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- Luke Hutchison
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Is capitalism sustainable?
Bono stated in his TED2013 talk that the numbers show that we can eradicate all poverty worldwide by 2030. While I really hope that is true, it begs the question: Is capitalism sustainable? Is it possible to have a rich and middle class without a poor class? The sad reality of capitalism is that if there is an exponentially small number of people with exponentially large wealth, there has to be an exponentially long tail of much poorer people who are each contributing to that wealth. Not that we necessarily need an exponentially small number of people with exponentially large wealth, but would the world keep running without capitalistic incentives that increase the separation between rich and poor? Can we eradicate all poverty without the rich sharing their riches? What happens to civilization when nobody is willing to work in the factories and orchards, or build roads?
(Please don't take this question the wrong way! Personally I wish that nobody had to work menial jobs. I just don't understand how we can eradicate poverty when so many jobs will always translate into low-paid labor.)
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Mar 18 2013: Alan,
This is why I say that the tail is wagging the dog. Our economic system by means of bribery (let's call lobbying what it really is) of "our" representatives and their political parties has gained control of all other systems that we use by "owning" what is supposed to be "our" government. Nothing is going to "separate" them unless we, the people demand that "our" representatives actually represent us. What chance do you think of that happening? Yeah. Zip. Nada. Zero. Zilch. Not a hope in bloody hell.
Back in the days when all societies were largely agricultural, and large portions of the people lived in rural areas, a bloody revolution did little lasting damage to the society's ability to survive. This is no longer so in our modern societies. We are mostly an urban population now and we depend heavily for our survival upon modern tech. It is not that we are too cowardly to revolt, it is that we CANNOT revolt without destroying the hundreds of years of technological development that means our survival in today's world.
That means that real change must come about more slowly and thoughtfully; by evolution rather than revolution, if you will. And THAT means that we need to work hard to design the society that we want. Then we'll need to implement that social system in non-threatening ways so as to introduce it in a way that won't cause anyone to feel personally threatened.
Yup. Very slow. Not an instant solution at all. We don't like that; we're accustomed to getting what we want, right now. No waiting or building for the future. Borrow the money and get it. Well, sir, this can't go that way. This has to be built over generations, maybe centuries. But, like it or not, this is what we MUST do if we are to survive as a species on this planet.
The only question is, "Are we Man(kind) enough to do it?"
Mar 18 2013: I agree with your comment about our representatives that "....unless we, the people, demand that our representatives actually represent us".
I also am not against slow changes. But may I suggest which is the place for change with the first priority. If you look at the recent approval ratings of the 3 branches of the federal government, sadly all three are dipping through the 50% boundaries. And the ratings on Congress are inching toward 15%. This atrocious figure cries out for a hard look for urgent need of some changes. It also indicates that this one "leg" of our government system of the 3 legs is just not functioning as our founding fathers expected. It also indicated that the voters, that's us, are extremely disappointed that these ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES ARE INDEED NOT ACTUALLY REPRESENTING US AT ALL.
In summary, we must start to prepare the change, slowly or not, as soon as possible.
Mar 18 2013: Bart,
It is indeed urgent to begin preparing for change. B U T ... until you know what you expect your social system to be responsible for, you can't very well design a system that will do you much good. That's what you have now. And that's one of the things to avoid in creating a new system.
The approval ratings are what they are. I'd say that the average person understands completely that things aren't going right for himself and others, as things stand at the moment. Unfortunately Mr. Average Joe thinks a few "fixes" are all that's needed. He doesn't understand that it's waaay too late for band-aids.
Yet, people are so conditioned to believe that this system is "the best of all possible systems" that it is a hard task to get many to even think about determining what the system should do, let alone designing one that will do that job and planning its implementation.
I strongly suspect that our present set-up will collapse fully long before you can get people to see the need for change.
This system is functioning almost exactly as the founding fathers expected. They set up a system that supports a republic. A Democracy is now favoured over a republic. That means the system can't properly support one thing when it was designed to support something else.
It's time to take the founding fathers off the altar that people worship at. It's time to nail down what the people want a system to do and design, from scratch, one that will do as the people wish. Where it seems wise to adopt something put forward by the founding fathers - or any other people - then let that be done. There's no need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. It will be necessary to take down the present system but we can keep the "bricks and boards" that are still sound and useable for use in the new building. It's the rot, and the potential for rot, that has to be eliminated. And you can bet that those who profit from that rot now are not going to be enthusiastic about any changes.
Mar 20 2013: Larry,
I agree with you that the main thing to change is to get the rotten wood out of the system. But it seems obvious that at least the current Congress are consisted at least 50 or more who don't have the attitude of what's good for the whole country but instead they have the eyesight on what is good for their party affiliation, or occasionally for the sake of their own states in order to get reelected. Our founding fathers did not specify or restrict that there could be only two parties for the legislative branch. So referring to my earlier comments, I advocated that there should be a third party or independent candidates in order to break the iron-grip by only one of the two major parties in our legislative branch. But instead of a complete revamp of our existing Constitution, is it more practical to modify several important items in the current Constitution with a super-majority of consensus among all the voters. Of course, the first place the axe should fall would be, you guessed it, the composition of the Congress. There is an added advantage when the congress is cleaned up by including at least a 3rd or "independent" party, then even the Supreme Court would not be controlled by only one or the other party. even though the justices are supposed to be free of partisanship. Furthermore, the independents, or more additional parties, should be a group with sufficient number(s), so as they would not be serving as only a decorative figures, they would not have a substantive weight in the senate confirmation process of a supreme court justice (or in fact, it also involves the confirmation of the cabinet officers) , like the two current independent senators had to join the Democratic caucus instead of having their own.
When there are constitutionally guaranteed congressional seats in the election, there will be substantially more candidates from independent or 3rd party coming out, because the current system overwhelmingly favors the 2 major parties
Alan SloanMar 19 2013: Oh, Larry,
I'm not well endowed with patience, I've lost it a couple of times elsewhere on this topic and the flash point has been the hubristic promotion of private property as an unalloyed good, which it most certainly is not. Your good hearted advance of the common sense principles of civic participation and careful and deliberate reformation has a calming effect on me. Which is as well as it is past my bedtime here.
Larry LawsonMar 19 2013: Alan,
I wonder where 'here' is for you!
I may not ease your mind any when I tell you that I too consider the ownership of private property to be a good thing. So much so that I would like to see everyone assured of owning their own property.
But that doesn't mean that our whole doggone society ought to be "privately owned". I love the capitalist idea that we can, if we wish, engage in competition for wealth or other rewards. BUT.... it is idiotic for us to compete for bare survival when we can easily have a society - still capitalist - where the wealth created by that society ends up back in the society instead of in the pocket of one family and inherited down through succeeding generations that do nothing to earn it.
Such great fortunes now hold over 90% of the wealth. And that just is plain ol' wrong. Wrong because that wealth was amassed by only a few people BUT it was created by a whole society. Wealth does not appear when there is no society to enable it to happen. Every person in a society makes some contribution to all the wealth of that society. Even if they produce nothing, the are consumers of goods and services. The money gained by the businesses that provide goods and services comes, in part, from those who only are able to consume but not produce.
Too many people who call themselves "capitalists" seem to have forgotten that production is only one side of it. Production must be balanced by consumption in order for it to work. And if people are to play their role in the economic system, then they must have money to spend. That can only come from them receiving a fair and equitable share of the wealth created by the society.
Alan SloanMar 19 2013: Oh, Now I'm really upset. ; -)
The problem with the concept of Private Property is that it is prone to abuse by those with an ideology to peddle. What starts out as a healthy respect for other people and their physical and emotional security (which is here you seem to me to be) is then hyped up and twisted into an ideological tyranny by people who frankly don't seem to know any better. At that stage it becomes an instrument of psychological imprisonment - anyone who experiments with other system or style of thought is labelled as deviant and vilified.
Nick Hanauer's "Banned" TED lecture brought out a whole load of comment on utube of this type and from that it appears to me that there is a lot of "mental illness" being caused in some of the "wealthier" nations by the lack of sensible social infrastructure and provision such as you suggest. I use quotes because we're getting into even more semantic problems here - there are different ways of measuring mental health and wealth. See Richard Wilkinson's TED for a more reasoned and fact-based position.
"Here" is on a lilttle island in Europe where we spell realised with an s and we have to fit 60+ million of so people into a small space. Its not quite as crowded s Singapore but getting that way. Iv'e got to pop out and talk to some of them now,
Mar 22 2013: What were the rules for Private Property when this country originally was founded? We did not discover what was already discovered. We used Locke's definition of "unfenced" land as being "available". We recognized the sovereignty of indigenous nations and broke every treaty. Western Lands were the only assets the federal gov't had (or just mint more money). Today they have mineral rights and airwaves, which belong to the people who empower the gov't. Eminent Domain is used to benefit private development. I am confused on the rules, so I do not know what is "within the rules". I am even confused on why people keep a piece of Earth upon dying, a burial plot that occupies real estate, vital resources in the form of a coffin, buried for no further use by future generations. We even rob the earth of our carbon, while polluting with embalmers.
Philosophy has 1 goal: co-existence (peace). The Philosophy of Philosophy has 3 Principles: Conscious Conscience, Common Unity, and the Wisdom of Wisdom (the latter not applying to this conversation). Conscious (aware of) Conscience (my Soul). We are all different or unique, this makes us Common with all. In 2050, 9B people will be "fighting" for dwindling resources we have deemed as "necessities". It is Unity that is the necessity. I am not against private property, but we may have to rethink the definition of it (and redefine Corporation, too.) in order to pragmatically survive in coexistence. I am a Slave to Mankind therefor I Serve no Master. I am ruled not by Body Politic, but by Body Humanity. I am ruled by 7 Billion and counting.
Philosopher David Suzuki studied a Tribe (name unknown to me) that made decisions by reflecting on the previous 7 generations and the affect on the 7 future generations to follow. Did we ever, or do we now, come close to matching this Philosophy? Will we need to think like this in regards to Property?
Mar 19 2013: I was OK until your comment implying that private property was... not good.
So, I ask that if you are awake and refreshed that you could expend on that comment.
And what is a sensible social infrastructure?
Ideological tyranny also got me, one could only have a mind control ability to do that. Was it a metaphor I missed?
I realise that England is geographically small area with many people sharing limited resources. Unlike America which is a vast land where you can go for hundreds of kilometers and not find enough people for a cricket match. Further, there are vast quantities of resources that Americans seem to waste. On the downside, American doesn't have an attractive royal family to appreciate, so I guess all is fair in it's own way.
Mar 19 2013: A sensible social infrastructure is what you get when you get a critical mass of ordinary people deciding to pool resources to build a set of ideas about how people should behave. The buy into this can be voluntary but is often more efficient to have compulsory participation. This is done in the open and has no particular psychosocial hazard.
A stupid social infrastructure is when you get a group of billionaires sitting round in a room deciding how people should live, then constantly projecting that through advertising and media ownership over a period of several generations. If you are born into that environment you have no choice about buying in. Its only when you try to escape that you find out what's going on and the attendant hazards.
People see a tendency in the US to veer unnaturally toward the second model.
Mar 19 2013: As for ideological tyranny, the clue is in the word ideology. An idea is the creative act, the temporary (or quite even permanent in some cases) construct of a free mind. An ideology is the promotion of an idea beyond its legitimate application or validity. This is happening in minds of people all over the world who understand the concept of Private Property but are too lazy, simple minded, brainwashed or otherwise unwilling to consider other ideas which, lets face, it are a damn sight closer to realities of life.
I humbly suggest that you look at the output of Fox news, or any other news source of your choice - identify a subject, and count the number and type of adjectives used to describe different events. Is a bomber a "Freedom Fighter" or a Terrorist"? Do other reports on the same channel use similar terminology?
A pattern will certainly emerge which reflect not any scientifically verifiable reality, or even fair comment. You ill, if you are objective, see a deliberate torrent of propaganda designed to instil fear of the alternative of whatever position the owners of the media support. "They" do it North Korea, the UK and, quite possibly, a Land of the Free somewhere near you.
Mar 20 2013: Mike,
Sorry I missed your comment until now.
Rest assured that you've read me wrong about private property. I am a STRONG advocate of private property. And that includes any amount of wealth that one can amass in his lifetime. You get it - it's yours. (Presuming you get it within the rules of your particular society.
HOWEVER...... Once you die it isn't yours anymore. It came from your society - no individual standing entirely alone amasses wealth - and it must, for the sake of the society, return to the society.
In order to keep all wealth from ending up in the hands of some damned government who 'administers' it on our behalf - communism - I want it to be passed down to the children of the society as a birthright inheritance. As PRIVATE property. When those children come of age and receive their birthright, it is theirs to do with as they please. If they want to use it to make more, they should be free to do that. If they prefer to study dance, or acting, or nuclear physics, or just piss it up against the wall, it's their choice.
It is the responsibility of each generation to leave the world a better place for their children. Our present system only allows us to leave our own children better off in a shitty system. Our kids, if we can manage to leave them well off, will need to spend their lives protecting that wealth from predatory governments and the poverty stricken. Like a goldfish in a pool with sharks and barracuda.
Let's take the idea of leaving a better WORLD a bit more seriously. Our own kids may not end up goldfish but they'll have a chance to do whatever they wish instead of being rent-a-slaves to predatory greed capitalism.
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Every year, hundreds of licensed immigrants work on the backside of Churchill Downs and would benefit from portions of the President's proposal. Churchill Downs and contract employees, hired by trainers, are licensed by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission.
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The defendant is an adult who was residing with his elderly parents. The police knocked on the door of the residence one day when the suspect was not home and asked the defendant's elderly parent for permission to search the suspect's computer. The father gave consent, but according to the defendant the computer in question was password protected and the father did not know the password. The police used a program that creates a mirror image of the hard drive and allows the authorities to access the contents of that mirror image without any need for the password.
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And the oral argument transcript in Watson v. Phillip Morris Co., No. 05-1284, can be accessed here.
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Update: It was a pleasure to meet so many fans of this blog at the event, and to finally meet in person co-panelist Paul Mirengoff of the "Power Line" blog."
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The Court today also issued decisions in two other death penalty cases that were orally argued together (access the transcript here): Abdul-Kabir v. Quarterman, No. 05-11284 (opinion here) and Brewer v. Quarterman, No. 05-11287 (opinion here).
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You can access last week's ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut at this link.
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Today in The Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin reports that "Court Weighs Campaign Ads; Curbs on Firms, Unions In Run-Up to Elections May Ride on Alito Vote" (free access).
In The Washington Post, Robert Barnes and Matthew Mosk report that "Justices to Consider Finance Law Limits; Campaign Issue Hits Court for 3rd Time." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "Judging Campaign Ads: A different Supreme Court revisits the McCain-Feingold law on election financing."
David G. Savage of The Los Angeles Times reports that "Campaign funding rule before Supreme Court; A McCain-Feingold ban on corporate and union-sponsored ads before elections could be overturned or weakened."
The Associated Press reports that "Federal Election Law Faces Challenge."
The New York Times contains an editorial entitled "A Test for the Roberts Court."
In The Washington Times, Bradley A. Smith and Stephen M. Hoersting have an op-ed entitled "McCain-Feingold and free speech."
And at "SCOTUSblog," Lyle Denniston previews the oral argument in a post titled "Election season begins: Argument 4/25/07."
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In other news, "A&M officials retain immunity from Bonfire lawsuits." My earlier coverage of yesterday's Fifth Circuit ruling appears at this link.
And an article reports that "Human smuggler could return to prison; 5th Circuit says judge misapplied sentencing rules in truck deaths case." You can access last week's Fifth Circuit ruling at this link.
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BOSTON — A Coverall Health-Based Cleaning Systems franchise employee successfully campaigned to receive lost wages for her and her fellow employees, according to the Boston Globe.
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(( Really didn't expect to come back to see there's enough queue to last for another two months. ))
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Sorry I've been gone for so long. To be honest, I've decided against wanting to continue playing The Dolorosa here. My muse has died. I don't remember if I've told anyone where or not. I did let Mindfang know not long after the realization came to me that I did not feel the character any longer. However!! The recent update with Porrim has me wanting so badly to play the woman. I may or may not create a new blog for her. I may or may not just change this blog into her blog. I have too many fond memories here just to leave it all behind. I kind of cannot believe I still have some followers left over throughout my absence.
I'll be honest, I'm planning on applying for Porrim Maryam on deviantArt, where I administrate for a Homestuck roleplaying group. I've been an inactive member for a while there because of a taxing from work, home drama and literal just drifting away from Homestuck because of a lack of activity and drive to be apart of the fandom. I love you guys so much, it has nothing to do with anything but personal reasons. I fall out of things quickly, but I always return to them. Unfortunately, the same cannot always be said for my muses. So I'm officially retiring The Dolorosa / Lucienne. You know, in case I haven't already. I hope you guys enjoy what's left of the blog. I'll miss you all.
No, unless I decide to just reuse this account, I won't be giving away my new account via here, but I might post it on a different blog. I have a human!Vriska blog that is listed on my 'Other Blogs' page. Feel free to look through those, by the way. I've abandoned all but my personal (and it has about four blogs attached to it because I didn't want to worry about logging in and out of accounts for ask blogs), but I intend on eventually returning to the human!Vriska with some spice of some sort. The eventual return hasn't really had much more planning that 'TADA I AM BACK' so there is some planning to be done there. My Nepeta blog, as much as I have no desire to be on there anymore, left an impression of 'First-Roleplay-Blog-On-Tumblr' and shall never be deleted.
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The Kimball High girls were the top local basketball team at this year's Tom Hawkins/Tracy Breakfast Lions Girls Basketball Tournament, which concluded its 30th year on Monday, Dec. 30, with games at Tracy and West high schools.
The Jaguars beat Mills High of Millbrae 48-32 to claim the consolation bracket trophy and finish at 3-1 for the tournament, including a 64-42 loss to McNair of Stockton on Thursday, Dec. 26, followed by a 55-32 win over Tokay of Lodi on Friday, Dec. 27, and a 62-24 win over Modesto on Saturday, Dec. 30.
Champions of this year tournament are the Napa High Indians, who beat the Patterson Tigers 57-47 in Monday's final. Third place team was McNair, which beat Mission San Jose of Fremont 61-48 on Monday. Also winning a consolation trophy was East Union of Manteca with a 36-33 win over Gregori of Modesto.
Kimball 48, Mills 32
The Jaguars (10-2) came out strong in the second half of the consolation bracket final on Monday to claim a 48-32 win over Mills High (6-6) of Millbrae.
Junior guard Allison Schmidt hit the Jaguars only field goal in the first quarter, and junior Isabella Lawrence led Kimball's offense in the second quarter but the Jaguars still trailed 18-16 at the half.
Schmidt said that Kimball coach Mike Granillo told the team to challenge Mills on the inside during the second half.
"He just encouraged us to drive more instead of looking for the outside shot," Schmidt said, adding that the strategy also enabled the Jaguars to draw fouls and get to the free-throw line where they made 10 of 17 shots.
Schmidt, one of the Jaguars' all-tournament selections, also found opportunities to make the outside shot and totaled 12 points for the night, including two 3-point shots.
Kimball team scoring leader Noni Kuumba, also an all-tournament pick, scored most of her 14 points in the second half. She said that Jaguars weren't going to be intimidated by Mills' speed and ball-handling.
"Against harder teams we tend to shut down, but after halftime we know what's going on so then we build our confidence up," Kuumba said.
Mill's scoring leaders were senior Madison Sui with 17 points and sophomore Julia Gibbs with 13 points.
Tracy 40, West 24
The Tracy High girls basketball team finished the Hawkins Tournament with a 40-24 win over West on Monday.
The Bulldogs (5-7) started with a slim lead on shots from junior guard Toni Harrison and senior center Kimberly Paschal. West (2-12) kept up the pace through first half and got within four points of Tracy in the third quarter on a 3-point shot from senior guard Caila Butler.
Tracy pulled away after that with sophomores Katie Amaral and Jazmyn Gonzalez collecting rebounds to keep the Bulldogs in control of the ball.
Harrison was the game's top scorer with 16 points, including two 3-point shots, and was Tracy's all-tournament selection.
"I started off rough in the West game but I ended pretty strong. I had better passing and my shots were falling," she said. "I felt like the team worked together well also."
Paschal added that the tournament showed the Bulldogs their strengths.
"We struggled in a couple games but we always seem to have moments where we have good chemistry or are hustling and communicating," she said.
Butler was West's all-tournament selection and scored five points for the Wolf Pack. Sophomores Brittany Bem and Brittney Reyes scored four each and were West's top rebounders.
Butler said the tournament gave the Wolf Pack players a chance to prove that they'll keep playing hard regardless of the score.
"We fell short in our first game (a 49-39 loss to Riverbank on Dec. 26), but we picked it up and started playing a lot harder with a lot more heart," Butler said. "We knew that even if we didn't win if we left 100 percent on the court that we'd be content with ourselves. Moving forward from a loss all we can do is get better."
Napa 57, Patterson 47
The Napa Indians (14-0) beat the Patterson Tigers (11-4) 57-47 in fast-paced championship game at Tracy High.
The teams were tied 15-15 at the end of the first quarter and traded the lead five times in the second quarter. Napa pulled ahead in the third for a 38-33 lead at the end of the third and held onto the lead to the end.
Michelle Lewis, assistant coach for the Napa team, said she expected that her team would have to be strong on the boards in order to get the win.
"We rebound hard normally. We were kind of not doing that in the first half and then we got after it in the second half, only giving them one-look shots," Lewis said.
"We were nervous about pressuring them because we thought they could handle it, and then late in the game it got to them and that worked for us."
Napa senior Kelsi Maday, tournament MVP, said her team came into the championship game ready to win the tournament title.
"We didn't know much about (Patterson) but we stayed and scouted them and we saw that they did a zone," she said. "We didn't expect it to be a really close game. We might have underestimated them a little bit but that won't happen again."
Napa was able to draw more fouls in the second half and score on 20 of 24 free throws. Junior Madison VanZandt, also an all-tournament pick, was the game's top scorer with 17 points, including nine of nine free throws, and she also collected 15 rebounds.
All-tournament selections for Patterson were senior Jovanna Arrington, who scored 15 points, and senior Mele Tupouata, who scored 11 points and had 10 rebounds.
Both teams are regular competitors at the Hawkins tournament. Napa won a consolation trophy last year and was the 2009 tournament champion. Patterson was last year's second-place team.
"We definitely like coming here," said Napa coach Lewis, adding that the four-day event is the team's best chance to get in pre-league contests against teams in the southern part of the Sac-Joaquin Section.
"We like to see everybody down here … teams that we might see in playoffs," she said.
Patterson coach Elizabeth Tolleson said the tournament is good preparation as the Tigers prepare to defend their 2012-13 Western Athletic Conference title.
"I always bring my girls to this tournament specifically so we can get prepared for league, because this is one of the best tournaments in this area," Tolleson said, adding that the Tigers have been part of the tournament since she played for Patterson High, where she graduated in 2002.
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OK -- so I touched a nerve!
Wife #2: It's hard to resist the urge to respond to the dozens of comments posted about my story "Don't Call Me a Husband Stealer." I can't possibly address all of the nasty things said (some of them were quite creative by the way) so I'm just going to talk about a common theme: selfishness.
A lot of you accused me of being horribly, disgustingly selfish. And I was selfish. But I had no choice.
Let's look at what would have happened had I stayed in my marriage:
I would have been miserable, dying a bit each day because I had walked away from the man I was meant to be with. My husband would have looked at me each day, knowing I was only there to preserve the illusion of stability for our children. And our children would have grown up with a loveless, angry marriage as a relationship role model.
If I told you what my marriage was like for the last several years before I left, you'd probably cut me some slack. I lived with a bully who made sport of disparaging me in front of others. But that's as much as I'll say because it's still not his fault. How good or bad my marriage was is almost irrelevant. I met my soulmate. Even if my marriage had been better, I would have left it for him.
As for the exes, who in their right mind would want to stay married to someone who no longer loved them? That's what both of our spouses would have lived with and that's no life.
Some of you think we should have stayed for the children, at all costs. What would we teach our kids by doing that? Living a lie is acceptable. Love is not paramount. Follow convention like sheep -- because guess what kids -- that's what you're supposed to do!
Life is not made up of black and white decisions. What you seem to be saying is staying in lousy marriages makes us perfect parents, leaving those marriages makes us ax murderers. Our children know we love them. And they'll learn that we did our best as parents, but we're flawed like the rest of the human race.
I'll tell you this: if my child came to me as an adult in a situation similar to ours, I wouldn't judge. I'd support her decision to be true to herself. I certainly wouldn't tell her to suck it up and be miserable. I wouldn't want her to be flip or frivolous. But I'd be sure she heard this loud and clear: Choose happiness.
To those of who you charged me with middle school behavior -- running off with the first boy who talked to me in the lunch line -- grow up. That may be your experience, but it's not mine. I've had more opportunities over the years than I can count -- with rich men, powerful men, beautiful men. None of it tempted me for a moment, even in a cratering marriage. This wasn't some cute guy in Bennigan's tapping me on the shoulder and sending me into orbit. This was the love of my life.
I don't expect forgiveness or even understanding. But what I'm stunned at in the community I live in and in this digital community is the intolerance. Divorce may never be a popular choice, but it's still my choice to make.
And here's the last thing I'll say. I think a lot of you are just scared. Scared it will happen to you and scared it won't. Scared that if once-in-a-lifetime knocks at the door, you won't be brave enough to answer.
|Wife #2 is a writer, mom, and expert on what happens when you scorch the earth and leave your husband. She and the love of her life (the guy she left FOR) spend most of their time raising their blended family of five kids and trying to avoid grenades lobbed by their ex-spouses. Her hobbies include reading, working out, and occasionally blowing off steam with faithful girlfriends who understand life is too damn short to be miserable!
Wow, you're still so full of yourself. You may not of had a choice about staying in your marriage but you certainly had a choice to have an affair. You're right, we don't know your husband but we can tell a lot about you through your posting and I still think you were wrong in the way you handled it. If you are completely unhappy in your marriage then yes walk away but don't cheat and lie to your husband and with a man who is also married to someone your claim is a friend (I would hate to NOT be a friend of yours) You are not a good role model to your children. As a parent, you should teach your children to make good decisions by doing the "right thing". If your children wanted an ipod and her best friend had one, would it okay for her to just take it because it would bring her happiness? NO! No one is expecting you or anyone else to go through life sad and miserable but there are right and wrong ways to do things and you did it the wrong way.
If you don't want to be judged, then don't have a blog.
You did what you have to do, anyone in your situation with a brain would have done the same.
I left my ex and got with my OH 2 days later. Some people hurl the same crap at me. Just ignore them—you knew what you had to do and you did it…and you're happy! Much better environment for everyone.
Yes, you did have a choice. You had many choices. First, who you married and had (and continued) to have children with. And then staying with that marriage (or not) due to the best interest for you and your children.
Then you had the choice to display character and take care of your marriage/leave your marriage BEFORE having an affair (and having him to the same.) Instead, you showed your lack of character by having an affair without the honor of first ending or working on your marriage (or having him do the same.) And now you want people to say it's okay just because this is your "soulmate." It's not that two marriages were ended to start your current relationship, that is, sadly, common enough, but it's how you went about it, and the attitude that it's okay cuz it is "love" that makes it such a horrid act.
So, we're supposed to think you're "enlightened" or something? No thanks. Sounds like a bunch of self-pity to me.
Seriously, if you don't want to be judged then don't blog about your life. I understand wanting to be happy but it sounds like you weren't brave enough to leave your husband until you had somebody else to support you. Hence, your comment that your husband bullied you for several years. Maybe this man is your soul mate, but both of you handled the situation extremely poor! Since, you feel the need to blog about this, I'm interested to see if you'll be one of the lucky few that doesn't end up a statistic or if you'll be just another number considering the fact that the divorce rate among those who married their lovers was 75 percent. hmmmmm…..interesting… Please keep us posted.
I think I was one of the few people who understood your situation in your first blog. And I still do. I understand both points of view. There's a huge part of me that wants to say that the only way to have a successful marriage is to stick with it, no matter what…even if you no longer feel the same way as you did in those early romantic days…that if you stick with it and work at it, those feelings can come back. But there's also a part of me that understands your situation. I have been increasingly unhappy in my marriage for the last 5 years. I had begged and pleaded with my husband to go to counseling, read relationship self help books with me, go to our minister, or even just occasional dates, to no avail. He refused me physical intimacy in every way for the vast majority of our marriage, refuses to help with our 3 children (one of whom has special needs), and now I have found myself reaching out to my first and only true love. I am having an affair. And believe me, I would have NEVER thought it possible to find myself in this situation a year ago. But there's only so much that a human can take before she breaks. And I've broken.
At the same time, I cannot leave my marriage for many reasons. One of the main reasons is his battle with depression and bi-polar disorder. I have no doubt that if I leave him, he will hurt himself or worse. So I am stuck. And I am staying with him in part because of my children and their love for their father. I don't want them to lose him. So I have decided to selfishly grab happiness when and where I can…although temporary and fleeting…it's the best that I can do.
Now, out of the two of us….who is the most selfish and despicable? Her for being brave enough to be truthful and leave? Or me…for having an affair with no intention of leaving my husband even though I am in live with another man?
So the first time round, you married your husband for his cash? If you married him for love, how can you believe that now you've found your soul mate? Love is something you have to do, not just a feeling.
And what does it mean to tell your daughter, you should go for what makes you happy, like me. I decided to go for what makes me happy, even though I made you unhappy.
You go girl! My (now) husband was married when I met him. I was the other woman for awhile. His marriage was also falling apart. I was seriously dating someone, but felt like I could do better. We met by pure chance, and we knew. We knew that we would spend the rest of our lives together, and love no other. I broke up with my boyfriend, and he divorced his wife. We are happily married, and awaiting our first child. We took a leap of faith together, and would never go back to what we had before.
If you really belive that "Love is something you have to do, not just a feeling" then you don't know what love is.. Love is not a way you behave, it's not something you "DO". I just hope you one day really truly FEEL it.. and leave your loveless relationship.
Why are you "stunned" by the lack of support? Um, I'm not buying any of your rationalizations and delusions. You just dug a deeper hole by posting this. Are you doing this because you have a need to convince yourself that your actions were justified? If your first marriage was "bad" why didn't you end it before moving on to the next guy? From what I've read, I think it's because you lack integrity.
I so agree with Chris and the first comment. No one says you should stay in a miserable marriage forever, but the way you handled the situation was less than admirable. End the first relationship before you started the second and I believe your audience would have been more sympathetic. And yes, if you don't want criticism, don't blog. Simple as that.
I'm not one to say that divorce is never justified and only you can know how bad your marriage was and whether you really did everything you could to save it. But you do seem to gloss over what you've done to your children by thinking that you can make this up to them someday when you really can't. Their lives will never be the same and they will never get back what they've lost. Maybe it was just how you portrayed yourself, but you don't come across as overly concerned about this. The message I got from your story was "My own personal happiness is worth sacrificing everything else including my kids." And that's just not cool.
Wow is all I have to say. To convince yourself that the only option was to cheat on your husband with another man and that man cheat on his wife was okay, well that just shows something of your morals.
Hope no one ever decides that it's okay to do that with your current husband. Believe me it's easy to think like you do, until you're living it and you're the one left destroyed by his actions.
Like it or not, cheating is wrong. Have a bad marriage? Get a darn divorce and then get together with him. True love will wait until the situation is right.
You fail to recognize the hell you've put your children through. It's sad you don't recognize it at all.
Go ahead believe you were right, and had no choice. If that makes you feel better so be it. But you're not innocent and you certainly didn't take any of your vows seriously in your first marriage, I'm not sure why your current husband could trust you at all.
Alice jumped down the rabbit hole and the delusion began to unfold. And she seems to be still stuck there!
Wow…Okay for one there is no soulmate. Love at first sight occurs when you know what you think you want in a man, and see someone who you think fits that perfectly. You left a cratering marriage. If he was truly horrible and abusive, that was a good thing. If it was mildly humiliating, just tell him,and get the thing fixed. Don't hit hte reset button and steal someone elses husband. All in all, in my current view of you, you're a selfish arrogant man-stealing horror of all the earth.
I feel bad for the man whos marriage you selfhsihly destroyed for your infatuation.
I agree with you 150%
I do not believe we should suffer in an awful situation with someone we do not love just because we have children with them. Our children see when we are happy and when we are sad, and if it took leaving your husband for another man to make you happy, then you made the best decision for your children, for yourself, and for all of your lifes.
Please look up narcissist in the dictionary, then RUN and get counseling. That's the only support you'll get from me.
With headlines as provocative as the ones on these two articles, what do you expect? Whether you chose them or the editors did, you'd have to be incredibly naive to think they wouldn't affect the way people frame the two pieces.
I agree with you that nobody can "steal" another person in relationships. However, in the unhealthy serial monogamy paradigm, I'm sure you can see how people perceive your and your current husband's actions as transgressive.
I find the claim that you had "no choice but to have an affair" highly offensive. We all have choices, and you made yours. You could have, and apparently should have, left your previous marriage long before you did. Doing so would have modeled much more responsible behavior for your children, taking responsibility for your own health and well-being rather than waiting for another man to come along and "jumping ship" to him. You would have been far more likely to arrange an amicable divorce, which would have been much healthier for everyone concerned, especially the children.
Now your children are more likely to suffer from "greener grass syndrome," always thinking that the next partner offers something better, going from one relationship to the next instead of working out the problems in their current partnership.


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Gary Menkel, 92, of Floral Park has died. Beloved father of Robert and Carrie. Predeceased by loving wife of 65 years, Margot, father-in-law of Robert Meadow and Maureen O'Hara, grandfather of Jacqueline and Nicole and companion of Eva Englander. Engineer, designer, painter, music lover, and maker and fixer of everything, refugee from German Holocaust.
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Maybe not a scene from the rap song video, Thrift Shop, but the popular spot in Floral Park to score some of the best deals on lightly used goods and clothing, the United Methodist Church's Thrift Shop, was just as exciting to watch when it re-opened to customers for the season. The thrift shop re-opened on Wednesday, Sept. 3 after being closed for the summer for restocking, cleaning and organizing the shelves and racks.
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In 1963, Sewanhaka High School alumni and Floral Park resident, Adele Werthmuller pulled out her yearbook. She was on a mission and began paging through the pictures and names of her beloved classmates. She decided to look through the phone book for familiar names. She said, "I kept in contact with many of my girlfriends so I started looking for the men first."
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) - Police across the state are getting ready for a possible spike in drunken driving New Years Eve night.
In Portage County, officials are going to be treating like any other night. Portage County sheriff's captain Dale O'Kray says he cold weather could ease arrests. "In years past we've seen more house parties, people staying over instead of going to the bar and then trying to drive home." He says the weather does play a factor, but that a normal patrol will be in place.
O'Kray says the number of drunk drivers has gone down in the county. "I don't know if the numbers in the bars are going down, but I think people are getting the message." He says the county is seeing more of a use of the Safe Ride home programs with the Tavern League.
The Captain also reminds families that hosting underaged drinking parties either in their home at another location is illegal and can get you a citation.