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Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:30 PM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

From U.S. News and World Report:

Those findings are inspiring Allianz to emphasize educational efforts through human contact, such as small seminars that focus on real-life success stories, in order to reach women, who will control 60% of the wealth in the United States by 2010.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 12:41 PM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ nousername

I agree. The men I've loved didn't give a shit about who painted my toenails. Women dress for other women. If you wear mud-spattered riding jerseys, it's not just men who would be drawn to you. I also admire women who aren't afraid to get muddy.

Thursday, July 10, 2008 07:55 PM

Very excited...

...to see this movie.

Friday, July 11, 2008 05:48 AM
Original article: Jesse Helms is not dead

@ Greg in FL

Amen, brother.

Friday, July 11, 2008 05:57 AM
Original article: Pregnant pause

Viagra is anti-God.

God designed the male member to go limp. False elevation obviates revelation. It is stupidity when merely mortal men won't submit to God's divine plan for flaccidity. At the end of their days, God wants men to droop.

So sayeth Bigguns.

Friday, July 11, 2008 06:02 AM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ deering

Yeah, I know that can happen, but when the white herd stampedes in, I get priced out too. And with God as my witness, I never joined a committee.

As regards extended families scootched into homes: good. The nuclear family has many drawbacks.

Friday, July 11, 2008 06:09 AM
Original article: From lovebirds to jailbirds

@ MerelyMortalMale, who wrote:

"Is it a coincidence that a woman staged/filmed Nuremberg rallies for Adolf? She was probably a feminist and knew that grandiose appeals often quash unpleasant-- and differing-- realities."

Damn. You're both a kook and a demagogue. I know there's a book out there that blames gay folks for Nazism, but I think you just blamed a woman, "probably a feminist," for Hitler.

MMM, take a walk. You need some fresh air. You're breathing your own fumes.

Friday, July 11, 2008 09:06 AM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ Dr. Laurel962, who's diagnosed me as mentally ill.

First off, I didn't know you care. You really care!

Secondly, you need to find some friends who sweat less.

Thirdly, when did I say that I pick through trash? I do pick through my berry bushes.

Lastly, I'm no hermit. However, my life will be incomplete until you consider me to be your BFF.

Friday, July 11, 2008 09:12 AM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ nousername

All women don't have to poof and fluff herself to earn money and attract men. I'm Dr. Laurel962's age and I get more attention from men that I can process and earn considerably more money each year. I also get more job offers than I can accept. I think people take you seriously when you're not so serious about fluffing yourself.

They think, "She's a mess on the inside, so she must have a fine mind."

And if that's what they think, they're right.

Friday, July 11, 2008 09:41 AM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ nousername

Okay, I'll see your honesty, "I have trashpicked," and raise it: "I've even nosepicked."

Friday, July 11, 2008 10:13 AM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ nousername

You make me laugh!

Friday, July 11, 2008 12:28 PM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ Lestat1

Having your own cash stash is savvy. And, month by month, stashing more cash is super savvy. And fancying oneself a princess, forever and ever and happily ever after saved by their prince, can place one in the food pantry line one day.

Saturday, July 12, 2008 11:24 AM
Original article: Make less! Save more!

@ deering

Thanks for spooning some love!

Dr. Laurel is sore at me because I've challenged her in a few threads. I've just wanted her to be a kinder, gentler doc, whether she's diagnosing strangers as mentally ill or not. And she's probably also perturbed because I didn't levy the beauty tax on myself and instead, squirreled money in fruit trees and my portfolio.

Sunday, July 13, 2008 07:00 AM
Original article: Opus

Mr. Breathed's Steve is a buffoon, but in real life, he's a common buffoon, as...

...lots of people trust their unexamined feelings. It's likely most people who do this.

I agree with the poster that Bush voters are responsible for Bush. I have a few self-described libertarians on my street or what I call, "Bush voters who won't admit to voting for Bush."

Sunday, July 13, 2008 08:14 PM
Original article: Ask Pablo

I agree with coasting to red lights.

And whenever someone powers into a red light, I quip, "I should follow that guy. He knows where gas is still a buck a gallon."

Monday, July 14, 2008 09:55 AM

I like it.

Life's too short to fret about smelling like "Spring Breeze" all the time. We're a smelly species and stinking a bit might be a good thing, if it reminds us of how mortal and frail we are and we live, live, LIVE accordingly.

Monday, July 14, 2008 09:59 AM

Outraged?

Nah.

I save outrage for a genocidal day.

Well responded, Ms. Hepola.

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:24 AM

My dog drinks out of the gutter.

He likes it. And that off-clear water likes him.

A nurse once told me that we've compromised our immune systems by drinking only pure water. I wonder if that applies to body bacteria.

And for the poster who doesn't want chemicals up against her girly bits and other bits, too late, unless you avoid deodorant, makeup, and cleaning products for your body and clothes. And even if you avoid all these applied chemicals, chemicals are still applied to you, when you sit in a new car or on new furniture or walk across a new vinyl floor, which is likely farting all sorts of chemicals.

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:25 AM

@ Leeandra Nolting

"MRE of underpants

Clever, clever girl!

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 06:32 AM
Original article: Rush Limbaugh was right

Gary Kamiya is reely, really dum.

jjim152's ad hom lead made me laugh. When one leads with an ad hom, it's then too late to parse satire.

Well argued, Mr. Kamiya.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 06:46 AM
Original article: Rush Limbaugh was right

@ wendy82551

The c-word is class. Class depends on gluttony, assumptions of superiority, and hypocrisy. Mocking blue collar people reveals how far the left has drifted from its mooring. One only needs gaze on the art of the New Deal, where blue collar were often depicted as noble.

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