Buffy ,'Get It Done'
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.
Re: flat Stanley
My cousin's son sent me their school's knockoff version of him (a gingerbread boy) and my postcard back to him got lost in the mail. I am sending a replacement this week, but just had the thought... Would anyone here be willing to send a postcard also- kinda telling the story that he got lost in the mail and visited other places. It might make up for it being so late. email me if you are willing and can get a picture postcard of your locale into the mail by monday or tuesday.
Timelies all!
Sleeepy....
The puppies are all tetris shaped at the 'mo.
Bonny, you're a genius! I so want puppy (or kitten) tetris!!!!
Do you have him loose, or closed off in one room?
He's closed off in the basement, which is two big rooms.
After a bit of laser pointer tag, he decided to come out from hiding, and is sniffing around things. He's meowing a bit and rubbing up against everything, even me. Once in a while he remembers he doesn't like me and gives me a hiss and a swipe, but he's getting a little comfortable.
He also found a twist tie on the floor (from my new computer!) and brought it over and dunked it in his water dish. Cute! I think I got some points from not getting mad when he then knoked over his water dish. Now he's having a nosh.
Still, you could dictate it into a tape in five minutes and have somebody type it up.
Nooooes! Flat Stanley must have actually, physically, gone to the gym! Just think of the antics! Harumph. When Flat Stanley came to us, we took him places!
See, this is why idealists shouldn't be allowed to vote. We want people to tell us truths.
It seems to be a rainy day in puppy land.
Oooh, another jailbreak!
Sounds like things are progressing well, Sue.
Watkins brought her a 105-year-old great aunt, Juanita Dent Hopkins, to the polling place with her a few days prior. "We were going to let her sit in the car but she said, 'I'm walking in.' She really is in good health and her mind is alert and she knew what was going on."
Think for a moment about what was going on in North Carolina in 1903 and you begin to get a sense of just how historic this moment is. Emancipation came in 1863. African-Americans were nominally granted the right to vote in 1870; women, in 1920. But Hopkins would not have had a genuinely guaranteed opportunity to cast a ballot until after the Voting Rights Act of 1965—when she was 62 years old.
"They let her go to the front of the line," Watkins said. "She said, 'This is a day in history that I hope to be able to see come to fruition, that we'll have a change, and that Obama will be our next president."
Watkins carries with her another generation's history. She was among five teenage girls who desegregated Wake Forest High School 40 years ago—one of only two to graduate. "One of my white friends called me yesterday. He was protective of me, he saw what we were going through. He said, 'Theresa, did you ever think we would see this happen?' And I thought, No. But it's here."
A piece of trivia: The Economist has never endorsed the candidate of the party currently in the White House. (In 1996, they even endorsed Dole.) So you'd figure they would be endorsing Obama this time around, and they have. With IMO the most enthusiastic endorsement they've yet given. [link]
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Which puppy is making all the noise? and I feel bad for the one who is curled up by himself.