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[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by nononono


I can't watch anything about kids being hurt anymore - news or otherwise.

I am the same way since they killed Kenny. Bastards!

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Fugee
If that was a sock, then who was in the alley playing tonsil hockey with the Count?

good old count, [sniff]. we will always have mac. and jack.

[Penske_Account]

woo hoo!

West Side! Represent!

[pony_trekker]

Whole lotta posting going on!

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by pony_trekker
Whole lotta posting going on!

We had wine and cheese as well. You missed it.

[Gattigap]

For the enjoyment of those of us who gleefully participate in the cult of personality for the show that mocks cults of personality, today's LAT has an profile on The Colbert Report and the should-I-or-shouldn't-I decision that politicians grapple with in deciding to participate on his 434-part series, Better Know a District.

It covers, among others, Westmoreland's (R-GA) inability to name the Ten Commandments that were the subject of legislation he sponsored, and Colbert persuading John Hall (D-NY) to read a random "smear card" smearing his incumbent opponent because the inbumbent wouldn't agree to appear on the show.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, my favorite to date has been Rep. Sherman (D-CA).

• Sherman participated in a PG-rated spoof of a pornographic movie involving Colbert and a pizza deliveryman, a nod to his district being in the San Fernando Valley, home to the nation's adult film industry. But Sherman said he turned down several requests from Colbert to do potentially embarrassing things in the spoof, titled "Fresh Hot Slice."
  
  In the end, Sherman was shown simply watching Colbert and the deliveryman indulge in some sexually suggestive pizza eating.
  
  "I ate no pizza," Sherman said. "That's not because Colbert didn't want me to eat some pizza."

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[taxwonk]

Originally posted by nononono
That you're so overwhelmingly defined by it. And the diaper-changing, too, unless, apparently, one of your kids is Hank. And the type of their need for attention. THey sort of need less basics attention, constant minding, and then move to needing more substantive stuff, but you have more room to breathe.

Hank's diaper thing is not really biologically defined, iykwim.

[John the Baptist]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
my kids are why I exist. why I crank the hours why i breathe they are why I am..........the other stuff is just a pressure release the shopping etc. from the stress.

If there's one thing I've learned in my minsitry, it's this:

• Much like how those who spend a lot of time professing how hot they are almost always turn out not to be, people who have to talk about how devoted they are to their kids, aren't. Often, these people need to convince themselves that they are really acting in others' best interests, but the reality is they're only trying to rationalize their selfish behavior.

No doubt you are the exception to this rule.

Ask yourself this (just out of curiousity, of course): if you are working 7 days a week for your kids, via long commute, and then need the stress relief of "shopping" (and God knows - and he does - what else is included in the "etc."), again for your kids, when do your kids ever see you? What do they think of your hair and your clothes and your late nights?

Then again, maybe you're not the exception.

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by John the Baptist
If there's one thing I've learned in my minsitry, it's this:

• Much like how those who spend a lot of time professing how hot they are almost always turn out not to be, people who have to talk about how devoted they are to their kids, aren't. Often, these people need to convince themselves that they are really acting in others' best interests, but the reality is they're only trying to rationalize their selfish behavior.

No doubt you are the exception to this rule.

Ask yourself this (just out of curiousity, of course): if you are working 7 days a week for your kids, via long commute, and then need the stress relief of "shopping" (and God knows - and he does - what else is included in the "etc."), again for your kids, when do your kids ever see you? What do they think of your hair and your clothes and your late nights?

Then again, maybe you're not the exception.

That is most un-Christian like of you to judge.

As you may have encountered in your ministry, to have a stay at home parent is very expensive. We happen to have that situation. The long hours are to sustain that. I'm not bragging about being a good parent, but I break my butt for my kids.

[John the Baptist]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
That is most un-Christian like of you to judge.

So you are not a Christian?

[patentparanyc]

Originally posted by John the Baptist
So you are not a Christian?

I am christian I am protestant episcopalean. I'm an ASP. JUST KIDDING

[John the Baptist]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I'm not bragging about being a good parent.

That is a wise move.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by John the Baptist
That is a wise move.

What denomination are you?

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
I am christian I am protestant episcopalean. I'm an ASP. JUST KIDDING

Asian Sock Puppet?

[Fugee]

Originally posted by patentparanyc
to have a stay at home parent is very expensive. We happen to have that situation. The long hours are to sustain that.

All the more reason to break your designer label addiction.

If you are going to buy cashmere sweaters while you are still losing weight, it only makes sense to buy more reasonably priced ones and avoid the ultra-expensive designer ones. Actually this advice covers most clothing expeditures until you are at the weight where you want to stay.