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Reply to Be a MOM instead of an EMPLOYEE!!! in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

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Reply to Be a MOM instead of an EMPLOYEE!!! in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Tova7, you just keep on being a good mom. I know it helps to vent. It's better than taking it out on the kids. I had a smelly neighbor kid once. I spoke up too, after a few times of feeling like I was going to faint. It was pure b.o. I even said something to his mom. She told me that she took the soap out of the shower, told him to shower, and afterwards, asked him if he used soap. He told her that he used soap. So she said, "How could you use soap? I

Reply to On closing schools, parking buses and saving gas in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Kids don't get study hall anymore. Now they're expected to do their homework after soccer practice and piano lessons. Every kid and family is different, though. I doubt that the parents who took the time to challenge politicians have kids who get no help with school or homework. Maybe they should have been doing lessons at home or overseeing projects due like the infantry wife. I think employers who can should get off their high horses and let employee

Reply to To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate, A Tough Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Voyager9, I totally appreciate where you are coming from. I have family members in the fire and rescue field. My dad always says to stay out of their way. Don't show up just to gawk. There just has to be a better means of communication in these instances. People need to know what's going on. I really didn't mind waiting for the helicopter that day. But it was a long time before I even knew what was going on. Cell phones are making things work

Reply to To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate, A Tough Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Hey Lost in Texas, Thanks for your first hand story of going through the traffic jam. I have followed the situation as closely as I could without becoming obsessed. I was horrified at what happened to New Orleans. Then I just felt sad, desperate and yes even frustrated when Houston had so many problems trying to do a better job. I guess the reason it sounds like whining to some people is that our country usually has good response time for sma

Reply to To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate, A Tough Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I appreciate the defense of my argument. Even though we have not chosen to live on the coast, I am still concerned about emergency procedures. I don't consider it whining. I really don't go around worrying, or whining. I live closer to the Pentagon than the coast, and the White House. I have other things to be concerned with, like exploding airplanes and other forms of terrorism. But the government officials did say at one point that communities need t

To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate, A Tough Question in Current Events JoeUser Forums

To Evacuate or Not to Evacuate, A Tough Question Well, Houston. I take my hat off to you. You watched New Orleans do everything wrong. So you decided to get out of town instead of staying to face what was predicted to be a hurricane as bad as Katrina. Even though you weren't below sea level

Reply to We Failed You? Try again. in US Domestic JoeUser Forums

Hey, Draginol. Maybe you can replace Anne Rice as a writer in this dog eat dog world. My favorite pieces on the news are of displaced New Orleans residents, here in the Washington D.C. area telling what they appreciate about their fellow man pitching in to help them. So far I've seen them get jobs, money, tours of the nation's capital, a place to stay, and even some who got their pets back because someone went all the way down to N. Orleans to rescue a

Creative Travel, Close to Home in Parenting JoeUser Forums

Okay, I'm going to do the list thing. These are things to do instead of traveling far from home. Every year, I take my kids to the family timeshare at the beach, just after school starts. The gas prices are the icing on the cake. I just don't feel like driving 3 hours to get to the beach. So I asked the kids what they would most miss doing. So far, we've fou

Reply to New Orleans Aftermath and analysis in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A very detailed analysis, especially about race. It's hard to put the race thing into words, and you did a good job of it. By the way, the first looters I saw on the telly(I'm not British), were women. One had diapers under her arms, the other had a cartload of stuff at Walmart. You could hear her saying, "I don't have any clothes!" She was much more feisty than some of the people left in New Orleans. As for Walmart, they had time to ship thei