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Apr 13, 2005Comments: 0 · Posts: 44084 · Topics: 685
You keep your friendships, and ignore her raging.
It's only a WW3 if you participate in the fight. If you participate in the fight then you've already lost because to fight with her about your rights as human being in deciding for yourself how to have an appropriate friendship, means you give her paranoia creditibility.
The answer is to continue your life with friends and if they happen to be females, and/or exes .. then she has to put her big girl pants on and accept that you are capable of having integrity.
If he goes into a fit, just remain calm, and don't allow yourself to be encroached .... let her rage, and when she stops for breath, turn to her ask if she wants pizza, or chinese, then turn back to the television, as if it's just another normal day.
Soon, she will catch on that you aren't parlying, that you're a grownup ... and she will realize that she is the only one screaming and acting a fool
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May 25, 2012Comments: 122 · Posts: 5590 · Topics: 41
Caligula...I agree with your assessment on taxes and income. I have a finance degree and I can give some further details. Basically, this is the lie that Repubs push on us. In order to truly understand what Romney and Obama are talking about, look at it this way. Pay no attention to what they say. The little known secret about the definition of small business is this...you have to look at the IRS's definition because that is what Congress and everybody secretly goes by. The IRS, for tax purposes, looks at the NUMBER OF OWNERS and not market capitalization(net worth,size,) when determining if a business is small or not. In essence, 5 billionaires could own a company and the IRS will determine that it is small because the number of owners is small. Businesses are set up as "pass throughs." Money(income) passes through the business and into the pockets of the owners. That is why corporations are heavily taxed because it deems the business as an investment whether its a mom and pop store or not. In essence. Exxon Mobile is a small business by IRS standards. That is the "job creators" Republicans keep referring to. The billionaires behind those companies. If you look in depth at their policies, they actually hurt the true small business. Why? Because those businesses can grow and compete against the Wal Marts. The second biggest goal behind companies besides making money is eliminating competition. Lord forbid some 20 year old drops out of college and creates a company in his garage and his ideas revolutionize the game. Sound familiar? Steve Jobs. Now Apple doesn't want that to happen and knock them off the perch. So you have them buying politicians to prevent just that. That is why education is being gutted across the board. Simply put, our democracy has become nothing but a game of monopoly.
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Nov 04, 2005Comments: 233 · Posts: 8226 · Topics: 348
SweetLibra... lol I think it's a mom thing. Mothers (and fathers too) ALWAYS seem to know. It's ridic. I'm 29 and my mom still knows what I'm feeling from across state lines.
truecap... I'm a scorp ascendant and my scorp is also scorp ascendant. No, we can't get away with anything with each other. "Dont insult my intelligence" and "Do you think I was born yesterday?" are regular phrases in some of our normal or heated discussions... LMAO
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Aug 27, 2009Comments: 334 · Posts: 8771 · Topics: 323
Like, how could you resist this? (AND it would love you back - no reservations)