We're almost there, and this still holds.
With ALL the noise & politicking at full volume:
– Nothing matters but your vote.
– Nothing counts but your vote.
– Nothing is more powerful than your vote.
…
Please vote. https://t.co/Okrp8cfUu8
— Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 3, 2022
Remember, Sharing is caring:
Around the country, there is a party that has been phenomenally successful not only in getting states to make it more difficult for their citizens to vote, but in penalizing those who encourage the exercise of our fundamental freedom to choose our representatives.
— Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 2, 2022
This is the same party that now claims election fraud any time their candidate doesn't win.
This is the same party that has a playbook for gerrymandering in election years, fully knowing that their maps will be thrown out after the election.
This is a party of chaos.
— Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 2, 2022
I won't tell you WHO to vote for, & I understand that voting in this election may seem unappealing.
– but take a step back and ask, "can I vote for candidates who's trying to stop those who would prevent my vote from counting in the FUTURE?"
Please.
— Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ (@padresj) November 2, 2022
With a grateful heart I thank all who sent kind words and prayers for Paul. It’s a long road but he will be well.
Our security, our Democracy, our planet, our values are on the ballot. Believe that we will win — and help Get Out The Vote to make it so.-NPhttps://t.co/sWs0cfdQJN
— Nancy Pelosi (@TeamPelosi) November 4, 2022
The commentator/media concern-trolling over Biden talking about democracy being on the ballot is extremely silly. It's a super-intuitive issue ("if the GOP obtains power through democratic means, they will abuse it to end democracy") and….presumably important to people who vote
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) November 4, 2022
Seems like hammering a (true!) narrative about GOP threats to democracy is better electoral strategy than playing defense against fear-mongering over fake crime waves and trying to refute the myth that the president has a magic gas prices lever
— Hemry, Local Bartender (@BartenderHemry) November 4, 2022
This is the line to #earlyvote at the Memorial Union on UW-Madison’s campus right now. You absolutely love to see it. On Wisconsin! pic.twitter.com/hxBULYW2A2
— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) November 4, 2022
Nobody knows anything
Just vote. https://t.co/m0NVBhWoDz— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) November 4, 2022
"We can't accept that this is somehow the new normal." https://t.co/yef4JKm657
— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) November 3, 2022
NEVER STOP FIGHTING TILL THE FIGHTING IS DONE https://t.co/ZIU7bnHhWp
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) November 5, 2022
Baud
I like the spirit.
OzarkHillbilly
No sleep at all last night. Blech.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Hate those types of nights.
OzarkHillbilly
This is pretty cool: Mountaineers recover cameras lost in 1937 expedition to Canadian peak
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: A couple of times I started drifting, only to get yanked back. I finally gave up at 4:30 when I remembered my PO box payment is due and came fully awake because, “I have to take care of this today.”
Just not at 4:30 in the AM.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
We’re on a short pleasure jaunt in DC right now. Thursday morning after we arrived, we did a Capitol tour (arranged by John Yarmuth’s office, because as I expected, that dink Massie didn’t do shit even though he’s my congressman where my home is – thankfully, I work in Yarmuth’s district).
I have a lot more thoughts about J6 than I previously did.
– Those “off the books” recon trips that Boebert, Green and some others did were genuinely treasonous. The stuff you see on the canned tours is fun and delightful, but would give zero useful intel on the layout of the building. Frankly, public hangings should be in order for what Eastman, Cruz and the rest of them nearly accomplished – it was a close run thing.
– The mob was called out in force on known misinformation by the Trumpist cabal. They have their own info bubble, and fact generally doesn’t impact it. Doesn’t excuse them, but it makes the motives clear.
– Ashli Babbitt was a catspaw and a gamble – had the officer who put her out of our misery hesitated, she’d have been a security distraction and the mob would have gotten through.
– Somebody let those goobers know that Pelosi wasn’t operating from her official chambers that day (they’re pretty much in the open). That person needs to be brought to Justice.
– Everybody on staff we encountered – even with heightened security – was extremely nice. Nicer than I expected and nicer than they should be under the circumstances. I felt awful for what they went through that day and the weeks after.
– The people on tour were happy and chirpy and normal as expected, not a pack of MAGA choads. Families, older couples like us, tour groups, foreign visitors. I hate to think of the demeanor of the VIP entry clowns on January 5, knowing what they had planned.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@OzarkHillbilly:
Xanax will break that cycle. When I’m getting that way, I’ll take it a couple of nights in a row.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
dmsilev
Thank you all for your kind thoughts a couple of nights ago. My uncle passed early this morning, so at least finally his ordeal is over.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
idle thought of the moment – the banks that did the financing should be sweaty over Musk, and institutional investors with Tesla shares in portfolios should be dumping them.
Its a big enough lump of loss to take enabling banks and investors down, too.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I got an injection the day before I went fishing in the Keys last week and had two nights of that. Then I put the patch behind my ear and THAT kept me up another night!
rikyrah
Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 (@KwikWarren) tweeted at 6:32 AM on Sat, Nov 05, 2022:
Racism’s at the heart of this election denialism in America. Republicans hate that black, brown&Indigenous voters in states like Georgia,Arizona,Nevada, Pennsylvania&Michigan stopped Shitler cold. Hence all the voter suppression laws&bogus claims of election fraud aimed at POC.
(https://twitter.com/KwikWarren/status/1588856792330665984?s=02)
rikyrah
@dmsilev:
So sorry for your loss😢🙏🏿
Baud
@dmsilev:
My condolences.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Racism has been at the heart of every election since 1964.
Baud
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
https://i.redd.it/0db2vhuz75y91.jpg
dmsilev
@rikyrah: , @Baud: Thank you. It’s been a hard month (this all started in early October when he went to the hospital after a fall), but at least now there’s some sense of closure.
rikyrah
🤗🤗🤗🤗
Becca Brubaker (@itsmebecca) tweeted at 4:05 PM on Fri, Nov 04, 2022:
Words cannot express how much I love this TikTok of @staceyabrams visiting Target. https://t.co/nRv3z5mRfJ
(https://twitter.com/itsmebecca/status/1588638493625831424?s=02)
Raven
@dmsilev: I’m sorry to hear this.
Raven
@dmsilev: I signed up for a “fall education “ study at the university.
BlueGuitarist
@dmsilev:
condolences. may his memory be a blessing.
Raven
Anyone signed up for Mastadon? It won’t take my password when I try to register.
dmsilev
@Raven: In retrospect, the fall was more a symptom of his physical decline than a cause; he had been losing mobility for a few years, but gradually enough that it never really stood out to anyone around him.
Baud
@Raven:
Been meaning to, but haven’t tried yet.
BlueGuitarist
Have people been talking about this blasphemy:
link to Huffpost: “Holy Hell: On 8th Day ‘God Made’ Ron DeSantis, Says New Campaign Ad”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-desantis-god-video_n_6365bdd7e4b08f849aab7820
dmsilev
@Raven: Which Mastodon? My understanding, just from what I’ve read, is that it’s a decentralized system, so all of the different nodes or whatever have their own login systems.
OzarkHillbilly
@dmsilev: He is at rest now. Sorry for your loss.
Baud
@BlueGuitarist:
The only Christians left who would care are already voting for Democrats.
dmsilev
@OzarkHillbilly: Thank you.
Raven
@dmsilev: I can relate. I’m looking at spine surgery again to try to recover my ability to walk any distance. It hasn’t gotten worse in the last couple of years but all my efforts haven’t made it better either. I’m going to the game today and will have to do lots of walking to my upper deck seats.
Raven
@dmsilev: yikes! I just picked the first one.
Baud
@Raven:
I think mastadon.social is the one most people are gravitating to.
sab
@Baud: mastodon.social is the one that emptywheel says she os goimg ro.
mrmoshpotato
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Oh, they should be pooping their pantaloons.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Baud:
Ackshually…
mrmoshpotato
@BlueGuitarist: LOL! A delusion so big, you can see it from space.
mrmoshpotato
@dmsilev: Sorry for your loss.
JMG
@OzarkHillbilly: Too bad you don’t play golf. I find I can bore myself to sleep by recounting my latest round to myself as I lie in bed.
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: but not from my house.
mrmoshpotato
Ohio State @ Northwestern
ESPN gives NU a 1.6% chance of winning. I predict 69-0 after the first quarter. Oops, 690-0 after the first quarter.
Jinchi
Opening line in a CNN article that never mentions the Democrat is polling ahead of her Republican rival by an average of 7 points.
The only polls that have this race close were conducted by the Trafalgar group and Citizen’s United (both Republican outfits).
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Way to give away that your house isn’t in space…
Raven
@Baud: Thanks!
Raven
@mrmoshpotato: Go Dawgs!!
satby
Voted early yesterday, and am always annoyed by the bullshit hoops IN makes voters jump through. Signatures multiple times (electronic too, so not likely to match), multiple checkpoints, mini-interrogation about if you still live at your registered address. I was a poll worker 10 years in IL, and never put people through that many steps. I always walk out enraged at the Republicans.
Geminid
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: Tesla stock seems overvalued, with a Price to Earnings ration near 70 to one. By contrast, Toyota’s P/E is around 10.5 to one. Yesterday Tesla stock dropped 3.6% while the S&P 500 gained 1.2%.
Tesla’s stock price will probably level off, maybe gain back some. But there had been a sort of ratcheting process that has caused the stock to lose almost 50% of its value since its high last year. A freefall may just be a matter of when. Perhaps when sales of electric vehicles by Ford, GM, Nissan and others finally surpass sales of Teslas. They will double Tesla’s not that long afterwards.
I only know one Tesla owner and to my knowledge, no stockholders. I can only speculate as to the latter’s motivation. Possibly some are betting on Tesla because they want to bet on Musk, who they see as a real life version of Ayn Rand’s John Galt. And there has been a ton of money made by tech sector actors in the last ten years, and some of these may identify with Musk as an even more successful version of themselves.
Either way, Tesla’s value seems largely propped up by Musk’s prestige. Now that he is majority owner of Twitter, that company’s and Tesla’ equity values could have a very destructive synergy.
And I can’t wait to see it!
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: Only my head is spaced.
Ken
Agreed, though perhaps not the best way to phrase it — unless it was deliberate, in which case congratulations.
I have seen
reportsrampant speculation that the financing deal was signed earlier this year, and the banks thought they’d have time to do their usual “privatize profit, socialize risk” thing. But then Musk delayed things for a couple of months, people started taking a closer look, and it became impossible for the banks to offload that paper.Ken
@dmsilev: I’m sorry for your loss.
OzarkHillbilly
@Geminid: Please pass the popcorn.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Ken:
Thing is, which dumbasses at the banks signed off on it? Those loans are not well secured, and I can imagine a circumstance where BoA and JP Morgan/Chase beg for a bailout to save “the system” when everything goes to shit.
I’m figuring they bypassed standard processes even for jumbos.
Baud
@satby:
No strip search?
Baud
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
“We have to stay on Musk’s good side. He’s a winner.”
Suzanne
@dmsilev: May his memory be a blessing. And may you and your family all find comfort in one another right now.
zhena gogolia
@dmsilev: I’m very sorry.
Cheryl from Maryland
Dear Jackals: I’ve been mostly lurking on this blog since 2007. I wanted to let the Jackalteriat know that my husband of 43 years, Wayne Mitchell, passed away last Sunday. He had been in poor health for a long time. We did get our votes in via mail.
He didn’t read this blog (or any other), but I would regale him with stories of Tunch, Rosie, Shitmas, naked mopping, and the vanishing mustard. He took great joy that I was joyful.
For those interested, here’s a link to his obituary at the funeral home.
MomSense
@dmsilev:
I’m sorry for your loss. It can feel disorienting after going through this. Sending peace and sympathy to you and your family.
mrmoshpotato
@Raven: That’ll be a good game.
MomSense
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Oh Cheryl I’m so sorry. Sending condolences to you.
UncleEbeneezer
I hate this shit:
“You’re tired of the politicking, of being disappointed & lied-to, of having to vote for the “lesser of two evils,” Your vote should be FOR something & not AGAINST. I get it.”
I put together a spreadsheet of all the candidates in the 2020 Primary and all the major issues and what they were running on. I had to abandon it because it was SO FULL of policies that it became unmanageable. Anyone who says they can’t see anything in Dems platform that they are “For” is full of shit. And tired of “lesser of two evils?” well welcome to life you whiny little turd. Ugh. I can’t stand people who are ambivalent about voting.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Baud:
Yeah, pretty much like that.
“Normal underwriting waived”
Another Scott
@dmsilev:
Seems like it could be a problem if one doesn’t want 435 accounts. One server will become dominant and then network effects take over.
(via nycsouthpaw)
Cheers,
Scott.
UncleEbeneezer
@Cheryl from Maryland: So sorry to hear that. Wishing you all the best for the difficult days ahead. (Virtual hug)
Suzanne
@Cheryl from Maryland: Cheryl, I’m so, so sorry. Sending you much love. Wayne sounds like he was amazing.
OzarkHillbilly
MagdaInBlack
@Cheryl from Maryland: I am so sorry for your loss. I read the obituary. What a fine man to have had as a partner in this life.
Another Scott
@dmsilev:
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Condolences to you both, to your families, and to all who knew and loved them. Be easy with yourselves. Remember the good times.
Best wishes,
Scott.
OzarkHillbilly
@Cheryl from Maryland: May he rest among a dozen gently nuzzling wombats.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
I hate wee hours like that when the brain latches onto something and won’t STFU.
Ask your doctor about Zaleplon (used to be sold under the brand name Sonata, but I think it’s strictly generic now). If it’s 2am and you’ve already been awake for an hour and your brain just won’t shut up, after taking one you can almost watch your thoughts break up into little bits as you descend into blissful sleep.
It’s a fairly strictly controlled prescription drug, so I use it basically to break the cycle of insomnia: if I’ve had two shitty nights and at 1 or 2am it’s clear that I’m having a third, that’s when I’ll take one.
If you can get your doc to prescribe 30 per year, that’s 2-3 times a month that it can break the cycle. It really reduces the dread factor, knowing that the nights won’t keep getting worse indefinitely.
Scamp Dog
@Cheryl from Maryland: Let me add my condolences. I read the obituary, and better understand how he’ll be missed. May his memory be a blessing!
Baud
@Cheryl from Maryland:
I’m very sorry.
Argiope
Reporting in from official Dem poll observing shift at an OH BOE for early voting. Just had a 30-something woman show up with her mom and they both thought she could register for the first time, wait 30 minutes and then vote. Maybe in another state…. At least she got registered.
OzarkHillbilly
Time to hit the road. I will probably stop and take a nap at some point.
lowtechcyclist
@Cheryl from Maryland:
I’m sorry for your loss. It sounds like he was quite a guy, the sort of person I’d loved to have known. I know you must miss him terribly, and my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Lady WereBear
@dmsilev: I’m sorry, those drawn-out kinds of things are very sad. My condolences.
Eunicecycle
@Cheryl from Maryland: so sorry for your loss. That is a wonderful obituary.
Matt McIrvin
It seems like the left-leaning blogs that are slightly less politics-junkie than us are just now getting around to people proclaiming that now the Republicans have Big Mo and it’s because the Democrats are fucking up and not doing anything. There’s kind of a lag. They’re just venting but I hope it doesn’t discourage people from voting.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
I love it when liberals regurgitate media talking points.
Eunicecycle
@Argiope: I think we had same day registration/vote for one cycle 20 years ago or so. But of course that made things too easy and we can’t have that!
Suzanne
So I was just planning put the next two weeks of work activities with my team, and Tuesday has shaped up to be a crazy day of workshops with the client. So I might have to wake up early and be first in line to vote.
dmsilev
@Lady WereBear: Thank you, and thanks to everyone else for their kind words. He had a great life; spent about thirty years as an elementary school principal and made a difference to literarily thousands of children, and had a great time after retiring.
Lady WereBear
@satby: Every time I go back to the deep Midwest …
Like having only powdered dairy for coffee, and being mocked for asking.
How the narrow-eyed local with the dismembered fetus on their shirt would look at you, a woman, in the elevator.
Having retail employees eye me skeptically and walk away because I’m obviously “not from around here.”
And I never will be, because it makes me eager to cut a visit short.
Eyeroller
@Cheryl from Maryland: Dear Cheryl, I lost my 63-year-old husband to cancer going on a year ago, and it’s been hell. I am so sorry and I think I understand what you must be going through.
kalakal
@Cheryl from Maryland: My condolences. I’m so sorry for your loss. Wayne sounds like he was great, what a good life.
Lady WereBear
@Cheryl from Maryland: What a devastating blow. I was a widow in 1999, and do make sure to take care of you, now.
kalakal
@dmsilev: My condolences to you and your family
Geminid
@OzarkHillbilly: Not to rub it in, but Bank of America CEO Jaime Moynihan says he’s getting plenty of sleep…sort of. In a CNBC interview Moynihan was questioned about his bank’s investment in Musk’s Twitter deal:
Another CNBC article from the same day listed 7 banks that were putting up $13 billion towards the Twitter acquisition, over a quarter of the $44 billion cost. Morgan Stanley was one, with $3.5 billion invested.
Musk accounted for over half the money, so I guess the remaining investors are the 10 or so private equity outfits listed in the article, including Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund.
Cheryl from Maryland
@OzarkHillbilly: Thank you. That was perfect. The Wombat Sanctuary he supported named one of their recent joeys “Wayne.” He would call the joey “Wayne, Jr.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Cheryl from Maryland: I am so sorry. Peace and strength to you
Argiope
@Cheryl from Maryland: Wayne, Jr—how wonderful. I’m so very sorry for your loss.
satby
@dmsilev: so sorry! Condolences to all your family.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I looked at mastodon and backed away because it’s complicated. Maybe I’ll check out tumblr and snapchat. I should use tiktok, I suppose.
satby
@Cheryl from Maryland: And condolences to you and all who loved Wayne as well.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I looked at Counter Social; mastodon just sounds like too much of a hassle. If Twitter goes away or becomes too toxic, I’ll do without.
narya
@Cheryl from Maryland: May his memory be for a blessing. He sounds like a wonderful, kind person. Thanks for coming here during this difficult time to share him with us all.
eclare
@Cheryl from Maryland: Oh I am so sorry for your loss. I think I have seen your nym here from time to time.
Ohio Mom
I can honestly say that this year I didn’t feel I was voting for any lessor of two evils. I like everyone I voted for and am confident they will (or could) do good jobs (some of them I am confident will get elected, some of them are destined to lose, looking at you, Nan Whaley, Dem for Governor).
But I admit some years there have been doozies on the Ohio Dem ballot that made me sigh as I colored in their little rectangles.
@dmsilev: That is similar to what happened with my uncle as well. For the few months before his hospitalization, he was goofy and weird and sometimes downright rude, we all wondered what had gotten into him. He was in a fender-bender and that was out of character too, he was always an ace driver.
Now we can look back and see it was his brain starting to shut down. Had we known, we would have cherished him even harder instead of being annoyed at his increasing inappropriateness. That was over twenty years ago and I still miss him.
@Cheryl from Maryland: My deepest sympathies. I read the obituary and my first reaction at seeing your DH’s photograph was, What a sweet face! Sounds like he sent his work life doing things that mattered and he helped made things better, and I hope there is comfort in knowing he lived his life well.
Be kind to yourself as you adjust to your new life without him, and please consider coming out of lurkdom.
Layer8Problem
@Cheryl from Maryland: So very sorry. It’s always heartening to see the community here express their concern for each other.
MisterDancer
@Another Scott: “siloed” is the Slack/Discord model, which is really popular as well.
People like Ashton don’t realize how difficult being in an Open Space can be for a lot of people of otherwise Good Will. I think spaces like Twitter “appear open,” actually, but in truth — even with good moderation — a lot of conversations just don’t happen there.
We — as a culture — need a number of different spaces, that support different types of communications and connections. But you also have to recognize that the more people in a space, the more challenges there are to managing it — and there’s few entities really up to doing that at scale, if any.
zhena gogolia
@Cheryl from Maryland: Oh, what a beautiful obituary. Please accept my condolences. He sounds (and looks) like a wonderful person.
Lady WereBear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Twitter was the only one I didn’t hate. Instagram doesn’t even give you a way to share a post without another app… even now.
And I won’t touch Facebook, who owns it now. It’s a real Which Villain dilemma, like shopping.
locanicole
@Cheryl from Maryland: My condolences. May his memory be a blessing.
narya
@dmsilev: That’s so lovely–so sorry for your loss, and glad you could be with your family.
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia: And now I have to explain to my husband why I’m crying.
BlueGuitarist
@Cheryl from Maryland:
condolences
(as expressed more eloquently by others)
eclare
@dmsilev: He sounds wonderful, to spend his career helping children. So sorry for your loss.
Planetjanet
@dmsilev: So sorry for your loss of your uncle. Your love for him comes through your messages. Take care of yourself.
Layer8Problem
@dmsilev: My condolences. It hurts to see someone loved in decline.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cheryl from Maryland:
My condolences. He sounds like he was a great guy. Take care of yourself.
rikyrah
@mrmoshpotato:
Poor Northwestern :(
Brachiator
@Cheryl from Maryland:
Very sad news. My condolences to you and your family.
rikyrah
@Cheryl from Maryland:
So sorry for your loss 🙏🏽😢
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: The guy who’s doing it the most has been posting “Biden is actually a shitty president” stuff from a “progressive left” perspective all year long.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@dmsilev:
My condolences for your uncle
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Jinchi:
How far CNN has fallen. What a shame
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Ok, then. That’s par for the course. It means as much to me as a MAGA complaining about Democrats.
Another Scott
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
GovExec – FCC Commissioner says TikTok should be banned in the US.
It’s always something.
Keep your eyes open about this social media stuff.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kathleen
@rikyrah: Racism is behind all of it, including the vile, vicious attacks on the Democratic Party.
Kathleen
@dmsilev: My condolences.
Fair Economist
@Cheryl from Maryland: Sorry for your loss, but glad this crazy blog has provided some real joy for you and your late husband.
Kathleen
@Raven: I’m sorry to hear you’re having a problem with walking. I hope you get some relief! I’m not here all of the time so I’m way behind in what’s going on with people here.
Kathleen
@satby: Believe it or not I’ve had no problem at all in Ohio with early voting at BOE or election day voting at my polling place. All I have to do is show them my driver’s license. But then I’m white. I can’t speak to any problems Black people have to face here.
Kathleen
@Cheryl from Maryland: My deepest condolences.
Miss Bianca
@dmsilev: My condolences.
Kathleen
@Baud: Biting my keyboard.
Miss Bianca
@Cheryl from Maryland: Oh, I am so sorry to hear it. My condolences to you.
TxTiger
The political cartoon at the top says it all.Ruth Ben-Ghiat released a short video on YouTube about the same topic. Her words? “Once the political violence starts, it is very difficult to contain.” She specifically speaks to Republican voters, asking them if this is what they really want for their country. Please watch and share.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYXAxWuC3k
Edited to add: @WaterGirl – this might be worth front paging
Kelly
@Cheryl from Maryland: My condolences. My first wife passed away 22 years ago after a long illness. Some of the sting is with me still but her memory is a blessing. I’ve found love again.
phdesmond
@dmsilev:
that’s a relief, at least — surcease from sorrow.
Captain C
@mrmoshpotato: So kind of like the Georgia Tech-Cumberland game of a century or so ago.
rikyrah
@Argiope:
In Illinois, if it’s done during Early Voting, it’s called GRACE Voting : You register and vote at the same time.
If you wait until Election Day, it’s called ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION. Same Deal – you can register and vote at the same time.
phdesmond
@Cheryl from Maryland:
the obituary is eloquent in few words. our thoughts are with you.
Sister Golden Bear
@dmsilev: My condolences. I’m so sorry for you loss.
Sister Golden Bear
@Cheryl from Maryland: I’m so sorry for your loss.
Juju
@Cheryl from Maryland: That was a touching obituary. I’m happy you found each other and had 43 years together. I’m so sorry for your loss.
Citizen Alan
@Baud: True. The overwhelming majority of white American christians would happily tattoo the mark of the beast on their foreheads if the Antichrist promised put the black’s, the gay, and the uppity bitches back in their place.
WaterGirl
@Cheryl from Maryland: Oh, Cheryl, I am so sorry your husband is gone. So very sorry.
He looks like a lovely man, his smile and his eyes tell me that. Glad you had each other, but it seems impossible to lose someone like that.
You are not that much of a lurker because I am very familiar with your gym.