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

A further note here. I did stop sometime back reading what others say. I take great delight in going only long enough to click out of a page of blue lines. There has been a poster or two turn up --- I personally think it is someone who used to be on that site and they have come back. So.....another blue line gets added.

I used to read almost daily, but after a while the total lack of warmth, empathy, willingness to work on and solve problems became so evident that it became boring and repetitive to me --- lack of warmth and flexibility is just something I can only tolerate so long. So, I now don't worry about whom I might upset. It ceased to matter when I quit reading. I do know that it can be hard -- same reason why we keep up with the GOP --- so not to be blind-sided, but it just is easier for me to be me. If it could be proven to me honestly, without racist rancor, and with a great degree of flexibility ---- but I digress as I'm now talking about how it is here. (((((Blue)))))

Jackie

If I have no children and pay for education in my taxes, or if I am healthy and pay for health care in my taxes, it is because I want to live in a society that has well educated, healthy people. My taxes also go to roads that might not be on my route, to fire fighters who might not need to come to my house or police who have no crimes to solve at my house (etc. etc.). That's just fine because if I never need those services, I am very fortunate indeed. If I do, then they are there for me just as they are there for my neighbours. That's the kind of society that meets the criteria "do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

lassie -

bren -- We Great Lakes folk are still enduring the cold, although the blustery wind has finally settled down into a gentle breeze!

YES YES YES, Lassie. You sound like the US Senator from MA, Elizabeth Warren. About the BEST COMPLIMENT I could pay to anyone. YES YES YES

America, land of the free, etc. AND your socioeconomic "status" and your race, are such vital factors in determining your life, IMHO, it's "class" more than "race" - but still, it ain't a level playing field. There is less "social mobility" now than ever, and again, I don' t know which religion it's in, but must be somewhere, not to "blame" the "sins" of the fathers & mothers on their children....

How can anyone not want to have ALL children well fed, clothed warm. I remember the pictures of Robert Kennedy when Marion Wright ( before she became Edelman, I think) was showing him the poverty in the South - the poor, hungry children - his face was a mirror of sorrow, and surprise, he just didn't know it existed in our country. Guess he hadn't read How the Other Half Lives when he was in college....

Blue - The guy in Game of Thrones was John Hurt - he was the older doctor in the special. Tom Baker was the old white haired guy at the end - the curator. After the Dr Who special, they showed another special called An Adventure in Space and Time set in the 1960's which was about the BBC and the creation of Dr Who - it was a dramatisation - that was really good too.

Morning all.

Don't have time to say all I want to say but I agree that we want a just society and everyone in that society has to contribute. It is just as my mother used to say when she had done something kind for someone - 'don't think about paying me back, one day you might be able to help someone else.' Even here we get people complaining that 'their taxes' are helping the no hopers of society. Providing these things as others have said then they are there for anyone who needs it and one day it might be me.

Another beautiful day here so I am off out on an expedition with a friend. She is a minister and has Mondays off so we often take ourselves somewhere nice and enjoy the day.

Alyson, something you said ( sort of in a pay it forward way ) sparked a great memory. I was deeply touched by this as a youngster. There was ( and she was truly a Christian lady ) a woman who would make a sandwich for any of the hobo's, or if preferred , men who would occasionally pass through our little town of 200 people. They were always fairly shabby looking but if they knocked on her door ( and they always did as they had ways of marking the house for the next wanderer who might pass by ) she would make them some kind of sandwich.

A couple people who lived around her chided her for this behavior but I recall that she used to say......what if it were Jesus returning and I refused to give him something to eat. I could no longer be the Christian I say I am. It made a VERY deep impression on me as a kid. Things often do then and I'm sure it is one of the things that I carry inside to this day. There is not a person alive who hasn't needed some sort of help at some time or other in their life. Even all of us came here to this site -- BC.Org looking for help and understanding and someone who could perfectly get exactly how we were feeling. So, I say....to those GOP'ers and others who call themselves Christians while acting like heathens...you WILL reap what you SOW and you will have earned it all. We all have choices....enjoy yours.

Jackie

but at least they are going to get Insurance.

good morning. 6 degrees in western ma...brrrrrrrrrr...not as windy as yesterday, but still, brrrrr...it's only November....brrrrr....

Smiling with ya Blue. Can't you just feel the silky warmness of that grey tummy

Where are the pics taken? LOVE the fence with the wreath.

Yup, it's coming our way. We're in the "ice" and "rain" line, but I'm expecting snow. YEAH, SNOW!!!!!!!!!