If God loves someone, then that someone will be rich and successful and not have to depend on (ptui) wages to survive. Therefore, if someone isn't rich and successful, they are obviously not one of God's beloved and so are not worthy of respect. The obvious flaw to Christian believing is ignored.

Sophia, I think when neo-cons refer to "the liberal media bias" they're actually thinking back to the 70s when there WAS one.

I'm giving myself the task of putting together a soundtrack of big band music for the meet & greet before Mom's service, plus pulling what pictures I have of her together as well. The relatives went ahead with a service at 10 AM Wednesday, which is pretty much inconvenient for just about everyone. ::rolls eyes:: So I'll drive down tomorrow and stay at my Aunt's.

My brother suggested that I drive down to PA and stay in Mom's empty apartment. It's not like I'm afraid of her angry ghost, but I think being alone there would be just way way too sad to bear.

I keep thinking how, when I was being taken advantage of before I was salaried, and being asked to work overtime with no pay, my uncle was so angry with me because unions had fought for me and I was just caving to save my job and make my work experience tolerable. I do regret it, although my quieter campaigning about how it was wrong did get me a higher paid salaried position. But I will also never forget what my boss said to me after HR talked to her about it ( people who left complained) "Overtime must be approved. I will not approve overtime. However, if you don't get your work done, that's your choice. If you are still on the phone with a customer and go over, it is your choice whether or not to hang up. If I ask you for something when it is time to leave, that is your choice whether or not to do it.". And it was certainly implied that it was my choice to be fired.

If she doesn't have a debit or credit card, you can get those prepay ones all over the place

In Switzerland? That'll work in Jamaica? I'm going to take their words for it that they're up against a wall. The sender is looking up Western Union prices, byt that's likely to be costly too.

I'm gonna give the Bank of America web site another once over.

Consuela, I was looking at Yelp, but why stop there? Good call. Thanks.

even my social studies classes posited reform as good, from the Protestant reformation to the Ladies Garment Workers Union.

That's probably why education is so often vilified now. Apparently we were all brainwashed.

Also, the way I was taught, the Republican Party would be reactionary (wanting to return to an earlier time ) , the Deomcratic Party conservative ( wanting to preserve the status quo), and who knows who would be liberal (wanting reform) or (wanting to change the system entirely)

So I did have to take a third (fourth?) shower, but this got done: [link] It was a mess of weeds and ivy before. Hopefully this will remain neater and be less of a constant battle to keep things in check.

So...6 bags of branches and leaves and assorted weeds and crap, and this. And I'm only NOW eating.

Jilli, in that tumblr post where the language says "do not repost it as your own"--is that how it's being perceived? If I google and find an image I like, and I put it up on tumblr, is the perception that I am taking credit for it?

I found out about Busty Girl Comics because someone posted 10 of the images at once, ant that floated across my dash. To this day, that's the only time those pictures have appeared on my dash. I didn't think for a moment that the person posting them was claiming them as her own, but she did make me want to find out where they came from, and I did some researching and asking around, and voila!

She has one more reader than before. I have no idea why the original reposter did what she did, but I didn't feel like she was stealing intellectual property.

This is the bad way of things happening?

Jilli, in that tumblr post where the language says "do not repost it as your own"--is that how it's being perceived? If I google and find an image I like, and I put it up on tumblr, is the perception that I am taking credit for it?

Noooo. The bad is on the original reposter. Plus, I've seen other people on Tumblr save things from other people's posts and reposting them - there's one girl in the goth Tumblr circles who is infamous for not reblogging anything. She just right-clicks and saves, then uploads and posts so she gets all the likes/notes. I know I roll my eyes when I see the Goth at the Office photos or artwork from the GCS book posted with no mention or link of where they're from.

Really good form is, if you find an image you like via google or other magic, you post it with a link to the source. But it's a fuzzy boundary.

In Switzerland? That'll work in Jamaica?

If the person in Switzerland can get a Visa gift card, it should work anywhere that takes Visa. Of course I have no idea what goes on in other countries, but those are the variables, at least.

I went to the beach! Yay.