Um...comment 154. (I can't believe I read that far...)
You and me both, brenda. Yikes!
Everybody dies, Tracey. Someone's carrying a bullet for you right now, doesn't even know it. The trick is to die of old age before it finds you.
Mal ,'The Message'
Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Nora Deirdre - Jul 17, 2008 4:43:38 am PDT #8308 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Kat - Jul 17, 2008 4:59:54 am PDT #8309 of 10003
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
definitely yikes.
Just watched Act II from Dr. Horrible. hmmm..
Allyson - Jul 17, 2008 5:08:17 am PDT #8310 of 10003
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
It's...all surreal. The story has gone bananas on right wing blogs. And i keep watching the story morph and twist. My brother was never put in jail. The police chief is a dumbass schmuck, but we all understand why my brother was charged with assault and we just sort of assume that the DA will drop the charges or get continued without a finding.
When it gets out that my brother was a Marine, I think it will add more fuel to the fire.
lisah - Jul 17, 2008 5:27:23 am PDT #8311 of 10003
Punishingly Intricate
Happy birthday, juliana!!!
Frankenbuddha - Jul 17, 2008 5:28:21 am PDT #8312 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Yikes, Allyson, I hope this all resolves as un-traumaitically as possible.
Happy birthday juliana.
I always thought the communion wafers tasted like the same stuff that Ice cream cones are made of.
I agree, but not the really crunchy ones (that we called "sugar cones"); the styrofoamy textured ones.
Sue - Jul 17, 2008 5:38:23 am PDT #8313 of 10003
hip deep in pie
the styrofoamy textured ones.
Exactly!
Tom Scola - Jul 17, 2008 5:43:24 am PDT #8314 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JULIANA!!!
tommyrot - Jul 17, 2008 5:46:03 am PDT #8315 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
the styrofoamy textured ones.
And they stick to the roof of your mouth and it takes a while to scrape them off....
ION, birthday happies juliana!!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 17, 2008 5:46:44 am PDT #8316 of 10003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Our communion wafers were little kernels of doughy bread that looked like pillow mints and tasted like ass. And, of course, we had a grape juice chaser. (I recall someone from another church being horrified that we didn't use wine, and thinking "So you buy wine being magically transformed into 2,000 year old blood that still looks and tastes just like wine, but the same happening to unfermented grape juice strains the bounds of credibility?")
tommyrot - Jul 17, 2008 5:49:18 am PDT #8317 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ION, The HIV Travel Ban Is Repealed
This is the ban that prohibited people who were HIV+ from entering the US.
Andrew Sullivan has been pushing this for a while now. This is what he says:
I'm not usually speechless but I'm ecstatic to report that the Senate just passed PEPFAR without the Sessions amendment, and Senator Biden, who managed the bill, just said they will probably avoid a conference with the House and send the bill forthwith to the president's desk. Barring some unforeseen event, the HIV Travel Ban - a relic of the days when HIV was a source of fear and stigma and terror - is finally over.
Obviously, the bigger achievement in PEPFAR is the funding for continued help for those with HIV and AIDS in the developing world - people whose plight is unimaginably worse than mine or so many others trapped by this HIV law. Bush's legacy in this is one for which he is rightly proud. But for those of us who have long dreamed of becoming Americans, and have been prevented by 1993 law from even being able to enter or leave the US without waivers or fear or humiliation, this is a massive burden lifted.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's one of the happiest days of my whole life. For two and a half decades, I have longed to be a citizen of the country I love and have made my home. I now can. There is no greater feeling.
eta:
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I've lived with this awful sense of insecurity, of fear of leaving the country, of visiting my family, of the lingering sense that my virus rendered me potentially deportable, that any roots I put down might be dug up suddenly one day - for fifteen years. The lifting of this threat - the sense that I now have a home I know will be secure for me and my husband - is indescribable.