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

1Athena1

Linda - you are such a caring mother. I am sure your daughter will be just fine and think of it as one more adventure from college. Thank goodness her technology survived, though.

We had a fire drill one night when I was in college, and as I was running down the stairs I collided with a pile of human feces - some drunk idiot had "placed" it there.

IllinoisLady

Athena, I had heard before, or should say read a few articles and heard on the news that the NRA has lost a great deal of ground.  Nothing to truly back up my words, but I do think that the last 8 Republican years took most of us up to critical mass on how our country was being handled and in so many cases manipulated.  So, anyone who is attempting to over-run us and nullify our wants and desires is going to have to have extreme strength for it.  The NRA in that sense is mostly impotent and for the most part the Republican party as well. 

True change could make a difference but they seem intent in boxing with their own shadows. 

Hoping the weather evens up, but Dh said it is predicted to snow all night here, and we may end up with quite  a bit since we started so early this morning.

Linda, I probably didn't mention that I have a daughter named Katie as well.  She is in her 40's now.

Jackie 

lewing

There are lots of great Katies out there!

Linda

QuinnCat

Timely, Dateline just did a story on smoke alarms.  Most children just sleep through them!  Children sleep  longer in deep sleep and much more difficult to awaken.  Some of the children responded better to the alarm plus a recording of their parent's voice telling them to get up.  They weren't studying college age students, but certainly a heads up.  Linda- glad your daughter is ok, but what a disruptive event!

lewing

It *is* scary to think about what might have happened.  One of Katie's roommates had her younger sisters visiting that weekend, and they were all sleeping at the time.  Katie and another roommate had gone out to the hall to talk so they didn't disturb the other kids, and that's how they saw the smoke and heard screams -- before the alarm went off. 

(It was an hour earlier there than the times I gave -- central vs. eastern.)

Good news is, there wasn't sewage contamination.  Bad news is, they need to gut the apartment -- new drywall, new cabinetry -- so my daughter and her friends will be camping out for a while.  Probably for the rest of the year.

Linda

alexandria58

Hi all,

    Watching the sun rise over the mountains and shine on the snow.  It is so beautiful here.

   It's been good to get away.  Got off the Ambien that I started taking when Millie was in the hospital.  Feeling a sense of peace here - except for DD going nuts over the wedding - but that's a fun kind of nuts.  I mean - really - how many florists do we have to see?

    have a great day everyone.  Today is a photographer and a florist.  And buying maple syrup.

lewing

Sounds really beautiful, Alexandria.  I'm so glad you have a beautiful, peaceful place to escape to.

Happy Passover to those that celebrate it.  Is anyone else sedering tonight?  We're joining friends at their daughter's apartment.  I'm hoping they belong to the "short and sweet" branch of Judaism: I love the holiday and the ritual and find a lot of meaning in it, but we always use a MUCH abridged Haggadah.  I really don't want to be eating dinner at midnight!

Linda

bluedahlia

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pupmom

Blue, gorgeous and adorable pics, as usual! I especially loved the chicks one, lol!

bluedahlia

And for those that read here and then go elsewhere to gossip and are afraid to let anyone in that could set them straight.....this is for you!

1Athena1

With a word to the wise (on parasite threads):

gardengumby

Lewing - so glad your daughter is fine.

Kam - when I was a kid I'd sleep through ANYTHING.  I would put the alarm just inches from my head - it wouldn't wake me.  It would wake my Dad downstairs, who would come up and turn it off.  That wouldn't wake me either.  I used to say that I'd probably sleep through the end of the world!  I'm slightly easier to wake now....

Blue - gorgeous pictures.  I especially like the one with the tree and the lava???

Happy Birthday to me!  Today I am an old broad of 63. 

IllinoisLady

Enjoying all the pics as usual --  without wasting one iota of attention to people who criticize me for it.  Put here for my enjoyment and I will do the poster the honor of fulfilling the intention.  As the discussion was about animals in the first place -- I thoroughly and completely enjoyed the ultrasounds of same.  

Blue --  I love the animals pics and very much the Monday one.

Jackie

1Athena1

Happy birthday, GG!! Hope you do something nice and relaxing.

gardengumby

Thanks, Athena.  I had considered taking the day off, but figured that if I did, I'd be cleaning and unpacking all day, and work was actually easier!!    I think we're going out for dinner tonight.  Hubby had originally planned that we would last night, but things got a little chaotic (as usual) and we spent a bunch of time trying to get a tire fixed (it had a nail in it, and we couldn't take a chance on it going flat in the garage.)  It's amazing how few places are open on a Sunday that do that kind of work!!  We ended up going to Sears of all places!

Jackie - I thought your blood type poster was interesting.  I'm A+ and hubby is O+. 

bluedahlia

Happy B/D GG!

bluedahlia

Can anyone relate?

IllinoisLady

GG ------

pupmom

GG, happy birthday! 

gardengumby

Thank-you, all !!!! 

IllinoisLady

One more item before I finish my coffee and go get ready for work.  I think the NRA ( like others are doing ) is taking its own ship down. 

Slimeball NRA Bombards Newtown Families With Robocalls And Postcards (Audio)

2013/03/25

By T. Steelman

It’s been a little over 3 months since the Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Conn. but the NRA is acting like it never happened. They’ve been pushing back against Connecticut’s gun violence panel since that group urged lawmakers to ban high-capacity magazines and limit the amount of ammunition that can be purchased. On top of this, a state legislature-appointed committee approved a bill that would require background checks on all gun sales in the state.

This perceived attack on their rights got the NRA’s back up. They responded with robocalls andpostcards urging opposition of these measures. To the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre. I can’t think of anything slimier than that. Seriously, here are 26 families who are still grieving their terrible loss and the jerks at the NRA think this is okay?

[Listen to audio:]

When reports started coming in about these calls, the Newtown Action Alliance posted on their Facebook page. They got responses from many residents who had received the calls. One of them, Christopher Wenis, wrote on the Alliance’s page:

“I received one of these. I was insulted and offended. I’ve got a 5-year-old son who went to preschool on the Sandy Hook Elementary School campus and and this was a really hard week for me on a lot of levels. These calls were the very last thing I needed.” (Source)

Wenis called the NRA and requested that he be put on the Do Not Call list twice, on that Tuesday and Thursday. He was assured that he would be… but the calls kept coming. By Friday, Wenis was infuriated and desperately wanted to just be left alone.

On the Facebook page, meanwhile, Lisa Abrams was complaining about the postcards. Not only did the NRA make the robocalls, it sent out postcards instructing recipients to call their congressmen and tell them (with the misspelled message):

‘NO ASSUALT WEAPONS BAN’ [sic] … (Source)

This, naturally enough, prompted Ms. Abrams to call her congressmen and do exactly the opposite of what the card instructed. She “was not happy,” she stated.

As if that weren’t enough, The National Shooting Sports Foundation ran radio ads saying that the proposed restrictions would “punish law-abiding citizens” and that gun manufacturers would leave the state, taking jobs with them.

QuinnCat

Happy Birthday - GG!!  Tacoma?? Heck, all this time I thought you lived just south of Seattle?  I was going to ask you where you were going to celebrate thinking you lived in Seattle?  Geez...   My aunt (long gone) lived in Tacoma.  Divorcee.  She taught Home Economics somewhere in that city.

crazy4carrots

Happy happy birthday, GG!  Don't work too hard, and do enjoy your celebratory dinner tonight!

Now everyone, please check out a new Funny or Die video by Jim Carrey, called "Cold Dead Hand".  Personal note:  Heston couldn't act his way out of a brown paper bag, and my estimation of him fell through the floor when he became NRA spokesman.

QuinnCat

Lindasa - hmm.  Every now and then you hear the Right clamouring about something.  Recently, besides the never ending echo of Benghazi, I've heard Jim Carrey mentioned and something about the Amazing Race visiting Vietnam.  My guess is that Fox News is the promoter of these stories as the blather of the day?  It's amazing how Fox News can promote hysteria about almost anything.  (I'm not sure if this is true of this Jim Carrey video, but just guessing.)

YramAL

Happy Birthday, Garden Gumby! Isn't it nice that the weather is cooperating for you today? Beautiful blue skies, and it's supposed to get up to 60 degrees.

Mary

CherrylH

Happy Birthday, GG!

crazy4carrots

Kam -- Jim Carrey is NO fan of either the NRA or Heston.  He was born in the GWN, after all.