Dis-member: Thank you for posting that timely reminder.
Posts by AnneB
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In (partial ) support of Danny Hazard
by stillajwexelder indanny you have been fearless in your exposing jws for the cult they are and the harm they have done and are doing.
keep up the good work.
but please be careful in what you do as this board and recovering xjws need people like you who are fearless in exposing the wt.
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Would you do this to your kids? Is this cold or am I crazy?
by BU2B inmy mentally in jw wife is trying to organize a "princess party" for my 4 year old daughter and her little cousins and friends.
she was looking at prices of a tent for the backyard party in case it rains.
she asked the hardware store how much and they said 90 dollars for the day.
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AnneB
So millie210, "do not go beyond the things written."
I've expressed my opinion in response to the OP's question. You are free to do the same.
Peace,
AB
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Would you do this to your kids? Is this cold or am I crazy?
by BU2B inmy mentally in jw wife is trying to organize a "princess party" for my 4 year old daughter and her little cousins and friends.
she was looking at prices of a tent for the backyard party in case it rains.
she asked the hardware store how much and they said 90 dollars for the day.
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AnneB
Why provide for anyone else (except in dire circumstances) when you could provide at a more comfortable level for your own household? The grandparents in this case worked for it!
Babysitting is fine if someone wants to do it but it's not an obligation. In this case, the grandparents said "no." It's not lack of love, it's freedom of choice and the right to self-determination.
IMO, the grandparents here don't seem mean or stingy, they're simply keeping the responsibility where it belongs.
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Would you do this to your kids? Is this cold or am I crazy?
by BU2B inmy mentally in jw wife is trying to organize a "princess party" for my 4 year old daughter and her little cousins and friends.
she was looking at prices of a tent for the backyard party in case it rains.
she asked the hardware store how much and they said 90 dollars for the day.
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AnneB
Why is it "tacky and cheap to charge immediate family members for anything - even things you do for income from the general public."?
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Would you do this to your kids? Is this cold or am I crazy?
by BU2B inmy mentally in jw wife is trying to organize a "princess party" for my 4 year old daughter and her little cousins and friends.
she was looking at prices of a tent for the backyard party in case it rains.
she asked the hardware store how much and they said 90 dollars for the day.
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AnneB
Not kidding. If they were starving or without shelter it would be different. What they want are luxuries, not necessities.
As far as babysitting, it's their kid, let them take care of it.
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Would you do this to your kids? Is this cold or am I crazy?
by BU2B inmy mentally in jw wife is trying to organize a "princess party" for my 4 year old daughter and her little cousins and friends.
she was looking at prices of a tent for the backyard party in case it rains.
she asked the hardware store how much and they said 90 dollars for the day.
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AnneB
They WORKED, they bought. They didn't accumulate all the things you mentioned overnight, they worked, they saved, they purchased. Now you need to do the same instead of freeload from them or anyone else.
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You gray hair ones here, is time moving slowly or can you see the hour hand moving?
by jam ini swear, time is moving so fast.
the only time i know what.
day it is, is by looking at the news paper.
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AnneB
On July 29th, "Mama" Cass Elliott will have been dead 40 years. Impossible, but true.
I still listen to her songs. She's as alive to me as if she was on Ed Sullivan last week.
Time isn't linear to me.
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AnneB
1. Pay the bill?
2. Drop dead?
3. Ask the IRS?
Yeah, that's it! Ask the IRS!
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Nanny who refuse to leave, unbelievable story..
by jam inmaybe some one can post the story, daily news here.
in calif..
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AnneB
There's always more to the story; sometimes you have to wait a while, but it eventually surfaces:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/27/knx-couple-legally-should-have-paid-the-wont-go-nanny/
UPLAND (CBSLA.com) — The “Won’t Go Nanny” is apparently not going anywhere anytime soon.
Marcel and Ralph Bracamonte, the Upland couple who hired 64-year-old Diane Stretton from a Craigslist ad in March, have started legal proceedings to evict her from their house after she refused to leave their home — even after they fired her.
KNX 1070 Investigative Reporter Charles Feldman spoke to Marcel Bracamonte on Friday by phone and told her, according to the California Labor Commission, the nanny should have been paid.
Bracamonte told KCAL9′s Amy Johnson that she and the nanny agreed to a live-in relationship that would have Stretton do housekeeping chores as well as helping to care for the couple’s three children for free room and board. Bracamonte concurred with Feldman that that was the couple’s arrangement with Stretton.
But Feldman says, according to California law, nannies are considered employees and they need to be financially compensated for their work. In other words, just free room and board violates state labor laws.
When Feldman tried to discuss the matter with Marcel Bracamonte, her carefully crafted image, he reported, “turned notably sour.”
“You know what, if you’re going to try to turn this around on me,” she said, “I don’t want to do this interview.”
Feldman said, “I’m not trying to turn it around …”
Bracamonte cut him off and said, “You’re trying to turn it around on me.”
He said, “No, no. I’m …”
Bracamonte said, “Charles, I don’t want to do this interview if you’re not going to try to turn this around on me and make me the bad person.”
Feldman replied, “I’m not making anybody the bad person. I talked to the labor department and …”
Marcel then said, “And I don’t care. And I don’t want that on the air. I don’t want that on the air.”
Feldman continues, “I was just asking what your understanding was with her about the conditions of employment.”
“The conditions of employment,” Bracamonte said, “was she got, in exchange for room and board, for helping me with the kids.”
“Right,” Feldman counters, “but did you ever check to see if, check with anybody, to see if, you were able to do that arrangement with her … to do work just in exchange for room and board?”
At this point, Bracamonte has had enough.
“You know what, you’re not, you’re not a nice person,” she says. “And I don’t want to talk to you, Charles.”
And then she apparently hung up.
Feldman reported that Bracamonte never returned to the call and hung up on him when he reached out to her afterward.
Awaiting the next installment.
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Breaking News: Five White NYPD Officers neck choke an African American Guy for breaking up a fight
by Scott77 inhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8ae_1405660548.
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AnneB
As I understand it, he "sold illegal cigarettes" and had been picked up for it at least 5 times. Cops are human. Worse, they believe in "upholding the law" the way JW's believe in upholding their Truth. When the cops saw him on the street and figured he was up to his old tricks, they snapped, and it was fatal for him.
Was it "right"? No. Is it understandable? Yes. Some parents do the same thing; try to deal with the misbehaving kid all day then snap and over-punish. But is it really the cop's/parent's "fault"? What responsibility belongs with the guy/kid?