Yvette, I've had the same problem with Mossimo. The colors have also faded wicked fast IME - I bought about a dozen last year, short- and long-sleeved, after DH *ahem* cleaned out my dresser. (He does the laundry, and sometimes if he deems something too ratty to continue wearing he'll dispose of it, informing me that he has done so and that it's time for me to go get a new "whatever".) We have a front-loader washer and use a very tiny bit of detergent, and other clothes don't fade anywhere near as fast, even the $10 Docker knockoffs I get DH - he rips the pockets by catching them on the chair arms at work and gets that weird worn-out spot where his wallet is in his back pocket even in the expensive brand-name pants, so why spend 4x more to have a brand tag on his butt? (My Mossimo swimsuits are also disintegrating after about 7 months. When they went on clearance last summer I bought a pile of tops and bottoms - I only wear tankinis - to rotate at my twice-weekly pool sessions, so I never had to wear one suit more often than once every few weeks. Seams and hems are unraveling, patterns are fading and the lycra's getting those weird loopy rough bits in wear areas like under the arms and on the seat. I got sent home one day last week because my suit top was stretched enough that one of the "girls" kept popping out! Into the trash it went. Luckily it wasn't a favorite. I'll keep buying them when they go on clearance because getting a plus-size two-piece suit for under $20 is pretty good, and the $80-100 suits haven't held out a whole lot longer, but I really do hate throwing clothes out after a matter of months.) I never pay full price for Land's End anything though. Clearance department only for me! roselvr, that's why I have a lot of 3/4 sleeve things. :-) I inherited the "gorilla body" from my father - long torso with a barrel chest, no butt, long arms, short legs. I'm an old-fashioned freak, I want my pants waist at my actual waist. If they're below my waist I feel like I always need to hike 'em up. (I have a bad case of White Girl Butt and what hips I have are up at the pelvic crest, not down by the hip joint like most women's, so there's nothing to hold lower-cut pants up!)

I Googled and found this. "The "expected life span" of butterflies(which is usually much shorter than the "maximum life span" because of predators, weather, etc.) ranges from about 2 to 14 days after they emerge from the chrysalis. Maximum life span ranges from about 4 days (spring azure) to 10 to 11 months (mourning cloak). Females generally live longer than males." Would I pull the wings off a butterfly for a million dollars? Yes,I would not hesitate to pull the wings off of one little butterfly for that much money,only because it would allow me to help a lot of people in my family.I guess that makes me "barbaric"!

Here are some of the greedy, stupid and irresponsible investors in the Madoff fund, and Madoff was a past chairman of the board of directors of the Nasdaq Stock Market as well as a member of the board of governors of the National Association of Securities Dealers and a member of numerous committees of the organization, according to his firm's Web site. That said, I am still waiting for the rants and raves from those who still want to believe that this economic tsunami was all about "stupid, greedy, irresponsible" mortgage borrowers. (foot tapping) Notice how all of these wealthy, highly educated folks did not understand they were being scammed. Where is the outrage on THEIR lack of due diligence. Hmmmm? "...New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon, GMAC LLC Chairman J. Ezra Merkin and former Philadelphia Eagles owner Norman Braman were among the dozens of seemingly sophisticated investors who placed money on what could prove to be history's largest financial scam. Giant French bank BNP Paribas, Tokyo-based Nomura Holdings Inc. and Neue Privat Bank in Zurich are also exposed, according to people familiar with the matter. And at least three funds of hedge funds -- which raise money from investors and farm it out to hedge funds -- may have significant losses. Fairfield Greenwich Group and Tremont Capital Management of New York placed hundreds of millions of their investors' dollars into funds overseen by Mr. Madoff. On Friday, Maxam Capital Management LLC reported a combined loss of $280 million on funds they had invested with Mr. Madoff. "I'm wiped out," said Sandra Manzke, Maxam's founder and chairman. The Darien, Conn., fund of hedge funds will have to close as a result of the losses, she said..... .....The alleged fraud has "swept up some of the most prominent and wealthy Americans, along with many people who thought they were embarking on a comfortable retirement and have now been left destitute," says Brad Friedman, a lawyer at Milberg LLP, which with Seeger Weiss LLP represents more than 30 investors with losses they believe could total more than $1 billion...... .....Details emerged Friday of how Mr. Madoff ran the alleged scam, fostering a veneer of exclusivity and creating an A-list of investors that became his most powerful marketing tool. From New York and Florida to Minnesota and Texas, the money manager became an insider's choice among well-heeled investors seeking steady returns. By hiring unofficial agents, tapping into elite country clubs and creating "invitation only" policies for investors, he recruited a steady stream of new clients. During golf-course and cocktail-party banter, Mr. Madoff's name frequently surfaced as a money manager who could consistently deliver high returns. Older, Jewish investors called Mr. Madoff " 'the Jewish bond,' " says Ken Phillips, head of a Boulder, Colo., investment firm. "It paid 8% to 12%, every year, no matter what." As his reputation grew, Mr. Madoff gained the trust of prominent businessmen, including ex-Eagles owner Mr. Braman, who owns a chain of Florida auto dealers. A voicemail message left with Mr. Braman's office was not immediately returned. Mets owner Mr. Wilpon, who also owns real-estate investor Sterling Equities, often raved about Mr. Madoff's investment prowess and invested tens of millions of dollars of both his own money and the team's with his company, say financiers who have worked with him. Mr. Madoff handled investments for the Judy & Fred Wilpon Family Foundation, which distributed about $1 million a year in 2005 and 2006 to charities, according to its most recent federal tax returns..... .....Mr. Merkin, the chairman of former General Motors Corp. financing arm GMAC, is also a money manager at Ascot Partners LLC in New York. Ascot, which had $1.8 billion under management as of Sept. 30, had substantially all of its assets invested with Mr. Madoff, according to a letter to Mr. Merkin sent to clients Thursday night. Mr. Merkin said as one of the largest investors in Ascot, he believed he had personally "suffered major losses from this catastrophe." Mr. Merkin could not be reached for comment. Mr. Madoff tapped social networks in Dallas, Chicago, Boston and Minneapolis. In Minnesota, he attracted investors from Hillcrest Golf Club of St. Paul and Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins, investors say. One of them estimated that investors from the two clubs may have invested more than $100 million combined. One of the largest clusters of Madoff investors was in Florida, where losses could be substantial. Mr. Madoff relied on a network of friends, family and business colleagues to attract investors. According to investors and agents, some of these agents were paid commissions for harvesting investors. Others had separate, lucrative business relationships with Mr. Madoff. "If you were eating lunch at the club or golfing, everyone was always talking about how Madoff was making them all this money," one investor says. "Everyone wanted to sign up." Jeff Fischer, a top divorce attorney in Palm Beach, says many of his clients were also Mr. Madoff's clients. "Every big divorce that came through my office had portfolio positions with Madoff," he says. Two of his investors said that among his clients, Mr. Madoff was considered a money-management legend; they would joke that if Mr. Madoff was a fraud, he'd take down half the world with him.... ...Richard Spring, a Boca Raton resident and former securities analyst, says he had about $11 million -- or 95% of his net worth -- invested with Mr. Madoff. "That's how much I believed in him," Mr. Spring said.

Like I said before, I'm voting for HC and I'm basing my opinions on what she says and does, not what someone else says about her. I've followed her political career for decades. Asking legitimate questions about judgement and competence is not equating the candidate to a "monster." I pay zero attention to the caricatured talking points on HC from her opponents. Asking legitimate questions about judgement and competence is not putting a qualifier on her or intimating that she is outrageously horrible. And telling a left wing democrat that they are part of that " right wing hammering away at her and hoping that negative force they've created around her sinks into the American psyche" seems a little bit overwrought to me to put it as delicately as I can. It is true, I have never heard HC ask someone to literally stop picking on her, but it seems to me like you are intimating Tibbrix, that I am picking on HC and asking me to stop. Forgive me if I am misinterpreting your remarks. It's not a particularly interesting discussion to me, sorry to say, because there is nothing true or positively impressive to me in that line of defense of HC. So if you want to shut down discussion, mission accomplished on my end.