Carlene

Do you think you could fix the "edit" feature before you work on more new stuff? I am sick to death of clicking on the "edit" button and seeing all those little yellow smiley faces. :yell:

Billy Ray Cyrus....Achy Breaky Heart

That's her stomach, right? That CANNOT be her hoo-hoo....can it? I mean...not to be crude or anything, but that looks dangerous to me. What if a small child fell into her lap? Couldn't it get lost like, forever?

I actually prefer the ads on the left side. Maybe I'm right-brained....who knows. Certainly not in my "right" mind, though.....LOL Who's the girl at the top? I hope she has a Lap Band. I deplore the use of ringers in weight loss forums (or ads). Nice skin, BTW, Alex...

Who says this web site is a wast of time? Look at the stuff we learn on here. Very diversified.

Many, many denominations ordain only men. And just straight men, at that.

I have absolutely no idea what this means, but by all means, feel free to do them for me. Pray for me. Baptize me in absentia (although I've already been baptized), or posthumously. It's like chicken Soup....it can't hurt and maybe it will actually help.

Spellcheck is great but it can't fix everything. I belong to a couple of dog forums and every time I see "my dog is pure bread", I wish I could make a little doggy sculpture out of whole wheat, take a picture of it, and post it for those morons....with a note - "Now THIS is a pure bread dog".

The only man I have anger issues with is dead (thankfully). It was the uncle who fondled me when I was a child, about 10 years old. I have REAL anger issues toward that SOB, I assure you.

Of course....although it isn't true that I believe most men are "pigs". I love men. I married three of them and gave birth to three more (actually not....one of those is adopted). It's my friend Alan who keeps telling me that men are pigs. Maybe I thought, coming from a man, that it would be less offensive. Or maybe it's the pigs who should take exception. I don't know. At any rate, if you were truly "very offended" by my post, which compared a philandering husband who kicked his ailing wife to the curb after 40+ years of marriage so he could screw the care-giver to a pig, then please accept my deepest apologies.

Fundamentalist Christians, on the average, tend to have less education, which probably accounts for the poor spelling. It does not mean they aren't as smart as anyone else. Let us not forget Al Gore and the famous "potato" incident.

Lap Dancer... I totally understand about sensitive material that is "classified". My son works for Haliburton and has (twice) worked with the military in Iraq, with a "top security" clearance. When he was sent from one base to another, he could tell me he was going and approximately for how long, but not where, etc. I appreciated his discretion more than the military did because I didn't want the helicopter he was riding in to be shot down! He could e mail me and phone me, but IMs were stopped about half-way thru his first deployment. I'm going to ask him if the new rules apply to civilians on base, as well. But the new rules go far beyond that. A soldier can no longer e mail his mom without getting the message approved first. He cannot participate in online forums. Here are the official rules... g. Consult with their immediate supervisor and their OPSEC Officer for an OPSEC review prior to publishing or posting information in a public forum. (1) This includes, but is not limited to letters, resumes, articles for publication, electronic mail (e-mail), Web site postings, web log (blog) postings, discussion in Internet information forums, discussion in Internet message boards or other forms of dissemination or documentation. This will make it almost impossible for soldiers to communicate electronically with their loved ones back home, and will drastically slow down their snail mail, packages, etc. Far better, I think, to stress to them that chit chat is fine but logistics of the war are not. Most of them already know that, but a refresher course never hurts, I guess.

You're right....people can't help the way they feel. If he is almost as offended by pedophilia as by prayer in school, then that's the way he feels. But it was an insensitive comparison. Just as it would be insensitive of me to say that I find religious discrimination almost as offensive as slavery. The two things are WORLDS apart. There is no reasonable comparison to be drawn, unless you are an avowed racist. The fact that people have a right to express themselves in no way relieves them of basic social responsibilities. I bash George Bush all the time. But there is a line I would not cross. I would not say, for example, that the torture of Iraqi prisoners was almost as evil as 9/11. Same thing goes for child molestation, IMHO. It is not a suitable topic for jokes or flippant, off-the-cuff hyperbole, just as the holocaust would not be. I had my say. I stated that I was offended by Marjon's comparison and that I felt he owed the victims of child molestation who read his words and were offended by them an apology. He responded, basically, that he owed us nothing. That he could say whatever he liked, within the rules of LBT. And so he can. That may make him correct, but it doesn't make him right. And there is a difference.

I don't think it's an issue of national concern at all. I think it is an attempt by the Executive office to censor information from the "grunts" to the public, lest we learn that not all servicemen/women are delighted to be engaged in an unwinnable war. I think this falls into the same category as the prohibition that said journalists could not take photos of flag-draped coffins coming back from Iraq. It's bad PR for Bush.

I am what you might call a student by proxy. I have a DIL who works full time as a teacher's aid, has 2 kids, and tries to help out at church, the PTA, and her daughter's Girl Scout group. She is trying to finish her degree plan in Special Ed (not everything would transfer from the Assoc Degree she earned in Ohio). So I, the English major MIL, do her research papers for her. I e mail them to her and she, in turn, submits them electronically. Last month I did a 16 slide PP presentation on censorship. It was due at 6 PM last night. I e mailed it to Wendy two weeks ago. Guess when she sat down to submit it? Yep....last night. Guess who had severe storms and major power outages (for about 8 hours)? Right again....we did. Fortunately for her the instructor took pity on everyone and extended the deadline to Friday, but I would have been really pissed at her, I think, if after all my effort, she screwed up my A paper because she "didn't have time" to log in and push the stupid "submit" button.

I'm waiting for someone to post "What's so different about Mormon underwear". :target:

My first husband's mother was a pistol. She raised him Southern Baptist, because that's what she was raised. But he married me and joined the Catholic church. She got up and walked out of her own church in the middle of her minister's sermon because he said Catholic's were going to hell. Now that her son was one of "them", it was suddenly personal to her. Interesting how our perspectives change, isn't it?

I certainly don't understand all the tenants of the Mormon church. I think the whole underwear thing is a little strange, but hey....I'm Catholic and lots of people don't "get" us, either. We get blasted a lot for baptizing babies, but so do Presbyterians, Lutherans, Methodists, Episcopalians, and others, but they NEVER seem to get flack over that. The thing that REALLY pisses me of, though, is when someone states with utter and complete "authority" that "Catholics worship statues" (or the Virgin Mary). I'm all for allowing each person to follow his/her own path in peace and harmony.

My own feeling is that anti-hate laws, by definition, should extend their protection to all persecuted minorities. It's not okay to act on one's hatred for blacks....or gays...or Muslims, or anyone else.

I understand completely. I feel the same way about my Oreck, although I have not tried all the others in the CR study. I'm glad you mentioned price, because I forgot to. The number one rated vacuum (Hoover Wind Tunnel Self Propelled Ultra) cost just $250, and number two was a mere $140, while my beloved Oreck retails for $700. That was sticker shock, I don't mind telling you.

We don't actually get to vote....it's a bill already before Congress. But how about if they exclude from prosecution any ordained minister who preaches against homosexuality from the pulpit....would you be in favor of it then?

Bless your heart, Maudie. I hope God will bless you with little ones very soon. I, too, had problems conceiving. I am insulin resistant and had PCOS. I adopted my first child and after fertility treatments, gave birth to my second. My third and fourth were all God's doing. I did not ask for them....LOL

Perhaps you should apologize first for your poor choice of words. Then we would, of course, forgive you and move forward. But to suggest that we need to "stop being offended" is just arrogant on your part. If you don't mind my honest opinion.

I can't believe no one has posted about this yet. What's with you guys... Deputy Secretary of State Randall L. Tobias submitted his resignation Friday, one day after confirming to ABC News that he had been a customer of a Washington, D.C. escort service whose owner has been charged by federal prosecutors with running a prostitution operation. Tobias, 65, director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), had previously served as the ambassador for the President's Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief. A State Department press release late Friday afternoon said only he was leaving for "personal reasons." On Thursday, Tobias told ABC News he had several times called the "Pamela Martin and Associates" escort service "to have gals come over to the condo to give me a massage." Tobias, who is married, said there had been "no sex," and that recently he had been using another service "with Central Americans" to provide massages. Tobias' private cell number was among thousands of numbers listed in the telephone records provided to ABC News by Jeane Palfrey, the woman dubbed the "D.C. Madam," who is facing the federal charges. In an interview to be broadcast on "20/20" next Friday, Palfrey says she intends to call Tobias and a number of her other prominent D.C. clients to testify at her trial. As the Bush administration's so-called "AIDS czar," Tobias was criticized by some for emphasizing faithfulness and abstinence over condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS. In a 2004 interview, Tobias explained his approach as "A and B and C. . . Abstinence works. 'Be faithful' works. Condoms work. They all have a role. But it's not a multiple choice, where there is only one answer." As a top official overseeing global AIDS funding to other countries, Tobias was responsible for enforcing a U.S. policy, enacted during the Bush administration, that requires recipients to swear they oppose prostitution and sex trafficking. USAID adopted a similar policy in 2004. At an April 18 speech, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice praised Tobias' work. "Randy Tobias has indeed had many roles in his life, but none more important than the roles he's played in government, where he has been someone who has been most involved in organizing America's compassion to the world."

I get this a lot from my DD's in-laws, and to a lesser degree from my middle son's in-laws, too. I have even gotten it from a couple of moms of DGD's friends. In fact, I just had a DGD incident yesterday. Cheyenne spent the night with a GF I wasn't real comfortable with in the first place (She's 14 and her mom let her get her tongue pierced; the first time I met the stepdad he was mad at the girl and told her to "get your ass in the f&^%#$@ house." Call me old fashioned, but things like that do not make me think you are going to take really good care of my beloved granddaughter.) Nevertheless, I let her spend the night, with the understanding that if anything went wrong, she was never to ask again. Things went VERY wrong. Cheyenne called me, crying, the next day (about noon). The stepdad (under the influence) had hit the girl in the face, had a huge screaming fight with the mom, destroyed the kitchen, and stormed off. The mom and her kids were packing up to leave. Of course, these weirdos eventually kissed and made up, the mom moved herself and children back in with psycho stepdad, and now says that I think we are "better than" her family, "too good for" her family, etc. because I won't let Cheyenne spend the night with her daughter again. Stupid me....I thought I was the one due an apology. :target: