what's going on in Nebraska.  Not so much about the where, but the what.  It seems that Nebraska recently updates a state law that is designed to give people who have children a safe way to give them to the state without fear of prosecution.  They changed the word used to define the children from infant to child.  Under the letter of the law that means all children under the age of 19.

Since that change was made, parents of children much older than infants have been dropping off children at hospitals and walking away.  The article was written when a man dropped off 8 of his children in one visit.  There have been a total of 14 dropped off since the change.  The children have all been healthy and I believe will be put into foster care until or if they get adopted.

I don't know about you, but this seems wrong to me.  I don't want parents to neglect or harm their children because they become frustrated, but I also don't think we should set up a system that makes it easy for parents to drop off their problem children like so much dirty laundry.  Why not require that they attend counselors, if the problem is financial, give them housing and food, and if, in the end they still are not able to cope with their children then put the kids into some sort of state homes where the children will receive the treatments they need.

Parenting is hard.  Anyone who is a parent knows this.  But it can be rewarding too if you work past the hard parts.  There will always be exceptions, but that's the chance you take when you have children.  We need to stop passing the buck to the already over burdened government and start shouldering the responsibility we signed on for when we decided to take that cute baby home from the hospital.

(Child Dumping Article)

Thank you all that responded to my urgent prayer request for my friend who was like an adopted daughter to me.

She didn't make it,I think that she was so tired of fighting just to take a breath of air. We don't realize how Blessed we are to have our life and strength.

I ask that you continue to keep her Husband and 3 young children in your prayers as they go through this very difficult time.

Urgent call for all that know the power of prayer, I have asked you to pray for this young woman before, she has been waiting for a double lung transplant, she came very close to getting one but one of the lungs was scarred.

She has been in the hospital for the last week hardly able to breath even with oxygen.

I received a call from her husband today that she can no longer breath on her own and has been put on a respirator.

This is a young mother with three small children and like a daughter to me. I am praying for a miracle.

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This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.

Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote.

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive. Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of 'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cellmate, Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack. Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging, beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917, when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right to vote. For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms.

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks until word was smuggled out to the press. Links to photos

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because- -why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work? Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the actual act of voting had become less personal for me, more rote. Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege. Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history, saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said. 'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use, my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'

HBO released the movie on video and DVD . I wish all history, social studies and government teachers would include the movie in their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing, but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

History is being made.

With fuel prices topping four dollars per gallon in some states, many Americans want to keep their paychecks in their pockets and out of their gas tanks. Thanks to cheap Internet access and fast computers, some workers can perform their jobs just as well from home as they can in the office. Government analysts recently identified that combine higher-than-average hourly wages with the benefits of working from home.

#1: Administrative Services Manager

Traditionally, administrative services managers oversee large support staffs in offices such as hospitals and law firms. As larger employers consolidate responsibilities for multiple locations into a handful of positions, more administrative services managers have earned the option to work some or all of their hours from a home office. Earning an associate's or bachelor's degree in business can help you gain the skills necessary for this managerial telecommuting job that often pays more than $30.

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First it was bad milk, actually tainted on purpose, because they
watered it down and added melamine to make it test high in protein
 so it would test as un-diluted milk.

Tainted baby formula has been blamed for killing four infants and
sickening 6,200 in China since the scandal broke last week.

Some 13,000 babies, mostly newborns, are currently in hospitals and 158
 of them are suffering from acute kidney failure. Thousands of
parents across the country were bringing their children to hospitals
 for health checks.

PARIS - After tainted baby milk, now toxic chairs from China.

Customers in France who bought Chinese-made recliners are complaining
of stinging allergic rashes and infections.

One customer, Caroline Morin, said Friday she was stunned to learn
the chair she bought last December appears to have caused the skin
 problems she says she suffered for months.

"You sit comfortably on something and in fact you have a bomb under
 your butt," she said.

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This is a Reborn or fake baby:

 Can you believe that women are paying a fortune for these fake babies. These “babies” breathe, produce body heat, and have life-like hair.

Some people think that they are creepy. Others think that they are incredible and love to collect them.  They look so much like a real little baby that they have even fooled the police.  That was the case when police smashed though a window in a locked automobile to rescue a seemingly unconscious baby.  The baby wasn't real; it was a reborn baby doll.

 This woman is 33-years-old and looks way to old for high school,but she wanted to be a cheerleader so bad that she stole her daughter's identity and joined the cheerleading squad.

Wendy Brown, of Green Bay, faces a felony identity theft charge after enrolling in Ashwaubenon High School as her 15-year-old daughter, who lives in Nevada with Brown's mother.

According to the complaint, Brown wanted to get her high school degree and become a cheerleader because she didn't have a childhood and wanted to regain a part of her life that she'd missed.

Brown allegedly attended cheerleading practices before school started, received a cheerleader's locker and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach's house.

The $134.50 check Brown gave to the cheerleading coach for her uniform bounced, the complaint said.

A high school employee, Kim Demeny, told authorities that the woman, posing as the teen, seemed very timid. Demeny said she told her she was not good at math and even cried when she talked about moving from Pahrump Valley High School in Nevada. Demeny said she looked older than a student but had the demeanor of a high school girl.

A school liaison officer started investigating after Brown only attended the first day of classes last week, the complaint said.

Assistant Principal Dirk Ribbins later learned Brown's daughter was enrolled at Pahrump Valley High School. Ribbins also spoke with Brown's mother, who told him she had custody of the girl. She said Brown has a history of identity theft crimes, the complaint said.

Can you imagine how embarrased her daughter is?

'That's wonderful! What's it like?'

'Well, I get up in the morning, I have sex. I have breakfast and then it's off to the golf course. I have sex again, bathe in the warm sun and then have sex a couple of more times. Then I have lunch (you'd be proud - lots of greens) another romp around the golf course, then pretty much have sex the rest of the afternoon. After supper, it's back to golf course again. Then it's more sex until late at night. I catch some much needed sleep and then the next day it starts all over again.'

'Oh, Steve you surely must be in Heaven!'

'Not exactly ... I'm a rabbit on a golf course in Arizona

Someone asked me once about people online. 

Don't I find it silly to call them friends of mine?

 I pondered the thought for a little while

 and slung 'em a story with a huge smile.

 I wake up in the morning, I'll tell you what I do.

 I race to my computer to check my mail, it's perfectly true!

 I open each and everyone and reply with tender care;

 maybe just a a line or two to let them know I'm there
 

I have seen strange things, been so many places,

 have even seen a few of their online faces!

 It doesn't matter beans to me that they are far away.

 Meeting' them has surely brightened up my day!

 We've shared a morning coffee and at times we've shed a tear.

 We've been there for each other; even played cards and drank a beer!

 They are just as real to me as you are standing there.
 

They are always here for me with lots of love and care.

 One thing online has taught me; something I'll never forget.

 There's a lot of great people out there on the net!

 How can you be friends with someone you've never met?

 I'll smile and tell them, "You've never been online I bet!"

 So you can find me silly if that's what ya wanna do,

 but I care for them every bit as much as I care for you!

Somehow in this great big world
I found my way to you
My friend across the computer lines
my heart, my soul, that's who.

You try to make me smile
with the mail you send my way.
You never fail to drop a line
each and every day.

Whenever I have hurried home
with something, I must share,
I find it just so comforting
that you are always there.

Encouragement you give me
and a friendship that is true.
I'm glad my soul while reaching out
found someone like you.

~Author Unknown~

The hobby of collecting includes seeking, acquiring, organizing, and displaying,items that are of interest to an individua l.

I collect spoons, and antique dolls.There are many things that people collect. One of the strangest things that I have heard of someone collecting is hair, you read right human Hair.

Collecting hair was once considered a gentleman's hobby among just a few but now it is a multimillion dollar  business. It consist  of collecting hair of famous people.

The auction house in Chicago recently sold a tuft of Che  Guevara's hair for $119,500, John Lennon's hair sold for $48,000,

when Brittany Spears had her melt down and shaved her head the Salon operator sold her locks for $3,500.

A strand of Abraham Lincolns's hair is worth $500,000.

 “It’s a celebrity-driven thi ng" so almost anything attached to a celebrity is sellable. They have strands of Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley plus a whole lot more.

It is a yucky thing to collect to me, but to each his own.

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55 plepoe out of 100 can.
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phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde
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olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit
pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a
pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by
istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot
slpeling was ipmorantt! if you can raed tihs forwrad it.