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

Marple

(((RL)))

GlobalGirlyGirl

I am new to your thread, but I am glad I was able to read about Athena's memorial. Thank you for that. I "met" her on the comorbidity forum. She was so helpful when I was first diagnosed and encouraged me to post. You all were so close to her, so my condolences.

Now, I see the extent of her love for fashion. I want to get a Ferragamo purse in her honor.

gardengumby

Welcome to the "strange" land. We like it here and hope you will as well.

IllinoisLady

Global Girly  -  Nice to meet you.  Lots of 'pride' friends here and hope you will return.  I had a pr. of Ferragamo shoes once but they had small heels and I just didn't dress in ANY heels at all at the time.  I gave them away to someone who would use them.  I truly did not know what I was giving away.....but still the reason was a good one.  Those things are meant to be used. 

Jackie

GlobalGirlyGirl

gardengumby - Thank you for the nice welcome. Doesn't seem so strange. Or maybe I am fitting in already.

IllinoisLady - Definitely - especially since they cost so much. I wanted to get Ferragamo because of the Retail Therapy thread. She mentioned that after she was diagnosed, she bought a Ferragamo wallet.

pupmom

Hi GGG! We have a GG (gardengumby), so now you are the third G, at least to my "strange" thinking! Anyway, welcome aboard!

Don't know about things like Ferragamo purses. I just like to window shop, and Athena provided the goods!

QuinnCat

GGG - welcome.  I'm glad you got to converse with Athena and it appears you shared her love of fashion. Whether berkinstocks, keens or ferragamos, we find common ground, yet rejoice in our differences.

GG - so glad you are in your new house - finally.

Chickadee - hugs to you. I hope your bottom will soon be history.

E - I'm sorry you have to go through this crap plus losing your hair, probably again.  You are beautiful, though, with or without hair.

Enjoyful

My sister just cut off most of my remaining hair.  I still have a fringe on the sides and the back, so I can wear a ball cap, but the top is nearly gone.  Tykerb doesn't usually cause hair loss, but it CAN.  Lucky me for winning that lottery!

Chickadee - I'll add my hugs to the pile and hope for an uphill swing soon!

E, mit dem kurzen Haar

ananda8

Welcome GGG,

There is always room for one more in the 'purse' that we all travel in.  Of course it is really large and very chic, something like this massive Birkin Bag.

QuinnCat

E - I tend to win those unlucky lotteries too.  Get it.  xxo

ananda8

For some reason I receive questionaires from both the Democrat and Republican parties.  I just filled out the questionaire for the Dems.  When asked what the most important issue was, I said good paying jobs.  When asked what other issues were important to me, I said more restrictions on lobbying, limits on campaign contributions by corporations, full disclosure of who is donating to political campaings and issues and more regulation of Wall Street.

I wonder what all of you think are the most important issues?

alexandria58

Global warming.  I see this as number one.   We need to do something and do it now.  By the time the full effects are hitting, it will be too late to do much.

After global warming, I'm most concerned about poverty, hunger, the growing disparity between the working people and the very top of our society, the disappearing middle class. Those are my concerns.  I'm not sure about the solutions.  Maybe a wage cap on the top of a corporation, limiting CEO's to a reasonable multiplier of the average worker, for example as in Germany, where it's 12 to 1 or in Canada, 20 to 1 as opposed to the US where it's 475 to 1.  And let's rehire teachers and police, build some bridges and roads, put money into research into cures for cancer and alzheimer's,  Oh, and raise the taxes if we have to, to do this.  It's called investment.

GlobalGirlyGirl

yorkiemom - Thanks! 3rd G is cute. I like it. Haha

Kam170 - Thank you! That is so awesome - the ability to get along despite differences.

notself - Thank you, and OMG that is a Birkin on steroids!

Politics. The joy and bane of my existence. Before the diagnosis, I was a political blogger. Democrat, super Liberal, and an Obama fan/campaign supporter.  The "fights" I would get into with Conservatives on Facebook. Hell, my partner and sister banned me from the Being Liberal Facebook page. Not good for my stress.

Anyway, for me, my most important issue is intervention and our need to get in everyone's business and quarrels.

I'm non-interventionist (the Libertarian streak in me). We have so many frickin' problems. We don't need 900 bases around the world. We need to get the hell out of Afghanistan yesterday. Afghanistan is where empires go to die. And we're on our way. Both wars have bankrupted us. Thousands of US lives lost. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi and Afghani lives lost. All for what? Halliburton contracts? The minerals in "them thar hills?"

Don't even get me started on the Israeli - Palestinian conflict. We should have never chosen sides.

"Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson

If we had listened to him, we'd be a lot better off today.

ananda8

GGG, When asked if we should set a date for leaving Afghanistan I said, yes and the date should be now.

Alexandria, I agree that global warming is a big problem.  We are already past the tipping point.  Climate destabilization is here right now.  Last year my area of Arkansas was in extreme drought in August.  This year it has rained almost every day and we have exceeded our average rainfall for August by double. People don't understand that it is not just about the planet warming up.  It is about destabilizing the climate itself.  Yes, the seas will rise, but the bigger problem will be the effect of destabilization on agriculture. 

Global Climate Destabilization is a really huge problem and will take honest government to solve.  Right now our government is owned by corporate interests.  Solving the problem of lobbying and disclosing who donates more than $2500 to any campaign or political cause will go a long way to getting the corruption out of politics.  It takes honest government to solve problems.

Momine

Notself, the military spending is the elephant in the room, as far as I am concerned. That and the twisted foreign policy that supports the "military-industrial complex."

The absolutely immense and ridiculous level of spending on all things military is the US way of subsidizing the economy. That is fine, but I think there are far more productive and constructive ways to get money circulating in the system.

Another huge issue is equal access to education. The horse may still not drink, but I would like to see every child having a fighting chance at least.

Part of that has to be better family support policies, universal pre-K, better regulations and standards for childcare as well as more subsidies for same. 

bluedahlia

Welcome GGG!  Any friend of Athena's is a friend of mine.  I don't post much because Mr. Parkinson's has a firm grip on my body, but I do post pretty pics just to let  my friends know I'm still kcking,  hehehehe!  I'm as liberal as they get.

Anonymous

Glenna - yikes, I didn't notice the time you posted.  Ooohhh...don't know which was more of a "bother" - the ups of D or the CRASHING Down - only way I could deal with the "up" was to have a pile of "projects" to do: mending an old quilt, stripping with sand paper an old table, organizing books, seriously, the energy was wild!  But the crash in a few days - wow, that was strange.  Hugs to you & grateful it's all working.

Enjoful - if you want to try the most wonderul scarves. http://www.anokhiusa.com/ The small square is a perfect wrap.  The "sarong" I wear as a shawl.  The softest cotton I've ever known, and made by a collective of women in India, hand blocked, delicious colours.  Very special.  I first foudn them when I lived in London, and was so happy to find them now sold in the States.  Really nice people.

GGG - Ferragamos.  that brought back a smile.  Canal boats, is what I used to call them - long slender feet, and mine are platypus shaped flompers now so happy in Keen.  Used to be able to wear Bruno Magli, long, long ago.But as Jackie wrote a few pages ago - all is so much wonderfulness NOW.  Bunions & all...

notself - now THAT'S a Birken Bag.  Jane Birken is the "back page interview" in this month's Vanity Fair. Funny.

GLOBAL WARMING while there's still time.  Center of USA is underwater - thought of Our Chick & FEMA, MO, KS, also makes me wonder what the Corps of Engineers is doing?

We're complaining about the ince of rain due up today - flash floods, but nothing, nada, like what's in the midwest.

Stay dry everyone...

lewing

Big hugs to Chickadee this morning.  Your "staring at a blinking cursor" comment got to me; hope you don't feel pressure to write . . . sometimes words come, and sometimes words fail, but know that you always have a whole big Birkin bag (love the picture, Notself!) full of love and concern to draw on when you need it.

Welcome to the thread, GGG.  It's a lot of fun and also an amazing source of support when support is needed.  I had been on break for a while because of crazy work pressures, but this was where I had to come back to when I learned the news about Athena.

(Signing off now to switch into spreadsheet gear on account of above-mentioned crazy work pressures.)

L

pupmom

I TRY follow this advice. Not always easy, especially regarding politics. 

gardengumby

Sunny - you really shouldn't REALLY shouldn't have posted that scarf/sarong/shawl link.  I'm trying SO HARD not to spend money.  I LOVE sarongs/shawls.  I wear them constantly.  They are my bathrobes, my jackets, my skirts (when at home).  I dye scarves.  Now, you've gone and given me a bunch more to drool over. 

Notself - I always have a problem defining the most important issue.  Global warming is in my mind the biggest most overwhelming issue of our times.  But, I don't see us (the US) addressing it unless the government is taken back from being owned by corporations.  So, what I'd like to see is:  sharply curtail (I'd prefer doing away with) lobbyists.  Get rid of Citizens United.  Return the media to the pre-Reagan policy of equal time (this is the one single thing that would, I think stop this country from tearing itself apart).  Re-invest in America by rebuilding broken infrastructure and placing new infrastructure where it is needed (like pretty much everywhere) - this will create a myriad of jobs.  Then invest in solar and wind energy.  Stop everyone from thinking that the only way to do things is the way we've always done them. 

One of the problems I have with the Republicans is they spend so much time staring in the rear view mirror.  They want to return to the golden age of America, but because they see it in a mirror, everything is backwards.  They want everyone to live like TV shows of the fifties - Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver - with Dad at work, Mom at home watching the kids riding their bikes past the white picket fences, but at the same time they put in place policies that have completely destroyed the possibility of that way of life (not that I'd have been any good at it anyway, but you get what i mean...).

gardengumby

Don't be drinking anything when you watch this, you might choke.  I almost spit tea all over my screen.  This is a German coffee commercial.  (Got it from a co-worker who got it from her brother).

<http://www.youtube.com/embed/4BMUC4Yb4z4?rel=0>

RetiredLibby

Welcome, G3!  Your uber-liberalness has found a home here!  I used to be what was considered a middle-of-the-road moderate, but have found myself pushed over to the left edge of the spectrum with the viciousness of a right wing that thinks it is OK to call the President and his family racist names, post racist pictures about them, thinks that it's OK to let poor children go hungry (honestly, what kind of people ARE they?), thinks it's OK to let people without health insurance die ... if opposing that makes me a lefty, then I'm far, far left.

Hmmm, Notself ... most important issue.  It's a tossup for me among education, food security and infrastructure.  If pressed, I guess repairing infrastructure would rise to the top of the list.  We cannot have a thriving economy with a crumbling infrastructure - bridges collapsing, the power grid insufficient, roads disintegrating as sinkholes open up, airports becoming more and more outdated, freight rail falling apart, passenger rail so old that we practically have steam engines ... yeah, infrastructure.  Education next, because that is where we have excelled and where we are falling to last place.  And food security, because hungry people cannot learn, cannot work, and develop chronic, long-term health problems that will cripple the medical care delivery system -- not to mention it is simply immoral that people go hungry in a country as rich as ours.

E, I'm so sorry about your hair.  I know you didn't want to go there this time ... but you are so beautiful, with or without hair.  I know that doesn't help, but it's true.  ----->)))))Enjoyful(((((<-----

L

RetiredLibby

GG, ROFLMAO!

L

Marple

OMG, that's friggin hilarious.  She could switch to loose tea.

bluedahlia

HAHAHAHAHA!

IllinoisLady

I was thinking OMG --- there's one for the T. Party.  Ok, guess that shows my twisted thinking, but it was my very first thought. 

Good arguments/thoughts about MOST important issues we are facing.  Yes..we most certainly do have too many looking back rather than forward.  In this I am a follower/helper/hard worker.I'm not so much of an innovator, but I can recognize a life-boat when I see it.  So I am firmly in the boat GG & RL. 

As always much confusion how anyone could turn their backs on people be they adults or children.  Who is SO "good" they don't have to care ever? Well boy howdy, that is too d**n good for me and I know I'm not in the minority section.  Heard some quote long time ago ( hello, memory, where might you be ??? ) about if we don't fall together, we will surely fall apart.  I know I'm supposed to put the question mark outside the parenthesis mark, but it always looks awful to me....sorry.  I really think of my military training......you don't choose -- you do.  You don't complain, cry foul, show up late or not at all and you show up spit and polished -- work attitude firmly in hand and mind and you make it go right. 

Sorry....off on my tangent, but the picket fence people sometimes bring out the "worst" in me.  .

Jackie

QuinnCat

Funny funny GG - sad, I knew every name of each part of that IKEA kitchen though.

Benghazi - that is the most important issue!!  Climate Change - are you kidding me?  Droughts, flooding, animals going extinct, food shortages, Florida flooding, seriously?  War, we love war.  Good for the economy.  People not eating?  One way to get rid of those low downs that get food stamps.  We don't care about living people suffering, just zygotes, folks.  Crumbling bridges?  Where? Well, it would be sad if a zygote fell into the water, but otherwise it's just cheaper not to fix them.  Benghazi Benghazi Benghazi and forgot, stopping healthcare for all.  That's what I want. 

Seriously....follow the money.  If we stopped electing Congresspeople into the "Future Millionaires Club"  we might have honest brokers working for Americans rather than Corporations.  That's a start and they really are a testament, except for a few, that money is the root of all evil.  

bluedahlia

IllinoisLady

gardengumby

So funny, but so sad that such a small minority of people keep trying to hold the country hostage.