Broke, busted? The kids are starving. And is your spouse cruising, on the hunt for a sugar daddy or else for a queen bee with lots of stored honey? Face the facts when you’re not worth a dime. You’re broke, busted! Down and out! You know it; your partner or spouse knows it, the kids know it, and the neighbors know it.

What can you do? Hara-kiri? Hell no! Then, what will you do? Well, you can go home again. It has been said that “home” is where they have to take you in when you go there.

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Escape to the woods, maybe?

As a kid, my father and I took a vacation every summer which we could afford … to my father’s favorite destination: Porchview. Porchview was sitting on our front porch and watching the cars go by, and also included, was doing maintenance work on our house. I remember every summer I painted the concrete floor of the front porch and the wooden side porch floor either gray or deep red. And I held the bottom of the ladder for my father who was up four stories painting the wooden siding of our house. I didn’t have any vacations other than Porchview until many years later.

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If you plan to off yourself, do it in style. Do it the write way. What should your suicide note or goodbye letter contain? Should it be handwritten? Yes, you will be leaving something of yourself behind (this note) and it might as well be the most of you — a handwritten note. Will it be a suicide note or a goodbye letter? They’re basically the same, although a “goodbye letter” would be longer and would properly be enclosed in an envelope.

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Don’t end up like Milton!

This is a trick question, so speed-read the following two job descriptions? Which one of the two job descriptions is likely to become an obsolete/dead-end job?

The first job described below is from Toledoblade.com:

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Are you crying?!

The traditional boot camps for kids are being outlawed and disbanded due to a few reckless trainers who kicked a couple of kids to death. No more boot camps. However, there is a window of opportunity open for a new profession, a new career. The At-Home Boot Camp DI (Discipline Instructor). The visiting DI.

For the parents:

If there’s no longer a boot camp where you can send your kid, then, by Gawk, bring the boot camp to your kid’s home.

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Don’t run, it’s not safe!

In one of Kilgore Trout’s comments, he talks about childhood and growing up. “Most of the best parts of childhood have the line ‘I can’t believe no one got serious hurt.’ Children need time to be children, they need to experience life on their own … When do they get to just do the stupid things that kids do simply because they’re kids?”

Then from Cerebral: “I knew what it was like to just be a kid and care about nothing. We did shit just to have fun with no one to tell us ‘you can’t do that because it’s not safe.’ ”

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Immigrants at Ellis Island, 1902.

Sometimes the argument goes like this…Hey! Let the illegal immigrants slide, give them amnesty. Hey! we were all illegal immigrants at one time. Whoa! My parents didn’t come into the country under the fence.

My Mom and Dad came in through Ellis Island, just about everyone came through Ellis Island. Under the fence? What was the difference? When you came through Ellis Island where you might be required to be quarantined for health reasons there, your name and other info was entered into a book. If the official couldn’t pronounce your last name, he truncated it or give you a new name made up on the spot. But you were in the book, registered so to speak, maybe the proper term would be “listed” in the book, then you were let into the country.

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I don’t know how many times I have watched documentaries or read articles about autism that reported that “we just don’t know what causes it”. When there exists a frightening statistic that 1 out of 150 children are being diagnosed with some type of autism today, there should be alarm bells going off. I am disgusted by our government’s current lack of attention to this urgent health care crisis. What limited research that is being done today is just beginning to unravel the mysteries of this daunting childhood affliction now termed “Autism Spectrum Disorder”. Scientists are just beginning to find out that there may be a link between autism and a number of immune and neurological disorders to environmental toxins. This would account for the wide spectrum of autism symptoms that children exhibit due to the array of molecular dialogue that occurs between our genes and the environment. This to me is pretty frightening considering the vast amount of pollution that exists in our environment. Just what exactly is going on between our genes and the never ending exposure to environmental toxins?

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Our kids may be more
affected by toxins than we think.

New finding show young children with heavy toxic burdens

Would you believe that right now your body, the one you have nurtured, fed and taken care of for years, (and I might say, the only one you have), may contain up to 40 toxic chemicals? And, if you have children, even your ten-year-old may harbor as many, if not more. I have been writing many Health Alert articles warning consumers and parents of the increasing concern for all the toxic chemicals we are all exposed to every day. In this regard, I came across an article about a research study that tested for man-made chemicals found in homes, offices and people and what they found may surprise you.

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Snipped from alternet.org.

Have you ever wondered why Americans seem to have no time and most working families feel exhausted and drained? Well, it’s because of our government’s failure to support “the little guy” and favor businesses’ bottom line instead. I find it incredible that the richest country in the world doesn’t mandate employer’s to pay for sick time or vacation. And, for those who work for companies who have no benefits such as this, life becomes extremely difficult. You may say that small businesses can’t afford to pay workers for time off, but when you hear about what other countries are doing, you may change your mind. And I guarantee, you will be envious.

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