Yes!

Abra, you are the king of the apples to oranges comparison.Queen of smoke and mirrors. Everytime I see your posts I think Oh God! It's Charlie Brown's teacher again! Wah wah, wah waaaaaah wha wahhhh.

Thhre is NO excuse for irresponsibility. But again, this thread was not started as a bash post. I sincerely meant what I wrote.

Yeah Glen, it seems some hate monger of a blithering idiot went postal and pulled the pin. Not sure who he/she was as I was at work when it happened.

Thanks hiker!

Next Mother's Day we will hoist a can of spinach together Popeye. I claim that day also.

Are you drawing an assumption from my OP that is possibly distorted due to your own situation? This is not about deadbeat parents. The many reasons can include them but also include widows, women who chose to have children alone, whatever the case may be. With an attitude like that I can't for the life of me see why women aren't falling at your feet offering to be your carpet so you don't dirty your shoes.

I understand your anger. I raised my three children. Don't know where to go with the stick comment though.

Gas? Although varying tonal exchanges are always fun to share with other guys.

As a result of many possible scenario’s, you are single and raising your children alone. Being mother and father at the same time.

I won’t call you a saint.
I know why you push on

I won’t tell you how easy it can be.
I know the hardships personally

However……
I will say that I admire your courage greatly.
I know you don’t see yourself as courageous.

I will tell you that your children respect your strength.
Even when you feel weak you are a super hero to them.

Mother’s Day is not your only day for others to recognize you. You get Father’s Day as well and you deserve it more than some fathers do.
Happy Father’s Day Moms
We all love you

Man is the root of evil. Man chooses the path and governs it.I am NOT a fan of organized religion. Jesus wanted people to follow him. He didn't want a circus sideshow.

Yes rambill it is scary that we still have so many John Wayne wannabes. All three of my kids served in Iraq and my youngest just finished his tour. They have a completely different take on the attitudes of civilians there. For the most part they were very friendly to our service people, inviting them to dinner, thanking them, and being quite social. They do want us out of there but the majority of Iraqis do not hate us. So just for the heck of it why don't we........ BRING OUR KIDS HOME? I thank God that my kids made it home safely and I want the same for every parent. I am all for defense but we are not defending ourselves there, we are fanning the flames of hatred. We have sucessfully made the leap from liberator to bully.Bring our babies home. They are heroes and deserve a heroes return.

Really? It seems all you want to do is trumpet your own and not engage in discussion.

There is no snake and no lizard. They were scared off long ago by the megaphone blaring Agenda! Agenda!

Will you two get a room already? GAWD!

...that shouted the worst abuse and threatened to kill her. White families had removed their children, so she was alone in class and at play. Yet her strength and dignity amazed Coles.

Ruby�s teacher said:

�A woman spat at Ruby but missed; Ruby smiled at her. A man shook his fist at her; Ruby smiled at him. Then she walked up the stairs, and she stopped and turned and smiled one more time. You know what she told one of the marshals? She told him she prays for those people, the ones in the mob, every night before she goes to sleep.�

Dr Coles, a Harvard professor and famous child psychiatrist, decided to study her. In one of their interviews she mentioned that she prayed and hoped God would do something. Coles did not believe in God. He asked her why she prayed, and she just said, �Because.� When he asked again, she said, �Because they need praying for.� Coles thought that was cute, but did not take it seriously. Yet here was a disadvantaged child showing strength and courage that baffled an expert. He said, �I was accumulating all this information, but I was getting rather frustrated.� He had been called �the greatest living psychiatrist� by TIME magazine, and had won a genius award and Pullitzer Prize for his study of children, but now he had to admit that he could not understand this child�s superhuman dignity and courage. �Now how do you explain that?�

Coles interviewed her family. Her parents could barely read or write, and were often taunted by mobs, but they had taught her to pray about problems. Coles even came to her church as an observer. People there said that faith and prayer kept them hopeful despite poverty and racist attack. At first Coles put it down to emotionalism in the uneducated, but it obviously worked: he saw �the look of pain give way to the look of hope in countless faces.� Coles said, �How is someone like me supposed to account for that, psychologically or any other way?�

Eventually he concluded that Ruby�s prayers did something. Something powerful and beyond mere psychological explanations. Coles started praying. Today he is still fascinated by prayer and faith, and tells anyone - children or his Harvard students - that prayer is real. Ruby Bridges Hall, now in her 40s, is still praying. She�s back at the same school as a liaison officer.

Another famous psychiatrist wrote in a medical text-book:

�Prayer is a powerful and effectual worry remover. Men and women who have learned to pray with childlike sincerity, literally talking to and communing with the Heavenly Father, are in posession of a great secret whereby they can cast their care upon God, knowing that He cares for us. A clear conscience is a great step towards barricading the mind against neuroticism.�

-Dr William Sadler, Practice of Psychiatry

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! Isn't Microsoft Works an oxymoron?