It makes me think of Marie Antoinette: "let them eat cake." No real concept of what is needed or how best to help. Orphans need milk, but they need a lot. They have faulty refridgeration, so formula would be better and FAR cheaper so we could help 10 times as many orphans.

Making some orphans die because some mother is wrapped up in the romance of sending actual breast milk is horrible. Send the breast milk to the local hospital and then send a check to the African orphanage.

Remember on MASH when Charles' rich family secretly left gourmet chocolates on the poor people's doorstep once a year. Yeah, that really helps.

that means they tried it once, not that they liked it and are doing it on a regular basis (or whenever they can get sex)

! OMG thank you, I needed a laugh today!

er, idiots?

we prefer good acting over showtunes

Here is your opportunity to show those children you love the RIGHT thing to do. You have a chance to give them good parenting, unlike what you had to live through.

Good parenting is teaching ethics by example, not buying them nice stuff to put in their nice house. Here is your chance. If you pass it, you're dooming your kids to a shallow life wiht empty material items, but no parenting--just like you had to struggle through. The money and easy life is NOT what parenting is about: it's about teaching ethics through example. HEre is your chance to break the cycle. It is a very serious crossroads you are at, make a wise choice.

my earlier post was an attempt to reframe the issues for LW. It's not all about her any more, she has kids. It's about the kids and what sort of home she wants them in. A wealthy home tghat steals from the goverment, or a loving home that pays what it owes.

Right and some deserving student will not get a loan becaue LW choses to buy more bling rather than pay back the loan.

I understand that she has a self-destructive trigger that makes her do this even though she doensn't have to but at some point, you stop making excuses and just do it. Her rude awakeing to just do it should be her kids.

We all have had to just suck it up and do something unpleasant, but we do it. and then all of a sudden a lot of anxiety is gone.

Feel the fear and do it anyway.

they must miss 90% of the show which is about the jealously, competition, mistrust and backstabbing

D. says it all right there.

So you're saying you shouldn't have to pay back money you borrowed and promised to pay back cuz you don't FEEL like it? wah wah. So I should be able to walk into Macy's and take what I want and NOT pay cuz I don't feel like paying for what I took? It's stealing. Taking things of value and not paying for them is stealing.

The shirt is inappropriate AND you are an insufferable egotistical sextist jerk.

JOhn Thomas is a nickname for a man's penis

naw, they have the same divorce rates as "regular" folks.

As long as both partners agree, it's fine if that's your thang, but it isn't going to save marriage or make for a happier culture.

Actually it reinforces the fact that it's all about free sex. The statistic says they're having sex, it's just not with people they love.

this made me laugh cuz it's basicly how the theory of multiple wives entered Mormanism.

REad a bio of Joseph Smith. He started Mormanism and it went on for years w/o any multiples wifes belief. Then he met a woman he wanted to have sex with and to keep from feeling guilty or from being called for his adultery, he just added multiple wifes to his religion, so he could stray from his marriage and not sin. yippie!

for once and all: the tee shirt does not say her husband doen't give her enough.

Kitty means "young woman". LIke "she's a snow bunny," or "she's a kitten".

It's the 2007 version OF Hellen Reddy's 70s iconic song "I am Woman, Hear me Roar." Nowadays it's "I am Kitty, hear me Roar." It's a declarative statement of self-confidence and power, not a statement about her sex life.

now shut yer pie hole.

I am Kitty, deal with me. Hear me.

LW, your obsession about the hidden meaning of the shirt (which is wrong) just makes you look like one of those creepy stalkers who creates imagined meaning from a woman's actions. "she sent me a message by wearing red today." oh god, it's not a sexual message to you, stop.

be what you want--that's the point here

meow

Gen Xers use Kitty to mean "young sassy woman."

Look at blogs: I quickly scanned blogs written by Cyber Kitty, Smart Kitty, Blog Kitty, Syrofoam Kitty, etc.

It just means "girl". A sassy, confidant girl.

It does not mean vayaya in this culture.

In the genX culture, it means SASSY GIRL.

so you get tee shirts saying "Kitty not Happy", "Drama Queen","I Brake for Shoe Sales", etc. IT's just part of the Sassy Drama Queen Gen X culture.

get over it LW

I had some really rude shirts in college.

Remember stiff records?

only that's the wrong comparison.

Despite what Kitty may have meant in the roaring 50s, today it's the female version of "Dude." Dude means GUY. Kitty means GAL.

In this context, in this culture, it does not refer to a part of the female body.

It's like when I was a kid "making out" meant kissing and petting. When my Mom was a kid it meant having sex.

Cultural meaning changes. IT is the very nature of the young generation to attach their own meaning to words to make their own culture and exclude the old folks.