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He was such a nice guy and so family oriented he allowed his elderly aunt to live with him on his house on the hill & he was great with my sisters kids too, one of whom was a newborn.He said he made tons of money working for a big company out at the airport.Whenever he talked to her from work she could hear the echoing in the hangar.He bought her a new car (she was on welfare) and for three years they went shopping in Palm Springs because their wasn't any "decent" shopping in our town. They bought 500 dollar shoes and went on expensive vacations with her kids.
The saddest part is they obtained guardianship of the infant next door while the mom was going through some problems, then paid lawyers big bucks to go court and successfully fought the family to adopt this child (my sister had always wanted a boy),who is now living in poverty with my sister, blind to his Mexican heritage
After the big wedding as my sister was preparing to move to the big house,and have a new washer and dryer delivered.The aunt refused the delivery and it all came out - he had POA on his aunts accounts and was going through her fortune. The house was hers.The aunt refused to file charges , and now he works in a car wash. The hangar job? - he put a box over his head when he called"from work"
And my sister? She's never held a job longer than a few months and has now obtained POA on my mothers assets.
If you think that lies are just entertaining you are in denial as to how far they can go and how many people they can effect.
of a white man by a black citizenry with the help of a black sheriff. Oh and don't forget to count the number of tickets black tourists buy to come see the event.
rather than a relationship. because you can't have a relationship with a liar-you're not dealing with a real person, just an imaginary character.
It seems that excitement is what you are after.You'll get the same effect doing coke or some other drug.Who would want a stable partner and all those mundane activities when they could have a tour guide for exotic adventures and their only contribution would be to passively show up and let the games begin.The guy must have been exhausted coming up with new things to entertain you.
She is taking care of herself by getting a break twice a week. You just finished an 18 year one..Ever thought how irritating it might be to see you drunk for 18 years and now to have to listen to your AA jargon and minute by minute revelations about your insight into your disease.? All of which she could tell you from up close and personal experience, since her memory has not been erased by blackouts.
I'm glad to hear some people in A.A actually evolve. Your sponsor sounds like one of them - an alcoholic who can actually see life from someone else's perspective.He's treating you like the adult you are.
Show some gratitude and hang onto this guy for dear life. He's a keeper..
For the first time in 18 years, its not all about him -
maybe his Higher Power told her to take a break
Gag
Obama himself is a corporation- a merger of David Axelrod, Rahm and Goldman Sachs. We are the buyers who will repent at leisure, taken in by the Colors of Benneton ads that promised a shiny new America- with justice for all.
Obama is everything he said he was in his books and less.- A neo - con , a centrist and an accomodator. The man does not have a fighting bone in his body - though he does allow personal things to get to him , like an insult to Michelle and Skip Gates.
His promotion of General McChrystal, to leader of the Afghanistan mission was a guarantee that Abu Graib would be repeated in Afghanistan. McChrystal was head of the special ops who finetuned torture and humiliation over there. Obama gave him a big pay raise, a whole country and a few more medals.
All religions have their martyrs, but Iranians Shiites,perhaps because other muslims killed Ali (who they believe should have been Muhammed's successor)have made martyrdom one of the highest
values. Thus the frenzied flogging themselves with chains until blood to honor Ali and sending of their children into war.If you want to say compliment someone there , call them a martyr.
The glorification of sacrificing your life in Shiitism is not to be underrated in Ahmanijad positioning himself and his nation as a martyr prosecuted by the rest of the world. It plays right into their archetypical myth and they wouldn't have it any other way.
Tony Robbins could never make it there.
because from every thing I've read these acts were condoned from the highest levels.Maybe it went something like this :
'Oh great Father -please let this child not resist so that I
don't have to use force and let me dedicate my pleasure to the
Pope who smiles down on all children.And Holy Father please seal
this child's lips together in holy silence so that the secret
mysteries of your humble servants not be revealed to those
incapable of understanding the special love we share.
Oh and Father , please increase the class size of this years fifth grade ." Amen
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