Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

After roe, women are no longer free.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

T R E 4 5 O N

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Infrastructure week. at last.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Rising Above

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We went to see this particular “performance event” (enhanced movie) last night, and now we’re converts. Top-rank artists, thoughtfully filmed — never losing track of the performance as a whole, but providing a level of detail you couldn’t get even from the best seats at the live performance. The Spousal Unit, who has far more experience with classical music, was so enchanted that he kept holding his breath. And I really appreciated the short ‘behind the scene’ preludes that showed us how hard all the artists were working to make the dancing look so effortless…

Next month, The Sleeping Beauty. Can’t wait!
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Speaking of hard work and overcoming tragedy, from the NYTimes:

Representative Carolyn McCarthy hopes she can quit Washington for good before another group of families left grieving by gun violence arrives at her office. She suspects otherwise, since she’s got another 10 months to go before finishing out her 18-year career at the end of the year, and she knows better than anyone in Congress the unyielding rhythm of the nation’s gun trauma.

Twenty years ago, Ms. McCarthy was a nurse in an intensive care unit in the Long Island suburbs when her life was shattered by a gunman who rampaged aboard an evening commuter train and murdered her husband, Dennis, and five other passengers. Her 26-year-old son, Kevin, was left severely wounded in the attack. Groping for stability, Ms. McCarthy decided to leave nursing and run for Congress on the strength of what she called an irresistible “passion to reduce gun violence.” …

What she discovered about herself in reliving the commuter train massacre with each visitor was that her experience in intensive care proved to be a strange tonic on Capitol Hill. “We couldn’t win every battle, but the lives we did save — it’s the same motivation I brought to Congress,” she said as if it were a triage ward. “As far as I was concerned, I was still a nurse.”

At the age of 70, Ms. McCarthy is being treated for lung cancer, a problem she says is not the decisive factor in her retiring. For all of the abject failure to enact gun safety laws last year in the wake of the schoolhouse massacre in Newtown, Conn., Ms. McCarthy heard enough strong new voices in Congress willing to take up the cause that she decided it’s time to leave….

Hope. It may be all we have, but sometimes that’s enough.

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  1. 1.

    Schlemizel

    We here in the Midwest are getting our payback for laughing at the folks down South. It started as rain yesterday then turned to snow followed but 40+MPH winds and near zero temps.

    Don’t know how many of you listen to Prairie Home Companion but Keillor talks about Minnesotans having a strong belief in Karma you don’t brag when things are going well r they will go bad, you don’t laugh at the misfortune of others or it will be your lot. That sort of thing. I was raise with that very much instilled in me by my family. So you folks in WV, NC and GA that just went through that? Yeah, you are getting your revenge today. School is delayed 2 hours BTW & no businesses closed – we are nuts here.

  3. 3.

    Schlemizel

    @raven:
    We started with that yesterday & about 40 degrees. I have about 8-10 inches of heavy, wet, snow, in my driveway now. The is one heck of a storm

    I think you are on the leading edge & we are still in it. Just looked at the national radar & it is huge – all the way from Maine to Texas & you guys are bright red. stay dry!

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    @raven
    Got to admit that each piece I come across about one or all of the three stooges running in the Senate primary in GA, I have to fight the urge to repeatedly pound my forehead on the desk. Hard.

    What’s the buzz on the street locally?

  5. 5.

    raven

    @NotMax: Kingston and Broun (and John Barrow) are both from Athens although Kingston and Barrow both moved so they could be elected.. We are arguably the most progressive community in the state and the pukes have been able to gerrymander us into irrelevance. The state has approved confederate flag license plates and will probably loosen gun laws even more. The buzz? We’re surrounded by moon pie eatin morons.

  6. 6.

    Schlemizel

    @raven:

    We have some good friends that live in the country where they put the stickers inside the biology textbooks about evolution being just one theory. Our friends paid for the book just to be able to keep it. He said, “One day they will try to deny they ever did this & I wanted to preserve the evidence.”

    I am amazed that some of them can get the moon pie to their mouth without help

  7. 7.

    Betty Cracker

    Godspeed to Rep. McCarthy, but I don’t hold any hope in my heart that we’ll address gun insanity in this country. To paraphrase Steve M, it’s Wayne LaPierre’s world; we’re just sheltering in place in it.

  8. 8.

    raven

    @Schlemizel:

    Tea Party activists have protested University of Georgia health care navigators, and state lawmakers are considering putting them out of work, but UGA President Jere Morehead defends the navigator program as one that’s in line with the university’s mission.

    Navigators are funded by a $1.7 million federal grant, and UGA goes after federal grants all the time, Morehead said during a news conference Wednesday.

    Their job is to explain the Affordable Care Act to people who are interested in signing up for insurance through the federal exchange—similar to the way the cooperative extension explains legislation like the farm bill as part of UGA’s status as a land-grant institution, Morehead said.

    “We’re not advocating for the law or advocating against the law,” he said.

  9. 9.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: (p)Rick Scott down here in FL did something similar, barring navigators from government health departments and implying that they were out to steal people’s identities. It must be in the Koch Industries AstroTurf Playbook.

  13. 13.

    Schlemizel

    @raven: @Betty Cracker:

    Their greatest fear is that ACA will actually be better than what we had so they simply must do everything in their power to delay and damage the experience.

    Texas passed several obnoxious rules about navigators and is slowing the process of becoming one so I’d vote yes, this is the Koch Bros action committee method.

  14. 14.

    Baud

    @raven:

    There was a time when I believed money was their Achilles heel, but then a bunch of states refused Medicaid funding, so now I don’t know.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I saw Swan Lake last night as well! A few weeks ago the RB did Giselle (which was, arguably, the best performance I’ve ever seen of that ballet, and I’ve seen dozens over the years), and I’m also looking forward to Sleeping Beauty.

    Making HD performances of live plays, ballet, opera, and symphonic concerts available in movie theatres — as selected rock concerts and prize fights have been for a while — is one of the great innovations of the 21st century, and one of my personal joys. I plan my weekends around the Met Opera schedule and now that the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet are in the mix — well, they’re in my mix too. Depending on the event, tickets run between $15-$22 — a bit more than a regular movie ticket, but far less than a seat at the actual theatre would run. I am a total fan, and never have less than an amazing musical/theatrical experience.

    Thanks for front-paging this, Anne Laurie!

  17. 17.

    raven

    WASHINGTON – We told you this morning about Rep. Phil Gingrey’s use of taxpayer funded mailers to promote his stance on immigration. Further digging shows the other two Congressmen in the Republican U.S. Senate race have taken advantage of the franking privilege as well.
    Above you’ll find a page of Jack Kingston’s December newsletter, which includes a section entitled “Obamacare” in which Kingston states, in bold type: “I will not rest until this legislation is fully repealed.” This came around the time his Senate campaign was under fire after Kingston suggested he would be willing to work on fixes to the law.
    Kingston also put out federally funded Facebook ads last year, directing visitors to his official Facebook account with images including a rifle. The text states: “I am fighting to protect your 2nd Amendment rights. LIKE my page to get important updates!”
    In January taxpayers paid for a radio ad for Rep. Paul Broun to inform listeners about an official town hall meeting in Dacula. Broun said: “I also want to hear your thoughts on my legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare, the Patient Option Act.”
    Gingrey spokesman Cameron Harley said the immigration flier advertising a no-amnesty approach was not about gaining a political advantage:
    “Following the President’s recent State of the Union Response and January’s annual GOP Member Retreat, Rep. Gingrey has received nearly five times as many immigration related inquiries as in previous months. In order to gather feedback and properly promulgate his stance on the topic, the Congressman reached out to constituents with a routine franked mail letter.
    “In-step with previous franked mail from his office, its content was certified by the House Franking Commission as a measure which effectively aids the Congressman in performing his constitutional duties – rather than gaining a political foothold. Facilitating timely and effective responses to constituent concerns is a responsibility that Congressman Gingrey takes very seriously, and will continue to as long as he holds public office.”
    Data compiled by WSB-TV’s Justin Gray show Broun has been the most avid user of federally funded mass mailings. Since 2010, Broun has sent $332,019 worth of mass mailings, to Gingrey’s $61,974 and Kingston’s $41,968.

  18. 18.

    bemused

    I glad to know I wasn’t alone in being greatly amused by Scott Walker’s secret email system, top aides forwarding the worst, most offensive emails, etc and at the same time these same folk got their panties in a twist over an appointee who modeled thongs. Wonkette says it so much better.

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    Had a ton of snow melt into the road forming a slushy mess. Now it is freezing up and the snow plow never came so I’m not sure if I can drive through it or not. It seems solid in some places and deep slush (4-6 inches) in others. And now it is snowing heavily again.

  24. 24.

    Botsplainer

    I have a neighbor on the back side that isn’t tossing his trash. The dog has figured this out and frequently comes back from his morning constitutional with deer legs and other treasures.

    This morning, it turned out to be a coconut shell that I didn’t notice until he was in the living room. It gave me a start – thought it was an animal skull at first. Took me forever to wrangle it from him, and not before he shredded part of it into an unholy wet mess.

    That backyard neighbor bit is complicated. The property owners are wonderful people, and were the middle school choir directors all through all of my girls’ time in middle school. Their house was a very cool frank Lloyd Wright type-style with an open floor plan. When their addicted son and addicted daughter-in-law (she was a Physician’s Assistant or Nurse Practitioner, I forget) lost their jobs and home and started serving various jail sentences, they took in the grandchildren. Of course, eventually the addicts moved in, too. You can guess what happened – life in that house turned into a hell storm of lies, theft and violence against the owners. After great misery and a suicide attempt by the sweet wonderful wife, the older pair moved into an airstream in the driveway, and then last fall, they took the airstream and simply moved away, abandoning their house to the shitheads. You can guess the state of the place now – overgrown, crumbling, filthy, probably unsalvageable (it is a wood and stone construction with a flat roof located next to a creek, which took a lot of work during the best of times). I hear them shouting from the hot tub frequently, and wonder if the water is even treated.

    Because everything back here is heavily wooded, I anticipate that we will wind up burned out with the rest of the block in some late summer dry spell due to a fire which starts there when one of those assholes drops a lit crack pipe while passed out.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Schlemizel: I listen to Keillor every wkend and I have to say that he is just plain wrong on that. I mean what, you think they aren’t going to rub it in? Besides, as my old man liked to say, “If you can’t kick a man when he is down, when can you kick him?”

    ps: 55 and sunny today. Nah nah nah nah nahhhhh…..

  26. 26.

    MomSense

    Think anyone wii ask Gov. Perry how many people will die in Texas because they don’t have health insurance?

  27. 27.

    R-Jud

    @SiubhanDuinne: I’ve found them to be wonderful for my ballet-loving little girl. We have a city ballet corps, but the tickets are always too expensive to justify going. Though I may save up for this year’s Nutcracker now that she has shown herself able to sit through the long shows with minimum fidgeting.

  28. 28.

    JPL

    January was the fourth warmest month but Karen Handel said there is no global warming because Atlanta was cold. There is not a republican candidate running for Senate in GA, that believes in science.

    @OzarkHillbilly: It’s fifty and the rain has passed. The rest of the day is suppose to okay but with cooler temps. I enjoyed the few days of seventies.

  29. 29.

    Hillary Rettig

    Anne Laurie – I saw the Bolshoi production of Sleeping Beauty at Coolidge Corner theater – it was amazing. the Bolshoi stage is vast (the road crew has to scale down productions for other theaters) and the whole thing was literally the most lavish and gorgeous thing I had ever seen. And the behind the scenes stuff was great.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @R-Jud: I think Nutcracker would be a terrific live-theatre treat for your Bean, and would prove to be one of her cherished memories. How wonderful that she’s already a ballet lover!

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    @R-Jud

    The li’l ballet lover must see the Swan Lake excerpt from Ernie Kovacs’ show.

    The beauteous thing is it’s being done absolutely straight and as skillfully as possible under the circumstances.

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    @kindness: Currently awaiting the doctors to give us their daily interpretation, but basically, there’s been no change. We’ll make a bit of progress and then suffer a setback, rinse and repeat.

    My “little brother” (six-foot-four and in his mid-30s) and I were talking last night about our latest stage of grief, which is getting the urge to call mom and tell her about some dumb thing that happened that we know she’d find hilarious and then remembering that we can’t. She’s with us but not with us.

    We have to keep believing she’ll be restored to us because the alternative is unthinkable. And when she is, she will get such a kick out of the stories we’ll tell her about this crisis, how her stupid ex-husbands reacted, how her pets missed her, how her middle-aged children acted like big crybabies. She will laugh her ass off at all of us.

  35. 35.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @JPL: As is usual for this time of year, with the warm weather out of OK, comes OK winds. Gusts to 60+ mph yesterday and we lost power for about 10 hrs. I was surprised to wake up and see lights on this morn as I figured it’d take longer. Crawford County electric COOP is pretty good. One of their head linesman was a neighbor of mine when I lived in Bourbon. Super nice guy.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @R-Jud:
    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Couldn’t get back in to edit in time, but I wanted to add that there were quite a few youngsters at last night’s Swan Lake screening, all of them enrapt. I happened to walk out of the theatre with a mother and three little girls of (guessing) age 6 or so, and even though it was 10:00 p.m. by then, they were all happily chattering away about the swans, and doing little pirouettes through the lobby. Very cute, and very gratifying for a lifelong ballet-lover like me!

  37. 37.

    Botsplainer

    @satby:

    It’s in an unincorporated area, and my county official pols are all Republican FREEDOM and WOLVERINES folks. I’ll get no relief from that quarter. We do have some restrictive covenants in our deeds, but that would involve me suing the sweet owners, not the assholes, and I’m not going to do that (I consider the owners to be friends who bent over backwards for my kids in so very many ways and I actually consulted them on some of their issues).

    All I can do at this point is hope for police action on some crime.

  38. 38.

    Rob Patterson

    Ms. Laurie — Check out the “Met in HD” opera broadcasts (if you haven’t already). Best entertainment development in many years IMHO.

  39. 39.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Betty Cracker: A short story to give you hope. And maybe a laugh.

    My sister’s mother-in law, Jackie, one of those no nonsense plain speakering people with a heart of gold went into a coma after… I forget what put her there. Everyday for almost 6 months her husband of (at the time) 45+ years would come to the hospital, sit by her bedside and hold her hand. And talk. All day long. About anything. About everything. From the most mundane details of their home, to the latest world shaking event. Non-stop. And always about how much he loved her. About how he needed her. About how lost he would be without her. About how much she gave every moment of his life fulfillment. And joy. And laughter. And how he didn’t care what the doctors said, he believed in her and he believed in her strength and he knew that she would come back to him.

    All day, every day, for almost 6 months.

    And then, one day, she woke up. She turned her head. She looked at her husband of 45 years, the man with whom she had raised four boys, surviving every hardship known, thriving thru good times and bad, always together side by side, she looked at him and in a voice soft and hoarse from lack of use but as clear and with as much conviction as the day she said, “I do.”, she looked at him and said,

    “Shut up, George.”

    True story.

  40. 40.

    raven

    @SiubhanDuinne: In my vast experience in the area of municipal recreation I have never seen anything worse than the Royal Academy of Dance program we had in Urbana. The way those nasty women who came from UK “evaluated” the kids was far more anxiety producing than any of the sports programs I ran. so there!

  43. 43.

    Tommy

    On of my favorite things about St. Louis is the Muny at Forest Park, This years schedule includes: The Addams Family; Billy Elliot the Musical; Grease; Hello, Dolly!; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; Seussical the Musical and Tarzan. I have to admit I don’t really know any of these shows, but plan to take my four year old niece this year to at least one show. Guess I need to spend some time on YouTube to see which show she’d like.

  44. 44.

    some guy

    good thoughts your way, Betty Cracker. we went through a very tough patch with my Mom last year, she was in Mass General for 6 months. She is now back home, with a nurse during the day, living the 90th year of her life.

    I hope you can have that same joy and relief our family felt when she finally came home.

  45. 45.

    Tommy

    @Botsplainer: That sucks. I live in an unincorporated area as well and the folks in the rear of me, well their yard is a living hell. I’ve talked to my neighbors and we don’t know what to do. Heck we called the police on them a few months ago. They must have had like 30+ pets of all kinds and it seemed they might not being taken care of.

  47. 47.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    Helluva snow storm last night. It was very warm, so it would have probably been 18″ but now it’s about 6″ of super heavy ice and compact snow.

    On another note, I quit drinking Sunday. Went into rehab (sober) on Monday morning on the advice of a C/D counsellor. That is some humanity right there. Saw somebody go into full-blown DT’s and have to be taken to the ER by ambulance. Heard a lot of stories. I’ve been to daily AA meetings, and am feeling quite well. Getting lots of support from friends and family. I’m off of work, and will be going into residential treatment at the beginning of next month (again, at the advice of my councillor, and C/D psychiatrist. NOT looking forward to that, but I went to the professionals for a good reason, and I suppose it would be foolhardy to ignore their advice.

    Fully expect my stalker to come here and show his ass. Oh well, It’s his issues that cause his behavior, not mine.

  48. 48.

    Tommy

    @some guy: Happy thoughts from me as well. My mom last year was in he ICU for a month. Honestly I didn’t think she was going to make it out of the place. It was like the TV show House. They didn’t really know what was wrong, but they would treat her and she’d get worse. They then thought they knew what was wrong this time, and they’d treat her and she’d get worse. Lucky they figured it out and she is back to her old self.

    The big takeaway for me was government health care rocks. My father worked 30+ years for the DoD (Civil Service). So he has government provided health care. A month in the ICU. Two weeks at a rehab center. Their bill equaled $0.00. I wish my fellow Americans all had that kind of care!

  51. 51.

    raven

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): Hang in there but remember what Pete Hamill said in “A Drinking Life”, “Being sober does not make life any easier, you just live it with more lucidity”. One of the hardest things about being sober is when you realize that.

  57. 57.

    TOP123

    @top
    Wow, has it been that long? I guess the years and the repeated repeated slow drip of gun tragedies has blurred it, but as a NYer that was one that shocked me. Sorry for Rep. McCarthy’s health issues, and her resultant retirement, and for the fact that our stupid Congress has accomplished squat since the LIRR shooting… Sigh. Guess we should cut em a break since it was only in 1993. Time needed for debate and deliberation and all.

  58. 58.

    fidelio

    @OzarkHillbilly: I’d just like to take this opportunity to point out the immense value of rural and small town utility cooperatives, without whose sokalistical efforts a lot of places would not have had power, telephone service, or treated water by the time I was growing up in the 1960s, because it wouldn’t have been profitable for Union Electric (now Ameren) and other big power companies like Duke or Southern to hook them up to the grid, or for Ma Bell to hook them up.

    I take a great deal of pleasure in pointing out to some of my relatives that if it wasn’t for FDR and the Rural Electrification Administration they’d have grown up with kerosene lights and no ice cubes.

  60. 60.

    dww44

    @raven:
    [email protected]raven: It’s sad though that the UGA President has to caveat his support of the healthcare navigators. Hopefully he doesn’t feel the need to do that with climate change.

    Yeah, I sent a letter to my newspaper about the “more guns everywhere” bill that just passed the state House of Reps. My representative is quoted as saying he believes that people should have the right to protect themselves in church and the local paper came out against guns in airports with a scathing editorial about the wimptitude of legislators running scared in the primary this year.

    And that move about the speciality license plate for the benefit of the Sons of Confederate veterans, who will receive $10.00 for every license plate sold in support of their “heritage”, reveals how out of touch our governing party is. This is what you get when your state is under the total control of one party that is fast moving towards insanity, but whose laws in the meantime hurt lots of folks.

  62. 62.

    dance around in your bones

    Ah, Balloon Juice. The scenes from Swan Lake (thanks, Anne Laurie) made me gasp in pleasure and I will see if it is playing where I live.

    @NotMax: The Ernie Kovacs’ bit made me laugh, thanks,

    @OzarkHillbilly: And your story made me laugh and cry all at the same time.

    What a Friday morning!

    (P.S. I am purposely leaving out the utter stupidity of the ‘We’ll fight Obamacare until it is dead, Fred!’ legislators…it makes me so sad for those states that are denying or at least making it harder for people to get insurance, especially since I have been one of the lucky ones in California to get coverage. It’s incomprehensible to me – or inconcievable to me!).

  63. 63.

    celticdragonchick

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I miss Giselle. Haven’t seen it in some time. :( I saw a lovely performance at the Redlands Bowl some years back from Ballet Pacifica. I still think that Tatiana Terekhova in the Kirov was the best Myrtha ever.

    (I actually have a 2 CD set of the entire score of Giselle, as well as another 2 CD set of the entire score to Swan Lake)

  64. 64.

    celticdragonchick

    @Hillary Rettig:

    I saw ABT perform Swan Lake at the Shrine in Los Angeles, with legendary Allesandra Ferri in the lead role. I actually was not as impressed with their production although the technicality of the dancing was superb. (disclaimer: I was a semi professional dancer with Ballet South in Savannah and the Oregon State Ballet some 25 years, three broken bones and 70 pounds ago)

  65. 65.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Rob Patterson: Couldn’t agree more! I’ve been to all but a very few since the Met began doing their Live in HD broadcasts about six or seven seasons ago. There is always something to love.

  66. 66.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @celticdragonchick:

    Hands down, Giselle is my favourite ballet, with the three Tchaikovsky in close pursuit. I, too, have the full music on CD and, in the case of Giselle, I own something like half a dozen different performances and productions. There’s a “Creole Giselle” that the Dance Theatre of Harlem (I think, but can’t check at the moment) did many years ago, and it is just stunning. I’ll dig out the particulars if you’re interested in trying to obtain a copy.

    I never danced myself, except for the usual ballet lessons as a little kid, but I’ve always loved seeing it, and I’ve had the good fortune to hang around lots of dancers at various times.

  68. 68.

    Mnemosyne

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):

    Good luck! At the risk of driving raven up the wall, keep in mind that addiction/alcoholism is like any other mental illness — you’ll never be “cured” any more than a person with bipolar disorder is “cured” when they start taking medication. It is a chronic condition that you’ll always need to keep an eye on.

  70. 70.

    Mnemosyne

    Also, too, along ballet lines, can anyone recommend a good ballet for a nine-year-old girl other than “The Nutcracker”? My niece is still very into taking ballet lessons and I may want to have her great-aunt take her to one of these broadcasts, but I don’t know what is or isn’t suitable.

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne:

    By all means have your aunt take her to Sleeping Beauty next month. Find a nearby theatre here.

    Luscious music, a princess, a bad fairy and lots of good fairies, high comedy, a wedding, Puss in Boots and a flirtatious White Kitten — your niece will love it! Guaranteed!

  74. 74.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    @Mnemosyne:

    Understood. As a health care professional, I deeply understand the disease/treatment model.

    Thanks to all for the kind words. Still feeling good. Missed my regular meeting today, due to the mess of snow all around, so I get to attend a new meeting tonight!

    In other news:

    The boy is having a p0ker game tonight with a few buddies. The front walk and driveway entrance are cleared. The driveway is still a fracking mess.

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