The thing is, it's only been in the past couple of years that retail stores have been open, so those were not the hours of that chosen profession so long ago. I do expect to work some holidays as a nurse, get paid handsomely for doing it, and can still be appalled that retail workers (who many times do not get any…

When you sign on to essential services, you know you're going to have to work weekends, holidays, nights, etc. Most hospitals pay 2-1/2 times your normal hourly wage for working on holidays. You get your holiday pay plus time and 1/2 for working. In my case, my bring home pay for one holiday (8 hour shift) was around…

I don't get this either. Gary Peters, who actually ran as a Democrat and had Obama campaign for him, pulled out a win in the face of an absolute Republican shit storm in Michigan.

You are so right. The GOP keeps decrying teachers as lazy, overpaid, union thugs. As you point out, the heroes of these situations always turn out to be teachers and staff, who many times pay with their lives.

If you're allergic due to eggs or latex, you might want to look into FluBlok, if you've not done so before. If that's not the reason, then please stay very healthy. :)

Exactly. I've always found that the Depression/FDR Democrats stayed thus until they died. It's more people of my parent's age, who came of age in the late 40's, early 50's (and who were the recipients of the FDR Democrats' largess) who have always stubbornly remained Republican.

Well, I know my dad's disappointed because here I am at 54 and still a flaming liberal. Still not racist, still pro-choice. Not sure how old I have to get for that magic transformation to take place.

Tomorrow we will celebrate out 18th anniversary. We both fell asleep, fully clothed at 8:30 pm after a small reception, no drinks, just totally worn out. It was very crazy at work the week before, and then 4 days before the wedding, I was served with papers from my ex for fully custody of my son - total bullshit and…

The nurse is now saying that she thinks she may accidentally touched her face near her nose or eyes with her gloves when taking off her protective gear.

I'll just leave this here:

She does say, "or any other minority" in her rant. I would assume that includes racial minorities.

It's as bad as a car I saw once. Two bumper stickers - one a Confederate flag, the other said, "United We Stand". Ugh.

So that we never stop vomiting, when I clicked on your link for the Sasha pictures, there was a highlighted picture pointing to a possible "Sasha's baby bump" and asking if her daddy did it. She looks to be about 10 years old in the picture.

Depending on your mom's age, she would know too. I am old enough that I remember the days before Roe v. Wade. Women have always had abortions, it was just handled differently depending on your socio-economic status. Rich women went to Europe, middle class women had d & c's, and as usual, poor women had to resort to…

And more people than I'd care to admit take great pleasure in bleating, "The poor in American don't know how good they have it! They're really rich when you look at the poor in other countries!"

The ACA DOES NOT pay for abortions. Hell, the GOP even wants to restrict private insurance companies from getting any federal dollars if they offer any type of abortion coverage. Here in Michigan, we get the priviledge of having to purchase special "abortion insurance" just in case.

Ah, you're right. Wasn't he also the guy who accused John McCain of having an illegitimate black daughter when McCain was running against Bush (was really an adopted daughter)? And worked to discredit anyone who was against Bush's social security "reform"?

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Sadly, I think that's exactly why he is is questioning the health reasons - Antichoicers' only semi-acceptable reason for an abortion is for health reasons. It's stupid, because it's not like they were going to vote for Davis anyway.

So they were so worried that their friends would think they condoned homosexuality? They've found out something much worse - the entire world knowing what shitty, poor excuses for parents they are.