Why in the world would Trump think if he demanded each side take a drug test, that Joe would refuse, and would give Trump an out from the debate? The only thing Joe's blood test would show was elevated a1c from all that ice cream. Let's see Trump's jacked up adderall drug test.
Trying to find a Samoan song I was taught as a child, includes the lyrics " kua fiafia". If anyone has a link, that would be great. Google doesn't recognize it as a song.
It's a delightful simple tune I have sung now for decades to the confusion of my New England neighbors. My grade school class sang it at our school's May Day celebration which, in Hawai'i was a celebration of all the different cultures in our state. We learned Bon dancing, square dancing, hula (of course), Filipino stick dancing (tinikling), the Kamehameha waltz, etc, and songs from around the Pacific.
When I was seven, I had elderly parents who talked often about old age forgetfulness. I wrote a letter to my future older self: "Dear Patty, Don't worry about forgetting things when you are old because you can't remember anything now. Sincerely, Patty."
Dream last night: I am surrounded by sweet happy dogs who all want a boop. I am booping this nose and that nose, happy wiggling dogs all rushing up for a boop. I realize slipped in among the dogs are a porpoise, an alien, and a lizard, each happy and wiggly, all wanting a boop. I happily oblige. Boop!
Had a dream last night where, in a moment of intense drama, I stood up and slapped the faces of three clocks, and my beloved late cat shook his head and muttered "This dream is too stupid for me" and sauntered out.
I wish I could say my dreams are never like this, but that would not be true.
I was just thinking about how my dreams vary from so bizarre I can't put them into words, to so mundane I sometimes forget that didn't actually happen.
@GabeMoralesVR
Says a person who is baiting an IRS audit. Good luck to you. Ignorance of the tax code is no defense. Advertising that ignorance is lunacy. "...for literally years and years..."
Instead of arguing that you've gotten away with it for "years and years", I'd declare yourself lucky, and delete this public admission.
I did a bad thing today. I am cleaning up the house and preparing for Saturday Dump Day when I take the trash and recycling to the Town Transfer Station. So, I cut up all the boxes, including the big one the cat has been sitting in. To my surprise, she mourned the box by pawing at its pieces, and trying to push herself underneath the pile. I am a bad senseless inconsiderate human.
Perhaps I am foolish (likely I am foolish) but something feels changed; the E Jean Carroll judgment, the collapsed Army of God Truck Caravan, the mocked rambling blathering of a "Nothing" 77 year old man desperate for attention, the rising Dobbs motivated voters in Red States, a father cruelly beheaded by his MAGA cursed son and broadcast on youtube.
It's been a terrible unspeakable horrific 8 years. Are we close to an end of the insanity? Are they running out of invisible steam?
@pattykimura I'm worried about the manipulations by 3rd party actors -- Russian propaganda infiltrating peoples' YouTube feeds through an algorithm that platforms fake news and malignant ideas. Stuff like that. We need to use this moment to teach some online literacy and awareness of how people can easily be manipulated.
Hearing Christian Evangelicals idolize Trump as King David, a flawed lascivious murderous King who was chosen by God to be King. David was not actually a Christian, he preceded the life of Jesus by 1000 years.
Curious that "Christians" would forsake the believed actual Son of God Jesus Christ who led a life not characterized by pussy-grabbing, adultery, lying, encouraging assassination, to justify the idolatry of Trump.
I woke to realize how few years, statistically, I have left on this earth. Time to get cracking!
Less years, even, to continue to work -- I better get my files in order for the next person. Clean up the bedroom. Love the cat, and my beloved wife. Learn new things, unexpected things.
I am not afraid of aging, I am more curious about what life and the world might be if I outlive my statistical end and get to see 100. My mom made it to 97, my grandma to 105.
Curiosity has always out weighed fear, in my life.
Happy New Year to the curious, the fearful, the undecided, all!
@pattykimura
I had a lot of paternal family members who made it into their 90s and I don't think that's a milestone that I want to achieve. Still, I'm busily storing up experiences and learning to keep me company as I age. Really enjoying the journey.
The irony of the Nikki Haley "states rights" Civil War cause of "freedom" from the "tyranny of a federal government" "denying the rights of individual states to self-determination on slavery" is that those modern human enslavement apologists have clearly NEVER read the Constitution of the Confederacy which enshrined its federal right to deny and overrule the "states right" of any confederated state to abolish human slavery.
It was never about states rights. It was always about the cause of human enslavement. That's their Lost Cause.
Did I read this? MAGA has now declared War on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving parades, and non-testicular tanned Charlie Brown led by angry pale thin alpha Stephen Miller.