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Tide Comes In, Tide Goes Out, You Can't Explain It!

Growing Up Under The Heavy Hand Of The School Sisters Of Notre Dame, It Was Drummed Into Me That Attending Weekly Mass Was Not An Option. It Was A Must To Avoid Eternal Damnation, Which Was Not A Prospect Filled With Many Positives. Hell Fire Was Perpetual, And No Parole Would Be Offered.

Americans Who Have Parents Raised During The Great Depression Or World War Ii Understand How Drastically Things Have Changed On The Home Front. My Father Did Not Care A Whit Whether I Liked Him, And It Would Have Been Unthinkable For Him To Pick Up My Stuff. There Were Rules In The House, And They Were Enforced.

The Gay Marriage Thing To Me, I Don't Understand Why It's So Important For The Secular Progressives In This Country, The People Who Want To Change America Fundamentally And Every Way, Why This Is The Lead Issue. The L.a. Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe. These People Are Going, 'oh, My God, What Are You Doing? How Can You Not See The Civil Rights Aspect Of This?'

I Was An Advocate Of The Deregulation Movement And I Made - Along With A Lot Of Other Smart People - A Fundamental Mistake. The Financial Industry Undergirded The Entire Economy And If It Is Made Riskier By Deregulation And Collapses In Widespread Bankruptcies As What Happened In 2008, The Entire Economy Freezes Because It Runs On Credit.