"By monetary policy do you mean sex. :-)"
I was actually talking about two tenths of an ounce of gold. :)

TOP was a laughable example of the "correlation MUST be causation" fallacy from beginning to end. Belief in weird stuff does not automatically make anyone a moocher. Anyone who buys into the book's circular reasoning is just a different kind of deluded believer in junk science as far as I'm concerned.

Yep.

Yeah, those #&%#s I worked for back then kept saying BS like "it's not YOUR money", and "Everyone needs a chance" and "It's just state trucks"... Looking back at it now, it was absolutely disgusting the stuff they fed us...

It was only tax payer money buy her new truck, so no problems.

No, the guy never qualified and was a total idiot. My dogs name was Rodney and the idiot would have just been in the way..

If that isn't scary, I don't know what is... I assume he never qualified, either? Just what you need - someone behind you with a loaded gun, no training and unqualified. I think I would have said, "Here, you have better eyes, you get in FRONT of me and Schotzi." (an old friend was a K9 officer, his dog's name was Schotzi... Sweetest mutt in the world, just don't say the wrong thing around her in German... :-) )

Like the above unnamed bimbo who didn't have to take a driving test to get behind the wheel of her truck as part of the concessions. What got me is she wrecked 3 of her own trucks (they kept replacing it with another one, hoping she's eventually learn how to drive), and damaged the other 4 we had, and every time according to her it was someone elses fault.

I agree. Lowering the standards was pure nonsense that depending on the job put others at risk. That didn't apply just to women either. When I was in Customs an Inspector who only worked for the politically appointed Port Director was assigned to be my backup while I was searching an aircraft with my dog. They gave him a holster and gun from the safe, but he couldn't use it because he wasn't wearing his uniform belt as he thought if he was wearing a sweater vest he didn't have to. They then gave him a gun belt and a gun. He couldn't get the gun in the holster correctly. I said I don't want a backup because he was more likely to shoot me than any smuggler. By the way, you were supposed to qualify with your weapon at least once a year to be an Inspector.

It wasn't the lib movement that did that, it was the socialist "euqalization" programs and policies...

I remember a few years after I was hired on my job that they had a special classification to get more women in the trades - by lowering the acceptable standards of passing the civil service exam from 70% to 50% for those (and only those) applying under the "-woman" category, having special guidelines on what you could and could not ask during an interview, and telling theose hiring these special-class employees that they were REQUIRED to give preference to these potential employees, underskilled as they were...

I looked at these people with a large amount of disdain, as it meant from then on people *might* look at those of us who fought our way in under the same standards as anyone else as one of these (for the most part) unqualified, undeserving losers.

From my experience having to work with one of these 50% wonders (as we all called them) - one spent her day trying to get into every guy's pants on the crews, from her boss on down, rather than do her job... another kept breaking stuff, runing her truck into ours (and then blaming *us* for her f***-ups), a third couldn't be trusted to work on her own, a 4th was mollycoddled by her (male) coworkers because she was "special", a 5th was never to be found between getting her truck and the end of the day... and a 6th was usually accompanying the region manager on special conferences, doing special projects for him, etc, and was the only landscape worker I knew who wore heels, dresses, and long nails to the job. and we, those of us who EARNED our jobs there - were told we had to put up with it.

It - this whole BS socialist-inspired crapfest of a program - did more to ruin the hard work and pride we did and had, and made our lives at work miserable. All to placate some bunch of snivelers who saw a problem where none existed - except, maybe, in those who wanted a free ride to a job and couldn't get one.

Super, Susanne, but gee, now I'lll never be
able to view the Brawny guy again without
picturing......

Wait one sexond. I totally agree with you.

As long as it bisex the topic I think that 's a great strate-geez

sure;;; look at the +1s you've received!!! -- j

Is anybody thinking about me?

Are you SURE about that??? heh heh heh...

That's OK... I think about you, too!

Okay, you mean Susanne.

By monetary policy do you mean sex. :-)

well, at least I DO think of you!!! -- j

"If you have ever noticed any post that contains the word sex in it usually gets some good scores and lengthy comments"
Some people even shoehorn it into dry topics like monetary policy. :)

The family is a form of spontaneous order. It's (usually) a good thing when it arises, but only if it's spontaneous. You cannot legislate emotions into existence.

Ignore the evidence at your own peril. You are the only one who can determine your own happiness. The wise man looks at the evidence of those around him - regardless if that comes within the settings of a religious environment or not.

It's not to satisfy progressivism. It's to satisfy individuals' right to live their own way.

Telling people they can't or shouldn't do that is exactly what gets today's churches brushed off and ignored by the majority, at least on this topic, with good cause.

I took many opportunities prior to the women's lib mantra. I opened up some of those doors because I showed I was capable without any special set asides or equal opportunities. Capable people are just that, capable. Women's lib has actually hurt women in my opinion.

Yes, thanks.

Years ago I was married to a lady who decided to get her Masters degree in education and women's studies. It destroyed her mind and our marriage. She came to believe that ANY AND ALL differences between men and women were due to how that their (ignorant) parents raised them (and that was an injustice). It was a very sad time for me...

Now, I'm married to a feminine, beautiful, caring woman. It helped that she was raised by European parents, I think. A woman can be beautiful, caring and strong. Mean doesn't equal strong...

:-)

If you go to the movie day 4 video, she's at 1:47 in standing on the far left next to Scott. She was a producer's assistant and post production coordinator for the movie.