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Sara　 However, I have to say this FOR you - whateva you come up with, there's isn't the slightest bit of JEALOUSY, ENVY, or childish comparisons of your lot in life with others. Like your opinion or lump it, you don't attempt to tear others down in order to elevate yourself (like that works! ). You seem to be secure within yourself.... and that's to your credit. You can deal with ideas rather than feeling the nasty little need to assuage your lack of accomplishment by attacking others. Thanks.....I think..... Lol.....actually...I am quite envious and occassionally quite angry and jealous too. But rather than trying to suppress these powerful emotions, I've learned it was best to just use their energy to drive me toward achieving goals. I can also be quite scandalous....but I need a good reason. Trying to impress people who don't have the power to make me rich isn't a good enough reason, lol. Cynique But don't be shy, sara. Join in! Share with the board the first time you got turned out by another homosexual. I'm sure Pioneer would love that! Perhaps...... But not as much as I'd enjoy hearing one of YOUR stories from back in the day (before you got married) to send me off to sleep! I know this thread is titled "This or That".... But I'd like you to give us "This AND That"....and don't leave NUSSIN' out!

Note I never said "Bestselling". I only said New York Times List. I said recalled because I didn't want to look it up, but I did take the time to find that because you said you don't talk about yourself or accomplishments, but if I took the time I can find several instances where you brag about your history and info. My point was to address the statement that you don't talk about yourself or history. That was a lie. Liars lie and then rant to throw people off of what was the primary point which was you said you don't gloat or brag or talk about your accomplishments. 1 book was what I wanted, but your privacy is yours and I have no right to request that. I'm wrong for mentioning your name. I will agree with you on that. I was wrong for even addressing you and this is definitely my last response to you. I request of you the same. There isn't any need to respond to this post or any of my posts. Keep it moving. Cynique you are definitely more engaged with this person so have at it.

Chicago never wants for controversy. The city abounds with it in all areas: politics, police misconduct, gang killings, a pending teachers strikes, an increasingly unpopular mayor. A couple of weeks ago, I could barely finish wiping my tears over the collapse of my beloved Chicago Bulls basketball team, when a spring training episode erupted in controversy centered around the White Sox. Because one of the Sox's designated hitters with a big contract, was called out by the general manager for bringing his 14-year-old son to work every day, this indignant player opted out of a lucrative contract and quit!. Chicagoland immediately began to take sides on this issue. The scenario was that this home-schooled youngster was brought to work by his father every day. He had his own uniform with a number, his own locker, his own spot in the dugout, and was a daily presence during practice work outs, something his father was under the impression was OK. Although most of player's teammates remained silent about the issue one of them vehemently sided with him and vented his displeasure with the black general manager of the Sox. This quickly became a topic of conversation throughout the city. Local black talk radio was blowing up about this incident having racial over tones. speculating that the white player and his white ally had issues about the black general manager flexing his authority. Local fans were equally vocal. The issue of a professional being allowed to bring his child to work everyday, sparked TV Evening News surveys which were overwhelmingly against the player. And the idea that this father would forfeit millions of dollars in unpaid salary to protest not having his way about his son, was looked upon with disbelief. Almost everybody thought the player was stupid for walking away from all those millions. When the story went viral, even my guilty pleasure talk show host, Wendy Williams, weighed in saying some parents are too indulgent and she and her audience agreed that a parent bringing a child to work every day was unfair to co-workers. Her assistant spontaneously piped up, confessing she actually hated being around all kids but her own, something I suspect a lot of people secretly agree with. Talk show host, Bill Mahr, in his take on this subject went her one better, by saying he hated being around all kids, period. LOL This brouhaha is yet another example of a growing breed of parents who, because their worlds revolve around their children, think everybody else's world should, too . Colleges say that incoming freshmen classes have been so pampered and sheltered by their hovering "helicopter" parents that these kids have no concept of how to cope with the real world. They expect everything to be handed to them and done for them and are steeped in feelings of entitlement. There are even reports of helpless young women in the dating pool lamenting how few skills their equally helpless boyfriends have; they can't change a tire or a fuse and when it comes to fixing things around the house, their knowledge is limited to replacing dead batteries in the remote. Another favorite gripe concerns youth sports, where participation trophies are handed out to all members of both winning and losing teams so no one's little darling will have to experience the agony of defeat. tsk-tsk IMO, coddled youngsters immersed in a Wi-fi environment, do not bode well for the real world of the future. Except for the Artificial Intelligence machines that are waiting in the wings...

Classic Cynique. Sure bring your kid to work once or twice but everyday is too much. Some people are just inconsiderate. I hope the baseballer had good luck finding a team to indulge him.

ON THE PEOPLE VERSES O J SIMPSON SHOW, THE RACIST TRASH POLICE MARK FURMAN WAS ON TAPE, MARK FURMAN SAID THE N WORD A MILLION TIMES, HATED BLACK PEOPLE, MEXICANS,.WHY DID OPRAH WINFREY HAVE THIS HUMAN TRASH ON HER SHOW YEARS AGO/DID HE CALL HER THE N WORD, HE SAID IT A MILLION TIMES ON THE TAPE// DID OPRAH WINFREY EVER HAVE MINISTER LOUIS FARRAKHAN ON HER SHOW, ANY NATION OF ISLAM MEMBERS,BLACK PANTHERS,PROBALY NOT/SHE HAD NO PROBLEM PUTTING ON HUMAN TRASH LIKE MARK FURMAN/// PROSECUTOR MARSHA CLARK AND BLACK PROSECUTOR CHRIS DARDEN HAD A INTERESTING RELATIONSHIP///

It seems my Blog was bombarded by attempts to log into my admin account. The this barrage of attempts caused to to exceed the allocation of resources allocated to me by my web host. Which essentially brought down anything that uses a database, my Blog, large sections of my website site and this discussion forum. It took me 12 hours to resolve all of these issues--the long outage by website has suffered in 18 years. It really never ends. A bunch of IP address were blocked and I installed a plugin on my wordpress blog called Wordfence. Basically it will block any IP address that attempts multiple failed login's. This should prevent this problem from reoccurring. If you use the Wordpress CMS I encourage you to install Wordfence too. These are a few of the login attempts stopped today and it is not yet noon. Notice that my domain name and and "Admin" are popular login name. I would advise you to change your login name if you are using these. A user with IP address 149.156.172.1 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'aalbc.com' User IP: 149.156.172.1 User hostname: zeus.wzks.uj.edu.pl User location: Krakow, Poland A user with IP address 186.202.141.67 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'aalbc.com' User IP: 186.202.141.67 User hostname: cprohostinglin0839.publiccloud.com.br User location: Brazil A user with IP address 188.165.217.39 has been locked out from the signing in or using the password recovery form for the following reason: Exceeded the maximum number of login failures which is: 20. The last username they tried to sign in with was: 'admin' User IP: 188.165.217.39 User hostname: ns372224.ip-188-165-217.eu User location: France

I'm not trying to bash Christianity by the way..... I'm bringing up a basic principle of Protestantism to help explain the dichotomy of America's moral beliefs vrs it's social acceptance.

So true. Without a blog, your words have no where to live, so to speak.