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Old people versus young people

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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I have mentioned the fact that I co-teach an osteoporosis weight-bearing class for seniors once a week. My co-teacher is a wonderful woman, she has a heart of gold and is very active in the local Council of Aging and she seems to have much more energy than I ever do. However I have noticed that in the past three years that I have been with the ladies, they are blaming more and more of the problems of the world on the young people. At first I never paid attention because my mother-in-law was in the group, she basically wrangled me into joining and when the then teacher decided to retire, for some reason my co-teacher and I were asked to take on the responsibility of leading the class and we both can’t say no so we have been the leaders ever since. We take our positions very seriously and I think that we do a good job of it. But having my mother-in-law in the class kept me from paying attention to what the ladies were talking about, my mother-in-law often dominated the conversation and my attention. However since she passed away, I have had more time to get to know the ladies and give them much more of my attention.

Back to the ladies,it has only been fairly recently that the collective blaming the young folk for the way society is breaking down has sunk into my brain and become something now that I can’t help but notice immediately. It used to slide off my back but the constant blaming has made me wonder if it was only my group of ladies or are all older folk prone to blaming the young folk for everything.

After thinking about this for a few days,I realized that I would never have the courage to challenge their thinking. They are much older and I do like them all very much even if I disagree fundamentally with their politics and their dismissal of how young people think and their worth.Yet thinking about it, I’ve come to realize that this issue has been bothering me for a while because a few years ago, I summoned the courage to say something to my local electrician when he was complaining about how the young folks of today don’t have any discipline and want everything handed to them on a silver platter, blah, blah, blah. He is older than I, but I have known him for a few years, so I felt very comfortable saying this to him; “Why are you complaining about the young folk like that when I know for a fact that your parents did the same thing to you when you were young and starting out and you probably felt misunderstood and persecuted.” He stepped back, looked at me for a minute and started laughing and said “You know buddy, you are absolutely right. I didn’t think of it that way”

When I think about saying the same thing to the ladies, I think of saying that “while you ladies are blaming the young folk for being lazy and expecting to be handed everything on a silver platter, the young folk aren’t the ones who put these policies into place that have produced a society such as this, this is your generations doing (that wouldn’t go over very well). What did your parents say about you ladies when you were young?” Now keep in mind that most of these ladies were born in 1935, so their parents were easily born in 1910, making life more difficult to navigate than in the relative modern times of the 1930’s.

Yet as we get older, do we do the same thing?, “when I was your age we didn’t have Xbox 360”. I am going to actively try not do this to my kids or any younger folk in general. I think that it is a little disrespectful to blame the young ones for not meeting your standards when they had no say in the cards that they were dealt. The only thing that I can hope for is that I have guided and taught my children how to adapt and become the best people that they can be. I’ll make sure that when I am a grandmother, I’ll regale the grandchildren with all the crazy and funny stories that their parents did when they were little. Being excited for the future also means being excited about the young people.

Yes or no on fortune telling?

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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Would you ever visit a psychic or palm reader?

April 3, 2012

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I don’t know because I think that I’m a skeptic but what if it is something really bad, do I just dismiss it or would I even be able to? What if it is something awesome? Since I think that I’m a skeptic, do I dismiss that as well? It is a curious thing, psychic “abilities” you want to believe in some small way but only if you are going to marry Prince Charming or if you are going to hit Lotto, everything else doesn’t quite make the grade.

David Axelrod: Mitt Romney ‘Oblivious To The Experiences Of Everyday People’ (VIDEO)

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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How many of America’s population actually yearn for a return to that decade? On the program, you see the women chafing under the restrictions of the patriarchal and paternalistic rule within the house and at the workplace. I won’t even start speaking to the minority issue, Americans with disabilities and a host of other social issues that we take for granted these days. With all of our wars, past and present, do we feel safer then or now? During the sixties we were consumed with the Cold War and where did that get us? Vietnam wasn’t our finest moment, has any war really reflected us at our finest? We are at our finest when we pass legislation that takes care of those issues that impact our most vulnerable and disenfranchised such as the Civil Rights act, Medicare and Medicaid, Clean Water Act and many other important social and environmental legislation.
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Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski Share Laughing Fit Over Ann Romney Comments (VIDEO)

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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I have been reading that Anne Romney is the one Romney who scares the democrats because she makes Romney more human and has an easy rapport with people. Her comment about unzipping Romney so that the real Romney comes out is funny but not in a good way, she even addresses the fact that Romney has too many persona’s with this comment, however inadvertent it may be. I have Eminem’s song Shady please stand up, please stand up stuck in my head now. Thanks Anne, I don’t blame the Scarborough crew for losing it, there are so many ways to have fun with the comment, Joe Scarborough never promised us to be 100% adult all of the time, he lapses into juvenile humor from time to time. It happens to the best of them.
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Constitution Check: Is There a Constitutional Right to “Stand Your Ground”?

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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This might seem to be doomsday conspiracy theorizing, but if this ever went to trial; I am speaking of a potential Zimmerman trial, I could see that if Zimmerman were convicted that the defense would launch a barrage of appeals leading the “Stand Your Ground” question being put to the Supreme Court and then, this is me speculating, the Supreme Court’s makeup being what it is, would rule in favor of the “Stand Your Ground” law. Hello vigilantism in our country, I know, this is conspiracy theory melodrama on my part, but am I being so crazy? I would have never called the court’s ruling on the strip search that just came down from the bench, so why not this?
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Obama: Paul Ryan’s Budget is ‘Nothing But Thinly Veiled Social Darwinism’

03 Tuesday Apr 2012

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Congressman Ryan is an Ayn Rand acolyte so we can’t really be surprised that his budget reflects the social Darwinian view that he believes with devout fervor. Rand believed that charity, assistance and people who need those are parasites. The ones that she sees as worthy are the producers who have to have an all access pass to continue to be successful despite being part of a community. I think that Ayn Rand and her acolytes fail to see the gaping flaw in their logic, no one is an island onto themselves. Producers cannot and will never be able to be successful all by themselves. It is an impossible achievement. Why we buy into this idea that the Wall Street financiers deserve all their riches simply because they are 300% smarter than we are and 300% harder working than we are, is beyond me. Wall Street riches are an illusion, there have been so many incestuous dealings between the lawmakers and the power brokers on the Street (repeal of Glass-Steagal anyone?), the repeal of such financial regulations made it infinitely easier for Wall Street and big banks to reap the consequential windfalls. Elizabeth Warren said it best when she said that no one ever makes it on their own, Ryan is unwittingly saying the same thing but in a brutal way, the rich stay rich on the backs of others, his budget is his testimony to how he sees how society should function.
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