Archive | June, 2013

AND THE WORST PARENT AWARD GOES TO….

When I read articles or online posts about people doing a horrible job raising their children, I can’t help but think we’re really circling the drain.  This great country is being overrun with uninformed, misinformed, stupid people who are breeding at an alarming rate.  Worse yet, many of them have no problem displaying their inadequacies […]

FATHERS – THEN AND NOW

I’ve posted this for the last two years.  I thought it was worth posting again. My parents had me and my brother late in life (but not by today’s standards).  When I was born in 1951, my father was 46, my mother 38.  By 1960, my father was a widower raising an 8-year girl and […]

FLAG DAY – June 14, 2013

I posted this article last year and thought it fitting to post it again today. In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. No other topic gets […]

YOU DON’T LIKE IT, DON’T EAT IT

I thought we heard enough from the food police disguised as the First Lady and the Mayor of NYC.  Well, I was wrong.  We now have a 9-year old “scolding” the CEO of McDonald’s for not wanting kids to be healthy so they can live long and happy lives. Yes, Hannah Robertson, whose mother is […]

AND THEY GET TO VOTE

I guess this kind of stuff makes for good tv – people love to laugh.  Well, it’s one thing to laugh at a comedian or at stupid animal tricks, but we’re talking about Americans who get to vote! If you’re unfamiliar with some of the names that were thrown out to the people on the […]