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

bluedahlia

I got a headache.  Is it Medicare's fault?  Sometimes the lights are on but nobody's home.  For sure that's Medicare's fault!

Anonymous

oh, my - it couldn't have been there the whole time.....could it?

pupmom

Maybe yes. Maybe no. 

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

OK last 1!

pupmom

Oh, just adorable! Chocolate labs! Glad you saved the best for last!

lewing

Hey all - I've been quietly lurking, out of town last week and focused this week on getting ready for our big honeymoon trip. We leave tomorrow (at an ungodly early hour) for 10 days in Trinidad and Tobago. Can't wait!!

So, anyhow, speedreading through this thread I was holding my breath waiting for Kam's biopsy results (so glad for the clean bill of health), and now I'm sending good luck vibes to Athena and also to gardengumby for your skin biopsies (hope it's all nothin', not just non-melanoma nothin', but nothin' nothin') and to Suzie on that biking vacation (as a veteran of an overly-ambitious cycling vacation that involved its share of gravel paths, I feel your pain!). 

Oh, and I did spot the cat in the picture, but only thanks to the clues that were posted.

I will lift a rum punch to all of you tomorrow afternoon!

Linda

gardengumby

Enjoy the rum punch Lewing!!!

didn't find the kitty, but I'm supposed to be working, so didn't look all that hard, either.

Athena - you know the drill for gubmint jobs - they gotta be "fair", and put everyone through the same script.  GOOD LUCK - the lioness will roar.

We're waiting most impatiently for the appraisal which STILL has not come through - but I've GOT to spend the weekend packing just in case - so hopefully won't have to spend the following week UNpacking to re-ready the house for market.  Blech!!

1Athena1

GG - this ain't guv'mint - (wouldn't want to work in the same company that manufactures none of them Medicare socialist thingies!)

Welcome, Lewing - wish you'd stop by more often, but honeymoons have to come first. :-)

Blue, I am the neighborhood watch. Off to see what the lights are on for!

Check. Yep. Nobody's home and I see the porch light.

1Athena1

ohhhhh those labs!

IllinoisLady

Loved all the pictures.  I found the cat.......but only with much searching after I got the clue that the cat was moving.  Blue, the picture resembled Lilah just a bit sticking out her tongue at the dog.

I'm done in......didn't go to work today until noon and stayed  until 6 p.m.  What a difference an hour both ways makes.  A big cheat pizza for supper when the kids get home with it......must have gone to the next state for it. 

Hope everyone ( terrible lazy brain ) that has anything going on has great success with it......oh, and of course that includes fabulous honeymoons. 

Talk to ya'll later.

Jackie

IllinoisLady

Something of interest...hope it come in w/o the marks:

2013 or 1966? Feb 15, 2013 | By ThinkProgress War Room The GOP's Back to the Future Budget Last week, the GOP once again proposed a plan to cap overall federal spending as percentage of the economy at a ridiculous and unsustainably low level. This is really just a backdoor way to gut programs like Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid without saying so at the outset. How low do Republicans want to set spending? As low as it was way back in 1966. In 1966, President Johnson was arguing we needed to stay in Vietnam. There were still countries called Upper Volta and Rhodesia. The Beach Boys released Pet Sounds. Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California. Medicare and Medicaid had only existed for one year. In other words, it was a very different time and our country had very different needs. Here’s a closer look at just how different things are why the GOP’s back to the future isn’t suited for 21st century America.

pip57

Loved the kitty in the garbage photo challenge.  I used to love doing the Where's Waldo books with my kids.

The chocolate lab puppies are adoreable.  However, don't fall for those sweet faces.  We have had many different labs.  The chocolate one lived up to the stereotype of the breed.  He was a difficult boy until he became older and he wasn't able to move so quickly!

IllinoisLady

I think most of the 'working' dogs can often be something of a challenge.  Even my two Goldens' temperaments didn't settle out well until after three years of age and even then they are still far better with structured exercise or a really good long walk. 

In the past five or six years we have just taken what "rescues" we felt we had too.  Fortunately they have all been ( save for one black Lab retriever ) small type dogs....Pomeranian, terrier mix, Min Pin, and overall, while a couple are pretty energetic, they have done well.  The Min Pin still runs so fast outside you only see a black blur.  Good thing we live out in the country by the lake ( no fences ) and the neighbors don't mind seeing ( well sorta ) black blurs in their yard now and then.  The brown terrier ( same small size as Min Pin ) used to do that but we were too good to her.....she is not quite as svelte as she was when we first brought her home.  Not  actually chubby but definitely stockier than at first. 

Hope you all have a good Saturday.

Jackie

crazy4carrots

Jackie -- Thanks for posting that very interesting -- and revealing - graphic.  A couple of things really stood out for me:  1.  The very small difference in the price of gas; and 2.  the fact that the federal minimum wage has actually decreased since 1966.

I note that the President in his SOTU address called for an increase in the minimum wage, and that several opposition members decried it, saying that if employers have to increase the min. wage, they'll cut back hiring, and will drop employees.  Several dependable studies have shown that not to be true, buy hey, why not say it anyway?!

So here's the thing:  Those same folks want people to "pull up their bootstraps" and go out and get a job, but if that job doesn't pay enough for them to get out of poverty and to stop relying on food stamps and hospital ERs for their healthcare, and subsidized housing etc. etc., then it's the TAXPAYERS who end up footing the bills for all of that. Why, oh why do certain politicians want their own constituents to bear the cost, rather than employers?  And why, oh why would any taxpayer want to keep voting for those same politicians?

Re dogs:  we had border collies when I was growing up.  Easily trainable, lovable, SUPERSMART, and super-protective of their owners.  Just sayin'.

pupmom

Jackie: "And why, oh why would any taxpayer want to keep voting for those same politicians?" This is the question I keep asking myself. I'm hoping the blinded, brainwashed masses will wake up to the fact that Republicans are sc&%#ing them royally, and begin voting in their own best interests, i.e. Democratic.

All my life I've been a snob for purebreeds, but no more. If we end up with a purebreed it will be a  rescue. Just want a cute doggie with a sweet disposition. But we're hoping that our yorkie lives forever!

bluedahlia

There are some POS places on the internet where there is major "nobody's home" syndrome!  Hilarious!   Gagagagaagaag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IllinoisLady

Gagagagaagaaag!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jackie

bluedahlia

I find it helpful to be on an empty stomach.  MUST remember that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua05RTaDE8o

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

Anonymous

Ali was/is SO brave.  Remember when he gave up his title - that was BRAVE!  And now, fighting PD fo so, so , so long...

Love all the cartoons -

and I liked the dog at Westminster with the long white curls - can't remember the name, so cute, well,maybe too big to be cute, but loved the "hairstyle"

Blue - hope you're feeling better...

Bren-2007

Hi Everyone!

Wanted to stop by and wish our resident bartender and chaplain a very happy birthday.  Hope she's enjoying the day and has lots of chocolate cake!

Love you dear friend,

Bren

Enjoyful

Happy birthtender, barday!  

*hic*

Starting the Saturder birthterday off right...

:-)

IllinoisLady

Happy
Birthday  Bartender

IllinoisLady

and a poem for my faaorite bartender.

Starkle, starkle little twink

Who the h*** I are you think

I'm not under the alcafluence of incahol

Although some people stink  I are

I'm having so much fun,

I don't know who are me

The drunker I sit here,

The longer I get to be.

The End                         `````````````````    Jackie

Enjoyful

Love that poem, Jackie!  ;-)

I hope our bartender's out having a grand birthday!

IllinoisLady

Joyful....my dad taught me that poem when I was very young --- for some things my long term memory is better than my short term, and you might know, it is usually things like the above.

Hope this next piece comes in w/o marks.  I keep saying some day....I'll learn how to just put in links.

COLORADO MAKES HEROIC PUSH TO FINALIZE GUN CONTROL LAWS

Democrats in the Colorado House of Representatives worked late and long on Friday to approve four new gun control measures. They were opposed every step of the way by Republican legislators but, in the end, they got it done. The measures were approved by a voice vote on Friday night and will be ready for a formal vote on Monday.

Colorado has been reeling from the impact of two of the worst mass murders in the history of the nation–the Columbine High School shooting in 1999 and the movie theater shooting in Aurora last summer. State Representative Rhonda Fields, D- Aurora, sponsored two pieces of the legislation. In 2005, her son also died by gunshot. Fields said:

“There is a common thread that we see in these massacres. They’re using high-capacity magazines so they can unleash as many bullets as they can, to kill as many people as they can, in our schools, our theaters and our churches.”

The debate was contentious, with little Republican support forthcoming. Field’s co-sponsor on one of the bills, Rep. Beth McCann, D-Denver, added:

“We continue to hear that responsible gun owners do not commit crimes. So it’s hard for me to understand how responsible gun owners would have any objections to this bill. All this is doing is requiring everyone to go through the same background check.”

The package of bills includes background checks for all gun purchases, payment for those checks by applicants, a ban on ammunition magazines holding more than 15 rounds, and permission for colleges to ban concealed weapons on campus. They were passed because, since the November election,Democrats hold a 37-28 majority in the House. Before the election, Republicans had a 33-32 majority.

Lest anyone fear that the bills will stall further down the road, the next step is approval by the state Senate, where Democrats are in the majority by 20-15. The final step is the signature of Gov. John Hickenlooper, also a Democrat. The governor has already said he supports three of the four bills, and he is still reviewing the weapons-on-campus legislation.

The effort in the House got a last-minute boost from Vice President Joe Biden, who was in Colorado on a ski trip. He called four wavering Democrats to urge their support. Tony Exum of Colorado Springs summed up the Veep’s message:

“He said it would send a strong message to the rest of the country that a Western state had passed gun-control bills.”

Republican lawmakers were darkly predicting that Democrats from swing districts were going to lose their next elections. One presumably vulnerable representative, Max Tyler, D-Lakewood, came back with the perfect counter:

“I have to stand up and do what I think is right. I’m not going to worry about what they’re going to slice and dice and run against me. I have to vote for what I think is correct, what I think my district supports and what my conscience supports.”

Hopefully, he also reflects the conscience of the nation. Regardless, Colorado has set a courageous example for other states to follow.