Page 4 January 3, 2013 One Man’s Opinion Political Penguin By Gerry Chong their children split up before the child is 10 By Duane Plank firearm-toting misfit. But adults were also Among the many emotions man conveys years old, leaving the mother with years of Time for the year-end political review. Which gunned down, and, one boldly assumes, only to his fellow man, the most noble must be sole responsibility of parenthood. is incredibly tainted after viewing the horrific because they tried to shield the young kids that of “compassion.” Contained within USA Today goes on to state that 80 percent events in Newtown, Connecticut a couple of from the snap-crackle-pop of the angst ridden compassion are the feelings of understanding, of Black children and 58 percent of Hispanic weeks ago. killer Lanza and his arsenal. forgiveness, and a sharing of human frailty. births are to single mothers, exacerbating the Now, I feel very privileged to have this So the political review for 2012 will be a For Democrats, compassion is the essential problem of minority poverty. bully pulpit available to me, to be able to tad short, but will be continued next week. heart of their DNA and it oozes from every The Heritage Foundation says children pontificate on the body politic every week. Maybe. Subject to breaking events that may But occasionally gets a little tough when the transcend a recap of the fact that the POTUS “The Heritage Foundation says children in households with married deadline hits a week before publication. was able to turn back a pretty darn good effort parents are 82 percent less likely to be poor; while 75 percent of Specially when the carnage of Newtown made by Mitt “The Glove” Romney and the means tested welfare payments go to single parents.” occurs. Now, I am what I am. Never have fired Republicans to take back the White House. a gun, nor a bow-and-arrow. Nor any weapon Back in the early part of 2012, Romney was pore. For Republicans, not so much. For that in households with married parents are 82 designed to kill someone else. Call me a pacifist. the presumed front-runner for the Elephant Party reason Republicans have a difficult conveying percent less likely to be poor; while 75 Or someone who doesn’t need a firearm to nomination. Per usual, the ebb and flow of the a caring but rational message to the public. percent of means tested welfare payments prove my manhood. Or, I guess, to protect campaign, which the 24-7 media demands, For Republicans, the need for compassion is go to single parents. my acreage from the invading British hordes. tiltled the Republican nomination favor in the too often brought on by a conscious, irrational Study upon study point out that children of Oh yeah, that was two-hundred and forty direction of some lady from Minnesota, and a act. Had that act not occurred compassion single parents are more likely to be abused; years ago. pizza guy from down South, and then a canned, would not have been required. Let me cite are more likely to live in impoverished Just disgusted with the political opportunism unemployed ex-Governor from the Keystone state. an example: neighborhoods; are more likely to be school that occurred after the little kids were Pennsylvania, for those of you slow on the take. We can all empathize with the plight of drop outs; and are exposed to drugs and assassinated, many of them shot in the head Anyway, Michelle Bachmann soon gave the single mother as she struggles to balance alcohol at an earlier age. Later, they are more multiple times. Typical libs, led by the fossil it up, as did pizza man Herman Cain. Cain, career and motherhood. That is compassion. likely to be incarcerated and earn less than California Senator Feinstein, waited for a day was, ye gads, caught in some sort of possible But for some women, motherhood itself is the median income. The pain and suffering or two, and then blathered on for gun-control. marital scandal. Can we all grow up, folks, an irrational act. The U.S. Department of are visited equally on the child, the single And, the NRA morons somehow spun it, and realize that if alleged marital dalliances Agriculture now estimates that it takes a parent and society in general. Government somehow, someway, that…not even sure how disqualified folks from attaining positions of minimum of $235,000 to raise a child to spending, in no small part, is a reflection the gun-toting idiots could spin this carnage power, we may have a pretty shallow pool of the age of 17. (It would take more if they of the consequences of single parenthood. that was perpetrated on kids. candidates to draw from? were responsible for their child’s Obamacare With all of these facts well known, some But, facts are facts. Innocent people died. So all of the Republican Presidential insurance until the age of 26); a sum too might think our national leadership would Blown away with firearms. Sported by a 20-year- challengers, including the gadfly Newt Gingrich, many mothers cannot manage on their own. make marriage a national crusade. Instead old kid. Who apparently was plagued with an who was campaigning hard as possible to sell In fact, the New York Times, quoting the we are faced with a wall of silence on the ailment that has been labeled as Asperger’s books and pump up his appearance fees, fell by National Center for Health, says our nation has source of the problem, focusing instead on syndrome? Which is a mild form of autism. the wayside. Leaving the unemployed Santorum crossed an important threshold in that more compassion for the mother. Thanks for a column supporter for enlightening as the Romney alternative. Santorum was a than half of all births to women under the Hillary Clinton was wrong when she said me on that, so much was lost in what seems nice story for a couple of months, but with age of 30 are to single mothers…53 percent, “it takes a village to raise a child.” In fact, to always be the rush to be the first to report. relatively zilch dinero and no staff, couldn’t to be exact. The Times goes on to state that it only takes two parents willing to take And, yes, most of the focus has been on compete with the Romney well-oiled machine. two-thirds of the mothers and the fathers of responsibility for their own acts. • the 20 toddlers who were blown away by the More next week on this. Maybe. • Local Alliance Global Reach I wanted a banker that shared my passion for making a difference for generations to come. I Bank Manhattan. -Jeami Duncan Mercy’s Village International 888.657.6523 | www.bankofmanhattan.com South Bay . Glendale . Pasadena . 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