This is what can happen when you live in an apartment. Your clothes washer does some funny things instead of the very thing it was designed to do. So, that's what's happened to this writer in recent days.

A snafu in the rented clothes washer caused some minor flooding on my kitchen floor the other day. Fortunately, I was able to reach management in the nick of time and we got everything mopped up. But now, I get word that there are no more good rental washing machines...

It’s bad enough to go through something like a bankruptcy or a foreclosure, but to have to write about it can take your breath away. Now, you are forced to recall a part of your life you would prefer to forget. Take comfort you are not alone – you are actually in the majority with a credit blemish. Writing about a late VISA payment or a collection with the utility company seems a bit much, but there are reasons for these requests. This is not a lesson in humiliation, although it may feel like...

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.* But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but have now obtained mercy.* (Isa 9.2; 1 Pet 2.9-10)
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I am an adult but I have never been treated like one. My mother and father both treat me like I am still 15 years old. I am constantly blamed for all their problems, and emotionally scarred by their lack of caring about my well being...I sadly live with them due to not being able to afford to live on my own( NJ is expensive). I am never treated with respect and it has taken it's toll on me emotionally. I feel unloved and unwanted by the people that are suppose to have my back instead I am the scapegoat...

[QUOTE=bUU;38213072]The right-wing ethic is explicitly self-motivated. So creation of firms and jobs is not consistent with their intentions, even though they may try to claim it is. Instead, the main criteria is that the investment is likely to provide the very best possible return on investment. In context, there is nothing wrong with that. A reasonable system [I][B]could [/B][/I]be structured so that each individual within it behaves in a strictly selfish manner, like the right-wingers do, but...