The Government Is Cracking Down on School Bake Sales - NationalJournal.com
I wonder how many students will become candy bar bootleggers inside the schools? An entrepreneurial eruption would be nice.
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"Does not contain sugar but does use sucrose as a substitute."
The education bureaucrats won't know common table sugar is sucrose...
Of course, that's assuming parents who have some sense of responsibility, and enough backbone to actually raise, limit, and discipline kids, rather than stuffing their faces to make them "feel good"... Where did they lose the backbone to tell their kids "NO!" and f'n mean it?
it's a bit anti-Objectivist, but self-denial and self-sacrifice for the greater good is mandatory if you're going to be a success.
Now, as LS and others rush to downcheck me, let me expound:
self-discipline is the ability to deny oneself immediate gratification for long term well-being. This is NOT a natural, inbred ability, but a learned behavior. Perhaps one of the many things which separate us from the non-sapient animals.
Every successful person I've ever known of has had varying degrees of self-discipline, in an almost 1:1 relationship to the degree of their success.
It is not a coincidence that the long-time poor in this country are also failures and lack self-discpline. The ones with drug habits and ninety-leven children. Also the ones who've never done drugs and have nobody and nothing.
"Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."
Calvin Coolidge
As much as I like and admire Coolidge... he's full of shit. Persistence and determination without self-discipline is just obsession. At the end of the fight you're left with nothing but exhaustion and confusion; and, if you care about winning to begin with, grief.
Self-discipline makes you acquire the skills you're going to need to win. Self-discipline makes you do the work you have to do to win, rather than make excuses to do what interests you at the moment, or to wallow in self-pity because you just can't seem to get anything done... waaaah.
And I speak as an absolute authority on the subject. I had wonderful parents, the best anyone could want; and I loathe people who blame their failure on their parents. I was their last-born, and was always little, and when I was a baby I got an ear infection that nearly killed me.
This led them to become overprotective, I've concluded. I was unintentionally, psychologically discouraged from trying new things and taking chances, even amidst verbal mixed-messages telling me I can do anything I want.
I became more aware of it after my father died; at one point I realized how often my mother said, "oh, if it's too hard, don't bother." or in a more worried voice, "Don't overdo it! Don't hurt yourself".
This, combined with my father's knee-jerk opposition to authority, which led to no bed-times, no hygienic routines (tooth-brushing, bed-making, etc), no religious or after school commitments, no homework oversight, no vegetable eating before Reese's peanut butter cups, no mandatory attendance (in college I stopped going to a Chemistry lecture because one time I was late and was embarrassed to have 200 people stare at me as I walked in... a disciplined person would have rolled his ass out of bed earlier, instead). Instead I would go to a video game parlor named "Dark Star" and play Dragon's Lair at a dollar a pop until the lecture was over. And this is the first time I've ever even mentioned that to anyone....
Once they're grown and have not developed the habits of self-discipline, it's too late. I know it seems like you should just be able to decide, "I'm going to be self-disciplined! This time for sure! I want this too badly to not try with everything I've got!"... but then you go and read messages in the Gulch rather than doing the Blender tutorial you're afraid of failing at, or adding the new scene to the story you're afraid to write.
I'm out of answers. For me, I'm afraid it's too late. When this latest attempt to remake myself fails, it will be due to lack of self-discipline, and there won't be anymore tries left in me.
Someone once told me that everyone's here for a purpose, if for no other reason than to serve as an example to others...
So here I sit.
If you love your kids, spank their asses, sit them down and make them work at whatever task is before them.
Don't worry about how failing at the immediate task, or losing the immediate competition may hurt their feelings. Not learning self-discipline will destroy their lives, no matter how hard they cry now.
first, I need to point out that you stated that self-denial
and self-sacrifice for the greater good are mandatory.
can we take this as "for the greater good of self"?
if so, then you are consistent, in my view.
I, too, had good parents. Dad was a stoic depression
kid who loved the mountains. Mom was a southern
belle from Atlanta. I learned self-discipline from both
of them -- from dad, to be moral and make a living,
and from mom, to be the perfect debutante escort
and to conform.
self-denial and self-sacrifice for my greater good
led to a desire to be John Galt, since I first read AS
when I was 18.
I was whipped as a kid. I deserved it, because I was
studiously testing the limits of mom and dad's parenting.
I went to school, did well, got an air force scholarship
and took my seat in chemistry whenever I got there.
the big thing which I screwed up was marriage --
I got married at 22. if she had wanted kids, we
would probably still be married.
but the self-discipline carried me through to a good
engineering "career" and retirement. in the self-denial
column, life compelled me to give up cigarettees and
alcohol, but not motorcycles. the harley will power
an O2 concentrator, if it comes to that. I imagine
that it will.
so here I sit, appreciating your testimonial....
Thank You for your positive message! -- j
"I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life."
Response to reporter's questions (16 March 1992), reported on "Making Hillary an Issue" Nightline (26 March 1992). Quoted in Boston Globe.
Obviously - she chose the wrong profession... then again, so did her husband. Wrong for America, anyway.
Now, if you'll pardon me, I won't have that staffer killed, while I don't inhale and not have sex. And while I'm at it, I'll use this cool thing I found called an executive order to change the nation to one I and my successors can rule. (Hey, chuckle, I c'n git rid of gun ownership too? Cool...)
Were it not for Clinton's games and blatant and calculated abuse of power, those steering W down the rocky road to infamy would never have gotten away with what they did, setting the stage for the Dear Leader and the soon to be Queen Regent to make Ayn's predictions non-fiction. I would have *much* rather seen HW win a second term than putting a criminal enterprise into office.
My brother - who lived in Arkansas at the time - said most people there voted for 3 dollar Bill just to get him OUT of the capitol in Little Rock...
The one that gets me? Gluten. I don't remember *anyone* who was Gluten Intolerant (or lactose intolerant, for that matter) in school... now it seems like most folk claim they *have* to have Gluten-Free whatever because Gluten is so evil awful bad... so they must be allergic to it. Lactose intolerance used to be fairly rare - now the world needs Soy Milk.
My question is this - assuming they are correct... what changed in the human GI tract over the past 50 years that we can't eat what we once did, and where will this end up?
(As Ma Chalmers stands up and does her cheerleader dance for Soybeans...)
This is a real question and the answer is more likely in the realm of science than in the realm of politics.
Jan
http://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/53...
Thanks for the ideas.
Jan
My only allergies were some redwood dusts (tho not cinnamon) and certain pollens (eg Hay Fever). Finally outgrew that, but now that I live on one microclimate and work in another, my hay fever gives me fits - I'm fine by Sunday, then Monday, wham.
Add this to the many reasons that I need to expand *my* business and retire from the other! :-)
This is part and parcel to purveying government control over such things.
On another note, I remember a friend in college who had the entrepreneurial spirit. He capitalized on the laziness of his fellow dorm-mates, who would pay double for candy bars, chips, and sodas... to avoid descending and climbing two flights of stairs to get them from a vending machine.
We were told cupcakes and cakes were not allowed at birthdays. Healthy snacks only.
Parents LOVED that one.
The response was "to heck with you and the teacher I'm walking in with the treats anyway and you can confront me then."
No one did (I told them of the school policy and then told them if they disagree they are free to do what their conscience told them (and I said it with a smile).
My principal didn't like me much.
and he's getting away with it!! Who's pathetic, and appalling, and full of lunacy? Who's the guiltiest man in the room? In other words...who's not stopping him???