@AliceWonderly on myLot

ladybugmagic @ladybugmagic (3978) • United States 10 Jan 11

She encouraged and created angry mobs and death threats against Obama. She gave fodder for supremacists. Her speeches would include people in the audience saying, "terrorist", and "kill...

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AliceWonderly Yes, exactly. So tragic for the members of all families concerned. This media blitz does not help, either.

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ladybugmagic @ladybugmagic (3978) • United States 10 Jan 11

She encouraged and created angry mobs and death threats against Obama. She gave fodder for supremacists. Her speeches would include people in the audience saying, "terrorist", and "kill...

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AliceWonderly I too think Sarah Palin is an awful person. Not so much because of her politics, but because she used her teenage daughter Bristol as a pawn when the girl was going though some awful stuff. Also Ms Palin strikes me as an exhibitionist, a phony, and someone who...

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reco13 @reco13 (605) • Philippines 9 Jan 11

I don't believe in fortune telling and palm reading. I know everyone has their own destiny destined by God. No one can ever foresee that. I sometimes think that fortune tellers are taking advantage of people who believe in them....

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AliceWonderly I went to a fortuneteller. It was a guy with a card table and a deck of Tarot cards on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Every time he said something, he would sort of glance at me to see how near he was getting to the mark. He said I was in love. He must have...

10 Jan 11

ricextreme @ricextreme (964) • Ecuador 8 Jan 11

Hey reader friends of mylot. I like to read mystery, detective, and horror tales from Edgar Allan Poe, and I really like this type of literature. I specially like detective tales and novels, and I've read some books written...

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AliceWonderly If you like Simenon, you might like a book called Brighton Rock by Graham Greene. Like Simenon does in Dirty Snow, Greene really gets into the young criminal's head. One American writer of the same kind is Jim Thompson. He wrote The Grifters, The Killer Inside...

9 Jan 11

Bebs08 @Bebs08 (10681) • United States 9 Jan 11

That's right, I am tired of hearing them saying, " THIS IS MY NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION" and then nothing has change. They are the same or what they do is just the same as before they made that resolution. This is the reason why, I...

change

resoultion

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AliceWonderly I always make 'em, and I always break 'em. I hereby resolve not to make New Years Resolutions. Thanks, Bebs, you've shown me the light.

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tiagootani @tiagootani (7) • Brazil 4 Jan 11

Have you read or heard of the Millenium Trilogy, written by swedish author Stieg Larson? Man, I started to read the first book two days ago, and just can't put the book away. It's a thick book, with more than 500 pages, but I...

millenium trilogy

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AliceWonderly Yes! I love that character Lisbeth. She's so eccentric, in such a good way. I think the author might be saying she is a little bit autistic or something: her social skills are primitive, let's say. Yet she's so good at what she does, and so determined to keep...

9 Jan 11

RebeccaScarlett @RebeccaScarlett (2532) • Canada 3 Jan 11

I know there were a few members who joined Helium after talking with me, had an article removed, and gave up in disgust. I wanted to share a little advice and encouragement, as Helium is a really great and easy place to earn --...

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AliceWonderly IchaSweetz--It sounds like you are describing the toolbar in a word processing program like Microsoft Word. Or maybe you mean some of the tools on the page where you upload your work to Helium once it is finished. You can count the words in your article on...

8 Jan 11

RebeccaScarlett @RebeccaScarlett (2532) • Canada 6 Jan 11

So, after a hiatus from Demand Studios because all the titles seemed to turn to complete gibberish (as opposed to before, when only 85% of the titles were complete gibberish and another 10% were only partial gibberish that I could...

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AliceWonderly I think you are talking about amortization and/or depreciation. Both are perfectly legitimate ways of doing accounting in many cases. I guess Demand Studios must have messed up their books though, from what you say. The idea is that you pay for an asset as you...

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ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 5 Jan 11

What is it about our society that makes us put up with whatever crap the government wants to do? Yes, drunk driving is illegal, dangerous and just plain stupid, but that doesn't excuse the police from their responsibilities to...

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AliceWonderly "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, AND[capitals mine]no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause..." This amendment was a reaction to...

8 Jan 11

ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 5 Jan 11

What is it about our society that makes us put up with whatever crap the government wants to do? Yes, drunk driving is illegal, dangerous and just plain stupid, but that doesn't excuse the police from their responsibilities to...

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AliceWonderly The first amendment is free speech, among others, but you cannot slander,libel, or "yell fire in a crowded theater." The second amendment is keep and bear arms, but most people convicted of gun crimes are forbidden to have weapons. The third amendment is an...

7 Jan 11

brycie1717 @brycie1717 (2) • United States 27 Jan 07

Many african-americans have made this word, a fad.Considering were it rooted from, and the meaning of this word.Do you think it is ok for african americans torefer to oneanother as one?

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AliceWonderly If the N-word is a fad, maybe it will pass out of the language like all slang does. No one says neat-o any more. Yet that word is such an evil one, with such an ugly history, I can see why people would try to take the sting out of it, by using it themselves....

6 Jan 11

ErrollLeVant @ErrollLeVant (4353) • United States 6 Jan 11

A new version of Mark Twain's classic, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is being published that has changed the original words--"N-Word" and "Injun"--to less racially offensive words. How do you react to that development?

political correctness

racial slurs

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AliceWonderly I was horrified when I first heard about this. Mark Twain is one of the world's great writers, and The Adventures of Huck Finn is certainly not racist. But then I heard that this book had long been banned in many schools, because of the N-word. Most normal...

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ParaTed2k @ParaTed2k (22940) • Sheboygan, Wisconsin 5 Jan 11

What is it about our society that makes us put up with whatever crap the government wants to do? Yes, drunk driving is illegal, dangerous and just plain stupid, but that doesn't excuse the police from their responsibilities to...

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AliceWonderly Actually, the Supreme court has reviewed this matter, and it is not illegal for the police to stop you at a sobriety checkpoint. That's provided they are not only stopping you, but are stopping everyone, or stopping every nth driver. You do not have infinite...

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lianqiz @lianqiz (14) 2 Jan 11

I want to write , but what I donot know to write :-(

write

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AliceWonderly To write a nice article, write a nice paragraph. Make it three to five sentences long, with each sentence growing out of the one before it. The last sentence should summarize your whole paragraph. Then, go back and make each sentence the subject of its own...

3 Jan 11

anniepa @anniepa (27955) • United States 2 Jan 11

I've been hearing and reading, here and elsewhere, about how Fox News is once again the top rated cable news outlet, how they have all of the top rated shows in prime time on cable news. What they haven't been saying is that their...

fox news losing viewers

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AliceWonderly Maybe their viewership is declining because what they present is more like entertainment than news. "Anchormen" crying on TV (yes I mean Glen Beck). Name-calling, character assassination, slanted programming every time. It's unfair, and unbalanced.Whatever it...

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sanjanaraman @sanjanaraman (237) • United Arab Emirates 31 Dec 10

My daughter needs to write a compare/contrast essay about two different countries for school. I'm having a little difficulty helping her because writing about two different countries that she has been to doesn't give her the...

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AliceWonderly She can still state and support her own viewpoint within the framework of compare and contrast. For example, she could say, "I was lucky enough to visit both Thailand and Singapore this summer. While I enjoyed the gorgeous beach towns of Thailand, I sometimes...

1 Jan 11

divalounger @divalounger (5849) • United States 17 Dec 10

This may have already been discussed, but if so, I am unaware of it. I have been writing for Helium for the past year or so and have really enjoyed it. Recently, Helium announced big changes in their payment structure. Under the...

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AliceWonderly Hi peavey! You spent the time to rate others? It seems like some people just click through the rating task as fast as they can, rating randomly, or only reading the first or last paragraph. I think that's one reason that Helium changed to the new Marketplace...

31 Dec 10

mainman195 @mainman195 (186) • United States 15 Dec 10

For a long time, I believed that Helium changed their way of computing revenue sharing for writers to keep putting more of it back in their own pockets. Then, they started upfront payments. Their amount was much less than some...

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AliceWonderly Hi RebeccaScarlett! I agree with you, Demand Studios is much too demanding! Though I certainly cannot write a Helium article in 15 minutes like you do, writing one is much faster than one for DS. Then there's the whole clunky editing process at Demand Studios...

31 Dec 10

ladybugmagic @ladybugmagic (3978) • United States 13 Apr 10

I live in a country where fifteen-year-olds are not only pregnant, but they are packing heat. I live in a country where corporations rule, and one race and religion reign supreme. I live in a country where I could get shot for...

corporate rule

dangers of conservatism

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AliceWonderly Little Johnny says "Girls are dumb." Mommy says, "We don't call girls dumb, it makes them feel bad." She is disagreeing with what he says. On the other hand, a different mommy might say, You do know girls aren't dumb, don't you?" Note that this second type of...

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