Text 14580, 57 rader
Skriven 2010-12-19 07:18:12 av Bob Ackley (1:300/3)
  Kommentar till text 14569 av Earl Croasmun (1:124/311)
Ärende: Bearskin rug
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Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Richard Webb:

 EC> ~> Which makes one wonder why it would be a subject for debate. This
 EC> is one ~> thing that rubs my fur the wrong way with ~> extreme
 EC> partisans from both sides.

 EC> Sadly, I don't see it getting any better any time soon.  When radio
 EC> talk shows took off, we got people who spent three hours every
 EC> weekday attacking one political party or the other.  After the
 EC> factual content of issues (if any) got covered, they filled in with
 EC> cheap shots, sarcasm, personal attacks, and comedy skits.

The level of hunor ain't all that great, either.  Limbaugh failed to meet my
admittedly low standards in that regard over a decade ago.  Mencken was right
nearly a century ago when he wrote "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the
taste of the American people."

 EC> Then came the second and third 24-hour cable news outlets.  They have
 EC> to fill up time too, so on weekday evenings we get competition
 EC> between the clowns on Fox and the clowns on MSNBC.  And free internet
 EC> sites are now killing off print journalism, as Bob Ackley was
 EC> commenting on recently.  So I expect politics to get even more angry
 EC> and polarized.

Unfortunately I think you're correct.  And it's spilling over into the real
world, too.  Give a listen to Iowa's Rep. Steve King, the man is an unabashed
Nazi thug.  Even ordinary folks are getting meaner and nastier.

 EC> ~> I.e. Bear skin rugs; deer and moose antler racks, etc. are
 EC> ~> pretty common decor in the west and the northwest.  ARen't
 EC> ~> there enough real issues to pick on a political figure
 EC> ~> about?

 EC> Some people won't let ANY opening go unused.  Even Obama's smoking
 EC> habit is fodder for attacks.  And the last time I looked at his blog,
 EC> Andrew Sullivan was STILL hung up on the old rumor that Sarah Palin
 EC> didn't really give birth to her last child, and that Bristol was
 EC> Trig's real mother!

I doubt that's true - too many people willing and able to leak medical records
regardless of the law.  If it were true the fact would have been published long
ago.

That said, that sort of thing - parents 'adopting' and raising their
grandchildren
wasn't all that unusual a century or more ago.  A 15 year old girl's unexpected
baby
ended up being treated as her younger sibling rather than her child.  Of
course, in this
modern day and age, a pregnant 15 year old girl is quite likely to be thrown
out of her
parents' house.  I knew a girl that happened to (although when I met her she
was 24, 
and that was 15 years ago).

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