teejayniles asked:


Should Com. on Presidential Debates postpone the Tuesday debate / town hall meeting?

here’s the notice in Sunday evening version (online) of NY TIMES

October 5, 2008, 5:05 pm
Biden’s Mother-in-Law Dies
By John M. Broder
Bonny Jean Jacobs, 78, the mother-in-law of Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic vice presidential nominee, died this afternoon after a long illness, according to a spokesman for the Biden campaign.

Mr. Biden has canceled all campaign appearances Monday and Tuesday to be with his wife, Jill Jacobs Biden, and their families.

Mrs. Jacobs had been in hospice care in the Philadelphia suburbs, not far from the Bidens’ home in Wilmington, Del.

Mrs. Jacobs was the widow of Donald C. Jacobs, 72, a savings and loan executive from Willow Grove, Pa., who died in 1999. Mrs. Jacobs stayed home to raise Jill and her four younger sisters. The couple was married for 50 years.

Mr. Biden’s spokesman, David Wade, said that a memorial service would be held on Tuesday in Abington, Pa.

Mr. Biden has not appeared in public since Friday, when he spoke briefly at the deployment ceremony for his son, Beau, a member of the Delaware National Guard who is preparing for a year-long tour in Iraq. Beau Biden, 39, is the attorney general of Delaware.

Mr. Biden was to have appeared at a Human Rights Campaign dinner and a fundraiser in Washington on Saturday and at campaign rallies in Virginia on Sunday. No events had been planned for the coming week because of uncertainty about Mrs. Jacobs’ health.

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jessy asked:


My son graduated from college as a electronic engineer in oct and I paid for him a month off trip ect.He is 21 and living at home and Im paying about 600.00 a month to support him and in March his student loan is about to strt .I noticed he just played video games and didnt seem to be looking for a job so I got on him and he applied for one online and went to a employment agency .I want him to put in more effort and he told me he has no motivation and his fear is he cant do the job and maybe he will be homelless and may have depression! I And it is most jobs are out a state and he wants to stay home.I dont know what to do ?I dont want him to do anything to himself I worry about that .What do I do? Thanku any help

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shirleyfhoffman asked:


I am a 25 year old stay-at-home mother/ full time college student working towards an associate in Early Childhood Education. My husband is 22 years old and works full time as a C.N.A. in a nursing home. We have three children ages 4 and under. Evalyn is 4, Berlin is 3, and Joesph is 18 months.
Joe and I have been together since he was a Junior in high school (8years) and have been married for almost 5 years. We have worked very hard to provide our children with a home and were finally able to get out of government housing about 2 years ago when we assumed the loan on my aunt and uncle’s house. We qualified for the Kansas weatherization program last year so our home is warmer then it was last year, but we still worry about being able to pay for heating.
Anyway, we aren’t lazy or freeloaders. We were both working full time and (barely) paying our bills each month until my work said they couldn’t afford to keep me. Instead of looking for another minimum wage job, I enrolled in college. I am making a 3.8 GPA and will graduate in 2010.
Because my husband only makes $9.00/hour, we have been falling behind on all of our bills by about $150 each month. We haven’t been able to make the minimum payments on any of our credit cards (we’ve been thankful to pay our mortgage) and now they have been canceled and turned over to collections. We cant pay the amounts they want us to pay for the payment plans they have offered (which is more than our minimum payments were) and they are adding late fees and over the limit fees each month.
We are now on food stamps, WIC, Medical (for the children), and we qualified for LIEAP, but none of these agencies help pay bills. We were told that because Joe works full time, we cannot qualify for cash assistance. I was so desperate to help pay our bills, that I started filling out online surveys for .50 each. We don’t have money to try any of those crazy on-line schemes.
If you have any real suggestions that can help our family before we end up losing our home and having to return to government housing, we’d really appericiate it! Thanks for your time.
P.S. We have considered joe joining the military, but we decided that it wasn’t the right choice for us. We have a TON of respect for the men and women who are brave enough to risk their lives for our wonderful country, but we decided we would rather be poor and have each other than to have money and take the risk of our children growing up without their father.
We have made several smaller sacrifices though, like getting rid of our Dish TV. We have started doing most of our shopping at our church’s thrift store, ALDI’s, and Wal-Mart for the rest. We have even started making our own laundry soap. We heard about those people who auctioned all of their property to pay their medical bills and we thought about selling some of our belongings to make ends meet, but then we realized that most of our stuff was bought second hand and then it has been through three children. We wouldn’t even donate most of our stuff because is has been through so much, we could never sell it. LOL

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