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Are You Dating a Man or a Boy? 10 Home Goods That Will Tell You {Lemondrop}
Jan 3rd 2011 5:57AM I think that your comments about towels, Q-tips and a bed, are irrelvant. All guys (including me, before I met my wife of 24 years of marriage) are sloppier than girls, and most a re a lot sloppier. A much better question would be whether he is willing to take her wishes and needs into account. If he is, she'll be able to teach him. If he isn't, why would she want him around at all??
Filmmaker Documents a Year of Saying Goodbye to His College-Bound Daughter {ParentDish}
Nov 7th 2010 10:12PM I agree with your comment, although I don't think I'd generalize it to the whole country. But gosh, someone like this man should be aware that his daughter--like most women--wants her private moments to be PRIVATE. That's how women are, right? Like someone else said about him--what a self-centered slob!
Dear Abby, Here's Why You Should Have Never Set Sail ... {Lemondrop}
Jun 15th 2010 9:12PM I'm 63 years old and a long ways from my teen years. That said, I think that Lena is completely in the right. 16-year-olds like Abby ARE notorious for being too sure of themselves and biting off more than they can chew. Also, people who do anything dangerous in the wild are always advised to not to do it alone--i.e. to do it in pairs, so that if something comes unglued, there will be two heads and four sets of hands to try to cope.
Van Morrison a Father Again at 64 {Spinner}
Dec 29th 2009 4:26PM I agree completely!!! From a practical standpoint, one should note that if Van Morrison has been a successful singer and performer for 40-plus years, he probably has the resouces to make sure that his namesake is taken care of if something happens to him. Beyond that, though, anybody who posts here should give absolute priority to plain, old-fashioned, ordinary decency!!
Latest 'Law & Order' Headline Is Ripped From Bill O'Reilly {Inside TV Blog}
Dec 15th 2009 5:49AM If I were Bill O'Reilly, I would alugh this off. My late Mom had a saying for comments like Mr. Wolf's: "consider the source." Ny making an issue of Mr. Wolf's comments, he is increasing both their value (by conceding that he feels that he must respond) and publicizing them to people like me who would never otherwise have heard of them.
Attention Coke lovers: It's safe to shop at Costco again {Daily Finance}
Dec 10th 2009 9:18PM You know, I had the opposite experience. I used to be a big Diet Coke fan. When Costco temporarily stopped stocking Diet Coke, I started drinking Diet Pepsi--and I really liked it! I think I'm going to stick with it!
A graduate says he paid too much for tuition, and the Supreme Court listens {Daily Finance}
Dec 7th 2009 6:06AM What this article doesn't mention (but which was prominent in many radio commentaries on this case) is the extreme tardiness of United Student Aid Funds' demand that the interest be paid, after having given up their rights to it.
Let's be clear about this: almost every state has deadlines for objections or appeals of a decision, for the sake of what's called "Finality"--a decision, if not appealed before its deadline, should be the end of the case. People do have other things to do, after all. In my State of New York, it's 30 days.
The Aid Fund received notice of the hearings and the proposed settlement AND MADE NO OBJECTION. They were asleep at the switch. Two more years go by. THEN they go back to Square One and demand interest?? In my state, the Judges would have been rolling on the floor, laughing or crying, before throwing the case out on this basis. There's been no contention that they weren't told about it and didn't know about it. Good grief!!
Lou Dobbs talks to O'Reilly about Obama, CNN and who shot at his wife {Daily Finance}
Nov 17th 2009 9:22PM A general comment (NOT intended to slur Lou Dobbs):
I really don't understand people who adhere to an ideology and try to twist and bend facts to conform to it, whether Left or Right. I try to learn and understand as many facts about a given issue (like the economy) as I can. Then, I try to figure out an explanation which fits those facts. If my explanation is wrong, I try something else. I don't care whether the explanation comes from the Right or Left. I don't mind being proven wrong by a better explanation.
What about values, you ask? "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." In other words, values begin at home. What about gay marriage? I'm as hetero as they come, and homosexuality nauseates me. But no-one is trying to make me marry a man, nor is anyone trying to make my wife marry a woman. No-one is trying to pressure me to be gay. That's all I really need to know.
I grew up a member of a certain unpopular minority in a certain part of this country, and I caught a lot of harrassment over the years for not exercising sufficient care in my choice of parents. I didn't enjoy that one little bit. So, I don't care if someone is Black, or Jewish, or Christian, or Hindu, or Buddhits, or Moslem--OR GAY. As long as they leave me be to live my life as I wish, I see no reason why they shouldn't be allowed to do the same.
School Bans Pro-Life T-Shirt - Seventh Grader Sues {ParentDish}
Jul 8th 2009 6:26AM I am pro-choice. That said, I have nothing against the child having this slogan on her T-shirt. I do think that graphic pictures of this kind are inappropriate where 7th graders can see them, on behalf of any cause; that's why we have a PG-13 movie classification, right? In any event, if the behavior of the school authorities is accurately described, I do think they overreacted.
Recalling Dr. Tiller: Abortion Opponent On 'Loving the Unlovable' {Politics Daily}
Jun 1st 2009 8:19PM You say, "Liberals generally don't believe in objective morality. They don't believe in a Universal source of truth, or morality." How would you know what "Liberals" believe? How would you know anything about their morality, when you won't dialog with them, or communicate anything to them except epithets and sermons? Above all, how wou;d you know anything about a universal morality, when all you know is your own? How can you be so sure it's "universal?"
I'm a Jew. I'm neither a liberal nor a conservative. I was on the receiving end of slurs from anti-Semites as a teen-ager. What I learned from that experience was not to hate them, but rather not to be a hater myself. The best way for me to lessen hatred in the world is not to contribute to it myself.
Dr. Koop to the contrary notwithstanding, I know that there are cases of women whose pregnancies threatened their health or their lives. I don't think that anyone can morally stop such women from having an abortion. I didn't agree with Dr. Tiller when he was willing to perform an abortion when the mother's life was not endangered, but the baby was going to be born a cripple. However, I'm also not so arrogant as to think that I know everything, or that I am always completely in the moral right.
America is a democracy. It's not a Jewish or Christian or Moslem or Hindu or Buddhist or agnostic democracy, but a democracy of all those who are citizens of this great land. One of the things which makes it great, in my view, is that no-one can legally force his views on anyone else--and if someone does, the Courts will generally give him or her or them a fair hearing.
Aside from a hatred of murder in general, that's where I part company with Dr. Tiller's murderer and the murderer's supporters--they are too ready to force their views on myself and others, without allowing us any say in the matter. That's terrible. Thank you.
