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Thank you all

for your comments and for Ifyouplease, keep up the GOOD WORK!  I read that two "beater" cars did just as well as new cars, cost less in insurance and save TONS in depreciation (none) and monthly payments.  I recommend a book, if anyone is interested: Howard Zinn, "Declarations of Independence" and an interesting site: http://www.usbig.net

I don't think that our Christian fundies are as awful as other fundies but they are gaining political power that can change the American Constitution and civil liberties to an excess that would take a century to repair.  We've come to far to let this happen, our vote does count and our voices can be heard if we but stand together and WRITE, SPEAK and DEMAND that we have inalienable rights, and it is the duty of Congress to ensure those rights are available to ALL citizens.

FR

posted by freerain on January 30, 2004 at 4:29 PM | link to this | reply

FR
Well said.

posted by Able_Ergot on January 30, 2004 at 8:51 AM | link to this | reply

Referring to the latter part of the post, concerning women at home,

I have been at home with my children most of the time, and have done so despite the apparent social norms.  We make less than $40,000 a year on my husband's income, and we don't have enough to buy new cars.  But when I think about the way things were done in the fifties, families had one car instead as a norm.  Now the expenses for two cars include monthly payments, gas, insurance, repairs, tags and inspections.  I know that I look like I'm the poor person in the neighborhood, but I can't trade that for sending my little ones off to daycare so I can have some career that I really don't care about.

When the kids go to school, it's not as if they are really making lifetime friends there.  The classes and teachers change every year, and by Junior High they have different teachers for every subject.  My son has different teachers for every subject in the fourth grade.  So where are they going to learn to have successful relationships for life besides in the family environment?  Sure, it's good to be able to get along well with strangers, but strangers are never the ones who meet our emotional needs. 

I wish all mothers of young children were at home and that monetary standards were not so high that you feel like you're being judged by everyone if you don't have as much or as nice of stuff as they do.  After all, when I judge myself in the situation, I come out looking better to myself than any mother in a new car dropping her baby off at a daycare.

posted by TARZANA on January 30, 2004 at 8:21 AM | link to this | reply

Slavery in the 21st Century.

Slavery was not abolished in the 19th or 20th century as may be the common perception. It exists in many places today especially in the third world but even in the USA.

Most of those enslaved are women. They are enslaved by their culture of male domination or religious bigotry. There was an article in last Sunday's NYTimes magazine about the sex slave trade that is just the tip of the iceberg.

One of the goals of the 21st century should be to end slavery everywhere regardless of gender, color, religion or age (children are often enslaved).

posted by spyinthesky on January 30, 2004 at 7:48 AM | link to this | reply

Abuse and Fundamentalism
Looking at today's world, it seems to be that the fundamentalists of any religion are the ones most likely to abuse others who are not of their sect or those they deem inferior as a result of gender, race, social structure, etc.   Most religions are good when not taken to their extremes.  I think Christian fundamentalists are "picked on" so much simply because they are here among us; they are "our" fundamentalists.  Of course, the moree fundamentalists get picked on (talking about all religions again), the more defensive they get and the worse their behavior toward the rest of society gets.  More people should remember the phrase, "Everything in Moderation."

posted by archiew on January 30, 2004 at 4:48 AM | link to this | reply