OMG, Matt, stay safe. Ditto everybody else in your vicinity.
What to get those hard-to-buy-for folks for Christmas this year? Your very own dedicated to you mass shooting! For a small additional fee, you can be included in the shootees, and for a significantly larger fee, you get to hold a firearm and participate yourself! The latest rage, everywhere!
There is surprisingly little coverage on this since The Donald monopolizes the news cycle
It's deliberate. Other "serious" Presidential candidates and corrupt public organizations alike are using his antics as a distraction--"Look! Look at the shiny! See how silly! Don't notice what we're doing over here."
Yeah, they *gave* us the pill popper and demonstrated its use when I threatened to bring Jenny to the office twice a day until her course of meds was done, to let the vet staff dose her. It worked pretty well. She still managed to spit the pill out a few times.
Guys? I think it means something when I'm more concerned about your safety in the States than my own in Jerusalem.
Please stay safe, and fingers crossed for a quick and peaceful solution of shooters events.
ASU gunman now in custody according to JPD, no one harmed so far as I know.
He was apparently a redneck protesting something. I suspect Obama taking his guns away, from the sound of the intelligence involved.
Gift for the people you don't know what to get or has everything is a donation to planned parenthood or everytown for gun safety.
I'm glad the ASU gunman didn't cause more problems.
And, you know when something's stupid but you find yourself doing it anyway? (Not re: guns, at least in this case.) Yeah, one of my conservative Christian relatives decided to post on my "cancer needs to stop killing people I love" FB post that cancer is caused by people sinning. So I'm engaging in a Biblical debate. With family. On Facebook. Because that always works out well.
Probably not gonna stop.
So I'm engaging in a Biblical debate. With family. On Facebook. Because that always works out well.
Might be a good time to tell you about something that I'm not sure if I shared here in the past or not.
About 8-9 months ago, I started something called "The Capybara Procedure". The procedure is that whenever an online friend reads a hateful talkback or is engaged with a kind of discussion that leads to severe headdesking with a possible injury, they must publicly post a picture of a capybara and cc me on it.
It usually breaks the cycle and gets me pictures of capybaras.
Oh Calli.
I have adulted. My expense reports are up to date. One more after next week and I'm done for the year.
She still managed to spit the pill out a few times.
Happens to us occasionally, too. We usually get it right the second time.
Calli, I would lose my fucking mind on someone who tried to tell me, in the comments section about losing a dear friend to cancer, that it's caused by sinning, blah blah blah.
In fact, I saw those comments and REALLY wanted to call her out for being so insensitive and uncaring, but I thought I ought not wade into that.
(It reminds me of a guy in the FAC whose dad died, and the guy gave a eulogy in which he said that he was most sad that he would not see his dad in heaven because his dad didn't accept Christ and would therefore not go to heaven. For reals, this dude said in front of his grieving extended family that his dad was going to hell. HOW IS THAT OKAY.) (Spoiler: it's not.)
