@Squeeze1i Holy fuck. It’s ain’t the 1950’s. I can’t think of any couple friends where the woman isnt equally involved in the household finances or managing it all.
Can we - finally - agree that putting everything on a cloud rather than a hard-drive, having an Internet of Things, and removing landlines are very BAD IDEAS and we should probably stop putting all our eggs in one tech-based basket?
@cancerSign12345@bethanyshondark@Battle_for_Eire Yeah, but if she jumps at the divorce offer, he’s going to be living in a box eating crackers the rest of his life after support payments. I do agree….this is not all on him to fix tho.
@BeverlyBrunkhu1@1True_American_ Hubs and I weren’t married yet. We had a fight and I told him to F off. He said, that’s it, we’re done. One thing about him - he played NO games, so I knew I was in it deep. I apologized, were together for 20 yrs until he passed. I NEVER again said those words (to him anyway).
@ken_westside@jayplemons My parents are 82 and 84, still mobile and completely with it. They don’t even seem old to me. I’m hoping for many, many more years with them.
@repdeliaramirez Anyone in government that expresses a loyalty to a jurisdiction above that which they are serving must be immediately released from their position. There can be NO divided loyalties when governing and representing others.
@cawsbar@nulamoonsnail Honestly, let whoever wants to play these games with their health play them. You want to pretend your sex is something different than what it is, too bad when your health condition goes undiagnosed or is misdiagnosed. FAFO?
@badboujeebabee@atensnut Nah. Men need some training. These are small things. If he’s a good and decent man, lock it in. Women need to be better at asking for what they want. Men (usually) genuinely have no clue.
@atensnut The passenger door of my husbands car was broken so it could only be opened from the outside. So he’d always have to let me out. We laughed that everyone was going to think he was such a gentleman.
@EFT26@larrynmaher Well, maybe help me understand…any image of a person with a big nose should be assumed to be Jewish. Is that it? I mean that seems kinda racist to me but what do I know?
@KolotRabbi@Nick_Decap One of my work meetings had an elder lead a prayer. One guy was on his phone thru it and a coworker complained to me that he thought it was rude. I replied it thought it was rude to expect anyone to participate in someone else’s religion. I just watched how everyone reacted.
@BradleyBrodkin@larrynmaher So we should assume any image of a person with a big nose is meant to be an image of a Jewish person? That seems kinda racist to me…
So what if a Muslim wins an election in America and becomes a congressman or senator? Why is that any different from a Buddhist winning an election?
Because Buddhism is a religion. Islam is a state.
Islam has a population: the ummah. It has a constitution: Sharia. It has courts, criminal law, family law, taxation, rules for minorities, doctrines of war and peace, and a foreign-policy framework governing relations between the land of Islam and the lands outside it.
The ummah is not tied to Egypt, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, or any other modern country. It crosses all of them.
Islam's population "Muslims" belong to one political-religious community.
That is fundamentally different from Buddhism.
A Buddhist American may practice Buddhism faithfully, but Buddhism does not give him a second universal political order with its own law, sovereignty, territorial doctrine, and theory of government.
Islam does.
This is why reducing Islam to “just another religion” misses the point.
Muslim officeholders are literally citizens of another existing country, and their loyalties can never be American first, because the two projects are contradictory.
Add to that the religious hatred of Jews in Islam and the special relationship between Israel and America.
A Muslim in a position of power in America, with a religious mandate to hate Jews, will not approach Israel from the perspective of what is in America’s best interest, but rather from the perspective of what Islam commands him to do.
@gsuvanto@CGWeatherHub@mapleblooded We’ll be back there in a year, except worried about being on another waiting list for a Dr. now that he has a good one. Genuinely, it’s the only reason we are considering staying. Don’t blame me for the NDP here. I’d never vote for them.