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  +$4.00 Gasoline. How does it change the Energy game

  by designs in

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  will it put pressure on politicians to approve the keystone pipeline.. should the nation's refineries stop selling as much gasoline as exports.. how does +$4.00 gasoline affect your monthly budget, how do you adjust..

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  Texas Apostate

  this lady isn't worried....why should we?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36x8rTb3jI&feature=related
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  I was a Hasidic Jew - but I broke free

  by Texas Apostate in

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  found this story out of the ny post.

  interesting and very similar to some xjw stories.

  i figured it could be an interesting read for someone here.

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  Texas Apostate

  Found this story out of the NY post. Interesting and very similar to some XJW stories. I figured it could be an interesting read for someone here. Don't know how to post the whole story, maybe somebody could help. Here is the first page.

  Sitting in a cozy Upper East Side restaurant, 25-year-old Deborah Feldman stashes her copy of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” in her handbag and greets the chef, who’s come out to say hello. Clad in a miniskirt, semi-sheer sweater and cowboy boots, this confident, stylish young woman seems every bit your typical New Yorker. Then she begins to talk about her background.

  Until two years ago, Feldman was part of the ultra-conservative Hasidic Satmar community based in Williamsburg. Abandoned by a mother who left the faith and a father who was mentally disabled, she was taken in by her grandparents, who brought her up to be a quiet, obedient, God-fearing woman who would get married in her teens and start a large family right away.

  But Feldman had other plans.

  In her memoir, “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots,” out Feb. 14, she chronicles her oppressive upbringing and arranged marriage.

  At 23, emboldened by classes at Sarah Lawrence College, she left her husband and the community for good — taking her 3-year-old son with her.

  Feldman recently discussed her experiences with The Post over (very nonkosher) crabcake sandwiches and Key lime tarts: “I think I love eating out more than most people,” she says, “because I was never allowed to do it. Women aren’t allowed to eat out.”

  THE POST: From a very early age, Hasidic girls are expected to wear skirts and shirts that ?cover them down to their wrists and ankles. But during your adolescence the law became even more restrictive.

  FELDMAN: When I was 11, they changed the clothing rules. You used to be able to wear a long-sleeve, high-neck T-shirt. Now you can only wear high-neck blouses, with woven fabrics, because their theory is that woven fabrics don’t cling. T-shirts show boobs.

  If you had a curvy body, then there was something wrong with you. No matter what I wore, the school principal always had a problem with me, because I’m a little Kardashian-esque and I developed young. My principal would walk by and slap me on the ass and be like, “Your skirt shows too much.”

  Every summer, starting when you were 8, you were sent to a Hasidic summer camp upstate; can you describe the bathing suit you had to wear?

  Picture this really shiny nylon fabric and thick, floppy, long sleeves, and pants covered with an extra layer of material to make it look like a skirt. Ridiculous. I remember the sound it would make when the girls walked around the pool with the wet bathing costumes, the slapping sound against the backs of their thighs. So awful.

  Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/was_hasidic_jew_but_broke_free_IeRSVA4eX8ypg4Ne8cBdSK#ixzz1lprsB9sO
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  Blasphemy???!!!

  by behemot in

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  pakistani doctor held under blasphemy law .

  associated press.

  pakistani authorities have arrested a doctor on suspicion of violating the country's contentious blasphemy laws after he threw away the business card of a man who shared the name of the prophet.. .

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  Texas Apostate

  It's a religion of peace people!!!!!!!

  Quit posting things that contradicts that statement. Please!
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  Tax Subsidizing the American Consumer

  by watson in

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  it's interesting to me how much of our taxes go to subsidizing the great american consumer.

  (me included).. i detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if i buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, i can deduct the interest on that as well.

  if i can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would i be given a tax break?.

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  Texas Apostate

  This is misinformation.

  What a pathetic statement. The person that is misinformed is you. That makes you an idiot. Ever hear of a little something called "The National Homeownership Strategy: Partners in the American Dream"

  Or this "Community Redevelopment Act"

  Here a a very simple article that explains this for a very simple person like you.

  http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/hotproperty/archives/2008/02/clintons_drive.html
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  Tax Subsidizing the American Consumer

  by watson in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it's interesting to me how much of our taxes go to subsidizing the great american consumer.

  (me included).. i detuct for mortgage interest on my first home, and if i buy a second home or anything that resembles a second home, i can deduct the interest on that as well.

  if i can afford a second home, recreational vehicle, etc., why would i be given a tax break?.

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  Texas Apostate

  I know one thing, that deduction really helped the big housing boom, that's for sure. How's that going, anyway?

  You can blame Clinton and Bush for that. Allowing every Tom, Dick and Harry to buy a home they couldn't really afford in the first place with virtually no credit history. Giving them ARM notes, sub-prime lending.

  I can give you a personal experience. In my typical middle-class-working-stiff kind of a neighborhood, there was one family that bought a home similar to ours. Two story, 2800 sq. ft. home. As a matter of fact it was one of the model homes for the neighborhood.

  This family pretty much decided to move themselves out of the ghetto into this home. How they qualified for a loan is between them and the bank. When they first moved in they seemed very nice. Older man and wife, with a teen and 10 yr old daughters. They would at first maintain the home. Then after a year, his older son moved in. We would sometimes get home late (1 or 2am) from attending a dance or something, and you would see about 10-12 people just hanging outside drinking and smoking. Then came the late night cop visits. Then we found out, that both the father and son were registered sex offenders from NC. Son was arrested for not registerion here in Texas.

  Almost 4 years to the day the moved in they were forced to move out, because the house was forclosed on them for not making a payment in a year. We went to look at the house as it was open for auctioning. There was an old 90s cadillac all jacked up in the front with flat tires left in the driveway. The garage door was all banged up. The people ripped off the sinks from the bathroom. The wooded floors were scrathed up like crazy. There were holes in the sheetrock. The carpet had burn holes and dirt spots everywhere. There where broken windows. The back lawn was over grown and look like crap.

  Those people would have never qualified for a home if the lending practices were tightened up to weed out trashy people like that. But no. Clinton-Bush-Obama believe everyone is entitled to same things responsible, law-abiding, working-class, not looking for a govment hand-out kind of people.

  Just one experienced that played out thousands of time around the country. And dont get me started on the brokers, home builders, survey companies, title loan officers, and bankers that enabled them.
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  The Girl Who Made Grown Men Shut-Up and Listen.....

  by AK - Jeff in

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  i wonder where she is today?

  i wish she were my child.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sb6rmrmbby&feature=related.

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  Texas Apostate

  I used to give talks like that at that same age. Being graded and coached since the age 4 made it easy. I also used to a have a very simplistic way of looking at the worlds problems. I also new what the answers where to those problems. I was a JW

  Then I grew up.
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  Teen Shot In Derriere ...

  by snowbird in

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  http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2010/10/07/teenager-shot-over-sagging-pants/.

  uh huh.. syl.

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  Texas Apostate

  Don`t sweat it..He`s just being a kid..He`ll grow out of it..

  Let him go through his stages growing up..

  Funny thing is:

  "those" kids grow up to be adult men (in age only) that still sport that sag "look" who go off and procreate kids who then grow up and sport that sag"look" who then grow up to be....

  round the cricle goes where it stops nobody knows,
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  Teen Shot In Derriere ...

  by snowbird in

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  http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2010/10/07/teenager-shot-over-sagging-pants/.

  uh huh.. syl.

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  Texas Apostate

  snowbird. Have you ever brought it to his attention?
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  Teen Shot In Derriere ...

  by snowbird in

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  http://live.drjays.com/index.php/2010/10/07/teenager-shot-over-sagging-pants/.

  uh huh.. syl.

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  Texas Apostate

  Sorry...but I really detest that look. Don't care what color of skin is sporting that "look". I tell my daughter that's the easiest way to spot potential losers.
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  I just got a phone call from the branch office....

  by ex-witness in

  1. watchtower
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  i just received a phone call from the local branch office.

  the person on the phone asked me if i was serious about my letter of disassociation and if i knew what that implied.

  my response.

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  Texas Apostate

  lionpaw...your an idiot. Plain and simple

  You don't have the authority to tell anybody what they can or cannot do.

  Quick look down....Your JW is showing.

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  Dumbass