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Heh, my husband has 1-10 covered, although I think he could work on #8 a little more.

He’s got #12, but needs more practice at #11 as of late. Of course, opportunities have been lacking. Pretty good, so I think I’ll keep him. :)

Plus, he puts up with me! (Maybe that means his #8 is better than I’m giving him credit for.)

I would have pegged it as an article in seventeen magazine, aimed at 12 year olds.

Absolutely pathetic.

My list of things that make a guy undateable

1) Hates his mother and/or father (without a d@mn good reason)
2) Bad hygiene or dirty, slovenly appearance (being a little dorky or unfashionable isn’t necessarily bad, unless it’s a more of a antisocial/mental illness vibe)
3) No job, no ambition
4) Bad or weak character, a follower
5) Isn’t ‘good’ or passionate about anything...(career success isn’t the only measure of a man)
6) Selfish adolescent persona, doesn’t see himself as ‘man’ but a ‘guy or ‘boy’
7) Lack of a transcendent moral code that includes the willingness to sacrifice
8) No sense of humor
9) No sense of self-worth
10) Dumb, heartless, greedy, and/or looking for a servant

Personal Preferences
11) Knows how to kill things when they need killing
12) Draws, writes or plays music, too

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner.

I tell that to my husband all the time.

Thanks for the well wishes. I agree I was naive, in fact, I’d go for willfully ignorant or plain old stupid. I actually think I was under the impression that I’d have a quicker police response, living in a larger area.

What I really don’t get is why feminists aren’t more PRO-gun. Talk about the great equalizer! If you want to be able to hold your own against a male attacker, screw those pansy self-defense classes, pack something and know how to use it.

Just imagine the amount of abuse that could be curtailed during the Super Bowl alone.</s>

In a word, YES.

(Full Disclosure: I’m trying to decide if I should attend grad school this fall)

How right you are.

I was born in NJ, to good decent Reagan democrat Catholic parents (who since have become Glenn Beck watchers). I readily absorbed the fear and loathing of guns, handguns especially, that exudes from NYC and blankets itself over liberal-topia. I associated their possession only with bad guys, cops or uncouth country bumpkins (can you say ignorant, reality-deprived, de-facto segregation-lovin’ hypocrites? Well, if you grew up in Morris County, NJ, you bet you can.)

Anyway, this is the story of how that all changed.

See my tagline? I’m not just a bumper-sticker copy-catter, but someone who was alone in my house one night with my two preschool-age children upstairs asleep (hubby was working night-shift), now living in southwest VA.

I was sitting at my computer downstairs working when I heard the outside screen door on my back porch swing and scrape and a loud thump.

In an time-altered state, I shut off the lights, grabbed the longest, sharpest kitchen blade I could, grabbed the phone and found a defensive position (there was no gun in the house, ‘natch.)

I call 911 (it’s about 11:00 Saturday night)

I tell the operator IN A LOUD VOICE that someone is trying to break in my back porch, please come quickly.

She, however, tells me “tonight is really busy, we’ll get someone there as soon as possible.” (Note I live in a city of 75K, metro 150-200K)

I hear another footstep on the porch, some kind of muffled noise and what I think is a hasty retreat. Then the door again.

I call 911 again.

This time more quietly I say “You don’t understand... SOMEONE IS TRYING TO BREAK INTO MY HOUSE and I AM ALONE WITH 2 SMALL CHILDREN...”

“Ma’am, officers are responding to several calls right now, can you actually see anything?”

At this point, I said something unprintable and volunteered her to come check it out for me. Realizing I was on my own, I VERY loudly added, “Thank God you have a car the next block over, yes he’s in the back.”

The perp must have heard this, because I heard the sounds of door slam and retreat post haste.

Then I called my Dad, who lived a bit away and asked him to come over, because I was afraid the guy might come back at some point.

Needless to say... at 2am, the police STILL had not come or even checked on me. I finally called them back (after my Dad was there) and told them not to bother because I no longer required their services. They didn’t seem to care either way. Nice.

That day, the last of my New Jersey-(in)bred fear and hostility towards guns died and was buried.

I finally *got* it. Thank God, I didn’t actually get it the hard way.

So what’s the recipe? :)

These regulations are more or less like the Glass-Steagall act. Are we sure this is really a bad move? I’m not convinced. I’d like to hear Karl Denniger (who’s pretty excited) weigh in on the foreign bank aspect.

I apologize, my excerpt didn’t come out quite right. Grrr.

Freepers, what do you think of this? Should we be supporting these actions. It may be politically-motivated on Obama's part, but they also seem to be what's needed to get back on track. Of course, we need the banksters corrupt hands out of the taxpayer till, too.

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Uh no... our opponents aren’t teachable and the mushy middle is repulsed by “politics”. Useless exercise, impractical and immoral.

Most people still don’t get it...

Come 1st of the year, we’re changing our exemptions.

Starve the beast

Coming to a country near you...soon.

This is going to be part of Obamacare.

It will be economic extortion, rather than forced abortions, at first, but it will definitely be structured into healthcare to penalize any mutli-child families.

After all, the government has to PAY for it, don’t they get a right to limit your coverage? 2 kids is plenty enough, dearie.

This is our future.

Thank you for the suggestions. Please keep them coming.

I have a miserable time finding children’s book that are not either corrosive, stupid, banal, or a sign that someone needed therapy but couldn’t afford it. Some of the so-called classics haven’t worked that well for us, either.

We’ve really liked the Five Little Monkeys series (for preschool) since they’re both silly from a child’s perspective, but ultimately have good lessons and are parent-friendly and actually funny. They also make great use of predictable language, without being too predictable.

That so deserves a high-five.

It gave me a palpable sense of satisfaction just reading it.

Carry on.

Your mother used to say that?!?

Where I came from that doesn’t quite mean the same thing as she meant...(I hope)

I’m not a Mormon either, but I lived in Orem, Utah for 2 and a half years in my early twenties and was invited to several wedding receptions.

I can tell you this much, while I despise all the pompous overkill that this article mocks, it is possible to spend TOO LITTLE on a wedding and that too little isn’t just money, it’s also decorum.

The worst one I went to, had only half the church gymnasium blocked off and teenage boys on the other side kept slamming their basketballs against the free-standing partition all throughout. You couldn’t tell from the dress. demeanor, decor, or food that a wedding was being celebrated.

Music, celebration, ritual, dancing, spirits (in moderation) are all ways people share joy. Just because too much is nauseating, doesn’t mean none is better.

Disclosure: My father spent $3000 for my reception in 1995. And my husband and I probably spent about $2000-2500 for everything else including my dress, church, invites, decor, my one bridesmaids, the tux rental, all the rings, photography, and our honeymoon and travel.

We also did a reverse destination wedding, where we traveled to where our families lived and got married so no one would have to travel to us.

I feel it was money well spent and don’t regret a penny of it.

Hey, hey, it’s Adobe, the little car that’s made out of clay!

Yeah, back when (....wait... for... it...) SNL was still funny.

Are you serious? I had always wanted to move there (Lancaster area) ...haven’t been in quite a while.

How bad is it?