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Have you tried to tell him that it will likely come BECAUSE it was enabled by the platitudes and shibboleths of Leftists (including his generation)?

As Ecclesiastes tells us, there is nothing new under the sun: history is repeating itself. I believe that people will come to see the Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush eras as a Gilded Age, followed by a great depression, followed by a world war, brought on because idiot Leftists and idiot nations believed that war was obsolete, disarmed and lost their collective wills to stand up for themselves and their cultures.

Ymarsakar, LOL, yes, the dolts in Washington know about things called “laws” but have little respect for them. My son’s girlfriend will study “law” at Georgetown, a former Catholic university that now thinks pissing on America is the coolest thing.

I keep myself to myself. My son is important to me, and I am not about to diss his or his girlfriend’s defective world view (she studied at UC Santa Cruz and once took a class from the commie murderer Angela Davis) if it means cutting him off. I have told him several times—and one day he will come to believe me because he has no choice—that his generation will fight in a war for the very existence of America.

He doesn’t quite take me seriously, but cannot discount what I say either. I tell him that when that time comes, all of the platitudes and leftist shibboleths that his generation has so readily swallowed will be consumed in a firestorm—perhaps the incineration of an American city by the Religion of Peace. Then his generation will have to make its choice: kill or be killed.

He doesn’t like the way I put that; who would? But I’m trying my best to prepare him for a hard time and to let him know that the great ride that lasted from 1945 to 2007 is over.

It could be that Charles’ son’s significant/other/”friend” is French. Believe me, we Frenchies love to bloviate about the complexities of life without really doing anything about them. Especially over a nice cup of Espresso. N’est-ce pas, Friend of the USA?

Then again, there’s one of my favorite sayings about Liberals with minds so open their brain fall out.

I have to admit that there’s a certain amount of rationality to that…but when I hear those ads for xyz medication…”Yes I still have herpes but I take my pills so I won’t pass it on except on days when it flares up” or some such. Such faith the non-herpes infected person must have! Like those women who deliberately get pregnant by skipping their contraceptives but telling their partner “of course I took my meds”…the infected person wields the sword of possibility over the head of the non-infected person! Ick.

Sounds like his girlfriend is tip-toeing through life. Too much law school and she won’t be able to commit to _any_ religion. One of the problems with learning to argue is that you sometimes lose the ability to decide on a conclusion. There’s always another side. You’re always on the fence and afraid to fall off.
This is often a liberal thing, I think. On one blog, a commenter got close to crazy because of Bush’s “if you’re not with us, you’re against us”. Heaven only knows what s/he did when it came time to vote. Maybe s/he was one of those hanging chads that no one could decide which way the vote should be tabulated!

They don’t live together and never have. It’s not a shack-up arrangement.

They haven’t married because I think both of them know that their life paths are going to carry them far apart. He is a member of a rock band that is determined to make it, and has put in 30 hours a week in rehearsals for 4 years now—I estimate about 5,000 hours in the studio plus about 50,000 miles in road trips.

This will continue for him for at least another year, which is the deadline the band members set for themselves three years ago when they made a pact to go all out for success.

She is on her way to becoming =sigh= a lawyer and will probably practice business law in Madrid. Before then, she will study law in DC.

Like you, I don’t see the point of such a relationship unless they have an unspoken agreement to use their exclusivity as a means of focusing on their goals. “Gee, thanks for the offer to drop ecstasy and acquire your chlamydia, but I have a boy/girlfriend I’m faithful to.”

Regarding church affiliation, my son’s girlfriend is a cafeteria Catholic, which means she goes to Mass and observes Lent, but does not let the Church interfere with her private life.

My son is nominally Jewish since my wife is (I’m Catholic). I pleaded through the years for her to take his instruction in Judaism seriously, but she never followed through. I told her once that Jews like her are a greater danger to Jews than even Islam or the left. If she can’t be bothered to pass on the fundamentals of her faith, what’s the point? The cutesy little pseudo-ethnic affiliation where we all get to drop Yiddishisms into our conversation or intone politically correct seders once a year at Passover?

My wife would not want them to move in with us (we certainly don’t have the room) and I would forbid it. We occasionally help out our son—in unexpected ways so that he does not come to depend on them—and have made it clear that he’s on his own.

He picked up butchering when he worked as a supermarket bagger and then worked his way up. It’s a skill he can use anywhere, especially if Obama and his socialist enablers wreck the U.S. economy enough to force young men to hit the road in search of work.

So…why aren’t they married?

Now don’t take that as an unfriendly question – at least, not unfriendly to you – but I have to wonder. I can guess that the reason is that she isn’t pregnant, and perhaps they intend to keep it that way. Secondly, they have no church affiliation and see no reason to establish one. Thirdly, they haven’t established in their minds that there is a tax/legal benefit to getting married.

So…that does make me wonder just exactly why they have a long term relationship but have chosen not to marry, but there are numbers of gay couples who have long term relationships and consider it a breach of their rights that they cannot legally marry. There seems to be an incongruity that I can’t really resolve unless we get into the political agenda consideration. It doesn’t seem to be a _personal_ agenda consideration.

May I assume that your wife would be happy for them to move in with you and pick up all their expenses??

One son, almost 24, an awesomely good professional rock drummer, music store sales manager and meat butcher. He and his girlfriend just celebrated finishing the fifth year of their relationship, very rare in the hook-up era.

Just out of curiosity…do you and same wife have children??