Anonymous wrote:Back story: 23, we've been together for almost 4 years, just moved back into together after living separate because of job. We have been back in the same home for about 3 weeks. Our new home in the same city as HIS job. My job now requires a 2 -2.5 hours of commute daily for me. I also work between 12 and 14 hours a day, 5 days a week

He is complaing that we don't have enough sex and thinks I don't enjoy it with him... When the reality is that I do, but between leaving at 5am to go to work and returning anywhere from 6pm-9pm I'm honestly just exhausted...

am I not the norm for my age? should I be ready to go after all of that or is this normal. I feel really terrible and like a failure as a woman right now.

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Fun as long as they are being responsible.
Fun as long as both partners are willing, and able to consent.

And fun as long as they are mature enough and willing to handle the consequences (physical and emotional) that result.

Agree 100%. I was lumping that in the responsibility. Everyone talks all the time about the physical consequences. I think emotional consequences can be just as huge, especially for teens.

Anonymous wrote:Not everyone sees sex as being fun. It's work awful work.

A frail 92-year-old woman is the latest victim of new voter identification laws sweeping across the U.S.

Ruby Barber, a senior citizen in the small town of Bellmead, Texas, has been unable to vote because she can’t find her nearly century-old birth certificate that she’d need to obtain a voter ID under a new state law.

“I’m sure (my birth) was never reported because I was born in a farmhouse with a coal oil lamp,” said Barber, 92. “Didn’t have a doctor, just a neighbor woman come in and (delivered) me.”

Barber visited the state’s Department of Public Safety office last week to request the newly required election identification certificate, but was declined after she didn’t have a birth certificate.

Under Texas’s new strict voter ID law, enacted in June 2013, all voters must show one of six forms of valid photo identification – including a driver’s license, a passport, a military ID or concealed gun permit – to be able to vote.

Those who lack a valid photo ID, can apply for an election identification certificate (EIC) – a process that requires a birth certificate or other proof of citizenship.

Barber, unfortunately, no longer has any of the documents she’d need to obtain a ballot.

Her driver’s license expired in 2010 and her marriage license was lost in a 1992 house fire.

She took her Medicare card, Social Security card and expired driver’s license to state officials when she sought her EIC, but agency staff insisted she needed to provide a birth certificate.

On the jump, I will again repeat the statute that sets out precisely how the law is supposed to be implemented. To boil it down:

When a voter appears he or she is asked to state name, address and birthdate. A clerk checks to see that the information matches that on voter books. If a birthdate is different, a voter is asked to produce something to verify. If the address is different and still in the same precinct, a new registration card is completed. If not, the voter is directed to the proper precinct where a new card must be completed.

Then the voter signs the voter registration list in the precinct.

THEN AND ONLY THEN is the voter asked to produce a photo ID. Under procedures taught to workers in Pulaski County (and supposedly elsewhere) the photo ID is ONLY to verify that the name matches the voter list and that the photo on the ID is of the person presenting it.

What happened, all over Arkansas is that voters presented an ID and clerks all over Arkansas then held onto it and quizzed voters to see if they could correctly answer a quiz on what was contained there. Again, the photo ID is not for proof of birth date or address, it is for ID of bearer only.

FROM SPRINGDALE:

I voted in the Democratic primary at Temple Baptist Church, Springdale, Arkansas. I was asked many questions. The little old lady was pleasant and I was nice to her but I was asked to specifically mention that the word "Place" was in my street address in addition to the street name, etc.

FROM OAK GROVE

I am writing to inform you that I was quizzed on my date of birth after providing ID at the Graves Memorial Baptist Church polling location in Oak Grove, AR.

FROM HELENA

The illegal quiz happened to my wife and me in Phillips County.

FROM FARMINGTON

They took my photo ID and then asked for information.

FROM FAYETTEVILLE

I was quizzed about my name, address and birthdate while the election volunteer held my license where I couldn't see it. Is that also part of the photo ID law? I mean, my drivers license does have my photo right there on the front... Are we testing for fake IDs now, too?

FROM LITTLE ROCK

I was asked address and birthday after showing ID. I actually took it out and laid it on the table. She was holding while asking me questions. I voted at Immanuel Baptist. For the record, I'm a Republican who feels voter ID is unconstitutional and legislation is not enough to require voter ID. I think only a constitutional amendment could so that.

FROM HOT SPRING COUNTY

"In Hot Spring County, I dropped 4 picture ID's on the desk, to include passport, retired military ID, concealed carry permit and AR driver's license, as well as my voter registration card. The officials laughed and said oh we get a choice, however one official said "All I want is the driver's license, because my machine reads the bar code," which of course I cannot read and may very well have identifying information such as party, religious preferences and other background information not relevant to my citizenship but could very easily be used to cull out undesirable voters. She proceeded to ask me several questions which had nothing to do with my skin color or registration status. I almost balked and made a snarky remark but my wife knew what was coming and grabbed my elbow. Next time I will present my passport and cause a commotion. I also intend writing my reps, newspapers and on-line forums objecting strongly to the flawed implementation of a thinly-disguised disenfranchisement."

This is wrong. The secretary of state, nominal overseer of state elections, confirmed for me yesterday afternoon that the procedure set out in the law is the law. The photo ID is only to match face and name not the takeoff point for a quiz that can disqualify a voter who gives wrong answers.

A better example is saying, my cat was out last night and I found a dead bird on the porch this morning. I don't know for sure what happened. There are (1) the facts, the dead bird, and some of these facts may have different historical roots (or was it a mouse, maybe it's hard to tell). And then there are (2) the interpretations/beliefs. Two different things. So I can believe my cat was the killer, but you're free to believe it was the neighbor's cat.

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Anonymous wrote:Jesus -- liar, Lord or legend?

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.”


? Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Anonymous wrote:Thanks guys. OP here. Yes, I need a general purpose independent employment lawyer. Done.

Something else. I sign off on security stuff subject to Federal regulations. Do I need a separate lawyer? I assume yes. There is no in house general counsel. Start up immaturity. I need to cover my personal liabilities.