Awwww!
Happy 2017 everyone ???❄☃??????????? https://t.co/14nHzlmHZz
— Jena C. (@JenaC2) December 30, 2016
Hat Tip: Senior Chief Nance’s twitter feed.
by Adam L Silverman| 166 Comments
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Awwww!
Happy 2017 everyone ???❄☃??????????? https://t.co/14nHzlmHZz
— Jena C. (@JenaC2) December 30, 2016
Hat Tip: Senior Chief Nance’s twitter feed.
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amk
which one is the cute again?
Adam L Silverman
@amk: All of them Katie.
Omnes Omnibus
Game recognize game.
NotMax
Astonishing how the botched operation in Yemen has been shoved under the cone of silence.
rikyrah
Awe????
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Uh huh
EBT
@NotMax: Not like white people died at the hands of minorities.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Hey there, wet blanket.
Pogonip
Awwwww. Tell Senior that Pogonip said “Thanks!”
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: I actually have literally only seen it mentioned here.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: @rikyrah: Actually NBC has updated their reporting. And one of the author keeps asking on twitter: “what was the purpose of the raid?”
D58826
Well; that will lower my blood pressure and maybe help to get to sleep.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
From WaPo:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/01/31/how-trumps-first-counter-terror-operation-in-yemen-turned-into-chaos/?utm_term=.2f7f2313219c
Adam L Silverman
@Pogonip: I don’t actually have twitter, I just monitor twitter.
NotMax
FYI.
(Not trying to harsh the cute – there was no readily amenable thread earlier.)
amk
@Adam L Silverman: Question. For a supposedly mighty and advanced military, how come the helos in these operations had to be destroyed despite absence of opposition firepower? It happened in bin laden raid and it has happened here again.
EBT
@Major Major Major Major: Here and Wonkette.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: This is what happens when you sideline your Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Acting Director of National Intelligence, and let your political strategist freeze out your National Security Advisor and establish his own, alternative National Security staff.
NotMax
Moderation, please to liberate.
Adam L Silverman
@amk: Because we don’t want any of our tech to be scavenged by the enemy. Standard Operating Procedure. Once the equipment becomes inoperable – won’t fly or won’t drive, we destroy it to deny it and the tech to the enemy. This includes exploding any unused ordnance.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Already done.
Drunkenhausfrau
Adam, are you drinking tonight? Tripping? Your posting just seems… so relaxed. First, Buddhist text, now puppy and baby. I often feel, since this atrocity began, that I am losing my moorings, so maybe I am imagining all this.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Yeah, but how long till they blame Obama?
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: @amk: If the question is why do ‘copters crash all the time? They really aren’t natural flying machines.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: I noticed that too. Also noticed the bros who wept bitter tears over the death of Awlaki’s son when he was killed by a drone strike during the Obama admin are oddly silent about this.
amk
@Adam L Silverman: I understand that, but why do they crash on these critical missions in the first place? Incompetence? Improper planning? Or the mic sold lemons to DOD?
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
The Osprey history during development and deployment is certainly, let’s say, uneven.
Scamp Dog
@Omnes Omnibus: There’s an old quip that helicopters don’t actually fly, they just beat the air into submission.
More seriously, helicopters aren’t terribly reliable, and military helicopters in particular have a dreadful safety record.
Adam L Silverman
@Drunkenhausfrau: Nope. Everything is normal. Though I would like to say as a non-cat owner, had I realized the video I posted earlier was of a cat in distress, not a cat making what sounded like “no” over and over I would not have posted it.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: If I’m recalling correctly airplanes use physics to fly, helicopters break about 15 laws of physics to fly.
Omnes Omnibus
@Scamp Dog:
Oddly, I had considered using that line. But, yeah, helicopters crash. It’s what they do.
Major Major Major Major
@Betty Cracker:
The bros were too busy pointing out that Obama totally banned Muslims and refugees too, so what are you so sad about, you impure hypocrite? Never mind that it wasn’t true…
Betty Cracker
I recently discovered TWO seasons of the Great British Bakeoff that we had not seen. Tall cotton, friends!
Adam L Silverman
@amk: I think it’s where they’re flying. This part of Yemen is largely desert. Any sand or grit or dust beyond normal tolerance that gets into the machinery can bring a rotary wing craft down real quick. Also, these ops take place at night. So there’s an error factor in terms of where to land. Its why multiple aircraft of the same make are used to provide redundancy in case of equipment failure, crash, and/or battle damage. This was one of the big lessons learned of Operation Eagle Claw to free the hostages in Iran. Every service had to have one of their SF teams involved. Each of them had their own equipment. Each had their own radio frequencies/comms.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/05/the-desert-one-debacle/304803/
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker:
Huh?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus:
It rains a bunch where he’s from.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Yes, but my understanding is that once the Test Development was over, the number of lost aircraft and human losses as a result, were no higher than for previous platforms. But don’t quote me on that.
Betty Cracker
@Omnes Omnibus: Good times. Unexpected riches.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I went to OCS with a CW3 who flew a Chinook in that mission. He was near max age to go to OCS, but retiring as an O-3 was a better deal than as a CW4.
zmulls
I would like the Democrats to answer any questions about SCOTUS with comments about Merrick Garland’s record. Talk about Garland as if he were the nominee. Go on Sunday shows and talk about Merrick Garland.
I’d like them to ask Gorsuch questions about Garland’s record and reputation. Get Gorsuch to praise him.
If it comes to a floor debate (before filibustering the final vote, denying cloture), all their speeches should be about Garland, how he was the perfect compromise candidate, Garland has not had his hearing and vote yet, etc. etc. etc.
Just keep talking about Garland, no matter what.
Mike J
@Betty Cracker:
You know there are seven seasons total, right? PBS has only shown two.
debbie
@Betty Cracker:
Have you seen the Master Classes they run after each season? Paul and Mary bake some of their favorites from the technical section. Each serves as the other’s assistant, and good natured bickering ensues. It’s worth watching.
Omnes Omnibus
@Betty Cracker: Got it. I am a person of the north. Cotton exists as shirts, sweaters, and balls here.
Dog Dawg Damn
What are the chances that Joe Biden will come out and lead the Resistance.
He would be the perfect foil for Drama Queen Donnie. Would go absolute nuts if he would. And then he could run for President in 2020. Really, we should Draft Biden.
Omnes Omnibus
@zmulls: I like this.
Omnes Omnibus
@Dog Dawg Damn: I have to disagree. Let’s have new leaders emerge. Perez, Gillibrand, Harris, the Castros, someone we haven’t noticed yet, etc.
NotMax
@Dog Dawg Damn
No thanks. He’ll be 78 in 2020. And the multiple times he has run for president did not exactly catch fire.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I would think so. That whole mission was an accident waiting to happen because everyone up the chain put their Services ahead of the mission.
EBT
@Adam L Silverman: Airplanes fly by using physics to your advantage. Helicopters fly by brute force. And sand really fucks them up something fierce because they are about as delicate as the feelings of a far right voter.
Corner Stone
Nina Totenberg for God’s fucking sake.
Corner Stone
Merrick Garland was a fucking qualified nominee too, you stupid bitch.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Why do you torture yourself?
Adam L Silverman
@EBT: Yep. We were constantly fighting with Division air to get rotary birds to the FOB or the Combat Outposts and Patrol Bases in our Area of Responsibility because of all the sand storms. They’d come up with any excuse to cancel and often we’d be working on one of the COPs or PBs for several days at a time and find out at the last minute that our rides weren’t coming and then we’d have to get creative to get back to the FOB.
Corner Stone
Why in the absolute world would MSNBC interview Chris Christie on his perspective re: the Trump admin’s first days in office?
That is not rhetorical. Why?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Waiting for my pizza to finish cooking.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
He was the first one to answer the phone?
/Night Court reference
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: The Travel Channel is showing a Bizarre Foods episode on Alaska’s Inner Passage. They eat all of a seal. It has to be better for you than what you are doing.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: OT: everything okay up your way?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Are they sipping Canadian Club along with it?
EBT
@Adam L Silverman: My father spent a long time as an Army Aviation mechanic and had very strong opinions on flight.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Not as far as I know.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
I subscribed to the Guardian recently after freeloading for years – doing my part to support the opposition party. Today I received my “Welcome Pack” in the mail … a totebag. I am now a goddamn totebagger.
Thanks, Obama.
Major Major Major Major
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: I have a tote bag that says “I listen to NPR and I suck”. It’s my favorite tote bag.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Been there, done that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: You have a favorite totebag?
amk
@EBT:
lol.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Or Facebook. This is the extent of my social media-ing.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes, and it says “I listen to NPR and I suck”.
Corner Stone
Fatboy working hard for his donut.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Truth in advertising is always to be applauded.
;)
amk
@efgoldman: I blame
obamaengineers. Being one, I know how we screw up big time.Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Please do not associate me with Waukesha. I will accept association with Madison, Milwaukee, Wausau, Appleton, and Rhinelander/Tomahawk. Waukesha can fuck itself with a rusty farm implement.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Okay then. Enjoy your pizza.
Corner Stone
I do have to marvel that Brian Williams asking a panel of Chris Christie and Nicole Wallace about the wins and losses of the Trump admin is just sublime.
amk
Given that we have always been on war with
east asiamiddle east, one would have thought the mic guyz would have put some stones into their flying death machines to deal with the sand by nowNotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Spooner?
A favorite Charles Kuralt gentle slice of life report done on CBS’ Sunday Morning from many years ago was about tubin’ down the Apple.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I liked traveling by chopper. I also liked jumping out of planes. In some ways, I am an idiot.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Tracking.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Spooner is north and west of my areas of familiarity. But it is likely to be rather similar to the Rhinelander/Tomahawk area where my family has land and a cabin.
Betty Cracker
@Mike J: Yeah, we caught many new episodes on YouTube, but in jumbled fashion.
@debbie: I have not. Will check it out!
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: There are people older than you?
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Corner Stone:
Flipped to it mid-show and had to go away after five minutes. Christie using San Bernardino and Orlando attacks as justification for increased vetting of immigrants! What a fucking douchebag. And it took Nicole Wallace way too long to check him.
EBT
@efgoldman: Isn’t VTOL a really crappy feature if you don’t really need to take off and land from that exact spot? You can’t just sit there and hover, and like anything else added complexity is added opportunity to break.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Misremembered that it was Sunday Morning. Pre-dated the inception of that show.
JCJ
@Adam L Silverman:
Oh darn! I missed that earlier today! I drove through Waukesha about 12:30. I was even driving on that street!
AnotherBruce
@Omnes Omnibus:
“and balls here.” Huh?
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hey! I live in Waukesha County! I am on staff at Waukesha Memorial Hospital!
Well, OK. It is a shithole.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@AnotherBruce:
Cotton balls.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: My mom is 75 and dad is 73. Mom is having her second hip replacement on 2/9. I am still mad at her for waiting this long. She knew she needed it and put it off for more than a year. I am angry that she has let herself live in pain for more than a year so as to not inconvenience others. Jesus fucking Christ!
Sorry for the rant.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: @efgoldman: slightly OT: the Saturday after the synagogue vandalisms (also the Saturday after the second round of bomb threats) I was asked to go to services at the Mom’s synagogue because the chair of the security wanted to meet with me. They had a guest speaker talk about the hospice in the area. I was informed in no uncertain terms that I was not allowed to scream: “Soylent Green is people! I’ve seen it!”
Omnes Omnibus
@JCJ: I am sorry. But you know what I am saying.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’m surprised she chimed in at all
Major Major Major Major
@Steeplejack (tablet): Cotton balls?
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Of course not.
It’s trayf.
Adam L Silverman
@JCJ: Did you have your cape with you?
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman:
By the rabbi or your mom?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: DIY tattooing sounds better than what Corner Stone is doing.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
this is a person who is considered to be a serious person by persons who think a lot about seriousness
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: No one lets me have any fun anymore…
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: My Mom. I had to meet with the rabbis – its a husband and wife team – the following week. As you can imagine everyone is a bit concerned.
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
I know exactly what you are saying. Living in the epicenter of the support for all the evil that is Scott Walker et al I am in agreement with your statement regarding Waukesha.
Peale
@JCJ: i once tried to raise money for charity by walking through the state. Got $25 per mile. I made it through dodge and Jefferson, but got to the Waukesha border and had to stop because at that point Oconomowoc.
JCJ
@Adam L Silverman:
How did you know?
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I accidentally DIY tattooed my toe as a kid. Hurts a lot more than the real deal.
slag
I’m watching Winter Soldier as a refresher course on how to deal with 2017. Good stuff in there.
@Corner Stone:
Tacky, sexist, and unnecessary. “Stupid motherfucker” would have been far more appropriate.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Everybody in CA has totebages, they stopped using plastic bags in the stores.
JCJ
@Peale:
Well done.
Omnes Omnibus
@Peale: You are a cheesehead too?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: My point*.
*Excuse the bad pun.
Adam L Silverman
@JCJ: Edumecated guess.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Did away with those here almost a decade ago. To this day remember to toss the reusable bags into the car but maybe 7 times out of 10 forget to bring them into the store.
Old dog. New tricks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack (tablet):
It’s a sad state of affairs when we have to count on Nicole Wallace to fact check someone.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: well obviously your point was quite dull, that’s why it hurt to read.
Omnes Omnibus
@JCJ: It is a test, isn’t it?
EBT
@NotMax: Yeah, the back seat is full of bags that have made it back from the front door. How rarely they actually get used though.
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
I am sure.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: Being that I no longer have automotive transportation, I have one that fits in my pocket when I walk to the store, 9 times out of 10 I walk out the door without it.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, that’s just stupid. Has this Saletan person never seen Lucy and Charlie Brown and the football?
AnotherBruce
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah that’s kinda the point. Northerners don’t know no cotton balls.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
No automotive transportation in California?
Heathen! Unclean!
;)
Bupalos
Wow, warning folks to not read CNN’s front page or headline on the nomination. It’s disgusting. Like heart slouchingly disgusting. It should be a warning, this is not the ground to fight on. The nomination teevee show needs immediate push back, but it should be specifically on grounds where we win. I want to hear about Merrick garland. I want to hear about trumps taxes and conflicts. I want to hear about popular vote. I want to hear about cheapening and stacking the court through political machinations and turning the nominating process into a reality teevee show.
I do not want to hear about everything wrong with this judge. In the fight we’re in right now, it doesn’t matter. I want him contrasted with trump. “What a refreshing change to deal with someone who while dangerously misguided, is not cruel, stupid,or a manipulative sneak. If republicans are going to wipe their asses with the constitution, destroy comity, and flat steal a supreme court seat, this is the best we could hope for.”
Major Major Major Major
One of my friends retweeted somebody, “Trump shouldn’t get to appoint a Supreme Court justice in the final year of his presidency.” Lol!
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Don’t mourn; get another car. Older Saabs are quirky. You’d like one.
janeform
@Bupalos: Agree. Dems would confirm him under normal circumstances. The issue is the stolen seat, not the merits.
Peale
@JCJ: I try. I’m a cheesehead no longer. But I still know the state puns.
Suzanne
@Major Major Major Major: That is winful.
I am having adjustment despair. Nothing is going to fix this. The country is gone for the rest of my life. There are too many stupid people.
Peale
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: what about 1/2 1/2. They both get the seat but alternate days in the office?
Major Major Major Major
@Suzanne:
Now, now, be nice, some of them are just evil.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Calm down. Is he worse than the Great Depression? That gave us FDR.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I’d say he’s much more dangerous to the fabric of the nation than the great depression was, even if he doesn’t end up needlessly hurting as many people in the short term.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Suzanne: Karine Jean-Pierre of MoveOn specifically cited Flake and McCain as not being able to keep up with the contacts from constituents.
The important thing is to not let up. And light candles for RBG
Yarrow
@Major Major Major Major: Love that. I think I’ll start using it.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus:
Tracking.
EBT
@efgoldman: Me too! Tuba was my primary.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hang it from the knob of the front door.
debit
@Suzanne: Not to minimize your despair, because I feel it too. And I’m a cynic who tends to believe the worst of everything. But my boss is dying of cancer. And every time I think something sucks or is too hard or too hopeless, I think about her, and I sigh and press on. Because unless you’re dying, you have to keep fighting. Sometimes even when you’re dying (she’s still calling and writing our congress critters).
Omnes Omnibus
@Steve in the ATL: ::side-eye::
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: I live in a state of shame.
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m looking at a Prius, the wife wants me to get a Hyundai like hers.
NotMax
@efgoldman
We know that Soylent Green is people but still remain in the dark about who put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder.
(Obscure musical reference.)
EBT
@Adam L Silverman: Soylent Green may be people, but Soylent is still made in an old paint factory.
Adam L Silverman
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Mini now has a hybrid. I think its also a plug in hybrid. I’ve got the little Lexus hybrid – love the thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@debit: I am an optimist by nature. Keep swimming because the next stroke may hit a float. Who knows?
? Martin
Apple Considers Legal Options Against Trump’s Immigration Order
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I am sorry. I get the loss, if you have to do that. Odd is fun.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks, the Mini is probably over my budget, and plug-ins don’t work for me, I have to park on the street.
Major Major Major Major
@efgoldman: I don’t like him, and I say that as somebody who likes Slate.
debit
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve always thought if you can’t be an optimist, you should have as many as possible around. It helps to minimize the tendency to dive into despair, if nothing else.
ETA: Pets also help. You can’t be all woe is me when the cats need feeding and dogs want out.
Suzanne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Mr. Suzanne and I have called the, both this week.
@debit: I know. I’m trying to buck up. It’s difficult.
debit
Also too, I had a 14 hour day at work. Why am I still up? Goodnight, everyone.
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t think that Americans are smart enough to vote for a smart person after voting for this idiot. Like a lobster in a hot pot.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Why are the protests happening?
Yarrow
@Suzanne: Hang in there, Suzanne. If you need to take a break from it all to recharge, do that. We can’t predict how it’s all going to work out. All we can do is fight for what’s right and keep pressing on.
Sometimes the best thing to do is to step away for a bit. This is a marathon not a sprint and the fight will be waiting when you’re recharged and ready to relieve the next person who needs a break.
Omnes Omnibus
Bed now.
Gian
@Adam L Silverman:
and the air force really hates flying the A10. IMHO we should have an army air corp reinstated to fly that thing and any worthy sucessor
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Don’t go over to the dark side!
So the old wheels are just done?
Ruckus
@Suzanne:
It is difficult to understand how anyone could see the current “administration” as anything other than a clown show gone horribly wrong. But those people have been with us for a very long time. They tried to secede once, we’re still here. They tried to kill unions so they could fuck over workers (which of course they are still trying to do) and we are still here. They screamed about segregating the military and we’re still here………
On the other hand I feel this next period of history is going to be pretty rocky because we are being “governed” by sadistic morons so I get your angst. But we actually had more votes, for an actually qualified person, we can put on a lot more pressure and a lot quicker than any time in the past, and there is actually a large number of us on the not unreasonable side of the equation. We just need to keep the pressure on, keep pushing and have just a wee bit of hope. Wasn’t that one of the slogans from the last president?
Millard Filmore
Related to a comment in the recent past: the TV news reported a house fire in southern California that destroyed 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies.
Peale
@Millard Filmore: Local authorities have ruled out arson, but Alex Jones and the rest of the Trefoil hat brigade suspect it was a false flag operation.
joel hanes
@Peale:
For some reason “Oconomowauk / Peewaukee” is my favorite road sign anywhere.
It’s just fun to say out loud.
Religious opinions:
Grand Champion Brat from Miesfeld’s in Sheboygan FTW
Carr Valley Glacier Point Blue Cheese and aged cheddars and curd FTW
Nueske’s apple- and cherry-wood smoked bacon may not be the best in the world, but you couldn’t prove it by me.
New Glarus Brewery’s “Two Women”, “Spotted Cow”, and “Moon Man” are the perfect accompaniment to the above.
(every few years I vacation on the Chippewa Flowage NW of Hayward)
joel hanes
@NotMax:
who put the overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s chowder.
And with that:
Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are.
EBT
@joel hanes: Carr Valley Glacier Point Blue Cheese and aged cheddars and curd FTW <<< This sounds amazing and I only know what those words mean, not really in that order.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: The old wheels have gone to the boneyard. I feel like a shut-in.
NotMax
@joel hanes
Bonus points awarded for reference to the Schnozz.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Very funny scene in the John Laroquette Show back in the 90s involving an electric Ford Th!nk parked on the street while charging, a car cover and an elephant.
SWMBO
Reposting from the other night:
I have an autistic son who is 36 years old. We all went to see Hidden Figures last night and I’m having to explain cultural shifts over time. Why there were colored fountains and bathrooms and why the math whiz had to run a half mile to find a colored bathroom when she needed to pee.
Teaching him about this and the marches brings back how hard it is for him to assimilate social norms.
He was nonverbal until he was 4 years old. He was in speech therapy just trying to learn to make the sounds. And it was one step forward and two steps back, if we were lucky. Some of the time, the “normal” therapies didn’t work with him. Then it was come up with something that worked even if it had never been tried.
There were days and weeks of going over the same thing again and again, just trying to get something through that would stick. It was a long patient slog just to get him to something approaching normal. There were days I cried and felt like a failure. There were days I cried and felt like he was a failure. I have been through all the stages of grief so many times and sometimes all at the same time.
My point is that anything worthwhile is worth the fight. Yes there are setbacks. New trails to blaze because the old ones are overgrown. Feeling overwhelmed and frustrated because nothing seems to work. But-guess what!- sometimes it works. Sometimes it comes together and you win against the disability. He gets better and you know it was worth the fight.
Same with politics. Not every day is going to be a win. Not every day is going to be a failure. It is what it is. Take what you have and do the best you can with it. One step forward and two steps back. Whether you realize it or not, you may be dancing. The only ones who can stop us is us. We can do this dance. We have had a win this weekend after the inauguration. Now we organize, plan our next moves and dance. And as the late great Molly Ivins used to say, “Lawd, remember to have some fun.”
SWMBO
Also to paraphrase a recent President: YES WE CAN! AND YES WE WILL AGAIN!”
joel hanes
@EBT:
not really in that order
I think that if you copy/paste that exact string into a Google search bar
You will attain a rather limited form of enlightenment