I can assure you, whether paid in groceries, coin or in room and board as a husband, wife, SO or B/GF, if you are not the one with the power and control in the "working relationship" it's worse than work and indentured servitude combined.

Nothing is worse than having sex with someone you neither love, care for, like nor respect. Especially if you don't like the person to start with (or never did) and this kind of sex, which becomes work, happens in billions of boudoirs every day, worldwide. None of those conditions; like, love or caring, are required to turn the sex into work or exclude it from the definition of work.

The condition of the equitable position of power is the only condition that really matters the most in the definition of work. Plus, I would venture to guess there's more sex being had that falls into the 'work' category than the 'not work' category, and that's just a sad, unsexy fact.

New Bill by NCGA Idiots Claims Gay Marriage Is a Religion, Attempts to Ban It
BY LEIGH TAUSS FEB. 14, 2019 3:29 P.M.

What better Valentine’s Day gift to North Carolina’s LGTBQ residents than the bill filed in the North Carolina House Wednesday asserting that gay marriage is a “parody” and a “religion” and therefore shouldn’t be recognized as valid.

Similar bills have been filed in Kansas and Tennessee. North Carolina’s House Bill 65, filed Wednesday by Republican state representatives Mark Brody, Keith Kidwell, and Confederate-loving Lincoln-hater Larry Pittman, attempts to “declare null and void” the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Obergefell vs. Hodges, which guaranteed same-sex couples the right to wed in 2015.

The bill asserts that, while gay marriage is “inseparably part” of the religion of “Secular Humanism,” straight marriage is “the only model for marriage that simply follows the scientifically obvious biology of human beings.” Though opposition to gay marriage strongly correlates to conservative religious traditions, the bill's backers claim that “marriage between a man and a woman arose out of the nature of the human species, and marriage between a man and a woman is natural, uncontrived, and noncontroversial, unlike forms of marriage that do not involve a man and a woman.”

Oh yes, it gets better: “Obergefell v. Hodges in effect has imposed the views of Secular Humanism on the People and the States of these United States in the matter of marriage law, which authority is not given to the federal government in the United States Constitution, and is, therefore, an unconstitutional establishment of religion and also an unconstitutional usurpation by the United States Supreme Court of powers reserved to the People or to the States.”

Hurd (Face the Nation) says 1,000 Texas farmers could have land seized to build Trump's border wall

BY CAMILO MONTOYA-GALVEZ

UPDATED ON: FEBRUARY 17, 2019 / 1:20 PM / CBS NEWS

Texas Rep. Will Hurd, the sole Republican representing a congressional district along the southern border, said more than 1,000 farmers in his state are at risk of having their land seized by the federal government to facilitate the construction of President Trump's long-promised wall.

"In the great state of Texas, we care about a little thing called private property, and there's going to be over 1,000 ranchers and farmers potentially impacted if the government comes in and takes their land," Hurd said on "Face the Nation" Sunday.

To build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Trump administration will likely attempt to seize private property along the frontier using the power of eminent domain, which allows the government to trigger a process to buy and ultimately acquire private land for public use. "What we're doing with eminent domain is, in many cases, we'll make a deal up front. We've already done that. The secretary has done a lot of that," the president told reporters in January, offering no specifics to support the claim. "And if we can't make a deal, we take the land and we pay them through a court process. Which goes actually fairly quickly. And we're generous. But we take the land. Otherwise you could never build anything. If you didn't use eminent domain, you wouldn't have one highway in this country. You have to use eminent domain."

But Hurd said the strategy will surely be resisted by some landowners and force the government into a prolonged legal battle.

Video and much more at the link.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/william-hurd-on-face-the-nation-says-1000-texas-farmers-could-have-land-seized-to-build-trumps-border-wall/

Link to transcript:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-rep-will-hurd-on-face-the-nation-february-17-2019/

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are an American funk and soul band signed to Daptone Records. They are part of a revivalist movement recreating mid-1960s to mid-1970s style funk and soul music.[1] In December 2014, the band was nominated for a Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album of the Year for Give the People What They Want.[2] The band has continued to perform together after the death of lead singer Sharon Jones in 2016.[3]

Sharon Lafaye Jones (May 4, 1956 – November 18, 2016) was an American soul and funk singer. She was the lead singer of Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, a soul and funk band based in Brooklyn, New York.[1] Jones experienced breakthrough success relatively late in life,[2] releasing her first record when she was 40 years old.[3] In 2014, Jones was nominated for her first Grammy, in the category Best R&B Album, for Give the People What They Want.[4][5]

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During the screening of her documentary at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival,[34] Jones revealed that her cancer had returned,[35] and that she would be undergoing chemotherapy again.[36] She suffered a stroke while watching the 2016 United States presidential election results and another the following day.[37] Jones remained alert and lucid during the initial period of her hospital stay, jokingly claiming that the news of Donald Trump's victory was responsible for her stroke.[38][39]