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    kaylar replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

    My friends were in the top of their field which is why they were approached.  I recall one of them agreeing with my word; ‘abduction’ because he was comfortable.  He was happy.  He had everything here.  But the offer they made was so … unrefusable…

    I don’t know..  to me…  the easiest way to ‘bring jobs home’  is to find those jobs which…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Getting rid of your Relatives 7 years, 10 months ago

    I read, with some shock, about the prevalence of  ‘Granny Dumping’.   This is the disposal of older relatives, many with Alzheimer’s disease by their children or grandchildren.

    By dumping, it is that the c […]

    • Yes. I was shocked by it when I learned of the practice. It is terribly cruel and selfish.

    • Sad that some people have no conscience in doing that to their parents. How were they able to sleep peacefully, when they know that the very parents who loved and took care of them and gave them education, were put in a place where they cannot be disturbed.

      Good thing, here in the Philippines, majority of the old people are being taken cared of their children until their death. The children loves their parents that’s why.

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    Treathyl FOX replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

    Well, of course, I don’t know the man personally. (For the record, I also don’t know Vladmir Putin or Rick Perry personally.)  But to say the last two days have brought to light the kind of man Mr. Trump is must mean all those other days you weren’t paying attention. Donald Trump revealed his character many many years ago, long before he ever…[Read more]

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    Treathyl FOX replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

    Well, of course, I don’t know the man personally. (For the record, I also don’t know Vladmir Putin or Rick Perry personally.)  But to say the last two days have brought to light the kind of man Mr. Trump is must mean all those other days you weren’t paying attention. Donald Trump revealed his character many many years ago, long before he ever…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Ten Most Corrupt Countries 7 years, 10 months ago

    Although many countries are corrupt, the Top Ten seem to have exceeded.

    Transparency International  blames/attributes corruption on what is called the rise of ‘populism’.   People are elected because they a […]

    • There are reports that are published about the most corrupt countries and also the nicest countries. I remember seeing reports on both. I remember one report that said Ireland was one of the nicest or “goodest” countries.

      The information gathered about corrupt countries is informative but it is also very sad. The late Ray Charles sang a song with these lyrics: “None of us are free. If one of us is chained, none of us are free.”

      You or we … have a tendency to review these reports and breath a sigh of relief when our country is not in the Top 10. But then, you have to think:
      ~ Is there no way the people in those countries can be set free?

      If you’re in a corrupt country, with a ruthless regime, it’s worse than being a slave in chains!

    • I was scared we’d be in the top ten. We are in the top ten of the most dangerous cities…Kingston.

    • thank god india is not in this list …

    • Speaking corruption, the Philippines has a lot of corrupt officials. In fact, everyone is clamoring to enter politics because they want to enrich themselves through those projects being implemented in the place where they rule.

      But with us having a new president now, so bent in curbing corruption and in fact, have relieved the whole management of its Bilibid prison, where drug lords have their shabu laboratories.

      He has already a strict instruction that government employees should expedite all government trasactions and report those who asks for bribes.

      I Hope this is the beginning of at least the lessening if not for the eradication of corruption in the government.

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Trump’s First “heck of a job” moment 7 years, 10 months ago

    In 2005, President George W Bush praised his emergency management head, Michael Brown, for doing a “heckuva job” with recovery efforts.   As everyone knows, Brown did a terrible job.  If he had been abducted by K […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Books You Must Read – Sherlock Holmes 7 years, 10 months ago

    With the two competing television serials; Elementary in the United States and Sherlock in Britain, as well as the motion pictures and references,  it suits you to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Peculiar Power of Language 7 years, 10 months ago

    I was sitting in a room and the moderator of a speech contest told one of the competitors that his ‘persiflage’ did him no credit.

    The word persiflage rolled off the moderator’s tongue easily.   I looked up the […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, A Little Trip About Watching Serials On Line 7 years, 10 months ago

    One of the up sides is that you can watch what you want to watch when you want to watch it.   You can stop the show to answer the phone or use the bathroom.

    The operative word is ‘Can’.

    You must collect a […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, Books You Must Read – by Edgar Allan Poe 7 years, 10 months ago

    This author needs to be read periodically.  From his poems to short stories,  some need to be read out loud.

    He was born in 1809 and died forty years later.   He is is best known for his tales of mystery and the […]

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    Treathyl FOX replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

     
    No I wouldn’t think you were making it up. Those “woo the employee packages” can be quite nice. You were joking. But I was serious about my comments. I was actually thinking of people from other countries other than Jamaica and I was also thinking of Americans who do go over to countries that are not their homeland and try to help. So I took wha…[Read more]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

    I am being ‘sarcastic’ when I call them abductees.    I have some genius friends.  One had been headhunted from one major company to another, and then no less than Dell went after him.  He was going to buy a house here, he had everything here, and you never would have thought he’d of left. But they offered him a package if I write it here you wou…[Read more]

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    Treathyl FOX replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

     
    Nobody is holding the “abductees” here in America. They’re staying of their own free will. I’m just thinking. I have no way of knowing. But I think that many would be happy to come back to their native land and build it up. They just don’t want to wrestle and wrangle with corrupt government officials who want to skim the cream off the top of any…[Read more]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Upside of Not Being Politically Correct 7 years, 10 months ago

    Let me begin with this fact; we are not, NOT politically correct in Jamaica.   Oh, the painted media mouths will twist their lips and bite their tongues, and make it seem that a cess pool is sanitation deprived, […]

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    kaylar wrote a new post, The Upside of America for Americans 7 years, 10 months ago

    Way back, in the 1950s, America used to trawl Jamaica for domestic servants, hospital and farm workers.  For whatever reason, America had a dearth of such persons seeking employment, so set upon Jamaica.   J […]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

    my response to you has just inspired an article

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    kaylar replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

    Yeah, but we aren’t as worried as I thought we would be.   We’ve gotten into a lot of trade deals with other countries, and have been replacing many American imports with others… for example, (this is coming from the ‘me’ who is a frequent shopper) there used to be a huge quantity of cooking oil from America on the shelves.  Today, the m…[Read more]

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    Treathyl FOX replied to the topic Trump Tweets – A continuing discussion in the forum Group logo of Making Money OnlineMaking Money Online 7 years, 10 months ago

     

    Like I said before. My dad and my husband are both from The Bahamas and they have friends from Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad, etc. I know the island folks get into some really heated AND INFORMED discussions about politics; especially the politics of other countries, as they clearly recognize though they may be island countries, “no country is an i…[Read more]

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    Treathyl FOX wrote a new post, Sanctuary! Sanctuary!! The Hunchback Sheriff of Texas? 7 years, 10 months ago

    When I was a kid I watched the 1939 film, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, starring the late Maureen O’Hara. Loved that scene where Quasimodo, the hunchback, lifts the gypsy Esmeralda (Ms. O’Hara) in the air and sho […]

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    kaylar replied to the topic Updating or editing past blogs.. in the forum Group logo of About LiteracyBaseAbout LiteracyBase 7 years, 10 months ago

    I don’t think you can… unless there’s a change in the basics

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