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

This is a very sad map of the impact of the Republican cuts to the SNAP program.

http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/HowwiltheNov_1foodstampcutsaffectyourstate-_0/Dashboard1?:embed=y&:display_count=no

Hi all of you wonderful women. Such great supportive posts and comments for our Ms Boo and Chloe. They made me cry - good tears. She is in her "chair tent" in the backyard. She and I rolled around in the sun on the grass for about 10 minutes. She even ran to the fence thinking another cat was on the other side. Eating is not good today, though.

Any word from E? I hope she is getting sleep. Shoulders are tough enough without adding a broken bone. Chickadee - I hope the WBR is going okay for you?

As far as the President's comment on "You can keep your [substandard] insurance" declaration, he should have said, "Do you really want to keep your twice extruded chicken nuggets over range-fed chicken breast and pay 5-10 times more?" Are American's so not that nuanced? Edited **** to add: Obama is almost too smart for his job. He probably doesn't have the patience to get down to the least common denominator, intellect wise, of our society.

Alexandria - I have a song too for my kitties. It always makes me feel good to sing it to them and it involves a sunny day. It is sunny here today and I sang the song for them today. I would love the sun to keep shining here for awhile.

I had more xrays today that show no great change since last week except for a bone chip floating in the ether of my upper arm.  The ortho surgeon will review both sets of xrays and decide what to do.

I have a spine biopsy scheduled for Thursday morning.  The hospital called today to do check in but wouldn't you know it?  My oncologist didn't tell them that I need full on sedation so they had me scheduled for fentanyl and versed.  You know, the drug combo that kept me awake during my last spine biopsy.  

I want to just go to sleep for a long long time until doctors can get their acts together.  This is all so tiring.

YAY CHICKY!!

Kam, glad you're having quality time with Ms Boo. Chloe eats well but is so skinny. I'm giving her cheese and other fattening stuff, which she eats, but I still can feel practically every bone in her body. Hoping her ear infection is clearing up. I think it is.

E, aarrrgh, all this medical stuff is truly exhausting. I've got two days of tests coming up next month. NOT looking forward to it.

Can't wait to watch Dems take back the VA governorship and maybe a couple of other offices! Dems getting all three offices there hasn't happened since 1989 I read.

E - sounds like it's time for all of us in your pocket to appear in person and wise up those docs. Damn, you've got enuf to deal with without the stupidly annoying frustration of trying to teach docs their jobs. Will be crossing all digits for you tomorrow.

Chickadee - how WONDERFUL! Congratulations - so good to have SUCH GOOD NEWS in your life. We're all grinning with him!

Blue - those are some funky lookin' chicks!

Hello Strangers.

Blue, are you saying those chicks are real? Very strange and cool!

E, I'm with Sunny - climbing in your purse.

Chickadee, nice to hear some good news.

Yorkie and Kam, hang in there.

I'm in NJ - can't stand Christie. He is a big phoney who has fooled various moderates into thinking he's moderate, which he's not. He's riding on the response to Hurricane Sandy, which, by the way, has not been all that great. I'm just pleased that the Dems retained control of the state legislature, and that NJ passed an increase in minimum wages.

Yep, Christie has 'em fooled. He is NOT, NOT, NOT a moderate! He is anti-choice, anti-union, anti-gay, anti-poor people (the man VETOED a paltry $1 increase in the state's minimum wage from $7.25 to $8.25). He was a lobbyist for Wall Street, for pete's sake - and lobbied for the very rules that allowed Bernie Madoff to prosper! (See this quote from this article - "As a lobbyist, Chris Christie worked to remove securities fraud from a consumer fraud act on behalf of an organization run by Bernie Madoff." - http://www.theawl.com/2011/09/the-chris-christie-madoff-attack-ad-that-writes-itself ). He did a good job of fooling a lot of people in NY. No wonder Bruce Springsteen refuses to speak to him for many years! http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/07/jersey-boys/309019/ (Springsteen finally spoke to him after his response to Hurricane Sandy). Christie is no RINO - he is absolutely a conservative Republican.

As far as McAuliffe winning over Crazy Cooch ... well, it's a relief but it was far too close for my comfort. It is disturbing and disheartening that people would vote for someone who would set women and minorities back 200 years. And the AG's race is even more disturbing -- they VOTED FOR A GUY WHO WANTED TO OUTLAW BIRTH CONTROL PILLS! I keep reminding myself that Virginia was, after all, the capital of the Confederacy. *SIGH* Sometimes it shows all too well.

RL -- About the AG election: could it be that Obenshain got his votes from a very uninformed electorate, all of whom didn't recognize the name Herring? It's just so very hard to believe that the majority of Virginians would support someone who introduced such an odious bill.

I was reading an article about the TPers, who maintain that it's the "people" who are supposed to have the power, and not the government (yes, I know it doesn't make any sense, since the government IS the people). So, supporting someone who insists on getting inside every Virginia woman's uterus to see what's there and what isn't, is somehow giving power to the people?

Sacre bleu! These people just don't make any sense at all, at all .

Wasn't there a lot of organized disenfranchisement going on in Virginia? Seems I read about 40,000 were not allowed to vote. Of course those were mostly Democratic voters.

RL -- very well said.

I ran across something and figure if these people would apply a little honesty ( not they haven't thought they were - as they see it - maybe there would be less problems as there is VERY little room in government for such people who are full of a huge amount of scorn and disdain for so many people across the U.S.

He earned the above.

Jackie

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