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Welcome to DU, dawnie51!
Glad you're here! No kidding - what a douche! I notice, yet again, it's ALWAYS about those mean awful icky temptresses and all the mean awful icky things WE always do. There's never any mention about the men's part of all this over-active libido crap. SHEESH is that tiresome! This gas giant calls himself a Reverend. Says he's a man of God. And he claims to be a Christian. So why is he still too thick to remember that thing about that single legendary incident in the Bible telling of an event described as a Virgin Birth? Every other birth known to human history had a man somehow involved, did it not? Or does he not realize that, being a self-anointed "authority" on the Christian tradition?
Transparency as in - hey, christie, we see through you! And we're not the only ones who can
say that, anymore!
We all see through you now. You can't hide anymore. And you can only fool the avowed fools and the foolish. I think that would be the GOP and the teabaggers. In either order!
I am SO proud of my son's band!!!! They got picked for the Warped Tour!!!!!
Manager's Note: Oh man, HUGE news for ACIDIC! Warped Tour!
Fri 6/13 - Houston TX, Reliant Park
Sat 6/14 - San Antonio TX, AT&T Center
Sun 6/15 - Dallas TX, Gexa Energy Pavilion
Mon 6/16 - OFF
Tue 6/17 - Albuquerque NM, Isleta Amphitheater
Wed 6/18 - Mesa AZ, Quail Run Park
Thu 6/19 - Las Vegas NV, Luxor Lot
Fri 6/20 - Pomona CA, Pomona Fairplex
Sat 6/21 - San Francisco CA, Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sun 6/22 - Ventura CA, Seaside Park - Ventura County Fairgrounds
Very proud to add that ACIDIC is set for the Kevin Says Stage!
OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!OMG!
One of the Street Teamer kids we know who loves the band and tells all his friends (and all that) and who's also going to go to the SoCal dates, told us that the "Kevin Says Stage," named for Kevin Lyman, the founder and CEO of the Warped Tour, is really significant. This kid said that the "Kevin Says Stage" is the one known for featuring artists who Kevin Lyman thinks are gonna make it! For example, the first time No Doubt, Blink 182, and Sublime played the Warped Tour, they'd been chosen to play on that stage!
I'm outta my miiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiind!!!!!!!! Just had to share this with my brothers and sisters here on DU!
"...well, if you haven't done anything wrong, then you should have nothing to hide!"
'Eh, governor? Isn't that what your side always tells us on the left?
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I am rather ferociously pro-choice. My husband is, too.
We've been married almost since dinosaurs roamed the earth. But when we first got married, I did not want children. Actually, I didn't want them at all. On the other hand, my husband had nowhere near ruled it out. But because I didn't want children, and I also had a career that was going pretty great and was very demanding, he totally supported me. So for the first 13 years of our marriage, I pursued my career single-mindedly, and was very glad to do so. Besides, I was afraid that I might find myself someday resenting a child I'd had, who presumably might take me away from work and short-circuit my career and prevent me from building what I wanted to build.
And then I approached age 35 and had been knocked around (sometimes pretty hard) in various jobs, I started evolving. And circumstances combining the way they did, I hit age 35 and something snapped. All of a sudden, I decided that it was time, I wasn't getting any younger, I was in a job that provided some rather generous maternity leave advantages, and also I started realizing that it wasn't all about work for me anymore. I'd had plenty of time to build a career of which I was very proud, and I was getting older and feeling little twinges of awareness that the kinds of demands on my life, my energy, my time, my stress levels, etc. that my work required - just might be more suited to the younger professionals coming up behind me, who didn't mind fighting traffic, dealing with bullshit, standing on their feet all day and well into the evening covering a story and then yet again on their feet well into the wee hours editing tape, etc. My career, as it had evolved (I was a news reporter), began to be less and less what I got into the business to do and always wanted to do.
I was in broadcasting to BROADCAST. Unfortunately, soon enough, my job became mostly about office politics and driving miles through rush-hour traffic to cover some story or conduct some in-person interview, and knock myself out for people who didn't give a damn and weren't that interested in the product I was generating, or supervisors who were damn near un-pleasable, hyper-critical, and playing political power games all the time and cutting back on staff but piling that extra work on those of us who were still on staff, writing memos and answering this new development called an email and trying to figure out this new development called electronic editing when I'd always worked with reel-to-reel tape and a splicing block. I'd go cover some fancy event like the Oscars for which we were required to dress up - but since I wasn't allowed an engineer anymore, I was always down on my hands and knees crawling around under tables on filthy floors and in dirty corners with wire-strippers and stuff, searching in vain for phone-line inputs and other stuff, and in over my head on the electronics part which I was almost totally unfit to understand. My actual broadcast time withered down to maybe three percent of my average day. Office politics and other bullshit started to eat up a bigger and bigger share of this. It just wasn't fun anymore. What I loved about my job - was fast fading away. As that disenchantment grew, and I was falling out of love with my career, I started realizing that maybe this was the time I could shift gears in a more meaningful direction for my life. I figured if I was gonna do it at all, we better try for it now. This was also with a clear memory of Patti Frustaci and her absolute obsessive desperation to have more children so she took fertility drugs and went through a ridiculously arduous, extreme, and expensive ordeal and had the first set of septuplets.
http://archive.is/dUcvm
I didn't want to go through that. So we got started, and my husband was more than ready. No kidding about that, either! Much to my surprise, one baby and then two-and-a-half years later another, arrived - and rather swiftly, too. We didn't mess around! (Uh, well, I guess maybe we did mess around just enough... 
)
Longwinded way of saying - my husband and I were not on the same page for quite some time. And he waited until I was ready. It was totally my choice, my decision, and my call. Those kids are both grown now and pretty much gone, and my husband and I are still together and going strong.
THIS^^^^
"So if you are so concerned about keeping your guns, you should probably solve the problem before we do."
Indeed, jeff47. Agreed.
Welcome to DU, rleighton27!
Glad you're here! I can't believe these people are allowed to say shit like this - and not be taken to task, aside for a few blips on TV. SHEESH! So far there's so little deterrence in effect. You can still say this crap without consequence, without much of a price to pay. Yeah, maybe some of 'em make statements "condemning" what's said. Maybe some of 'em blather on about how they must change their tone.
Notice that's all they're interested in doing anything about - the cosmetics. All they care about is their "tone." It's NOT how they're saying any of it. It's WHAT they're saying. It's not how they dress it up or put lipstick on it. It's the most foundational, essential, core set of beliefs that stink. And until they address that, they're going nowhere with women.
I saw three of these lovely individuals featured on "Hardball" in the Sideshow segment.
Hmmm... wonder if they're reading DU, over there?
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