[-]I really can't take this economy stuff anymore. I really can't see or have yet to hear that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Are we going to be living a third world nation in 5 years? I went to Target yesterday and i felt so guilty about buying anything what wasn't on my "list" and absolutely needed. Target for crying out loud...I used to shop for sport now I am stressed about buying $10 slippers I don't really need. Will the world ever be the same again.
12 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]and all of it because of the greedy assholes on wall street and real estate front. it really pisses me off.
[ Reply | Options ]and not the fault of the people who took out mortgages/credit cards/other debt they couldn't afford?
[ Reply | Options ]you are actually all wrong. the main reason for this mess is the fact that some people in our govt refused to regulate freddie and fannie who were issuing subprime loans to anyone with a pulse. they were all getting campaign contributions form them and the ACORN lobbyists were very active on that front too - trying to get EVERYONE to buy a home regardless of their credit history. well, this is where it got us.
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It makes me so angry that I can't afford a home in the town where I work full time. That the credit agencies are BS and allowed to do whatever they want, even if it means you pay for things twice, or for charges you never incurred. I went to the gap yesterday to look for jeans, and they were $70! At the gap! For f***s sake I can get calvin klein for this price! I don't feel guilty for anything, our gov't is s***. Meanwhile we are paying for illegals ans giving them OUR jobs. What a great country.
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[-]There is something people don't understand in Obama, and it is not his race. People know black people; they're familiar. Obama is just alien, unusual, WEIRD. The name, the background, everything about him. You know this is true, as much as you may try to deny it, you cannot make it go away.
52 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]ohmigod - my last name is weird - it starts of with three consonants - so that must be why no one likes me!
[ Reply | Options ]What I don't understand is why somebody like him would do community service? Why try and get people to vote and improve education? Why work to improve the lot of your fellow man in Chicago? Illinois? the US of A? Why not just fuck everyone you can and get rich? I mean he was top dog. A black man with a Columbia undergrad and Harvard Law and he goes to work for $12K?
[ Reply | Options ]NP: I know, I found the whole GOP convention joking about "community service" thing really offensive. Har har helping people yuk yuk what a laugh riot. PS Rudy -- > your career is so over so laugh's on us!
[ Reply | Options ]ita, i mean jeez - Martin Luther King, Jr was a community organizer, so was Gandhi, and Mandela, Cesar Chavez.
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They mock it not because it isn't noble work, but because he, Obama, tried to claim that being a community organizer is on a equal level of responsibility with being a mayor or Governor, which anyone with a brain knows to be false. She was making fun of the comparison that they are equal jobs, not the job itself
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He did get rich. He was making 4mil a year. His boss at his "Community Service organization" said he was more of a figurehead and the program did nothing to help schools in the end.
[ Reply | Options ]What???? Go back and do your homework for real this time. I can't stomach any more of you GOP robots who spout "facts" that are so fictional it's laughable.
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I hope to god you're being sarcastic.... I'm astonished at the absolute stupidity...
[ Reply | Options ]Of course I am. :-) Someone from the McCain campaign or some other sort of right wing operative has clearly chosen to grace us today. They have been all over the board making outrageous claims about Obama and claiming they can be supported by "Google".
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np: i teach my dcs that doing their homework means that they have to do it themselves. This community organizer background info is not difficult to find from RELIABLE sources although you may have to think while you read - which, based on your posts today looks like it might be a stretch for you
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Obama himself became disillusioned with the whole community activist methodology. He concluded that he could not really achieve anything significant and that is why he turned to politics. Also, no one making 12k a year lives in the most exclusive enclave of Hyde Park
[ Reply | Options ]NP: He bought the house very recently (within the last few years) out of proceeds from his books.
[ Reply | Options ]The point is that the poster was trying to paint Obama as a man who'd work for no money but we all see that he too, chases the almighty buck or else he'd post his work for free.
[ Reply | Options ]I took the OR's post to mean that given a choice of two career paths, Obama chose the less lucrative one. Is that really up for argument? I mean, I went to law school, and it's not like when you're sitting there deciding between Biglaw and public interest, you think to yourself "hey, maybe I can go the public interest route, but I'll write a best seller and get rich anyway!"
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He did not make $4M a year as community organizer. He is making that now because he wrote two bestsellers.
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Sure and that's why I don't like him. He hasn't revealed himself. Or maybe he has no true self.
[ Reply | Options ]You know what I don't understand? Why, in the context of everything that is going on in this country right now, THIS is the kind of politics John McCain and his supporters have decided Americans need and want. Do they have a plan for the country lurking anywhere under these vague aspersions and outright attacks?
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No, both sides are not EQUALLY guilty of this - the dems have had to waste their time fighting these stupid battles because the repubs keep diving into the shitpile. If the repubs would just focus on the real issues then maybe we could all learn something. Oh, that's right, they don't have any answers.
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That is funny. I think he is the perfect American success story. What does America stand for anyway. Is it not the land of opportunity? Give me your tired, your poor, your funny looking? Funny named? Let them come here and strive for excellence? That IS America. Or it used to be, now we just bomb people.
[ Reply | Options ]i would have no problem with his name/race or any personal attributes, if he were not a radical/leftist/marxist america-hater. everybody who's so in love with him, you should watch this video about his very, very deep connections to the weather underground terrorists (Ayers and Dohrn gave Obama launched his political career) and how he funneled millions to the annenberg project. THE VIDEO IS FROM CNN. so it's hard to call it biased. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkCv2nvvn8
[ Reply | Options ]Sarah Palin: "Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. No one expects us to agree on everything. But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, and ... a servant's heart." Too bad the only form of "service" that McCain and Palin respect is that of those that agree with them, and they are willing to support this sort mean-spirited and false attack on the values and patriotism of their opponent.
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As a Black person (probably one of the only ones on here) this is FURTHEST from the truth. He and Michelle are VERY familiar to us. Please. I have a sister in law who is half African and half white from Wisconsin. I know MANY women like Michelle and see some of myself in her. Please.
[ Reply | Options ]How can he know completely what it is to be an inner city black? He was raised in a white world by a white mother. The only thing black about him his his skin color except that he's very light skinned. I know for a fact that there is light/dark skinned discrimination within the black culture.
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[-]My DD is almost 11 months old, and has until the last two months, been a champion sleeper -- I followed Weissbluth and am a big believer. That said, she's recently started waking in the early morning (4-5 a.m.) and doesn't go back to sleep quite as easily (or at all, often we've just brought her to bed with us.) What should I do? I'm 8 months pregnant, and am exhausted and starting to get tense about her once-awesome sleep schedule being upside down AND having to deal with a newborn. Help! TIA.
21 replies [ Reply | Watch | Options ]hmmmm - what does she do if you leave her in her crib? cry or just talk? i hear mine sometimes and she usually puts herself back to sleep after chatting for a while. (congrats on #2. i started trying right away after b/f #1 was over - no luck yet.).
[ Reply | Options ]Thanks!...well, i just tried that...she cried, babbled, cried, babbled, etc...then just cried. She works herself into a state, so that I (feel like I) have to go console her, which I do by just lying her back down, ssshing and then leaving. It has worked in the past, but lately not -- she's sleeping right now in my bed after literally doing a face-plant into my pillows from exhaustion.
[ Reply | Options ]Have you ever thought she might just need to be held and cuddlend instead of dumped in her crib. You Weissbluth followers are so cold.
[ Reply | Options ]get a grip - i am talking about having the baby sleep in her bed - not good for baby or mom.
[ Reply | Options ]OP: nah, she loves it when I 'dump her in her crib' -- especially if I add an extra swing in there. Don't be ridiculous -- of course there's cuddling etc -- plus if you'd read my post, you'd see that actually Weissbluth has worked like a dream. I'm not asking you what you did, because I don't care -- if it works for you, GREAT! Don't judge me, and if you don't want to offer help, move the f*** on from this post -- you MUST have better things to do...no?
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Young children are smarter and more intuititive than we give them credit for. Your DD knows something is different, she just doesn't know what or how to deal with it. My DD are 22 months apart and the absolute WORST behavior (and worst sleeping) we experienced with her was at the end of my PG with #2. And in terms on your own physical state and exhaustion it's harder (IMO) to be pregnant w/ a young DC than it is to have 2 under 2 (at least you can put a baby down somewhere to deal with #1, right now you have no choice but to drag your PG self around!). Get DH to help out as much as possible, especially with the night shift. And hang in there.
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My SIL told me something that bothers me. My neice is extremely skinny for her age/height. At the age of 4 she is only 35lbs. She told me that when she asks for food at 8pm, she does not give it to her because she does not want her to go to sleep on full stomach as its not healthy. It really disturbs me, I also notice that my neice is allowed to eat a lot of junk and barely eats fruits and veggies. I like my SIL, but I feel that I should speak up for my nieces' sake. What do you think?
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[-]8 wks pg. had some fillings today and dentist used a local anesthetic (ob/gyn said it was fine). now i have mild menstrual cramps. not related, right? tia
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[-]so, pediatrician told me yesterday he's seeing public schools getting better and privates slipping cos he's seeing that admission is really increasingly based on income and the smartest most interesting kids aren't so much in privates any more. Also, publics to get better with financial crisis, as they tend to...
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[-]if you found a service that helps you write essays or writes them for you would you use it? I think there's one on Craigs list. Is this OK? I'm a terrible writer and my husband's first language is not English.
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I would want to see a sample of their work intended for the same audience that my project was intended for. Otherwise, you can get help from a friend or from a writing tutor.
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