I am so sorry. :(

I had my cat for 24 years before she passed. We were practically brother and sister according to my family. The only thing that helped with her passing was she was that she went blind for a month so I knew the end was near. She spent her days sleeping in my room or outside per normal but her family day she went into…

I had a pet goat named Florence. We lived in town and so our neighbors thought we were crazy. She would stand on neighbors cars and bray or whatever young goats do. The car damage is why we had to give her to a farm (i visited her there—she really did move to a nice farm).

thanks! A great book to read on the subject is the good old days they were terrible.

Nice citations. People seem to forget, things are usually about the same, never as bad or as good as people expect, except technology. It's feeking rad, and objectively advances a lot.

I have a neighbor who is very conservative and Christian. He's against the Pledge of Allegiance for religious reasons. Does this count as respect too?

Most teenagers, regardless of the decade they were born into, are self-righteous little snots. It's part and parcel of developing one's own identity. Frankly, this kid's position is a bit half-baked, but the school district is the one that comes off as histrionic and absurd.

Pledge and swear are pretty interchangeable. As they are both solemn oaths.

This article neatly sums up why your attitude in this matter is pretty archaic...

No, they haven't changed, especially if you do historical research. The only thing thats really changed is 24 hour news thats searches out stories that people didn't use to report on, or in the absence of any stories blatantly make up stories so that people who love to hate kids will hate them even more. Like that…

"You know your not worth it, you want to turn this into a confrontation and I don't want to waste my time on you" ... AKA "I can't give any because I don't know the answer and didn't think I'd get called out on it."

That would've been a dig, if you know the Brits hadn't invaded Iraq with us....

If you want younger people to have respect for the government, maybe you should give them a fucking government that's WORTHY of their respect. No? The US government isn't owed respect. The freedoms that US citizens enjoy are no longer restricted to just the United States, we don't need to give thanks for the rights…

sorry, hon. it has everything to do with rights. the justification has always been that students aren't "forced" to join in with the ideological practices of the masses. with little regard to ensuing bullying or ostracizing of those who are conscientious objectors, this was the justification. what this means now…

Fuck that. Just because you're old and in authority doesn't mean you deserve shit.

"Used to?" All that respect was back in the good old days, you mean? Back when women had no autonomy outside of their husbands and minorities couldn't vote? How about the good old days when we respected the government so much we threw some tea in the harbor, declared our independence, and waged war against our…

That flag flew over plantations for a good long while. It flew over segregated schools. It flies over courthouses that define marriage with a religious authority. That flag has flown over countries before and after innocents have suffered. Flags ARE hollow gestures.

AJ you needed to start that post with you grubby kids need to get off my lawn to really sell the octogenarian rage. Nice troll though

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