CherylsPearls

@CherylsPearls (1269)

United States • Age 70

Joined myLot 17 years ago

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." MLK, Jr.

CherylsPearls's Discussions

Twice Removed From Oscar Wilde?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 27 Nov 08

Ok, I got that from a Don McLean song, "Everybody Loves Me,Baby." But I do have a question. When speaking of cousins, etc., I have always referred to them as 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousins, etc. Aunts are Aunts, Great-Aunts,...

Politics or Other Controversial Topics and the DRS of myLot - Opinions, please?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 25 Oct 08

How many of you think that the DRS in myLot actually works the way is should? If you post in Politics or Religion, do you think that others who merely disagree with you will rate you positively for keeping on topic? Do you think...

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Cindy McCain Says Obama Running "Dirtiest" Campaign Ever?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 8 Oct 08

I could not believe her statement. The McCain campaign has tried every way from Sunday to connect Obama to everyone from terrorists to Fannie Mae. They have slung bull from every corner, and yet Cindy McCain can say this with a...

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Politics and Religion - Mixing the two?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 29 Sep 08

In reference to an article I just read at the Washington Post about 33 ministers flouting the tax law with political sermons:The separation of church and state has been discussed on myLot many times. Sunday, 33 to 35 ministers...

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Palin - CNN's Campbell Brown Says Sexism Must Come To An End!

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 24 Sep 08

CNN's Campbell Brown accuses the McCain campaign of chauvinistic treatment of Sarah Palin. She said, "I call upon the McCain campaign to stop treating Sarah Palin like she is a delicate flower who will wilt at any...

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Sarah Palin Wins 2008 Rubber Dodo Award

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 18 Sep 08

No, I am not making this up and no, I am not posting this just to "attack" poor Sarah. Before someone says it is nitpicking, let me say that it is not to those of us concerned about the earth and living creatures other than...

ecology

endangered species act

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McCain's Newfound Support for Regulation - How Can He Be Trusted?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 17 Sep 08

McCain, after decades of being against regulations, has now decided we need them. How perceptive of him. [i]"They haven't been doing their job right," McCain said yesterday, "or else we wouldn't have these massive problems on Wall...

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Palin Has Her Own "Minister" Problems - Controversial Views

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 3 Sep 08

Since everyone has seen and discussed Obama's minister, let's discuss Palin's. Palin's church, minister and beliefs are every bit the story that Obama's is/was. In a speech given in June, addressing the graduating class, Palin...

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Palin Didn't Come Clean on Bridge To Nowhere

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 1 Sep 08

According to an article on MSNBC, when Palin bragged: [b]I have championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress," Palin said in her vice presidential campaign debut in Dayton, Ohio. "In fact, I told Congress, I...

Are You Killing The Fun Of Childhood?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 21 Jul 08

I was born in the 1950's. Children in the 50's and 60's played hard...OUTSIDE. We played in the streets, we were daredevils on bikes and skates, homemade go-carts, homemade skateboards; we had rope-swings high up in the trees; we...

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A July 4th Special on MSNBC - Can You Pass The Citizenship Test?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 2 Jul 08

I thought this would be a piece of cake for me. I am a US citizen, born and raised here. It wasn't all that easy. I'm just wondering how many myLot(ers) will pass this test. We all love to talk about politics, but what do we...

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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 5 Apr 08

Do you or have you ever had OCD? Even if you were never diagnosed, have you ever had obsessive or compulsive habits? When my parents divorced, I was 16. I didn't think I was upset until I started a doing a very strange thing....

mental health

ocd

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Do you always brown beef and pork?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 5 Apr 08

Whenever I make stewed beef, beef stew, beef roasts or pork roasts, I always brown the meat first. Any kind of meat that is either cut up or going to be put in an oven or pot with liquid, I just think it tastes better browned. I...

beef

cooking

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James Carville & Bill Richardson - Name Calling

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 25 Mar 08

I have to admit that I did think about voting for Bill Richardson. He seems to be a sincere man and does have experience. For a couple of things, he was US Ambassador to the United Nations; he was also US Secretary of Energy. Both...

humor

politics

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The Gathering 2009 - Edinburgh

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 25 Mar 08

I have been reading more about this event online at: www.clangathering.org. Anyone here belong to a Scottish Clan? I'm a Scott, but I'm afraid I won't be able to go. Too costly for me at this time. But I would love to be...

genealogy

scotland

scots

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Obama's Minster Video - Found it!

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 15 Mar 08

I know this video has been taken off YouTube, but I found it on ABC news. The address is www.abcnews.com/Blotter/story?id=4443788&page=1. If you can't use this link, go to ABC news and search for it. I found it by searching on...

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Church of Scientology

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 4 Sep 07

I read an article on Yahoo a few minutes ago about the Church of Scientology in Belgium. A Belgian prosecutor recommended that the "church" should be prosecuted for fraud and extortion and be labeled as a criminal organization....

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Why hasn't the USA had a woman for President?

CherylsPearls @CherylsPearls (1269) • United States 4 Sep 07

A woman has never been elected President in the US. Why do you think this is? Other countries don't seem to have a problem with a woman as leader of their country. What makes Americans hesitant to vote for a woman?

elections

politics

women

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