Executive Order: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People

P.S. I'd love to know more about animal communications! I'm an animal-lover, and I know they have abilities that we can't fathom. That must be an interesting thing to study.

I worked with and helped train military working dogs while I was in the service. Iâ??ve seen dogs do some amazing things. Also, on the non verbal side Iâ??ve studied American Sign Language while in collage. I love it and would like to someday continue with it. Itâ??s kind of like speaking with your mind by means of gesture.

One thing I found highly interesting while working with dogs was that the handlers senses became more acute (we spent A LOT of time with our dogs.) I asked the other handlers about it and they experienced the same thing. For instance, we might be standing in a group of people talking and all of the sudden we would alert to something that was happening outside our field of vision. Kind of like how a dog perks their ears up and turns their head quickly for no apparent reasonâ?¦.ha ha well we found ourselves doing that too. I have since lost this trait so our heavy exposure to the animals must have had something to do with it.

Speech writer â?¦cool. I thought about doing that once. My minor is in marketing.

Youâ??ll do just fine in med school. What kind of Doc do you want to be?

That is so cool--your work with dogs! I expect animal handlers' senses do become more acute. I think I might make a good animal communicator or therapist.

Speechwriting is a good field. I happened into it just from being in marketing communications for so long, but speeches strike me as the easiest things to write (among things like Web copy, brochures, video scripts, position papers, etc.). The good thing about speechwriting is that it's always something I can do on a freelance basis if I want to keep my hand in writing.

What sort of doc do I want to be? A good one! Seriously, I'm sorta open. Right now, I'd guess perhaps pediatrics or obstetrics or emergency medicine. But I've been told those initial ideas tend to change once students get into their clinical rotations and internships. My husband is a cardiologist, and interestingly, that to me is one of the specialties that appeals to me least. Maybe because I've already had so much of it second-hand. I know geriatric medicine is going to be a huge growth field, and that area interests me, too. I have a soft spot for old folks and little ones.

So do you have any specific jobs in mind for once you graduate from college?

Yeah freelance would be a good decision.

I know what you mean by keeping your mind open to all options. Geriatric medicine sounds fascinating. I like old people too. Working with sick kids would be too depressing IMO. I think working with old people would be a lot like working with kids except the old people would tell better stories. There is a lot to learn from old people and I think it would give you a different perspective on your own mortality. Sort of like a preview of whatâ??s next in life.

In the morning Iâ??m supposed to start an internship with a major media organization (TV/print media.) Iâ??ve already interviewed and been accepted and my first day is in the morning. Iâ??ve been told to report to HR first thing to complete paperwork and get a badge. Iâ??m stressing hard because Iâ??m afraid they are going to drug test me. They didnâ??t tell me I was going to have a drug test but Iâ??m still worried their going to say â??O buy the way you need to go to such and such for your drug test.â?� So wish me luckâ?¦too bad I canâ??t study for the test.

I want to work in a diverse media environment (tv, film, radio, print, all of it.) Hopefully, Iâ??ll have a better idea of what I want after my internship.

However, if I had a bagillion dollars and could do anything I wanted to do I would buy old houses and fix them up and sell them. I hate new houses, they have no soul.

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However, if I had a bagillion dollars and could do anything I wanted to do I would buy old houses and fix them up and sell them. I hate new houses, they have no soul.

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Here, here... I like the creaky steps, the warped floors, and the overgrown trees outside.

Good luck today!

I have a brother in law who flips houses for a living. Buys them. Fixes them up. Sells them. He has old ones and less old ones. He loves that work. Business is slow for him, though.

Good luck today with your first day of internship, Likemclever! I'm sure it'll go fine. Certainly they'd have told you in advance if you were expected to face a drug test. Let us know how it goes, OK?

I agree about old houses. I grew up in a big Victorian house and so have an affection for older ones. Unfortunately, in the area where I live now, there are no old ones to be had. Fifteen or 20 years ago, this whole community was farmland, and so big soul-less houses have now popped up on the well-landscaped Texas prairie where corn and cotton used to grow. It is rather tasteless.

Hope you have a good day today! Check back in when you can!

Hey, well good news! They didnâ??t test me. I canâ??t tell you how good that feels.

I nearly made myself crazy. So I guess that means that I get to live to fight another day. :stoned:

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Here, here... I like the creaky steps, the warped floors, and the overgrown trees outside.

Good luck today!

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Exactly, old houses are the best. New houses to me look about as original as shoe boxes on a shelf. They even feel empty. Donâ??t get me wrong I see why people live in them and Iâ??m not knocken people who do. Old houses shits constantly breaking, I say it adds a bit of drama. Most people when they buy a house donâ??t want to half to work on it. Either because of time or money.

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I have a brother in law who flips houses for a living. Buys them. Fixes them up. Sells them. He has old ones and less old ones. He loves that work. Business is slow for him, though.

Good luck today with your first day of internship, Likemclever! I'm sure it'll go fine. Certainly they'd have told you in advance if you were expected to face a drug test. Let us know how it goes, OK?

I agree about old houses. I grew up in a big Victorian house and so have an affection for older ones. Unfortunately, in the area where I live now, there are no old ones to be had. Fifteen or 20 years ago, this whole community was farmland, and so big soul-less houses have now popped up on the well-landscaped Texas prairie where corn and cotton used to grow. It is rather tasteless.

Hope you have a good day today! Check back in when you can!

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Thatâ??s why I would need a bagillion dollars. Itâ??s hard to do something like that, and do it the way that you would if you were going to live there yourself, and still make good money at it. Almost impossible.

One of my fondest memories of my dad is when we were kids sometime he would drive us around and look at houses. We would all point out the window and tell each other which ones we liked best. Sometimes weâ??d drive in the really old swanky part of town and sometime we would just look at normal nice houses. Me and my brother and sister would argue about who had the worst taste in houses. Good Times.

I would wanna make kids point at my houses and say â??Oooooooo look at the one.â?�

I know what you mean they are taking over here too. Itâ??s dreadful to watch

This would be a good thing if it wasn't for the fact that the President thinks he can strike down a Supreme Court decision at his will.

Liberal majority in SCOTUS? Uh, I don't think so, iamapatient. It was pretty evenly divided before Bush took office, but SCOTUS is decidedly right-leaning and conservative now. If you think the majority of SCOTUS is liberal, which justices do you think are the liberals?

I am a liberal, generally, although fiscally I am what they once called a conservative -- I like a balanced budget, and respected Gramm and Rudman for their work toward that goal, and deeply respect Clinton for his many, many vetoes of Congressional pork. How many spending bills has Bush vetoed since taking office? A grand total of...zero. If anyone is wondering why spending is all out of control, and why your children and grandchildren are now in hock for trillions of dollars, look no further than the president when assigning blame: he has had many opportunities to use his veto power, but has chosen to sheath that budgetary weapon and instead let the spending go on unabated.

It is for this reason that I prefer the president and control of Congress be from different parties, so that there is an adversarial relationship. I don't really care if the president is liberal or conservative, as long as Congress is controlled by the opposing party. True, less gets done in that scenario, but what *does* get done is generally worthwhile, and the common man usually gets less screwed-over.

I definitely do not think that it's true that being liberal means anti-American. Liberal though I may be, I have served in our armed forces, in combat; I have put my life on the line for our values. Because I don't agree with much that this *administration* has done (violating the Geneva Convention, spending a trillion or two dollars of taxpayer money on fighting a country that didn't have WMDs with which to threaten us, using scare tactics to inspire fear and thereby loosen Constitutional protection of civil liberties, rampant corruption) -- this doesn't mean I am anti-American. In fact, many of the things which this *administration* has done or sponsored seem to me to be extremely anti-American.

If we give up our moral values in order to protect our perceived greatness, we are neither moral nor great. That's something this president has not learned.

there is no liberal and conservative, left or right, or up or down, or northwest and southeast...

the real spectrum is total government control, and no government control. dictatorship and anarchy. the left and right was made up to divide and conquer.

when i read the federalist papers, there's no left or right bullshit, there's talk about freedom and tyranny.

we're as close as you can get to anarchy, with a constitutionally limited government and laws.

bush is esentially the same as clinton. we're on one path towards a pan american union dictatorship, and we get it through both 'sides' after they are s'elected.'

by the looks of how things are going with the EU right now, and even though we are basically lying down while the country's sovereignty and constitution are trampled, i don't think we'll get to the world government stage before another revolution, and a peaceful one if we can help it.