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| Highlighted Topic: "Is global warming real?" |
Hi, I am 21 and am interested in reading about the weather and am very interested in weather global warming is real or not.
Some people say the polar ice caps are melting and there are videos of them melting.
But then there are some people that are saying that global warming is a political scam!
But if global warming isn't real, then why are there more natural disasters now than ever? And why are the natural disasters bigger also? Or maybe I have the wrong information.
So anyone with any info on this can reply.
Thanks!
Posted by: 80sfan at 02/04/10 at 12:30:29. There are 21 responses
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| Highlighted Topic: "When Parents/Family are Failing " |
I decided to start this thread. As I know I am not the only one who is/has experienced this. I only have my mother left (and a brother and a sister). I have already lost all of my grandparents, father and a brother. I am about 2 hours away from my mother, and I have a full time + job, and 2 lovely daughters (6 and 7) and a wonderful husband. Unfortunately I am the youngest of siblings, by 14, 13 years and I was always told by my mother that I was going to stay and take care of her. Well this foiled her plan:
(1) when I went to college- she didn't think I should
(2) when I did not go to college for something she approved of (I chose Urban Forestry)
(3) after college when I got a job away from home
(4) when I married my husband and moved 2 hours away (from Illinois to a "dreaded" state Iowa - this is the thinking of my mom)
It has been 10 years married, and my mother has been alone in her house at least 15 years. She has always had "issues" I blame it on too much that has gone wrong (or too much bad in her life). She loses things constantly, and always blames it on someone else... So now no one is in the house (so people are breaking in). She keeps the house locked like fort knox. I have asked her to move closer to us (the girls love her dearly, and so that she could be part of our lives) - but I guess it has only been her house that has never "betrayed" her.... so it is so far a no go. She fell 5 years ago and a crack in her c1 vertebrae in her neck was discovered. She wrecked her car (my old car that we gave to her). So she has had no vehicle for 4 years. She is on a very fixed income. I try and try, and I am met by hostility and rejection (my fault for leaving)...
Neighbors are leaving us note (they believe it is Alzheimer's - but honestly this has gone on all of my life... It is more outward now, she has no one in the house to blame/talk to). Yes, definitely something wrong (I believe mental breakdowns have occured at several traumatic spots in her life - catching her husband/love of her life sleeping with someone, my father leaving her, her father's death (whom she was closest too), then her mother's death, my brother's death, then each one of my "breaking" away -college, job, marriage... She also suffered from severe head trauma at 16 from a car accident, and had to relearn everything, and relative's always said she completely changed personality after that.
She is a very strong person, stubborn, and can still physically do probably anything. I worry about her, even though to others, I guess it appears I do not care enough. A good daughter would have had her move with them. I have asked, begged and pleaded. I have played the grand daughter game (I have tried withholding visits - who is that hurting....).
Anyhow - I want to know how some are coping/dealing with their failing parents or family member or maybe just to chat about it. I know it is hard, and hurts soo much to be in such a place of difficulty. I have much more to ask and tell, but I will not exhaust you with a single post. I am not asking for solutions here, for I know there are not any "easy" one size fits all solutions.
The Dynamic's of the Human Mind does not allow for this....
Posted by: 2kidsami at 01/02/10 at 2:05:44. There are 54 responses
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| Highlighted Topic: "Glad I have the DVD so I can skip it on TV" |
For years and years I have awaited the network broadcast of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" as the true herald of the holiday season. I brought my kids up with the same tradition -- one which has been made no less special for us by the fact that they happen to be Jewish.
Tonight we sat in horror and watched what you have done to the single greatest cartoon ever made.
How many minutes did you cut out of "A Charlie Brown Christmas" so you could run more commercials?
http://muskrat-john.livejournal.com/264483.html
It sounds like the networks are just as shameless as ever in running commercials. I know the original cartoon actually had an advertisement in it (as tasteless as that is), but I guess the networks need the full 10 minutes worth of commercials in a half hour even when it's a show that they've clearly not spent any money in producing (since it's about 45 years old at this point). Read the link for the full list of everything they cut. Pretty sickening.
It's really quite obvious how many ads are run, when you go back to an old show like the Dick Van Dyke show, and it runs something like 27 minutes long and then run a new show like Big Bang Theory and notice it only runs 20 minutes long (and that includes the very short title sequence). You can practically run three of those shows in the hour when you used to run two shows.
The real kicker is that this wasn't just a classic cartoon they did this to, it's one that preaches a message of rejecting the crass commercialization of the season. How far we haven't come in 45 years huh?
Posted by: ChuckyG at 12/10/09 at 10:11:17. There are 17 responses
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| Highlighted Topic: "TV Families Through The Years" |
Is it just me, or have TV families changed over the years?
TV producers have created shows centered around many perfect little families in the past [ie: Leave it to Beaver, the Brady Bunch], but now it seems like television families are full of dysfunction.
I have one possible theory as to why the change has slowly occured: Entertainment.
Back in what has been called the 'Golden Age' of TV [the stuff played on TV Land, basically], viewers loved shows that they could watch with their family, and that lessons could be learned from.
Nowadays, we want comedy and intricate plotlines. There may be arguments about how dumb we've gotten throughout the years, but there's definitely arguments to be made about how much smarter we are now, or at least that we know what we like.
Maybe 'back in the day', hit television shows could have gotten away with having simple story lines [Little Johnny wants candy. Little Johnny steals some from the store. Little Johnny gets caught. Little Johnny learns a lesson. Little Johnny never does it again.], but now, audiences is more smarterer, and we want shows that'll make us think, at least some of us do.
Shows like Malcolm In The Middle, Married With Children, and the Simpsons, just to name a few, are/were hit shows. What do they have in common? Dysfunction.
I could go on and on about this, but what do you think? I know I'm not the only one who's noticed this, but why do you think this change has happened?
Also, what are your favorite Television families?
I'd have to pick the 'Everybody Hates Chris' family, but that's just me. 
Posted by: Torey at 12/07/09 at 11:35:04. There are 12 responses
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| Highlighted Topic: "Henk's Artist/Song Of The Week #6: Alessi Brothers / Barnaby Bye" |
Henk's Artist/Song Of The Week
Been pondering about this for quite a while now... Finally decided to give it a go.
There are loads of artists and/or songs that IMHO deserve more attention than they're getting. That's why every week (or so) I will be highlighting one such a song/artist in this here thread, with a little background information. The amount of information may vary, depending on the time I have at my disposal and/or whatever I can find on the internet. The featured artist or song could be anything ranging from 1960's to 2000's and from obscure songs to international hits that seem to have gone forgotten. I think most of the time you'll find yourself wondering WTH I'm on about, though, so I'm taking a big risk here.
Nontheless, I hope you'll find it interesting/entertaining, and will leave some comments every now and then (if only for encouragement).
I expect to spend a lot of time on research and translation, so I hope it's not all in vain.
List of featured artists/songs:
#1. Gary Brooker (Nov. 8, 2009)
#2. Murray Head (Nov. 15, 2009)
#3. Jon English (Nov. 22, 2009)
#4. Alides Hidding / Time Bandits (Dec. 14, 2009)
#5. The Mark & Clark Band (Jan. 16, 2010)
#6. Alessi (Brothers) / Barnaby Bye (Jan. 30, 2010)
Posted by: Henk at 11/08/09 at 4:56:09. There are 70 responses
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