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Reply to Brad's 2009 Resolutions in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]No... HIS wife(6) and children(4). [/quote] I am HIS wife and I know his children pretty well.

Reply to Too Many Babies in Current Events Stardock Forums

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Reply to Brad's 2009 Resolutions in Everything Else Stardock Forums

[quote]12. Delay everything for next year-- unless, wife & boys disagree.[/quote] Why would we agree to delay everything for next year?

Reply to Too Many Babies in Current Events Stardock Forums

That's a great shirt LW!

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Of course, if you've said this to end the conversation about different administrative systems, I'm happy to leave it all here and take it up some other time.[/quote] Please take it up elsewhere. That is not the topic I put forth to discuss on this particular blog. Thanks.

Reply to Bias II: Newsweek in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]I admire your willingness to offer help to Newsweek. God knows they need it. The arrival of the weekly edition used to be eagerly anticipated & I would read it cover-to-cover. But it got so bad I told 'em to stuff it more than 2 years ago & don't miss it at all.[/quote] We did the exact same thing at about the same time! He picked up a copy while traveling on business to give it another chance and this article is about his findings.

Reply to Too Many Babies in Current Events Stardock Forums

I just learned that the mom is single and lives with her parents. I can't imagine that!

Too Many Babies in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I know many of you have heard about the family that just gave birth to Octuplets. I am interested to hear what people think about this. Not only do they now have 8 tiny newborns to care for (which is impossible in my mind), they already have 6 (yeah, that's right, 6) children at home! Here are my thoughts. First off, who has 6 children and then gets IVF for more?! What kind of doctor implants 8 embryos at a time?! 8 babies in the NICU, how many milli

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] what happens in Oz probably isn't applicable to the US, particularly when it comes to uniformity in administrative education[/quote] What works for a population of 21M quite likely won't work for a population of 304M either. I don't think you are doing this in any way so don't take this as a personal assault- I am tired of people pointing to how people in The Netherlands do things or in ________________ (insert name of small country). Trying to establish systems

Reply to Whites no longer can disagree with minorities in Current Events Stardock Forums

This is not a new development. I got schooled on this when I lived in an almost all black dorm in college. I was educated in the fact that if a minority disses you based on your skin color, it isn't racism but vice versa is because the minority "can never be racist because they are the oppressed ones".

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Anyway like I said at the beginning I don’t expect this to change anyone’s opinion, however perhaps it will explain why others may view this topic differently.[/quote] I don't think you explained anything to anyone. This whole blog is about how much of "my" money should have to become "our" money. Obviously the ones that want more and more of my money to go in the pot are ones that aren't putting anything in but are getting as much or more out.

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics Stardock Forums

[quote]Anyway I think I might join LW and retire [/quote] Yay! I say that because you just don't seem to get it and keep either ignoring the point or not understanding it.

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics Stardock Forums

What the hell LW?! Did your macular degeneration prevent you from reading my comment that this is not about you? You know what, you could live to be 100 and Brad could drop dead from a stroke or genetic circulation and heart defects so save it. It truly sucks that some people have one lousy thing after another happen to them. We have plenty of friends and family that that applies to and we try to help them all out in whatever way we can so don't try to make Brad out to

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics Stardock Forums

LW and maudlin, since this is really gotten off course, let's stop making this about LW because it's getting really tired. We go back and forth and don't make any ground because LW says "well you are paying my medical" and then when Brad said "she's not entitled" LW goes into how she's actually already paid for it. So let's take the individual out in order to clarify the point Brad was trying to make. Plenty of Americans have never or effectively never contributed to the sys

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]I just wondered how much of their inheritence (provided there's anything left for them *to* inherit, since the future is so uncertain right now) you'd think your kids should have to shell out upon your death?[/quote] If taxes keep going up we won't have to worry about what my kids will inherit. [quote]This sort of thing really gets my goat, Jill, people who live a lifestyle unimaginably luxurious compa red to us hoi-poloi, and then complain about what it's costi

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]For example, the real estate you own (and are building) allows you to lay out cash now but it's really costing you nothing because the structures are still worth the money put into them, (or should be, if we ever get out of this housing crisis.)[/quote] More assumptions you know little about. We and our family will have to earn a lot of money each year (over $80k) just to pay the taxes to keep the real estate once we pay for it. Do you consider that not costing anyt

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Since my husband works, we do (indirectly) pay for your healthcare unless you and Brad are 'cash customers.' [/quote] Not that it's anyone's business but we have a high deductible HSA. We also are the employers who pay for the others in our "group" so I would say that my impact is far less than most. Medicare has coverage for programs and drugs to quit smoking. My health coverage doesn't cover any weight loss programs.

Reply to My solutions to some American Problems in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]The Gay and Lesbian forces do not want civil rights, they want to force America to take thousands of years of tradition and flush it down the toilet so a small percentage of people can force their ideals and practices on the rest of America.[/quote] What used to be "tolerance" is now - you have to agree that those alternative lifestyles are perfectly normal and should be accepted as no different than traditional families. [quote]First Bobbi says we should dig a mo

Reply to Examples of Obama's Brilliance in Democrat JoeUser Forums

[quote]He won the presidency? Seriously, it's not that easy to do[/quote] I guess W was brilliant too! Good to know.

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote] If you buy a Lamborghini and wear $5000 dresses/suits than perhaps you don't have the right to question where your taxes go (arguably you don't have enough discretion in where your personal wealth goes to judge where tax money should be allocated anyway). [/quote] That's exactly what those I'm talking about are saying! If spending like you say means you don't have enough "discretion" about where your own money should go, then all those Hollywood types who have been out t

Reply to Who Decides Where Our Money Should Go? in Politics JoeUser Forums

[quote]Just ignore the idiots ....[/quote] It's the idiots in the government ignoring me and listening to the masses that's the problem.

Reply to Hello, My Name is Debbie and I'm a Facebook Addict in Blogging Stardock Forums

[quote]That makes perfect sense. It's funny how we see people online in a different way from those we know personally. The only real difference is direct contact with them.[/quote] There's a lot to personal contact though. I generally know where people I have personal contact with live, who their friends and family are and can get a "feel" about them that you can't get over the internet. On JU you can convincingly be anyone you want to be...you don't even have to use your n

Reply to 18 Nutty pieces of Obama merchandise in US Domestic Stardock Forums

Does anyone else see the ad for the Obama T-shirt? He's Super-O! :0 I guess that's for O-shit, our country's going in the crapper ;)

Reply to 18 Nutty pieces of Obama merchandise in US Domestic Stardock Forums

Rightwinger beat me to it! That's my fav too...and yes, I do know what that first one is...gag [e digicons];P[/e]

Reply to Hello, My Name is Debbie and I'm a Facebook Addict in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Since I posted this I've gotten a couple of friend requests from JUs. I just want to let everyone know that I don't allow friends on Facebook whom I don't know in the "real" world. If I haven't met you in person, you won't be a Facebook friend. Their is just too much personal information on there. Not just mine but of all of my friends and family that I interact with. So in interest of safeguarding everyone, I'm very careful about who I make "friends" with.