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She's been here a while hasn't she?
She enjoys it here because we leave her alone and she didn't even have to build a fence around her house to keep people away. She's had her share of trouble and I'm glad she found a safe haven here.
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The hummingbirds run the other birds away from the regular bird feeder at our house. I guess we maybe have the hummingbird feeder to close to the regular bird feeder.
My daughter put cherry kool-aid in the hummingbird feeder. This can't be good for them, but will it hurt them. It seems to me like the stuff you buy in the store has some kind of vitamins that is good for them. I certainly do not want them hurt even though they are aggressive little birds.
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what was thier reason for denying her?
you know as bad as this sounds.... there are people out there who will seperate until after the baby is born, just so they can qualify for medicad to pay for a child...
I am not saying it is right it is not right..
but that is the lengths that people will go to..
maybe she could talk to another case worker... who knows a different case worker may approve her..
she needs to make an appointment and find out... since they will not return her calls..
if nothing else call the supervisor of the services, and question him/her about the case.
It seems like with her denial they give her a letter stating her rights to appeal. If she appeals and is then turned down again, I don't know what the next step is.
Can she get food stamps? Its a round about way of establishing need. Also a trip to the health department will help get the ball rolling. It is establishing all the bases. She will set her up for WIC. Tell her to accept everything that is offered. If she turns anything down, then they can assume that she is not as destitute as she presents herself.
My daughter has been the route. You learn to accept stuff that you really don't want in exchange for help for your baby. She hated so much to take food stamps even though she really needed them. She had a husband although his money mostly went for his drug habit. On the books their financial situation should not have been as bad as it was.
She's divorced from him now and she's not on food stamps but for a time it was bad.
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He will be at the Dallas Theatre downtown Dallas Sept 19 at 8 pm. He is needing help getting the word out so can all of you on here pass it on. We are going out of business here so we can't help him except for talking it up.
The color printers have been taken out and we will be out of here this week.
We are currently finishing up the Media Guides for some of the high schools and then we're closed.
I'm definitely going to miss a lot of you guys. We've met some very nice people and I've enjoyed my job. I hate to leave it but when you can't pay the bills because of the economy then you have to go.
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No we were not united. I support the reason that the south went to war which really had nothing to do with the slaves. They just didn't want the north to be bossing them around. The south still don't take to being bossed by anybody. We want to do things in our own way until we find a better way and adopt that.
A southerner can be manipulated easier then they can be forced and hence the Civil War. If war came here it would still be a fight. Southern pride is still alive and people here will fight for it.
Slavery was wrong and I'm glad its over. The north had to release their slaves too and some of the slave owners hated that. It was made to seem that the south did the mean stuff and the north didn't and that was just slanted history.
Slavery still goes on in different parts of the world now and I fail to understand why someone would think that they had the God given right to own someone else. That mentality is just beyond my comprehension.
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I would like to know more about seeing angels two by two. I can't find a telephone number and I filled out the info online but I still don't have an answer as to if it is a good company. Someone on here has to work for them and I just want some info. PM me if you don't want it out in the open.
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We are closing down here at Christian Point due to the economy. I'm going to be job hunting and I'm considering working at home if I can find something to do. Money wise we can't make it if I don't work somewhere. Does anyone have any good ideas for what to do that will get us through until the job market is better.
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I hope he can talk enough to tell the name of all his so-called friends that ran off and left him His quality of choices leave much to be desired.
I sincerely hope that the rest of the group spent quality time in boot camp to finish scaring the rest of the Bejesus out of'em.
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The concept of Social Security was good and it worked great until it had so much money they started pulling out of it for whatever they needed at the time. The concept would work again if they took out the drug users, alcoholics and mentally ill people that never worked a day in their sorry lives.
We give money to people that are physically fine but mentally sorry. I took care of mentally ill people in group homes that felt a lot better than I did and got better medical help then I could afford. Their main goal was waiting for that social security check to come in each month that the only way they worked for was to sign their signature to the application and their name on the back of the check each month.
We had drug users and alcoholics that had fried their brains and were still trying to get booze and drugs with their SSI which should never have been set to come out of Social Security.
Social Security is like every other program that works good and is meant for good being used and abused.
I'm sorry if you think I'm hard but if they never worked they don't deserve a dime from it. Handicapped people should draw from welfare, not Social Security.
It should go back to the original plan and cut out all this mess or be completely revamped with safeguards put in place to stop the scoundrels from getting their hooks into it. If it was taken out of our paychecks to provide for us when we got to old to work than that should have been all it was used for. I never signed an agreement for all these other people to get a free ride from my work just as all of you never agreed to it. To bad we can't dig up the ones that polluted it and kill'em again for messing up something that would have worked if left alone.
This goes under the heading of all the other stuff thats being done without our permission and I don't see it getting fixed.
The Fair Tax will only replace Georgia State Tax and that's not the one I want shot down. Ask an IRS agent if he gives into Social Security and they'll tell you they don't. It doesn't apply to them. My nephew works for them. He showed me his pay stub and they have their own retirement system.
If they would set up different retirement systems that you could designate which one that you wanted to pay into and it be just for those workers that paid into it, I for one wouldn't feel so frustrated. At least, I would know that I was contributing to workers that had worked, not rifraff.
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Chances are that people's attitude toward his drinking has enabled him to destroy all of your lives.
Give him a choice 'no alcohol in this house, if you can't stay sober then you can't stay period, end of discussion.
If he wants his booze more than he wants his family then you don't need him anyway.
He may be a wonderful person but you'll never know unless he stops and he won't stop on his on. He has a place to stay and food to eat and wonderful people to pick on and make miserable which every drunk dearly loves to do. You're providing him with victims, stop.
You need to become an adult and make an adult decision that you won't be a victim anymore. You have to draw the line because its plain in your family no one else will. Sometimes God has to let us get so fed up that we get off our duff and take a stand and say "no more" and this time mean it. Draw the line in the sand and don't back up even a foot.
Pack his clothes before you face him and be sure he's sober so he understands that its Your way or the highway.
My brother turned into a wonderful person instead of the mean drunk I had always known. I love him dearly. He was Dr. Jekyl and Mr Hyde. It took a doctor telling him one more drink and you're dead to do it but he's been sober for five years. Wonderful man now. Wish he had faced death 40 years ago when he was raising his kids and beating his wife.
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It sounds like he had an uneasy feeling for a reason. A policeman told us that anytime you have that uneasy feeling when you are someplace, unless you have to stay, leave. It may be the only warning you get that troubles coming.
We were driving around at Alatoona and trying to find a path to the lake that was supposed to come out over a drop off for diving when I felt that someone was looking at my back with a scope mounted to a rifle. I was suddenly scared to death. We ran out of there and a car stripping racket was busted a few months later operating in the same woods we were walking through.
Do I feel we were in danger? YES
I've never felt that a gun was aimed at me before. Listen to your instincts even when it don't make sense. It doesn't have to make sense to save your life.
Its better to feel a little foolish and be allright then to ignore the warnings and be raped, beat, robbed and killed.
I read a story about a girl that was later killed where she had made drawings of a man that she kept dreaming about. She didn't know the man and was showing the drawings to people to see if they knew him.
The drawings matched the man that killed her. She was afraid of that man in the dreams. A lot of people before they turned up dead had mentioned being uneasy or having bad dreams or being afraid of someone.
What good is it for your instincts to work perfectly and you just plain don't listen?
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I used to live in Tampa and I killed a huge spider that was about 1 and 1/2 inches wide. My landlady was eccentric and didn't appreciate me killing her spider. She said it had been in that trailer for 2 years and it kept all the roaches killed off. She was right about the roaches because we didn't have a single one until after I killed the spider. They would hop rides in the house on potatoes. She said that she would wait until I moved and then she would bring one from her house and put it in the trailer. She said she thought she told me that the spider was to be left alone but if she did I think I would have remembered that talk.
Spiders don't scare me but my daughter is highly allergic from even a water spider bite. She almost died from a water spider bite. When we got her to the hospital she was already passing out. Her face was numb and she had no control of her muscles. She was a limp dishrag.
Poison Control told me that no one was allergic to water spiders. Boy did she get in trouble. Donna was one in 10,000 allergic to those things. Most of the time they are not aggressive. She just happened to lay her arm down on the thing and it got her. She was 16 and now shes 37. Thank God it hasn't happened again. She might not live to get to the hospital next time. We kill them all now. I'm not scared of them but I can't take a chance that she might get bit in my house.
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There ain't no grave, gonna hold my body down
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I live right across from the park. The park has been safe in the day time. The bad kids come out at night when no one is in the park. The police patrol it regularly. It is probably one of the most patrolled parks around because of the teenagers damaging the property. I for one wish they would catch them. I want them to have to work hard hours paying for the damage they have done.
To my way of thinking their penalties for vandalism just aren't stiff enough.
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I've been married for 42 years and one thing I told my hubby in the beginning was that if you are going to run around on me then have the decency to leave me first, not pick up diseases and bring them home to me.
He said he'd never do that. He did. He still won't admit it but he cheated, I know in my heart that he did. I begged him many times to just admit it and I'd be gone and never bother him again. He swears he didn't.
Now I can't have any alone time when I'm off work. The togetherness I wanted when we first got married I now have but its came after so many years of doing things without him. Now I want to be left alone a lot of times and I can't get him to just go fishing or go somewhere. He thinks that I have to be with him or he can't enjoy himself.
Why couldn't he have had this understanding when we first got married. Back then everyone was more exciting then me. I came last with him after his family, friends, co-workers, etc. Now he's holding on to me so tight I can't breathe. Why couldn't he have had this understanding then, not now, when I've gotten used to doing my own thing, like painting, gardening, reading, growing flowers and writing stories. Why now? He's wasted a lifetime to turn around and decide he likes me best. Does anyone have a clue what I'm talking about.
My mom told me a long time ago to let him go play baseball, and coach, and any other sport he wanted. She said just find something to occupy my time while we raised our kids together. Does anyone out there have this situation. Was her advice wrong? I was so miserable and feeling so abandoned that filling up my own time raising our kids seemed like the most sensible thing to do. Does anyone have experience with this and what did you do if you did.
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A friend of mine had just joined a church group and one of the church outings was to be invited to pick blackberries on this guys farm. There were several blackberrie patches and they had to weave their way in and around the bushes. As is usual with blackberries the best are just out of your reach.
He had maneuvered into an area of juicy big ones and looked into the face of a snake eating on berries. He threw his pail up in the air and with his arms up and while screaming he exited the area speedily. The rest of the church went on picking and after having finished they came back to the cars where he was.
They thought he had gotten happy and was shouting and feeling the anointing in the berry patch.
He said that was the end of his blackberry picking when he found out that snakes ate them too. I totally sympathized with him. I do believe I could walk on water while getting away from a snake. Thats the only time I can run good.
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And ... it's technically illegal to kill a non-venomous snake in Georgia.
What if its committing people abuse? I could have a heart attack running from that thing.
My hubby would insist on catching it to see what kind it was. I think he got dropped on his head too many times as a baby.
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My sister had this persistent guy that just kept dropping in to visit after her and her hubby split. She started telling him about talking to dead people and that they were there at the time telling her stuff about him.
This poor guy was running and looking back to make sure she wasn't following. She did follow him all the way to his car and he couldn't get out of her driveway fast enough.
She had to call and tell me and she was laughing so hard she could hardly talk. He never bothered to visit her again.
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I think that the lady that got killed here in Paulding on the Comet Trail had it right. Everyone that is convicted, positively with no doubt that they did it should have an inch or so removed surgically without pain killers, then everytime they did it again another inch or so be removed. How long do you think it would be before they wised up.
I think the majority would wise up after the first surgery and I think that they should have to as part of their community payback have to go around to all the facilities that are supposedly rehabilitating these animals and show them what happens in Paulding County GA if you rape a woman or child in their county.
If I was able to facilitate this I would. I'll pray for them after they don't have the tools to hurt kids or woman.
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I take everything at face value at first until I know enough about the person to form an opinion. Usually a person puts their best foot forward when you first meet them and I tend to think that each person is a nice person. I have been guilty of judging a person based on the rash behavior I saw at first instead of waiting to see what that persons background is and what may have caused that kind of reaction.
I don't think you can go through life without judging the people around you. If you didn't discern you would be walking blind into situations that should not have happened if you had used good judgement.
Being judgemental may be another way of being discerning and God gave us that ability to help us stay out of trouble.
You may not always know why a person gives you bad vibes. It may be enough to just stay away and therefore be out of harm's way. Some judging is being smart.
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The Fireworks
The Fourth of July is celebrated throughout the land
A celebration of freedom like no other celebration
Our great-great great–great grandparents fought for a dream
If they could walk this land now what would they think?
Would they stand with their hands over their hearts and salute the flag?
Would tears flow down gaunt faces as they beheld their nations celebration?
Would the eagle flying free be an uplift in their spirits?
Would they still be proud to have fought for the dream and won?
We are a great nation although we are small.
Its God that makes us big, not us.
The dream that our forefathers dreamed is still alive in us.
It has not faded or dimmed, but it sometimes sleeps
I thank God for giving us the dream
And for the courage to act on that dream
When we asked England to let us be free
Do you hear an echo of Moses saying “Let my people go”
We crossed the Red Sea but it was not water
Through the blood of sacrifice our forefathers did as Jesus did
We were cleansed and released
Just as God ordained
Let us give thanks to God this year
And give thanks to our forefathers
For giving their blood for us
And thank God for the dream that was born so long ago
Let us dream on about freedom
And keep that dream alive
Without the dream that God gave us
We die
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In a child this young a suicide attempt would be an accident. They are too young to reason irreversible, forever circumstances. Their thinking would be along the lines of "in the moment" problems. I feel like any child this young can not conceive of dying and never being with his family again. If they took time to think it would never happen so therefore it can only be an accident in an ill-conceived idea, similar to the accident at Six Flags. Just a mistake that should not have happened.
The family will be guilt ridden when they shouldn't be, there's no planning for this. Every child has times when they are sad, angry, depressed and many hurt themselves but not permanently. Many of us could have done this too, being children. Some have no lasting effects and some have traumatic effects such as this.
If he had been an adult and thought this through then I would agree that this is/was a suicide but knowing children, in my mind, it was a terrible accident.
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As I understand it as long as they are in school you have to pay support but it seems to me if the child is away in college then the support should be sent to him unless the X can provide proof that she has paid for his tuition and board. The other son is eighteen but not in school therefore no support.
It should be between you and the boys now without the middle man (or woman).
It sounds like the X likes the child support and she knows how to guilt you into continuing to pay it even though you don't owe it.
ASHAMED TO SAY I GRADUATED FROM McEACHERN
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I graduated in 66 and it was a great school then. It was small and everyone knew all the teachers. There was one teacher to teach each subject. Man those days are over.
I was in school there in science class in the 10th grade when Kennedy was killed. I am ancient. I am still alive when history happened just like all of you were alive when 9-11 happened. You can give your children the perspective of the times.
I can tell you that when Kennedy was killed it was a dark day that felt emotionally like 9-11 did. There was no anger, only grief. I was witnessing teachers crying, not because they knew him personally but because people could be so cruel as to kill someone like that in front of everyone with no more feeling then that. We saw the tapes before they were doctored and you could tell that they the shot came from different places. The sound was different and the angle that he was hit was different. As a child it was obvious before the cover-up started.
It used to be that you could live your whole life and nothing dramatic happened and that is different. Things happen faster now and the media tells what it is told to tell. Truth quit in the media a long time ago. The government controls what you hear and read.
In Germany, my sister was there when the Atlanta child murders happened and a lot of stuff was said over there that we didn't know over here. She used to call us from there and tell us what was being said.
I know I changed the subject but thoughts do run down rabbit trails don't they. Got to get back to work. Today is probably my last day. I'm going to miss getting on here and talking to you guys. In case yall don't know we went out of business and we are wrapping up loose ends and cleaning out the building.