awakeQUOTE OF THE DAY:
I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Sara Teasdale
Hello one and all, I can't sleep. So I'm going to take a walk through my waste of grey matter and bring you all along.
Why are parks so empty these days? I remember when they were full of families and children.
Why does every child have to make the sports team? Wasn't there a time when not making the team just made you work harder to IMPROVE your skills so you would make it the next year.
Remember back, when police officers were respected?
Does anyone have any hope for the upcoming presidential elections?
OK...this one's a bit lengthy
family values is defined as the moral and ethical principles traditionally upheld and transmitted within a family, as honesty, loyalty, industry, and faith.
Family is defined as
1. parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not.
2. the children of one person or one couple collectively.
3. the spouse and children of one person.
4. any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents, children, uncles, aunts, and cousins.
5. all those persons considered as descendants of a common progenitor.
6. Chiefly British. approved lineage, esp. noble, titled, famous, or wealthy ancestry.
7. a group of persons who form a household under one head, including parents, children, and servants.
8. the staff, or body of assistants, of an official.
9. a group of related things or people.
10. a group of people who are generally not blood relations but who share common attitudes, interests, or goals and, frequently, live together.
11. a group of products or product models made by the same manufacturer or producer.
12. Biology. the usual major subdivision of an order or suborder in the classification of plants, animals, fungi, etc., usually consisting of several genera.
13. Slang. a unit of the Mafia or Cosa Nostra operating in one area under a local leader.
14. Linguistics. the largest category into which languages related by common origin can be classified with certainty: Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, and Austronesian are the most widely spoken families of languages. Compare stock (def. 12), subfamily (def. 2).
15. Mathematics.
a. a given class of solutions of the same basic equation, differing from one another only by the different values assigned to the constants in the equation.
b. a class of functions or the like defined by an expression containing a parameter.
c. a set.
and values means beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something)
Yet none of them say it must be a man AND a woman...so in truth any loving cohesive group would have family values, so why is society so afraid of gay couple raising children?
Also why is society so afraid of gay marriage?
Why do playgrounds have that foamy/spongy stuff? If you're not afraid of getting hurt, doesn't that make you more reckless? I recall playing on blacktop and concrete playgrounds. Sure there were bruises, sprains, scrapes, blood and the occasional broken this or that. All that did was teach us to be more careful the next time around. It caused us to learn from our and our friends mistakes.
One of our city parks (along the Fox River) use to have a stream, a little waterfall, a small "wading well" and a pond. But they all got filled in and/or covered up because of liability issues. Meaning parents weren't paying attention to their kids and they got hurt. So why is this the city's fault? Why were they liable for some parent/guardian's laziness?
Here's an ironic tale for you all. My wife works with a weight watcher, calorie counter, over exerciser, fashionista of a girl, who went shopping and complained that the only "cute outfits" were in the "big" sizes. She was upset because "they didn't make them in normal sizes."
My theory is that girls don't date nice guys because nice guys treat girls the way they want to be treated "in the future." But "right now" they want the fun and adventure of the bad boy. That's just my theory though.
Is anyone else sick of hearing how stupid celebrities are?
If cigarettes and cigarette smoke are so dangerous, why are they still legal? And if tobacco farmers have a bad crop why are compensated?
Why are we trying to save the earth? The earth was around before us, and it will be around after us...that is until our sun goes super nova. All we are doing is making the earth uninhabitable for us. We're not saving the planet, we're trying to save humans, and looking at us all...is that such a good thing?
Is it me, or have we forgotten what it is like to live in a community?
If our children being over weight is such an issue...why are parents buying them video games, TVs, DVD players, and their own personal computers? Why do they feed them fast food, give them soda, candy and all that other crap that isn't good for them. Yet, they don't insist that they go outside and "play?"
umm...i think that's all for now...I'm going to try and sleep again.
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