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Got something on your mind, talk about anything!
New Laws!!!
Posted by:
Matthew Van Hoose on
April 25, 2007 at
1:42AM EST
I know a lot of other cities are starting to enforce new polices. I was wondering if Hopkinsville was going to follow suite. Hopefully not. I heard that starting next year in some states like California and Florida that women were going to be allowed to drive. Not just during the day time but at night time too. Can you just imagine how dangerous our streets would be? If we give into these new women’s “rights” soon they will be eating at restaurants, playing pro sports, and worst of all….they will be voting. Just think of what these changes will do to our city and in the long run, our country.
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"You can tell how corrupt a society is by the number of laws it has." Count Cavour, 1927.
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Ok...not really sure what that has to do with what I wrote....but....ok
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Like I tell my son all the time (who, by the way, is also a Matthew!!)- think deeper....the connection is there.......
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This country IS a united asylum- that the inmates have been running for a LOOOOOng time now!!! And incidentally, this is not quantifiable, but...women have accidents, and men have WRECKS!! Women bend fenders in parking lots; men kill themselves so ya'll can collect the insurance!(LOL)
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I don't think anything I have ever posted on this site had a point...lol. Men don't get in more wrecks. Women do! They just don't report them because they are so busy doing their make-up, talking on the phone, looking at themselves in the mirror that they don't know they have been in a wreck. And if men do get in more wrecks it's only because we are trying to get out of the way of these crazy women drivers. To women the steering wheel is merely an accessory.....that just gets in the way of everything else they are trying to do.
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OOOO...that's cold........!
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The hardest lesson that I have had to learn is that there is no such thing as controlling people, in ANY society. If a person wants to do it (or doesn't)- there is no way short of killing them to stop them from their choice of action! The best we can hope for as a society, is that people learn how to control THEMSELVES! The founding fathers, and succeeding generations (up to about the late 1950's or so), realized that restraint and self-control are the only ways that a free society can function ithout destroying itself. "The American republic will endure until the politicians find out that they can bribe the public with the public's money"...H.L. Mencken- and, "until the people find out that they can vote themselves benefits from the public treasury!"...Alexis De Tocqueville. And he wrote that in 1803!!!!
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Here you go again....use smaller words so I can take part in the discussion too! And how do you two know so much? Are you two just making stuff up?
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I will give you two answers to that question...the first one is what I used to tell my kids, whenever I caught them cold- "I'm DADDY- I KNOW EVERYTHING!" And the second one is more truthful. You cannot live on this Earth for 48 years, getting kicked in the wazoo as often as I have, and not know something!!!!
P.S.: Feel free to try that line with your son- "Guaranteed to amaze him!" (until his teenage years, at least...it'll buy you some time, if nothing else!)
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While it is true that a person can be controlled by such means, (and i am sure that Abe Lincoln said that first- although i could be wrong), the reason they can be is that they are not thinking for themselves. There is no way known to control a person who thinks for themselves; who does not blindly follow the party line- and that is what I had reference to. You are right that it takes effort to control your base desires, though. But a lot of folks are blinded to their duty by the seductiveness of the T.V. , and advertising.
When Jesus spoke of temptations, he likely meant the seductive nature of the moneylenders, the flesh peddlers, and the salesmen of the times- people who make their living by making you forget to do what you have to before you do what you want to. I am sure that most of my fellow men, if allowed time to think about what they were doing, would not do half of the things that they do; buy half of the things they buy, or even commit half of the crimes that they do. But the seductive nature of temptation does not allow for time to think; for a reason.
"Do it now!", buys directly into the sense of immediate gratification that we love so much. This may be what our Grandparents meant when they referred to, "spoiling that child!" They knew that you should not pick up and cuddle a child immediately every time it cries; by not doing that, you teach the child that sometimes, you just gotta wait before you can feel good. But if you always immediately nurture the child, they come to expect it, and they never learn patience- which, last I looked, is still a noble virtue. This may also be why the things that you have to work for are more appreciated by you, than the things that you are given for free.
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