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Jan 2, 2007 | comments: 4
Thomas Davis Jan 3, 2007, 6:41am EST
Avoid the credit card spree, Bush ended the ability to declare bankruptcy and eliminate that form of debt.
It may be the most difficult thing to do but you should try running. You need to get the mind and body in tune with each other and running does this miraculously. Some form of exercise regimen is also good. Sounds to much like you are slipping into deep depresssion.
Personally, I think the psychotropics can only perpetuate your state - or make it worse.
Dec 15, 2006 | comments: 184
Thomas Davis Dec 15, 2006, 11:33pm EST
I Love a party. Nice cake Serina!
Dec 12, 2006 | comments: 20
Thomas Davis Dec 13, 2006, 11:57pm EST
As this grouping of commentaries started, it is indeed a quandary. Parents wanting a child like themselves is the basis for these "unusual" requests. In my not-so-relished opinion, that is a selfish purpose serving solely the desires of the parent. I agree with you Lauren on that issue of selfishness. Yet, from the parents point of view, maybe it is more difficult for them to fully love a child that is "genetically superior" to themselves and the motivation, albeit superficiously, is to achieve as harmoniously family as they can.

One major question that needs to be asked, What would the children want? They are not objects. What would their choice be? That must be respected. Of course that question can't be answered until the child comes into being and matures sufficiently to answer. At that point, no changes to their genetic makeup could be made, so the only safe bet is to not short change the child for the sake of the parent.
Twenty years down the road, that child will ask, why did you do this to me, mom? Dad?
Dec 8, 2006 | comments: 12
Thomas Davis Dec 13, 2006, 6:20am EST
Victor Hugo once said, "He who opens a school door, closes a prison."
Encouraging inmates to explore and nuture their creative side allows them to discover a part of themselves they never knew or had forgotten. This, more often then not, alters their course in life.
Numerous studies support your conclusions; the rehabilitation rate increases dramatically with education and art, yet the porportional dollar spent for these beneeficial programs is seen as an unearned extravagance.
I admire your advocacy.
Dec 7, 2006 | comments: 5
Thomas Davis Dec 12, 2006, 5:34am EST
Maybe we should just annex Mexico. Revie the age old doctrine of Manifest Destiny. That would solve the problem.
Nov 29, 2006 | comments: 34
Thomas Davis Dec 8, 2006, 6:05am EST
I Loved it. A wonderful story, honest and pure, straight to the spirit of the season.
Dec 7, 2006 | comments: 5
Thomas Davis Dec 7, 2006, 6:03am EST
Something isn't right here. It is mandatory that convicted criminals serve out their sentence before being released. The only short-cut to this is early parole upon which they would be deported. But this early parole would be governed by your state's parole laws.
What needs to be looked at more closely are his sentences. A rape, with a history of similar crimes, while children watched, deserves far more time then he obviously did.
Dec 5, 2006 | comments: 4
Thomas Davis Dec 5, 2006, 6:20am EST
Oh Mugg. I've read about this. But there is too little that has been reported on and, as in your own statements- you have to dig deep to find it. And a story of such monumental import!
This is only one of several stories that has broken wide open in the last so many years. Others, like the fact that the Fed has ceased all funding for AIDs research and STD treatments and still many others have gone virtually unreported.
The current administration has the press cowed!
The armed services has long been a testing ground for the federally funded Frankensteins with moneys that have been divereted from more meaningful programs.
You ask, can anybody support such behavior? I pay a lot of taxes every year (not to my choosing) and it outrageously offends me to think that I have been made complicit in these horrors.

I applaud Clive. What this country, and all countries, need is an honest, straight-forward voice, not ego-stroking and imaginary pride. Regardless of Clive's own nationality, truth is truth. Live with it or fix it, but don't deny it.
Nov 29, 2006 | comments: 4
Thomas Davis Dec 3, 2006, 11:53pm EST
I, too, am glad to be connected to you. Gather is a great place to express yourself, through thoughts or essays or even describing lovely walks by the sea.
Nov 30, 2006 | comments: 5
Thomas Davis Dec 2, 2006, 6:07am EST
I agree, this is disheartening. But! Have you been there lately? The entire area seems to be slowly slipping downward. I am often torn between keeping these historic and memorable landmarks and tearing them all down and building something new.
Where would we be if everytime something was to be sold and demolished for a new building, shopping center or sports arena and no one spoke out
We would be living in an aging city, rusting and crumbling around us.
And where would we be if we simply razed every park or landmark for a new mall when some developer came along?
We would have no heritage left for future generations?
Hmmmm. The quandary of progress.
Nov 28, 2006 | comments: 3
Thomas Davis Nov 28, 2006, 7:23am EST
Sad, but well written.
Nov 25, 2006 | comments: 4
Thomas Davis Nov 28, 2006, 7:21am EST
When I was that age I loved the mud!!!
Nov 27, 2006 | comments: 15
Thomas Davis Nov 28, 2006, 12:05am EST
Okay, I can't accept these results. It told me I need to eat more vegetables. Hell, I'm a vegetarian. (but on the age calculation I did pretty good - and it didn't say I was immature)
Nov 27, 2006 | comments: 15
Thomas Davis Nov 27, 2006, 11:42pm EST
Is immature a good answer? That's what it will probably tell me. Ah, what the heck. I'll take the test anyway.
Nov 27, 2006 | comments: 8
Thomas Davis Nov 27, 2006, 11:36pm EST
Okay, now. :)
Nov 27, 2006 | comments: 15
Thomas Davis Nov 27, 2006, 4:10pm EST
I think most everone has had a close call with death. Mine was much closer and I don't wish to elaborate simply because to do so would require an involved writing effort. Suffice it to say that I gained an entirely new perspective on my worth that day. If I had died what could be said about me. Then: not much. I have tried to keep that in mind each day I awake and wonder what the day will bring.
If I should not awake tomorrow, more can be said about me than back then, but I am not done yet.

I repeat, because it is the most important realization from that experience: I am not done yet.
Nov 26, 2006 | comments: 8
Thomas Davis Nov 26, 2006, 11:53pm EST
An inspiring article.
Nov 26, 2006 | comments: 18
Thomas Davis Nov 26, 2006, 11:32pm EST
I agree with Billy (not related). We need the radicals in this day, even if they are so far out there they are beyond reason. They have the audacity to stand up and speak out loud, and if they do try to herd us like sheep, at least we had a choice.
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