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

River -- Up about 20 km northward from the Falls, to the mouth of the Niagara River where it meets Lake Ontario is my beautiful town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, home to the Shaw Festival, several dozen wineries AND breweries, and the finest soft fruits you'll find anywhere!

Jackie, I'd have to say the one and only good thing about Faux Snooze is that its promotion of idjut anti-Americans such as Bundy and his ilk promotes traffic (and thus funding) to many, many political and culture-oriented websites!  Oh, and it gives us dumb rocker Libs a well-deserved feeling of superiority. 

Bren, my best thoughts going out to Barb.

C4C, I've been to Stratford but never made it to Niagara-on-the-Lake for the Shaw Festival. Now that I consider the wineries I'll have to put that on my list.

River Rat,

Let us know when you're heading to Niagara ... maybe we can all get together again!!

hugs,

Bren

Awww, River, thanks for asking!  I'm just fine ... Just haven't posted much lately.  DH is off his wanting-a-sailboat obsession and back to his wanting-a-camper obsession, so we have been looking at campers on weekends.  No closer to buying anything, but it keeps him occupied with a dream.  We are trying to stop putting things off until some imaginary "more convenient" time, so we may actually end up with a camper.  I'm happy about that, because I loathe the water and will never get in it willingly - a sailboat would have been a solitary pursuit for DH.

I'm enjoying retirement tremendously - in a couple of weeks, it will be a whole year since I retired.  Not bad for a dumb dead rocker groupie, retiring on a full annuity at 55, eh?  

Delighted to hear about the FBI investigating the armed insurrectionists and seditionists who were pointing guns at Federal employees, stopping traffic along Federal interstate highways with armed checkpoints, and issuing death threats to civilians and Feds.  I knew it was coming - there are HOURS of video footage of those idiotic, gun-fondling droolers and thousands of pictures of them to go through and identify.  That's what intelligence analysts are for ... Reviewing the documentary evidence and putting together the info.  It's called an investigation.  I am eagerly awaiting news of arrests.

It was so nice to read about Kay and PiP's meeting - I love it when we can get together IRL!  It is so lovely to find kindred spirits amid the terror that is breast cancer.

Love you all!

L

Blue enjoyed that piece.  Was taught that as a small child.  Not really sure why it becomes so difficult to 'understand'.  The truth is...at some point we quit looking at how the very young ( actually really, really old souls ) do things.  Singling out no one...each is as good as the other. 

So, I too say good for Pope Francis.  It is about time.  Someone has to  show some  principles that should prevail.  If you believe in the good book, and if you believe you are Christian....it is time to live by that essence.  Pope Francis seems to practice what he preaches.  It is way past time that everyone does.  Just my 2 cents --

Jackie

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Abrupt subject change.....May.....Snow?????   Who wants to visit? Doesn't it sound like fun?

Sunflowers, I am concerned that my rejoining the thread has corrupted your nickname. Should we be Sunny1 and Sunny2 or something?  

Still having brain fritz. Interesting in a wierd sort of way. Hard to see, walk, balance, breathe, but boy can I eat. Yay steroids. Starting year 10 of MBC so I'm not really complaining - except about the weather.

Hope all ,mommies enjoyed themselves yesterday. Our thoughts are with the Nigerian girls.

Sandy

Sunflowers -- Sorry to be blunt but you've just underlined what the Democrats are most afraid of -- the pessimistic "It's too late, no point in going on, or fighting the powers-that-be, I give up etc." attitude.  No wonder all the media types are saying Democrats won't turn out for the mid-terms.  Remember the (definitely mythic) tale of David and Goliath?  I don't have any details about this McKinnon fellow (you can fill me in), but at least he's providing a potential weapon with which to fight the regressives.  I don't buy lottery tickets, even though I know that if I don't buy, I'll never win.  So......if you don't fight the bastards, you'll most definitely lose (and yes, I hate using war-like terms, but it's all I've got).  And I truly worry about the future of my next-door neighbour if you guys sit on your hands.

Sunny -- I think we're well and truly done with snow here.  Sorry to hear you're still dealing with it!

There is ALWAYS hope.  There is ALWAYS reason to keep fighting ....look, nobody thought that the Dems could sweep Virginia's executive spots, but we did.  A Democratic governor, lieutenant governor and attorney general (good bye and get lost, Crazy Kookinelli).  And we snagged the A.G. spot by a few hundred votes (at its smallest, I think the margin was 6)(no, I didn't miss any numbers there).  Every.single.vote.counts.  And no, there was no election fraud unless you count the regressives trying to stop people from voting in districts with constituencies who would likely vote for Democrats.  I will never, ever miss another election again, even for school board member - and I live in the deepest blue municipality in Virginia, where we joke that your property taxes are higher if you are a registered Republican.  

Every.single.vote.counts.  You and your book club, bridge group, or exercise class just might turn the tide on an election.  Never miss another opportunity to vote - truly, the future of our country depends on it.

Faux News Question of the Day (seriously):  Gretchen Carlson asks "Do you think it's perfectly normal to see Jesus in a piece of toast?"

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Hope is what keeps us living.  Without it, we might just as well give up, give in, and die.  And hope also gives us the power to make things better........don't ever lose hope.

RL, exactly! Every single vote counts.

Notself, thanks for making sense out of that.