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Superman - The Movie Man. This brings me waaaaaay back. Christopher Reeve was the very first poster on my bedroom wall. I even marked his height of 6'4" on my wall with permanent marker so I can pretend to talk to him "up there". The "Can You Read My Mind" flying scene was my first Prince/Princess romantic fantasy. Hah hah. After all these years, I still absolutely love this movie. Superman Returns take this same tone which is why it's my favoritest Superman movie. The Cavill Superman movies, I hate (don't get me wrong, I love Cavill - even when he was the bad guy in Tristan and Isolde).

So Hillary goes to New York to celebrate with Cuomo the passing of the $15/hr minimum wage law. Rush Limbaugh yesterday: "Whoever it is, whoever it is needs to beat Hillary. By the way, this $15 an hour minimum wage, Jerry "Moonbeam" Brown in California has admitted that it is not any good, but he's gonna do it anyway because it's liberal orthodoxy. Andrew Cuomo's gonna do it because it's liberal orthodoxy. It's another one of these things. They think the minimum wage is gonna go up 15 bucks and everybody making it from whatever it is now, is gonna make 15 bucks. It's not what's gonna happen. Employers are gonna have to fire people. There is not a pile of unused money in small businesses that the owners are hoarding or buying yachts with instead of paying "a fair wage."" "I mean, the more I think about that, the more agitated and angry I get, and especially, you know, each time I hear -- and it's a lot of times. You do, too. You hear elected Republicans saying it. There are certain conservative groups made up of media members and bloggers who are saying that they would just soon have Hillary as Trump, and they're trying to make it look they're for Cruz when that's just not their primary thing; they're just anti-Trump. I mean, anybody -- anybody -- who would knowingly do anything that helps this bunch of people stay in power need to seriously have their heads examined. That just borders on irresponsibility like I haven't seen in a long time, and it tells me how personally people are taking all this. They're taking it personally that people support Trump, taking it personally that people don't want Trump, taking it personally that people support Cruz, taking it personally that people don't support Cruz, as though just because you have a blog or just because you have a column or just because you have a guest appearance on Fox, that you ought to be able to convince everybody to agree with you. And then when they don't you get mad at 'em and say, "Okay, fine! Well, if it takes it, I'm gonna support Hillary if you don't see it my way!" What is that? But there's a lot of it going on out there, and it's on the Democrat side, too, except I don't hear any Bernie supporter saying, "You know what? I would vote for Trump!" I don't hear any Bernie supporter saying, "You know what? If I didn't get my way, I'm voting for Cruz." I don't hear any of that on their side. Anybody who wants four more years of the last seven years, has got to be in this for themselves, while trying to make it look like that's the last thing they care about. This is just... People say, "You know, we're in a crisis here! We're about to lose the country." Then how in the name of anything can you actually admit that you would vote Hillary Clinton? "'Cause Trump... Trump will destroy the Republican Party!" You think Hillary Clinton being elected won't destroy the Republican Party? " http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2016/04/05/it_s_indefensible_and_irresponsible_for_conservatives_to_support_hillary_over_trump

My All American This was such an AWESOME movie. If you're looking for the next movie for your dvd player... pick this one. I love these kinds of movies where there are no bad guys. All the characters are just amazing, classy people. Even the characters that are engaged in intense rivalry... both sides are classy. The girlfriend, classy... the parents, classy. The best friends... classy. The coaches... classy. And with the movie about College Football, the husband was just happy to watch it twice (we'll be watching it again for the 3rd time at my brother's). My 2 teen boys loved it too.

Duh.

No, it doesn't negate the entire point because the grandparents' houses ARE home. The grandparents house is an extension of everyone of our houses. If it takes you 12 years to afford a house, so much more you should stay with your parents. How long do you think it will take you to afford one while paying rent?

Now that needs to be a meme...

My father ingrained into me that your house is your children's sanctuary - a part of the environment where they learn to be adults. As such, he believes (and I do too) that one needs to buy THE house... not a "first" or "starter" house to indicate disposability. My dad was a travelling salesman when I was born. Hence, he didn't have a house as he had to move every few months. My mother finally stamped her foot and told him to quit his job and stay put. So he quit his job. Without another job waiting in the wings... with 4 kids to feed and a stay-at-home wife. We all moved in with my uncle and my dad made soap (he's a chemical engineer) that he sold door-to-door around the area to keep us afloat until he finally found a non-travelling job. He built his first house, we all moved in, and that's our house until today where all my childhood memories and childhood friends and the best growing up years of my life were spent. My siblings lived with my parents until they could afford to get THE house. My brother who took 12 years to graduate from med school, stayed with his wife and 3 kids in our childhood home with my parents until he finished building his house at age 40. All my siblings got THE house. I bought my house when I was still single, so I bought an "investment house". I had no plans on raising a family there. My husband moved in with me when we got married and we started looking for THE house together. The size of our houses has nothing to do with the size of the Joneses. We bought the house that we need for our family. My brother got a 7-bedroom 5,000+ sq ft house because that's what he needs. My other brother got a 1600 sq. ft house because that's what he needs. If we couldn't afford the house that we need on the income that we had, we stayed with the parents until we can afford it. By the way, the rule of thumb is... if the mortgage is more than 40% of our net income, we can't afford it. We don't do speculating... that is, buying a house at 60% of our income because 5 years from now we'll get a raise and that 60% will become 40% then... no. The money we get later goes to things like - retirement, college for the kids, etc. It shouldn't be spent trying to chase down a mortgage.

Who God calls, God qualifies. God, of course, doesn't ask for work history or color of hair or even ask women to submit their resume to be called. So, really... it's either one have faith in Divine Callings or one doesn't. For what does it matter if the women are poster children for diversity if it is not God's will but that the Apostles simply wanted poster children for diversity? That is surely not how the Lord organizes His Church.

One cannot judge the state of one's finances from the size of their houses. FACT. For example, my sister's house is 1000 sq feet bigger than mine. It is also $100,000+ cheaper than mine. And another example, my brother's house is 1000 sq feet smaller than mine and $100,000+ cheaper than mine. I have a higher net worth and liquidity than he does. So, am I wiser than my sister because I have a smaller house? No. Is she wiser than me because she has a cheaper house? No. Is my brother wiser than me because he has a smaller house? No. Am I wiser than him because I have lesser debt? No. Wisdom is in one's ability to follow the promptings of the Spirit and one's ability to provide for their family and serve their neighbors. It has nothing to do with the square footage of one's house or the size of their pocketbooks. And in addition to this: A parent buying his children's houses or helping them purchase it does not make either the parents or the children unwise people.

P.S. If Cruz was the front-runner of the Republican Party, the Trump issue is going to be moot and there wouldn't be any need to be defending the guy. But, as it stands Trump is the front-runner and he (and Kasich) has a better chance of beating Hillary than Cruz does. Remember, the President is not elected by popular vote. The President is elected by electoral vote. Without Ohio and Florida, the Republicans only has 47% of the electoral votes gauging from the consistently Red States as opposed to the consistently Blue States. Red States are not going to turn Blue for Clinton with Cruz on the ticket. But Blue States are not going to turn Red for Cruz either. He is not going to swing Independents and Democrats to the Republican side. Therefore, it is back to the age-old swing states swinging Red for Hillary to lose. As it stands right now, Cruz was nowhere in Ohio and Florida. Kasich holds strong in Ohio. Trump gave Kasich a run for his money in Ohio and trounced both hometown boys - Jeb and Rubio - in addition to Cruz and Kasich in Florida. So, yes, if Kasich engages his ground crew for Cruz in the general, Cruz could win Ohio to win the general. But if Trump wins the nomination, the Trump factor has the possibility of making New York, New Jersey, Nevada, and California Red. With Trump strong in Florida, he can win Florida. He can win Ohio if Kasich doesn't join the NeverTrump team. The Repubs can beat Hillary with Trump... UNLESS, the NeverTrump movement succeeds in turning Red States into Blue (like Utah) and losing Ohio. Remember, establishment politicians/political analysts/staffers/media/etc. still get to keep their careers regardless of who wins the White House - Dem or Repub. They fear the outsiders as their club can get shaken up. So the opposition to the outsiders is only going to get fiercer from the establishment as the general election gets closer. They'd rather see Hillary win than have an outsider shake their careers up. Because, really, think about it... have they lost anything with 8 years of Obama? None. They can ignore their voters all 8 years long and still get to keep their jobs and porks. So the demagoguery of Trump in all levels and all sides is only going to get fiercer. The only way to stop it is for the people to have the sophistry to wade through it all and see through the LEFT's PLAYBOOK that both the Left and Right are using. Because, c'mon... do you think that because the Right succeeded in painting Trump is racist, sexist, bigot that the Left is finally going to take it out of their playbook and quit calling Republicans racists, sexists, bigots if they succeed in electing Hillary over Trump? In your dreams.

Chelsea, like her mom, is not going to denounce the guy who is feeding their ambitions. It is not that they are ignoring the evidence. It is simply that they have more to gain from protecting the Clinton name than not. Chelsea is a politician's daughter. Politician's daughters - from my lifelong experience in a political family - are trained from birth to protect the name. I am doing the same thing right now - my cousin is running against his half-sister who is born out of his dad's affair with another woman, for the same elected office. With both of them on opposing parties, the family dirt is getting splashed on the news day in and day out. The entire family have our hands full doing damage control. Not because we are ignoring the moral ramifications of the fact that my Catholic uncle had a child out of wedlock... we are doing so because we believe that regardless of this past mistake of a family member from 40 years ago who held a Congressional seat, the family name (with several people running for elected office carrying it) still stands for upstanding public governance. The Clinton name does not stand for such. Ivanka, on the other hand, is not a politician's daughter. She doesn't have the same sensibilities about having to protect her father. She and Melania chose not to be a part of the campaign.

I'm committed to fighting the Never Trump movement. 100%. I will not stand silent while Hillary takes the White House. Regardless of my citizenship. And comments like yours that do not even bother to take the evidence that Ivanka has presented on the interview (I would even posit that you didn't bother watching the interview) painting her in the same category as Chelsea who got her lucrative almost-million-dollar job on the News Channel simply because her name is Clinton will always receive a challenge from me.

I can agree with this. Although, a woman that used to go to our ward had her sister and her start a blog about their sexual predator father (who is still alive together with their mom) and encouraged everyone who has been a victim of their father to come out and join in the court case against their dad.

What statement did Chelsea give to state that his father is not a sexual predator but is simply misunderstood or whatever? I've not heard of one. In fact, I highly doubt Chelsea doesn't think her dad is a sexual predator. But this statement is pretty telling... it is proof positive that you choose to believe Clinton propaganda machine over Ivanka even attributing an unproven narrative about Chelsea over a spoken claim by Ivanka and the proof of her entire life and the gender makeup of the Trump organization as Ivanka pointed out in the interview.

My kids got into this a while back... I didn't realize it at the time but the first snake I ever got for them was an excellent specimen of a pastel. I just thought the other snakes just faded into the bedding so I paid the extra money for the only yellow one in the store. Then some guy lost his job (this was in 2008) and sold his snake and so my husband got the guy's snake. It looked so different I thought it was a completely different snake - it's an albino. Then we got a spider (I found out later this was another really good specimen as it has a very reduced pattern with the brown part a smooth beige shade and it didn't have a head shaking behavior) from this 12 year old who started this business from his bedroom breeding snakes. And then, of course, I had to learn everything there is to know about these snakes so I joined the snakes forum and as luck would have it, I won a free snake... a yellowbelly. So then we had 4 snakes of all different colors. My sons learned everything there is to know about ball pythons too and found out they can actually put the pastel with the spider and possibly get a bumblebee. So, they put the two together one winter and they got 2 bumblebees and 2 normal... one egg did not make it - the mom rejected it (the kids did it all naturally - no incubators) - it turned out to be a spider. Anyway, I refuse to have any other snake, but they talked me into keeping one bumblebee (because we didn't have one of that color) and one normal (she had a missing tail). They sold the other bumblebee for $600 and the normal for $50. The bumblebee is my favorite. We ended up with an awesome looking one with reduced pattern and bright yellow that stayed bright through adulthood. Anyway, that's how we ended up with 6 snakes. They were gonna put the bumblebee with his mother (yeah! incest!) saying they can get a super pastel bumblebee (queen bee?). They also wanted to breed the yellowbelly saying they could get a white snake after 2 generations or something... but I put my foot down. Nope. That's enough snakes to last me a lifetime.

I think I mentioned on here once that we had an RS lesson where the teacher asked... I can't remember anymore, I think it was what are you most fearful of... and several women in the class said Trump so the teacher wrote it on the board with the other things like Satan and Outer Darkness...

In 1994, I joined an effort spearheaded by the Baptist Church to work with Bosniak Refugees (from the Bosnian war in Yugoslavia). My job was to integrate them into American life. When I get somebody assigned to me, my first job was to prepare their apartment (usually put them as a room-mate to other Bosnian Refugees all in this one apartment complex who are farther ahead in the assimilation process) and then equip them with basic necessities (a lot of them set foot in the US with only the clothes on their back). I set up doctor and dental appointments (a lot of them have shrapnel wounds, broken bones, etc.), then I organize social activities which is where they start to learn to speak English. I have a few refugees that speak passable English so they help with the translation. I take them to the movies, restaurants, free concerts and events in the city, etc. so they get to have a feel for American life. Most of them are late teens/early twenties, most of them injured soldiers. All of them Muslim. After a period of adjustment, then we find them jobs. When they get a stable job, they move out of the apartment and integrate with American society. The people I worked with didn't huddle around the same neighborhood. They're all over the US now and several opened up their own businesses.

Anyway, this thread is dead. The OP is going nowhere. Thanks for your time.

No, I'm pointing to the Utah primaries results and the track record of Trump-related conversations here and on my Mormon circle of friends on FB. The number of Mormons that I personally know who will publicly admit that Trump is not some racist, misogynist, homophobic hitler? FOUR. The number who talks politics and knew he was talking Foreign Policy in the last 2 weeks? ZERO. Not even the four knew it. The number who knows Trump's spokesperson got charged with battery by a reporter... all the ones that publicly talk politics. The number who saw the top-angle video who publicly expressed that the spokesperson is not guilty of battery... four - same four as before.

Okay, "balanced" individual. Where did that come from? My words were Trump's position is the compromise between the two competing ideologies. This has nothing to do with Trump as an individual. This has everything to do with US Foreign Policy. Because Paul and Cruz are the bookmarks of the range of Republican foreign policy, they are the 2 I used. My understanding of Ross Perot was what I learned of him observing the 90's elections from the Philippines - Ross Perot, as I remembered him, was the guy who said China's leaders will eventually die out. There's no use in getting involved. I've been following this election very closely. I've studied Carson, Rubio, Cruz, Trump, Bernie, and Hillary. The noise around Trump drowns out his policy. But he's had a consistent foreign policy profile. It is so consistent that he hasn't veered from it even from an interview I saw of him captured from way back in 1988. The past 2 weeks has provided a lot more detail on the matter (his brand new FP advisory starter pack must have been hard at work). Now, of course, if all you do is follow the drive-bys... you'll never hear it. They haven't been talking about Trump on the issues on the news cycles the past 2 weeks - including Fox. All they've talked about is who says who about whose wife and who did what kind of battery to which reporter. And now the Chris Matthews candidate-assassination piece is going to take over the news cycles for the rest of this week and maybe beyond. And the fact that Trump talked for 2 weeks about his foreign policy yet nobody heard it shows the success of the media in pushing their narrative despite Trump's ability to talk over them and speak directly to people. But I'm not talking about Trump himself. I'm talking about this new vision on Americanism that is not quite the America First that Ron Paul was standing on. But then... I'm starting to think lds.net is not the right forum for this discussion. I don't know what I was thinking trying to talk about a Trump policy in a roomful of Mormons.

I finally finished this Queen-sized crocheted bedcover for my son a couple weeks ago. I was supposed to give it to him on his bday in 2014... I can't believe how relieved I am now that I'm done with that hobby. The bedcover matches his bedroom wall, so hopefully, he wouldn't want to repaint that wall for a long time to come.

The term Isolationist did not originate from me. It originates from the Primary Elections in 2012 as Ron Paul's foreign policy stance was labeled as. My beef with Ron Paul's stance is his aversion to blowbacks which causes him to be far too hands off of International affairs. For example, although he is pro Israel, he doesn't think the US needs to be involved with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trump's position is similar, but he does believe that the US has to mediate the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians as a neutral entity - not the UN or anybody else. Ron Paul would think this as "policing" which he is not for. Ron Paul would also be hands off in Syria (I'm not really sure what he wants to do with the rise of ISIS, I'm just guessing that his involvement will stop at our borders - where San Bernardino is in) whereas Trump has expressed the desire to sequester the oil to stop ISIS march through Europe and also has expressed the desire to aid with Syrian Refugees by creating a safe zone in Syria until such time that peace lasts long enough to stabilize the country. This is not quite nation-building but not non-interventionist either. As far as everywhere else, Ron Paul is hands off. Trump is - "we will get involved but only if you get involved too".

Okay, I see where I got you confused. The confusion is not in my use of the term Isolationist. The confusion is in my use of the phrase Foreign Policy. I'm only using Foreign Policy as it pertains to National Security. I'm not using it as it pertains to Economic Relations, although Economic trade agreements is, a lot of times, used to advance National Security objectives.

War of aggression was a small part of that definition. And I didn't take anything back. You say you're a Ron Paul fan, so you're familiar with his official foreign policy position. So the first sentence in my post "Ron Paul's foreign policy position is Isolationist." should give you what I mean by Isolationist.

The phrase "wars of aggression" in my post is a parenthesis to make a side comment of the word Offense. It is not a parenthesis to qualify the entire paragraph. So, I'm not really sure where you're going with this comment.