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  1. People are still falling for his schtick. He hawks some sort of prepper goods on a Christian religion tv channel. James Randi outed the "faith healer" Peter Poppof on the Johnny Carson show back in 70s but Poppof continues to have audience on a Christian tv channel.
  2. Same here. It was my primary reason for a years-long absence from the WTM forum. I hope your transgender child is doing well. My child suffered terrible bullying at the parochial school that affects his mental health to this day. The school officials immediately denied that any of those "kids from nice families" would be heartlessly cruel to another student. It was only when I put a keystroke logger on computer that I had evidence to present to school and to one of the bully's parents, who blamed it on a neighbor child. Yeah, right. I was advised by the school's "counselor" to send my child to pray-away-the-gay camp so I assume counselor assumed that my transgender female-to-male child was gay. Actually my child and others from the local LGBT youth group had been to the pray-away-the-gay camp to protest effects of conversion therapy on LGBT teens. Some of my child's tormenters have since reached out to apologize which he has graciously accepted. I truly hope they teach their own children to behave better than they themselves did. None of them had the courage to lose any social points by befriending my child. Joker2, feel free to privately contact me if you ever need to talk with a parent whose child has completed transition and living relatively successful life. Certain social critics dub controversial ideas, conditions, and things "trendy" as a code-speak putdown. Do not know if that is true of the author nor am I willing to read enough of the material to confirm.
  3. I have not used hand sanitizer during or before pandemic and no plans to use afterwards. I wash my hands on an as needed basis but not as frequently as CDC recommends. We wear masks when we go out due to my serious illness and spouse's COPD and only go to grocery store regularly. However, we have not upgraded yet to the N95 or KN95s. Never before or during pandemic have I ever commented on anyone's masking habits, sanitizing habits (except when children were young), vaccination habits and do not plan to post pandemic. Learned that I was not impervious to mask wearing criticism when client pointed out that we were now supposed to wear N95s, but most clients understandably vent about the masks and want to remove them. Frankly at this juncture I do not care one way or the other what other people do; my family and I will continue doing what we think is reasonable to protect our health regardless of other people's caution or recklessness. My daughter's job requires constant face to face interaction with clients and customers. Due to abusive and rude customers during pandemic, she is now looking to change careers. The police were called to escort one man out of the building after he threatened to physically attack my daughter. Sexual harassment is another factor in her decision but that obviously is not limited to pandemic behavior.
  4. Take the kids to a movie or play or something else that they can all enjoy. We are big on experiences over objects here.
  5. I am here at office ALONE on Sunday working on gigantic death tax return and the associated funding of trusts post death. Various people continue to tell me they want to learn about gift and death taxes so someone will be familiar with them when I retire; the other partner who was well versed in them has already retired. However, every single time I remind those people that we have a new death tax project, they are "too busy to get to it right now" but not so busy that they are working weekends.
  6. Hm. I think our cats may have been littermates. Our old guy is 21 almost 22 and has been a healthy animal until he recently developed a chronic cough. He has lung damage, is on palliative care and responding well. We hope he has a couple more years or even more left in him. Yes, he has costs us thousands of dollars but we love him.
  7. I can relate. Our maniac cat has destroyed a houseful of furniture, stair rails, some areas of wall. He has cat towers, condos, scratching posts, and other cat entertainment products. He is the only pet left in household so he gets all the attention.
  8. Instead of moving bowl outside, you could keep it indoors and put it inside a cookie sheet or cake pan.
  9. I am responding to this without reading any other replies. When I consider your daughter's situation from a manager's standpoint, to have already missed a few weeks since beginning of cold flu season which I suppose is late September or early October is excessive number of absences. The manager probably suspects that your daughter is taking off sick longer than necessary. As a manager, I would probably terminate her if she did not show up at work and did not have proof of a positive Covid test. Further, I would have asked for doctor's note before she returned after being out a week with URV the 2nd time it happened. How serious is your daughter about keeping the job? Is she willing to quit because she frequently contracts whatever URV the children spread around? Will she understand that once she is on her own financially, she probably cannot quit a job without another one to go to? We agreed with one of our young adult children's decision to quit a low paying job. She was still living at home. An angry co-worker who was escorted out of building threatened to return to shoot everyone. One option is for daughter to ask for enough time off to get the Covid test that is available to her. It is a sad fact and commentary on our nation's family values that workers are routinely covertly denied sick leave even when corporate policy states they are entitled to a certain number of days sick leave. The manager is desperate for people to care for all the children who will show up Monday morning. In fact, the manager probably will function as child caretaker until she can find more staff. Been there done that. I have watched all the staff leave promptly at 5pm in spite of government-imposed due dates on the work we primarily do and worked until 2 or 3 in morning, spent night in sleeping bag on office floor and back at again before my co-workers rolled in at 8:30 a.m..
  10. Neck cricks can be surprisingly painful to be no big deal. It probably will resolve itself in next few hours. Buying and using an orthopedic pillow resolved my neck crick problems.
  11. Haven't we always had a singular "they?" An example would be: Someone left their sunglasses at the gas pump. I hope they (singular) remember where they (singular) left them. I call people whatever they want to be called. They (plural) do not get upset when I make the occasional slip up. All the controversy swirling around this pronoun issue would be amusing if it were not "real." Change is hard, especially for oldsters. Since I am not very involved in social media or in monitoring pop culture, I never learned that "hook up" now had risque meaning that involved much more than simply meeting friend or acquaintance for coffee or lunch until I used term in a conversation was having at work. Fortunately, a thoughtful compassionate younger co-worker clued me in on the more common modern usage of the term.
  12. How much do you notice if a male has long hair? No more so than I would notice his hair and eye color, his height and any other physical attribute. I have always liked long hair on males.
  13. There is no inherent purpose or meaning in life; it is what you make of it. If a teenager feels like it is not worth living, I would suggest starting with a therapist.
  14. I have never directly experienced what you describe, but people close to me have. In every case, the problem was never resolved. Even when the person with the problem remarried, it eventually resurfaced. Save yourself and your children more time and heartbreak by making the hard decision early on.
  15. Although I have serious (as in ultimately terminal ..... but life is terminal) heath issue, I had no problems with any of my three Pfizer vaccines. While I did have slight tenderness for a day or so at injection site, I did not consider this a side effect but rather an expected effect. I had my booster within a couple days of approval for the immuno-compromised.
  16. I am sorry you are going through a hard time. My mother died of leukemia 40 years ago, and it is still a sharp pain at times.
  17. I would accept "homie" once in a great while if it was all in good fun and not rude, but definitely not as my usual moniker.
  18. Potential grandchildren may call me whatever they wish within reason. I called my grandmother "granny."
  19. Do not discuss politics if it causes further strain. What is more important? You making your political position known or reducing tension in your relationship with daughters? If they persist in bringing up politics, respond by asking them why they believe what they believe and what experiences or education led them to taking stance they did. Their anger over divorce may not be justifiable but is understandable; tell them you are sorry that they had to go through parents divorcing since that is a painful experience for children, regardless of their age. Let them air their anger without you denying or rationalizing or explaining why divorce necessary. Reassure them that both you and their father love them. If you are anything like me, it will leave you feeling like you need packing tape to cover your mouth, but in my experience, when I started treating my young adult children like friends, even casual acquaintances, our relationships improved significantly. I truly wish only the best for you and your daughters and believe that you will once again be a content peaceful trio.
  20. Do not give up masking regardless of whether vaccinated.
  21. I think I have probably said this here before. Not long after moving to this city, our local newspaper had a large feature story that was a almost a full page about a pretty affluent young blonde coed who was shot in arm while driving through upscale neighborhood. Meanwhile, the MURDER of a minority child during a drive by shooting got about two paragraphs.
  22. Having a shipping address did not help my Navy daughter's package to arrive in time. Mailed early November. Received January of following year. She was in the Persian Gulf at time of mailing. Deployment is certainly stressful on mommas; when a sailor fell overboard, I could barely sleep until identity of person was released. It is indeed an adventure .... maybe not the one expected but an adventure nonetheless. I hope he can occasionally contact you when in port.
  23. I just looked at a profile page I think. However, all it had was links to what member has posted or commented on. No personal information. I suppose the signature is for personal info; assumed that the profile was for personal info.
  24. Having worked in various breed and mutt rescues, I think lack of a safe fence will be a no-go. To abide by the rules, I have had to reject applicants who probably would have been good pet parents. Not sure what part of country you are in, but adopting dogs from rescue can be a daunting task. My middle daughter was turned down by a sheltie rescue in Pacific Northwest because her securely fenced back yard was not large enough even though their rescue site had no lot size requirements listed. She is a jogger and runner, so the dog would have ample exercise opportunities. Instead, she turned to a breeder for a sheltie. She now has a gorgeous fluffy sheltie who is quite fond of his cat housemates.
  25. It is hard to see people making decisions they will ultimately regret.
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