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Hi all, This is basically just a shot in the dark, but my husband and I are going to be moving soon and have our first baby due at the beginning of the year. I am looking for any kind of work that I can do from home to bring in some extra income. There are so many things advertised online, and I know a lot of them are hoaxes or not really any use for making money. I don't care if it's stuffing envelopes, though I can do a lot with computers. If any of you have experience or...

Hey all, I'm looking for a response to an article called "Bush by Numbers: Four years of Double Standards" It's a list of various items compiled to make Bush look bad. My dad sent it to me and I want to send him a response, but I was hoping that somebody had already done the research into it, since it's a LONG list. It was published originally in The Independent/UK in September. Thanks! Olivia

I had posted a while ago that I was looking for info regarding my grandfather's service - I just wanted to let people know that I got something! My mother discovered his discharge papers in with his things, and she gave me a copy. So now I know when he served, where he served and what medals he was awarded. She said he used to have a group from his regiment he met with, but she thinks they might all have passed away. I'm definitely going to look into it thought. Anyway, I just wanted to let people know because...

My father is an avowed liberal (kerry stuff all over their house - ugh), and enjoys sending me email quotes and such that he thinks make his point for him. So today I get this: Quote of the Year "Back in 2000, a Republican friend of mine warned me that if I voted for Al Gore and he won, the stock market would tank, we'd lose millions of jobs, and our military would be totally overstretched. You know what? I did vote for Al Gore, he did win, and I'll be damned if all those things didn't come true." James...

Hey all, I was wondering if there is any source of info about WWII vets that can be found outside of any info the family has? My grandfather spent a year and a half on the front lines in Europe and I believe he was awarded a couple of medals. Thing is, he never ever talked about it, and if asked he said as little as possible. He passed away a little over a year ago and we found out when cleaning out his apartment that he was having terrible nightmares of the war and had a constant feeling of...

Hi all, I am years ahead of myself here, since I currently have no kids and am not planning to start trying until the beginning of next year. Even so, I've found myself thinking a lot about how my husband and I will educate our kids. The schools in my area are actually fairly well respected, but I've looked at their curriculum and suggested methods and it's a lot of stuff that seems completely irrelevant to an education. Mostly it's about teaching them to love everybody and to feel good. That's not what school is for - that's what parents...

Hey all, I need some assistance putting together a well thought out response to my VERY liberal father's email. He had mentioned how much he liked hillary's response to criticisms of what she said in Iraq (which personally I wasn't all that excited about - she is what she is) because she pinned it on a "Right wing apparatus" and responded just by saying "I am not going to lie to American troops" (nope - no subtle reference THERE!) Ok - so this was my response, which is followed by his. I know what my gut reaction to this was,...

...But federal law can succeed in protecting marriage where a constitutional amendment is destined to fail. THE MASSACHUSETTS SUPREME COURT has legalized same-sex marriage for the first time in this country. Most suspect the U.S. Supreme Court will throw a blanket of federal constitutional protection around this precedent. Faced with the judicial deconstruction of marriage, angry conservative spokesmen and panicky lawmakers have rushed to embrace the Federal Marriage Amendment (FMA), a constitutional amendment to ban homosexual unions. These well-intentioned religious and pro-family leaders believe the high court will strike down anything less imposing. But trying to change the Constitution to...

Hey, been reading FR for a while, but this is my first time actually posting something. My fiance and I have been talking a lot lately about the general decline of the moral structure of society and our worries about the world our future children will be brought into and raised in. We both want to do something that can help make a difference, but we don't know where to go or how to start. If anyone can help us out with some ideas of groups to join or anything like that, we'd be real grateful. I can't just sit...