Comments on: Mother’s love still lives on

By: GOP is gone

GOP is gone — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:48:14 +0000

On more thing Teabag,

I am still taken aback at the obvious offense you took from my post. I will say again that it was not meant in that way at all. Please take an introspective look at your anger on this subject. What is done is done and no amount of rage will change it. You have to live your reality now and not let the past continue to spark the same hostile attitude. It can only make it worse. And one thing I do know for a fact, your kids can sense your hostility a mile away.

By: GOP is gone

GOP is gone — Sun, 10 May 2009 23:42:18 +0000

Teabag,
I in no way made a post to offend you in any way. If I did so then I apologize. I also believe that the children need to be with the best parent, be they male or female. It sound like you are doing everything right in wrong circumstances. And I think your children already see that and you will reap the rewards as they age. Children should love BOTH parents and usually do. Even though their mother may not be a great role model they still love her, as they should. My advice to you is to continue being the best father you can. Children are much smarter than you can ever know. It sounds as if they already know what is what. Reread Jim’s post, he adored his mother and it sounds as if he had no use for his father. The irony is he frequently writes posts about fathers and how this society feels they have no need of them. Funny stuff coming from the product of such an absent father.

I cannot help but wonder what brought about your divorce in the first place.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:18:45 +0000

deegee,

Tom Johnson’s not a particularly nice man, but he was good to me. You see what I mean? Seriously. We all do about the best we can. Can you say better? I can’t do.

By: Tyron Brooks

Tyron Brooks — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:18:43 +0000

It is hard to be a black liberal.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/09/AR2009050902519.html?hpid=topnews

By: Confused

Confused — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:13:08 +0000

Earlier in the week you were throwing rocks at HOPE, today you are praising the same thing. Guess that’s why I’m Confused. How about them Rockets?

By: deegee

deegee — Sun, 10 May 2009 20:21:16 +0000

Interesting to note that the Peyton T Anderson Foundation trustees gave scholarships to some students with relatively low grade point averages because the students showed potential. I am so thankful that Georgia has the HOPE scholarship. Because of HOPE many under performing kids can afford to go to college, be inspired and discover their potential to learn and succeed. Alternatively, because of HOPE some very promising kids can afford to go to college, flunk out and learn what it is to squander an opportunity. Fortunately they are still young enough to recover and learn an important lesson.

Aquagirl, you nailed it as usual. I am sometimes amused by men that marry high maintenance, pain in the azz women because they look good, and then complain after their divorce about the fact that their ex-wives are a high maintenance pain in the azz.

Redneck Convert rules.

Happy Mother’s Day!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:56:40 +0000

I know that the President didn’t do it, but goddammit let’s make him PROVE IT.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 10 May 2009 19:44:14 +0000

Now may I take the gloves off?

How much money did Barack Obama’s bagmen make off of killing the F-22 so they could blow the cover on the capabilities of the F-35, thereby giving a lucrative leg-up to our enemies for years to come?

Oh happy, happy glorious Olympic Year in Beijing!

(By the way: Check your Internet signature, fast.)

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sun, 10 May 2009 17:51:52 +0000

Interesting questions, catlady, and I appreciate your caution in not taking them too personally. Those questions are worth exploring, aren’t they?

Good for you.

By: catlady

catlady — Sun, 10 May 2009 16:57:39 +0000

Jim, what would have happened if you had not had the help from your sponsor? Would you have been able to attain the lofty heights you have attained? How many young people in similar straits have you sent to college?

And what about a woman nowadays in the position your mother was in? Would she be able to provide for them without assistance on minimum wage? Without the government’s help in any way (housing, food, welfare), even to track down her husband and make him pay some support? To father the kids instead of being a babydaddy?

I would think that perhaps your mother’s experience would temper your make it on your own, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, to heck with social aid programs approach you seem to espouse. Can you imagine her life if she was the abandoned mother to seven today without the social safety net you seem to hate, with bright kids but no resources? Would you tell her “too bad, it is your own fault you are in this situation”, and the tell the kids “You’d better buck up and work and save your money and maybe one day you can finish school. Just postpone sex and marriage and everything else until you can earn the right to it.”?