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

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2013

    Here you go, Scuttlers - it's catching up!

  • scuttlers
    scuttlers Member Posts: 1,658
    edited April 2013

    Now THAT is my kind of emergency vehicle!

  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited April 2013

    Thinking of you today, E, and joining everyone else in the wishes for boring.

    Mary

  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited April 2013

    I'm right there, too, waiting patiently. Sort of patiently. OK, biting my fingernails and sending b9 b9 b9 messages!



    L

  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited April 2013

    West coast waking up - E! I'm with you too. Laughing

  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited April 2013

    Not to change the subj. but no surprise here:



    WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - As the U.S. Senate prepares to debate a gun-control bill for the first time in two decades on Monday, Republicans in the House of Representatives are devising ways to delay and weaken gun legislation they see as limiting Americans' right to bear arms, congressional sources say.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2013

    Save a place on the bus for me.  I wanna sit near samson. I'll bring carrots...

    or maybe we should have a Spangled Scooter Parade????

    B-O-R-I-N-G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Laughing

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited April 2013

    Wabbit's in the bag with her lucky rabbit's foot.  Hope you don't mind that I kept it attached to the wabbit.

    You know ... the way things are today I can understand folks wanting guns for self protection.  But every darn day we read stuff like this latest from Indiana ...

    "A central Indiana woman was arrested on a preliminary charge of criminal recklessness after telling police she accidentally fired a .44 Magnum rifle while twirling it as seen on the 1950s Western television show "The Rifleman."  "She knew it was loaded, but thought the safety was on." 

    The bullet went into the apartment below her ... luckily it did not hit the occupant this time. 

    Stupid stuff like this day after day.  And much worse.  I just wish the NRA would maybe spend much more of their time promoting responsible gun ownership instead of bleating 'more guns, bigger guns, guns and guns for everyone'. 

    I need to go to the store today.  We have rain on the way.  I should be gone already if I want to beat the rain but I'm here instead.  Probably will end up as a soggy, wet wabbit this afternoon. 







  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2013

    PS.  Meant to thank JACKIE for the Cynthis Nixon post.  loved it.  thank you.  It is SO good to be a part of a group of caring, kind, funny women. 

    Gotta go - there are still MORE Kate & Pippin videos to watch...I'm in love.Kiss

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited April 2013

    BORING RESULTS for E!

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited April 2013

    Many gun threads on other boards too of course.  Much hyperbole from both sides to be honest.  Then this post from a gun rights supporter that said it all IMO  ...

    "Man, this has been a tricky one, personally.

    "Four-year-old shoots six-year-old" -- Wow, poor kid. What kind of dumbass leaves a gun where a four-year-old can get to it?

    "...in Toms River, NJ" -- Oh crap, that's the town next to mine. Well, we certainly have our fair share of dumbasses.

    "...the father, Timothy Holt..." -- (deleted repetitions of F word in it's many forms).   In the words of a lot of web memes, shit just got real. I've met Brandon, and I went to high school with Tim. Present evidence to the contrary, not someone I'd call a dumbass. I can't imagine how he must be feeling right now..."

     

    I think he just 'got' it.  It's not always dumbasses.  All it takes is one mistake.  We need to have a national conversation about gun safety and responsibility.  And do whatever we can to mitigate the damages we are seeing from making it all about 'rights'.

     

     

     

  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited April 2013

    Just wondering:  If a child picks up his dad's gun (which obviously wasn't locked up in a gun safe) and shoots his playmate, can the parents of the playmate take the owner of the gun to court to sue for damages or wrongful death?

  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited April 2013
  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited April 2013
  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited April 2013
  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited April 2013
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2013

    Lindasa~~I'm not sure about the nation as a whole, but here in Ohio if an unauthorized person gets your gun, you can be prosecuted and sued.



    That was made very clear when I took the Concealed Carry Class. I keep my gun in a safe that is bolted to my bedroom floor, and opens only for my fingers. I don't carry it, but here in central Ohio you can get a pizza delivered quicker than you can get the police if you call 911.



    Paula

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2013

    Blue~~I love the broomstick comment!



    Paula

  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2013

    It would be a good idea if the answer were "yes" all over the country. It might have taught Lanza's mother to be more responsible with her own guns.

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2013

    If the threat of her own death was not enough of an incentive to keep her guns more secure, why do you think that the possibility of monetary liability would have been? 

    Being weird, or odd or strange is not enough to get someone onto any current database that would prevent them from buying a gun, and Adam Lanza had not been involuntarily committed to an institution.  We need to keep looking to find something that will actually work rather than the knee jerk reaction of "just do something" even if that something wouldn't have prevented the tragedy it is being proposed in response to, and may in the long run make it even more difficult to identify those who should not have access to guns.

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited April 2013

    Agreed we need to be sensible.  Background checks and doing our best to keep guns from being bought by the mentally ill and felons at gun shows are sensible.  The 'just don't do anything yet because we have to study it for 20 years and make sure it doesn't step on anybody's toes first ... and/or it might not work every time' is not working out very well.  Better is at least better. 

  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited April 2013

    "I was going to respond to the drive-by, but it's just not worth my time."   That's how you treat people when they try to engage in Mirror.  Double standard?

  • rosemary-b
    rosemary-b Member Posts: 2,006
    edited April 2013

    My heart goes out to all in Boston

  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited April 2013

    Deleted?  I wonder why all of the airbrush, among other comments, directed at me aren't deleted by the Moderators.  I don't really really care.  I would rather post on either thread and when I do at Mirror, it's to ask someone to justify accusations, clarify a comment with facts, etc.  I think that is well accepted here, but not there.  That is the real double standard.

    Just saw my first hummingbird of the year.  A sign of peace and love.  Not so fitting given today's events, but most days are full of violence in America, whether bombs or guns.  Bombs are just more unusual than guns, but the affect is the same.

  • Wabbit
    Wabbit Member Posts: 1,592
    edited April 2013

    I guess the world has always been violent but good grief it's like humanity is determined to destroy itself.  So sorry for all the people who have been injured and the families of those killed.  Cry

  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2013

    Lobotomy, I say!

    Speechless over Boston, my college town. Ours is a very violent country.

  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited April 2013

    Athena - did you stop taking hormone blockers?  Much to my surprise, I just read on my original path report that hormone blockers work 30-40% of the time on my type of cancer, despite being 90% ER+ !!  What the heck?

  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited April 2013

    3rd explosion, at JFK Library.

    tragic.

  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited April 2013

    Heaven help us - those cowards. I am suspecting domestic cuprits.

    Kam - yes I did, because I could not tolerate them. In fact, I am taking extra estrogen now. The Tamox. lowered my estrogen levels, making me acutely (and very nearly successfully) suicidal. Treatment that kills is no treatment!

  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited April 2013

    My MO had a patient exactly like you.  She said she had no choice but to Rx estrogen.  My cousin is 2 years ahead of me with BC, she is ER+ too, does not take AI's, but in fact, takes bioidenticals.  When I saw my path last night, that I only had a 30-40% chance of AI's working, I was taken aback.  Also, brca2+ cancer supposedly is prevented by estrogen, as it often comes post-menopausal with "estrogen protecting."  Damned if I can get an MO to say more than that is true, without explaining.  "It's complicated."  I know post-menopausal estrogen is produced in the breast via aromatase, so could be a different estrogen than estradial, but it would make sense that giving bioidenticals, one might stop adrenal estrogen production (in my case, the more cancer provoking one), but I know these biological pathways are more complicated than I can ever research on my own. 

    Have you done any research on this, or just of the mind - I don't want AIs.  I certainaly can do without the SE's, though they are mostly manageable.  On the otherhand, I wonder if they are truely the answer, atleast in my lum B brca2 case.

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