Hmm…. I really think you missed the whole point of my post. Not that some high ranking bureaucrat’s kid got away with wearing shorts in an Islamic country. The point is sacrifice. We don’t. We whine when our cable is on the fritz, and blame the cable company, even though lightening hit the tower, or whatever. Our kids behave horribly, at home and out in public, and we do nothing to correct it. Some do gooder decided you can’t spank your kid, so your kid is now a major pain in the ass. (not your’s, literally) Just because little Johnny’s mother was stupid enough to buy him a brand new car for his sixteenth birthday, doesn’t mean he’s mature enough to be behind the wheel. But your kid (hypothetically) is all kinds of bent out of shape cuz you won’t get him one too. Then when little Johnny gets drunk, or stoned with his buds after a game on Friday night, and kills people, you’ll hear, “but I won’t do that”, even though you know he was almost in that car too, until you put your foot down, but then, you’re the bad parent, right? sigh… We have a generation of kids growing up who believe the world starts and ends with them, and never have really had to sacrifice ANYTHING. I mean nothing real! And it started with MY generation, who was the major spoil brats of the 20th century. OUR parents knew what it was like to sacrifice, to do without, they wanted to make sure we didn’t. And that was pretty much where the trouble started. Joe McCarthy was right, we were being infiltrated, we were just too stupid to figure it out.

We need to return to the time when our kids weren’t trophies, for someone else to raise, while the elitists tell everyone how it’s done. We’re watching movies coming from a city made up of America haters, and hand on their every word on how it should be done. “I’m not really a political expert, but I played one in a movie, so listen up, this is how is should be!”

We’ve got union members whose leaders get them great benefit packages, so that they think they have ‘free’ health care. Not realizing their vote might close the business or the prices past on to the consumers will be so high, the need will drop, jobs will be lost, and they’ll stand there scratching their heads wondering what happened.

Teachers can no longer discipline students, so they have to be drugged. Ever wonder how many kids, now that they don’t get recess, or gym glasses are diagnosed with ADD, or ADHD these days? The numbers have increased with the cutting of their avenues of exercise. They sure don’t get any when they get home. If the parent will insist on homework first, assuming the parent isn’t trying to put food on the table when the kid gets home, then there’s the hours and hours in front of the tube, or gamebox, or PC. Ya got folks whining about how fat our kids are, just look where it started. NO P.E.

NO, we don’t have a clue what it’s like in other countries. You focused on the girl, which is ok, but she was meant as a symbol, more or less. There are many girls, in many countries who would love to have the opportunity she had, even with the fear of getting shot. And we take it all for granted.

We are an ungrateful country, and expect the gubmint to solve all our problems because we are too damn lazy to sacrifice. Code Pink likes their freedom to be bitches, but never once consider just who gives them that right. It sure as hell isn’t the gubmint! It’s the very people they are bitching about. They don’t care about the soldiers. They’ve got an agenda, so they got themselves a target.

We’ve got a Congress who is so elitist, they forgot who put there sorry asses there in the first place. And the country is going to hell in a hand basket because we have forgotten the fear of God!

Ok, rant over…again. I do go on, don’t I. Honestly, if we don’t get our collective heads out of our collective hinders, we’re going to become one of those nations that has to beg for bread. And we won’t be equipped for REAL sacrifice.

I’m going to temper my response because I’ve seen your site and think you’re just a bit misguided here. You seem to believe that some where in militant Islam, they see “status” as a way to avoid the fundamentalism. Other than saying “Benazir Bhutto,” I don’t have time now but there are plenty of instances that show that status buys you nothing against Islamic fundamentalism. Rather than cheering someone who has succeeded against some level of odds, you seem to imply that their success is due to some kind of special advantage or cheating. That works way too close to the “Progressive” mentality of why the US should be brought down to the level of every other country…we’re better, not because we have abilities but because somehow we’ve cheated the rest of the world. The solution is always to tax or regulate everyone and everything that has ever been succesful so that it doesn’t happen again. You might want to pay attention to the non MSM stories of the olympics and see how that’s working out for the Chinese people!

Maybe she’s really fast. Heh. I’m fairly sure there have been some strings pulled, but that wouldn’t stop the bad guys. Like I said, they don’t care about the political connections. It also may speak of the the success of the surge? Lessened violence is a good sign. I dunno. That being said, looking at the bigger picture….the country has been embroiled in a war, civil and otherwise, so the fact that she gets out there in shorts, and hasn’t been shot, in a Muslim country, is a good sign.

My dad use to have this list, stuck in his Bible, that went down the line of how the commies were going to take over the country. Not from the outside, but from the inside. From what I remember (wish I could find it…maybe in my sister’s shed), they’ve pretty much covered it. Registering guns, taking over education to get the kids young, and continue brainwashing, are the two on the list I remember the most.

With rare exceptions, no matter how conservative a ‘professor’ claims to be, he’s not. Can’t be. Wouldn’t have a job!

Do you think the bad guys cares who her dad is? Pfft! First, she’s female. Second, she wears shorts. Major no no to the Islamofacists.

Well, thank you sir. Maybe I should get ticked off more often, eh?

Dang Chaim! I wish I had your eloquence to say such. You put in a much more logical, and unemotional way, what I was trying to get across. I was angry, to say the least.

I think my journey from idiot hippie to extreme conservative began after living in Thailand for 8 months when I was 19. I had never seen such living conditions. I thought it was their fault they lived that way. Obviously, I didn’t understand the ramifications of an oppressive form of government. Not that Thailand was as oppressive as others, but never having been exposed, living my entire life with anything I had ever needed, I was totally clueless. Since that time, anytime we have traveled to foreign lands, I think of how LUCKY I have been, to have been born in a land that allows me the freedom to speak, worship, and live!