tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post2583602447117694591..comments2024-01-03T18:00:06.854-06:00Comments on Webutante: Sunday and Week of August 17Webutantehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-85224905573154033172008-08-21T14:38:00.000-05:002008-08-21T14:38:00.000-05:00I love the contribution the first commenter interj...I love the contribution the first commenter interjected here! <BR/><BR/>My hubby's restaurant is going busy and strong, no sign of business slowing there. We still find it hard to find a parking space in most restaurants we frequent. Yet my neighbor, with a larger home than mine, and new furniture and flat screens through out, is whining about having to tighten her budget!Oh she's an immigrant as well and planning on voting for Barak so he can fix everything. One major complaint is that she is hearing of "free" programs being cut in the public schools but yet Bush is spending so much $$$ on the war.<BR/><BR/>I guess it would be too mean spirited of me to ask her to go back to her homeland since life is so hard on her here! And what kind of schools do you think her HEALTHY children would attend back in her small, poor country? Come on people, let's give thanks!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10436764764797493783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-84776810221742389722008-08-20T05:57:00.000-05:002008-08-20T05:57:00.000-05:00And surely you are stronger, richer for the way th...And surely you are stronger, richer for the way things are, Marie.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-48304764123055570682008-08-19T22:24:00.000-05:002008-08-19T22:24:00.000-05:00I have so often wished I had the money to comfort ...I have so often wished I had the money to comfort myself when the marriage wasn't going as well as it should have been!<BR/><BR/>If only I could have taken myself to a movie, sat in a Starbucks, gone to visit family. . .but I'd be stuck dealing with the same old stuff all the time.<BR/><BR/>Providentially that must have been the best thing.Mariehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17421506990963764612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-23215265372880893172008-08-18T08:17:00.000-05:002008-08-18T08:17:00.000-05:00Am reading a wonderful book on materialism verses ...Am reading a wonderful book on materialism verses spiritual worldviews and how drastically it affects our politics (as well as our views of money and consumerism) More on that soon and thanks for the good points, gcotharn.Webutantehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02139954791621532194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7623438328827408121.post-91954647081666198802008-08-17T17:39:00.000-05:002008-08-17T17:39:00.000-05:00It's amazing how we need to be reminded of what we...It's amazing how we need to be reminded of what we know and yet have not thought of in a while. Kenneth Mueller's words remind of reading about the high number of divorces caused by "money problems", when in reality money was merely masking the underlying problems. <BR/><BR/>I read this, today, from <A HREF="http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/a-not-very-driven-interview/" REL="nofollow">VDH</A>: <BR/><BR/>"As someone who just minutes ago walked out of the jammed-packed Selma Wal-Mart, in the poorest sector of a rather poor Fresno County, I would say a more likely moral failure is a sort of unthinking consumerism, where people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have. I didn’t see poverty in the store there today, but a real poverty of the spirit, if the contents of the stuffed shopping carts are any indication."<BR/><BR/>Some Walmart shoppers are doing the same things as some Wall St. Bankers. The only difference is scale.<BR/><BR/>I must admit, however: just as talking about eating healthy makes me want pie, talking about this makes me want to go out and buy something...gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.com