John said (April 6, 2018):

Been eating at particular restaurant for more than 17 years plus in South Bay and surrounded by four hotels they have always been busy for breakfast and lunch meals. Have seen plenty of waitresses come and go. They even have another restaurant just north several miles with same the menu. The problem with Diner's is they have the same thing repeatedly as pointed out in this article. I particularly target restaurant for one or two items on the menu and that is it and do the same for the rest of eateries that are visited. In the end you have to eat somewhere beside at home. Occasionally, food poisoning issues occur. It is thankless job at times but someone has to do.

Robert K said (April 5, 2018):

Overall only one in ten businesses survive ten years. They are fighting an economic environment designed by puritanical economists according to the principle that economics is the study of “the use of scarce resources”. And the primary resource in short supply is non-debt money—a situation that drives people into the thrall of banker-created debt.

Imagine the waste involved in the effort to build viable businesses in an inherently adverse financial environment. Sisyphus would understand!

M said (April 5, 2018):

This is why Chinese restaurants employ their entire family and keep slaves (either other Asians or illegal Mexicans) in the kitchens and pay off health inspectors. They grew up in a communist county and know how the corrupt 'system' works.

It's the same in the USA and "Immigration" or whatever they call them now usually turn a blind eye due to kickbacks. It's almost impossible for an independent restauranteur to "play by the rules" and survive. If you don't bribe the health inspector and every other government leech, you won't last long.

Duane said (April 5, 2018):

The only thing MORE dumb than opening a restaurant is FREQUENTING them....

JG said (April 5, 2018):

Resteraunts today have fallen victim to the new two-tier economy. We have the millionaires and billionaires, and then we have everybody else who is living week to week.
Bars are also taking a big hit. The days of the average young man working hard all week and then going out to the bar on the weekend to meet some women or blow off some steam are fading fast. Joe Six Pack went broke also.

My grandfather who was a combat WW1 veteran who had a restaurant during the depression. He was stunned one day when an out of work lawyer applied for a job as a dishwasher at his diner.

We're not too far away from a total crash of the economy we once knew. Marxist economics is like a game of monopoly. Sooner or later one man and his multiple holdings winds up with all the money.

Patrick N said (April 5, 2018):

I always loved this article and its comments because it reminds me of the b.s. about "reaching for the stars" and "being anything that you want to be" that we're fed from our youth. They will usually cite a handful of successful examples of overcoming the odds (the beneficiaries usually being predetermined or guided dupes) while never mentioning the countless sincere all-in attempts that ultimately end up in failure.

It reminds me that what we're taught it means to be successful in this world is not worth pursuing.

Derek V said (April 17, 2015):

have often pondered the explosion of sushi restaurants on every street corner many of which look desolate. An explanation that somebody served to me was that as part of the provincial nominee program would be permanent resident seekers with money can agree to "invest" in local business which often translates into opening a sushi restaurant and keeping it running for the required time period. The success of the establishment isn't the main objective.

Adrian said (April 16, 2015):

What you describe can be summarized as:don't open a restaurant in a "developed" nation where taxes and government meddling ruin any hope of self determination. As evidence, just take a look in Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, etc. There, TOTAL taxes are around the 25% mark and oppressive meddling not yet arrived. Result: 20 times more successful restaurants than in "developed" nations. Often the cooking is "right in front of your eyes", so there are no worries about quality.

Karen said (May 21, 2019):

The tale is as old as time. Did you forget?

https://www.usnews.com/news/religion/articles/2008/01/25/bathsheba-is-one-of-the-most-beguiling-characters-in-the-bible

LT said (February 11, 2018):

I really enjoyed the article on Helen Gurley-Brown. I grew up on Cosmopolitan magazine. Subscribed to Ms. Magazine at age 14, and quite frankly did not like men!

What a travesty! She was a bad woman. Teaching us all to be sluts. Thank God I did not go the slut route, but I was really, really angry at men! Ruined a lot of my relationships upon reflection.
I cannot believe I survived the 70's and 80s.

I feel very duped to be honest. I fell for the Communist b.s. I was only 13 when I started to dislike men.

I remember being in my dear grandmother's kitchen in England. I was a girl at the tender age of 11. She taught me a lot about cooking. She said to me, "so now you know how to make your future husband a good cooked dinner". My reply: "he can make his own damn dinner!"

It makes me sad Henry. So sad.

TWH said (February 9, 2018):

I used to see this when I worked for a major Canadian bank. Women would use their feminine features to get ahead in the company. If you didn't have something said women needed, they essentially ignored you (except to perhaps gossip about you).

This is something that I see in greater society a lot now. Women around my area of the country look for two things first and foremost. They try to latch onto men who either have good looks or the appearance of wealth or influence (usually an expensive car). All else is far down the list. Because of this, I haven't trusted women for a long time and I generally don't engage them (while still keeping a watchful eye on their manipulative antics). When they're not deploying their sexuality in an attempt to use you, they're gossiping about you and trying to destroy your career or some other aspect of your life.

I'm a man and, as such, can stand alone quite well without some modern-day Jezebel trying to toss a wrench into the works. Who needs the aggravation for the sake of an orgasm? I'm not some overgrown adolescent like the majority of men seem to be, who thinks he needs a woman. Let's be clear. Sex is not one of our vital needs in life, despite what the mass media pushes onto us.

I'll even go so far as to say I think far fewer women should be in the workforce. Most of them just turn office environments into a soap opera set while emasculated men play right along and even adopt some of the reprehensible behavior.

Diane said (February 9, 2018):

I love the Helen Gurley Brown article. Nothing is sadder than going to my old workplace and seeing all the girls who came to work so fresh and pretty in their 20s, now in their late 30s or early 40s, past their prime and having lost their luster of youth. Not married. No kids. So sad. That was me but I was lucky enough to still get married and have kids. My mission is to try to warn young women about the perils of Feminism--it only benefits men.

I hope you are doing well. Thanks for being a source of light in a troubling world.

Robert said (August 15, 2012):

Brown effectively became a prostitute because "I tried to do whatever you needed to do to survive,"
and she seems to want to convey this message to other women.

The scandal is that people are still in a position of having to "sell themselves" in diverse ways in order to "survive" in the midst of the greatest potential for producing material wealth ever known. We are now in a position where most of the repetitive work, and even much of the creativity, can be consigned to robots.

The result is not that freedom and leisure fill our lives, but instead that poverty and insecurity increase to keep us submissive to the dictates of an elite class.

If ever there was proof that a diabolical power has its grip on the throat of humanity, it is provided by the fact that people are denied participation by right in the abundance naturally accruing from technology (a common heritage) applied to natural resources (a common property). The choke point is the monopolistic financial system.

If we took seriously Jesus's commandment to love one another, rather than heeding those who would have us hate each other, then we would have hope of reconfiguring this corrupting system, to throw off the chains of illusion and "release reality".

Mary said (August 15, 2012):

Great article Henry! I saw her being praised as a " pioneer for women "on all the Nightly News broadcasts and wanted to puke.
Having worked part time while raising my children and then full time for part of the last decade in my fifties ,I was not surprised to see that the majority of nurses in my age bracket who still worked full time were divorced.

Thinking back I recalled all my friends who worked into their forties complaining that they were now "too tired" to continue to come home from a full day of work then have to shop for household items and clean and cook for their husbands and kids.

They had the energy in their youth when the kids were popped into Daycare and school. When they aged their household debt had risen to meet their added income by way of mortgages for larger homes clothes, cars and credit card bills and they felt trapped. All an illusory dream that my generation bought into.

Marcos said (August 15, 2012):

One aspect of feminist propaganda seldom discussed and with a major spiritual impact is that they are selling a feeling of discontentment and frustration. Women learn to be ungrateful about their situation and the gender that God assigned them to, even if they are among the 1% of the most fortunate beings on the planet.

Women look at the magazine and what do they see? A perfect looking woman, with several lovers, who enjoys superb sex and has a star career. Since this is a fantasy, all that is left is resentment and bitterness, which is a fertile ground for sin.
The remedy for this mindset is to be grateful, the old "count your blessings". This is true for both men and women.

Dan said (August 15, 2012):

Helen Gurley Brown sold millions of girls the standard pimp's rap.

I read a book in the 1970's, "Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp." The book was the project of two urban sociologists in New York City.

The Pimp - 'Silky' - introduced himself with, "The term is pimp, but I don't use it. I'm a professional gentleman of leisure. I have a Ph.D. in pimping. I have absolutely nothing to do. I'm just a connoisseur of resting and a television freak. I do make more money than the President of the United States."

In that world pimps and hoes didn't used the word 'prostitution', they called it "The Life". As with all Luciferian delusions, everything is backwards.

"Straights" see hoes as being used - the pimps teach the girls that hoes are using the trick.

Brown saw herself as predator, even in her marriage which Huntington Post and the rest are holding up as a banner of 'yes! you CAN have it all'.

Listen to how she spoke of reeling in her wealthy husband in her autobiography,

"You get the hook in. Darling, charming, delicious, sexy you has to have sunk into him so seriously, the hook [is] buried so deep he can't get it out without severe pain, i.e. can't live without you. You then close in and deliver your ultimatum. I had to deliver mine twice."

That's so messed up on so many levels I don't know where to begin. Like a pimp or madame, Brown saw men as prey, and marriage as emotional blackmail. Sex was an opiate to her. The mind set she taught was for the girl to learn to get her fix sated by anybody with an erection, and to make the "man of her dreams" associate his sex addiction ONLY with her. She thus viewed relationships as an exercise in position of power vs position of weakness.

Eric B said (May 20, 2019):

That bill was a bit too drastic IMHO. It's always the extremes and that's why our country is in the mess it is in.

Mary H said (May 20, 2019):

My opinion is that women will just simply go to the next state over in order to get an abortion. I doubt this has slowed it much.

Wade (not the vs Roe one) said (May 20, 2019):

I am ardently opposed to abortion for birth control...Which is the motivation for almost all abortions? However, the pro-abortion folks recently made a huge mistake in showing their hand in Virginia and New York. Where they advocated killing babies up to and at the moment of birth. This outrageous position of the pro abortion crowd cost them a lot of support with the general public.

Just when they were on the run all these states come up with these heartbeat laws...Which can't be enforced without overturning Roe V Wade. And I don't see that happening anytime soon and maybe not ever until we pro-life people smarten up. Just when we finally had the pro-abortion crowd on the run these heartbeat laws make the pro-lifers look like we are just as nuts as is the other side.

Accommodations must be made for Rape, Incest, and life and health of the mother. Otherwise we lose the argument again.

The only possible way to win against abortion for birth control is on the basis of a civil rights case brought before the supreme court. We have tons of legal precedent where a person who kills a pregnant woman is charged and convicted of a double homicide. Now the legal community cannot have it both ways. If an unborn child has civil rights in one instance...that same unborn child has civil rights when it comes to being murdered by the mother and her doctor. And the mother has the right of self-defence which covers Rape, Incest, and her life.

Until and unless we pro-lifers wake up to this fact...which is the only way to overturn Roe V Wade, we are going to continue to lose this fight for the lives of the unborn.

Luis said (May 20, 2019):

You mean christian in general, right?

I know what you are trying to say, but never forget that the world conspiracy is spiritual, not racial.
Yes the jews want to create a mix society to undermine western societies, but if we only talk about their racial programme, we are half deceiving people.

Michael D said (May 20, 2019):

I agree with the Alabama legislation, but for the notion of white supremacy, white or black is not in nature. We still dealing with the dialectics of a manipulative anti-nature mind set.

Anonymous said (May 20, 2019):

Too many people never think about human overpopulation of the world.

This planet is finite and can only comfortably support so many human beings. The planet is now beyond being over populated. Alabama and other
blind legislatures and people ignore reality when they denounce and outlaw abortion.

The Aztecs kept their population within a reasonable number by killing.

They knew that their lands could only beneficially support so many human beings. Then the Spaniards invaded and forced the Aztecs to stop their population control. Now that area is overpopulated and in poverty.