http://www.businessinsider.com/the-american-dream-is-now-a-myth-2012-6.
one of the most distressing aspects of the state of the us economy is the decrease in social mobility.. it is much, much harder now than it used to be for americans to improve their circumstances.. in other words, if americans are born poor, they're overwhelmingly likely to stay poor.. similarly, if americans are born rich, they have a much better chance of staying rich than someone born poor or middle class.. no one minds inequality as long as one's station in life is a function of one's own decisions and effort.. when inequality becomes the luck of the draw, however, if becomes much more profoundly unfair.. america's social mobility is now not only one of the lowest in the country's history--it's one of the lowest in the first world.. if that doesn't change, the fundamental promise of america for the past 250 years will disappear.
the country will no longer be a place in which you can control your economic destiny.
better education, health care and nutrition
I agree. And would add that another advantage of being well-born is the opportunity for travel, exposure to new experiences and a wider variety of people. Well-off parents tend to associate with others of similiar socio-economic status and their children thus become comfortable in the company of the educated, the professionals and the movers and shakers of the world.
dear hubby, puppies, and i will be feasting on braised, slow-cooked lamb shank (in red wine-sauced brown gravy with garlik and unjins!)...
braised cabbage (yes, of course, with bacon, you betcha!
) and perhaps some candied carrots on the side (maybe; 'pends on how i'm feelin.).
I'm with you Shelby! A lamb fan here........but Mr Bee doesn't like lamb so I usually only get it in restaurants or mebbe like the last time I was a my sister's - she made some scrumptious lamb chops.
My #1 food rule: There is no such thing as 'too much garlic.'
sweet potato was already an important crop on pacific islands when europeans landed on the islands: easter island (roggeveen, 1722), new zealand (cook, 1769), and the hawaiian islands (cook, 1778).
sweet potato, known as kumara, was a staple in the diet of the maoris of new zealand; interestingly, the name kumar is used for this plant in peru!
rongo ma-tane, a maori god, protects this plant; a buried tuber is powerful enough to cause enemy to go mad and run away.. http://mrbrownthumb.blogspot.com/2007/11/storing-sweet-potato-vine-tubers.html .
Slow baking is the preferred method. I bake a panful, refrigerate and then re-heat each SP for my meal - they keep well for at least a week.
The tiniest smidge of butter is all that is needed - or none. Very good on a diet because they satisfy your hunger and your tastebuds.
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The first generation to hear this at an assembly are all dead. Still.
so i'm having a quite morning and then "ding" goes the front bell.. not expecting anyone, saturday morning 11:00am.. go to the door look out the window and see briefcases.. i open the door not knowing what i would say or do.. .
it's old terry the elder and his sidekick 25-30 male.. i knew terry from my childhood.
he gave many talks at conventions.
I think you handled it well. You planted a seed (or two) that may grow and I think that is how most of us escaped.
i want to compile a list of all the things the witless death god wastes his inexhaustible energy on.. (other than resisting the temptation to save starving children or protect them from pedos).
the first thing jehoobie hates on my list (at least since the coraline dvd for witless kids/victims).
magic!.
Triple A gives Jehovah a sad.
the watchtower has depicted sparlock as a commercial plastic toy to be thrown into the garbage with impunity.. i submit to you all that he is something far greater.
sparlock represents all the hopes and dreams of jw children everywhere.
he is the magic of childhood.
Jehovah needs Prozac, not enabling.
i know, another sparlock thread.
but i just have to express this!
i am so proud of what we have done with sparlock.. youtube is being flooded with videos.
Correct, NC. Even if there were not a media to create magic and fantasy figures - children have always done that themselves - whether a twig to represent a 'friend' or a doll to represent a child or a playmate - that is imbedded in the nature of children and how can that be wrong? In other words, that aspect is not nurture - it is nature. What is wrong is to try to deny or thwart that creative outlet in children. It can mess them up.
i know, another sparlock thread.
but i just have to express this!
i am so proud of what we have done with sparlock.. youtube is being flooded with videos.
So funnee.
But I think about the fact that imagination (and fantasy as a tool to express imagination) is so important to a child's development - invisible beings, what-if, playing with little cars and creating narratives - all based on imagination. Now, that emotional outlet has been thwarted and stigmatized by the WTS. Do they not have a child psychologist on staff to advise them that children not only need, but must have, imaginative play, in order to develop properly - or does the WTS just try to encourage the development of miniature adults?
do any of you use medical marijuana?
i go to aa and there are a few who believe medical marijuana is an "outside issue" and they are ok with it.
i don't know... alcohol doesn't work for me but if it did, i would use it... i wish i could find a "new drug" that works lol.
Here's how Mitt Romney feels (sic) - watch him walk away from a young man who is dying:
