Name one.

I don’t understand why you are trying to derrail this conversation.

You say “The Constitution says nothing about marriage, either. Does that mean that marriage is unconstitutional?”

Answer: no, marriage, merely defined as a voluntary arrangement between two consenting adults is not unconstitutional. The government imposing a restrictive definition of marriage, on the other hand, can be interpreted as unconstitutional.

How low could wages get before stealing looked like a better deal?

Tom Woods, please pick up the white courtesy phone.

According to the supposed delegated powers, genius, not by whim.
Congress has no constitutional authority to fix prices in the marketplace. That
interferes with basic rights such as the right to contract.

Funny that you would pick “Adam Smith.”

I plan on memorizing by heart, in advance, the list of all military equipment that I will have to handle during basic training. I plan on obtaining, in advance, detailed information about the rooms, beds, room equipment and inspection standards before I get to basic training.

Therefore, I will already establish a room inspection checklist, categorized by order of priority, to make sure that when I have to do my room, I can pass the inspection.

Also, I am working on a folding ruler with four 12″ sides that will snap together to make a 12″ x 12″ frame in order to have a template to quickly fold my clothes 12″ x 12″. When I’m done folding my clothes, I unsnap the ruler and hide it beneath my bed.

I plan to teach those things to the entire platoon beginning on day one. You can be creative in how you do those things. If you cannot be creative in what you have to accomplish, you can still be creative in how you accomplish it and therefore accomplish it faster, cheaper and better.

Hence, Danny Boy’s sales pitch sentence and my folding ruler and inspection checklist.

Why most recruits fail at room inspection is because they don’t have a detailed, step by step checklist of all the things that must be done, how they must be done and when they must be done in order to have a perfect inspection.

So they miss steps and lose time wandering about the chores.

I plan to develop such a list for myself and the entire platoon prior to my enlistment in basic training.

Diligent can have two meanings: doing your best, become all you can be or the pejorative “get off your butt and go find a job” as if dirty and unappreciated jobs were something to be proud and happy about. I understand that you are not always master of your destiny and sometimes you have to take what comes by.

But don’t neglect your kids, make them become all they can be. If they end up in a shit job, make sure it was not because you neglected them and did not give them all they needed. In that case, if you did everything right, they should not be stuck in that shit job for long.

But if you don’t care about your children and just tell them to get off their buts and go to work, as in getting rid of them, as in belittling and humiliating them, then you are a scumbag of a parent. By “you” I mean such parents, not you personally.

Mr. French has previously written about Marcus Buckingham. I second Mr. French’s recommendation that everyone get a grip on what their talents are and start moving in that direction, pronto. Don’t waste four years in prison, errr, I mean “high school,” and then four years in college if it ain’t takin’ you closer to where you are going.

I spent 50+ years freeing myself from the religious, philosophical garbage I was brought up with. Only when I finally learned to dump all that and look at the world with open eyes did I advance in my ability to think clearly. Having actual experience with life and the empirical evidence obtained by it also plays an important part. It’s the old “blind men and the elephant” story; one has to come to a full realization that the elephant has many parts.