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Our kids are getting fatter and lazier and are increasingly over-medicated. Standardized tests are getting easier, in order to accommodate for the increasing stupidity of children. All the while they buy into hip hop fantasies of an effortless, materialistic life in which money comes easily and idleness is de rigeur. It seems that we no longer prize excellence or devotion or industriousness.
Why should it come as a surprise then, that we can't win a war against Iraqis? There are countless of Iraqis who grow up with a genuine, hardened desire to become warriors in the army of Allah, in order that they may stamp out wickedness whenever it encroaches on their society. Certainly Western culture cannot win whenever it encounters such a foe.
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The West suffers from a tendency to generalize and stereotype excessively.
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Play Food Fight! available free on the App Store!
Or how about a really weird (or stupid) game: Nesen Probe, it's also free.
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We prize money. End of story.
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That's ok. As society gets soft, it just means there is less competition for top slots and more people for my children to climb over as they scale the ladder to success and prosperity.
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Careful, the fat kids may have damaged that ladder.
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Play Food Fight! available free on the App Store!
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan 
Our kids are getting fatter and lazier and are increasingly over-medicated. Standardized tests are getting easier, in order to accommodate for the increasing stupidity of children. All the while they buy into hip hop fantasies of an effortless, materialistic life in which money comes easily and idleness is de rigeur. It seems that we no longer prize excellence or devotion or industriousness.
SNP setting the pace already then? 
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Been inclined to wander... off the beaten track.
That's where there's thunder... and the wind shouts back.
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
Our kids are getting fatter and lazier and are increasingly over-medicated. Standardized tests are getting easier, in order to accommodate for the increasing stupidity of children. All the while they buy into hip hop fantasies of an effortless, materialistic life in which money comes easily and idleness is de rigeur. It seems that we no longer prize excellence or devotion or industriousness.
Why should it come as a surprise then, that we can't win a war against Iraqis? There are countless of Iraqis who grow up with a genuine, hardened desire to become warriors in the army of Allah, in order that they may stamp out wickedness whenever it encroaches on their society. Certainly Western culture cannot win whenever it encounters such a foe.
Couldn't agree more...
Careful, the fat kids may have damaged that ladder.
Couldn't agree more...
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Fat kids and the inability to win the war in Iraq are two completely different issues.
For the record the soldiers go through a highly regimented physical training routine during and after boot camp. They're a highly trained and successful army. The problem isn't the soldiers its their leadership. Once the Iraqi government was overthrown there was a power vacuum we could have made steps to fill that vacuum until a new government was in place but we didn't. it was proclaimed mission complete instead.
On the children side of things, I agree with you. standards are getting lowered, kids spend too much time in front of the tv, or computer and not enough playing outside. Add in the issues with all of the junk and fast food available its not surprise people are getting so fat.
When I was growing up going to McDonalds was a treat, it didn't happen every week or month for that matter. Now it seems kids eat there everyday. You can only consume so many french fries, big macs before it starts to show.
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