People confuse "natural" and "gentle." Poison ivy is natural. ;) Camphor is powerful stuff, smell-wise, but it is irritating to few people.

The GS badges suffer from multiple personality syndrome. Some of them are really skills-based and awesome, like Boy Scout badges. Others are split between these horrid, shallow "stuff that girls like" badges (makeup and fashion feature strongly in some of them) and horrid very left-leaning brainwashing. But the leader makes all the difference.

Objectively, cosmological argument. All the rebuttals are really poor, and the most recent attempt--"We're all an alien computer program!" is nothing short of hysterical.

Marijuana does stay in the system for a long time. (I have never tried any illegal drug, but I do know that used a week or more ago can show up in drug tests!) So she could be telling the truth. Bad judgment, either way, there, and I really hope she doesn't use it in front of her kid. I'm culturally American, as are most of the people who post here (or culturally Western European....), and I myself am very private about such things, but I do have to say that the idea of a child being in the same room as a TeA act being harmful is a particularly 20th century Western point of view. My husband lived in a studio apartment when his parents immigrated to the US and did not feel scarred by the exposure. And, honestly, guys...Little House in the Big Woods. One room. Trundle bed. Just because they didn't TALK about it..... Most children worldwide probably witness adult TeA pretty regularly. I'd put this in the class of bad judgment considering cultural norms rather than anything abusive. I don't know how CPS would see it.

The essential oils can be VERY irritating, especially lavender. Vick's Vaporub is MUCH safer.

The CAR would be a big issue. It needs to be a fairly recent model, very clean, and NOT A MINVAN. LOL.

I'd get aggressive about finding employees for DH, too. Right now, there's no gradual retirement for him. With a few employees--if you promise NOT to do the swing shift stuff, etc. :)--he can gradually step back and do less of the actual work while still having income. Eventually, you could both be putting in maybe 10 hours a week each and still have a good income from the shop in addition to any retirement savings.

A brat is a brat is a brat is a brat. I have the opposite problem. My daughter is absurdly adorable, and people love her, but she exploits that in group situations and behaves in ways other children wouldn't get away with. I have to beg teachers to hold her to the same standard as other children and to tell me if she's a brat. With teachers who do this, she's an angel child because she gets reinforcement at both ends. With teachers who refuse, she is, in my opinion, and unholy terror. And I hate it that some teachers defend her because she's so cute. I tr to keep her out of those classes! If the kid's disrupting other children, it's not fair to them. Mom, however nice, is a crappy mom, and other kids shouldn't be afflicted with her child just because other moms like her.

He who cooks arranges the kitchen. If he started arranging anything, he would get to take over the associated duties in that area. I arrange anything in the house that gets arranged. DH's areas are more.........stuffed. And when stuff stops fitting, I ask him to make room.

WOW. I don't have 2013 things in my house that can be gotten rid of. Not unless I count junk mail! But I'll keep a list for fun! TOSSED: 1 Broken Magic Bullet (broke last week) FOR SALE: 1 Dresser, 1 Entertainment Center, 1 Lawnmower.... FOR FREE: Roomba with wonky programming

Worthless in most climates. It's usually used to pull air from outside into the house. So if it gets really hot during the day but really cool at night, it can help. In Central Texas, it was a cruel joke.

I bought my Eureka TheBoss SmartVac over 10 years ago. It's been repaired once. My parents also had their Dyson break.

When his old undies stop fitting? :p Seriously, he has a skinny backside.

Divorce rates are down. People aren't marrying AT ALL.

OK, so now I'm behind. LOL.

Me and my body pillows that I'm using during pregnancy take up a LOT of room. We're sleeping apart probably until the baby is 3 months old or so. We have a guest room.

Goddard's director was directly responsible for "fixing" the historical data. In the process, there was a lot of upheaval there--people who objected that it wasn't ethical were promptly ejected. The director is known here locally as a cheap political shill, and if you want to survive, you better not voice your objections to his tricks. BBL. Got to take the kids off to gym.

Science works like this. You have a theory. You make predictions about measurable things. If the predictions are consistent with the theory, you say they are consistent. If they aren't, you say they aren't. What doesn't happen in science is that you have a theory, and you claim that WHATEVER HAPPENS, it will be consistent with your theory. More snow? Global warming! Less snow? Global warming! More storms? Global warming! Fewer storms? Global warming! And when predictions are not borne out, you DO NOT, under any circumstances, "adjust" historical data to make them support your theory. Change the theory to fit the data, not the data to fit the theory. When this first began to his newspapers heavily 20 years ago, I didn't really have an opinion one way or another. Then when one of the IPCC reports was put out, I had a few basic questions about measurements and methods, like I do with any research. So I went to find answers. And there were no satisfactory ones. That made me incredibly suspicious of the value of any conclusions, and I have gone from suspicion to outright contempt after what Goddard pulled, "fixing" the historical data when global warming was shown to have not occurred for 5-10 years to make warming reappear. WHAT could disprove anthropogenic global warming at this point? What observations? What data? The fact is that we're being told over and over again that ANYTHING could be caused by anthropogenic global warming--including global cooling, not just at some future tipping point, but right now! That is insane.

And my hometown has had much colder winters over the past 10 years than the 10 before. A lot of subtropical plants that had lived for decades got wiped out in ll the unprotected places about 5 years ago. Doesn't mean that the CLIMATE is getting colder, or that people are the cause.

Right. Science. Totally not an agenda. Funny that most physicists disagree. Could you explain that? Your post is actually more damaging to your case. Science should not have suppression of alternative theories. Hence Newtonian physics being revised over time. If the "science is settled," it's not science.

Okay, so you're listening to journalists and their scary interviews. Bet you think crime's worse today than in the 1970s, too. Or that there's been a rise in mass shootings over the past decade.

Find their reports. Look at their modeling for the earth. Then explain to me the justification for denying basic physics by claiming the earth should not be modeled as a black body. Thanks. http://ipcc.ch/

You didn't post a like to a single scientific article. What do you mean, "evidence?" You posted links to journalism. Scientific American is journalism, not a scientific source. "STILL" is inaccurate. In the 90s, it was infinite warming. In the 2000s, they decided that there would be a tipover into an ice age. But you're talking about a group of people whose weather forecast for five days out is no more or less accurate than the Farmer's Almanac or random chance, given the climate and season. You guys haven't brought any science to the table AT ALL. Try my link on why smoothing ACTUAL DATA is wrong and distortive. That's some actual, real-life "science." Or, in this case, math.

A lot of the survey is, sorry, dumb. "Women should assume their rightful place in business and all the professions along with men." Some jobs are better suited for women, on average, and some for men. I don't expect women to beat down the barriers and become house framers in droves, nor do I expect men to want to do childcare. This is OK. "It is insulting to women to have the "obey" clause remain in the marriage service." Well, if he's bestowing her with all his worldly goods and worshiping her with his body, I don't care if people want to be that old fashioned. "Women should take increasing responsibility for leadership in solving the intellectual and social problems of the day. " Or....they can do what they want. This is weird, gender-centric language that I just don't like.

Pfffth. 15 minutes form the beach. And if you're worried about your hometown being "underwater," you need to stop watching Al Gore specials. That's not ANYONE'S "science."