OT: Coffee Break VII

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Important Things Not Taught In Schools:

 

For high school and college graduates, here's a list of things not

taught in school. All of the liberal, feel good, politically correct

garbage popular today has created a generation of kids with no concept

of reality and set them up for failure in the real world.

 

Rule 1:

Life is not fair; get used to it.

 

Rule 2:

The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you

to accomplish something before you feel good about yourself.

 

Rule 3:

You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school.

You won't be a vice president with a car phone until you earn both.

 

Rule 4:

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He

doesn't have tenure.

 

Rule 5:

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a

different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity.

 

Rule 6:

If you screw up, it's not your parents' fault so don't whine about your

mistakes. Learn from them.

 

Rule 7:

Before you were born your parents weren't as boring as they are now.

They got that way paying your bills, cleaning your room, and listening

to you tell how idealistic you are. So before you save the rain forest,

the whales and the spotted pissant from the blood-sucking parasites of

your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

 

Rule 8:

Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not.

In some schools they have abolished failing grades, they'll give you as

many times as you want to get the right answer. This, of course, bears

not the slightest resemblance to anything in real life.

 

Rule 9:

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off, and very

few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on

your own time.

 

Rule 10:

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave

the coffee shop and go to jobs.

 

Rule 11:

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

 

Rule 12:

There are idealists aplenty who talk about healing humanity by sending

nourshing vibes .. but there are far fewer realists who are willing to

go in harm's way to help humanity and its not unusual for these realists

to be criticized for their efforts.

 

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The following was written by State Representative Mitchell Kaye

from Cobb County, GA.

 

We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help

everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more

riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior and secure the

blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great

grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some

common sense guidelines for the idealist, terminally whiny, perepetually

disgruntled, guilt-ridden, delusional and other liberal, bedwetters.

 

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people were

confused by the Bill of Rights and are so dim that they require a Bill

of No Rights.

 

ARTICLE I: You do not have the right to a new car, big screen TV, or

any other form of wealth. More power to you if you can legally acquire

them, but no one is guaranteeing anything.

 

ARTICLE II: You do not have the right to never be offended. This

country is based on freedom, and that means freedom for everyone not

just you! You may leave the room, turn the channel, express a different

opinion, etc., but the world is full of idiots, and probably always will

be.

 

ARTICLE III: You do not have the right to be free from harm. If you

stick a screwdriver in your eye, learn to be more careful, do not expect

the tool manufacturer to make you and all your relatives independently

wealthy.

 

ARTICLE IV: You do not have the right to free food and housing.

Americans are the most charitable people to be found, and will gladly

help anyone in need, but we are quickly growing weary of subsidizing

generation after generation of professional couch potatoes who achieve

nothing more than the creation of another generation of professional

couch potatoes.

 

ARTICLE V: You do not have the right to free health care. That would be

nice, but from the looks of public housing, we're just not interested in

health care.

 

ARTICLE VI: You do not have the right to physically harm other people.

If you kidnap, rape, intentionally maim or kill someone, don't be

surprised if the rest of us want to see you fry in the electric chair.

 

ARTICLE VII: You do not have the right to the possessions of others. If

you rob, cheat or coerce away the goods or services of other citizens,

don't be surprised if the rest of us get together and lock you away in a

place where you still won't have the right to a big-screen color TV or a

life of leisure.

 

ARTICLE VIII: You don't have the right to demand that our children risk

their lives in foreign wars to soothe your aching conscience. We hate

oppressive governments and won't lift a finger to stop you from going

to fight if you'd like. However, we do not enjoy parenting the entire

world and do not want to spend so much of our time battling every little

tyrant with a military uniform and a funny hat.

 

ARTICLE IX: You don't have the right to a job. All of us sure want all

of you to have one, and will gladly help you along in hard times, but we

expect you to take advantage of the opportunities of education and

vocational training laid before you to make yourself useful.

 

ARTICLE X: You do not have the right to happiness. Being an American

means that you have the right to pursue happiness - which by the way, is

a lot easier if you are unencumbered by an over abundance of idiotic

laws created by those of you who were confused by the Bill of Rights.