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Other than the mixed metaphor, I really enjoyed this analogy - It was a really good word picture and there are not very many people who can do that as well as you did. Nice job. Oftentimes, in books of fiction, the author relies on the reader to enter the world that he/she has created, which ignores human nature and other dynamics of human interaction to make a point. While these things make you think, there are reasons that particular dire circumstances don't present themselves outside of books of fiction. Real economic theory is based on the previously mentioned dynamics that motivate peo

I didn't mean to imply that you regard it as YOUR bible necessarily, but that the republican think-tankers have obviously taken some of their meme-speech from the specious conclusions of the book. It's also become a recent meme for republicans to suggest A.S. as required reading in the study of modern day macroeconomics. We will always have producers and consumers. "The poor we will always have with us", don't you know? Yes, food for thought, no doubt. But everyone, as they read it, should be mindful that it is a book of fiction and not even a cautionary tale with real-world applications.

I disagree with LPPT on this, by the way. I think that Wal-Mart can pay its employees whatever they want to, above the minimum wage. People should know that if they go to work for Wal-Mart, they'll need to get a second job to make ends meet. There's nothing that says that a person can't have a second job to supplement his income. There's nothing forcing a person to only work a 40 hour week.

I also suggest that everyone should read A.S. It's fiction, of course, dated (written in the 40s or 50s as I recall) , and presents specious arguments that deify business owners and make villains of the poor. Sound familiar? It's where modern day Republicans get their ideas for the ideal republic - from a book of fiction. Some look at it as their bible, because they truly believe that it presents the way to salvation. I think that instead of providing "salvation", real life application of the deification of business owners is proving to be our "Deliverance".

I'm here to tell you -- Ain't nothing worth killing yourself over. Nothing or nobody.

Good morning everyone!

I see. Your insult was just a drive-by where you think that you don't have to account for what you said. It's that I have a "chip on my shoulder" - That's why I took exception to your sarcasm? In the context of other people insulting me you think that you can pile on and not own up to it? Sorry - it doesn't work that way. Just like the others who threw their stink bombs and ran, I guess..... It's okay. I know that it's impossible to explain how lying to your children is anything but dysfunctional and that's why you resort to drive-by stink bombs.

I would never buy anything from a door-to-door salesperson because I'm opposed to the marketing method - ringing my doorbell. Only if I wanted more and more people ringing my doorbell would I place an order in that manner.

I guess that's what I'm saying. There's an underlying reason for a small child to have severe reflux, if that's what it is. Just treating the symptom indefinitely isn't the answer IMO.

I'd be concerned that it was a misdiagnosis, unless you've already gotten a second opinion. Maybe kids routinely have to take "severe acid reflux" medications throughout their infancy, but 10 months or so of medication for a newborn? It just seems excessive that this symptom would persist for so long. Has the underlying reason for the reflux condition been identified, I hope?

Context. Your sarcasm, in the context of this discussion, was a slam at the people who had articulated a particular position. Nobody expects a poster to copy each post that speaks to his position on a given matter. Your position is that people who believe as I do that parents shouldn't lie to their children but instead should tell them how the world really works so that they can make sense of it -- We're raising kids to be robots or we're trying to get you to raise kids as robots. Is that your position or is it not?

Touche' Perfectly stated!

So -- nobody else on earth enjoys themselves but people who do XMAS? How did people make it before the 1880's? In early America, XMAS was outlawed, a fine being imposed for anyone celebrating it. The founding fathers didn't celebrate XMAS - They weren't happy as children? How is it you can think that nobody has ever been happy but you and the people who believe as you do?

I think that it is a mistake to come on PCOM for the purpose of getting medical advice. Doctors have years of study and training and experience that trumps anything anyone outside of the profession can offer. Considering that we're talking about the health of an infant, why would anyone seek medical advice from strangers? My first thought about it was "What if it's not 'severe acid reflux' and something else is going on? Again-- remedies or medical diagnoses from strangers?

The reason that you take this personally is that you, not your children, have something at stake here.Of course you've gone personal. Why else would you feign civility ("bless your heart") in your condemnation of me ("if you have reproduced")? ["If that means I am living THRU my children THEN BY ALL MEANS I AM!!!I want them to be afforded all the precious memories of Santa, Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy."] What you want is for YOU to be afforded the precious memories of YOUR childhood in a desperate attempt to reclaim your youth through YOUR childhood fantasy. It's the same thing that

There's a social dynamic at work that only allows you to view life from a single perspective and everyone else's lives as lacking in quality. Did you know that "Santa Claus" in his current form, has only been around since the 1880's? Are you saying that previous generations of human beings were all, " cynical, unhappy," the glass is half empty" adults" because they didn't have that same XMAS experience that you have? Are you saying the same thing about the billions of people on earth who don't celebrate XMAS? That would be pretty harsh, don't you think, to imply that no one else on ear

The whole scene isn't too much different from a stage mom, who wishes that she, personally, could have had millions of adoring fans and is now hell-bent on vicariously living out her fantasy through her child. In this case, it's "popularity with boys", it appears. Mom probably wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend in her early teen years and she determined that when she had a child.......

After about 6 years, mathetes, we finally agree on something!! Hooray! I was beginning to wonder!!!

Ms. James had been through a rough patch, healthwise, a while back. I'm not sure if it had anything to do with not singing at the inauguration party. The first time I ever heard "At Last", I was blown away by the strength and character of Etta James' voice. She is a national treasure!

That's my sentiment on both songs, too!

Check out this soulful sound - Wonderful renditions! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOS5tEfDLKc&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj4s9l_5KEA&feature=related

I think that PWilhelm had an excellent point about looking at everything in the way that you've always done them and expecting everyone else to be like you to the point of condemning them if they have a different viewpoint. I'm not sure what you mean by "we all know to indulge children with the idea". If you're saying that we all know better than to rudely tell small children that their parents have been lying to them. Well, sure. It's nobody's place to initiate that revelation. But if you're saying that a teacher should tell a lie so that the parent doesn't look like a liar to his child

There's the possibility that the mother will ask that there not be a trial because she doesn't want to revisit the horror. The state would have to consider that request in view of the evidence, weighing one against the other.While the family may say now that they want the death penalty, they may not want to see the pictures of the crime scene nor any of the other evidence related to the deadly attack. The mother may not want to testify, as defense attorneys may try to place partial blame on parental negligence. I'm not suggesting that there is a viable basis for this strategy except as a barga

This isn't about "let kids be kids and enjoy the fantasy", because the kids don't care about the fantasy. They want presents and candy. Do you know why it is that kids "figure it out on their own"? I've already told you! It's because the child's brain development doesn't allow critical thinking yet. So he or she will just accept whatever you tell them as the proper truth. Parents are using this lack of brain development and calling it, "innocence". And what the adults are mourning is their own growing up into the real world and the ultimate implications of mortality. So they project this fanta

The only thing that I found was where the story of "Sybil" had been concocted to sell as a real-life story. But not 3 faces of Eve, which was based on a real woman's story of "multiple personality disorder".