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

bluedahlia

Ray is grating the mozzarella cheese now!  We only put cheese, green olives and red peppers on it, with my home-made sauce.  Sometimes we add mushrooms.

bluedahlia

Linda we were posting at the same time.  Kudos to your daughter!

1Athena1

Lewing, your daughter sounds so happy. It sounds as though you have a great relationship.

Edited to save fuel for future rants closer to the election -hehe, as Blue would say!

What a digression from my apolitical day:-)....Off to think about dinner and watch Nat Geo Wild, which has had some wonderful lions documentaries lately.  

Enjoyful

Lewing - sounds like your daughter is having a great time!  If she's had this much excitement in her first few weeks of school, imagine what the rest of the year will be like.  BTW, my daughter has a "my other car is a Tardis" bumper sticker on her car.  *sigh*

I was scooting around the internet earlier and found some hi-larious reading.  The interwebs is a wonderful thing.

Hugs to all!

E

jancie

E - I went looking around too for the first time in weeks.  I didn't realize that I was hated so much just for being here with ya'll.  Oh well....what can you do?

My house is clean except for the bathroom that dh uses - I am been procrastinating on that one for some reason.

My horse bit me today!!  That little chit bit me in my back and yes....she got in trouble for that one.  She is too funny - she nips and then runs off because she knows she shouldn't but she can't help herself.  The problem with orphan foals is that they think their human owners are horses and that is NOT how we play!

Enjoyful

My horse bit me. Once. Then I screen-shotted her ass and that was that.  I bet you'll have a pretty rainbow-colored bruise tomorrow.  Horse bites HURT!

jancie

E - I screen shooted her arse today - I don't expect her to do that again anytime soon.

Instead of a rainbow bruise can I just have a multi-colored bruise?  KWIM?

Enjoyful

Yep, I KWYM.  How about a multi-colored sunset bruise?

bluedahlia

C'mon girls, I have you all beat!  To know me is to love me.....hehehehehehe!

YramAL

I'm not hated-I'm just stupid. 

Mary 

bluedahlia

You know what ladies, we are a great group of ladies and we know it, so who cares what they plot or think.  Anyone reading anything referencing us can just come and check for themselves.  I haven't laughed as much as I have lately to be quite honest.  I just feel bad for the mods.  They really don't deserve the bad rap.  This site doesn't deserve it either but crap happens all the time.

Ang7

Me too hillck~

I was warmly welcomed.  What's up with that?

AnnNYC

I guess that's what makes us "disorganized" 

lewing

Cindy and Ang7, if it would make you feel better, we could gang up on you now, retroactively!  Obviously our bullying skills need some work, and sometimes people just fall through the cracks.

 Jancie, sorry about the horse bite.  Hope you don't mind that I giggled (just a little) at the image of your horse sneaking up to give you a playful love bite, then running away.  

Athena and E, thanks for the nice words about my daughter.  I know I'm babbling on about her here, but it just makes me so happy to see her so happy.  (And E, I love your daughter's bumpersticker!  It's something my daughter would want, too . . . if she had a car.)

L 

BarbaraA

You guys don't even gang up on me and I am a conservative.

Hope everyone has a great day back at the grind (for me any way).

Anonymous

Lewing,    I wanna go back to school with your daughter - samosa-selling fundraisers for Somalia - my kinda world.  In my college days, we only marched against the war, but then, one of my professors was Howard Zinn, so we learned a lot of how the world really works

Ang, Hillck, you both made me giggle.  To think of this as a "tough" group, mades me really giggle!

Really chortling at stories of the dark side - got a pm "reporting" we all have nicknames?  Truly? Spending THAT much time on what we chatter about, wow, what does that say about their lives. Yuck.  Criticize, attack, make fun of.  Brrrr....doesn't sound like a place I'd want to be.

Meanwhile, here in the northeast, another 4 inches of rain, with more to come for at least the next 2 days, and my friends in Texas are on fire.  Strange happenings.  The farmers here are devastated: fields covered with silt, and before the silt, all the top soil washed away by the torrents of water.  Can't imagine how some people can reconstruct their lives.  Very, very, very sad.

As for that other place - ignore, sad that the Mods have to learn the hard way how ineffective that is for some people.  Trying to destroy the online reputation of an organization which helps so many women with breast cancer, just to express anger at women who didn't agree with the rants against chemotherapy.  Behind those clouds, it makes it much sunnier on this website

Enjoyful

Good morning, all!

Barb, we'll have to discuss that at our next pack meeting.  However did we allow you to slip through the cracks?  *hiding voter registration card (REPUBLICAN) behind my back*

Lewing - babble away!  We've both raised fantastically nerdy daughters and it's great to see them having fun in the world, secure in what we've taught them.  

Sunflowers - reasoning doesn't work, logic doesn't work, ignoring doesn't work.  My daughter learned that at her ultra-conservative highly Republican private middle school when the bullies ruthlessly picked on her and her friends.  Reasoning with the staff and teachers didn't help either.  My daughter is a sweet and kind soul who wouldn't hurt a fly but she will not stand for bullying. She took matters into her own hands, stood up to the bullies, and pushed a few of them into lockers.  After that, they left her and her friends alone.  I'm in no way advocating a violent, mocking, or aggressive approach but tell her story as an object lesson:   Ignoring doesn't work.

Oh, and she went to public school after that and got an outstanding education.  Yay for public schools!

Cool and rainy here today - my kind of weather!

E

Bren-2007

Morning Peeps!

We've got lots of rain in southwest Virginia.  Also under a tornado watch.  Of course, I had the usual 'get to the basement' lecture from Tim before he left this a.m.  I just nod and say 'okay honey.'  Sure hope there are no tornadoes cause I really don't want to go to the basement!

I read the review site yesterday, and frankly, I'm baffled by all the attention this thread gets.  Why so much interest in daily dinner choices and weather reports? It does bother me that the mods are taking such a hit.  I love BCO and think it's a fabulous place, and I hate to see the ratings on that site.

This site was such a godsend when I was newly diagnosed.  I printed page after page of information for Tim and I to read.  It got us through some very tough times.

And the friends I've made since then seem to make the journey worthwhile.

Hope everyone has a good day,

Bren

EDITED:  Hi Enjoyful .. we were writing at the same time!

Enjoyful

Hi Bren!!

Hey wait, we talk about other stuff.  Vacations, our wonderful kids, scanxiety, treatment and recovery updates, advice on treatment, WTH is kohlrabi and how do you cook it....

We're a multi-faceted and welcoming group.  :-)

Anonymous

Hi, E:  waving my Independent Voter Registration card proudly, social liberal ( very, very liberal) fiscal moderate, pragmatic, humane, sustainable, respecting ALL living creatures ( people, animals, plants, clean air, clean water) "we all live downstream" - and lately realizing I don't even have the questions, letalong any answers, to what needs to happen now, next, in the future. 

Hoping my next visit to Costco puts Tom Friedman's latest book in my cart.  This coming weekend is going to be difficult.  Very difficult.  Saddest of all, the national conversation we need to be having can't take place in the "climate" of our country today.  No answers, none.

Enjoyful

Good luck finding that book at Costco!  I found eleventy-hundred Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin books there, but only one steenking liberal elitist book - that was the children's book that Obama wrote for his daughters. 

Enjoyful

I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative, but nothing the Republicans do or say supports fiscal conservatism or social moderation.  It's all far, far right.  At least it seems so to me.

I'm a CPA, not an economist, but it seems to me that if you give tax breaks to businesses when there's no demand (because nobody's working or they're getting wage cuts), businesses will sit on the money rather than hiring people.  What sane businessman will hire people when there's no demand?  

scuttlers

You all are such an influence! Costco trip this weekend netted Ice Wine. (haven't opened it, but hoping the raves were not all virtual on this) AND The Help, which I promptly sat down and read straight through. Thought my concentration was bad and I couldn't read for more than 5-10 minutes without falling asleep. Come to find out - I was just trying to read boring books! (Last one I read through was "Emp. Of all Mal.", that was way last winter.). Thanks!!!

crazy4carrots

Aahh -- the law of supply and demand!  Didn't we all learn about that in high school?  Why have so many forgotten it?

Wabbit

Businesses get tax deductions for paying employees wages.  No - or extremely low taxes - removes that as a big incentive for hiring and makes it more likely they will not expand and hire more people IMO.  They don't need the tax deductions ... they keep the $$$ anyway ... so they work the employees they have harder for less pay.  Then less people are working and for lower wages = less demand for products = even less hiring and you have the vicious circle we are in now.

You can argue that there is nothing wrong with that or that tax policy shouldn't be used as any kind of incentive program ... but everything has a ripple effect and tax policy is no exception. 

They are killing off the goose that laid the golden egg - the middle class - but it's all about this quarter's profits and CEO salaries and stock prices now days.      

bluedahlia

I'm watching my grandson on webcam today as he starts Montessorri/daycare.  What a hoot those kids are.  Too bad I can't hear them!

AnnNYC

WR and Enjoyful -- and the low income tax rates on highest income provide no disincentive to bloated executive salaries!  Back when Eisenhower was taxing millionaires at a marginal rate of 90% -- or even Nixon at 75% -- or even Reagan at 50% -- companies had greater incentive to reinvest profits in wages to lower-wage earners, both in the form of wage increases and of additional jobs, and/or to reinvest in expanding productive capacity (building new factory, adding new product line, etc.).  At Eisenhower tax rates, if profits had flowed to executive salaries, the government would have gotten all but 10%.  The government's "threatening" to take it all provided great incentive for job creation! 

Wabbit

Bren ... glad you are finally getting that rain you needed.  Fingers crossed for no nasty storms!

Jancie ...Ouch!  My dogs just crash into me and knock me on my butt when they want to play.  Guess I won't complain about that for awhile.

Mary ... you are obviously not trying hard enough 

hillck and Ang7 just go to show you that we must need some kind of formal initiation ritual if we want to  live down to what a few people want to think. 

Barbara ... hope work is nicer to you this week!

I'm thinking that Costco actually sells the more liberal books and the others just sit on the shelves and take up space.

Hope everybody has a good day! 

Enjoyful

I vote Us for Congress!  :-)

Just talked with our dear HL.  She's tired but recovering well and controlling the pain with a Tylenol now and then.  Hopefully she'll get some or all of her remaining 5 drains out tomorrow.  It's difficult to feel human when you're wired up like a Borg.

E

BarbaraA

E for president. Hugs to HL.