So I'm deep in Republican territory, showing off my black ass and wearing all my UChicago gear, this week. It's interesting. The people around here are upper class rich, but not uberrich. Out and about, here's some useless data point stuff. Because Lambert keeps stealing all my post ideas, it's the best I can do.
-What is it with skinny blonde moms with really big families? Like, poppin out a kid every year until there are so many of them it's hard to count if they're not standing still? I'm talking younger moms, obviously wealthy, the sort your average white Amercian patriarch goes for, "trophy" wives. When I was young, not many of the kids at my (private, populated by Republican spawn) school were from very large broods. But for the last few years, I've noticed more and more of these birthing-olympics moms in tony suburbs. Poor people have always believed children are their wealth, but I seem to remember a time when one of the perks of being a trophy wife is that all you had to produce was 'an heir and a spare.' Has that changed?
-The bailout doesn't seem to be popular here either. One Fundie Rethug voting upper managment type I spoke with today was really pissed about "socialism" and "government takeovers" and wanted to know why bankers weren't being held responsible for their mistakes. The women I've spoken with aren't happy either.
-Is it just me, or is there a lot of "drunken denial" consumption going on out there? As in, when people know the end is near and they party like it's 1999, or something. I've noticed a lot of 'for sale' big ticket item stuff on front yards, but also that the oddest places seem to be doing booming business. I wish I had some economic demographics to look at right now.
Speaking of which, this book sounds really intense and if I didn't hate Lambert for being in ma haid so much right now, I'd send him a copy. Data mining as our new overlord, and a large part of how this banking mess came to be. I'll be getting it from the library soon, I think.
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OK, I'll bite
1. You're familiar with Pat Buchanan's Death Of The West thesis, right? You'd be surprised at how much the idea that white Christian culture is in danger of becoming extinct due to being outbred has taken hold out here in the sticks, at all class levels.
2. As I've been saying, Wall Street wants the Baby Boomer's retirement money.
3. Most certainly, there's a "party like it's 1999" attitude among a lot of people out here. Or maybe it's like Berlin in the 30's. Anyway, partying is really the only thing my generation knows how to do well...
...for the rest of us
...for the rest of us
Data mining?
Do tell.
Because we need to put those tools in the hands of ordinary people. How would we do that?
[ ] Very tepidly voting for Obama [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." -- Mahatma Gandhi
but Dr. S, that is a new development, if true
speaking of the "death of the west" mentality taking over the upper class rethug set, that is. seriously, the older rich rethug wimmin in my life always were scornful of over breeding/breeders. that was "trashy" and "low class" and all the rest of it, to make enough kids to field your own team.
i guess it doesn't matter. america is browning, and nothing is going to stop that.
...and for the record, i want you to know i was thinking of the party Scene in Germany when i wrote that. but i was thinking more of 1944-5. like in this little gem of a movie. can't reccomend it strongly enough, for the pop culture lover's crowd.
It might be the Mommy Wars
Who can be the skinniest with the most kids in the most clubs with the most trophies and still run in the marathons. I believe, it might be a new Olympic event.
I'll Try
1. Most of these upper class stay-at-home moms are educated and probably dropped a career for their kids. They lost the career, but not the ambition. They're still basically overachievers. Why have one, when you can have three. And add to that a lot of the upper class folks are members of the religious right.
2. I've had at least one Republican friend complain that there are no free markets anymore. He still claims to believe in them, but would say the current Administration is corrupt and lets corruption run rampant. Of course, he voted for the current Administration (something he doesn't like to be reminded of).
3. I don't know if it's denial. There was a report on Rodeo Drive spending out here and it hasn't declined, but we're talking about people with black Amex cards, so they're unlikely to be affected. While a lot of people are going to get hurt, not everybody is and for those who don't, they're about to see a lot of bargains.
"Do what you feel in your heart to be right -- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. " - Eleanor Roosevelt
Not just for Mormons and Catholics anymore
Dominionists are everywhere, and breeding is one of their hallmarks. Not all of them are overt in public about their religious beliefs, accepting that Unbelievers will be easier to overcome through stealth.
As to is there a lot of “drunken denial” consumption going on out there?, dunno; I'd have to sober up to figure that one out.
I think the rich folk
...have turned kids into status symbols. If they have 4 in private school then they are really loaded as opposed to their neighbor who can only afford two.
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
PB 2.0 - Supplement the wonk!
You know, I'd think the private school fees would scare
the dominionists off (cuts into the tithe for the church, don't you know) having really big broods.
We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
you would think so
but it doesn't seem to be true, not around here at any rate. very important for their kids to go to christian schools, with the alternative being homeschooling.
how much of that is code for majority-anglo schools, hipparchia?
you'll hear about how the education is better, but the truth is the 'christian' schools don't try to educate all kids, or even the ones they get, the way the old Catholic schools did.
public schools have some mandates -- mainstreaming and esl are just a couple of things that come to mind -- that make it very difficult to push anything beyond teaching to the test. the 'christian' schools have to teach to the test to a certain degree as well, at least here in Texas, but you don't see esl (or spanish-speaking, or migrant, or learning-disabled, for the most part) kids going to those 'christian' schools.
We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to kill today! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
here? it's all creationism, all the time, baby!
except for when it's sex education from the bible, it's chemistry from a christian perspective, physics that doesn't interfere with faith, and biology and geology are truly non-evolutionary in philosophy. and the suggested pre-k curriculum includes pledging allegiance to the christian flag. then there are those little questions of cult or not? and whether it's more godly to pay taxes or evade them. check out the comment at that last link about the extraordinary security measures, they're not kidding.
although probably the majority of the students are melanin-deficient, i think they do deign to let in some token little colored kids for the $$ they can rake in from the voucher programs.
but yeah, way different from the old-fashioned catholic schools, of which we've got one or two also.
Maybe they get a volume discount
Heh.
Anyway, most folks down in these parts know the reason to send your kids to private schools is so they don't have to mix with "those people".
Davidson Academy was one of the first private schools in the Nashville area following the deseg order, built in what was then a mostly white, rural area north of downtown. Thirty-five years later, the neighbors are mostly black, and Davidson Academy is currently at work building a new campus in the mostly white suburb of Hendersonville. The school's head administrator sez that's where the kids are...
...for the rest of us
...for the rest of us