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

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited December 2012

    L, sorry to burst your bubble.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited December 2012

    I remember hearing that Obama was looking for pups in Canada! Surprised Thank goodness they settled on an American dog.

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  • lewing
    lewing Member Posts: 1,288
    edited December 2012

    That's OK, RR.  Based on the volume of mail and emails I receive from the Obamas, I know they value my friendship. 

    Hmmmm, Athena . . . are you saying Bo might be (gasp) Portuguese?!?

    Linda

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited December 2012

    L, well now you've burst mine.  I thought I was the only one they had to check in with like all the time.

    Regarding Bo - it's worse than that...he's not even a regular land based dog he's some kind of weird water dog.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited December 2012

    Man, we need a "papers please" law for dogs. Can't take any security risks in a post 9/11 world.

    What next -= French poodles listening in to Oval Office conversations? Worse still, Siberian Huskies being permitted to play with red telephones????

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited December 2012

    Yorkie - another thing my friend mentioned about India (she was there before and after our election).  Everyone, absolutey everyone, from the guy driving their taxi to the hotel desk clerks, to a professor friend, wanted Obama to win the election.  She noted, that as a population, they knew more about American politics than many Americans.  I don't think seeing the support surprised her, but the depth and breadth of it....

    He is our President, so don't see the controversy of discussing his popularity in the world. Wink  This is good news for the USA.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited December 2012

    Ooooh, not to mention black or yellow Labs and those crazy huge web-footed Newfoundland beasts at every border crossing, keeping the illegals in (or out, as the case may be)!

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited December 2012

    Are these straight-haired Newfie guys related to Bo?

    Newfoundlands -- Satchel (white on feet) at almost two years old and Jack at 6 years old

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited December 2012

    Kam, interesting! Happy to be traveling overseas when our president is not hated, ala 2000 to 2008. 

    About poodles, I say we let them eat french fries! Wink

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2012

    But that's why he's such a weak president!Wink The rest of the world loves him! We don't want that happening!

    Mary

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited December 2012

    Mary - There's always a way, I guess Frown, of turning a positive into a negative, you're right.

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  • AnneW
    AnneW Member Posts: 4,050
    edited December 2012

    kam, hubby is a meteorologist, more research based. No TV! He spent 20 years in the Air Force doing weather, then worked for the space launch business on both east and west coast. Now he consults for World Bank and works some local weather radar contracts.

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited December 2012

    Anne, we worked with some air force weather guys years ago. They were great guys.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited December 2012

    Anne, I have always been fascinated by the weather. Considered becoming a meteorologist, but figured out my math skills were not up to par for that profession.

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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited December 2012

    Wait a minute - so if I send out Christmas cards with a pic of my kitties, I'm a Godless heathen? Good to know.

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited December 2012

    Love scientists Anne.....a tour guide to nature.

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  • Chickadee
    Chickadee Member Posts: 4,467
    edited December 2012

    "If you have men who will exclude any of Gods creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likwise with their fellow men"



    St Francis of Assisi- patron saint of animals.

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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2012

    You do want the world to like your President.  Many of us, in the rest of the world, refused to travel to the USA while the Republicans were in power.  Tourism, business travel is big bucks!  

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited December 2012

    Nice to see you back in these parts, kayfh!

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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2012

    Thanks Athena.  I have been here, but no kitties, or puppies. Always happy to share vicariously in other peoples furry friends.  Loved the art history, but I kind of miss the, dare I say it, political talk.

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited December 2012

    I too miss the political talk.  My family gets tired of hearing me rant.  This was a good outlet.

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  • lassie11
    lassie11 Member Posts: 1,500
    edited December 2012

    what Kay said.  I refused to go to the US while the previous president was in power.  I've been twice with my tourist dollars with this one.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited December 2012

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited December 2012

    I think the mods just consolidated certain people's multiple identities. Just an observation. Or the people consolidated the identities themselves....

    Mary

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited December 2012

    Have had an intellectually frustrating few days at work, only now coming up with a good reason that explains the wisdom of everything I have been doing for the past week or so. Won't bore you with the details. Suffice it to say that thank God for the BCO B&G.

    On politics:

    --I am sort of seasonally interested. Always required to stay up to date, but I can take breaks.

    --IMO, the mods are not wise to discourage the topic - they create much more strife and inequities when they try to censure than when they let us talk.

    ETA: Sitting down to Trader Joe's sausages with Tartar sauce and BBq sauce.

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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited December 2012

    Yes, Mary -- my blocked users list is dramatically smaller, especially by a number of IDs that I know for certain belonged to one person. I can't say I am sorry to see that happen. :-)



    L

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited December 2012

    Athena: can you send some of those sausages over?  Ah, the one thing we can't do yet on line - share food instantaneously. 

    Agree that censureship creates more strife.  I actually thought having two different threads to share our own points of view worked pretty well. 

    I hit page 120 today.  Writing's going well so far this week. 

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited December 2012

    Have you thought of a title yet?

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited December 2012

    The working title is Flat Line.

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  • kayfh
    kayfh Member Posts: 790
    edited December 2012

    Any chance of a synopsis? I have not had the opportunity to know anyone who is writing a novel. Read. But never write. So, when you sit down to write do you have an outline or does it flow and then get edited? Is it difficult to be disciplined about writing or is a passion, something that you just HAVE to get down?

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