CommentsDisplaying Brooke Lorren's 10 most recent comments.

• Family Spends $1.5 Million on College for Five Daughters

  May 19, 2012 at 10:35pm

  In reply to Glenn in Virginia.

  Today you’re not even allowed to work during your first year of law school at some universities… and all others limit you to 20 hours per week at the most.

• These Are The 20 Best Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree

  May 18, 2012 at 2:58pm

  In reply to Locked.

  My husband was an executive assistant for years…

  Then we realized that even the best-paid executive assistants never really make great money, so he decided to go to college. It would have been better for him to go earlier, because as a college student, we have less money than ever, and four people have to live off of it. Fortunately, he only has one year left and he’ll have a law school degree.

  Not that everybody should go to college, but the choice to go to college or not is a big one. Not going to college can be a big pain later on.

• Would You ‘Incorporate Bits of the Machine World’ in Your Body If It Meant Never Losing Your Phone?

  May 15, 2012 at 11:40pm

  No thanks. I purposely ditch my phone all the time. I like being alone, not talking to people, too much…

• ‘Cult’: Pastor Sues Family for $500,000 for Posting Negative Internet Reviews of His Church

  May 15, 2012 at 3:21pm

  This lawsuit is sure going to bring in the crowds to that church…

• Yup, Elizabeth Warren Just Doubled-Down on Her ‘Native American Heritage’ Claims

  May 15, 2012 at 5:23am

  My grandma told me that I am part Native American… I believed her. She also told me that her grandmother was Woodrow Wilson’s cousin. I believed that too.

  I’ve since done a lot of genealogical research. Great Great Grandmother Elsie Jane Wilson didn‘t turn out to be Woodrow Wilson’s first cousin, although it may turn up that they are second or third cousins or something… I don’t know yet. Still looking for whoever grandma thought was a Nez Pierce Indian.

  I think that it would be easy for someone to check the box innocently, thinking that yes, they were part Native American… among other boxes with other races. The forms don’t ask you how much of a particular race you are. I might have written European-Native American on a couple of forms or two, not because I wanted special benefits… I’ve clicked the “prefer not to say” box a few times because it’s none of their business. I usually only fill in those blocks when they want it for statistical purposes only.

  That being said, it looks like Elizabeth Warren did it because she wanted special benefits, and she hasn’t since retracted her statement saying that it was a mistake made in ignorance.

  Glenn Beck asked for a picture of her in warpaint. I did make one today: http://www.zazzle.com/elizabeth_warren_native_american_stretched_canvas-192524318983618372?rf=238710598307006644

• Ohio Child Returned to Parents After 50 Pound Weight Loss

  May 13, 2012 at 2:11am

  Most 9 year old boys are not 60 pounds these days, I can almost guarantee it…

  My daughter is 9, and she weighs about 65 pounds. She is not overweight… She works out 5 to 7 hours a week at the gym (as a level 4 gymnast) and is always doing cartwheels or handstands around the house. Boys often weigh more than girls, and about 1/3 of the kids in the US are obese, which would mean that they would weigh more than my daughter, pulling the average up.

  60 might have been the average weight for 9 year old boys several years ago, but I don’t think it is any more. Nevertheless, a 9 year old boy shouldn’t be weighing 200 pounds… even if he was training to be an Olympian weightlifter, I doubt that he’d get that heavy.

• ‘I Am Sickened’: Alleged Undercover Video of Wyo. Pig Farm Produces Shocking Animal Cruelty Images

  May 9, 2012 at 5:16pm

  In reply to paul1149.

  I am not an animal rights activist or anything, but in the past few years, I’ve been learning a lot about how the health of the animals that we eat affects the health of the food that we eat. That’s why grass fed beef is a lot healthier than corn fed beef (cows aren’t made to eat corn). That’s why the shells of cage free organic eggs are much thicker than conventional eggs (and are healthier as well).

  I doubt that this is one isolated case. It’s not just limited to pigs either.

• Maine Gov. Talks Tough With Able-Bodied Unemployed: ‘Get Off the Couch and Get a Job!’

  May 9, 2012 at 5:10pm

  In reply to Individualism.

  My husband is 2/3 of the way through law school. He recently got a temporary job that will last through the summer. His boss told him that she had received over 100 applications for his job. It doesn’t pay a lot, but we’re thankful for it.

  In 2007 (the last year that we earned above the poverty level), my husband lost four jobs. Every time that he was hired, the company would go bankrupt shortly afterwards and have to lay everybody off.

  There might be jobs in some places, but in other places there’s not a lot. There are reasons why people can’t move too; for example, they might be in the middle of getting a law degree, can’t afford to move, or perhaps they have an elderly parent to care for. Texas is one of the places that we will be looking for jobs for when dh graduates.

• Gov’t Spending $4M to Make Sure Welfare Recipients Can Use Food Stamps at Farmers’ Markets

  May 9, 2012 at 5:00pm

  In reply to Nepenthe.

  This is one of the few good things that the food stamp program has done in a long time… people can use food stamps at McDonald’s in some places (which I completely oppose). I’d rather see people have the opportunity to buy healthy food instead.

  Contrary to popular belief, people can still work and receive food stamps. A family of four can earn $2,422 per month and still receive food stamps. My husband is 2/3 of the way towards earning a law degree, is currently working 40 hours a week for the summer, and is only earning half of that amount (and he is not earning minimum wage either). That’s almost $30,000 a year. My friends, who have 9 kids, would be eligible if they earned less than $63,828 a year (I have no reason to believe that they use them, but if the dad were to fall on hard times and lose his job, he’d end up having to get a pretty sweet job to not be eligible).

  Isn’t it better for people to buy fruits and vegetables instead of chips and soda? Obviously you’re going to get a percentage of people that prefer to make themselves sick off of junk food, but I‘d rather see tax money go towards healthy foods than to junk that people shouldn’t be eating.

• American Airlines Once Offered Unlimited First-Class Tickets for Life — and Then People Started Using Them…

  May 7, 2012 at 7:00pm

  In reply to Brooke Lorren.

  We’ve considered AmTrak before as well. Unfortunately, they don’t have an Amtrak station near our house, so we’d have to drive a couple of hours to get to the station. Would be nice to try though.