Aprogram for poor-aholics

Seeded on Fri Dec 3, 2010 7:31 PM EST (Yahoo!)

Can't earn enough dough to pay the rent? A tiny but growing fellowship of New Yorkers might suggest that the problem isn't the economy. The problem is you. You may have a disease—a compulsive addiction to low-paying work.

money, poverty, us-news, depression

Touch

Thu Aug 12, 2010 11:50 AM EDT

Words can not express how much I miss your touch. The absence of your kiss and the feel of your skin against mine... Leaves my heart to ache and my mind weak. Slowly starving... for you. I live on crumbs that barely sustain me... from one day to the next.

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Dragon Song ...

Mon Jul 5, 2010 11:47 PM EDT

Carefully you have sewn the tears...and violently you have ripped them apart... You must hate the insides of me...Must only love the pretty outside pieces... While I devote every breath that enters and leaves my bodyto loving every molecule God made you from...

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and, writing, poetry

The 10 commandments of dining with little kids

Seeded on Sun May 23, 2010 9:00 AM EDT (Yahoo!)

THOU SHALT NOT BREAST FEED AT THE TABLE Yes, I have seen table-side breast feeding at a four-star restaurant. If at all possible, take it to the ladies room. (Note: most upscale restaurants have really nice restrooms!)

family, breastfeeding, infants, babys

Sin

Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:15 AM EDT

Who would ever believe her silver words...? Not anyone who had entertained doubt... Turn away if you can not conceive of her thoughts... She only tells what her soul spills over and can no longer hold... How privileged you are to be reading the words of her heart... To share …

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poetry

Still

Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:06 AM EDT

And still I wait... So still I breathe... Knowing, hoping, willing...

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poetry

In Hurricane Ike, bumpy ride with bird's-eye view

Seeded on Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:38 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

INSIDE HURRICANE IKE - Amid the engines' roar, the Air Force Reserve pilots and navigator worked calmly as their huge plane neared the eyewall of Hurricane Ike.

us-news, ike, hurricane-chasers

A Very Spydey Birthday

Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:49 AM EDT

Just in case you all did not know, today is Dreads 27th birthday. I guess I dropped the ball on informing everyone as there is only about 20 minutes left of this day :( Sorry Dread :/

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[Poetry] Now and Forever

Fri Aug 1, 2008 6:56 PM EDT

By Dreadspydr (Clipped by Spydrbait78)

My mind is wandering, Currently distracted, My heart is broken, And love is retracting. Where we went wrong, It's hard to define, So many little things, Were all intertwined.

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life, heart, writing, love, arts, poetry, soul

Global Warming Linked to Heightened Kidney Stone Risk

Seeded on Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:38 AM EDT ()

MONDAY, July 14 (HealthDay News) -- Rising temperatures and increased dehydration linked to global warming will boost kidney stone rates in the United States and around the world, new research suggests.

health, global-warming, kidney-stones

My Competition

Seeded on Thu Jul 10, 2008 11:48 PM EDT ()

One of the benefits of living in the middle of nowhere is that you seldom have to worry about competing for the affection of your spouse.

odd-news, dogs, love, owners

Fourteen Tips to Avoid Nagging

Seeded on Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:42 PM EDT ()

In marriage, or any partnership, chores are a huge source of conflict. How do you get your sweetheart to hold up his or her end, without nagging?

chores, relationships, nagging

[Writing / Poetry] Tempest Tranquility

Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:08 PM EDT

By Dreadspydr (Clipped by Spydrbait78)

As I stand outside in the evening air, I am filled with a tranquility. The temperate climate of the eve sooths my soul and calms my mind. I am left reflecting upon myself and how the stability of life has me calmed and quelled; If for but a moment of my existence...

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writing, arts, poetry

Love Unsanctified

Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:35 PM EDT

If you need to know my passion, then listen to me breathe, my breath is tainted with your love, my body with your seed. When you doubt the love that I confess, and shun the gifts I give. Remember who it was that begged, with every breath she lived.

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arts, poetry

Make A Wish

Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:44 PM EDT

Today is Friday June 20th 2008. When I woke up this morning I didn't know that this day would be any different than any other.

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ryan, make-a-wish, childrens-hospital

Autism: Making the Diagnosis

Seeded on Wed Jun 4, 2008 9:15 PM EDT (WebMD Health)

Diagnosing autism or autism spectrum disorders (ASD), a group of brain-based disorders that become apparent in early childhood, is often no simple task for a number of reasons.

health, autism

Rethink

Wed Jun 4, 2008 6:05 PM EDT

Thinking over what I have thought reminds me more than ever now It is not I that needs to wonder. Although I have been deceived before, I will not begin to let my soul, be blinded again. What a beautiful picture he paints, If only I permit him to use his talents.

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god, love, arts, poem

By the window in the ocean

Tue Jun 3, 2008 11:10 AM EDT

By Prosopon Maranatha (Clipped by Spydrbait78)

The air comes through my window which the light takes in and radiates. Where does the wind go to express itself? Groups of people hurt my senses. Always alone, always in solitude, always in search looking for you. Going outside myself.

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arts

Bush Signs Bill To Take All Newborns' DNA

Seeded on Tue Jun 3, 2008 8:40 AM EDT (infowars.net)

Seeded by Wheel (Clipped by Spydrbait78)

President Bush last week signed into law a bill which will see the federal government begin to screen the DNA of all newborn babies in the U.S. within six months, a move critics have described as the first step towards the establishment of a national DNA database

world-news, dna-testing, genetic-testing, genetic-research, genetic-surveillance, unauthorized-genetic-research, information-abuse

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My office is full of hamster

Seeded on Sun Jun 1, 2008 5:03 PM EDT (The St Louis Post Dispatch)

I brought a hamster to the office because I had to hide it from my stepdaughter, Melon Ball (not her real name). Melon Ball's eleventh birthday was coming up, and she had decided she wanted a hamster.

kids, pets, hamsters

What's the Zoo to do with its wild ass problem?

Seeded on Sun Jun 1, 2008 4:43 PM EDT (The St Louis Post Dispatch)

The St. Louis Zoo has a wild ass problem. If you worked at the Zoo and you heard this, you'd immediately think that something was amiss with our Somali wild ass herd. Most of you, however, were probably thinking something else. That's exactly the problem.

zoo, odd-news, wild-ass

Choosing the right food can affect mood

Seeded on Sun Jun 1, 2008 4:39 PM EDT (The St Louis Post Dispatch)

How great an impact does diet have on mood? Scientists have long studied the effects of nutrition on health, and we are aware of the consequences that poor eating habits and too many calories can have on the body, such as obesity, increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.

history, food, mood

Anheuser-Busch's roots run deep

Seeded on Sun Jun 1, 2008 12:19 AM EDT (The St Louis Post Dispatch)

"The Busches built an empire here, and they did it their way," said Sue Luepker, who with her husband, Marty, owns Al Smith's Feasting Fox, originally called Busch's Inn when it was built by the brewer. Part restaurant and part museum of St.

sports, cardinals, beer, tradition, st-louis

Lamp Post

Fri May 30, 2008 3:21 PM EDT

Something sparked inside me, the first time I caught your glance. It was like a dim light at the end of a very long dirt road. The dust was blinding, but, the light was surely there. steadily burning...

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Salamander-inspired therapy may aid injured vets

Seeded on Wed May 28, 2008 8:34 PM EDT (CNN)

SAN ANTONIO, Texas (CNN) -- Last week in an operating room in Texas, a wounded American soldier underwent a history-making procedure that could help him regrow the finger that was lost to a bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, last year.

iraq, bomb, health, soldier, hope

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