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Note to self: It might be best not to do searches on terms like 'truck nuts' unless you really, really want the answer. 😂

Omg, you rock!!! I've honestly been worried about this for *years*. If it's okay, I'll message you when I can travel to 'home state' and pick it up. This is so exciting. 💗

Oh yes! Believe me, I'm not saying that Republicans do not have to own their own mistakes ('mistakes' = dumbasses) down through our limited history! Peach, do I remember correctly that your husband owns a model train shop? I'm just asking because I have a pre-war Lionel train set that my father got for Christmas as a small child. The cars/tracks/some other stuff are in excellent condition, but the controller needs to be rewired, I'm sure. I would consider sending that to one of my grands who lives near you (Whidbey) if he had access to someone who knew what they were doing, as your husband does. Have to run to get ready for a game.

That's not quite fair to Hayes! lol! As a strict abolitionist, he tried many times to get the Democrats to fall in line after the war. He didn't get too far, as the Dems who were willing to go to war in order to preserve their right to own people were still a bit miffed, I guess. I don't like to use Wiki as a 'source', but I don't have much time right now and it's enough to encourage other searches if one would be interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes Oh! Jim Crow.....also a Democrat thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws

Since the invasion, my husband and I have made it a point to buy at least one handmade product from Ukraine every month, and we've been SO happy with almost everything. We've mostly used Ebay, but I am in love with some gorgeous colored lace placemats we bought from a lady over there, too, and I think we found those on a more crafty place, like Etsy or something. We bought this for the twins across the street who mow and shovel for us. Their dad has an old pipe collection from his father, and was so thrilled to get it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/354719201754?_skw=pipe+stand+ukraine&itmmeta=01JNPNAXC4FNW7Y9BCJH75S89N&hash=item5296e979da:g:9UgAAOSw2tpm02mk&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA8FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eXGOQ6KSyVHMaYgJVqBrjlkaLL%2BVd3Le5tk7k8CCPwTkM4SnkTaK4cX9gMf4YdSJtD0mliIC5Ifxp%2FBu%2BHPXxiQT4crtXP1I7eDVU9AViddMEZKKBbtcAL2K6bQ2Zf2xjOHERBOZTnhrEKLCMzHCSETBe86z1DFco75eOuBZmYbDZrKFylhp45eEsTS76lYrzqm1VoOH2RrjnQ%2BBeyYilkkQdEVjnv21lzZsvgY82GUWUpr2Xx6zQ%2F6offxB8uiQwlm2Fcyt6Mqa1KEgIik08zG6j6anbN2HU2m1leJVbJvQ%3D%3D|tkp%3ABFBMntar1a1l Of course, this is a good time of the year for Pysanky eggs, and they are all over Ebay right now. https://www.ebay.com/itm/373833336185?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D1110006%26algo%3DHOMESPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D279095%26meid%3De0969cec2a034a4eae051b94748487f1%26pid%3D101196%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D374736627038%26itm%3D373833336185%26pmt%3D1%26noa%3D0%26pg%3D2332490%26algv%3DSimVIDwebV3WithCPCExpansionEmbeddingSearchQuerySemanticBroadMatchSingularityRecall&_trksid=p2332490.c101196.m2219&itmprp=cksum%3A373833336185e0969cec2a034a4eae051b94748487f1|enc%3AAQAKAAABMOqalcCsb07ituDYLOrUrH2eG1DBUcAU1siB%2B881ennut1KqikNJ--C2JmJJYbnGBSq9s1cAaLR3u1P2GFHP6cOkMtiQrPwhnArZTi0NFnCkYNs9wPMPnRY0lLYAH0ZUZI8R%2FpBkYgFt4Mxy%2FtNa0ijK%2BwIh6rbxPU4M2ADYNFPh9pSk5EBDFFGNKfXW28zf6poeOGSdF5mWyz%2FHMbj1BwFDXHvO4etKAXfxNmh%2Bp0JMGNHl22X%2FVUflkhrTcILldKX0Vp8hm%2FDLnIJZdID1ep6ZW5V4Ay3jCj9aCvtLdFGeUdKFYLpzoEhIguCyhQGjbKdN5YAoLRx5ppdhzPL5Amyclzns7xBXjxOZGfmtWSj82BHU5nT%2Fcam%2BN0xBY3svrAFGf2SxtGq9xGtZTYpO4qs%3D|ampid%3APL_CLK|clp%3A2332490&itmmeta=01JNPP67KXNA95H02W1R623BVQ https://www.ebay.com/itm/365413800366?_skw=ukraine+decorated+eggs&itmmeta=01JNPNTBTE5TSXA0BZZ6X9172P&hash=item55145c19ae:g:PFsAAOSwbUNj9jlK&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA0FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1dxGjsXPcED%2BhCA4AtdqfNzJbmXAS6YqQzQFmXPT5qiYSLcwq29MeTixZO4KMV3cAxYwR3O9zpevhT1P%2BFeR9YGRqbAP0xxzRtcV6NgkejAymMZmnN%2BWMGV0YC%2FiQgqu0oDJUNn4Ag6ILaaNc%2FlQfmumdRss%2BbPOLsy69Ahy4zqZu34118%2Bis0l7jeLFBGYPVWEJdH0nR9VrH5tYtkbrZ%2BjdzyQkn1FyiitLmClfdP%2BUwq1ZJ7ppzzmWfJLgNUiigI%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR6y96dWtZQ We've never had any problems with shipping, although it may take a while here and there. Everyone has been excellent to deal with! Just another idea. :)

That could very well be! 😂 As far as I can remember (and this was a LONG time ago) it was a class that fit my schedule and let me get back to our dorm by 11:00 am because that's when 'Generally Hostile' came on. There was some big Luke/Laura crisis. Yep. That's how I (at 17) chose my electives. It was strange though, because I'm probably the only person in my family who ever in their life watched a soap opera and I never did that until I was safely away 'at school'. lol IMO (and that's all it is), this would be a looooong conversation. Right? I don't think like that, and have never heard any Republicans I know talking about 'poor whites' and about Dems giving things to minorities. That's how I constantly hear that 'Republicans' think when the Democrats are holding forth? But in my experience that just isn't true. In any community I've ever lived in, nobody cares at all about how much their friends/loved ones/neighbors earned or how much melanin is produced in anyone's body. Who the F cares? Quickly, I discount any fundie opinions from either side. The old guard (either side) can continue to try for relevance in their own little circles, but I think they've lost the battle. I am a firm believer in the separation between church and state. I need to hit the sack, but thank you for replying and for the (short) convo. Quickly, I don't think it was a white male thing on election day. It looked to be a Hispanic/Latino American 'thing', with a lot of votes also gained in the suburbs. The whole 'Republican women are SO not aware' was quite possibly the most insulting (and ignorant) (and hilarious) point constantly reiterated by the talking heads on election night. Not the case. It's simply that the issues that seem to be the most important to Dem. women are not the same as the most important issues to Republican women, I guess. And NOW I'm hitting the sack. lol

I am so, so sorry. 💗 I went through the same thing. I can't even begin to describe how amazing she was, but within 2 years of us noticing something 'wasn't right', she had the 'dementia shuffle' and was just........not mama. It wasn't Alzheimer's, but something close. It was hideously fast. She died at 72 and I'm not sure any of us have really recovered yet.

I don't know where you happen to be meeting all of these horrible Republicans, and I'm certainly sorry that you don't get 'this stuff about helping Americans first'. The rest of your paragraph that quoted me sounds a whole lot like you are coming pretty close to calling me a racist, so I'd appreciate it if you did not do that again. Thank you in advance. You are so far off base that I can not even begin to describe it. I wouldn't know, as I said. I did remember it, though, and that's why I was curious. I have no idea why 'anything of that nature would be a part of a Psychology class', because as I stated, I took it as an elective because I didn't waste time on basket-weaving classes. I would love to take an actual basket-weaving class now, but unfortunately I'd better not because one of my BFFs is a freakin' expert and anything I could possibly produce would be a subject of ridicule. :) Ah! Your MS is in Psych? Mine is in Animal Science, so there's a good reason we see things so differently, I suppose. I'm happy you had a fun cruise! Since the abomination that is Valentine's Day is over with, I've been having fun reorganizing my workroom/a spare bedroom/best-place-in-the-world, and catching up on favorite shows.

I think we'd all love term limits, right? Maybe 4 terms in the House and 2 terms in the Senate, and then go home. That's 20 years of 'service'. See ya!

They've always said no air traffic controllers were fired. They're looking for over 3,000 new ones in addition to those we have because many towers are woefully understaffed. From what I remember, the tower at the time of the DC crash should have been staffed by 30 people, but because of being understaffed only 19 were working. That sort of thing.

That's always a good point to reiterate. I've understood that from parental lectures since I was 16 or so. lol! Everyone should pay attention to their withholding, for sure. ETA: I should not have used the word 'refund'. We were just used to getting a little back or paying in a little. It was really different to get a pretty nice deposit since we hadn't adjusted for 2017 tax cut in our withholding and our tax burden was less. :) It was rather like Christmas.

After the ACA went into effect, my husband and I had to pay a couple of grand a year more for our health insurance between the rise in the cost of the policies for the company he was working for, and the increase in the copays. It certainly wasn't something we were thankful for, but it did help a lot more people get health insurance, so it was fine overall. After the 2017 tax cut we received between $3-4,000 more in our refund than we had previously, so we kind of liked that it 'made up for' the increase in our healthcare. I would sure hate for that go away, but if it does, it does. I don't think we'd be considered 'rich' by any stretch of the imagination, though. I suppose the definition of rich depends on who's defining the word.

I liked that bill. Not all of it, of course, but that's compromise. Both sides leave the room a little bit disappointed.

......and to me, it's not. Okay, our animals seem to think they should be fed (including the very nice animal I'm married to 😂). It's my turn. ugh. Taco salad, anyone? Maybe 'breakfast for dinner'? Damn. Right when I thought about something else I'd like to have a 'feels' rant about and that's the housing situation in this country. It'll have to wait. lol Thank you for your compassion, tess. I'm going to have to wait a while to see how some of this shakes out. It's all a lot at once........I get it.

Nota, I don't mean to be rude or (worse) dismissive at all, but when I said I wasn't interested in 'whataboutisms' I meant it, and I'm certainly not going to get into the weeds arguing about Trump. That's not what moves me to post on the 'feels' thread. I'm worried about our citizens and this massive debt. I don't care what 'side' actually takes action. I'm so over that. I don't 'blame' anyone here on this thread or any ordinary American. I certainly do ascribe a lot of blame to the Congress and the Senate and their inability to remember that they are suppose to be working together for the 'people' and not fighting like a bunch of junkyard dogs. Great examples of civility they're setting. Assholes. We are $36.22 trillion in debt. In what world does that denote 'rich'? We'll just have to agree to disagree. :)