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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2007 6A Sally Field doesn't speak to me Like actress Sally Field, I am a mom. Unlike Sally Field, I do not live in La-La Land. We breathe a different brand of oxygen. We hold diametri cally opposed worldviews. We have nothing in common but stretch marks. Contrary to tongue tied Sally’s incoherent Primetime Emmy Awards diatribe, childbearing and childrearing experiences do not bond all women in a uni versal sorority of non-con frontation. There are sheep moms. There are lion moms. We know which kind Sally Field is. “If mothers ruled the, ruled the world, there would be no (expletive) wars in the first place,” Field bleated. In the Gidget Guide to Parenting, mothers are appeasers and hand-holders. Our maternal instincts supposedly lead us to shun fights and coddle bullies instead of disciplin ing them. There would be “no (expletive) wars,” Silly Sally, because we’d all be conquered chattel if Field Diplomacy “ruled the world.” Motherhood and peace making are not synonymous. Motherhood requires feroc ity, the will and resolve to protect one’s own children at all costs, and a life-long commitment to sacrifice for a family’s betterment and survival. Conflict avoidance is incompatible with good mothering. On the playground of PAY From page 4A that will work. Lots of people ignore the law that says you have to carry car insurance and get by with it. Those same people will do the same with health insurance. Illegal aliens don’t have car insurance, drunks and drug addicts generally don’t have car insurance. How would she handle those people? Nobody seems to do anything about it when you are involved in an acci* dent, and the offending party has no insurance. Why do we have to pay extra for “uninsured motorists coverage”? Because these scofflaws get by with disre garding the law. Anyone who is in an accident and has no coverage should have their license pulled and should never be allowed to own a car again, but no such penal ties are enforced. The 47,000,000 that she keeps talking about who don’t have medical insurance; I have to ask if that figure includes the 20,000,000 ille gal aliens and all the people on Medicaid, plus the differ ent plans most states have for children. She and her cronies have ruined the military health care Petunias Lore ‘lt Cool! Get Yours At Lewis Farms Nursery 4K 830 Hwy. 26 - Elko f (478) 954-1507 ; Choose your GRAND OPENING SPECIAL! *2 for I enrollment or w *l/3 Off program fees 4 LOSE Vi; 45LBS . BY THANKSGIVING! CALL TODAY, start losing weight tonight! •Doctor recommended •Increase Energy & Stamina •Eat out in restaurants •Lose 2-5 lbs per week Individual results may vary llk \ WSIFi' i iiiV .. I Michelle Malkin Columnist malkin@comcast.net life, Sally Field is the mom who looks the other way when the brat on the elementa ry school slide pushes your son to the ground or throws dirt in your daughter’s face. She’s the mom who holds her tongue at the mall when thugs spew profanities and make crude gestures in front of her brood. She’s the mom who tells her child never to point out when a teacher gets her facts wrong. She’s the mom who buys her teenager beer, condoms and a hotel room on prom night, because she’d rath er give in than assert her parental authority and do battle. She’s the mom whose minivan sports insipid bum per stickers preaching non intervention at all costs: “Peace is patriotic.” “War is not the answer.” “It Will Be a Great Day When Our Schools Get All the Money They Need and the Air Force Has to Hold a Bake Sale to Buy a Bomber.” Hollywood can afford to indulge Sally Field’s inartic ulate naivete. America can not. And the very moms that Sally Field claims to speak for know it. This weekend, I met doz system with their silly ideas, and Medicare is an expen sive joke for a lot of us. I just don’t trust the govern ment to be in charge of my healthcare when I see how the Tricare system works. Hilary and Bill decimated our military, th£ military hospitals were pretty much done away with and a very aggravating system was substituted for military dependents. Carmen Lyons, Perry fSyti w Corner * JmminQ • CMcnogrammiryj • Oil Where Framing Is An Art 918 Carroll Street • Perry, GA 478-987-4079 • 4*, Bobby Jones at . ~]f Paul Walsh Honda ,'UH I (478) 788-4510 CELL (478) 396-1960 |VI WQWM trnwnM wwJmMj9mm MmiflsMwsu. 2056 Eisenhower Pkway • Macon, GA 31206 153823 ens of military mothers in Washington, D.C., who fervently oppose the Sally Field/Cindy Sheehan model of maternal submission and immediate surrender. They were among several thousand grass-roots activ ists who tyrned out for the “Gathering of Eagles” coun ter-demonstration on the National Mall. Deborah Johns, mother of William, a Marine who has served three tours of duty in Iraq, condemned the Left’s demonization of Gen. David Petraeus and urged Congress to oppose a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq. “Cindy Sheehan doesn’t speak for me,” Johns said. “She has never spoken for me. And she will never speak for me. . . . We are not going to let the domestic enemies at home defeat us like they did” during the Vietnam War. Debbie Lee, mother of Mark, the first Navy SEAL killed in Iraq, rejected the anti-war movement’s infan tilization of the troops. She was galled at the See MALKIN, page 9A FOR SALE STUCKEX , S hNESTkAW We deliver and spread Call Now! Cell: 478-258-4705 Cell: 404-217-4654 Total Quality Since 1962 Home • Workshop • Garage • Vinyl /APOLLO QUALITY BUILDINGS, INC. 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He thinks a lot of you and has ever since y’all met.” Well, 1 didn’t know his granddad from Adam’s housecat so I asked him who his granddaddy was and he said, “You probably don’t remember him, but you ate in his restaurant your first year at Alabama and you sent him a picture that he’s had hung in that place ever since. That picture’s his |52575 153328 7 Month & 1 1 Month Choose The Term. * m£ # - JBwffe lifipl 4 s r - f-v »g 'I ■ 81 * ;: ■ w^casaagsaars: — NCUA 153482 pride and joy and he still tells everybody about the day thxit Bear Bryant came in and had chitlins with him. ” “My grandpa said that when you left there, he never expected you to remember him or to send him that pic ture, but you kept your word to him and to Grandpa, that’s everything. He said you could teach me more than football and I had to play for a man like you, so I guess I’m going to. ” I was floored. But I learned that the lessons my mama taught me were always right. It don’t cost nuthin’ to be nice. It don’t cost nuthin’ to do the right thing most of the time, and it costs a lot to lose your good name by breakin’your word to someone. When I went back to sign that boy, 1 looked up his Grandpa and he’s still running that place, but it looks a lot bet ter now; and he didn’t have chitlins that day, but he had some ribs that woulda made Dreamland proud and I made sure I posed for a lot of pictures; and don’t think I didn’t leave some new ones for him, too, along with a signed football. I made it clear to all my assistants to keep this story Get Ready for Hunting Season We Service Most All Major Makes A Models of Street Bikes, Dirt Bikes A ATVS Factory Trained Technicians JSsJug Headsl Sales * Service ♦ Parts * Accessaries BYRO\, GA 478-956-4777 (discount prices! 53723 M 'Anmwf }W»nfcMp YwkJ,sW MiffimH«Dt|Wft limited stmt offer. Kate* m of 9fM*7. SuijjKi totkmpr. ftatUy Uh «*dy 116 PEACHTREE PKWY Behind the Big Peach in Byron 53577 _ qp- I ■■■■■■■ Vhmf Robins Federal X. 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