Predictions: Hillary, Biden, and Children under the U.N.

Predictions: Hillary, Biden, and Children under the Auspices of the United Nations

Making predictions is a cinch job and making long-term predictions is even cinchier. Like weather predictions, the predicter can always figure his audience will forget that he said, “Cloudy with an 80% chance of rain” and we end up getting a foot deep blizzard or he can always say the snow “developed out of nowhere.”

Likewise with socio-political-economic prognostications, there the prognosticator always has the out that “unforeseen circumstances” developed that made his predictions 100% inaccurate and/or hope that people forget what he said in the first place.

With that as preface, a few very plausible predictions:

Hillary Clinton for Vice President? Washington scuttlebutt of the day is that the Secretary of State may be offered the Democrat Party’s VP slot in 2012 after Foot-in-Mouth Joe Biden gracefully bows out. The theory is that Mrs. Clinton would boost the president’s sagging hopes for re-election. It’s even being suggested that the two switch jobs and that Biden goes to State after Clinton is elected: http://tiny.cc/ae6oi

Gasp!

As comical as Old Joe can be, his gaffes are usually forgiveable since the vice presidency isn’t “worth a bucket of warm spit” or “warm piss,” as John Nance Garner actually said. As Secretary of State, Biden’s inanities would be taken seriously!

PREDICTION: No way on God’s green Earth . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1835)

Parents and Children Behaving Badly

Parents and Children Behaving Badly

Suffer little children (Matthew 19:14)

It’s commonly accepted that we live in an age of irresponsibility where too many parents neglect the duties of parenthood and their progeny often pay the price for that neglect. In turn, since the nut doesn’t fall far from the tree, those progeny that survive too often reflect the irresponsibility with which they were raised.

I attribute those societal and parental changes to a liberal mentality which encourages freedom and rights and ignores duty and responsibility, but that’s the subject of another day.

England, one of the freest societies on the planet, also seems to lead the way in parenting horror stories.

Save the Dogs, Forget the Kid! A case of misplaced priorities comes from Coventry where a malfunctioning toaster set a family’s house afire around 7:20 a.m. last Monday. Mrs. Mandy Hands managed to rescue her four greyhounds from the fire but forgot her 11 year old grandson was visiting from Portsmouth and still asleep at the time. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1723)

Adam Lambert and the Culture of Gay

Adam Lambert and the Culture of Gay

I previously posted an article titled, “Give Gays an Inch . . . ” primarily dealing with the gay exhibition by Adam Lambert on the telecast of the “American Music Awards.”

Since then, I have been accused of everything from being a bigot, a homophobe, and, the most unkindest cut of all, a closet homosexual.

I would like to enter a guilty plea to two of the above accusations, as long as we get our definitions correct.

If I am a bigot because I felt Lambert’s performance on the “AMA” went far beyond the pale of normal, public, human behavior–even for “entertainers”–and for that violation of common decency and propriety Adam Lambert should be denounced, then I am guilty of bigotry.

If I am a homophobe, a popular gay mistranslated euphemism for one who fears and/or despises those of the the gay persuasion, because I believe homosexuals have been running amok in America, then I am guilty of homophobia. And proud of it.

If I am in the closet, I just hope . . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1347)