U.S. Military Personnel, Veterans Give Obama Lower Marks

U.S. Military Personnel, Veterans Give Obama Lower Marks

PRINCETON, NJ -- U.S. military veterans and those currently on active military duty are less likely to approve of President Obama's job performance than are Americans of comparable ages who are not in the military.

These results are based on an analysis of more than 238,000 interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking from January 2010 through April 2011. Respondents were classified as veterans/active-duty military based on responses to a series of questions probing whether any member of the household had served in the U.S. military, and whether the respondent himself or herself had served and, if so, whether the respondent was currently on active duty.

The Law of Lower Class Values

The Law of Lower Class Values « Freedoms Journal
"There is an absolute lower class culture. The victimization values of this culture create behavior that makes these people stay poor. It is not bigotry or prejudiced, nor is it condescending to call them lower class. They have a culture that is antithetical to creating wealth and accomplishment. This culture blames problems on others as opposed to making accountability a priority, and as a result, the victims are discouraged from improving themselves; they are discouraged from working hard for the “man.” It promotes a zero-sum mentality leading to crime, especially theft, and welfare dependence. It disparages educational excellence. It encourages misogyny which leads to the breakdown of the their family structure and contributes to the lack of traditionally successful male role models. I can go on and on. The vast majority of positive accomplishments from this culture revolve around sports and entertainment, especially popular music. Unfortunately even the popular music tends to extol the negative aspects of this culture."  (From Armstrong Williams)

My grandparents were immigrants from Sicily. They valued their family, God, and made sure their kids knew how important it was to work, follow the law, and save your money. They passed that on to your kids and my parents passed those values on to me--and I have done the same for my offspring. I married a man with similar values.

Moral of the story--I have never seen myself as a victim--I believe in hard work and accomplishment. Living your life that way will lead you to happiness and wealth.

Land of Lincoln = no jobs. Thanks Quinn

Does foreign aid fight poverty or sustain it?

http://www.freedomsjournal.net/2011/05/povertycure-promotional-video/
"Good intentions don't end poverty. Enterprise and freedom end poverty."

PRUDEN: The insult to the American soldier - Washington Times

PRUDEN: The insult to the American soldier - Washington Times

Wanna bet all the videos of this and Thursday's Ground Zero appearance are in his re-election campaign? DISGUSTING.

What many law students think (with apologies for the language)

Worst job market ever....really, there ARE NO JOBS.

State Police secretly worked with FBI in bugging Rod Blagojevich - Chicago Sun-Times

State Police secretly worked with FBI in bugging Rod Blagojevich - Chicago Sun-Times

"That’s because the Illinois State Police, the agency charged with protecting Blagojevich and his family, was at the same time secretly working with the FBI, providing them with inside information during a critical period of the probe against the former governor."

GOOD JOB ISP! All my retired ISP buddies are chuckling, and HAPPY!!!

Here's why we're screwed

"In the past few weeks, members of both political parties have finally introduced plans to save America. And it's about time.
Because the country's finances are a horrowshow.
Unfortunately, because our leaders are still pretending that we can have it all, Americans haven't yet clued into the fact that the only answer is BOTH higher taxes AND less spending.
In other words, kicking our debt and deficit problem is going to be painful. And everyone's going to pay."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-the-us-is-screwed-2011-5?op=1#ixzz1L87SMshv