable. I’m taking HCQ with Zinc, Azithromycin, and extra vitamin C. And my netti pot 3x day. I already have daily regimen of NAC and spike protein detox. But I am missing something that probably could shorten the duration I’m sure. I don’t have other recommended treatments, or nebulizer setup type stuff. So I’m just suffering through. I postponed my flight back from Sept 3 to Sept 10 to give me time to get better.
Thank you for asking! I literally thanked God for all of you every mile of my drive. ❤️
I am so glad your trip went well! Isn't it amazing how well those older cars perform, compared to newer models. Kind of reminds me of the older generations of people, steady, reliable, just get on with the job at hand. Then you have a significant percentage of the younger generation complaining about everything, life has to be just so, or they can't function!
I am sorry you caught "the bug" and are still feeling "puny"! Praying for quick resolution of the rest of your symptoms. Feel better, my dear.
Mrs. "the Knife"
McCullough recommends Quercetin in addition to what you are taking. You can check his site for the dosage because I don't have my notes closeby... Also, the nasal spray with iodine.
Thank you!!
Hope it helps
Considering the CDC was created to eradicate Malaria in the South maybe they can reorganize and figure out how to wipe out mosquitos entirely instead of people.
The History of Malaria in the United States: CDC https://share.google/cb8ftIxyuqastpQGh
CDC and other three-letter agencies should be prohibited from weaponizing the insect world. Mosquitos and ticks, to mention a few, are enhanced as carriers of bio-weapons to plague humanity. Eradicating any one species on earth could have cascading unintentional consequences.
Would love that! This year has been particularly bad with all the rain we’ve had. Hubs usually sprays for mosquitoes (sorry, but it’s the only way we and our pup aren’t eaten alive), but his accident has prevented him from spraying this last month. The “skeeters” have taken over and even get in the house!
Same here. Even with pest control they are still thick. Those along with the joro spiders it's a bug nightmare.
Maybe this will help… This is relatively close to the bug repellent at Buc ee‘s… I make my own in a brown spray bottle: filtered water and some witch hazel and these essential oils… Citronella, geranium, Peppermint, Cedarwood, Rosemary and lemon grass.
When I use this homemade bug spray, I rarely get bit… 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you! I'll try it.
You just described my brother & his family; not a productive one in the bunch but hauling in taxpayer big bucks.
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The disciples of John reported to him about all these things. Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?” When the men came to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, to ask, ‘Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?’” At that very time He cured many people of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits; and He gave sight to many who were blind. And He answered and said to them, “Go and report to John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have the gospel preached to them. Blessed is he who does not take offense at Me.”
— Luke 7:18-23 NAS95
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Those last 10 words!!! Amen. Amen. Amen.
Hooray RFK for canceling the EUA!
Garbage shots…all i can say about that.
Thank You LORD! Answer to so many prayers! 🙌👑🙌💜🦋
Those shots, by mandates, targeted active duty and veterans. Now our military should grow stronger, faster.
I think the shots targeted everyone. Biden mandated it for the military and tried to force it for private industries too.
And yet the government employees did not have to take them.😡
They absolutely did. It was mandatory for everyone.
I worded it incorrectly. It was Congress that did not have to take the Covid “ vaccine”.
I think you’re right there. USPS also negotiated themselves some cut out on it too
They're not just in love with governance, they are absolutely dependent on it.....a subconscious desire to be an Establishment slave relieves them of the stress and hardships of personal responsibility let alone the bugaboos of independent thought. I'd bet Jeff's paycheck that these people are melancholy (hopelessly adrift?) about not seeing directional arrows on the floors at the grocery store. Ah, the good 'ol days. "We’re all in this together"......morons.
This mindset has evolved I believe, from the late 80s/90s to now of helicopter parenting and extreme focus on what a child is doing every second of every day. I cringe when I hear people want an open floor plan so they “can keep an eye on the kids in the other room when the parents are cooking.” I get toddlers and babies, but that’s what containment is for. But school age children??
It creates dependency. Hell, we were running around 24 acres our whole childhood and as long as my parents didn’t see smoke or blood we were free to make good and bad choices. They allowed us to feel the weight of those consequences as well as protecting us from greater harm because we learned with little good and bad choices made in the freedom and protection of childhood, we learned how to make choices as adults and live with the consequences, good or bad and learn from both.
The difficult thing for parents now is the crucifying of them when something happens to their child, big or small, so I get it a little bit. But man, I feel bad for kids who are surveilled their whole life…
It's oftentimes best to feel the consequences of bad/wrong decisions. It's called learning.
Bingo
Experience is the best teacher.
Yes, I’m grateful there are like minded parents on our street who didn’t keep their kids occupied by every after school program known to man. They roamed the street, then the neighborhood as they got older. They had a blast.
Socialism and the welfare state cannot work without government, the bigger the better. Strip government and their world falls apart, as we are seeing.
My husband's contention: that unmarried women who tend "progressive" (looking straight at two of my cousins, here) and want more government are seeing government as a replacement for the man missing in their lives. "Govern me harder, Daddy!" No doubt these words will offend some. Tough.
I don’t know about liberal women, I think they probably scare men off because they are trying to be manly. Or perhaps looking for family and find it in the government?
But I know a lot of conservative women I know who stayed single had a difficult time finding a man who wanted to be a man and not a boy with his mommy or the men who wanted things that the women found immoral.
Or perhaps a poor relationship with their own father.
Haha, “I’d bet Jeff’s paycheck.”
People on the left, especially the women, supposedly take more SSRIs. These drugs are notorious for killing libido, even causing permanent damage in some people’s sexual functioning after stopping the drug. Hence, less babies.
Lefty Loons having babies is the scourge of our times. Isn't that how we got into this mess?
First-hand knowledge here: My office was next door in the SOPH to the original CDC for 14 years (1993-2005). Then we had real bona fide scientists working there; they were tight.
After they constructed the new facility, the adminstration changed from primarily research scientists to scientists who were mostly administrators. Ain't been the same since.
Random: Am I the only one who thinks this when you see a person with a hog clip (ring) in their nose? https://tinyurl.com/mwp7bpzx
Do tell.
Have a great weekend. HAPPY & SAFE LABOR DAY
I had my Lib client yesterday say RFK needed to be fired because of his stance in the Covid shot. I tried to tell her they don’t work. She proceeded to tell me vaccines are the miracle of the 20th century. Turns out she worked for the CDC in Chicago for 12 years.
Just to give you an idea on how they think, they won’t accept any evidence against their worldview. Even if you have a Pub Med study. I don’t now how they’re going to accept the Autism news when it comes out next month.
In previous conversations she’s told me Gavin Newsom is a fantastic Governor (even though she’s never lived in California like I have.) And, Pritzker is swell too!
She is nuts, The End.
I wish I could like this 1000 times!!! 🤣
Yep, that's my diagnosis as well.
Shortest, most pithy bio ever penned. You have the gift, Lori.
I still have no idea how anyone who claims to be rational can think Newsom is a great governor if they look at the decline of CA over the last 10-20 years.
That’s what I tried to explain to her! I had another person I met through a lady’s group I’m in. She tried to tell me that there isn’t any voter fraud in California. Turns out she moved away 30 years ago. And when she’s gone back to visit she hasn’t “seen” anything like I was describing. They literally have to turn a blind eye to the trash, graffiti, homelessness in general filthiness of the entire state, not to mention the Palisades fire.
To paraphrasing The Conservative Treehouse, in order to be a Democrat you have to pretend not to know a lot of things.
You are so patient. Once I hear they are a demoncrat or libtard, I run away as fast as I can.
It's a naturally and self survival tactic when faced with real and clear danger of insanity. That's what they've done to us wih COVID-19, created entire world culture of insanity and fear and running away or ignoring it which is of course it's own insanity.
There’s a great video of Newsom saying - SINCE 2008 - that he’s going to fix homelessness.
Year after year after year, it shows him saying he’ll end homelessness.
Of course, year after year after year, it got worse. 🙄
Too many people would be out of their jobs if they actually fixed the homeless problem!
He is the worst of shysters.
It depends on one's "bent." In the dems case, it's one that "Failure of our policies PROVES 'We weren't BOLD enough!'" With that, failure only REINFORCES their calcification/ossification. (I can't find the word for the process of buried dinosaur bones metamorphosing into solid rock, but THAT.)
This was like my neighbor that was trying to sell me on roundup to use on my dandelions that I don’t mind as much as he does. He gave me all the arguments to “counter” people’s concern with the cancer producing fluid, but then quietly mentioned something about working for Bayer…
I look at dandelions as a gift. They are an herb. You can eat them, add them to baked goods, make oils and tinctures. They have excellent medicinal qualities.
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/dandelion-health-benefits
Yes! I love dandelion tea and enjoy the happy little yellow flowers. I leave them in my backyard and “meadow” amongst my fruit trees, but keep the neighbor and city happy by keeping them down out front. Kinda. 😄 And NOT with weed killer…
Why poison your lawn and any child or animal walking on it for a futile cause. The only way to really keep them away is for constant poisoning. They are ubiquitous.
Exactly. I pull them or spray a little vinegar on them to convince the city I’m “doing” something about them. And then just live and let live which ones want to everywhere else. I don’t like the idea of the poison staying in the ground either like it’s been proven to do.
I watch a lot of farming videos/podcasts--have learned that most weeds flourish where there's an absence of calcium in the soil. (Jay McCamon book, "When Weeds Talk")
Interesting!! I may have to get that book. You could probably learn a lot about soil through your weeds
Yep. But lets not forget the Never Trumpers who are still out there who totally have TDS still! I am blown away. People who seem conservative but cannot stand him. Negate all he has done or is doing. Oh ya and they think Trump is the cause of disastrous and embarrassing tactics of Newsom such as saying F-U to Bed bath and beyond.
I find conservative people who don’t like him always say it’s because of how “mean” he is. To me, I’d take a mean person who gets things done, to an eloquent, slimy snake(Obama) who plots our destruction behind closed doors… and honestly Trump is “mean” to those who are awful to him and incredibly kind to the vulnerable.
That’s exactly right. They think he is mean or he has “taught” or “set the tone” for people acting like that. Blaming our Ca office’s behavior on Trump. 🙄 Either hes mean or they think he has worse character than many of the wolves in sheeps clothing.
I rember when folks at CDC and American Heart Association (right across from Emory SOPH), would have lunch and discuss the latest research without hold a position. Such is rare today. Now 7 out of 10 come with presupposed postions - the antithesis of science.
My neighbor, who spent his career working in the financial sector of Merck, told me that aside from improved sanitation, vaccines were the most important factor behind the improved health of the 20th C. (at the time, I silently rejoined, "Shill!). And cousin (took 5 jabs), when I had dared to make some tiny remark about their negative effects, advised me to talk about the marvel of vaccines "with our cousin's daughter--who works for Pfizer".... Pritzker certainly is swell. And perhaps ever swellinger? I don't understand politicians (Chris Christie) who care so little for their physical bodies.
The Wall Street Journal piled on this morning with a hit piece on RFK by three (youngster?) writers. “Anti-vax” in every sentence. The pitch was that he was dividing MAGA—when we all know that on the other side it’s just Senator Cassidy and the other bribed ones.
No you aren't! All those face rings are animal control features or slave markings. Yes I'm that old to remember #farmlife
Yep, nose rings are the only way to control hundreds of pounds of muscle and hooves. That or punching the nose. Those who have had cattle know…
And those with horses employ a ‘twitch’. While not a nose ring, it does control using pressure to the nose.
I read that while waiting for Jeff. It’s spot on!
Thanks, ma'am, I hope you enjoyed it.
re mental health- CHD put out an article about the Pediatric assoc. recommending mental health screening for 6+ month olds.
That is some of the dumbest ISH I have heard since pregnat person and men who menstrate.
How on earth? They haven't even begun to babble!
WTH?.
Kids who are experiencing behavioral problems usually are part of families with problems. The problems may be mental, chronic stress, death, divorce, parental conflict, sibling or parental illness, etc, etc. Or the kids have toxic overload, vaccine injury, or other chronic inflammatory state. Or both (family stress and physiological stress).
Kids already are screened for developmental issues.
AAP is demonstrating *again* that they are anti-child and anti-family. This is downright despicable.
I agree. They got almost $35 million in 2023 in federal grants. Maybe some will get taken away especially since they are still recommending 6+ month Covid vax. Such a damn racket.
Happy Labor Day to you too Torrance. Your stack on the nose ring is perfect. And yes, a woman's body is a work of art as God intended. It may sag a bit over time or sustain some wrinkles or stretch marks but a work of art nonetheless! Your resume must be a work of art as well as it appears you have been everywhere gleaning much experience and observation.
My great uncle always would say.
"Looks are temporary, but dumb is forever. So make sure you remember that when selecting a wife."
I learned a lot from the men in my family, but did not know it at the time. Only clicked after I was around 30.
There is a research link on my stack at the top, chk it out if you wanna.
At least it clicked!
Yes! I think of a hog or a slave!
I go in details on that stack..chk it out of you have time and enjoy.
Torrance I agree with you on the nose ring thing. I cannot take this person seriously and think they are marking themselves as a slave of something or someone else. This sentence made me laugh out loud. “When it looks like you fell face-first into a hardware drawer at Home Depot, you're going to have a hard time in life, and deservedly so.” I enjoy reading your posts.
Thanks for the support. I just wrote what I think.
good stack Torrance!
#hattip
The older I get the more honery I get.
I don't see a problem with that. lol I'm like Ouiser Boudreaux [Shirley Maclaine- Steel Magnolia] and proud of it.
LOL
“Don’t try to get on my good side; I no longer have one.”
Just finished reading your article on "hog clips". I've noticed, in the last 10-ish years, the growing number of fat women with many tats. And I contend that, by virtue of their obesity, recognizing that they are unattractive, they print their skins as a way of calling out, "Hey! Look at me!" I have similarly found distasteful any ear-piercings beyond one per ear. Two of my 3 daughters (38, 42) still have the earlobes they were born with.
WOW. That is spot on. Thanks for the link.
Thanks for the consideration of your time ma'am.
Same thing happened to the schools. Once the administrators numbers became almost equal to teachers numbers, it was all over.
God listens to who?
“The eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, And His ears are open to their cry.”
Psalms 34:15 NKJV
Listen up, Jen Psaki, THIS is why we pray and THIS is why we wake up each new day and recommit to righteousness, even if we failed the day before. We choose God, and for those who authentically do that, their prayers matter.
JDVance had a great reply to ginger Jen. Prayer is what gets parents and families through tragedy. To mock or take that away from victims is heinous.
Prayer and action are not either/or.
Who is righteous? "No not one" but The One who is our righteous redeemer. It is He who justifies not we ourselves.
Translation, The righteous are Christians, the ones who put their faith in Christ for their hope and salvation have the imputed righteousness of Christ.
Who serve Him as their LORD, KING.
Amen!
Regarding the FT story - as a conservative Catholic, that's a replacement theory I can support.
Sadly, it means it's unlikely I'll be a grandfather, as my adult sons are progressive. But I have hope that life will mug them soon - as it did me at their age - and they'll make saner, godly choices.
You just have to pray they find a conservative woman that sweeps them off their feet and leads them back to their Catholic upbringing. Their upbringing is still in there and I’ve seen it happen!
I know of others who are in the same boat. They are conservative and their children have turned progressive.
My son shared our conservative views until he married a progressive woman. Then, Lo and behold, Covid hit and they were appalled with the shutdown and the draconian rules being forced on us, and they changed to conservative! Yeehah! All my kids and grandkids are. Except I’m finding the older ones at public school dislike Trump and support gay and trans rights. Those schools ruin kids!
I hope that you get some grandkids! For many reasons.
Often prayers to St Monica, for intercession, work wonders. Her example of fidelity to prayer brought her husband, mother-in-law and of course her son, St Augustine, back to the Faith. I belong to “Millions of Monica’s” weekly prayer group and a monthly Monica Meeting, including a Holy Hour beseeching Our Lord for my family members return to the Lord, the Church and Magisterium.
Democrats are Trash-Talking about their upcoming Big Beautiful Blue Wave for the 2026 Mid Terms; a National RNC Convention is the BEST IDEA since SECURING the Southern Border. Let's Go!!!!
Simple and Genius...of course the DEMS will Now need to plan doing the same
However, at least here in the Southeastern US, the RINOs have taken over the county and state Republican party organizations. Once rabidly anti-Trump, they gleefully don MAGA gear in an attempt to woo the unsuspecting - unfortunately, quite successfully :(
Who will represent "the People" at another RNC?
So glad that you are aware of this. Spread the word.
Our GOP leadership is so very corrupt - Not a single US Senator will okay a recess so President Trump can get his people on board even just temporarily. The current US Senate and House have not encoded into law the wonderful Executive orders that President Trump has issued.
Everyone needs to make sure that their LOCAL GOP organization is not controlled by RINO's since they are the gate keepers (They and their State GOP organizations).
Uhm, if Mike Johnson is enthusiastic about it - We, the People , and Maga - should RUN IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. Let's not kid ourselves - look how the Republican Senate has gone awol - along with our "vaunted" Speaker of the House - and the rest of the Re(tards) who felt the need to worship at the Wailing Wall.
Trump is actually trying to do shit - as are MTG and Massie. The rest of the RINOS are running out the clock and riding Trump's coattails - while doing NOTHING.
I would appreciate it if you could post your comments without such offensive profanity. Thank you.
There are a few of us who still would like to go back to a culture of ediquette when men watched their mouths and thoughts around when and children. Don't blame others for your own choices to bow to a lower level. Thank you.
I trust you are pulling for the Ramblin Wreck tonight. Go Jackets!!!
Maybe a good opportunity to also REIGN these Relucticants back into line and remind them Sternly yet ominously that they're to work for The Country and People, NOT some Uniparty DeepState Corporation of Secret Society Congenial Country Club Frat Boy Elitists
Carlos, I don't mind your profanity so keep on trucking as you will.
If the Dems do put their hog-ringed, purple haired freak show on national display in response to a GOP Convention, I'd call that a "two-fer"
Yeah the comparison of the two will be vivid and only help our side.
—“with buzzwords like “authoritarianism” and “no kings.”
Huh. They didn’t seem at all concerned by those things during Covid when governors and health department heads engaged in authoritarianism and acted like kings 🤔😑
Progs not only have fewer kids but they kill some before they are born and then neuter the ones that survive.
Sadly true...
You forget that they are actually buying fertility slaves at the door of their holy temple that made them imagine was the reason they hate religion.
Good morning. Will this weekend see the National Guard take over Chicago? I hope so, and please arrest Pritzker too.
On a bright note, the garden spider that was absent all summer made her return to my back porch a few days ago. I just watched her take down her web after daylight this morning. Moths are scarce this year.
The moths must have moved north to my region in Michigan. We are loaded with moths, butterflies and unfortunately, Japaneses beetles. I am waiting for my first orb weaver in years. I tend to think they like large vegetable gardens. Mine has shrunk as I only mess with salad veggies and squash any longer.
I think I have seen one butterfly this year, unusual for here. But I must have a ton of cicadas, they are very loud most of the day. I don't have room for squash, but my cherry tomatoes and serrano peppers have done well.
I’ve seen many butterflies, hummingbirds, bees, birds, and other fauna come to my garden this year. But I think it’s because all the things I crammed in it are finally growing and blooming. There was one bush on the entire property when I bought it and I barely saw a bird visit. Just lawn and bark dust. It’s been amazing seeing life come back into the garden! Woodchips do wonders for your soil and increases so many beneficial critters as well!
My go to for garden paths.
Yes, my tomatoes are bountiful this year as well as my green bell peppers which can be finicky in my garden soil.
I don’t now how you live with cicadas! We have spring peepers and crickets which can get loud, but not like cicadas. Wow!
I have the tree frogs as well, a soothing sound at night. The cicadas are unusually quiet right now, the last few days the buzzing and droning was very loud all day.
We had Japanese beetles this year too. My chickens loved them. They didn't have a chance 😏
Unfortunately the Japanese beetles start at the top of my lone birch trees. I know they have arrived when leaves, completely skeletonized start drifting down. Then they moved to my peach tree which was loaded, thankfully, dozens of them on single peaches. Not sure chickens could get to them. I hate those things.
The fish and turtles in my pond spit them out!
I have one too Dave. Her name is Charlotte and she is a beauty.
Happy Friday friends!!! Rejoice in Him!!
This is the day which HE has made--and I do rejoice in it!
Amen, Uncle Juan
" The greatest trick the right ever pulled,” he warned, “was convincing the left that talking about families and children is conservative-coded. " I don't care who you are, that there is funny. 🤣
Yes!!! Once again, it’s our fault for pointing out basic truths that they then CHOOSE to claim aren’t truth at all.