Congrats Laura! You're going to be the Cool Grandma!
Prepare to uncouple -- uncouple.
Oz ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 21, 2020 4:03:39 pm PDT #22609 of 30019
"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
Kate P. - Jun 21, 2020 4:30:55 pm PDT #22610 of 30019
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Yay for such happy news, Laura!
billytea - Jun 21, 2020 4:32:24 pm PDT #22611 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Congratulations Laura!
Sheryl - Jun 21, 2020 4:35:51 pm PDT #22612 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Congrats Laura!
Laura - Jun 21, 2020 4:37:46 pm PDT #22613 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
It feels good to post happy news. Tate's dad races BMX and was already talking about bike modifications. The granddads were all about the fun plans.
Calli - Jun 21, 2020 5:10:30 pm PDT #22614 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congrats , Laura!
Beverly - Jun 21, 2020 5:15:58 pm PDT #22615 of 30019
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh, such happy news, Laura! Congrats to all involved!
I look at Tulsa and the amazingness of TikTok and Teens, etc. and am joyed.
And then I look at Kentucky closing--what--90% of their polling places and realize that 45 is not going to give up. He--and his machine--will shut down polling or declare some emergency and "suspend," delay, or "postpone" the election. Indefinitely. He may appear defeated, but he and his supporters are not going to be ousted by legal or traditional means. If they can't cheat their way back into the White House, they'll do it by fiat.
I hope I'm wrong.
-t - Jun 21, 2020 5:22:08 pm PDT #22616 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Yay, Laura! Y'all have good plans.
DavidS - Jun 21, 2020 6:39:05 pm PDT #22617 of 30019
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
He may appear defeated, but he and his supporters are not going to be ousted by legal or traditional means. If they can't cheat their way back into the White House, they'll do it by fiat.
He's struggling in the swing states he took in 2016: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania. He's straight up behind in those states. And there are several more states that are in play now like Florida and Arizona.
He's even vulnerable in Georgia, North Carolina and even Texas is close (shockingly).
Also, the Senate is seriously in play right now with GOP incumbents polling behind their challengers in GA, AZ, ME, CO.
He's lost the independent voters he won in 2016, the suburbs that voted against him in 2018 are even stronger against, and he's losing some Evangelical voters, and a good number of Catholic voters.
Before Covid and the BLM protests he might have squeaked out an electoral victory based on the economy, but everything is mitigating against him right now and his base is not a majority.
Also, I think he's not-well and is not really interested in another four years. I think he would excuse away his loss as being an aberration of the pandemic and slink away.
[knock wood]
Gris - Jun 21, 2020 7:25:38 pm PDT #22618 of 30019
Hey. New board.
Congrats Laura!