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President-elect Barack Obama and his family planned a Christmas Day that includes opening presents in the morning and sharing a traditional turkey and ham dinner in the evening.
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Bill Cosby says that while a writer's theory that "the Huxtable effect" helped get Sen. Barack Obama elected are flattering, he is looking beyond the influence of a TV family to that of a real one: the household in which the future president was raised.
George Takei doesn't feel defeated by the apparent passage of a ban on gay marriage in California, he says he's "galvanized."
Bob M, are you aware why that well went up? There is a reason for that well. The wall was put up for protection from the extremist that were firing into the Israeli section. You talk about a wall, but you conveniently forget to give the reason for the wall. You may fool the uninformed, but not the people that make an effort to keep inform.
Bob - thanks for your comments and response to Joe!! You are right - my husband IS a loser and a deadbeat!!
Dear Bob,
In many ways I agree with you. But as a wife on the brink, I can tell you there are cases were this to would be unfair. I personally am a poster child for 1 of the cases. I am not a greedy person @ all. When my first marriage went south it was my choice to end a borderline abusive marriage, after the final straw, being pushed to the ground over wax getting on the molding of our new truck. What made this worse I was with a girlfriend, I was waxing the truck, she wanted to help & was the one who did it. I was trying to pull him aside to tell him to stop the yelling and further embarrassing me. I ask him to leave our apt. & take all things his or questionable. He did just that and some. I was left with nothing but a water bed that was a king size canopy. Very hard to move. He had already pawned allot of my jewelry without my knowledge, and never got it back. So that bed we were still paying for I made a few more payments than stopped. The truck he took along with the payment book, and did not pay timely. When he was contacted to pay bill on bed, he called & wanted to pick it up. I said no, you took enough from me. No children involved. And though I wouldn't call my husband greedy, he is much more material than me. And as far as health care benefits, I don't think that should be denied any child or loyal spouse. I'm unclear on why anyone would do that to someone they promised " til death do us part ". I can understand if they are the one who was the victim of my 2 reason"s beat or cheat. But for the spouse like myself, married a man with 2 young children, 2yrs after giving birth to his child. Having other options including at-least 3 different men offering to play baby's daddy. And an offer from a potential suitor(no strings attached) to take a job managing his duplex apts. involving only 6 tenants, that would allow me to live in 1 of the 2 bedroom apts. in which I could have picked out my own floor coverings and wall colors etc. All expenses included. And like many women, I was a stay @ home mom @ his request. I won't go into all the details like the fact he had expensive hobbies with my blessing & baby sitting included while living in a trailer. Bass boats & Harley's are not cheap and could have put us in a block home. I looked at it like you only live once" Go ahead get the boat honey. The first 7 yrs of our marriage I was living like a single mom who received child support from a Friend with benefits. I paid all the bills, got the groceries,cared for the children and catered to him. Not the best house keeper, but what was cleaned was cleaned by me or 1 of the children. And if you ever tried getting children to so chores you will understand it is easier to do them yourself. Especially when you are not there mother, but suddenly there mom. These children had never even helped clean there own room. The youngest of the 2 was very stubborn. Than WE started a business, well he wanted I got it started & helped build it. 11 mths later do to a recall on the birth control we were using, I had his twin boys. He always wanted a son. He got a double deal. About 6 yrs ago he turned down a job offered to me, through him, doing what I did before I had our first child. I was an asst. manager of an automotive paint store. Here I would START out as a driver & make $12.00 an hour. And making pretty darn good money for an uneducated (started 9th grade) woman His favorite saying when I was going shopping usually for groceries " Don't spend any money." 5 kids and 18 yrs later, married 16, he thinks maybe it's not what WE want. But will not seek counseling. I lost allot b4 we got together do to my pregnancy. And I still wear the $20.00 wedding band from walmart and the 1/4 carat pawn shop engagement ring. Now do you really think even without the extra crap being a housewife is worth nothing? I also kept the books for our business until I fell ill from all the stress. And have to pay for the lack of united parenting. The 2 youngest daughters have not yet come to understand and or remember what the oldest does.
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