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Sorry about the whole post -- It was typed under the influence of Ambien,(sleeping pill)  and I have no idea what I was talking about.   Maybe I ought to type like that on the official BBS

I prefer castration without anistesia myself.   Army didn't wanna give medics firearms,  so I got to be pretty good with a scaple.   Of course now I'm old I'm looking for a riffle with a good scope.

edited to add -- The rapists were more likely to be the guy I danced with in the EM club,  or the guy I beat at bowling,  or maybe the one I truned down for a date becasue I had plans that night,  or the guy who bought me a drink at the Rod and Gun club.   Not a scarey stranger -- but not my good friend either.  My friends knew if they asked me when I was in the right mood I wouldn't say no.  Some of them took me up on it,  some never did.       But the ones I had to watch out for were the aquantences.  specially the ones who tried to get me drunk like that was gonna do them some good.   They soon found out I am one mean little drunk.     

Yeah,  but the only difference between me and you in one of those greasy gas station jumpsuits is the hair,  and the lumpy chest area -- and some fat boys got just as much lumps as me.

And real rapists don't care what you are wearing -- even fatigues and combat boots don't slow them down,  unless you happen to have your M-16 handy.

I don't think because a woman has a low cut summer top that she is asking to be staired at.   I do ren faire re-enacting,  and some of those dresses have very little coverage.  Got so tired of the guys stairing that I payed to have the all my undershifts modified so that I have cotton and small ruffles 4 or 5 inches above the neckline of the dresses.   

Just as I don't think that girls who wear mini skirts are looking to be attached,  molested or raped.

Anyway -- when I met hubby I was pumping gas in a full service  gas station,  wearing jeans,  tee shirt,  and jump suite (the regular guy model -- not the female one).  It's not my fault I didn't look like a guy.  Geeze even had my hair died red with purple spikes -- that should have been more interesting to look at than grey covered boobies

One of my favoirite places to be a hobo was Salt Lake City.   If you were down and out you showed up at a certain wearhouse,  and you got put to work at whatever kind of work you could do -- and 8 hours later they gave you voucher to pay for whatever you needed at the time,  food,  shoes,  a coat.  If you were down and out with a family they even gave you a decent place to stay.  Not like social services where you have to jump through hoops to get free money -- they figure you wouldn't show up if you could do better,  and didn't strip you of all pride to get help.   Was run through the temple and not the government.

Or when they ask what's your name I tell them -- the right one is Jude and the left on is ith.

I'm not sex starved or shave headed.    Just very aware that the men in my life need looking after.       
When I first met him,  after an hour I finally had to ask him what color are my eyes to get him to look above neck level -- and he's one of the good ones

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As far as men -- well it's just two bad they have 2 heads and only enough blood to supply one of them. 

But what I see on the street with the guys who won't lower themselves to accept minimum wage aren't working at all,  and it's not just teenagers.

State of Maryland has a program called Temporary Ememergenycy Housing and Parmacy program.  There is also a straight standard   They give you $100 a monthand  a pharmacy card to get your prescriptions for$  3  dollars each,  and free clinic.   
  Ask some of the 40 and 50 year old males  why they don't get a job, " well all I can get is minimum wage and that's an insult,  I ain't to N word"   (And then after I get their benefits typed into the computer they wanna know what I'm doing Tonight.)
  Now the straight pharmacy card you can make over 10,000 a year and still keep the card and the clinic visits -- just costs $5 instead of three.   So rather than work at a job they feel is demeaning they end of living in a substandard boarding house and pan handling cigiarettes on the street.  Or living home with their retired on a pension momma's.

Girls get out of school and get low paying jobs,  guys get out of school and refuse to work unless they are getting enough to satisfy their ego.

In Maryland USA,  there are more young woman working than young men,  and most start theire work experience in Minimum wage jobs.  It's not a matter of the boys get higher paying jobs,  it's that the boys are refusing to work for miniume wage.   

Also wonder if they are including high payed jocks in the statistics.   I think if you leave out teen aged McD workers on one end and high payed jocks on the other -- I think the figures would even out a bit more.

If anyone has seen the movie or the Musical Hairspray -- the characters are a parody of the working class women in Baltimore who call everyone Hon.   We even celebrate that parody every year in a "Hon fest."  And have pagent for the Best "Hon" of the year.       But basically,  hon is the expected polite address to ones friends and customers. 

I liked how in Germany prostitution was not only legal,  but they had medical benefits.  When I was preganant and crancky I told my 1st husband I'd rather give him 50 marks to go downtown than have him cheat on me with another WAC.  I personally think they provide a useful service -- if they are doing it voluntarily.

  I see the statistics about the in equality in pay all the time,  but I have never actually seen it in practice.  Statistics aside,  have you ever made less,  or been denied promotion to a higher paying position solely because of your gender. 
   I have never been turned down for a job because of gender,  and I have never gotten a lower starting pay,  or less frequent promotions because of my gender.  The last 3 people who beat me out for promotion had BA degrees and all I have is an AA.   2 of them were men.  The promotions   was listed as BA degree or 4 years experience.   I had 10 years experience -- both men had BA degrees and at least 10 years experience. One of the promotions I lost was to a woman who I had trained at the job,  but she had gotten a masters degree in her spare time,  so her masters trumped my experience.  Heck this past summer I've been temping for the building company where my husband is contractor,  as a laborer,  and I get payed the same as any other laborer.  Yeah the carpenters make more-  but I'm not qualified to be a carpenter.

 

I think you are right hon -- The human race got woolpropped.

(Hon is a non gender specific friendly address from middle aged Baltimore to everyone younger than senior citizen -- no insult or disrespect intended.  I got flamed for calling someone Hon this afternoon.)

This has nothing to really do with this discussion,  except greed is not limited to the poor.   And it is really pissing me off.

There are several people who have gathered in online community's to make what are called siggie tags -- like the one in my icon next to the post.   And a brand new version of one the most popular graphics programs used to make the things was just released.   Retail price for the upgrade $59 dollars.   Now remember the program hasn't even been released in Europe yet it's so new.

So last night a link sweeps through the siggie tag world -- Corell is offering a FREE full download of PSP X.  Thousands of housewives,  and others who do siggie tags as a hobbie downloaded this free download.  And then when it was pointed out that someone had bought a copy and passed around that link,  that Corel would not give away a brand new version and that they all left their finger prints in the cookie jar -- they are all now crying that it's not fair -- they can't afford the update.
Now obviously 99 percent of these people are not living in poverty.  They all have computers,  they all have the previous version of the program,  many of them are paying for licences for the right to use copyright art for their siggie tags,  and they are crying cos they didn't get a free program to make pretty pictures.  Crying because "everybody" has cracked programs so why can't they.    
These are not children.  And the program will do nothing to feed and clothe there family,  it's a hobby thing.
That's a picture of greed.

I'm sure that it will take some time for the hackers to update the hacks so they work with this ep,  that happens every time they put out an ep.   That's one of the reasons I'm telling my friends not to buy the EP until after JM and 2 jeffs and others get a chance to update the hacks.

   Thank you for explaining.    I think that the basic idea behind welfare is also assistance,  but there seem to be many people who are content to have their hand out in this country.   That's why I'm a supporter of the welfare to work idea.    I think being in a capitalist country I missed the line where it stops being welfare and starts being assistance.

    One of the young men who refused to be evacuated from Katrina said he didn't want to go to a shelter cos there he would have to follow someone's rules and he didn't want to follow no rules.  I guess looking and stealing and living off your girlfriends welfare suited him better.  Because if you work you gotta follow rules,  and if you collect benefits there are supposed to be rules too.
   
   
  To those who think that communism is a good idea that only failed in the soviet union because of capitalist greed,  may I suggest you look at Viet nam today,  and you will see the reason that I think that communism is rotten to the core.   After 30 years of communism there is still no educational,  medical,food distribution   or sanitation infastructure.  Childreach (formerly know as the foster parent plan) is operating in Hanoi just like they are in other 3rd world countries.  What good does it do for all the workers to be equal when all off you are living in the dirt.  The workers are no better off than they were 30 years ago.  Hell back then even the Hanoi Hilton (POW camp) had plumbing.
   

Any system that tries to equalize the wealth and to say that everyone is exactly equal is a dis- instentive to work.   Soviet Union collapsed in on itself,  and China is enforcing communism at gun point.  Under communism it isn't that everyone shares equally,  it's that everything is owned by the state.  So no matter what you do in life you will get no more than the government chooses to give you.

And I do think that every attempt to equalize wealth in this country has only succeeded in driving up prices and killing the middle class. (You raise my taxes for welfare and social security,  then I have less money to buy that cool car, and all the workers in the refrigerator factory feel the same way,  so we go on strike for higher wages,  which raises the price of refrigerators,  so then the iron works go on strike because now they need more money to buy a new refridgerator.   End result,  my husband can barely support a wife  person,  on 6 x's the income my father supported a family of 6.  Or the same house my mother bought for 8,000 dollars sold last year for $102,000)

I honestly can't say anything about Socialism,  because you are right I don't understand.   I'm not trying to be rude by this question,  I really want to know -- what exactly is the difference between socialism and welfare.
 (Not talking about socialized medicine,  I understand that -- but if the insurance industry hadn't driven up prices I don't think socialized medicine would be necessary-  only cost $30 dollars for a 4 day stay and a tonsilectomy when I was 4. Without insurance.  If you worked in some big factories you'd be able to buy insurance and then you only had to pay 5 for the hospital bill.  But the insurance company would only pay $15 more to keep costs down.  Of course this drove up the price of hospital stays.)

And I gotta say,  I much prefer discussing and debating with you all than in a lot of other groups online.  No one is calling anyone else a moron or nothing.  Exept JM that is.  I'd run and hide if he stopped insulting everyone.

"They"  are going to give everyone a stipend worth at least the cost of living?   Where are "They" gonna get the money to do this.   If "They" are gonna support me they why should I even get a job?. 

"Give everybody a living stipend whether they need it or not, then take any money they earned that they don't need?   I'll leave out the very rich here.  I'll use my mother in law,  my self and the last two posters to this thread and JM.

So if Dr Furth,  who makes $125 dollars an hour is gonna get a government stipend of the same amount as Jude,  and JM and witch and veilchen,  but then they are gonna take away most of her money so they can afford the others,  then why doesn't Dr Furth just retire.  After all the government is giving her enough to live on.  She can even sell her house and office and move to an apartment so she won't have taxes to pay next year.  Oh geeze mom,  you can't do that,  Me and the the others was counting on your taxes to pay our stipend next year.  Too bad,  guess "they" just have to cut the payments down a little.   Geeze looks like JM's gotta get a job to pay for more barbed wire.  OOPs.  JM we gotta take you your earnings to support Jude,  witch,  Veilchen and Dr Furth.  etc etc and so one and so one,  until everyone figures they don't wanna work to support everyone else,  there is no money in the budget for anybody.    Sounds to me like the last years of the Soviet Union to me.         I know very few people who are busting there butt for the sole reason of personal satisfaction.     So maybe it would work with another(alien)  race,  but I don't see socialism or communism working for human beings.

     I don't where were they are getting the statistic of woman make 75 cents for ever dollar of a man in the same job,  because I have never had a job where the men with the same job and the same seniority have made more than me.  Since I got out of the Army I have never worked anywhere that my sex disqualified me for a certain job,  or interfered with a promotion.   I think they need to update the study,  or if it is a worldwide study break it down by country --because I really don't beleive those statistics are universal at this time.

   I think there is more appathy now than ever in the history of America.  I think that welfare is killing everybody's motivation to work.  Think I feel like getting a job and working 40 hours a week,  when at the end of the month my welfare queen  ex sister in law has just as much if not more money in her pocket as I do.   
   I also actually agree with JM,  because I think the crime rate was actually lower before people got used to the sense of entitlement.  My grandfather at the the turn of the 19th century was worse off than a lot of these people -- his father was dead,  his mother was sick and didn't speak english,  he never got a chance to go to past 3rd grade,  because as the oldest he had to take care of the family.  Did he steal Diamnons and Victola's -- no he ran errands for pennies,  picked up coal dropped from the trains to heat the house,  worked at the canning factory.  9 kids in that family -- not one of them a prostitute, junkie or criminal.   
 And prostitution has always been with us and always will,  welfare state or no.  poverty or no.  My birth mother was from a middle class white collar family,  and made her living as a call girl until she got too old to command the hight prices.   She also gave up all her children for adoption into middle class homes.

 

I blame the mother of the 8 kids too.  Over half my co workers where young, black,  single mother,  with baby's daddy nowhere to be found.  But they had one child,  or maybe 2,  they had gone to school or were still going to night school,  working as case work assistants,  or offcie clerks or data entry clerks,  in order to actually provide for the children they had.   And the men in the office who had children,  they may have not still been with the momma's,  but they were taking care of the kids.  Yeah a lot of the women had been on assistance,  but they managed -- which is why I wanna sma kmiss 8 kids and can't get child support cos daddy's 1 and 2 are in jail,  Daddies 3 and 4 are on drugs,  and no body knows where 5-8 went to.
The only reason I never needed assistance is cos I never had kids,  so when my husband left me I could was free as the breeze, not because I think I'm better than anyone. (Except maybe my ex sister in law with the 4 kids,  4 different exes who never worked a day in her life.)

My last job was with State Social Services,   and then they decided to have a budget cut,  so they eliminated 130 jobs in social services so they could give more money to the clients -- the ones with 8 kids from 8 different baby daddies,  who never had a job in there life except selling drugs.   And after being 52 years old and out of work for a year I can't even get any more unemployment.    Great country we live in.

Rather have a president with a speach inpediment than a Socialist.   This country has been going down the tubes since we started paying people to breed.

Last time the federal goverment tried to take over states rights,  we had a civi war.


laeshanin -- that squirell took the words right out of my head.

Maybe the delayed respons of government help is that on Friday evening when the national weather service said a catagory 5 hurrican was heading for New Orleans,  the Mayor did not call the governor,  did not make evacuations plans and did not call out the national guard.

That on Saterday when he called for a mandatory evacuation of NO,  he did nothing to call in help,  buses on trains to help evacuate the poor and disabled.   

That on Tuesday,  the poor of NO were wandering around without food or water screamin where is our Mayor.

Or maybe it's because the federal government can't take over until the state government calls them in.

Or yes go up a level -- after 4 days of me --in Baltimore knowing that they people at the convention center and super dome were without food and water -- the head of Fema operations saying he wasn't aware of the situation cos no one told him. 

Or how about even days after Bush had declaired a state of ememrgency Jerkoff,  I mean Chertoff was still waffling around like a ship without a sail

Or we can even place the blame on Regan and Bush one and Clinton,  for cutting back the military budget.  Durring hurricain Camille -- during the Viet Nam war we had enough troops left over for Nixon to show up with troops and aid withing 48 hours.

There are a lot of levels of blame before you get to Bush.  White, black,  republican or Demicrat or bipartisan.   There is plenty of blame to go around,  and there will be plenty of time to spread it around after the living are rescued and the dead are burried..   

I'm not worried about having UNI patched,  because with the the hacks it's actually working properly,  I'm just going to wait to see what new madness Nightlife will be up to.  

Besides,  the patch they made for Sims 2 is was not compatable with Uni.  Had to install Sims 2 to get rid of the patch before I installed Uni, and then Uni has it's own glitches.  

I've told my husband don't worry about Nightlife until Christmas.  That should give JM and Jeff (or Jeffs) time to fix it for us.

Oh no,  your Avatar looks just like my husband.