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bob ford wrote:
> The way you wrote, she could be a bit like you. 

No way.  Presuming you didn't mean that to be ugly, I will refrain from 
taking offense.

I did it, enjoyed it, left it with extreme regret when it was no longer 
feasible.  She is not only 'buying her way out' (northern term for her 
behavior), she is capitalizing on it, not cool in my book.  This one she 
is milking for mileage, not exactly a quality I admire.  Why act like 
you are something special when in fact your actions/experiences are 
identical to your neighbors' until you decide you want something 
'better' than they?  Do we hear her say she's just done what the 
neighbor women have done?  No, she acts like what she did is something 
unique to her, not once have I heard her refer to the common lifestyle 
in the far north.  Nothing wrong with wanting something different, but 
beyond that, shut up about what you left behind.

She tried to capitalize on her  'Christianity', too, but that was a flop 
(or maybe I should say it was a flap....) and look how fast she ditched 
that one.  Thing of it was, she got called on that one early on:  on the 
far northern lifestyle people in the lower 48 aren't familiar with the 
details, so she sucks that one for all it's worth.

James is right that she knows how to dirty her hands but that's as much 
credit as I'll give her on this one.

And I don't much consider her a responsible parent, either.  If one 
can't take that responsibility seriously, one wonders what IS important 
in one's life?  Whether that infant is hers or her daughter's, she is 
apparently prepared to drag him from pillar to post all his early years, 
at any rate.   As the parent myself of a now-grown child with 
developmental difficulties,  I consider that out of the realm of even 
reasonable......and then there are the others, teens who need two 
parents' full attention.  One is already showing serious signs of 
difficulty, so instead of redoubling efforts with the kid and its 
siblings, she proceeds to vie for a worse-than-fulltime job.  Speaking 
as the child of such a mother, I find that chilling.

And if that's her idea of being a responsible human being, I don't want 
her 'responsible' for me on any level, nor for what is foisted off on me.

Susan Jane


> She is not from the silly system that produces so much or our mediocre and, I 
> daresay , moronic politicians and public servants  ....bobford
>   
While she may not be from the system, she has certainly embraced it tightly.