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

Anonymous

Good morning from tropical western MA.  Wow, if it's this steamy up here, I can't imagine what my friends in Washington DC are experiencing.  Living in a rural area, no tall concrete buildings, trees abound, there's always a soft breeze, guess it's why people love to vacation in the Berkshires. BUT,  don't go near the places where there's no shade, yikes.  I've travelled in southeast Asia - and it was cooler than it is here. Advantage of living in a small cabin on a hill, breezes coming thru all the windows.  Most people here don't have air conditioning, which I know seems strange to anyone in a city, but it's always breezy.  "Swimming" holes, pond all over.

Not commenting on current events - just trying to enjoy the summer breezes.  Hope all are well.

bluedahlia

gardengumby

I LOVED George Carlin!!!

QuinnCat

Coca-Cola sales volume is down significantly due to increased rains worldwide...notably, US, India and Germany.  I guess people don't feel like drinking coke when it's wet, and especially wet and cold. 

Oh Carlin shouldn't be so hard on Conservatives; I'm sure they would pony up for a pair of bootstraps for each fetus, if asked.

Anonymous

KAM - "I'm sure they would pony up for a pair of bootstraps for each fetus, if asked." - splurted my tea all over the putah.  FABULOUS!

IllinoisLady

Enjoyful

The Bootstrap Fund!  Bwahahaha!

suzieq60

E - how is your man?

Anonymous

The Bootstrap Fund - another winner from E. 

pip57

You ladies always make me laugh.

Stopping by to check in again.  Still organizing the storage area and waiting for our kitchen.  Maybe if I didn't spend so much time in the lake and the pool I would get it all done.  But the weather here has been so wonderful, I want to take advantage of it while I can.  The stuff will still be there on the rainy days.

bluedahlia

Smart Man!

Enjoyful

Tesla....a genius in many ways.

My man is fiiiiine.  He's buying a house just four miles from the farm but also 60-90 minutes away from work for him.  He's crayzy.  Home inspection is tomorrow, followed by sewer and water and air and whatever else needs inspection.

Anonymous

He ain't crazy - he knows a WONDERFUL WOMAN when he finds her....that's YOU, in case you're trying to avoid knowing this FACT...

BTW - E, how are you feeling?  Have you been able to ride at all?

Blue - I knew Tesla as an inventor, but never knew he was so WISE.

pip57

He sounds 'smitten' to me.  

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

Now they're blaming Obama for the great divide?  Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

crazy4carrots

Courtesy of TPM:

Eric Holder, the country's first African-American attorney general, talked about the killing of Trayvon Martin in personal terms Tuesday, telling an audience at the NAACP 2013 Convention how the shooting prompted him to have a conversation with his 15-year-old son about race. 

"Trayvon’s death last spring caused me to sit down to have a conversation with my own 15-year-old son, like my dad did with me. This was a father-son tradition I hoped would not need to be handed down," Holder said. "But as a father who loves his son and who is more knowing in the ways of the world, I had to do this to protect my boy. I am his father and it is my responsibility, not to burden him with the baggage of eras long gone, but to make him aware of the world he must still confront. This is a sad reality in a nation that is changing for the better in so many ways."

Holder also said the death of Trayvon Martin reminded him of experiences he had as a young man of being pulled over and having his car searched twice on the New Jersey Turnpike for no apparent reason. More recently, when he was a federal prosecutor, he was stopped by a police officer while going to a movie at night in Georgetown in D.C.

"As important as it was, I am determined to do everything in my power to ensure that the kind of talk I had with my son isn’t the only conversation that we engage in as a result of these tragic events," he added.

bluedahlia

Must be Holder's fault then!

RetiredLibby

I am still trying to get my head around a conversation I had recently with a man I have known for more than 40 years. He is my other brother - my mother loved him as much as if she had given birth to him. When he enlisted in the Air Force after high school, our house was the first phone call he made from basic training. Our house was the first place he came on his first leave. He happens to be black.



We were talking recently about an occasion in which he went to court a few years ago. He said that the judge said, "You are a 50-year-old black man and you have never been arrested?" My brother said, "No sir, I have never been arrested." DH and my brother looked at each other & DH nodded and my brother continued with the story. I was flabbergasted - at both the judge's assumption that it was an unusual thing that 50-year-old black man had never been arrested and DH's and my brother's casual acceptance of the fact that of course the judge would think that. The judge would never have been surprised if my brother were a white 50-year-old man who had never been arrested. It would have never been occasion for comment. It simply would never have come up. Can you imagine that question to a blonde, blue-eyed white man? "You are a 50-year-old white man and you have never been arrested?" The cultural context just blows my mind, as does my brother's and husband's matter-of-fact acceptance of it.



That is the underlying racial culture in this country. How do we overcome that?



L

suzieq60

Pip - you are SO right about E's man - I'd love to meet him and give him a hug!!

alexandria58

L - I wish I knew the answer to your question.  Things have changed and are changing, but not fast enough.  Too many things stay the same.  I can just hope that as the younger generation takes over, they will be without the same prejudice and assumptions that have been the bane of this country for 200 years.

     I am so sorry for the assumption towards your brother.

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

steelrose

I spit up my coffee reading that last one, blue!



Has anyone heard from Athena???

Anonymous

BLUE - good thing I have this little plastic cover for me computah keys = just fabulous!

Love the flower too...

Don't think Athena has been on since 7/4 - unless she checked without signing in...ROAR to our Lioness

gardengumby

I see my MO today - think good thoughts for me, please. 

crazy4carrots

GG -- Good thoughts and warm wishes coming your way!

bluedahlia

GG, you got it!

Anonymous

More good thoughts for GG....and wishes that any news is b-o-r-i-n-g.

Still anxiety making just having to go to a doc.  That's been my experience.  Realize the explanting of my implants was MUCH less anxious making than the anticipation of it. BTW, get ready for TMI - I can feel my chest again!  No more numb foobs - it's ME.  Strange interesting new feeling.  Only an explanter probably knows what I mean.

I have a new "rant" - women aren't told how STRANGE implants can feel under the pec muscle.  Generally told it is the "easiest" form of reconstruction - easy for whom? So regret having it done, being talked into it, went to surgeon and said "no reconstruction" - she said to speak to the PS she worked with before she'd operate.

Drat.  Well, live & learn.  I am completely convinced it is is FINANCIAL question - the hospital they both worked at got a LOT more money from my insurance company than they would have gotten with no reconstruction, also the follow up HIDEOUS visits to PS for expander problems - ugh.

SO blessed to have found the PS I see how - she is an ANGEL - makes SUCH a difference.  rant over

IllinoisLady

L.....beyond my imagination almost, but then I was raised by people who were NOT prejudiced.  I hate to say that I did become that way for a while after moving to California.  Ashamed to say I fell heir to some of the commom stmts. like -- they are all income tax cheaters, certain races are lazy and prefer welfare etc.  In California that was Blacks and Mexicans.  Coming back home here to live....I realized the error of my ways and that my judgement in California was based on a miniscule percentage of people.  I also realized that it is not for me to actually JUDGE as such.  I can judge an action but certainly not the total ( soul ) sum of that person.  We learn and grow and hope as we do that what comes out of it can be what it should be.  I also think you know that best when you feel that within and without you are right with the world.   

GG..double ditto.

Jackie