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TERRY’S TIDBITS

PUNISHING KIDS

Can anyone tell me what is wrong with spanking a child?  I’d really like to know.  Up until about 10 or 15 years ago spanking as a method of punishment was used for the most part, effectively.

Today we have business leaders, political leaders, doctors, lawyers, electricians, teachers, and etc. that are the result of spanking.  Today we also have spoiled kids that know nothing about punishment.  They are spoiled brats being indoctrinated into Liberalism and trained to carry on the agenda of Socialism.

I say that not spanking your kid when it is justified is a sign of bad parenting.  What are you preparing your kid for if you take away his cell phone?  Sending him to his room where he spends the “punishment” time on the computer playing games and chatting on the Internet isn’t saying much.  Will he be prepared to face prison life?

Spanking as a controlled method of punishment is very effective, but, more importantly, it is swift, just and over with.  There is no, “Go to your room and think about what you have done.”  There is no, “We’ll talk later about when you get your phone back.”  He knows immediately that he screwed up and the consequences of his actions.  His butt hurts but he isn’t harmed.

Did some Liberal say, “Hey, let’s try something different, get the law to back us, and change the way that children are reared?”  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

ADVERTISING

The commercial says, “Original Ranch, the way Ranch Dressing is supposed to taste.  And now try the new BBQ Ranch.” 

Now if you base an entire ad campaign on the way something is supposed to taste, it seems a bit contradictory to add another taste to it and include it in the same ad, doesn’t it?

Another ad suggested that I might have mental problems and to ask my doctor about “Cureanass” so I jumped on the phone and called him up.  He told me I would have to be crazy to take that stuff.  What?

Yet another ad says, “Make sure your kids get the nutrition of real milk and cereal; give them “Breast o’ Wheat” breakfast bars every morning.  How hard can it be to make a freaking bowl of cereal with milk?

GOVERNMENT

They tell us to put plastic and duct tape on our windows and doors in the event of a biological attack but that separation of smokers and non-smokers, even in ventilated areas won’t work.  It is scary to be asked to believe that cigarette smoke is more pervasive and more dangerous than anthrax.

MORE GOVERNMENT

We get fed this wonderful statistic that Kentucky schools always rank about 48^th  49^th, something like that, in the nation.  That isn’t very good is it?  Did you know that no state ranks better than 40^th?  What?  Why is that?

It’s because if your project is doing well, I.E. schools, you have a hard time getting any money out of the government.  So those in charge of the function of administering our educational system lie in order to get funding to teach our kids how to function in society.

CONCEIT?  WHO, ME?

My wife thinks I’m conceited, can you imagine?  But get this; incredible as it may sound, she believes they still have the Lottery drawings even if I don’t play. 

FAIRDALE FIRE DISTRICT

Fairdale wants a tax hike for its fire department.  We were promised no tax hikes during the merger thing.  Mayor Abramson and Councilman Weston support the tax hike.

“Mommy, why are those men lying?”

“It is okay honey, they are supposed to lie.”

I saw a fireman on television telling us that the people living in those big houses can afford to pay a little more to support their fire department.  That is the kind of Socialist garbage that we are expected to accept.  Why this attitude of, “Hey, they have money, we need to raise their taxes?”  And what about the little guys that are swept along with the tax hike that can’t afford it?

The real kicker is the percent of the tax hike.  They are seeking a property tax increase from 8% to 10%.  They are calling this a 2% increase.  Two percent of 8 does not equal the distance between 8 and 10. 

That folks is how they get away with the stuff they get away with.

INSURANCE

Did you know that your car insurance rates are partially based on your credit rating?  The idea that insurance companies sold to government is that people who are at higher risks of having an accident are also bad credit risks and vice-versa.  I guess anything goes when trying to make a buck.  But that isn’t all.  If you have paid cash for everything for your entire life, like a good, smart independent person should, you have no credit.  When you have no credit, you are lumped in with the bad credit people and your insurance rates go up.  What a double whammy for debt free people that have had no accidents.

This is yet another means of controlling us.  The government wants you in the system.  They want you in debt.  Debt is a good way of tracking people.  They don’t want you to be independent, and, if you pay cash, you are probably evading your taxes too.  They are very suspicious of this kind of person.

My father is almost 70.  He has paid for everything his whole life by reaching in his pocket and dealing in cash.  He didn’t have money handed to him; he was a bricklayer.  He managed his money.

As far as I know, the only thing he ever financed was what he needed to complete the house that he now lives in.  Thirty-four years ago, after three years of being indebted to the bank, he paid off the note.  He has been debt-free for over 3 decades.

When he decided he wanted a cell phone, they told him that because he didn’t have any credit that he needed to give them a $500.00 deposit.  Most people would have bitched, but he smiled as he wrote them the check in the foyer of his paid-for $225,000 house.  He smiled, because they were paying 6% interest on his deposit which beat the bank’s measly rate.  None-the-less, he was treated badly because he paid his own way and owed no one.

He just found out that for 4 years he’s been paying more for insurance than an indebted person with the same driving record.  He’s fighting it, and I don’t blame him.

You might want to check your rates.

CAKE AND FREEDOM

I’m tired of people telling me that I can’t have my cake and eat it too.  It’s my cake and I’ll do what I want with it.

Terry Gray

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