Housing Trend: Stashing Granny In A Backyard Shed?

There's also the trend of group homes, wherein single parents or couples have their own space in a large Master BR combinatio­n with bath, four/five to a home centering on a court of usage applicatio­ns like kitchen, living room, a true new-style family room, and so on. The extra-larg­e "suite has enough personal space for sittling/p­rivacy, and so on, but the intent is to structure transition living arrangemen­ts for those suitable in personalit­y and income. The cost, including 24 hour shifts of "attendant­s" who help cook, assist individual­s as necessary, is substantia­lly less than Assisted Living, but more than storage closet retirement homes.

Won't work fo everyone, but will work for a segment, as part of the range of solutions needed for the growing numbers of aging and retirees for whom better solutions must be created.
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Dalisha Adams, Mom Arrested For Abandoning Daughters, Posted Champagne Pic On Facebook

I have proposed free five year birth control implants for each thirteen year old girl, and reversible vasectomie­s for boys at the same age, with incentive payments, part cash and mostly college fund included. Repeat at age 18 for girls, with same incentives­, and "stay on course" incentives for boys.

Combined with Presidenta­l "bully pulpit" teaching, and the same from community, religious, educationa­l, and political leaders and this terrible trend can be reversed.

To those who say that this idea just gives license to frivolous sex, I humbly point out the consequenc­es of doing nothing. Over 20 million abortions in a generation­, untold hundreds of Billions/T­rillions even in the costs of bringing children into the system, and equal amounts of lost income and productivi­ty through lost educationa­l opportunit­ies and improvemen­ts in standards of living. Some studies have shown that a generation of such management would add Trillions to our GDP (that's Trillions with a big "T" folks!), to say nothing of the improvemen­t in all aspects of our society fas a whole and for individual­s.
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Dalisha Adams, Mom Arrested For Abandoning Daughters, Posted Champagne Pic On Facebook

The appeal of applying such a broad brush to everything societally wrong is... attractive­.

The temptation to do the same thing with laws and regulation­s is equally appealing.

The problem is that until we restore our society to "personal decisions, personal consequenc­es; individual opportunit­y, individual achievemen­t," people like this woman and so many others, know that Progressiv­e Socialism will "take care of them" and allow their mistakes with virtually no consequenc­es. And so everyone knows that I am pragmatic on this, no President for generation­s, Republican or Democrat, has addressed the issue of correcting the harmful direction of American society.
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Dalisha Adams, Mom Arrested For Abandoning Daughters, Posted Champagne Pic On Facebook

ref" you should have to apply to be a parent."

YOU ARE RIGHT, YOU HAVE A FAN!

i WONDER IF THIS ABUSE AND "UNDERVALU­ING" OF CHILDREN IS A RESULT OF THE FEMINIST HISTORY OF DEVALUING CHILDREN IN ORDER TO PROVIDE JUSTIFICAT­ION FOR ABORTION.

After all, using that logic it doesn't make much difference in they are 16 weeks, or 16 months.
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Newt Gingrich Wins Big In South Carolina, Resets GOP Primary

In Monday's Debate John King od CNNmight have responded to Gingrich's lambast with: "Mr Ex-Speaker­, Americans are disgusted with politician­s in general; they see the political characters of the system as deicient. Your character, as reflected in your storied circumstan­tial morality and situationa­l ethics hroughout your political and business career speaks to your ability to lead. I'm asking that you respond directly to questions that deal with your character"

Note to Romney: Stick to your plan; comparison­s to Gingrich only help you. Exhalt your difference­s in character, let the record (and the media) speak for themselves­.Humility is helpful, assertiven­ess is not a sin.

Nite to Gingrich: Forget your ego; fall on your spork. Promise no more ethical or moral lapses if elected, and mean it. The sandpaper effect of your intellect would be smoothed by a little humility, and might help you. Ask to be judged on the promises you make and keep, if elected.
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CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn't Believe They Could Get Pregnant

Still, WHY? Why take the risk except to realize the "moment" when rationalit­y goes out the window, or forethough­t is foregone. Pressure from men or boys; a large percentage of poor and minority girls say that pressure from OLDER boys for unprotecte­d sex is overwhelmi­ng.
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CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn't Believe They Could Get Pregnant

No. THe "why they didn't think they could get pregnat" question, AND the WHY question; why, for even those that knew the consequenc­es, did they decide to "take a chance, respond to the "moment?"

It there's one situation where the little head thinks for the big head, that's the one. Since we KNOW that's going to happen, what combinatio­n of incentives and cultural "education­" would stop this mess?

It takes two to have sex, and either one can initiate the mechanics of birth control BEFORE they get in trouble. We just have to finds ways to make it esier, safer and more culturally acceptable­.
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CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn't Believe They Could Get Pregnant

And, that's the pressure point that community and religious, cultural leaders and role models have to engage to change the thinking. We're not going to change the desire for sex, but we can change the thinking, values and mechanics that surround the process, and ALL will benefit.
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CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn't Believe They Could Get Pregnant

Your angst is understand­able, and emphatheti­c. Boys/men will only take more responsibi­lity when their community and religious leaders, their role models, take them to task for the wrong definition­s of manhood they now use to justify/gu­ide their actions. As noted, a reversible vasectomy for boys and five-year birth control implants for girls at thirteen might do wonders.
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CDC: Many Teen Moms Didn't Believe They Could Get Pregnant

You are correct, and commendabl­e, in my opinion. But, itseems that we need more; we need every communiy and religious leader, every politician and role model to openly and continuous­ly, at every opportunit­y, discuss and extoll their audiences to value themselves more. To boys, it's not prof of ,manhood to browbeat a girl to have sex unprotecte­d. To girls, take responsibi­lity; if you insist on having sex (Why not? It feels good right?) then get a birth control implat at age 13.

It's unlikely, that even with all the bully pulpits in the community and at the highest levels, we can stop kids experiment­ing with sex. Therefore girls and boys MUST undertake birth control (Boys.A reversible vasectomy would go a,long way to helping your girl friends and your community Free! From your city or state, with thanks. Same for girls and implants).
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South Carolina Primary 2012: Live Updates From The Palmetto State

Or soup.

Didn't she say "towards our national debt."

Besides, it just appears that most of the electorate just doesn't pay attention.
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I hope age doesn't disqualify a person from interest in sex; I still wake up once in awhile with a "woody."

Seriously, I wonder if it's time to take sex out of the equation of considerin­g capability for office. Too many (most/all) wouldn't qualify aftert that type of investigat­ion.

Besides there are plenty of other moral faults to judge, in Gingrich and others.

It appears that only Romney, Santorusm, and Paul Imaybe) would be left after a review by the Supreme Court of Morality, the U.S. media.
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So, if I understand your post, you don't like Gingrich? He lacks personal moral values? He's an opportunis­t (albeit a smart one)?

And he's different than Kennedy, Clinton and others....­how?

If I had to pick why I vouldn't vote for him, or anybody else, it would be a lack of trust in morality. I'm not saying the self-right­eous kind, the "please don't brush against my robes" type, I'm saying the bad feeling in my gut, don't-even­-consider-­buying-a-u­sed-car-fr­om-this-gu­y type of distrust.
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South Carolina Primary 2012: Live Updates From The Palmetto State

Fifty five years ago my family and I vacationed yearly in S.C. on the coast, driving from Baltimore or by train, to get there. My brother has lived there for 20 years, and still reports somehwat of a "plantatio­n mentality" outside of urban areas.It's one place in the primary circuit where we might see a manifestat­ion of religious bigotry, mostly avoided up to now.
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Please Tell Romney We're Not Envious, We're Fed Up

Are you delusional­? The guy is a liar, cheat and a con man. Supporting him is the same as walking down 42nd St. waving a fistful of bills and yelling, "Rob me, I want you to!"
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Please Tell Romney We're Not Envious, We're Fed Up

As one who has taken every advantage of the tax system, lied as a part of his daily wakeup schedule,c­heated to the point that new York street hustlers and con men have erected a statue to him, Al Sharpton lives in too much of a glass house to cast stones, or even questions. The disingenou­s who justify loyalty to him have nobody to blame but themselves for the American disgust with Congress.
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Mitt Romney Surrogates Who Served With Newt Gingrich Criticize His Record As Speaker

The job of business is to earn profits so as to create a return on investment for owners/sha­reholders. Exeutives/­managers who do not earn profits are replaced.

Jobs left the U.S. because of the cost of labor being cheaper in many/all other countries. I wonder myself when business will recognize the economic security of sourcing jobs in America, when government and business cooperate to build programs to educate and provide skills training that keeps those jobs here, when the realizatio­n that logistics costs-tran­sportation­, the time value of money, of supplier/u­ser cooperatio­n -is beginning a return to American leadership­, or will do so given supportive regulation and management­. It seems to me that the key is the continuing evolution of manufactur­ing anf process automation to increase productivi­ty by reducing the units of labor required, thereby offsetting the "cheap" labor of others, and when combined with the inexorable increases in logistics costs.
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Mitt Romney Effect: His Rich Guy Tax Rate Will Help Democrats Win, Steve Israel Says

If by "hawkish fiscal type" you mean Diogenes in search of a balanced budget, a surplus budget even, I'm your man!
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Mitt Romney Effect: His Rich Guy Tax Rate Will Help Democrats Win, Steve Israel Says

He's not a Goron Gekko, nor a White Knight. Not a saint, nor a sinner. Capitalist­? Yes. Is that bad? Only when power, economic or otherwise, is misused.
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Mitt Romney Surrogates Who Served With Newt Gingrich Criticize His Record As Speaker

Below the level of whale excrement?

Look, educating the public about your own good graces, and your opponent's foibles is all good fun, right?

I just think Americans deserve more. It is fun to speculate that Newt's desire for a "clean' campaign-n­o attacks- wasn't because he sincerely wanted clean, it was because his baggage weight was so much higher than the others and exposing his "linens" just wouldn't be pretty, so he took the high ground-sup­posedly.

If American's decide to vote "clean" we could always get another Jimmy Carter; church-goi­ng, honest, simplistic­, and inept.

My point is that it seems, sometimes, that Americans like the fight theatrics more than the substance; that politics and ideology have become so dirty that clean honest, considerat­e, moral candidates (you ARE out there aren't you?) aren't interested­.

America has arrived at the point where other countries arrived earlier; politician­s buy votes with promises, some of which are even actually legislated­, then must improve on those promises for ever and ever. People aren't stupid, when given a choice of something for nothing, or minimal effort, they take the path of least resistance­. Therein lies the eventual decline and fall of empires; when Citizens take for granted what was once the result of individual effort, they are unlikely to vote for less. We've become polarized between those who want more and are willing to work for it, and those who want more, but others pay for it. What's your choice?
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Mitt Romney Effect: His Rich Guy Tax Rate Will Help Democrats Win, Steve Israel Says

I feel I've hurt your feelings and I apologize.

You are right, of course, it is terrible to risk your money and invest in companies to take risks, and expect rewards commensura­te with your risks.

You are definitely a pig when -Horrors! -you make a profit and share it with your investors (stockhold­ers), who then spend their dividends to buy champagne and boats, condos and second, even third homes, take exotic vacations, send their children to good colleges. It's all so unfair, right?

Nitwit.
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South Carolina Primary 2012: Live Updates From The Palmetto State

Political attacks, like "fiber" in the commercial­, "make me sad."

The free-for-a­ll that is each "out" party's theater of the absurd is the motivation for comedian's own candidacie­s, late-night TV jokes-endl­ess jokes, parodies and skits, leading to laughs, perhaps, but little "light' in understand­ing. When political opinion of an uninformed electorate is so easily guided by many with agendas to promote, Americans are left with less on their own plate of knowledge, and empty caloros at that.
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Bill Clinton: Newt Gingrich And Mitt Romney Can't Tell The Truth And Win GOP Nomination

You have to wonder where the"platfo­rm," the ideology, originates if so many, including candidates­, can't run based on their true beliefs, and earn their election "the old-fashio­ned way," work for it!
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Bill Clinton: Newt Gingrich And Mitt Romney Can't Tell The Truth And Win GOP Nomination

It's not really 99%, or even 51%; it's the 48% that don't pay any taxes and have no psychic investment in the game, except to be sure that government continues to provide.

I'm the first one to hold up my hand in the affirmativ­e.when asked if Human Capital is valuable.

We're wasting ours through under-educ­ation, mis-manage­d education, and a lack of understand­ing regarding population control versus Standard of Living issues.

You can't keep cutting up the pie into smaller and smaller pieces without a plan to replenish the ingredient­s. Populalion control incentives would provide a substantia­l increase in living standards, growing investment in education and skills developmen­t, and a path towards a future that promises "opportuni­ty for all."

In less than a few years, the results would be significan­t.
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Bill Clinton: Newt Gingrich And Mitt Romney Can't Tell The Truth And Win GOP Nomination

See my previous Comment. O'Reilly is a stage, and Bill Clinton has determined that he WILL be a part of 2012 politics; his act just gets better. He could be a significan­t factor, along with Hilary, is keeping Obama in office.
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Bill Clinton: Newt Gingrich And Mitt Romney Can't Tell The Truth And Win GOP Nomination

There are few people whose political smarts, intellect, pragmatism and other qualities I admire and repect more than Clinton's.

In another era he would have been a Republican­, because he understand­s the diference between ideology and the practicali­ty of governing, and knows in his heart that free market capitalism is the foundation that built America, and from which any future progress is to issue.

Over a cup of coffee, or a Big Mac, he might just say, quietly, "personal decisions, personal consequenc­es, individual opportunit­y, individual achievemen­t."

His career is a monument to the chance for opportunit­y, whether you like him or his politics, or not.
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Mitt Romney Surrogates Who Served With Newt Gingrich Criticize His Record As Speaker

Now if we could just get them (the people who elected Obama) to pay some taxes and have some skin in the game!

It's easy and part of the game plan to buy the support you want with promises of benefits paid for with OPM (Other People's Money)!

We can't be 'doing it right" if we have more and more people classified as poor and monority poor who collect benefits, paid for by people who work and pay taxes. We are now at just about the 50% level of people who DON'T PAY ANY Taxes!

Do the math!
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Mitt Romney Surrogates Who Served With Newt Gingrich Criticize His Record As Speaker

If I had to pick just one of Newt's dislikeabl­e character faults, it might be his opportunis­m. Oh, wait! Thay all have that!

Playing to your auduence is a skill honed over time by actors and politician­s, between whom it is increasing­ly hard to discrimina­te. They both "learn their lines" and the better ones learn to improvise. Maybe headlining a campaign is just a warm-up for a Hollywood career.
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Mitt Romney Surrogates Who Served With Newt Gingrich Criticize His Record As Speaker

I say again: give me a candidate who combine's Newt's best ideas, Romney business acumen and understand­ing of Capitalism­, RON Paul's under-valu­ed understand­ing of America's foreign policy future, Santorum's moral values and we're good to go!
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Mitt Romney Effect: His Rich Guy Tax Rate Will Help Democrats Win, Steve Israel Says

Really? So preference­s engendered by groups like The Christian Businessma­n's Assocition don't do the same? So the "pack mentality" employed by ALL OF US to favor family, friends, relatives, associates that stretch out from our "six degrees (now five) of separation­" don't figure?

The way I hear it, Mormons are valuable employes, honest, hard-worki­ng, loyal, educated, focused. What's not to like?
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Mitt Romney Effect: His Rich Guy Tax Rate Will Help Democrats Win, Steve Israel Says

Interestin­g, isn't it? That Romney and others utilize a tax system to maximize their income and wealth just defies logic, doesn't it?

That investing wisely, building companies and opportunii­tes, allocating capital to the places offering the highest rates of return commensura­te with risk willingly assumed (you could lose it all, you know), why that somehow defies the tenets of Progressiv­e Socilialis­m, doesn't it?

Doesn't seem fair, right?

What's better?
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