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  1. We go to Great Wolf Lodge up here just about weekly (I've got a good friend who works there so we have lunch there quite a bit) and I've never seen a lifeguard in a bikini. I think it would look a little odd in a family oriented water park and not particularly professional. And I rocked a bikini as a young person. My kid wears bikinis often.
  2. I used to pray as a kid too. And then one day I too thought, "I'm not thinking there's anyone there!" And I had one terrifying night. Because what if no one was there? Until the next morning when I realized how utterly freeing that is. I can be a good person for the sake of choosing to be a good person because that feels good inside. I don't need to look outside for reinforcement based upon myths and legends from long ago. And frankly, I always thought Thor made more sense than Jehovah anyway. :laugh:
  3. I think it's possible because I think pretty much anything is possible and I think most people on the planet have death and god all wrong anyway.
  4. James Franco annoys me. He appears to be trying to prove how cool and counter-cultural he is all the freaking time, like some sort of hipster doofus. I didn't know who Seth Rogan was until this story. I do not however understand why the US is backing down on this kind of terrorist attack but we stand firm on kidnapped citizens and ransoms. I cynically suspect this has less to do with protecting our citizens and more to do with mega-corps praying to the gods of consumerism that their heinous acts aren't exposed.
  5. My DH is Scottish so I have to make a traditional pudding and a cherry pudding for Xmas every year. That reminds me... I need suet. Chex Mix is going in the oven today. That's my family's tradition.
  6. I know! I just want to know what led to this. Was there some crazy drag queen molesting kids or is this some imagined, "boogie man" situation where we are just vilifying people who are weird??
  7. And secondly, so you're in a restaurant and you see what you perceive as a man entering a woman's bathroom. Do you confront? Who does that? Who wouldn't just wait? There's a spectrum. I fall in one place on it. Others fall in other places on it. Unless we all start randomly checking panties, I don't get this law at all. Some women grow facial hair. Some men have what sure as heck look like boobs to me. For some reason, those men ALWAYS seem to be mowing their lawn shirtless but I digress... I just cannot imagine interrupting what I'm out in public doing to do a gender check on the person in the bathroom with me. As long as they don't touch, do anything unethical, or talk unkindly to me or my kids - who CARES? Who notices stuff like that? When I'm out at a restaurant, I'm 99% of the time with friends and/or family. Who is paying attention to all these transgender bathroom people??
  8. I love common sense so I love the way you think. The predator argument really cracks my dark side up. So you're a predator and you are on the prowl for a child to sexually abuse... But that little blue woman in a skirt icon hanging on a door is going to stop you? Say what? Rape is in your mind, your heart, and your soul but you see, "Women" on a door and what happens? Your drive to be evil dissipates? We need to let the prisons in this country know about this magical force!
  9. They are wearing clothes and not really doing anything particularly exciting so I don't get why anyone would be offended.
  10. So my DH is a pretty good guy but of the two of us, I lean farther left on race. (He leans farther left on abortion.) He watched the video and his take as a physician was interesting to me. He looked at Mr. Garner at the very beginning of the video and said, "That guy has asthma. Don't touch him." I asked what he meant and he said that statistically, an African- American man of that size is very, very likely to have asthma. Asthma is more common in people of AA descent and it's more common in the obese. He said that if Mr. Garner had walked into the ER and needed restraints, that all the medical professionals there would have had to follow different protocols for a man of Mr. Garner's ethnicity and size in order to prevent this exact kind of thing from happening. If a reasonably old (sorry dear, but we are!) white dude from northern Michigan knows this - why doesn't the NYPD? There is ONE AA family within 50 miles of us. ONE. Our hospital probably sees 10 AA total every year, due solely to tourism - and they run through patient scenarios like this monthly in order to prevent something this stupid from happening. And the medical examiner ruled it a HOMICIDE. So someone specifically trained (hopefully) in recognizing different methods of death and dying looked at the case and thought, "Murder!" Maybe it wasn't enough to win a trial but it sure as heck looks like an indictment. It's sick. However, thankfully to the majority of Americans black lives DO matter. It's ok to hate. But you are standing on the wrong side and history will not judge you kindly.
  11. I have a question for police officers... Is it normal for cops to miss SIX times?? Don't police have to take some sort of marksmanship training? Because my 9 year old, blind-in-one-eye son misses about 6 times out of 100 at this point.
  12. Hi Binip, the problem with some of your arguments is that hurricanes aren't exactly new to our planet. It's a storm. We see it coming on the radar. It blows in and it blows out. It's not like Katrina hit land and we all said, "Holy cow! Where did that come from?!?!" So there's still a GIANT problem with the complete lack of response from the federal government for WEEKS compared to Ferguson. And that lack of response verses over-responsiveness is a giant part of the problem in relation to the frustration level of POCs in our country.
  13. What I don't get it why it took the federal government WEEKS to respond to Katrina but they were all over Ferguson last night. Huh. :huh:
  14. Porn on the internet? Where?!? :huh: I'm confused as to why the article was even posted. And as we've seen with every societal problem with young kids, abstinence doesn't work. Ask Sarah Palin how that worked for Bristol. :laugh:
  15. I'm paying about $120 for a heritage, non-GMO, organic turkey on Monday. I won't know how much Tom weighs until Monday because he will be killed Sunday. He should be between 28-35 pounds. Part of me wants to kidnap him Sunday and part of me thinks he's going to be delicious. :laugh:
  16. Not when the statute of limitations has expired. There will be no due process.
  17. Not when the statute of limitations has expired. There will be no due process.
  18. Why is this your DH's sole decision? I'd be looking for a counselor and a divorce attorney if mine tried anything this dumb.
  19. My son is a IV so yes... This was explained to me on our first date so it wasn't a surprise. Out of solidarity for my future daughter, I then insisted that she have her great-grandmother's and grandmother's names. So that's how I ended up with two kids with very old names. :)
  20. That is abuse. And I hope the abuser ends up in prison forever.
  21. We are of Scottish descent and have Scottish relatives there right now but I don't feel like I have a rooster in this fight. Let the vote happen and the people decide. NPR has been reporting on it a lot and it seems the Scottish people are almost evenly divided.
  22. That is absolutely too far!! We are not going to infantilize adults. Infants, yes. Infantilize infants all the way. But adults? No. My fun car/summer story... I have a new black Ford Focus and a black 120 pound mutt dog. This summer, I went to pick my kids up from a scout hike and left my dog in the car. The car was running and locked and I had my key fob in my pocket (my car is a push button ignition - it doesn't have a key per se). And my dog wears a seat belt-thingie in the car because he jumps all over the place if he doesn't so it's not like he could turn the engine off, even if he tried. Because my car is new, it runs very quietly. Some nutjob was waiting for us at the car ready to break my window. I asked her what she was doing. She screamed that I'm lucky my dog didn't die. I opened the car and 60 degree air poured out. My dog was so happy in that dang car, it was ridiculous. It's really hard to get an almost solid back dog to go on a 2 mile hike in 100 degree weather. Driving around in the 60 degree car for an hour is so is the only way he can recover well. :lol: My dog has lab in him. If he doesn't run, he goes batpoop crazy. So yep, I drive my dog around in the summer since we don't have central air right now.
  23. I can't decide between the two new phones. I'm getting to the age where a bigger screen is quite nice but I want to maintain some sense of portability yet too. That big boy is BIG!
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