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• Meet the ‘Meanest Mother in Wyoming’ — Another Example of Good Parenting?

  January 11, 2013 at 3:47am

  I think the mom did the right thing. I hope she carries through and doesn’t cave. My grandmother lost her 10 year old son to a drunk driver and never got over it. This kid was lucky and maybe some family was too that night that he got caught before something happened?

  I will be 60 years old tomorrow and have never had my own car. We own one family car because it is all we can afford. I don’t know why these kids today have to have a car the minute they get a license anyway?

  According to http://www.rmiia.org/auto/teens/Teen_Driving_Statistics.asp

  16-year-olds have higher crash rates than drivers of any other age. Why hand them a car until they are mature enough to handle the responsibility?

  I say she’s a good mother for showing him there are consequences when you break the rules.

• MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Quickly Laments Lack of Gun Control in Wake of School Shooting: ‘Gun Violence Has Been Epidemic in This Country’

  December 14, 2012 at 3:13pm

  In reply to bmfh58.

  I think this man’s problems were long in the making. Normal people do not just get up one morning and say “I’m going to go kill a bunch of young children”.

  I live in Illinois and the state is broke. Even after doubling the state sales tax it hasn’t helped. I’m not blaming either party since both like to blow taxpayers money these days, but what is being cut here to try to balance the budget? Programs for the disabled, and mentally ill.

  If this man had been crying out for help like I know many are and not getting it, then we need to find a way to cut back on grants for things like the sex life of frogs or whatever cause celeb of the moment that can survive without our tax dollars so that we can afford to help those in real need.

  Gun control is not the problem. Here in IL we have strict gun laws but criminals always get access. We need to help people BEFORE they get to the point they even contemplate hurting someone else.

  My prayers go out to these families. My grandmother lost her 10 year old son to a drunk driver just days after Christmas back in the 50s and she carried that pain every Christmas until she died. I’m sure these families are going to need a lot of prayers and support to get through this.

• Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

  December 8, 2012 at 10:54am

  In reply to PIGSWILLNEVERFLY.

  My husband calls himself a” country bumpkin.” one of the last hard work ethic dinosaurs . A man who hasn’t had a vacation in almost 12 years. Yet as much as he works it isn’t enough to get things I need so I can continue to be able to do my hobbies in bed which are intended to help others and to keep me from losing my mind, like I made over 200 hats for people with cancer a few years ago while in my hospital bed but it is broke now. It was very used already when we got it, and the frame eventually broke, the springs came through the old mattress, but it gave my bad back the support I needed for awhile to be able to make things like the cancer caps from bed. So I need a new hospital bed among a few other items.
  I will be 60 next month, too young to lay in bed and dying bit by bit letting my talents go to waste because I don’t have the resources to help myself much less anyone else. And even though it is Christmas I’m too old to write to Santa for things I need.
  I lost my independence when I got ill. That in itself was hard enough to accept but to have to accept just laying in bed waiting to die because we can’t afford the things I need to continue participating in life is even more difficult.
  It is extremely humbling and emotionally hard to write this post but, since you said people need to ask if in need, I will say if anyone would be willing to help me it would take a load off my husband and it will be paid forward many times over.

• Read the Heartbreaking Post From a Dad Admitting He Can’t Provide for His Kids — and See the Happy Ending

  December 8, 2012 at 10:50am

  In reply to PIGSWILLNEVERFLY.

  Pigs,
  I have lived my life giving and yes, it is a wonderful feeling but I have needs that hinder me from doing so now. You stated people need to ask if they need help, but it is hard to ask when you have been vilified for doing so in the past. I feel as though I am dying more and more each day because I NEED to work in some capacity to feel useful so I will humble myself and ask people reading this if they can help. I need things we can’t afford despite my husband working around the clock.
  I am in a lot of pain everyday and suffer from a lot of health issues that keep me from doing a paying job. I cant get disability because I was a foster parent for 7 years before I became disabled so I didn’t have enough work credits to qualify. Charities nor the government will help unless I divorce my husband of 40 years because they say he makes too much. He works hard to keep up with just basic living expenses and we don’t get help because he then makes too much. But, believe me you can never make enough when you need ongoing expensive medical care. I won’t divorce my husband to game the system, and I find it a failure of our country’s values that I or anyone in need should be told to consider that, to get help.
  My husband is the hardest working man I know, working as many days as they will allow even Sundays and holidays to care for our disabled daughter and myself. When he gets home he cares for us until he goes to bed exhausted only to get up and do it all again the ne

• Homeless Man Behind Viral NYPD Photo Now Shoeless Again, Demanding ‘Piece of the Pie’

  December 3, 2012 at 5:19pm

  In reply to AllAmericanGirl22.

  It could be his family has helped him over and over and it has not helped.Some people are emotional vampires that actually destroy families by taking so much there is nothing left to give.

  I know people like that. Drunks or addicts that abuse family members to the point that in order to try to help the drunk/addict they have to cut off contact with the person in trouble. Tough love.

  Sad part of life is sometimes the best thing you can do is walk away until the person in need *wants* to help himself.

  None of us know the whole story. Even some military people that are in need through no fault of their own in a situation such as homelessness or because of mentally illness still have to want help for it to get their life together.

  One thing I know from experience is that you can’t force people to get well or choose life.

  All we can do is help those in need that not only actually need help but will use it as a hand up to a better life. Pray for those that don’t want the help, maybe someday they will.

  No pun intended but until we walk in another person’s shoes we do not know the pain that keeps them from wanting more from life.

  I do know one thing, there is not a lot these days to be hopeful about in life and that is causing a lot of people to just give up and take whatever they can get. Somehow we have got to get back to the American Dream that made people “want” a better life.

• Homeless Man Behind Viral NYPD Photo Now Shoeless Again, Demanding ‘Piece of the Pie’

  December 3, 2012 at 1:21pm

  In reply to kadster01.

  It is so sad to see the help of compassionate people abused because when someone truly is in need then that person is unlikely to get help.

  When I was diagnosed with cancer, then one illness after another and could not work we tried getting help from established charities (American Cancer Society, Salvation Army) just to help with the cost of transportation and hotels to out of town medical care.They said we made too much even when my husband was unemployed. Charity after charity told me to divorce my husband then I would qualify. We refused. That is how families are broken up.

  We got some help from online friends, because we had no family that could help. It was so appreciated and I personally wrote to everyone because without the help I may not have survived.

  We still struggle today because I am too sick to work. I am used to working 18 hour days and doing charity too. I am depressed a lot because I need to work to feel productive. Not everyone that suffers from mental illness needs to be in a nut house.I just need to feel useful again. I’d love to read to kids at the library, but after replacing a 17 year old car with another used one so my husband can work (to pay not only our share but everyone that is on the dole too) we can’t afford one for me.

  So I use my time praying for this country.

  If you are able to help others please do so, just verify the need first.. Some people need the help and really do appreciate it. I know first hand because I have be

• High-Tech ‘Granny Pods’ Allow Elderly Family Members to Live Comfortably in a Backyard Cottage for $125K

  November 28, 2012 at 12:14am

  In reply to JMJ6391.

  got cut off. Meant to say “my greatest blessing.”

• High-Tech ‘Granny Pods’ Allow Elderly Family Members to Live Comfortably in a Backyard Cottage for $125K

  November 28, 2012 at 12:13am

  I have many serious health issues one being that I can’t regulate my body temperature. I need the house so cold that it freezes out my husband and daughter and it runs the electric sky high. We couldn’t afford to add a room so we put a window AC in the garage, sealed up the door and put carpet pieces on the floor. Put my hospital bed in there for 6 months of the year. It isn’t the prettiest room but it beat moving to a nursing home.

  The one thing that is a down side to the garage or these pods is lack of companionship. That is where I feel these “granny pods” would be negative. People need privacy but we also need human companionship. Like a garage if these pods were attached to the house but with say French doors that could be opened they would allow people to feel a part of the family when desired.

  When my grandmother was dying my mom and I cared for her. Then I cared for my mother in her home when she was dying from cancer. People used to care for their family when needed. Today it’s common for parents to be caring and supporting adult children living in the basement. Will these same adult children care for these parents when the time comes?

  I do worry about the implications of Obamacare’s affect on people like my daughter and I who are disabled and will be unworthy of getting care in the future. It will be a pain pill when the time comes because we don’t have $125,000 for medical care much less a granny pod. We have each other though which is my grea

• Report: Upcoming ABC Interview With Gingrich Ex-Wife Could ‘End’ Candidate’s Career, Network Likely to Air This Thursday

  January 19, 2012 at 1:42am

  I am sick of this process of tearing down every person running! Their qualifications to be President is all that should matter.

  All during the Clinton years we heard from the left “it’s just sex”. That was OK with the left that he cheated IN the White House. Then NO vetting of Obama at all. So they get a pass a Republicans have to be saints? Who will be left?

  Newt and this woman are long divorced and NOW she decides to talk. Same with Herman Cain. Decades go by and only until there is something to gain do these women come forward.

  As a woman I find this appalling. My father told me when I started dating “if you date a man who is married what makes you think he is not going to cheat on you?” She was a willing part of the adultery when they BOTH cheated on his first wife. She has no room to point fingers at him now.

  When each one of us goes to a job interview it does not matter if we have had one spouse, two or ten. If it did half this country would be unemployed!

  All that matters is can he NOW do the job of cleaning up this country? Will he be a champion of the Constitution and fight for our America?

  Everything else is distraction to take the heat off Obama.

  Until ABC and the rest of the alphabet news is willing to dig into President Obama’s past with the same fury that they are Newt, Herman Cain and the Republicans I don’t care what they or this bitter woman has to say.

  Quit giving Obama more chances to win!

• Romney’s 2002 News Flashback: ‘My Views Are Progressive’

  December 14, 2011 at 9:20am

  In reply to schroeder123.

  Just do a Google search on Ron Paul and racists remarks. Not saying if the stuff is true but it’s there.

  The plan is already being laid out to label him racist. It’s already making the rounds on the internet.

  Herman Cain had a chance to garner votes from Conservative minorities. He was accused with no proof. One down. Newt is now being attacked over remarks made years ago. Next…

  Every candidate is being drugged through the mud until most people think they aren’t electable. Who will be left? Obama.

  Why aren’t the Republican candidates vetting his past instead of going after each other? He is the one they have to beat. Make him unelectable by his own words, and any one of them can then be chosen by the voters.

  Reagan had it right “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.”

  If these candidates keep attacking each other how will they reconcile their accusations against the candidate when it is time to support that candidate that wins the nomination and goes up against Obama?

  The left will use every sleazy tidbit they are uttering now against the other candidates and by those words hand votes to Obama. He won’t have to bad mouth them, the other candidates are doing it for him.

  They need to attack Obama’s record instead of each other because we can’t survive another 4 years of this President’s policies.

  Everyone is looking for President Perfect. Vote for Mr. 75% and a Senate that can back him and we go from there to fight another