The beast of burden

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I think that if you asked any woman, especially the housewife or “housewoman” what a beast of burden is, there is a very good chance that she would say the house. I buckled down and did housework, don’t worry not too much, just enough. Just enough to reinforce every reason why I hate it so, in my mind. I never used to hate it, not like I do now. Maybe it has been too many years of doing the same chores all the time, with it never ever being done for good or appreciated. For the past year I have been thinking, especially when I am vacuuming, if the house is perhaps too big. I am not going to get any younger, I’m only going to get older and if I hate cleaning this much now, than what is it going to be like in five years? I do love my house though, it is cozy and comfortable and no matter how many people are here, you never feel crowded.

I love my garden as well and I do not hate gardening in any way whatsoever. I never care how exhausting it is, nor how dirty I get, there is something about gardening that is so satisfying and it never feels monotonous or boring. I suppose if I had the proper mindset when it came to housecleaning, in the same fashion as I have with gardening than housework wouldn’t be so vile. Who am I kidding? I will never be able to convince my brain to see vacuuming, dusting, dishes, cleaning the bathroom and laundry and everything else in the same vein as I view gardening.
I love my house, I really do but I have to figure something out about my souring attitude towards housework. It kind of stinks to not enjoy taking care of your own house. There I am through complaining, I don’t have to do it tomorrow because I am going to pick my hubby from the airport with my son. The hubby is coming home from Algeria, hooray.

Culture shock

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Culture Shock

Blandford MA

Moving to my small town from New York City. I was so accustomed to having everything open 24 hours a day, within walking distance or a subway ride away, traffic and noise. Here in my small town, no traffic, everything is a twenty minute car ride away. The General Store closes at 7 p.m and we are lucky to have one now, we went without a General Store for close to two years and it was unpleasant, we have noise but it’s birds chirping in the morning and the best of all positively no lines at the Post Office, it’s a beautiful thing.

Want to Lower Gas Prices to $3.00, Now? Tax the Oil Speculators, Now

Paul I agree with you but after having conversations with many people, it is astonishing how much ordinary people are against any kind of speculation tax or financial transaction tax, even when I bring up the fact that it is brazen speculation that drives up food prices and gas prices, they worry that somehow it is going to affect them even more and that the precious job creators will be hurt. Somehow progressives need to find a simpler way to frame their message that speculation doesn’t serve the greater good, it serves those interests (not special) that profit from manipulative practices that haven’t any true market value. How to explain that the stock market doesn’t reflect reality, it reflects perceptions. How to explain clearly to people that by imposing a financial tax on speculative trading you are imposing a reality on those who seek to manipulate for their own profiteering. There has to be a better way to frame and broadcast a message such as this.
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Nixon In Iran?

Our government and our media are bombarding us with very hawkish rhetoric. I don’t know how reliable these sources are, many of their concerns rely on assumptions that are questionable such as that the Iranian leaders are suicidal in their aims, I highly doubt it, it is the Supreme leader who determines Iran’s foreign policy, not the Iranian President. Secondly, the intelligence regarding how close Iran is to weapons capability is sketchy, the American people are extremely war weary, at least I am. Diplomacy from all players would be the best since nothing of actual value is really known. It is all smoke and mirrors as of yet, why take the chance to lead us into another Iraq type situation? War is expensive in human life, human pain and human suffering on every single level imaginable and to think that the leaders who sit behind their desk would so callously put more young men and women in harm’s way without knowing real solid facts is inexcusable.
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Fiscal Affairs: A Colossal Mistake of Historic Proportions: The “JOBS” Bill

How can anyone argue that financial regulation is bad? During the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s when the memory of the Great Depression was still fresh on everyone’s mind and the middle class was enjoying an across the board increase in living wages, job security, educational prospects and retirement and health benefits, the regulatory laws established in the early thirties held in place. When the 70’s came and the congress started tweaking the laws, that was the start of a subsequent financial debacle each following decade, the debt shock of the 70’s and 80’s involving Mexico, Venezuela’s sovereign debt and Citibank, the S & L crisis of the 80’s, Enron and so on.Lobbyists have been around forever, Teddy Roosevelt railed against their gross influence on our politics, when are we going to wake up and ban them once and for all? There has to be a way for the ordinary people to be heard by their representative without tainting our democracy which is what the lobbyists have always done. This isn’t new and their power to sway things their way isn’t new what would be new is if we eliminated their power once and for all.
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