I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

pip57

If you like dogs and children...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA8VJh0UJtg&feature=player_detailpage

bluedahlia

They are both pee pad trained.  They go outside too but because of my limitations and stairs to get to the backyard, I rely on the pee pads about 70% of the time.

bluedahlia

Pip, that was amazing.  The pup knew he was a special child!

1Athena1

Kam - shudder!

suzieq60

Kam - no offence - I'm a Kiwi anyway

Is that Citadel thing for real? Unbelievable....

crazy4carrots

Who's the terrorist?  Three guesses:

Source: Rawstory

The CEO of a Tennessee company that specializes weapons and tactical training is threatening to “start killing people” if President Barack Obama moves forward with gun control measures. 

In a video posted to YouTube and Facebook on Wednesday, Tactical Response CEO James Yeager went ballistic over reports that the president could take executive action with minor gun control measures after the mass shooting of 20 school children in Connecticut last month. 

---CLIP 
“I’m telling you that if that happens, it’s going to spark a civil war, and I’ll be glad to fire the first shot. I’m not putting up with it. You shouldn’t put up with it. And I need all you patriots to start thinking about what you’re going to do, load your damn mags, make sure your rifle’s clean, pack a backpack with some food in it and get ready to fight.” 

The CEO concluded: “I’m not fucking putting up with this. I’m not letting my country be ruled by a dictator. I’m not letting anybody take my guns! If it goes one inch further, I’m going to start killing people.” 

pip57

suzieq60

Just read about another shooting in a school in California - lucky no one was killed.

1Athena1

Death threats are punishable under law and that man needs to be arrested.

Would be interested to see what HL's DH might think of this.

The government needs to get serious about terrorism - I am talking about the American far right.

QuinnCat

Ok - pee pads!!  I saw someone on tv - oh yeah, Courtney Cox, said she had to intiate each new pee pad before her dogs would use this.  Was this just a story?  How often do you have to change it?

Chickadee

Hey don't mess with my Idaho potatoes! Dumbasses.

bluedahlia

I change it once a day.  They are so good, both of them!  And I didn't have to initiate anything....ha!

Lindasa, the rightwingers should be proud.  Alex Jones and now this nut!

1Athena1

Permission to repeat or re-phrase something I have just said in another thread. Reason for permission: it just boggles my mind. This is the gist of it:

One of the so-called truisms I love to hate is the one where, supposedly, you can only know how a person feels like if you have been in his/her situation. Bunkum!!! First, there is such thing as empathy. Second, there is imagination and curiosity. But much more importantly, the fact that you have superficial characteristics in common with someone in no way enables you to understand what that individual is experiencing re: that characteristic.

Case in point. I have NO IDEA what it is like to have breast cancer and to undergo treatment. None. I only know what it's like for ME. And I am stunned by how little I understand or have in common with other stage II people. We are as diverse a group in this BCO forum as any other group.

To analogize with one of my favorite sayings: "England and America are separated by a common language." So very true. 

We here are all "separated" by a common diagnosis.

It's why I object when a person tries to don the mantra of another simply based on a common experience. It negates the individuality of each person, the different way in which she approaches it and the values and goals that personally motivate her.

An interesting sign that what I am saying has some validity is how often there is widespread agreement on BCO, even across the political spectrum on non=BC issues that sometimes come up. I say widespread, not unanimous. For example, so many of us were furious with John Edwards, so many of us are upset with the gun lobby, etc...

Just goes to show that you never know what will unite or divide you. Our disagreements on BCO are mostly about that which some think we all have in common - breast cancer. We fight tooth and nail about it. It's because we haven't the foggiest what so many people are going through.

I just never understand that baby-boomer thing about how you have to "be able to identify" with something to understand it.... Huh??? I'm a BC patient and most anyone here would never have made the tx decisions that I made.

Thank you for listening to more useless Thursday brain droppings. :-)

ETA, to change day of week.

--Athena the Dingbat

River_Rat

I just read an amazing story that I wanted to share here, 'Grandparents save five kids from "tornadoes of fire" in Australia; pics':

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/10/1177867/-Grandparents-save-five-kids-from-tornadoes-of-fire-in-Australia-pics?detail=hide

I looked for a link that wasn't from a political site but couldn't find one link that had as much info and as many pictures. The link itself isn't political.

1Athena1

Incredible. Thank you, RR. Those pictures are something I had never seen before. Blazing planet.

1Athena1

Reminds me, strangely, of this painting by Winslow Homer:

This painting is depicted on the NYT site, with some interpreting it as a symbol of death and others, of restoration. It is on exhibit at the Library of Congress (ETA that).

Likewise the pictures in RR's link -  sign of lives saved or of a dying planet?

IllinoisLady

Was going to put in something on the James Yeager article and lindasa beat me to it.  It was a real jaw-dropper for me.  It is still making me so very, very angry that SO many of these people are NOTviewing this at all as about 20 children recently being murdered and others not so long before them. 

I'm all for "taking care of anyone BRAVE enough to make those kinds of threats."  I did read that this guy changed his video so that it did not have the words about going out and killing people any longer.......really. 

That erases your temper tantrum and vile threats and bully behaviour....just like that.  I don't think so !!!! I knew he wasn't made of much...and now its less. 

I for one hope the President bypasses these kinds of people along with the NRA.  Their right-wing type concerns imo don't seem to have much to do with the concerns of Biden and others who want to address the number of those killed or maimed these last few years since the ban on these weapons expired. 

Some of these people are a real waste in the gene pool, and dangerous too.

Jackie

( sorry....I'm not being very eloquent - just emotional

pupmom

Jackie, I totally agree with you. It is disgraceful that these vile and vicious gun obsessed sociopaths have held our government and the safety of its citizens hostage for decades! ENOUGH!

1Athena1

Yikes - THURSDAY brain droppings -sorry.

Guns: What Jackie and Yorkie say!

A schoolboy in California has been shot today.

IllinoisLady

Athena...I like the brain droppings for today.  I almost always, if not always enjoy what you have to say.  It rather reminds me of the talks I used to have with my mom about how people would often say to me that they knew what I was thinking...........and the annoyance for me was that I felt they were putting ideas in my head or words in my mouth.......and usually it was well far off the mark.  The biggest part of the time I seldom was thinking much of anything as the situations seldom warranted that amount of effort. 

I think I enjoyed being a little left or right and having my own outlook.....didn't want to be just one of the crowd so to speak --- on the other hand, I did not wish to be too different either.  Every snow flake is different, yet it is all snow.  Too bad so often our differences do not always make us all somewhat better, as so often we are driven apart because it isn't just different, but radical differences .....so anyway, I could relate and enjoyed reading it. 

Jackie

Chickadee

A chuckle for you...



Anthropomorphic Nouns

I thought this might be boring, but stick with it. You'll love the ending.

We are all familiar with a



Herd of cows,



A Flock of chickens,



A School of fish



And a Gaggle of geese.



However, less widely known is:



A Pride of lions,



A Murder of crows



(as well as their cousins the rooks and ravens),



An Exaltation of doves



And, presumably because they look so wise:



A Parliament of owls.





Now consider a group of Baboons.

Baboons are the loudest, most dangerous, most

obnoxious, most viciously aggressive and least

intelligent of all primates.

And what is the proper collective noun for a

group of baboons?



Believe it or not... A Congress!

(Note: I hadn't heard that before, so I looked it up. It is correct)



A CONGRESS OF BABOONS!



That pretty much explains things ...



You just can't make this stuff up.

crazy4carrots

Source: NY Times

The findings were stark. Deaths before age 50 accounted for about two-thirds of the difference in life expectancy between males in the United States and their counterparts in 16 other developed countries, and about one-third of the difference for females. The countries in the analysis included Canada, Japan, Australia, France, Germany and Spain. 

Car accidents, gun violence and drug overdoses were major contributors to years of life lost by Americans before age 50. 

Americans also had the lowest probability over all of surviving to the age of 50. The report’s second chapter details health indicators for youths where the United States ranks near or at the bottom. There are so many that the list takes up four pages. Chronic diseases, including heart disease, also played a role for people under 50. 

The panel sought to explain the poor performance. It noted the United States has a highly fragmented health care system, with limited primary care resources and a large uninsured population. It has the highest rates of poverty among the countries studied. 

Education also played a role. Americans who have not graduated from high school die from diabetes at three times the rate of those with some college, Dr. Woolf said. In the other countries, more generous social safety nets buffer families from the health consequences of poverty, the report said. 


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/10/health/americans-under-50-fare-poorly-on-health-measures-new-report-says.html?_r=0 

CherrylH

Chickadee, that is so good. If any jungle is missing its Congress of Baboons, we all know where to direct them.

bluedahlia

This is interesting.  Even though he was a Conservative,

http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/237912/ronald-reagan-would-demand-more-gun-control

Enjoyful

A clowder of cats.

A prickle of porcupines (or porcupi??)



A Congress of baboons. Don't baboons fling their poo at each other? How appropriate! The only difference appears to be clothing.



Happy good morning to all!

bluedahlia

Good Morning E!  Poo, you say?  hehehehehe!  I'lll try not to get in their cross-fire!  But I think poo is better than bullets!

Enjoyful

I'll take poo over bullets any day.



I don't know what is about men and their guns. I took Meg and her friends paint-balling once and this absolute DOUCHE (no offended to douches) shot her in the breast from 5' away. I was on him like poop on a pig. He said "well she was right there. What was I supposed to do?" I said okay, let me shoot you in the crotch from 5' away and then we'll revisit that question.



I really think men's brains go into Park when they have a gun. No thought as to the damage it can and will cause, just the immediate satisfaction of domination.

sewingnut

Hi everyone. Our gal Paula, AKA Soteria, AKA Old Hippy is really sick with the crud going around. Prayers would be greatly appreciated. She isn't getting nuelasta or nuepogen and she is in the nadir period. Thanks a bunch!

1Athena1

I am sorry to hear that, sewingnut. There are some very nasty flu strains this year.

(((Paula)))

pupmom

LOL, Chickadee...absolutely PERFECT description of the U.S. Congress!