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I've use many of the stitches is my many stitches machine - these I use a lot: 1.) The basic line, of course. 2.) The side line. I use this a lot when trying to stitch to the edge of a fabric and still be able to run the fabric under the presser foot easily. 3.) Zigzag - I use this mostly to sew merit badges on the sash. 4.) Hem stitch - hemming, of course. 5.) button holes - this requires the use of 2 stitch settings on my machine, one on the left, one on the right. 6.) triple line - used usually for armholes. That's it.

Meh. From my perspective, Americans have no idea what it means to be liberal or conservative. Nobody can define what it is besides Republican = conservative, Democrat = liberal. In a country with a Constitution designed to protect Liberty, being a Liberal becomes anti-Liberty... which doesn't make much sense.

My son is in an Arts High School. If there's anything you can say that is unique to Arts Schools it is that there are a lot of LGBT in these schools and they are encouraged to "freely express themselves". There are 2 kids from our ward who currently attend that school - my son and a girl his age that he grew up with in the ward. She's a lesbian now. So, this school is "sensitive" to transgenders waaay before people started talking about restrooms. And these are usually kids that may think they're transgender - because, you know, it's cool or whatever. And in that school - if you are transgender (even wanna-be-transgender) everybody knows what your biological gender is. So a woman-looking transgender walking into a boy's room to use the urinal may get ignored or may be shoo'd out of the restroom and going to the girl's room could also either be ignored or shoo'd out... like the restroom by the dance arts area may be more tolerant than the musical arts area. They have no problems with this. LGBT are free to express themselves and the manly-men and womanly-women are just as free to express themselves. And those who get too uncomfortable in either restrooms have been known to go and use faculty restrooms. It's been peaceful for the decades this school has been in existence and everybody deals with it just fine. So... what happened after the bathroom hoopla? Well, the transgenders (or wanna-be's) and their supporters are now having some goopla where they make a point for girls go to boys restrooms and boys go to girls restrooms in the music arts area causing fighting in restrooms. The guitarists are having some goopla where they threaten to pee in the bushes in the atrium... My son and his friends hold the same position as the faculty and PTA... they're just waiting it out hoping it will blow over soon and everything will go back to normal. But then, normal in this school is the Writers Arts Area who run the school publication publish articles such as: Poll: Which is better - growing up with parents or growing up without parents? With the conclusion being... tat-tada... 50-50.

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Unique, sure. But you know why McDonald's is such a successful enterprise? You can travel from Florida to the Philippines and when you walk in, you will ALWAYS know what you are buying. A Big Mac in Florida tastes the exact same in Manila. Now, why is this important? Because, Americans - especially the Military - are mobile. Let's use the military as the example as they are the most impacted by non-standard schools. A soldier's family moves every 2 years. My husband moved a lot more often than that with his father in the Navy. He was in a new school in a different State almost every year of his K-8 education. He had to re-do 2nd grade because he spent 1st grade in a school whose standards did not meet 3rd grade entry requirements for the next State he lived in. This is the problem with non-standard schools. Kids living in a mobile household have a high drop-out rate.

This is a perfect example of Federal Blackmail. FIGHT TO GET SCHOOLS BACK TO LOCAL CONTROL! Standardization can be achieved through State competition and not Federal mandate.

In general, this is how I gauge whether I'm helping or enabling: Love others as you love yourself. Love means to bring people with me closer to Christ. If the thing I'm doing is bringing them and myself closer to Christ then it's good. If it's bringing them closer but bringing me farther, then something is wrong that needs to be adjusted. If it's bringing them farther, then something is wrong that needs to be adjusted. Right now, it might be that you're bringing them closer to Christ but it's driving you farther from Christ. So, there's something here that needs to be adjusted. As a 3rd party with nothing else to go by but your post, this is my 2 centavos worth: You already committed to giving them shelter until the disability payments begin. I suggest you move closer to Christ by praying for more patience and generosity in your heart to be able to survive the next few weeks until disability payments come through. At the same time, you can help them figure out what's taking that payment so long to arrive. The way my family has always handled "co-habiting" is that everybody's income goes to the head of the household who takes care of budgeting things out including what the co-habiters can spend for themselves. There's no more "my money". You live in my house, it's all our money (yep, the family living in one house is where socialist principles apply - the only place that it works). But since you haven't established this when they moved in, then you have to decide whether it's too late to move towards this paradigm or if you can still somehow move towards this situation. When the disability payments eventually come, I suggest to not worry about backpay. Rather, I suggest you help them figure out a proper budget, including looking for the best place that they can truly afford with the fixed income that they are going to receive and having the rent that they were supposed to pay you used to pay for the new place in lump sum advanced payment that acts as a security deposit. That means that they still have to pay the monthly rent starting on the first month they live on the apartment. The lump sum advanced payment will be security deposit so they have some cushion to catch up on missed rents before they get kicked out. This will have to be worked out with the rental property manager. Also, see if you can qualify for HUD housing. Hope this helps.

What kind of sorcery is this?

By the way... Backroads, unless you still have control of your impulses (realizes it when it is happening so you can redirect your thoughts elsewhere - like singing "The Spirit of God" at the top of your lungs... my favorite redirection technique), you should see a professional about it, if not just to make sure it won't become a bigger concern. Being able to redirect your thoughts is a method to train yourself to curb the impulse and eventually eliminate it after repeated experience.

Post-partum depression is a real thing. It's funny that they call this "depression". Depression is such a mild word to describe it. It's a serious form of psychosis that can manifest itself as almost non-noticeable (mother wouldn't let anybody hold the baby or mother can't stand seeing her husband's hair on his legs - both things I have personally witnessed) all the way to death (mother drowns her baby in the tub thinking he's evil - I haven't personally witnessed, just read on the news - mother straps the baby in the car in the middle of the night to drive from florida to utah to take the baby to president hinckley for safekeeping because her husband and mother-in-law are satan followers and she couldn't kill them - this I have personally witnessed) and everything else in between. Brooke Shields' ppd manifested itself as she couldn't care less for her baby. She sometimes thinks of just leaving the baby somewhere so she doesn't have to deal with her. She took medication for the condition to help her care for her child. My friend who drove to utah got forced into a mental facility for "safekeeping". She stayed there for the first 3 months of her baby's life and didn't get to see her baby and her husband until the week before she was released. Other women - even mothers - don't believe it can get this serious. I see these women like those people who wake up in the morning and can just see... just like that. Good for them... while I go fumble around my bedside table looking for my eyeglasses so I can figure out what the clocks says what time it is. They'll never understand the struggle until they realize it actually exists.

Estradling and Vort answered this pretty succinctly above.

It happens to the best of us. It happened to me even. I was suffering from ppd right after the birth of my 2nd child that caused me to get extremely sleep deprived. There were times when I would forget little things like if I'd already put shampoo on my hair in the shower. I have established a routine when I had to leave the house... One day, I was leaving the grocery with the bassinet strapped onto the grocery cart. The routine is always grab the bassinet and snap it into the car, grab the 2 year old and strap him in, unload the groceries, then get in the car. I've done this with my 1st child and now on my 2nd, so it's ingrained. One day, my friend told me that's dangerous because the car is hot and it takes too long between loading the kids and loading groceries that the kids could die by then... So I was pushing the cart to the car when I paused and got worried that I'd kill my kids. So I left the kids in the cart while I unloaded the cart, the 2 year old chose this time to climb out of the cart so I had to chase him down strap him in the car and continued to unload the groceries. I was rattled at this point and. I was so worried about the kid strapped in the car about to die that I decided to leave the grocery cart right there by the car instead of walking it to the return area 2 parking slots down. I rush into the car, turn it on, breathe a sigh of relief that my kid is still alive when he says, "AnatessJr is outside, mommy....". Yep, he was still in his bassinet in the grocery cart. Yes, my heart almost exploded out of my chest and I was inconsolable for days... I could not bring myself to get out of the house for days afterwards.

I'll respond to this because it points to the issues and not an attack. This is where reason can surface. Yes. Duterte's election is a reflection of America's influence worldwide. American elections is important to Filipinos and most other nations worldwide because your President has the power to make it very difficult for our country especially in 2 areas - Economy, Foreign Relations. Americans are not as concerned about who gets elected President of the Philippines unless such election signifies a shift in the Filipino-American alliance. None of the candidates for Filipino President from the time of the Commonwealth to today - and that includes Marcos - has ever expressed a desire to change whose side they are on, therefore, Americans have no cause to pay attention besides political curiosity. Philippine issues similar to American ones: Oligarchy The Philippine elections from the day of its independence has always been plagued by oligarch powers. It is a by-product of the Spanish grip on the country that suppressed the common folk and gave rise to Filipino mestizos who found ways to endear themselves to the noblemen by trodding on their fellowmen (crab mentality). I can give you a whole history of this but it would be too long to recount. Suffice it to say that the Filipinos have been under the boot of oligarchs for the longest time as they control the media. The only people that can penetrate that oligarchy are celebrities like Manny Pacquiao who get elected because of his celebrity status and not his governing skills. We have lots of these guys in power - we even elected an action star who knew nothing of governance for President. So it's like, when your "hollywood star" dims, you become a congressman only to become part of the oligarchy siphoning money out of the country into their own coffers. This relates to America where you have the "establishment" and their "crony capitalists". North vs South We have a cultural divide in the Philippines in the same vein to the American North versus South cultures. Interestingly, ours is also a North versus South division where the North treats the South as hicks and ignoramuses. The North are the Tagalogs, the South are the Bisayas... labeled according to the lingua franca spoken by each group. As the national language (which the North loves to call Tagalog when in fact it is called Pilipino) is based on Tagalog grammar even as it is formed by taking the most common word in the 49 distinct Filipino dialects to form its vocabulary, it effectively replaced the Tagalog dialect making it almost extinct except for the work of linguists trying to preserve the dialect. So that, the North are born speaking Pilipino whereas the Bisaya have to learn it as a 2nd language. A lot of Bisaya then end up speaking Pilipino with the Bisaya accent cementing the North's ridicule of their ignorance. This becomes a challenge for any Bisaya running for National office who don't spend time working on their speech patterns through a cadre of campaign handlers as people - including the Bisaya - got conditioned to think that they have to speak a certain way to be "Presidential". Radical Islamic Terrorism In the US, this is foreign policy. In the Philippines, this is part of the South... yeah, they're Bisaya. All the more reason for the North to be wary of the South. The Evangelical Vote (well, in our case, the Catholic vote) The Catholics comprise upwards to 80% of the population. Most laws in the Philippines come from Canon Law. Some are good - divorce is illegal. Some are not good - artificial birth control is still not a public health option even as the law narrowly passed congress. Anybody running for office have to "win the Catholic vote" in the same manner that a Republican in America needs to "win the Evangelical vote". Poverty The Philippines have systemic poverty - a by-product of oligarchy, causing good God-fearing people to sell their children to pornography film makers just so the kid can eat. Poverty is the tool the oligarchs use to get them in power by promising free stuff... It's different in the Philippines as they just staple money on a sample ballot that the voter copies in the voting booth... in the US, they give away free college. In comes Rodgrigo Duterte. A common man who became Mayor because of the strength of his character. He doesn't come from a line of politicians (like many are, including my family). Not only is he Bisaya, he is your "say it like it is" politician who defies labels. He is a devout Catholic but then he told his parish priest he has to set aside Canon Law to become Mayor as there are things in Canon Law that is not compatible with Philippine Governance. He blasts profanity in public when he gets upset - especially when it comes to crime. He strongly believes that poverty and crime go hand in hand, solve one and you solve the other. When his son got linked to a carnapping syndicate by the media he told them in a televised interview that if you prove without a doubt that his son is involved in that crime, kill him. Now... because of Canon Law, Capital Punishment is a very controversial law in the Philippines - this is as divisive as Pro-Life/Pro-Choice argument in the USA. Capital Punishment was suspended when Marcos left office. It got re-instituted by Ramos (military President) only to be suspended again in 2006. Duterte has expressed how bad this is to the battle against crime - especially the fight against illegal drugs. He is solidly in the pro-CP camp. (I am anti-CP, just fyi). In Duterte's view, you have poor people who will willingly commit the most heinous of crimes for money. What's the option - die of poverty or commit a heinous crime to make a lot of money. If you get caught you get to stay in jail with a roof over your head, your own bed, your own toilet plus 3 meals a day provided for by the Catholic Church... for the rest of your life. And then you have the relatively well-off people committing heinous crimes by recruiting all these poor people who are just willing to do anything to eat. They are even worse in the eyes of Duterte. They usually don't end up in jail, or if they do they get off easily because they have money to buy themselves out of jail. So he figured he can't solve the judicial system (national), but he can make it known that if you're a proven heinous criminal and you end up dead, the DA will put the investigation of your death to the bottom of the list. If you go vigilante and kill someone who is not a proven heinous criminal, you get to be the criminal and if you die, your death investigation will go to the bottom of the list. So, the Catholic Church and the anti-CP crowd vocally decried this method as against Human Rights. Duterte responded that when you start putting America on the anti-Human Rights list for their practice of Capital Punishment, then I will do something about it. Now, of course, this is not the only thing that Duterte did in Davao - Davao is the only city in the entire Philippines that has a 911 emergency service. Also, Davao has a public drug rehabilitation center open 24/7 providing free short and long term rehab and treatment. Davao provides P2,000/month stipend for ex-drug addicts to attend trade school. And his administration is nationally renowned for a corruption-free model of excellence. Even the cops don't do shake-downs (very common everywhere in the Philippines) because they feel obligated not to do so as Duterte and his daughter are known to give gifts of groceries when a law-enforcement officer finds himself in dire straits. Davao is an economic powerhouse in competition with Cebu City and Makati. Crime is at a very low rate compared to the rest of the country. This is just some of the stuff he accomplished. Another big thing that Duterte did which raised a lot of controversy is his work with Muslims. He struck a neutral position and initiated peace negotiations. This was so effective that he now has 2 Muslim representatives in cabinet - but that's not even the most eyebrow-raising thing... Duterte now has a bunch of his grandkids being Muslim as his children intermarried. That would have been death-blow to any Catholic's political ambitions, yet he gets re-elected Mayor over and over. So... this election - the problem facing the country is the systemic corruption that has just gotten so bad as to be unsustainable. Out of the past 5 Presidents, only 1 - Ramos - had an administration that did not have graft and corruption involvement. It has gotten so bad that if you go to NAIA, airport personnel would sneak a bullet into your luggage so that it will come up on the scanner and they can take you to the security office and fine you lots of money or you go to jail. Nobody can solve the problem because this crime syndicate goes all the way to the top! So, the people decided, our #1 priority is to clean house and solve crime including graft and corruption. The #2 priority - put the oligarchy and their bought media out of power. The #3 priority - bring the Philippines back to economic prosperity. And for all 3 of those - Duterte fits the bill. Even as he has no problem saying that the arrival of the Pope causes too much disruption to the highway system (something that is considered blasphemy by a lot of Catholics) and that when he becomes President, criminals will kill themselves... all spoken in his very thick Bisaya accent. This became possible because of the rise of Social Media and Trump. The Bisaya was able to point to Trump's non-politically-polished style to realize that it is possible to become President without having to become Tagalog or even give the "bridge talk". And it is possible not to know your bible and still be able to give a voice to the "evangelicals". And it is not always necessary to pick the perfect candidate to avoid picking the "lesser of evils". A flawed candidate doesn't mean he is evil... even as he left his wife and lives with a "common-law" one. Prioritization of Problems that need Solutions and matching those with candidates' resumes and putting the rest aside is a valid way to choose a President. Because... all the others may have perfect families and perfect speech patterns, but they show no capacity to solve problems and most of them either steal ballot boxes or buys the votes or install their relatives into public office to help them fleece money out of government. Now, I can write a post just as long about all of the policy positions that I disagree with Duterte on. Capital Punishment is just one of them... Economic federalism is another big one... but even with those, I worked to get him in office.

Ad hominem only applies if I bothered to respond to your stupid attack on Duterte. I've spent almost a year already on the Philippine elections. It's finally over and done with and my family all came out of it safe and unharmed in a mostly successful venture. I could have explained the implications of that wikipedia link to you if it would have meant anything. But it won't. Because for some reason, your hatred of Trump brought you to this point where you would use wikipedia to trash a President-elect of a foreign country and the people who put him there. That is beyond anything that can be approached by reason. Ad hominem notwithstanding.

And here is an example of why you shouldn't make rash judgements especially when you have no idea what you're talking about... I can explain it to you but I have a feeling it's not gonna make a difference. Closed minds and all that...

Same 12-year-old son today: Mom, we need to stop by the Asian Market. Me: Why? Son: I need to buy those Ramen bowls. Me: Why? Son: I need to get used to eating them. Me: Why? Son: Because it is cheap and so I will be eating it through college unless I can find a good job. Me: You can always ask me for food money. Son: Nah. That would be like getting food stamps.

That's not how I see it. To "die" first means you shed every single thing you knew from before. This is not how I see conversion. And this is something that the LDS teach that makes very much sense to me in my experience - the Light of Christ. Every single one of us are born with that Light. The "death" was the separation from God - that moment when we translate from pre-mortal existence to mortal birth. That's when we shed every single thing we knew from before and leave God. Converting from Catholic to LDS... or Muslim to Christian - is not a death as we carry the truths that we learned to the next phase of the journey to Christ. It is not a death but a conversion... or a graduation. Now, mortal death is shedding every single mortal thing we had. A Christian would not fear mortal death in the same manner that they did not fear spiritual death upon their mortal birth as they have faith that Christ's Atonement will bring them resurrection and reunification with God.

People who sleep in garages will not turn into Fords or Chevys but the "fully" pertains to your correlation of people who sleep in garages with those who go to church on Sunday. There is no covenant that obligates one to sleep in garages to become a Ford/Chevy and there's nothing about garages that inherently is part and parcel of becoming a Ford/Chevy. I would go where Christ leads me, yes. But to say that you will drop the LDS Church in a heartbeat denies Christ's words that he speaks through his authorized prophets. A person who has that testimony of the authority of the LDS Church will not be able to just drop the Church in a heartbeat as it is part and parcel of one's Faith in Christ.

It's not yet official but the numbers are showing that Duterte's closest rival is too far behind to catch up. So, President Duterte - the "Trump" of the Philippines. So, that's interesting that Trump's influence has already bore fruit across the Pacific.

Trump's AND CRUZ's proposal is to USE the CURRENT REGISTRATION of religious affiliation of entry applicants in the VETTING PROCESS. This is not currently done. C'mon now JAG, lovestruck by Trump's proposal? REALLY? I stand BRAVO on his foreign policy position. NOBODY in America - LEFT or RIGHT has ever held this position. And it closely reflects mine. Remember, I'm Filipino. Foreign policy and Trade is how the Philippines get helped or hurt by American elections. And for the past decades, all your candidates - left and right - has stood on bad policies both on foreign policy and trade. Note: caps not meant to yell but to emphasize. I'm not sure what to use, caps or bold or whatever. So, caps is easier to use on the keyboard so I'm going to use it and just put a qualifier that it is used to emphasize not to yell. I am just very perplexed at YOUR inability to understand me here. I will conclude that your usually lawyerly flawless ability to understand is being clouded by your hatred for Trump. "have no problem with refugees...". I am suggesting no such thing. Here is what I said once again: Trump AND CRUZ have the same position on Muslim Refugees and Immigration. Therefore, Cruz-supporting Mormons shouldn't have a problem with Trump's position on Muslim Refugees and Immigration. But they do. Therefore, the only conclusion is that 1.) Cruz-supporting Mormons do not know what Cruz's position is, 2.) Cruz-supporting Mormons do not know what Trump's position is, 3.) They don't know what both candidate's position is or they do know what both of their position is... they just go by who can express the same position better. Inconsistent. Completely. Doesn't matter who the law is for. The fact of the matter is the ban impacts innocent real-deal transgenders in the same manner that the Muslim ban impacts innocent real-deal muslims and the supporters are okay with the impact on the innocent to protect the populace. And on regulation: Insitituting a BAD regulation to correct another BAD regulation is no defense for stupidity.

My 14-year-old son gave a talk in Sacrament meeting yesterday. He said this exact same thing. What's interesting about his talk is that it is the first time that he gave a talk without writing it down. Rather, he wrote talking points on his tablet and talked about it. We discussed whether he should write his talk and I suggested that he try it without writing it this time. His dad believes that not writing your talk down makes you more reliant on the promptings of the Spirit when giving a talk. Anyway, my son struggled to connect with the Spirit as he was overcome with a case of insecurity (which has never happened to him before) so his talk started a bit shaky. But then he got on the groove and, interestingly, he didn't talk about Mothers but rather Women in general and their role in the Priesthood. He used me and things I do for the family to support his talk... and that was the only connection to Mothers in his talk. He talked about raising children in the gospel but he didn't specifically say for Mothers to raise children in the gospel, rather he said Women raise children in the gospel.... Anyway, I thought it was the best Mother's Day talk ever... but then I'm very biased.

I LOVE PROVERBS 31! It's one of my favorites. I don't know how it is in the AoG, but in the Catholic faith (well, at least from my Catholic church/schools growing up), Proverbs 31 is a song of praise to women. So, when we read it, we don't really pay as much attention to the "what she did" stuff, but more to the MAN who is saying how good this woman is because she works hard at her responsibilities in life... especially that of her work for God. I'm not sure I'm explaining this properly... but Proverbs 31 is a song for the MEN to study on being grateful for the noble women in their lives and paying them attention. Verses 10-31 is usually read as a responsorial psalm in Catholic weddings to give praise to the soon-to-be wife. I haven't seen it treated any differently in the LDS church, although, I can't really remember discussing that particular chapter at gospel doctrine class (I've worked in Primary for so long). In my house, my family knows I'm not really that big on Mother's Day. I mean, yeah, I greet my mother and my sisters and sisters-in-law and get them gifts and such... but in my own home I'm not big on it. My family knows I would rather that they're good to their mom everyday that they forget it's Mother's Day. But my husband has a different perspective on it. He thinks Mother's Day is just like another birthday, so he goes on a big shebang - he's got several days he likes to do that stuff - Christmas, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Sealing Anniversary, Birthday. They all get the same treatment. None of these days gets me an exemption from my own chores at home, though. And that's because I would rather do them myself than worry that they're not doing it the way I want it done. Micro-manager much? Hah hah.

Interestingly, I just spent the week last week making 32 piano book bags. My son's piano teacher was gonna buy piano book bags from the internet for 12.99 each and I said... That's thirteen bucks, whaaaaat????? I can make that same bag for 3 bucks! Of course I forgot to consider that I don't really like sewing although it does make me nostalgic for my summers spent with my seamstress grandmother doing all the "hand work" - hemming, embroidery, etc. etc. - while she pedals away on her no-electricity-involved sewing machine. I would finish one bag and look at the tall pile of cut material waiting to be sewed into a bag and I'm like... ugh ugh ugh. One thing I'm really happy about though is that my Singer Tiny Serger that I bought from Walmart at least 15 years ago for 50 bucks is still providing me with hours of excellent service. My mom looked at that serger and said... "you're buying a TOY serger???". Hah hah.

First paragraph: You have not (or refuse to) see what is happening in this election cycle. Trump voters - and I have named several prominent ones in Vort's thread - do not see Trump as a dirtbag nor did they vote for him because they think he is a dirtbag and they are not trying to persuade anybody to vote for a dirtbag. Second paragraph: Same thing. Now, if you think that elections are won without engaging in emotion, then I don't know what you've been looking at in elections. Great rousing speeches has been a critical component of every campaign. Cruz's and Kasich's exit speeches was as emotionally heavy as all get. What you have dismissed simply by your belief that Trump is nothing more than a dirtbag is the logic and reason that went with the Trump campaign. The media and many others dismissed him right out of the gate as a joke. Trump achieved what other Republicans have not. He busted through the albatross of political correctness that has provided cannon fodder for Democrats to bury Republicans... you can't say All Lives Matter because that's racist... You can't say Binders of Women because that's sexist... etc. etc. which has successfully painted Republicans in the minds of the general voting public as racists, sexists, bigots who will push grandma off a cliff. Republicans have walked within the Democrat-imposed PC rules for fear of being rejected so much so that they have become willing to give in to Amnesty to prove that they're not racists. That's finally in the coffin. Trump has proved that voters don't just swallow Democrat-and media-imposed societal rules. Now, from what I see... people are still in a state of shock that PC died in this election cycle and the Republicans can't quite grasp that you can say we are going to put a temporary ban on Muslim immigration or I want to punch him in the face and not die. Now, if you believe that elections should be run by robotic campaigns who strips away every single personal quirk out of a candidate to polish him up for a perceived set of qualities that is "electable"... then yeah, you're going to not like this change. Another thing that Trump achieved in this election cycle is that a Republican can put a shackle on the media. It has always been that the Democrat-controlled media has the power to MAKE news... not just report news. The media in this election cycle has had a very limited influence on shaping public opinion. This is a Trump gift to Republicans - showing one and all that they can get through to the people by USING the media instead of AVOIDING the media. The norm has been - if you're a Republican, do not go on MSNBC, they will bury you. If you're a Democrat, don't go on Fox, they'll bury you. That's something nailed shut in the coffin now too due to Trump's ability to shackle the media to cover his every move while at the same time pointing out their "badness". He will interview with anybody - MSNBC, CNN, Fox, anybody. When they try to eliminate him, he just blasts right through. That is another Trump gift to the Republican party. Now, if you think that Supreme Court Judges, $21 Trillion in debt and rising, Obamacare, the state of our economy is worth it just so we can't have another Trump-like campaign (I still don't understand how you can say it is devoid of reason and logic with people like Jeff Sessions solidly behind him)... all I can really tell you is once again to ask the question... "Are you willing to consider the possibility that you are wrong about Trump?".

But see... you are looking at it as somebody who already knows the answers. Somebody asking the question has a completely different brain - method of learning, different organization of information, different perspective, in addition to different knowledge etc. - than you. So, what you know is a "wrong question" with your knowledge is a completely "right question" in a different brain seeking knowledge. And a lot of times, someone seeking knowledge doesn't even know where to start... so they just ask the first question that comes to mind that makes logical sense to the asker. So, that's why, we always say... there are no wrong questions. Ask away. We'll figure it all out as we continue to discuss things. So, really... it is only the wrong question when we attribute the wrong intent to it. Telling someone it is the wrong question presumes way too much.