'Shindig'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue, No, no you should not. Thanks though.
So I knitted with the quilters and we all had lunch and it was lovely. Now I am home and have an hour before I need to get mac, because today is day one of his tutoring (Language Arts, which he is at risk of failing for this 6 weeks).
Anyone know where I put my return address labels?
ION, Meth 1; Drug War 0
In one of the most recent escalations of the War On Drugs, Congress made it more difficult to buy certain over-the-counter pharmaceuticals, arguing that the restrictions would help the fight against meth. That's why I have to jump through hoops to get a little Sudafed. Surprise!:
Electronic systems that track sales of the cold medicine used to make methamphetamine have failed to curb the drug trade and instead created a vast, highly lucrative market for profiteers to buy over-the-counter pills and sell them to meth producers at a huge markup. An Associated Press review of federal data shows that the lure of such easy money has drawn thousands of new people into the methamphetamine underworld over the last few years.
Radley Balko sums up the rest of the findings:
Meth use was also up 34 percent in 2009. So the new laws are inconveniencing law-abiding people who want to treat cold and allergy symptoms, have had either zero or a positive effect on meth use, have lured new people into the meth trade, and have created a bigger market for smuggling meth and meth ingredients into the country from Mexico. But perhaps we should go easy on the politicians who passed these laws. I mean, it’s not like anyone could possibly have predicted any of this.
Anyone know where I put my return address labels?
Top right drawer.
Sue, No, no you should not. Thanks though.
But it's pink! And fuzzy!!!
Also, aigh, vaseline in eyes
In boot camp, we couldn't wear make-up, so we put vaseline on our eyelashes when it came time to have our pictures taken for the year(unit?)book. It did not sting, but neither did it make our eyelashes look any darker.
How exactly does putting vaseline on your lashes darken them?
Vaseline makes dirt stick to the lashes?
So, why did so many news organizations report that Gabrielle Giffords had died? I heard somewhere that many of these reports were based on NPR? So, did NPR just jump to conclusions based on her being shot in the head?
ION, there was an alcohol-related accident on the freeway at 9 AM today. Who the hell is that drunk at 9 AM? Or maybe it's "still drunk"?
The hit-and-run drunk driving case I was on the jury for (What about the plaid?) regarded an incident at 10am.
NPR itself on Giffords' "death": [link] - they had 2 sources, 1 in the Sheriff's office.
I am SO OVER the inability of the South to deal with snow. People mocked me (online, not here) for suggesting we all shovel our sidewalks. Seriously? If anyone but me had tried, we totally could have cleared our street today. Snow day 3 tomorrow.
They'd be in deep trouble in Madison. I forget how many hours you have to clear your sidewalk before you get ticketed, starting at $100.