And I've purposefully chosen to live as far from Republicans as possible so it's almost impossible to go outside my front door and step on their bunions.
I can think of ways you could've got further away.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
billytea - Jun 18, 2018 4:37:57 pm PDT #26315 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
askye - Jun 18, 2018 4:58:32 pm PDT #26316 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
Tom I think it sounds like progress.
I got more info about my aunt. She is partially paralyzed on her right side. She has been moved into rehab. The good news is that a few days ago she could only raise her right arm above her head by lifting it with her left hand but she can do that. Not sure how much of a struggle it is for her.
She didn't get into the rehab center she wanted but she got into a good one. They allow patients to be checked out for a day so Dad is hoping she can do that soon and they can take her home to pick out clothes she actually wants there and also to see Grandma.
I'm limiting my FB outage where there is some support by others. Buffistas are awesome.
I'm going to see if there will be any protests locally we don't have detention centers near here but Sen Tillis has an office in the next town and that is a gathering point for certain protests.
Calli - Jun 18, 2018 4:59:12 pm PDT #26317 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I can think of ways you could've got further away.
Yeah, about that. Do you know if Australia needs 50-something eLearning developers? Asking for a me.
New Zealand would be a perfectly acceptable compromise.
ETA: I'm glad your aunt's doing better, askye.
billytea - Jun 18, 2018 5:32:34 pm PDT #26318 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Yeah, about that. Do you know if Australia needs 50-something eLearning developers? Asking for a me.
I don't see why not!
aurelia - Jun 18, 2018 5:34:32 pm PDT #26319 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Did I mention the Australian gentleman I got into conversation with in the Cook Islands who was giving me the MAGA spiel?
Amy - Jun 18, 2018 5:45:27 pm PDT #26320 of 30002
Because books.
Did I mention the Australian gentleman I got into conversation with in the Cook Islands who was giving me the MAGA spiel?
Wow, really?
aurelia - Jun 18, 2018 7:19:31 pm PDT #26321 of 30002
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Oh yeah. He was very enthusiastic. He also proudly told me that he doesn't vote and was taken aback when I knew that voting was compulsory in Australia. I don't think I was quite what he was expecting.
beth b - Jun 18, 2018 7:36:04 pm PDT #26322 of 30002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
But then I also think there is no possible rational reaction to kids in cages.true
billytea - Jun 18, 2018 9:05:27 pm PDT #26323 of 30002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Did I mention the Australian gentleman I got into conversation with in the Cook Islands who was giving me the MAGA spiel?
We do have our own fringe, in the form of Pauline Hanson and her party, One Nation. She first came to prominence in the 90s railing against Asian immigration. She re-entered Parliament at our last election (in large part because our PM decided on an arcane, boneheaded move when calling the election, which had procedural implications).
However, while in the U.S. your xenophobes took over a major party and the White House, One Nation only got four Senate seats out of 76. And then promptly imploded, with one Senator declared ineligible and two of them having now left the Party after falling out with Hanson. Which is not far off what happened to One Nation the first time round, with Hanson at one point being expelled from her own party. Our main saving grace is that our fringe populists are ridiculously incompetent.
Fiona - Jun 18, 2018 11:41:59 pm PDT #26324 of 30002
If other countries got together behind our back and decided to invade us over this shit, I would fly their goddamn flags on my porch.
I'm sorry, but with the US government attacking most of its [former] allies and cosying up to dictators, you're going to have to sort this mess out on your own.