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45+ Yr Old Gay Brother wants parents to pay for $85K Wedding
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Dear Amy: My brother, who is over 45, has become engaged to his boyfriend of four years. They are planning an extravagant wedding and reception, estimated to cost around $85,000.Neither man can afford this kind of expense. So they have asked for financial assistance (a gift, not a loan) from parent...
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Projecting much, Prudie?
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Dear Prudence, I was adopted as a baby in a partially open adoption, so I grew up knowing my biological parents, although we were never close. A few years ago I came out to my parents and they were very accepting. My mom even bought a “My Daughter Is a Lesbian” T-shirt. Recently, my parents encouraged me t...
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Dear Prudie: Huh?
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Dear Prudence, We have three kids and a strict rule on birthdays. The kids get needed items (clothes, bikes, books, etc.) and $200 for the party or a big gift. We want to teach our kids the value of money and how to budget. So the kids can get a sleepover or blow-out water park trip. My eldest saved up to get...
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Romney's Comments about Trump
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Former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Thursday that the prospects for a safe future are "greatly diminished" if Donald Trump becomes the Republican nominee for president. Speaking at the University of Utah, Romney warned a packed auditorium that any of the other GOP candid...
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Election Coverage
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I love this stuff. Fascinating and highly entertaining. I especially love seeing the pundits and experts proven wrong.
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Dear Prudie:Inconsiderate Inlaws
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Q. Inconsiderate in-laws: I have been with my husband for five years. I have a daughter from a previous marriage who is now 10 and a 4-year-old daughter with my husband. Every year, his parents and other extended family acknowledge my younger daughter’s birthday. Last year on her birthday, when an a...
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Dated 5 years without sex, then got married ...
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Dear Prudence, My husband and I dated for five and a half years before getting married this past November. We decided to wait until marriage to have sex, which was mostly something that my husband insisted on. I’ve had sex in previous relationships and now I am realizing that sex with my husband is not a...
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Lame Gift from Absent Father
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Dear Amy: I am a 46-year-old, single parent of 17-year-old twins.My father abandoned me when I was a baby and has made sporadic attempts to be “part of my life” ever since. He gets in touch with me about once every eight to 10 years.He never paid a dollar in child support and had no influence on my life’s s...
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Super Tuesday, Where Do you Vote
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I was wondering where the Geeks vote. Most of our polling places are churches. Probably about 85%. There a couple of Fire Halls, and a rec center or two, but the majority are in church fellowship halls. Were do you go to vote?
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Summer Olympics
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I know it's still several months away but who's watching? What's your favorite event?
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When should she tell the truth about her role in this?
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Dear Prudence, When I was adopted, I got more than just parents—I got a whole family. This included a cousin who was exactly my age, and we immediately became best friends. We grew apart as teenagers, but I was the one she turned to when she learned she was pregnant. I knew her mother would disown her, so...
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Local Government Corruption
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http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/nassau-parks-department-awards-numerous-no-bid-contracts-with-values-just-below-threshold-for-legislative-votes-1.11532233
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Liberal hypocrisy (well, I realize they are basically the same term)
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Tinydancer Thursday
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Dear Abby: Lazy brothers
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DEAR ABBY: I am a community college sophomore (age 20) in an international honor society, double-majoring in biotechnology and biological sciences. My dream is to become a cardiologist.I have worked hard and excelled at my studies, as well as in my friendships and sports. However, my brothers hav...
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Kristol Lays Out Strategy to Give White House to Hillary: Trump ‘Shouldn’t Win
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In order to defeat Donald Trump, The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol admits he is prepared to hand Hillary Clinton the Oval Office. On Wednesday’s “Morning Joe,” the Republican Establishment leader laid out his plot to deprive Trump of the 50% of delegates necessary to secure the nomination. From...
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Lindsey Graham who joked about Murdering Cruz now wants to get behind him to defeat Trump
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Lindsey Graham: Maybe It’s Time to Rally Around Cruz, The Guy I Joked About Murdering Last Month 18 Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Imagesby JOHN HAYWARD2 Mar 20161413Everything voters have come to despise about the GOP Establishment is incarnated in Senator Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) 37% of...
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Beheading in Moscow
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I'm kind of surprised no one is talking about the Nanny who beheaded the 4 year old in Moscow. I can't believe they didn't shoot her on sight.
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More Democrats are staying home.
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If voter turnout is any indicator of enthusiasm, this year's GOP voters are way, way more pumped than 2012 voters were. Democrats, meanwhile? Their excitement seems to have dimmed since 2008.Last night, more than 8.5 million Republicans turned out to vote in the 11 GOP Super Tuesday states that rep...
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Health Insurance Exchange Calling? No, It’s a Scam!
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Health Insurance Exchange Calling? No, It’s a Scam! Dear Ed, A new scam has surfaced, with a threatening twist. How it Works:You get a robocall purporting to be from the Health Insurance Marketplace, saying you need to purchase insurance or pay a fine. If you do as instructed and “press 1,” an operat...
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Give It Up, Progressives: You Have Lost the Global Warming Argument
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After my attack on activist and environmental journalist Mark Lynas, I thought I’d test the waters with Tom Chivers who is a science editor at Buzzfeed.Chivers has been a nemesis of mine since my days at the Telegraph. A likeable, good natured nemesis – but an irritant nonetheless. It’s bloody ann...
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Windy Wednesday
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Yay I get to start a thread. Drinking a glass of wine and getting ready to go to bed. Hope everyone had a good nights sleep.
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Is It Safe To Drive Car With Slipping Transmission?
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Is It Safe To Drive Car With Slipping Transmission? RSSDear Car Talk Mar 1, 2016 (Archives) transmissions, safetyDear Car Talk: We love our 2000 Volvo V70 and know she's getting old and in need of some TLC. We use her mainly as an in-town second car, and as a tow vehicle when traveling. Her transmissi...
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Have you ever been wrongfully accused?
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Q. Wrongfully accused: Nearly a year ago my boyfriend and I moved to a new city a few hours away from our hometown. The weekend before we moved, we attended a party thrown by a friend I had known for years but have never been terribly close to. My boyfriend and I do not have Facebook accounts, and we haven’t...
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15 Sexuality Terms That'll Make You Smarter
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Jughead ©Archie Comics Those of us in the LGBTQPUIA2S+ community have grown used to an expanding array of terms to describe us -- clinical, colloquial and otherwise -- but when asked by a friend to define "demisexual" and "lithromantic," I realized I was losing touch and th...
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How to use Coconut Oil!
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This is friggin hilarious. I hope I can post this link okay. It came from FB. https://www.facebook.com/awakenwithjp/#
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Lou Holtz speaks the real truth.
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Lou Holtz Nails It !! The Democrats are right, there are two Americas. The America that works and the America that doesn’t. The America that contributes and the America that doesn’t. It’s not the haves and the have nots, it’s the dos and the don’ts. Some people do their duty as Americans, obey the law, s...
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Healthcare Options
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I don't have a link for this. This is just for discussion. When we went out with my IL's they said they have health insurance through Joel Olsteen. At first I thought it was weird but when they began explaining it to me I realized we have something here that is almost exactly the same. Ours is run by, I t...
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Typical environmentalist
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They like to preach about the environment and climate change--but ask them to change anything they want to do and it's "no, can't do that", I'd miss my yacht and my private jet.
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Things you wish someone would invent
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You know those roomba things? I wish someone would make something like that to clean tubs and showers. It needs to go up the walls too.
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