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

RetiredLibby

Hah, Blue!

Bren-2007

Sunnyflowers ... I feel for you having to turn the furnace on in May.  That is weird weather for you guys.  It's beautiful here today ... the only drawback is all the wind is wreaking havoc with my allergies.  May is my favorite month of the year ... still cool out, but warm enough to have all the windows open.

Carrots ... You crack me up.

Lassie ... Go for it! Get the spring/summer tires.

Blue ... You are funny today.

Going to NC on Wednesday to celebrate Mother's Day with my mom, sis and brother.  I wonder if my shorts still fit.  Haven't tried them on yet.  Supposed to be up in the 80's.  It's really neat that the four of us live within driving distance in a day to see each other.

hugs,

Bren

pip57

Whew....good news Sandy!

sunny210

Thanks for all the attaboys!! Hope to be my old self in no time.

Still very cold here too sunflowers. When you find spring send it over to western Co please.

Sandy

IllinoisLady

I will have to go back and get the link for this article, but just wanted to put the last paragraph in here because it made so much sense to me:

The right wing’s lies about healthcare reform will come to nothing in the end. Although the Affordable Care Act is a compromise between the free market and modern, universal healthcare, it’s a far sight better than what we had before. There are certain services that are absolutely necessary, so people will pay any cost — and with those services, the free market has shown again and again that greed will triumph over sanity or rationalism. Poverty is no longer about scarcity of resources; it is about the unwillingness of our fellow man to help others. This law is a step in the right direction for ensuring basic quality of life standards for all citizens.

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/05/04/governor-rick-scotts-attempt-to-prove-seniors-hate-obamacare-blows-up-in-his-face-video/

Jackie 

bluedahlia

The good old days!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvVr2uks0C8

From a Forever Hippie!

bluedahlia

P.S.  AMEN!

IllinoisLady

I vote likewise.

Jackie

bluedahlia

Does anyone watch Veep!  They incorporated a skit with the Correspondence Dinner.  Too funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da5tjfpKyac

IllinoisLady

Couldn't have said it better myself. Too funny !

Jackie

IllinoisLady

Ah the pillars of society at work again. 

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

suzieq60

Home at last - Nicholas had the best 2nd birthday ever. He can say Grandad very clearly. Doesn't like Nana though, but it's SO good to see how he has bonded with Steve. I did get a cuddle today however. I had to force it but he relaxed and lay back on me and liked my kisses. His speech is outstanding - he said Ostrich, cheetah and many other clever things. We went to a rural zoo (wildlife park) and saw lions, giraffes, cheetahs, ostriches and many other amazing sights. I really enjoyed it too. He kept telling the bus driver to GO!!!

Now back to earth and I have to do something about my right knee - I can't walk very far and can't straighten my leg as I walk - had to get wheel chairs at the airport - the time has come for the knee replacement me thinks. Been putting it off for 14 years because I was too young, now I'm old enough.

ananda8

suzieq60,

Your little guy will take to reading like a duck to water.  His parents can start him on Dolch words for preschool.  These are words that are commonly used but can't be sounded out, words like "about". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolch_word_list

My DH needs a knee replacement and he has put it off as well.  Now he has waited so long that there are much better artificial knees available.  He's thinking about surgery in the fall, when it's cooler.

Bren-2007

Morning Gals,

We're having a little thunderstorm this morning.  Poor Tank, he's trying to get under my desk.  He's too big to fit under there.

Suzie ... Your grandson sounds so cute.  I hope  you took lots of pictures.  He sounds really smart too. 

I like what Notself had to say about the artificial knees, that they're much better now.  Is the recovery from knee replacement a long one?

Blue ... I loved Jesus Christ Superstar.  I had the album when I was young and knew the words to all the songs!  I saw it at the theater as well.

Jackie ... A $2,800 cost of living adjustment is huge.  That's about $200 a month.  It's a shame the minimum wage can't be raised to reflect a $200 a month increase.  That increase would bump the minimum wage in VA up to about $8.50 an hour.  Still just about impossible to support a family on that amount.

Sandy ... How's the steroid working for you?  Have you noticed a difference yet?  Sure hope not only the brain swelling goes down, but your breathing becomes easier as well.

hugs to all,

Bren

IllinoisLady

This article came out some time ago, but is still very pertinent.

ON BENGHAZI,IT'S TIME FOR REPUBLICANS TO PEE INTO A CUP.

Just a few weeks ago, the Republican-controlled North Carolina Senate passed a bill requiring citizens seeking welfare to submit to, and pay for, a drug test in order to qualify for benefits.

In response, Action NC solicited $8 donations so that they could send those who voted for the bill “pee cups.” As their fundraising email read:

We will tell (the) N.C. General Assembly that if they are going to require drug tests for North Carolina residents, then they should pee first.

Lawmakers had already defeated an actual amendment to the bill that would have required them to actually take drug tests of their own, but Action NC’s fundraising email went on to say that “one good political stunt deserves another.”

I couldn’t agree more.

In politics, if you aren’t on offense, you’re on defense. And if you’re on defense, you’re losing. Congressional Republicans, forced to play defense on issues from immigration reform to gun control, manufactured an opportunity to go on the offense over last year’s Benghazi attacks, shifting our nation’s focus away from immigration and silencing what little conversation there was about reviving the Manchin-Toomey background check bill.

If I were Harry Reid, I’d be livid. But I’d also play the hand I was dealt.

If the next few news cycles are going to be about the Benghazi attacks, so be it. Let’s have that conversation, and call this faux-scandal what it really is: a cheap political stunt designed to derail what remains of the Obama presidency, and throw an early wrench into the works of a potential 2016 presidential bid by Hillary Clinton.

Don’t be pee-shy, Lindsey.
(Drug testing via Shutterstock)

If Congressional Republicans want to put political games ahead of their duties as legislators that’s their (early and often) prerogative, but their Democratic counterparts can and should “make them pee first.”

I was talking with a friend of mine last night, and he had a few ideas for metaphorical “pee cups” that Republicans should have to fill:

Senate Democrats should be holding their own Benghazi hearings. They should subpoena Paul Ryan and other House Republicans to ask them why they voted to cut $400 million in embassy security funding.  And while they’re at it, force Lindsey Graham to explain why the Benghazi attack is any different than the 13 similar embassy attacks that occurred during the Bush administration – attacks that went unchallenged by Senator Graham and his party.

Democrats should also sponsor a bill closing tax loopholes for the rich in order to fund expanded embassy security. We can call it the “No More Benghazi’s Act.” Drag Lindsey Graham out of that closet he’s hiding in, and make him pick a team publicly: Is he for Wall Street or Main Street?

UPDATE: The House GOP has tried to cover its behind on this one by increasing funding for embassy security by $2 billion in this year’s appropriations bill.  But Democrats should still pay for it by closing tax loopholes for the rich.

Republicans would dismiss such hearings and votes as cheap political tricks, and they’d be exactly right. But the GOP would also have to explain why their hearings, investigations and political posturing are any different – they’re not.

It also might make Republicans think twice the next time they want to flippantly manufacture a crisis to get out of having to take a tough vote on an important issue.  We need to make Benghazi more painful than helpful for the Republicans.

It time to make the Republicans pee first.

Jackie

crazy4carrots

Bundy's ancestors DIDN'T build that.  Excellent article on how the west was settled at talkingpointsmemo.com.  (Sorry, tried to do the link thing but it didn't take -- again!)

Anonymous

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/cliven-bundy-homestead-act-history

this information is brought to you courtesy of C4C

IllinoisLady

C4C and Sunny....thanks for article.  I had read a couple ( just not this one ) already but thought this one did an excellent job of explaining how grazing "rights" came into being.  One way or the other, we are all dependent on one another and I think the sooner we get over the thought that 'we' somehow create all alone, the benefits we receive, the better. 

No man is an island, period.

Jackie

crazy4carrots

Thanks, Sunny!  It's a rather lengthy article by website standards, but it's worth reading, just to refresh one's memory!

Anonymous

Still think People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn should be required reading in all schools.

crazy4carrots

And another one:  What is America by Ronald Wright.

suzieq60

I've found that some surgeons are doing minimally invasive knee replacements - 2 inch cuts instead of a big long one - hope that's what I can have. I think the recovery is quite long, but people I've met who have done it are really happy. BUT you will never be able to kneel again.

Can't get a pic to insert - I've done it before why doesn't it work 

QuinnCat

Suzie - I have great (real) knees and I can barely kneel now.

suzieq60

Kam - I haven't tried to for ages.

crazy4carrots

Suzie -- I play badminton with a gal who had knee replacement surgery 2 years ago.  She's Catholic, so kneeling is kind of necessary for her!  And she can.  As for recovery, it's best to do supervised rehab for a few weeks, as well as faithfully doing the recommended exercises at home.

suzieq60

Had to do it the old way and link to Tinypic - with Grandad in the bus at the Zoo

suzieq60

and here is a mother lion we saw up a tree - she was gorgeous - the animals were so well looked after

ananda8

A little something about knee replacements.  Apperently, one can kneel if one is careful.

http://drdavidadkison.com/knee-replacement-faqs/post-op-1-9.php

http://www.emoryhealthcare.org/orthopaedics/become-patient/faq/knee-replacement.html