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

Speechless....another of my faves. It saddens me that I have never visited Chicago.

Eee - I don't totally know myself, but am curious. I just saw this man wheeled into his former house and then betrayed by his "friends."  It was the saddest thing I've seen on tv since Jeff had to put Monkey to sleep (and I was balling at that one).  I'm not making light of this, honestly.

Um...er.......Kam.......I think you mean "bawling" at the time.

Chickadee - lol...maybe I did, maybe I didn't.

(I'm laughing so hard, my Ms Boo thinks I'm crying....she always comes when I cry..to comfort me.)

Here's a picture of my grand-dog, Annie. She had an intestinal bug last week and had to have an I.V. She wouldn't stop licking the I.V. spot and it got infected. Hence, "The Cone of Shame". She's pissed. 

Mary

The Senate vote was truly disgraceful.  That people elected to high public office could be so (a) crazy or (b) cravenly willing to pander to crazies is really, really disturbing.  Poor Bob Dole.  Never agreed with him politically, but at least his politics were grounded in reality, not tinfoil-hat visions of black helicopters circling the anti-Christ.

On other topics . . . balling, cone of shame . . . you guys crack me up.

Linda

Another shameful moment was when Boehner proposed averting the fiscal cliff but cutting Medicare and Medicaid. How can anyone thin it is a good idea to balance the budget on the backs of the sick who also happen to be poor or elderly or both?

Don't get me started on Glen Beck.

Chicago is a great city.  I have my MA in English from the University of Chicago, and I loved my year there - except for the winds that come off the lake in January-March.

My fingers are itching to post the famous statue that stands out in the open in Brussels of the little boy urinating - somewhere else, where it would go well. Manneken-Pis, it's called. In fact, maybe the ignorant fool senator Kyl who told lies about the UN disabilities convention would like to drink from that little boy. Might get some wisdom. At least one can always dream....

Ok, I'll stop there. It's the only printable comment I can make right now. :-)

...oh, and fine art is wasted on the vulgar and ignorant. Thank God for this thread. Whether you are familiar with art or not, all of you here have the ability of appreciation, which takes intellectual sophistication and a certain sensitivity - whether or not you necessarily like every canvass you see. But oh, the brainless masses....

Funny how art and politics do intersect.

Anyone diagnosed with cancer should learn to have a healthy disrespect for statistics. Statistics are maths. It's the science which still eludes us.
Dx 3/2009, IDC, 3cm, Stage IIb, Grade 3, 3/8 nodes, ER+/PR+, HER2-

Glenn Beck, in a NY Times article a few years back described himself as a "rodeo clown" and basically said that anyone who really believed what he said was an idiot.

So this guy is just someone who preys on the gullibility of the chicken littles of the world and knows he can make big bucks off it. 

HuffPo said this about him: "Enter Beck. His masterful creation of this crazed, lachrymating doomsayer is brilliant. And only he can do it. You have to dispossess your self of self-dignity and restraint in order to pull this con off."

(snicker)

Manneken-Pis, I say...

ETA: Changed text. I think this should be our new "Brussels Sprouts" cry.

I'm on the list of horrified people, with total disgust added in for good measure.  I wish all the paranoid people would go find an island somewhere and just GET LOST, so the rest of us could get on with life.  You know aliens will never come here.....they would have to deal with the paranoid chicken little misfits.....sigh !!!!!

Too funny about the cone as well.  There is also a spray which is quite tart when licked, but it upsets the tummy if the person just will not quit licking, so I imagine the cone is best.   Hope the humiliation will only last as long as the cone. 

HL.....love the cartoon.

Jackie

ETA Athena'a post and latest picture.