I think that you may have missed some key points in my response post: the underwear that read "Property of Felicia" wasn't underwear my mom made for herself to wear, but rather underwear she made for HIM, my abba, to wear denoting that his crotch "belonged" to her. She also made him such gems as a pair with a heart…

Right? I totally just made that up. You are welcome to use it. No credit required. :-D

We do have a drug in the States for a pill-induced abortion: RU-486 (http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/facts/facts_mifepristone.html).

When my parents got married, my mom had underwear embroidered for my abba that read things on the crotch such as "Property of Felicia" and whatnot. SO! If you want underbloomers that read things like, "No Means No" with a skull and cross-bones on them, why not have some embroidered? Or silk-screened? Or heck, get…

<3 this!

I'm pretty sure that neglecting animals was not what "Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy " was supposed to mean.

My father and uncle both have access to the GPS tracking on my iPhone: I travel. A lot. Mostly by car, and predominately at night when the roads are mostly empty and the lines at toll booths are pretty much nil. My father and uncle (and my ex "almost" fiance, especially while he was stationed overseas) used to freak…

6. Once your wife/girlfriend/one night stand gives birth to your unexpected bundle of obligation, she will be unable to provide for the kid as well as she might otherwise have been because Romney has not been shy about his intention to do away with the Ledbetter Act ensuring (somewhat) more equal pay to women. So…

No one was attacking the Swedish tingsratter from what I could tell- the bitterness seems to be more in regards to the judgement, and not the specific legal system that passed that judgement. Also, just as the fact that it's a different legal system doesn't make the initial verdict any less palatable: just because the…

As a Jew, I'd really love to get a job as a pharmacist and start denying people Accutane prescriptions because Accutane is made of non-kosher ingredients (gelatin). I mean, it's not necessary to a person's ability to live, so I should, by that ruling, be allowed to deny access to it, correct? 10-1 says the courts rule…

This explains SO MUCH! I once came downstairs in the morning, ready to make yummy chocolate brownies using baking chocolate I had purchased for this venture the day before, only to discover my chocoholic mother had gotten a craven during the night and consumed more than half my bar of cooking chocolate! That stuff is…

Can we -not- start poking fingers at WV? While yes, there are some weirdos out of that state, as there are from all states, there are also a lot of really kind, decent people there who are just as disgusted by jerks like this as the rest of us are. I'm not from WV, but I did date a guy from there for a period of time,…

Not only can treatment centers be really expensive, as Cuppycake points out, but how many families know how to do something like stage an intervention that won't turn into an out and out fight? Hiring a professional who knows how to handle such things can also be really expensive- especially if that person has to come…

This is why I love Angie's List- they are paid for by the subscribers, not the advertisers or the professionals listed on the site, and they won't take down bad reviews. If you have a horror story to tell, unless it is rife with foul language, it won't be taken down. Living in a relatively new-to-me area and not…

I am of the opinion that the only person to blame for your birth mother's pain in all this is her rapist. You had no way of knowing what had happened, or the circumstances of your conception. Upon finding out, from what it sounds like, you have respected her wishes to not have further contact. By respecting her…

Or they will support it until they get what they want, then go back to their former ways. I kinda put my money on that being the case.

I think the key word is 'thinks' as in, "All of France THINKS..." meaning it may or may not be true. 'Tis but speculation at this point, so let's not get upset or calling people hypocrites until we know. :-)

"Actively"? In Detroit? HAHAHAHAHA! Sorry. I live just outside Detroit, and the few police I have come into contact to in the city don't really strike me as the "actively" looking for anyone types! Oh but wait- you said "Metro Detroit." Eh. Depends on what township it happened in. The cops in my town seem to take…

Yeah, I love my skirts, but I wear them ankle length. In addition to having been very religious at one point, and having gotten used to wearing skirts (they are so much more comfy in hot summers than pants to me!), I like that I can sit comfortably without having to worry about some jerk aiming a camera up my legs.…

When I wanted to adopt a cat, I volunteered at an animal shelter cleaning kitty cages, grooming kitties, and feeding them. That way I got to interact with every cat there for a few weeks before bringing one home. The thing is, she didn't do well in my house. She was very aggressive- much too much so for my other…