Ha! My parents got me the wifi crockpot for my birthday. They know me well.

That sounds wonderful, -t!

I'm thinking through how I want to vote in my state's primary, as it's an open primary. I need to figure out if I want to vote for the Dem candidate I want to see nominated, or if I want to vote for the least worst Republican.

I think what it will come down to is which race is closest.

That's awesome, -t.

I just made an hour of calls for a transgender anti-discrimination bill, and that was so much. They want you to do two hours, but I couldn't take it.

My parents registered republican back when they loved on CA so they could vote against Reagan for guv in the primaries.

Today was. I compartmentalize. Mom got an email from Molly, Carolyn is awake. Molly even got a laugh from her despite many broken ribs. And everything. I really want to make sure we take care of Molly too. She's got so much to deal with. Lost her dad, mom in long term recovery, mom's emotions.

Oh Sara. I’m so sorry to hear of your loss. What a tragedy.

sara, I'm so sorry for your whole family. That is just unspeakably sad and awful. Wishing you all strength and comfort wherever it can be found.

Nashville is now on the board for my husband's job search. Interviews tomorrow.

Ooh! Keep us posted!

Oh, sara. So awful.

I am pleased that the last of the occupiers at Malheur NWR is in police custody, and the FBI picked up Cliven Bundy, who is so retrograde as to belong in a movie about the range wars of the 1870s.

Did you know that the reason those jackasses "built a road" with the federal bulldozer is because they thought it would magically "improve" the land, and give them ownership of the refuge? Oh, yeah, that's some magical legal thinking. (The Homestead Act does not apply to wildlife refuges!)

Anyway, the DOJ is bringing in an ART CRIME team to evaluate all the damage done to the archaeological sites and artifacts in storage, and there will likely be a raft of charges filed, just under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act, not to mention all the other stuff like threatening federal employees and theft of federal property.

I cannot WAIT for the trials. t rubs hands gleefully

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Heh.

Did you know that the reason those jackasses "built a road" with the federal bulldozer is because they thought it would magically "improve" the land, and give them ownership of the refuge?

That's the argument they're using in Southern Utah as part of a long-going battle to claim all the federal/public lands for private ownership, that the pioneer cattle paths and rutted wagon trails are proof of continuous use, so the lands they're on can't qualify for wilderness. It's a popular thing to do illegal ATV rides along anything that's identified as a trail on any map so they can claim it as a public thoroughfare. Bundy and his family and their buddies in southern Utah have a long history of threatening the BLM people down there, but the local officials are all pals/relatives/fellow church members of the Bundies et al. and got elected on the platform of wrestling that land away from the Feds/public and into the hands of the public/land developers. There are state-level legislators who are working diligently at getting public lands into the hands of the more deserving public, ie developers and the ranchers who object to paying the grazing fees they agreed to when they put their cattle on the BLM land.

We here in Utah have been following these people with glee and horror.

Sarameg, ND, I'm so sorry.