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  • To Irked and Her Clueless In-Laws

    Get Rich Quick Schemes Do Not Work!!!!! Flip this House is a fake Read the Headlines-No One is Buying but Investors Prudie; In July, my mother passed away. She had an insurance policy that paid 100% of the burial plan she selected. She had even pre-paid to open and close her burial plot. Now, my father is on hospice. My siblings and I ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by nolan00 on August 21, 2008

  • How many Libs Can U Fit In

    A CLOSET NONE THEY ARE ALL FAT CATS LIVING OFF THE GOV. The closet is filled with hope and dismay. How can you get even a dozen to agree when they are dispelled to europe kneejerk solutions.
    Posted to Ballot Box by roloflex on August 1, 2008

  • ARE LIBTARDS' THAT NIEVE

    That speeches make a president or is it the top appendage spinning so much that they have to follow what is thrown in front of them for them to lick up. Naw its their communist views that America should be hated.
    Posted to Ballot Box by roloflex on July 25, 2008

  • The Coming Charity Crisis

    The article by Daniel Gross presents an example of the thoughtless use of numbers that is rampant in journalism (but certainly not limited to journalists). Mr. Gross says, ''Charitable giving in 2006 was $295.2 billion, according to Giving USA 2006, about 2.2 percent of gross domestic product. For comparison's sake, Wal-Mart has annual sales of ...
    Posted to Moneybox by jshapard on June 12, 2008

  • Suggestion for Alum

    Apparently you have fantastic taste in clothes - why else would your friend be so insistant? Here's a suggestion so the shelter won't get shorted: Have your friend go through her clothing as well, and set aside everything in good condition that she's outgrown, dislikes, or doesn't wear any more. Take those, along with those items of yours she ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by Jayde on May 15, 2008

  • National boarders cause poverty

    I have always though that national boarders cause poverty, by restricting the movement of people we are essentially allowing slave labor type conditions in third world countries if first world countries would allow unlimited immigration from third world countries, wages in rich countries would ease down while the wages of people in poor countries ...
    Posted to The Undercover Economist by mikozaur on April 20, 2008

  • Charity, Giving and Scouting

    I wholeheartedly agree with the person who does not wish to donate to organizations to which she is diametrically opposed. A simple ''No - I really can't do that...'' will suffice. A former coworker did not want to give to a particular medical fund I was collecting for some years back, on the grounds that the medical research being done was ...
    Posted to Dear Prudence by baldone66 on April 3, 2008

  • Brother can you spare a dime?

    White man on a street corner with his hand out saying ''brother can you spare a dime'' with Obama walking by chin up fist in his pocket a hand waving negatively towards the guy and dismissively, Michelle three steps behind and their kids all following chin up and a smug look on their faces. Obama replying : ''who are you callin` brother!'' ...
    Posted to Ballot Box by jeqal on March 26, 2008

  • The Facebook challenge

    As someone who participated in the Facebook Causes challenge (I recruited about 30 donors to Love Without Boundaries), I can say I think these things absolutely work, and here's why: 1. Cost. An online challenge costs the charity nothing. LWB heard about the challenge and signed up. That's all -- every other bit of the fundraising was done by ...
    Posted to Philanthropy by Science on February 11, 2008

  • You're more wrong than Cosby

    So you guys have a twist on this. OK, I'm sure that based on your methodology you are right. Now - how does this serve the black community? Bill Cosby is trying to help lower income black families understand some of the mechanics of their situation. Your study results imply that it is OK to feel good if you forgoe some necessities such ...
    Posted to The Dismal Science by shadow32 on January 12, 2008
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