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

Enjoyful

I'm yawning just thinking about them!

sunny210

Thanks for the happy welcome everyone. E - did I  ever tell you that I spent my youth in Va showing horses and teaching riding?? I loved it. I still have my saddle with the little brass nametag on the back.

I'm off to Denver today to see my docs there. Hoping for good news only.

Sandy

Enjoyful

I did not know that, Sunny!  So glad to see another horsewoman on the boards.  :-)

Bren-2007

Sunny ... wishing you the best on your trip to Denver today.  Hope they can help you with the breathing issues.

hugs,

Bren

Anonymous

E -prepare for wet cool weather.

bren - all the daffs are in bloom in the valley, the Pioneer Valley: Hadley, Northampton - here in the hilltowns, it's still only the ones in complete sunshine which are in bloom.

BUT BUT BUT - I did see a few violets on my grass today - my absolutely most favoritest flower.  And they are NOT weeds, they just happen to grow near the dandelions...thos I know some folks consider violets weeds, alas, not my kinda people!  Johnny jump ups are waking up too.  More favorites.

IllinoisLady

Sun -- I haven't talked to you before but good luck in Denver --- wishing you so, so, so well.  If you need any answers, hope they are all fantastic ones.

Leaves are popping out on our trees now right and left.....enough so that we are having lots of troubles seeing some of the few houses around us.  Makes us feel alone here which is fine with us.  Walked 2 & 1/2 miles today.  Do it most days and hoping that it will keep me on the straight and narrow wt. wise. 

Having sun out....been there most of the day so far.  We could get a rain squall blown in here though as we have wind with large gusts from time to time.  This storm has seemed never-ending.  Feel so bad for those who have had tornadoes touching down. 

Blue...loved the graphic.  Just nailed her, you know.

Jackie

Bren-2007

Sunnyflowers ... I love my little violets.  I have them interspersed with the hostas and phlox.  My daffodils and tulips are all done now.

Jackie ... wow!  2 1/2 miles a day is great.  All I do is walk the dogs up and down the hill out back.  It does seem like this storm is never going to end ... more rain forecast for tomorrow.

hugs,

Bren

rosemary-b

E and Sunny

All digits crossed for you.

IllinoisLady

Kam I thought you might like seeing this......I know everyone is so glad that there is no global warming/climate change or anything else going on.

I was looking at the driest yr. on record.

Jackie

It's all pretty crappy though.

Anonymous

Yeah for our horsewomen - long may they ride!!!!  Hope you both are SO SO boring, ya put us ta sleep with your results....

QuinnCat

"They" can't recognize racism when it is under their nose, and ubiquitous, and in many forms (or they choose not too) and the people they choose as heros, one being Sara Palin- are intellectual meatballs.  They actually think us liberals are jealous of her (as someone said, maybe her hair, lol)?  Seriously?  Clueless!

P.S.  Sara Palin is a liberal's object d'affection because we have a sense of humor and she really is too good to be true as a humorous embarrassment for the politics she represents.  

pip57

I sometimes wonder how we Canadians compare with racism.  I was pleased and proud when a Toronto Raptor player said that one of the reasons he is here is because it is so different in Canada. Now, I don't kid myself that it is a bed of roses up here, but it is encouraging to know that Canadians have generally made a step forward. 

IllinoisLady

Palin....has about as much empathy as a dead flea.  Only slightly more useful too.  Devilishly difficult for the far right to get that the masses think they are 'out' to lunch and never coming back.  About the only way they could continue to stare a t.v. camera in the eye with such a straight face is their inability to discern that they are not with it. 

It is absolutely right Kam.....I'm extremely fascinated by the continuous faux pas -- in Palin's case, a barrage of not only miss-information, but stupidly and wildly wrong information that so many of her "followers" just eat up.  Hey guys, here's a spoon....have at it with my utmost blessings.  

Jackie    

crazy4carrots

Pip -- Canadians led the way with Jackie Robinson, the first black man to don the uniform of the Montreal Royals, farm team for the Brooklyn Dodgers.  When I read about how so many African Americans in professional sports for too many years suffered the indignities of not being able to check into the same hotels or eat in the same dining rooms as their white team-mates, it makes me cry.

It's this "I'm better than you and this is how I'm going to show it" mentality that is a learned, not innate, behaviour.  While many of us thought that the Obama election in 2008 was going to pave the way for racial discrimination to end, once and for all, it seems to have had the opposite effect of bringing out the worst in many folks -- Princess Sparklemoose especially.  Ugh Ugh Ugh!

Oops -- I almost forgot to remember that southwestern Ontario was the final destination for the underground railway.....

IllinoisLady

CfC...I had forgotten about Jackie Robinson and if memory serves there was a book not to long ago detailing the struggles he faced with the utmost grace.  Ok...I found it and yes there is:

Jackie Robinson: A Biography: Arnold …

www.amazon.com › … › People, A-Z › ( R ) › Robinson, Jackie

The extraordinary life of Jackie Robinson is illuminated as never before in this full-scale biography by Arnold Rampersad, who was chosen by Jack's widow, Rachel, to ...

Have always, but always ( pretty much as you described ) believed that ALL of us got here the same way and when we disavow and demean, we are doing it to our very own selves at the same time.....making so much less of who we could be.  I think when you set yourself apart too far you are setting your self up for some perdition ( karma ) and it won't be too enviable.  Monstrosities are made, not born. 

Jackie

QuinnCat

"They" constantly use Obama's race against him.  Whether the Birthers or images of chimpanzees (another thing they don't understand is racism).  Then there are the voter ID laws, the Welfare Queen symbology, etc.- ie institutionalized racism. Those tricksters think they're getting away with not owning their racism, but it is all dog whistle stuff, Lee Atwater style.

IllinoisLady

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

http://blog.petflow.com/fox-shows-incredible-gratitude-for-being-rescued-i-love-this-so-much/?utm_source=ilmdrescuesitefox&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=fbsprescuefox

Anonymous

BLUE!!!!  that is amazing....hard to believe, but seeing IS believing.  wow.

Kam - I will never get how ANYONE can respect Palin.  Even the folks working with John McCain have APOLOGIZED for their role in bringing her to public attention.  It was a desperation measure to "shake up" his terrible campaign.  She is a fool, and has zero intellect, imagine her being insulted when news reporter asks her what she reads, to try to determine what she uses as her frames of reference.  Obviously she DOES NOT read anything...she winks, plays to the camera based on her looks - what a LOSER.  Terrifying to even think of her in public office, but sure we won't have to worry about that now.

bluedahlia

lassie11

Sadly I think that Sarah Palin won't fit the clinical definition of an idiot.

She certainly is not well read, nor capable of critical thinking. But she is cunning, good at reading the base to which she appeals and caters to their basest whims. What I don't get is why? The only thing that makes sense is that she gets to have the adulation of a certain small segment of the population and that gives her the opportunity to stand in the centre of attention and make a lot of money through various means.

I wonder what will happen to her when her star fades.

Wabbit

Attention junkie getting her ego stroked by her followers and making $$$ in the process.  Sometimes it really is that simple.  What she will do as her star fades is get more and more outrageous to try to keep the limelight.  I think we are seeing that already with her endorsement of torture stuff. 

bluedahlia

Anonymous

You will LOVE this one - the BBC on the Tundra Tart, I had no idea what she said at the NRA which got her in such trouble....boy, she is SO DUMB.

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27211768

ain't funny OR clever to dis yer base!

gardengumby

Sarah Palin is a dolt, but like many republicans she concentrates her energy on making money by any means, foul or fair.  BTW have any of you seen the latest Cosmos episode?  Talk about history repeating itself.  People with money are often interested in only one thing.... making more of it, and hang all the people who are dying because of their greed!

We are back home now. Got in late last night.  We came down to the marina this morning/early afternoon, and I'm sitting in the sun while hubby is checking out the boat as ling cod season opens tomorrow.  The weather is gorgeous.  The condo in Hawaii is probably not going to go as we got the inspection report just as we were getting on the plane.  There are some not good things there.  This will be the 2nd one to fall through (if it does... hubby hasn't quite decided, yet) anyway, maybe it's not destined to be.

QuinnCat

Oh Sunny - you're just jealous of her great intellect and looks. 

IllinoisLady

Must have been talking to Palin again:

RetiredLibby

Riiiiight ... We are all terribly jealous of someone with an IQ of an eggplant who puts her makeup on with a trowel, doesn't wash her ratty hair extensions, and dresses from the Frederick's of Hollywood markdown rack.  Mmmmm.... Yeah.  

ananda8

Why do we all, both men and women, attack a woman's looks and clothing when what we object to is her politics?  Isn't this type of attack one of sexism?