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... the estranged sister should hand her purse to Dr. P: open it and say, "IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU!" and hand back the purse.

What's the purpose of the reconciliation?

The 3rd rail - see entitlements in the gov't.  You've worked your entire life and feel like you should be receiving something. (Social Security, Medicare...)


In a way, this episode is boring.
Let the producers vet it and find someone with a little more zip. 

I don't care what a will does/doesn't say in writing.  It's her #$)(*#  money.  Dr. P keeps asking, "you've cut her completely?"

In my family, it's like this:  my parents have been estranged, wait, divorced about fifteen years ago.

The older of my two sisters (I'm the oldest member of the litter) basically ignored everyone else.  The strange thing is her daughter (the oldest of five grankids) who is in her middle 20s. She stopped by several years ago and was surprised when the rest of us invited her to a couple of meals, etc. She found out we weren't the ogres my mom's ex (how I refer to him, via a poisonous upbringing .

Years ago, the Chicago Tribune's Sunday Edition used have a short tidbit about people who were in a mover/shaker circle - or someone everyone knows in entertainment.

One of the things I remember most of the people answered (the questions weren't the same every time).  There was one which didn't hit me about my mid 30s  (I'm forty-six) :until it happened:  "I knew I was an adult when: ..." For me? "I knew I was an adult when my mom asked me to be the executor of her estate."

Do I expect or want something out of it?  Heck no.  It's not about me. Why should I expect something when I've not earned it. It's hers, it always has been, and always be so. If I want some a lifetime of whatever it is worth, I should be earning it for myself.

And I pointed this out.  BUT, I also told her to make her wishes very clear.  "Whatever it is, I will fight hammer and tong to follow it to any degree it took."

That's when she smiled and said, "That's why I'm asking you."

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I am not a landshark, er, attorney.

Male or female, old or young,  race or race.

One of the most trite statement is, "You violated my Constitutional right(s)".

This is about as stupid as, "I'll sue you to the Supreme Court!"

I'm waiting. Still waiting. Dr. P, ask them to explain which Constitutional right(s) are in violation. Hold their feet to the fire.  "Paging Dr. Heimlich, paging Dr. Heimlich, I'm choking on this garbage"

Five minutes?  He waited five minutes and suddenly figured his time becomes more important than anyone else? Just because it's longer than the time he can hold his breath doesn't mean he's waiting beyond what is tolerable.

Someone who is "blocking" him might have waited for sixty minutes.

As him. Please ask him how long the other people on the street waited.

He was lucky. And it's not because there was a camera to film parts of it, even if most of it goes against him.  He was lucky someone didn't intervene on anyone's behalf.  He could have had someone beat the prunes out of him. A baseball bat? A gun? Taser? 

That would be rich.  He'd killed or maimed but guess what? He was right.

Those three kids he keeps mentioning will be without a parent. But the parent was right.

I'll wager he even tried to squeeze in and no one would.  So what? So what if they won't let him in.

Most people don't let you squeeze in because of his behavior.

If anyone is worried about a schedule, then plan. Take another route: taxi, who knows how to get there faster than you can, a bus, thumb a ride.

Dr. Phil mentioned a remark which makes things shorter than I have: God will always support...

There was a flood underway and it became so deep a man had to get up on the highest portion of the roof.   A boat came by and offered assistance. "Thanks, but God will take care of me."  After several hours, a helicopter flew low and offered the same aid., "No, God will take care of me."  Several hours later, another boat comes along, the question & reply were the same.

"God, why will you not provide assistance?"

God: "I've sent two boats and a helicopter. What else could you want?"

Now we know how some people get on another's account.

I almost pull out my hair when one guest has been reading the email of the "opposition".

"How did she get to your email?"  "She hacked my password."

If you make it a kid's name, the family pet, etc., then you DESERVE to have someone else read your email.  The Secret Service is known to cut right through machines which have been used to make threats to someone in the gov't (of any level).  They make a list of all sorts of personal information, then work through those words/names/whatever.  The longest a "non-technical" person's password has taken to be determined is a handful of hours. 

Now for the parents:  Do you think what you are seeing is their only account at a given site?  Do you really think all of the fun a kid has is going to be where Mom & Dad can read it?  Their friends already know the Facebook/MySpace account is compromised.  Mom & Dad read whatever they think is real, with just enough material to keep it from being too diluted.

What do you think could happen when they study at the library, have coffee at a book store, or during "free time" at a PC at school?  In the case of the library, 'nuff said. Coffee? Free wireless. So your kid doesn't leave a trail on their machine, what about a friend loaning it to them? (including sitting right next to them.  Free time at school?

Somehow, people seem to play stupid after the fact ,frequently misleading others (audience/viewers) as to what might or might not be happening.

As for the consequences, has everyone forgotten the mission of one storyline on NBC's Dateline, when perverts are lured by the cops to a house, expecting a good time with underage girls?  Some of them traveled hundres of miles. Many had a box of condoms, booze, etc. yet said they were just "visiting".  If "lure" sounds illegal, there's an easy way to look at it - and it's easy to demonstrate. I hopped on AOL, created a screen name "HotPammy14".  I hadn't been in a room with local (adult) friends for fifteen or twenty seconds (literally) and I had eight requests for an IM (private conversation. These were NOT in the room.

What do you think the "14" meant? They obviously meant it was an age. Their statements said as much.  It usually popped up on their second, most definitely no more than three responses from them.  I did nothing to drag them into a conversation and said nothing to lead them on.  I merely answered questions as though  I was a fourteen year old girl named Pam.  "Hot" is bait? I didn't say whom I was hot for.  It could have been lots of my classmates call me.

Now: who did the luring?

N.B. For Dr. Phil & staff:  don't quote statistics about how many people sign protests/petitions.  "Thousands & thousands people mean nothing".  People CAN vote more than once. It's not that tough.

...but a few things arose when I watched the Dateline interview:

1) She has student loans. Dr. Phil said she might get $40'000 when she graduates. 

Not only is this an impossible situation financially, but she will have to pay student loans on top of her expenses.

2) Is she using her student loans for living expenses?

Someone needs to audit her finances. I'm surprised anything has been hidden from the IRS.

3) She won't admit it now, but she will be receiving endorsements. Every time a multiple birth (quads or more), they receive money from ads, donations, etc.  This is precisely what her "PR agent" will work to exploit. Also, when will someone direct a significant sum out of concern - to help the kids' situation.

4) Psychology issues. At some point, the original six will feel completely pushed aside.  This will cause a lot of problems, now and in the future.

5) There are plenty of people who adopt large numbers of children, particularly those who are special needs.  How is that different?  Those families control how many they have at a time. When they are "saturated", they don't adopt additional ones.

6) Who paid for her braces?

Did you know your CAPS LOCK key is broken?


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Once someone is elected to office, every campaign thereafter focuses upon, 'who has the most experience in that position?' Of course the incumbent. And every election thereafter, the gap of experience widens.  No one listens to the fact the current position was once held by someone who had more experience than someone else.

The situation with Granny is the same thing:  'I can't let him go back because he's been so stable (for so long).' Every subsequent attempt to return him to the mother will be, 'well, he's been in a stable environment for a year', 'well, he's been in a stable environment for two years', blah-blah-blah.

Does"Mom"  really think this is funny?

It's sick.   Dr. P: You're missing the degree of how bad this is.

This is one of the favorite episodes?

There are a lot of people who are a few bubbles off plumb.