Nov 21, 2009 -
Most of my life I've often wondered why Thanksgiving seemed to be for many families a trigger word for family dysfuction. Why individuals couldn't just let that disagreement with another family member go for one bloody day and enjoy some good food and conversation with more pleasant family members. I have to keep reminding my self that I'm pragmatic by nature and that is apparently unusual.
I found an article with some helpful tips.
Holidays are meant to be happy, joyous and life-affirming times.
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Nov 20, 2009 -
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
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Nov 18, 2009 -
Hi all,
I am hoping I can get some useful advice, b/c I am very ambivalent about this situation. So I met a guy at a mutual friend's birthday party 2 1/2 months ago. We hit off instantly.
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Aug 13, 2008 -
So I found myself stumbling around Forever 21 for one reason or another last week. And I must have felt like I needed attention or something because everything I was grabbing was either leopard print or a bright hue. These are two things (the sweater and the shoes) that did not fall into either of those two categories.
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Nov 16, 2009 -
A friend of mine needs some advice: last week, her brand-new boyfriend (we're taking days here, not even weeks) wrote an email list of gifts he wanted for Christmas, sent it to his mom, and CC'd my friend. To be fair, my friend did ask him to send her his Christmas wish list, but she never expected him to send the same list to his mother at the same time.
She's a little freaked out because she thinks this is a sign of him moving too quickly.
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Nov 16, 2009 -
I wanted this to be unforgettable.
Maybe I held my hopes too high. I thought I was smart, witty, but no, I still lost here.
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Nov 12, 2009 -
Kurt from Glee has nothing to do with this story, but the picture of the kid in question was too small
For one thing, he's smart. Scary smart. A student in the West Fork School District in Washington County, he skipped a grade this year, going directly from the third to the fifth.
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Nov 11, 2009 -
Abandoned Under Obama
By Heather Robinson on 11.10.09 @ 6:09AM
Earlier this month, Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, a self-described "Muslim Zionist," traveled to the U.S. to address audiences in New York City and at Yale University. Publisher of the largest English-language weekly newspaper in Bangladesh, Choudhury has been jailed, beaten, nearly blinded, and is now on trial for his life for his reporting, and for his pro-American, pro-Israeli views.
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Nov 07, 2009 -
By G. Diamond
Many people like extra lubrication during sex and normally reach out for the Vaseline, baby oil, and even cooking oil. However, though it is highly pleasurable, using such lubricants is not safe since they interfere with the latex in condoms and could cause unwanted pregnancies and even allow the spread of STDs (sexually transmitted diseases).
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Nov 05, 2009 -
Analysis: Where was the downtown rally? Obama’s Madison visit a hallmark of his mild presidency
By JOHN NICHOLS
Analysis: Where was the downtown rally? Obama's Madison visit a hallmark of his mild presidencyOne year ago Tuesday, Barack Obama redefined American electioneering to such an extent that it was possible to believe that the success of his transformational campaign would lead to a transformational presidency.
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