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For those of you who don't know, I work for our County Assessor. He had an opponent this year who is an extremely disgruntled sociopathic ex employee. The voting ends tonight at 7:00 p.m. We are the same time as the Pacific Coast right now.

The opponent used to make up stupid songs for people's birthdays. He actually made snide remarks about people in our office in them. I decided I am going to sing a song for him on his voicemail after he finds out he's not elected. I decided it will be to the tune of "Breaking Up is Hard To Do." That part of the song was "Becoming Assessor wasn't for you."

Anyone who wants to chime in with some lines would be greatly appreciated. He made comments on his radio ad like he would abolish nepotism and get rid of corrosive ethics. He's really extreme in his allegations. I would like to reflect that in my song.

I have to cook dinner now, but I will be thinking about this for the next hour. I appreciate it if you feel the urge to add something.

Thanks.

"Officials have offered Anthony a partial immunity deal if she admits 3-year-old Caylee Marie died as a result of an accident. If she takes the deal, any information Anthony provides to law-enforcement could not be used against her in prosecution."

WTF??? What if it was murder? I don't get why they are offering her immunity. They said the mother lives in her own world. Is she mentally ill?

It's sickening and disgusting. Anything done to that biyatchi won't do justice. Things like this make me wonder WTF????? If she didnt' want her, she could have given her up. Somehow that heinous of an act doesn't seem to be only about a mother who doesn't want her child.

How do you check someone's navy discharge status? I have more information that most would have, but I cannot find where you can get that information without mailing a form. I don't have time for submitting a form. I'd like to know this in the next day or so.

Hurricane Wilma.....that was my worst vacation EVER!!!!!

When Wayne Cl*pp was there as the research guy, there was a very small area for him to operate. I don't know what was in there place, but I don't think it would impress anyone who really is in to research.

My last year on Staff was in 2001. That was the year they had the Reverends at HQ teach different sections of the Advanced Class. Rozilla didn't teach any. It was really exciting.

It's been a few years since my nephew was born, and our family had to deal with his condition. But I thought you all would be blessed to see this update along with information about cord blood.

Today he's doing fantastic and hasn't suffered any long term effects. In fact, it's probably made him a little smarter than the average two year old, because of all the new connections his brain made, when the damaged part of his brain died. He's reading and spelling simple words like CAT, DOG, TRUCK, VAN, etc.

Anyway, when he was born, my sister decided to store his umbilical cord blood. Although expensive, they looked at it as an insurance policy...just in case he ever needed it.

This means that Seth may have a recourse if he ever develops problems down the road from his stroke. At some point, he may become prone to seizures which can cause further brain damage.

It's so exciting to know that other stroke victims can benefit from this therapy and that more therapies may be developed. Who knows what the future will hold in this area. To me, the benefits of storing cord blood outweigh any negatives.

It amazes me how this may cause healing for some pretty devastating diseases. I know there is so much controversy over things embryonic stem cell research, but I truly believe there is something with that research that may make some HUGE leaps in medical research. Cord blood isn't really controversial, but it sure seems so worth the cost.

Below is a story from the cordblood website. It's miraculous:

http://www.cordblood.com/azfamily1.asp.

Today's Koolaide is that LCM is a far gone memory. They don't think about him anymore, and they've moved on. That sounds all fine and dandy except that there are MANY victims of his reign which were hurt. Families were torn apart and women were used, and that is to list only a few of the things. No form of counseling to help healing was done to my knowledge. The Koolaide drinkers are in the dark and "don't want to know" so they can still live the Verd (whatever the H that means.)

Just wonderinig...

If there were a Sunday morning service that was a really good and uplifting time, with genuine, heart-felt praise and prayer, and good, solid, interesting teaching, would it be enough to overcome the desire to sleep in?

For me, yes. I found a great church which excited me to get up on Sunday mornings. By the time I left TWI, I was in a major funk. I LOATHED going to fellowship at that time. I tried offshoot fellowships when I first left, and they made me sick too. I just needed to get away from anything related to TWI.

I remember dreading fellowship nights, but you are right that Sunday fellowships were the worst. I wanted to sleep in, eat breakfast at my patio table drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. For me, it got to the point that I wanted to start being true to myself. I didn't like it, so why go? I didn't have a husband to deal with when I left, so I understand it's harder for someone who is married and still wants to stay in.

Prayers are still abounding for you. (((((Likeaneagle)))))

Sorry to hear about that, but I am glad you are doing better and on your way to recovery. I have been wondering who you are, and now I think I know. I'm PMing you.

Well, I always had a hunch you were a stud, Raf! Now this just proves it!

Congratulations to you and the Mrs. This is wonderful news!!

Have any of you heard of this guy or what he's doing? He was in Arizona this past week. My husband ran in to him today in Needles (aka Needless), California. He gave him some water. He's going to need it walking across the Mojave Desert.

Hakim Maloum's Walk Across America

I believe what is being objected to here is not so much the validity or viability of saliva as a sexual lubricant, or whether Christians have sexual relations but rather the format in which it was openly presented and misrepresented as being relevant to Biblical research and teaching.

And the fact that a minister feels the need to teach his flock about sex is WEIRD!!! Showing large, erect penises to children was not the best teaching IMHO.

BTW, Jenna Jameson says spit is the best lube.

I saw Mama Mia! this weekend, so it's everthing ABBA right now. I feel like I flashed back to junior high school.

If you snore, you could very well have sleep apnea. Don't let the scarey comments get to you. If you have sleep apnea, you owe it to yourself and your family to get diagnosed. It WILL save you life. I've been on the hose for 14 months. I snored like crazy and stretched myself across the whole bed. Now I stay in my own spot (hubby is happy), and I don't snore because I use a CPAP machine. 95% of compliance with sleep apnea is getting the right mask. Go to cpaptalk.com to get some great support by those who have been on the hose. I've gotten many free things and tried masks for free from others on that forum. They are EXTREMELY helpful.

Please do get checked sooner rather than later. I found I had 60-75 apneas per hour with my oxygen level going down to 70%. I would wake up with my heart beating out of my chest. I feel way better since getting on it.

I didn't get a chance to read all of the posts on this thread, but I have one comment. When you get involved in an organization like TWI in your early 20s and you stick around through your 30s and sometimes 40s, your thinking becomes conditioned. I saw things that didn't make sense, but my logic was to make excuses that anything evil was happening.

Thank God I wasn't one of the women approached for sex. I can't say for sure that I would have headed for the hills ifI had been convinced it was a service for the MOG. I remember when LCM taught in the Believer's Family Class that it was OK for single people to get their needs met, I raised an eyebrow, but I didn't dare question anything the MOG said. That's where the mind conditioning was happening.

One thing I've learned through all of this is that you can stand back in hindsite of a situation and say "I wouldn't have let that happen." But the reality is different at the moment when your common sense ethics are being contradicted by what the MOG says. If you hear the contradiction enough times, you start to believe it. That's how mind control works. That was/is an every day even at TWI.

I believe exercise alone leads to weight loss depends on your age. When I was 20, I gained 30 pounds. I started aerobics, which I did for 1 hour, 5 days a week. I lost 30 pounds in 3-4 months. I changed nothing about my diet.

Today, I can exercise that much, but it will be really slow progress in comparison to my earlier years. I know because I did step aerobics like a nut when I was at HQ. I was in my 30s while living there. I had to MAJORLY watch my calorie intake to lose any weight. I believe age and gender makes me weight resistant.

My husband lost 45 pounds in 3 months on the Atkin's diet. I believe he lost the weight on that diet because he ate way less than he did previously. I tried it, but I can't stick to that one. I love sugar way too much.

That's my experience anyway. Less fuel in and more fuel exerted will make you lose weight. It doesn't matter HOW you do it. If you find a way that works for YOU, stick to it.

What an inspirational man with a message to the world. I saw his speech on Oprah. I saved that show on the DVR to replay any time I felt like my like was crap.

Rest in Peace Randy Pausch; you gave to the world in a selfless, loving way.

Oak,

Isn' it surreal that we even gave those jackarses any power over us to begin with? The whole subject to the higher powers idea was definitely manipulative in a major way.

Well, I went out quietly, but there were waves of unrest and insurgency building up to it.

I was "allowed" to "take a break" from TWI activities and never returned.

Oh, Belle, quit being so modest! You were a Wayward Wayfer who's insurgence covered the whole southeastern seaboard all the way to Headquarters. You stirred more stuff than most here did. And I, for one, got a big kick out of it! You had Moneyhands on the biggest witch hunt ever.

JavaJane, if you haven't heard Belle's interview, you HAVE to hear it.

Link to Belle's Interview

I sent my FC, BC, and LC an email telling them I wasn't going to fellow$heet ever again and that nobody was to call me, come to my house, or try to talk to me ever again. The hard thing was I still had a boyfriend who was still in. They tried to be loving and told him to tell me hi and they missed me. I dumped the boyfriend about 3 months after leaving TWI because he was a miserable bastage.

Ironically the boyfriend started talking to me about GSC before I left. I chastised him for going online to read negative stuff about TWI. Buat then my curiosity peaked, and I started posting while I was still in. I was out about 6 weeks later. It was the final Advanced Class Special in Dallas that helped me make up my mind. That was in 2002. That class was SOOOOOO LAME!!!! What a freakin' waste of money. Plus I shared a room with somone in my fellowship who I couldn't stand to be around. I felt pressured to share a room with her. Gawd! I shiver at the things I did in the name of God.

The miserable bastage is still in TWI.

I'm a new me, and I'm liking me. Plus I met my soulmate, and married life has been bliss for the last 4 1/2 years.

I lived in Midland, Texas, with another woman who was friends with Augusta. She used to talk about her all the time because she admired her. I think they were WOW together in Kansas City. I never met Augusta, but you NEVER forget a unique name like that.