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	<title>Comments on: Should we do more to encourage women to keep Down syndrome babies?</title>
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		<title>By: cj</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/woman/2009/04/03/should-we-do-more-to-encourage-women-to-keep-down-syndrome-babies/comment-page-4/#comment-993</link>
		<dc:creator>cj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2009 23:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Thou shalt not Kill&quot;...God

either you worship God, or you begin to think you ARE one, and that it&#039;s okay to murder.
40 years is right: that&#039;s how long it&#039;s taken for this country to go completely down the tubes about human life. 
I grew up around retarded people, and never once thought they should be put down like a dog. You social liberals have destroyed this country.
What right do YOU have to impose YOUR morality, if I can use that word, on this country, but yet you have done it, one idiot ruling after another? I hope you are truly happy when YOU are the ones they come after, as unfit to live, and we ALL will get to that point. Then you will meet up with the Creator who will let you know how important life and choices are, which you have squandered recklessly all in the name of &quot;freedom&quot;....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Thou shalt not Kill&#8221;&#8230;God</p>
<p>either you worship God, or you begin to think you ARE one, and that it&#8217;s okay to murder.<br />
40 years is right: that&#8217;s how long it&#8217;s taken for this country to go completely down the tubes about human life.<br />
I grew up around retarded people, and never once thought they should be put down like a dog. You social liberals have destroyed this country.<br />
What right do YOU have to impose YOUR morality, if I can use that word, on this country, but yet you have done it, one idiot ruling after another? I hope you are truly happy when YOU are the ones they come after, as unfit to live, and we ALL will get to that point. Then you will meet up with the Creator who will let you know how important life and choices are, which you have squandered recklessly all in the name of &#8220;freedom&#8221;&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: HaHa</title>
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		<dc:creator>HaHa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama is probably practicing his &lt;i&gt;bow&lt;/i&gt; to the pirates right now.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama is probably practicing his <i>bow</i> to the pirates right now.</p>
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		<title>By: Gale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The board is unusually quiet.  Is it usually this quiet around Easter?  Everyone on Spring break?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The board is unusually quiet.  Is it usually this quiet around Easter?  Everyone on Spring break?</p>
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		<title>By: Gale</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/woman/2009/04/03/should-we-do-more-to-encourage-women-to-keep-down-syndrome-babies/comment-page-4/#comment-979</link>
		<dc:creator>Gale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obviously, since it was Obama&#039;s fault the market went down, it is his fault we are seeing gains recently.  I can&#039;t say I like the leader about Obama recommending people refinance mortgages.  There is a lot to consider when doing that.  Lenders stand to make a lot of money from the unwary.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obviously, since it was Obama&#8217;s fault the market went down, it is his fault we are seeing gains recently.  I can&#8217;t say I like the leader about Obama recommending people refinance mortgages.  There is a lot to consider when doing that.  Lenders stand to make a lot of money from the unwary.</p>
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		<title>By: USinUK</title>
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		<dc:creator>USinUK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>okay, whoever needs a funny read, I give you the Gene Pool from the WaPo:

If you&#039;ve been following the extraordinary story of the U.S. sailors who re-took their ship from Somali pirates, you&#039;ve been treated to an amazling tale of excitement and adventure.   But if you&#039;ve been reading the Reader Comments to the story, you learned what this is REALLY about:  Barack Obama!   And it&#039;s not good!   Because he&#039;s an anti-American wimp, or something!   Or maybe pro-pirate! Either he made this happen, or he&#039;s sorry it happened, or he&#039;s about to apologize to the pirates, or something.    

The question today is: What other bad stuff is Obama secretly responsible for, and why?   

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/community/groups/index.html?plckForumPage=Forum&amp;plckForumId=Cat%3aa70e3396-6663-4a8d-ba19-e44939d3c44fForum%3aa8bc6fd8-cf9f-43ca-99a4-05fdb4342697&amp;plckCategoryCurrentPage=0

the comments are a laugh-flippin&#039;-riot ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>okay, whoever needs a funny read, I give you the Gene Pool from the WaPo:</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve been following the extraordinary story of the U.S. sailors who re-took their ship from Somali pirates, you&#8217;ve been treated to an amazling tale of excitement and adventure.   But if you&#8217;ve been reading the Reader Comments to the story, you learned what this is REALLY about:  Barack Obama!   And it&#8217;s not good!   Because he&#8217;s an anti-American wimp, or something!   Or maybe pro-pirate! Either he made this happen, or he&#8217;s sorry it happened, or he&#8217;s about to apologize to the pirates, or something.    </p>
<p>The question today is: What other bad stuff is Obama secretly responsible for, and why?   </p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/community/groups/index.html?plckForumPage=Forum&amp;plckForumId=Cat%3aa70e3396-6663-4a8d-ba19-e44939d3c44fForum%3aa8bc6fd8-cf9f-43ca-99a4-05fdb4342697&amp;plckCategoryCurrentPage=0" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/community/groups/index.html?plckForumPage=Forum&amp;plckForumId=Cat%3aa70e3396-6663-4a8d-ba19-e44939d3c44fForum%3aa8bc6fd8-cf9f-43ca-99a4-05fdb4342697&amp;plckCategoryCurrentPage=0</a></p>
<p>the comments are a laugh-flippin&#8217;-riot &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: USinUK</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ajc.com/woman/2009/04/03/should-we-do-more-to-encourage-women-to-keep-down-syndrome-babies/comment-page-4/#comment-977</link>
		<dc:creator>USinUK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Happy people are more productive people.

amen to that!  I&#039;m shocked that your company makes you guys work the day after t-giving ... that&#039;s just WRONG.  the day after is for 1 thing and 1 thing only - LEFTOVERS!!!  (there is just not enough money on the planet that would get me to a mall on Black Friday)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Happy people are more productive people.</p>
<p>amen to that!  I&#8217;m shocked that your company makes you guys work the day after t-giving &#8230; that&#8217;s just WRONG.  the day after is for 1 thing and 1 thing only &#8211; LEFTOVERS!!!  (there is just not enough money on the planet that would get me to a mall on Black Friday)</p>
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		<title>By: Gale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmm, well four of those holidays are not on my company&#039;s list.  The day after Thanksgiving incurs serious morale issues every year.  Really, they wwould not lose that much money if they made it a holiday and staff would be a lot happier.  Managers always take the day off anyway.  Outlying facilities close.  And anyone who actually has to work, does nothing and leaves early.  It would really cost not a lot more than the easing of the dress code to allow jeans.  Happy people are more productive people.

But ok, UK does not get more holidays - just more vacation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmm, well four of those holidays are not on my company&#8217;s list.  The day after Thanksgiving incurs serious morale issues every year.  Really, they wwould not lose that much money if they made it a holiday and staff would be a lot happier.  Managers always take the day off anyway.  Outlying facilities close.  And anyone who actually has to work, does nothing and leaves early.  It would really cost not a lot more than the easing of the dress code to allow jeans.  Happy people are more productive people.</p>
<p>But ok, UK does not get more holidays &#8211; just more vacation.</p>
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		<title>By: USinUK</title>
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		<dc:creator>USinUK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Gale - 

&quot;USinUK, you just had to remind us what a paultry few holidays we get in the US, didn’t you?&quot;

no-no-no!!!  the US has more total days AND spreads them out throughout the year ... the UK just front-loads them (2 days for Easter, then May Day and the May Bank Holiday on the 25th ... then nothing until August ... then nothing until Christmas, but then we get 2 days)

this is an issue where I think the US has it all over the UK - while we get a longer time around Easter and Cmas here in England, the US spreads their holidays throughout the year and has more (even though not all businesses shut on them) - MLK, President&#039;s Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving (2 days), Christmas.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gale &#8211; </p>
<p>&#8220;USinUK, you just had to remind us what a paultry few holidays we get in the US, didn’t you?&#8221;</p>
<p>no-no-no!!!  the US has more total days AND spreads them out throughout the year &#8230; the UK just front-loads them (2 days for Easter, then May Day and the May Bank Holiday on the 25th &#8230; then nothing until August &#8230; then nothing until Christmas, but then we get 2 days)</p>
<p>this is an issue where I think the US has it all over the UK &#8211; while we get a longer time around Easter and Cmas here in England, the US spreads their holidays throughout the year and has more (even though not all businesses shut on them) &#8211; MLK, President&#8217;s Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving (2 days), Christmas.</p>
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		<title>By: Gale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>:sigh: Once again my new keyboard tripped my fingers into closing the browser in the middle of a post.

USinUK, you just had to remind us what a paultry few holidays we get in the US, didn&#039;t you?  I understand removing the religious holidays, but it would have been good if they had been replaced with something else.  Maybe baseball starting day.  National sport and all that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>:sigh: Once again my new keyboard tripped my fingers into closing the browser in the middle of a post.</p>
<p>USinUK, you just had to remind us what a paultry few holidays we get in the US, didn&#8217;t you?  I understand removing the religious holidays, but it would have been good if they had been replaced with something else.  Maybe baseball starting day.  National sport and all that.</p>
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		<title>By: USinUK</title>
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		<dc:creator>USinUK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Frustrated - 

enjoy it while you can - right now, their &quot;habit&quot; is pretty cheap - you can hit the $1 aisle at Target and make them as happy as if you gave them solid gold!!  that will end when they are 12 (I also have a niece and 2 nephews in their 20s).

btw - here&#039;s a tip for when the little gets a little bit older (usually around 6-ish, they start to understand this):  each December, my sister instituted a clean-out of my niece&#039;s room around the beginning of the month.  They would go through her games, toys and clothes looking for stuff she hasn&#039;t touched or played with for the last year.  Unless she was HUGELY emotionally attached to it, they would go into a donation bin (if they weren&#039;t tattered and grotty).  It not only taught her to think about other kids who may need the things she takes for granted, but it also cleared space for the incoming stuff.

now ... do you have a &quot;dress-up&quot; box for her??  if not, may I recommend you start cruising charity shops for cheap jewelry and crazy outfits that are just for playing dress-up??  for less than $10, you can give her loads of different &quot;grown up&quot; dresses or sparkly tops and jewelry for her (of her very own!) to play in.

the girls ... well, they are definitely different.  the oldest is an old soul - has the patience of an 80-year-old and gets very quiet if she&#039;s upset.  her little sister is another matter all together - she is loud, opinionated, strong-willed and stubborn.  But, my gawd, are they both cute - and they have the best laughs!!  that great belly / gurgly laugh that only kids have.  I could listen to it for hours.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frustrated &#8211; </p>
<p>enjoy it while you can &#8211; right now, their &#8220;habit&#8221; is pretty cheap &#8211; you can hit the $1 aisle at Target and make them as happy as if you gave them solid gold!!  that will end when they are 12 (I also have a niece and 2 nephews in their 20s).</p>
<p>btw &#8211; here&#8217;s a tip for when the little gets a little bit older (usually around 6-ish, they start to understand this):  each December, my sister instituted a clean-out of my niece&#8217;s room around the beginning of the month.  They would go through her games, toys and clothes looking for stuff she hasn&#8217;t touched or played with for the last year.  Unless she was HUGELY emotionally attached to it, they would go into a donation bin (if they weren&#8217;t tattered and grotty).  It not only taught her to think about other kids who may need the things she takes for granted, but it also cleared space for the incoming stuff.</p>
<p>now &#8230; do you have a &#8220;dress-up&#8221; box for her??  if not, may I recommend you start cruising charity shops for cheap jewelry and crazy outfits that are just for playing dress-up??  for less than $10, you can give her loads of different &#8220;grown up&#8221; dresses or sparkly tops and jewelry for her (of her very own!) to play in.</p>
<p>the girls &#8230; well, they are definitely different.  the oldest is an old soul &#8211; has the patience of an 80-year-old and gets very quiet if she&#8217;s upset.  her little sister is another matter all together &#8211; she is loud, opinionated, strong-willed and stubborn.  But, my gawd, are they both cute &#8211; and they have the best laughs!!  that great belly / gurgly laugh that only kids have.  I could listen to it for hours.</p>
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