Many teenagers have no dream about their future and therefore have no life goals, and the drifting often leads to juvenile delinquency. How do we foster teens’ dreams of a future?
(rejuvenating this posting which earlier appeared on Facebook and a local forum — if reading this on Facebook, please go to the blog to comment).
Protest against SB 1070 in Minnesota
Widespread interest exists in the Arizona law known as “S.B. 1070″ which may be about to get to the US Supreme Court. The constitutional question is one of federal implied preemption. Of course, this interest is acute in Texas and the Southwest but I would think that states formerly thinking they were immune from the problems of illegal immigration now realize that it’s everywhere. Otherwise why are there protests in Minneapolis against the law? Continue reading
I love this site. It is chock full of situations we’ve all noticed, if not experienced. You may find a jewel in here that helps you to understand your own behavior or that of people around you. Ever observed Learned Helplessness? Have you been guilty of Learned Helplessness?
Studies of the clinically depressed show that when they fail they often just give in to defeat and stop trying. The average person will look for external forces to blame when they fail the mid-term. They will say the professor is an asshole, or they didn’t get enough sleep. Depressed people will blame themselves and assume they are stupid.
Do you vote? If not, is it because you think it doesn’t matter because things never change, or politicians are evil on both sides, or one vote in several million doesn’t count? Yeah, that’s learned helplessness.
via Learned Helplessness « You Are Not So Smart.
Fatherhood independently predicted decreases in crime and substance use. Men who became parents well into their 20s and early 30s exhibited greater reductions than men who had their first child in their teens or early 20s.
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Turns them away from being tough guys? Continue reading
U.S. Rep. John Linder with the 2007 Tax code and complete set of Title 26 of the US Code of Federal Regulations (from Wikipedia)
What? There’s the House and the Senate. Right? In both the state governments and the federal government. How can it be said there is another legislature? Continue reading
Having grown up in a traditional extended family that included many servants of mankind (teachers, doctors, district attorney, preachers and more) and yet lived through the 60′s at the University of Texas and endured the indignation cast upon me and my fellow Viet Nam veterans, I think I know something about Givers versus Takers. Continue reading
The U.S. State Department made a phone call to the family of Al Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan to offer the government’s condolences on his death during a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, a department spokesman confirms.
via Family Of Al Qaeda’s Samir Khan Gets ‘Condolence Call’ From U.S. State Department | Fox News.
According to the article this guy was at least an Al Qaeda sympathizer — and I think could be said to have given aid and comfort to the enemy — and was killed in the same drone strike that took out Anwar Al-Awlaki who was the actual target. Khan is described as an Al Qaeda blogger but it is reasonable to assume he was more than that since he was in the company of Al-Awlaki in Yemen (remember Yemen, where the USS Cole was attacked in the harbor?). Continue reading
The killing of al-Awlaki is troublesome.
Predator drone firing a Hellfire missile
Recall that he is was an American citizen. Bad guy, yes. Terrorist, yes. Deserving of the death penalty, likely. But was he killed lawfully? Continue reading
Who is ready to hire him?
(The original author doesn’t) personally know the man in the photo, but it’s not difficult to figure out a few things about him. One, like many in the occupational protest army, he probably considers himself a non-conformist. Hence, all that expensive ink on his arms. Question: Did any of his student loan money pay for any of that ink? If so, his government loan shark might like to have words with him.
Source: The PJ Tatler » A Second Open Letter to the So-Called ’99%’ (http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/2011/10/07/a-second-open-letter-to-the-so-called-99/ accessed 10/6/2011) Continue reading
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It’s time for our leaders to stop playing politics with the energy industry and to start working for solutions that will take the pressure off household budgets and enhance our energy security. Continue reading
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