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No, it isn't just a matter of changing times. It's a matter of the Welfare State harming families. Thomas Sowell, black conservative, sociologist, historian, and author The welfare state: Rhetoric vs. reality He's an economist, not sociologist.

That is really cool! Thank-you!:ty: He doesn't really want to have voting rights or other privileges, because since nobody has lived as an Indian in his family since his great-great grandparents, he doesn't feel that would be right. He's mainly interested (and some of the kids are) in...

Deaf culture is blunt. Bottesini is even more so. If you want to engage with Deaf people, you need to have a thicker skin. Instead of getting your feelings hurt, try to think about what she said, all of what she said, not just the part that hurt your feelings, and why she said it. Your...

The percentage has increased partly because we redefined poverty. People living in what we call 'poverty' now would have been called 'middle class' in the 60s. But I agree with you, government dependency is a trap as vicious and crippling as slavery. In fact, did you know that the black...

I am thinking about the mountain of laundry I should be folding right now.

Instead of you trying to pick a topic, ask him what he likes to do. What's his favorite food, favorite color, favorite book? Does he have a job? Ask him about his job, does he like it, what does he do? If he doesn't have a job, ask him what he wants to do. Does he have any pets? Ask him. If...

I'm not so sure about the Cherokee and a blood requirement. What we were told is that your Cherokee ancestor had to sign the Dawes Commission Roll, which closed in the early 1900s. That's the roll my husband's great-great-grandfather refused to sign because he 'just wanted to be American,'...

Which is so much harder than the kids, IMO. When my kids are having those moments, I can tell myself, "They will outgrow this." When my dad was alive and being very difficult, I could not say that.

We won't buy them for our son, either. Given his active life, he is more likely to lose contacts than glasses and they cost more than we want to spend on replacements, he is not likely to follow up on the regular care they require, and his prescription is still changing.

Supposedly some distant ancestor of mine was Indian, I forget what tribe, but I think that's just a fun family story. both of my husband's great-great-grandparents were part Indian, Cherokee and Chocktaw. They lived in Oklahoma. Their daughter, my husband's great-grandmother, helped raise him...

My son-in-law, who is deaf in one ear because of his service in Iraq, says he would be interested in a hearing aid but they are too expensive, and the military won't pay for one for him because 'they issued earplugs in basic training." I suggested he go back to the VA with his father-in-law...

My deaf friend asked me to go and I said yes. Now I'm getting cold feet. I don't think my signing skills are up to it, and I don't have any idea what happens at their open house.

It's a huge part of the legislative branch's job to create and pass a budget. In 2010, the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate and could pass whatever they wanted, yet they did not pass any budget, they did not even present one. In 2011 they controlled the Senate and could pass...

No, Obama did present a budget. He couldn't get the Democrats to vote for it. Not a single Democrat would vote in favor of their own President's budget. That tells us something. Or it should. The Democrats don't have a budget. They haven't done a budget in ages- including when they...

No, they are much smaller- but they look bigger because they are close ups. The first picture is wild geranium, also called craneflower around here. I don't know what the other purple flower is. I'm trying to find out (I ID this wildflower every spring, and then forget it by summer)...

There is a CODA who posts here from time to time whose Deaf dad is in jail for trying to decapitate his girlfriend (he also tried to kill his wife years before). I had a friend who was a single mom because when she got pregnant her Deaf husband was so angry he beat her, punching her in the...

Nobody is blaming Trayvon at all. Nobody. IF the story as reported is true, I would blame the thugs involved and the media's inflammatory, irresponsible and dishonest reporting of the Trayvon/Zimmerman story. We don't know if it's true, since it's the same inflammatory, irresponsible, and...

Depends on which story you're talking about. The news story where the media reported that Zimmerman said, something like, "he looks suspicious. He looks black" was a lie. It wasn't because the tape was unclear. It was because somebody had a narrative and an agenda. The news agency that...

I am not the photographer Steinhauer is, but here's some stuff blooming in our woods: