We have a problem, fellow citizens. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. Taking the “politically correct” stance that it’s an issue that is equally distributed across demographic groups may make us feel better, but it’s a lie. Only facing the situation honestly will allow us to address it.
I’m not going to sugarcoat it: A certain group in our country doesn’t share traditional American values like honesty and fair play. This group glorifies thuggery, revels in stupidity and makes excuses for and even rewards lying, theft and sociopathic behavior. This group’s dysfunction is dragging us all down.
It’s not up to decent people to carry the load for this dysfunctional group or teach their lawless children morals. It’s up to the members of that group to pull themselves up out of the gutter. Parents in this group have to teach their children right from wrong. This demographic’s communities must establish and enforce moral frameworks.
So, I’ll just say it: Republicans need to start taking personal responsibility. Now. They need to own up to their dysfunctional behavior and correct it. They must stop blaming everyone else for their impulsive reactions to adverse events. They need to stop acting like they’re perpetual victims and assume some agency in their own lives.
I’m tired of hearing about how this self-destructive behavior has its roots in conservatives’ upbringing or socioeconomic status. I began life in a seedy Florida trailer park, and I managed to pull myself up by the bootstraps and leave the chaos and dysfunction behind. If I can, they can. No more excuses.
schrodingers_cat
Is there any hope for the non 1% who are brainwashed members of the R cult.
Calouste
Theft is a traditional American value. You could even say it is the founding value of America: stealing land from the Native Americans and labor from the slaves. Far more so than honesty and fair play.
Villago Delenda Est
The first step is to convert all Mammon worshipers by the sword to Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, FSMism, Satanism, anything but Mammonism.
All “Bible Believing Christians” take note. We’re going to ram Jesus down your fucking throats.
Villago Delenda Est
@Calouste: “Honesty and fair play” are the mythical values. What you described are the actual ones in practice. Time to change that.
Betty Cracker
@Villago Delenda Est:
I like the cut of your jib!
Ruckus
Very nice Betty.
Think about the conservative political class. They don’t seem to have come from white working class trailer trash. They have money, even if they didn’t earn it. They have nice stuff. They aren’t who they are from a poor upbringing, they are who they are because they think that’s who they should be. They are who they are because they get paid to be assholes. By richer assholes who want to be far richer. It isn’t lack of money that creates assholes, it’s chasing too much money that does. Not that there can’t be poor assholes, there sure are, but it’s the excess money chasing more excess money and their rent boys.
bystander
@Villago Delenda Est:
Sweet talking them just might work.
My favorite caption on the pic of Ivanka, Melania and Trump with the Pope:
Melania: I like dressing up like his widow.
charluckles
This is the way forward. Reverend Barber has it. The left is the true upholder of both American and religious values in this country.
lol chikinburd
I’d be shocked if Gianforte didn’t win by double digits. Conservatives simply want their opponents dead and are looking for excuses. This isn’t even new; they’ve always been like this, all the time we’ve known them. There’s no sharing a polity or a society with them, ever.
NotMax
Perilously skirting the edge of mirror image (i.e., left-side) Ben Carson territory.
Yes, yes it is (not exclusively, if should go without saying). By both word and by example, with the goal of lightening that load. It takes a village.
jacy
We need to call out bothsiderism. It’s got to stop. Yeah, there ARE two sides. Wrong and right. Republicans are always wrong, which they keep proving over and over again, every day in every way. They need to be stomped out, one way or the other.
Corner Stone
The flip side to this is that D’s need to understand we can’t keep helping them. No incentive to work with them and every reason to stand united against them.
Major Major Major Major
I’m trying to do a cartoon figure drawing sketch every day while I learn all the tricks on my new tablet. The last couple have been a little macabre. I think the news is getting to me.
Corner Stone
@lol chikinburd: I also think GG will win by several points, if not double digits. The incident last night is irrelevant to the outcome today.
low-tech cyclist
:applause:
artem1s
gotta place a least partial blame on the ‘Christian’ community. Every fucking thing is OK because that ‘good’ guy claims to have a personal relationship with Jeebus. Misogyny, racism, xenophbia, homophobia, domestic violence, vulgarity, drug abuse, sexism, pedophilia, rape culture, serial adultery, white collar crime, grifting, snake oil cures, segregation, gaslighting, etc, etc, etc are not acceptable because some white guy suddenly discovers the magic get-out-of-jail-free card of getting your soul cleansed via greasing Jerry Falwell’s well oiled palms. Announcing you are a Christian out loud is actually counter to the teachings of Jesus. Using Christianity as a prop in your business or political life should be the first tell that you are nothing but a con man grifting some soft minded marks for cash or votes. End the myth of ‘religious affiliation’ as a requirement for running for public office and as a test of ‘moral’ superiority.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: Here’s a dictionary entry that might clarify things for you.
low-tech cyclist
@Villago Delenda Est:
Works for me. I’m not sure exactly what that oxymoron, evangelical Christianity, believes in, but it’s damned sure not Jesus.
Corner Stone
@jacy: We also need to single out projectionism. Like the R congressperson on MSNBC just now who when asked about the MT event said that “the left has precipitated this tense confrontational approach throughout the country over the last several months”.
montanareddog
Perhaps we should have a campaign to teach them to “Just Say No” to RWNJ Media.
And stickers on the front of books by Ann Coulter etc. that say “Warning – contains mendacious material”
lol chikinburd
@Calouste: You’re absolutely right, of course. That Constitution we thought was our friend was only even ratified as a result of the compromise that agreed to let that specific evil hang around.
realbtl
Slightly OT. My local rag here in NW Montana (probably 3rd or 4th largest media market) has 1 AP report on Gianforte this morning, no mention that he has been charged, just “alleged incident.” Also as mentioned ~40% of ballots have already been cast. I’m not getting my hopes up.
ruemara
@NotMax: You go be a mirror. These people have shown the extent of destruction they’re willing to do, just to stay in power. Betty may be joking but she’s not wrong.
@artem1s: Amen
Corner Stone
I am still shocked that the eyewitness to the MT event that came forward is not local Fox but the National Fox News crew. That’s a little surprising, IMO.
Betty Cracker
Today in blabbermouth news:
Embarrassing.
Mike in DC
Where are the fathers in all this? I’m truly concerned about the dysfunction in the white conservative community.
J
Wonderful, Betty! For a while now I’ve been imagining a version of Lionel Barrymore’s speech in ‘It’s a wonderful life’ about a ‘lazy shiftless working class’ with ‘ruling class’ instead of ‘working class’.
Tom
What? Take personal responsibility instead of just lecturing others on it? Where is my fainting couch?
schrodingers_cat
@Mike in DC: Onto their third wife.
low-tech cyclist
@Corner Stone:
I’d say that’s a subset of failing to take personal responsibility: “if our guy did this bad thing, it’s not his fault, the wicked libruls goaded him into it.”
Like they tell you, you have no control over what the other guy does, you can only control what you do.
TaMara (HFG)
@Betty Cracker:
@Villago Delenda Est:
Agree!
We literally have this conversation at dinner every night. How we have to stop letting this country be run by the lowest common denominator. It’s time for a revolution of intelligence, science, kindness and compassion. And those who refuse to understand we are responsible for the least among us and for the health of the planet, must take a seat in the remedial room and entertain themselves why the adults take charge.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Actually hesitated before hitting publish as suspected it was a stab at being a close-knit parody. Just enough unsurety about that to go ahead and punch the button.
montanareddog
@Mike in DC: We have to end the affirmative action program for the hiring of corrupt conservative commentators on the cable shows. America must return to meritocracy! Imagine what it must be like for a talented, hard-working, well-qualified liberal pundit to be turned down for a job because we have to give these conservatives a leg-up!
schrodingers_cat
Speaking of third wives. Did anyone read Newt’s WashPost op-ed?
Corner Stone
I long for the day when Chris Jansing realizes we all understand she is not as smart as she thinks she is so she can stop interrupting her guests with “insightful” gotcha questions that don’t shed any light on the topic.
rikyrah
No more coddling or ‘ understanding’ these muthaphuckas.
Nope.
MattF
Seeing them all walking around with their pants down around their waists is just disgusting.
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
Life’s tough enough without reading more bullshit from that evil fuck, who is perhaps the one most responsible for the Cleek’s Law ethos [sic] of the Modern [sic] Rethuglican Partei.
PJ
Their lack of regard for the rights of others, their destruction and lawlessness is out there in the open for everyone to see. Again, I must ask, where are Republican leaders on these issues? Why have they not spoken out? It hurts their own communities even more than it hurts those of non-Republicans. Why do the leaders of the Republicans choose to look away, to pretend as if this shameful behavior is not an everyday occurrence?
PS – Kudos, Betty, this may be your best yet.
schrodingers_cat
@SFAW: I didn’t read it either, wanted to see if someone did and would summarize it.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: Never heard of her.
Betty Cracker
@schrodingers_cat: I did, and could he hump Trump’s leg any harder? So, we’re going to redouble our efforts to prop up evil authoritarian regimes and stop even pretending US foreign policy isn’t based on international gangsterism — what a breakthrough concept! Must be payback for that Vatican ambassadorship.
Davis X. Machina
@charluckles: Thank God for Rev. Barber — “would God that all the Lord’s people were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them!”
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: Or kickbacks from Saudis.
rikyrah
Five startling things Betsy DeVos just told Congress
By Valerie Strauss
May 24 at 4:34 PM
Does this sound familiar? Betsy DeVos went to Capitol Hill to testify before U.S. lawmakers. She didn’t answer a lot of direct questions and engaged in some contentious debates with some members.
That happened in January when she went before the Senate education committee for her confirmation hearing, during which she said schools needed guns to protect against grizzly bears. This time, the education secretary didn’t talk about guns, but she did say that states should have the right to decide whether private schools that accept publicly funded voucher students should be allowed to discriminate against students for whatever reason they want.
DeVos testified before the House subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies about the Trump administration’s 2018 budget proposal, which would cut $10.6 billion — or more than 13 percent — from education programs and re-invest $1.4 billion of the savings into promoting school choice.
Both DeVos and President Trump have said expanding alternatives to traditional public schools are their top priority, and during tough questioning from some committee members, DeVos doubled down on that as well as on giving states and local communities flexibility to do what they want with their education programs. It is worth noting, however, that she said recently that people who don’t agree with expanding school choice are “flat Earthers,” people who refuse to face the facts.
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1. States should have the flexibility to decide whether private schools that accept students with publicly funded vouchers can discriminate any students for any reason
2. States should have the flexibility to decide whether students with disabilities who are using publicly funded vouchers to pay for private-school tuition should still be protected under the IDEA federal law
3. High-poverty school districts get more funding than low-poverty schools
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Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.) noted that the proposed education budget’s Title I plan would reduce funding to high-poverty schools, according to numerous experts, and she asked DeVos whether she believes that high-poverty school districts should get “more funding resources” than schools with lower levels of poverty.
DeVos said, “Yes, I think the reality is that they do receive higher levels of funding.”
Later, Roybal-Allard asked her more specifically about federal funds: “Just to be clear … you do agree that high-poverty schools should receive more federal resources than lower levels of poverty schools? Was that your testimony?”
Devos responded: “Yes, I think that this is the case.”
Roybal-Allard said, “They don’t,” and continued to press DeVos.
In her first answer, the secretary said she believed high-poverty school districts do get more funding than wealthier districts, which is not true. In the second response, she said she believes high-poverty school districts get more federal funding than wealthier districts. That is not always true.
4. The administration is not shifting money for public schools in the budget in order to fund school choice experiments
It is. If there are cuts to public schools, and there is new money going to school choice, that can’t mean anything else.
5. DeVos wouldn’t say whether private and religious schools that accept students paying with public funds should be accredited or held accountable in the same way that traditional public schools are
Another Scott
Yeahbut…
“Where you stand depends on where you sit.”
If you’re in an environment that doesn’t let you escape (nobody to challenge your thought processes and ways of doing things or convince you personally that you have a responsibility to make the most of your life), then it’s extremely easy to just keep going along the same path no matter how dangerous and destructive it is. People really don’t like the unknown. People are afraid of change.
It’s not just on the voters (of course). A whole bunch of these problems we’re dealing with are the result of leaders (religious, educational, governmental, TV and entertainers, etc.) not taking seriously their responsibility to make things better. The Music Man and A Face in the Crowd aren’t instruction manuals, but too many people out for a quick buck treat them as if they were.
Too many of our institutions were taken over by RWNJs without enough push-back. We need to remedy that.
Yes, voters and GOP supporters need to take responsibility, but we need to change the environment that let those horrible ideas fester for far too long.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
OK, good. I was worried that, if you had, you woulda gone nucular.
schrodingers_cat
@Davis X. Machina: I have a question for you as a linguist and a language teacher. Do you think it is possible for me to teach myself Sanskrit? How would I go about doing it. I can read and write the Devnagari script.
Major Major Major Major
Conservatives really need some strong male role models who got where they are today by following the rules and playing fair. Far too many felons, cheats, car thieves etc. in the upper echelons of their communities.
Culture of Truth
one million people in Montana and this psycho is the best they can do?
JJ
Owning up to one’s mistakes one-on-one is possibly the most difficult of human interactions and a very rare thing. The expectation that half a nation led by Republicans who have proven themselves to be constitutionally incapable of admitting errors or caring about country over party or personal interest by appealing to the most uneveloved and basest of human traits (fear of other) is an impossibility. It’s a pipedream. Plus there’s that 30 yr jump on undermining public education. We’re fucked. Sorry to be a buzz-kill. I’m still fighting the good fight and building bridges where I can. And there are encouraging rays of light emerging. But we’re fucked. Raise your hand if you’ve recently started taking anti-depressants or upped your dosage. I can’t be the only one.
geg6
Yup. I came from that storied white working class. My dad was a steelworker who, only because of his seniority, was one of the last left when the local steel mill that once employed over 14,000 people closed. He was one of the guys who had to shut the place down.
But I (and all my brothers and sisters) went to college, mostly on our own dimes because my parents didn’t have enough to finance six college educations. I’m not bitter or angry or placing the blame for any of my problems on “others.” I’m proud and grateful that my parents taught us to be responsible and empathetic.
Republicans are the party of those who cannot take responsibility for anything. They disgust me. Until they decide to act like responsible adults, I have no use for any of them.
rikyrah
AG Jeff Sessions faces new disclosure questions in Russia scandal
05/25/17 08:40 AM
By Steve Benen
We learned in March that Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with a Russian official during the presidential campaign, despite saying the opposite while under oath. Much to Donald Trump’s chagrin, Sessions recused himself from the investigation into the Russia scandal soon after.
That did not, however, resolve the controversy. Many Democratic members of Congress called on Sessions to resign – some even accused him of perjury – and raised questions that remain unanswered. (Those questions recently took a turn when Sessions played a role in FBI Director James Comey’s firing, a move that seemed to conflict with his stated recusal.)
For his part, the far-right attorney general has tried to steer clear of the controversies, but as this CNN report makes clear, the controversies are following him anyway.
Jager
When I was a corporate guy in the radio business, we bought a couple of stations in a major market. The weak AM signal was doing religion, we made a decision to leave it alone as it made a few bucks. The manager was a born-again. He’d do shit like pray with a client about a rate increase. He’d sit across his desk and say, “We need to ask our sweet Lord Jesus Christ if the increase in rate for your show is the proper thing to do.” Then he and his client, would fold their hands, close their eyes and in silent contemplation with the Lord discover it was always the proper thing to do.
One asshole pastor did a show on afternoon about how to use stories about demons to help you make your children behave.
Their was a truly good guy, who had started a mission for homeless, gay youth. Getting them off the street, housing them and feeding them, This guy was a successful local businessman, he was spending his own money to do this and had been for a couple of years. There was a big story about him in the paper and he was all over the local TV shows. All positive coverage…guess what? The good Christian pastors on our radio station, encouraged by our fucking homophobe of a manager, started hounding and attacking him for promoting gay culture and corrupting “the children”.
I was so damn glad when we unloaded that piss-whistle of a station. (BTW the religious wingers who bought it, went bankrupt in short order) I hate these sanctimonious pricks.
Corner Stone
Speaking of political correctness, can we please drop our 9/11 fetish once and for all now?
Betty Cracker
@Major Major Major Major: True. Maybe a mentoring program would help.
The Lodger
@Jager: I’d have been tempted to grab a bullhorn, hide outside the office door, and shout “THIS IS THE LORD. DOUBLE THE RATES.”
bemused
@low-tech cyclist:
They’re just pissed off that liberals won’t roll over and let them do whatever hideous thing they want to. “Get over it” is always their mantra except when things don’t go their way. They want to be the boss of everyone else and everyone else should just shut up and like it.
They really do live in a fantasy world. How they want life to be is how it should be, must be in their minds, facts and reality be damned. They are basically children who never grew up.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone:
I found this tribute, to those who perished in the 2 day attack in Mumbai in 2008 more appropriate and uplifting. A flash mob, celebrating life and diversity in the place where the killers started their killing spree. Take that, bastards. This was just 3 years after the incident.
Jim Parene
@Corner Stone: Agreed. We also need to drop our military fetish.
Davis X. Machina
@schrodingers_cat: The script is usually the barrier to entry…UTexas Austin has a Rigveda-oriented introduction online here. I can’t vouch for it, but their Old Irish stuff — I know a little more about that — is solid.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: Here is thelink, I forgot to include.
Jake the antisoshul soshulist
My response to 90% of what conservatives say is, “WTF is wrong with you people.
amk
The left needs to learn how to acquire political power and more importantly, how to retain it. Change the political equations instead of wasting time trying to change the wingnuts’ minds.
schrodingers_cat
@Davis X. Machina: Thanks! I will take a look. I want to read critical edition of Mahabharata in Sanskrit. I have read that the Vedas are much harder to read than either Ramayana or Mahabharata. Their antiquity makes them more of a challenge.
My earlier attempts got bogged down in the grammar thicket.
montanareddog
Where, oh where, is the Republican lion willing to go into these dysfunctional communities and produce a report? Perhaps, it could be called “The Conservative Family: The Case For National Action”. Mick Mulvaney, can you not continue this great Irish-American tradition?
mak
@bystander:
Heh. I saw a variation on that theme: “Dress for the job you want.”
LurkerNoLonger
I think there will always be a place for racists, thugs, lyiars, thieves and sociopaths in the Republican Party, but we have to make sure they have nothing to do with actual policy making. So I guess the answer is dissolve the party.
Aleta
And a subset, the people like Gianforte who get away with Christian God-talk in spite of what they are, and even use it to come to power. They need to be called on it and thrown out of the manger.
Rich Repubs like him say Christianity is under threat in the US at the same time they are taking away food and welfare programs that probably had Christian underpinnings and support when formed.
I couldn’t believe what I read about this violent imposter and his purchase of the Christian vote. And it only took a non-violent British reporter insisting he answer for the AHCA for Gianforte to lose control. Scary.
hovercraft
That’s my boy!
Obama Takes Aim At Trump Proposal: ‘We Can’t Hide Behind A Wall’
I really hate the people who made us go from this thoughtful human being to an insecure ignoramus. Ugh.
hovercraft
@Another Scott:
What both you and Betty are forgetting is that poverty is a state of mind, ergo everyone still mired in poverty obviously has the wrong state of mind.
Jeffro
@Villago Delenda Est:
With you on this 100%. I have no problem telling Republican Death Cultists their values are the opposite of Jesus’ teachings.
Nelle
This thread may be over but I’m sharing this because it reminds me of what has been and could be..
Jeffro
@Jeffro: And on a similar note, I’ve felt quite at ease calling Rs un-American, Putin-loving collaborators (and variants thereof*) in recent discussions with friends and family. Why not? That’s what they are.
*”Vichy Republicans” may have escaped my lips/keyboard once or twice…
John Weiss
Hmmm. Betty, the average IQ is 100. Make of it what you will, but I find that fact significant.
Felonius Monk
@amk:
This.
Substandard Deviant
Anyone doubting the existence of eternity need only ponder the capacity of Republicans for playing the victim.
Elizabelle
This is one of the major challenges of our time. Call the bad actors out — by name. Republicans: what you are saying is not true. You are living in a bubble. It’s a false world. It’s not “Congress” that’s the problem. It’s “Republicans in the majority of Congress”, shutting the Democrats out.
The wheels are coming off their bus, and people are paying attention. We’re in a better position to speak out effectively than six months ago, although we have Trump and the worst administration in over a century. I think it takes the “ascendance” of a Trump to wake people up.
Margaret Sullivan, WaPost ombudsman, The Seth Rich lie, and how the corrosion of reality should worry every American
(and I put up a longer excerpt on the “Depressing News” thread by Anne Laurie).
We need to fight for truth. Get the word out, over the distraction of “both sides” enablers. Fight to protect voting rights. Fight to end gerrymandering. Fight for truth, so we can save democracy.
Marguerite
@Mike in DC: The fathers are absent in spirit and in flesh. They not only allow, they encourage, they set bad examples of bullying, taunting, poor sportsmanship, along with verbal and physical abuse.
LongHairedWeirdo
This is something that I think needs to spread far and wide. That the Republicans are sitting back, and letting this happen.
They led their followers to believe that the President could be ineligible for the Presidency. They led their followers to believe that 20 separate judges would all sign off on a possible murder of a brain damaged woman. They led their followers to believe an innocent woman committed crimes that they know full well she didn’t. They let their followers believe that it’s okay to spread conspiracy theories about murder and child molestation.
Every day, in every way, they profit by a large industry selling hatred of liberals and liberal ideas, and they’re allowed to float above the fray, pretending that, gosh, they didn’t actually suggest it was okay to grab a reporter by the neck and slam them to the ground. But are they all out there screaming that this is completely antithetical to what it means to be a Republican?
Boy, it’d be awfully hard for them to do that after Trump said protestors should be carried off on a stretcher! But still – being an adult means doing hard things.
And yes, that was my way of stating that the Republicans who put up with this are acting like children.
TenguPhule
@amk:
Minimize and destroy the opposition.
The first and only rule of political power.
Everything else is optional.
Sunny Raines
great rant but completely ignores the key problem with the modern American republican being ‘too stupid to know their stupid’, aka we can see all their character flaws they need to fix personally, but they don’t see it and so don’t think there is anything to fix and therefore could not, and will not even/ever begin
Tazj
@Elizabelle: Thanks for the link to that column, it’s nice to see someone tell the truth and call out the liars. I had been very critical of Margaret Sullivan, whom I admire, because of an interview she gave with a local NPR station a few days ago. In the interview, she seemed to blame the discord and dysfunction in our government on individuals not talking to each other or on both political parties. It was a short interview, so maybe it was taken out of context. The Washington Post has been, on the whole, really good before and after the election disaster.
Over the past 30 years evangelical pastors and the conservative media have taken advantage of people’s fears over terrorism and their economic insecurity to gain money and political power. Conservatives in government have preached a hatred of the government, but have screamed that they’re the only ones who can protect you. The poor are taking advantage of you, they’re the reason you don’t have money or a pension, not the corporation you worked for.
Pastors have told people that it’s not good enough that you follow the rules but you must make sure everyone else does too. There are some preachers on television (Jim Bakker) that scare people into believing the world will end soon because the US has become too liberal. I had a relative buy his survival food.They’ve scared people into not associating with anyone else who isn’t Christian.
This is how the country ends up with someone like Gianforte as a candidate. A man who doesn’t believe in retirement as a concept because it isn’t in the bible and Noah built the ark at the age of 600.
No One You Know
@Davis X. Machina: All well and good, but don’t expect it at work or home with the noisy misogynist/racist who is your neighbor; he or she who proclaims in the Lord’s Name shall be mocked, scorned, and persecuted, as Jesus was, by the I’m-All-Right crowd wearing flag pins and crosses.
This love your neighbor thing works for ideas, and only through people. It really sucks to be the prophet, though. And yet we survive. Beaten, humiliated, wronged, and abandoned or run out, we still are the ones lifting our voices in the wilderness, while Christianists of every stripe shout in the megachurches and the right wing media claim to carry the word of God.
We are testifying against you, you who make people despise their neighbor and wish their neighbor harm. We bear witness against you, you thieves of the honor of God. Vengeance is the Lord’s, and He will repay.
We work, we donate, we vote, we protest, and we wait.
Blessed be they who take no offense at me.
Peter VE
“I began life in a seedy Florida trailer park, and I managed to pull myself up by the bootstraps and leave the chaos and dysfunction behind. If I can, they can. No more excuses.”
Most Republicans didn’t have your advantages.
Tehanu
@Tom:
You said a mouthful, friend. Couldn’t agree more. And Betty, thank you!
Theodore Wirth
“…rewards lying, theft and sociopathic behavior.”
How can this be so in a Christian nation?