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I think she will be the most insufferable preggo ever. If she was I, I, I and me, me, me before this ... oy vey.

WTF, Robyn's ego! She expects total strangers to bend to her desires. She seriously wants someone who is selling their home, obviously for good reasons of their own, TO RENT IT TO HER FOR 24 MONTHS INSTEAD. Fuck the seller's plans, their needs, their timeline. Hey, maybe they've been prayin' for a buyer! Then, she's sittin' there on national TV saying loud and clear that her earnest money is a ploy. Earnest money takes a seller's home off the market (which may cause them to lose opportunities for legitimate offers) and it signals that your intention is honorable. She's saying on national TV that her earnest money is just a game she wants and expects to play with a stranger's property and financial state and time. WT everlovin' F? Also, Robyn is a straight up hatchet face. Kody said they need to move into the "rental," if that gets approved, by July 26. Meri is told to evacuate in next week's episode and that was July 23/24. Tonight Maddie said she is due in 2 months; Evie was born August 20, on Maddie's due date.

It's odd, the first post was removed along with the replies to it. Posts are moderated for civility but I'm not clear on how that entered into it. Anyway, the reply was four or five paragraphs, each one touching on an aspect of the fallout from medical care being triaged. Two that I remember pertained to social ethics entering into triage decisions (whose ethics would be enforced and who would enforce them) and for-profit insurance (most likely meeting its downfall). Who gets the respirator: a 30-year-old with a violent criminal record or Jeff Bezos' 80-year-old mother? Which matters more, age or status? Who makes the decisions, who allows them to be made? The first bills for Covid treatment are coming in at around $25,000. What burdens will be added to the economy if for-profit hospitals and insurers are permitted to bankrupt extremely large numbers of patients in a relatively short period of time, many of whom will be unemployed (and therefore helpless financially) because of the pandemic, or already unable to pay? Who will give (or deny) permission for that to happen on a large scale? What happens to employees and stockholders if hospitals and insurers are forced to eat those expenses? Good points were made regarding how this is going to be a huge test for our society in ways that haven't occurred to most of us yet. (And I hope I have remembered correctly).

For those who think it can't happen here. "Washington State is engaged in grim discussions to determine which dying patients would get priority." "Roughly 280 people were on Wednesday’s three-hour conference call, including the chief medical officials and nursing representatives for most of the state’s hospitals and hospital systems, Ms. Sauer said. There was an overwhelming sense of shock, she said, as clinicians realized that the time to begin discussing such dire plans had arrived." If you sort the comments from oldest to newest, AztecWarrior's reply to the first comment is food for thought. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/us/coronavirus-ration-hospitals-seattle-washington.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

This is happening in my town. Twenty restaurants are participating, no chains thus far, truly the "locals." We are picking up groceries at WalMart this evening and will order in for lunch. https://www.cachevalleydaily.com/news/archive/2020/03/18/local-restaurants-team-up-to-promote-local-delivery-and-take-out-options/#.XnR03R5MFdY

Here ya go, Kemper. I used to think she was loco but then decided she was an elitist money-hungry liar. https://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-vaginal-egg-goop-lawsuit-2018-9

Bathrooms are nasty anyway. Germs from whatever is in the toilet are propelled around the room every time it gets flushed. Putting the lid/cover down before flushing makes a bit of a difference but public bathrooms rarely have lids.

Mooriah's reveal that Audj was her first date, ever, reminded me of that joke and I LOL'd. But it's true that lesbians are noted for being somewhat less promiscuous than other groups of people and forming long-time monogamous relationships. What a bummer when she said if she stayed in her church most likely she would've unhappily married some guy just to go along/get along. I know four women whose LDS husbands left them and the kids because they finally tired of the charade of going along to get along. That is just damn sad all the way around.

Truely has a more of an hourglass figure than is seen on most 9-year-olds. She has curvy hips and thighs compared to her thin calves and ankles. (In those lying-on-the-floor-with-Evie photos). Puberty can show up early when Mother Nature figures "This one can sustain a new life without short-changing herself." Kids usually have the same body all over. If they're thin, they're thin everywhere. If they're chunky, they're chunky everywhere. Variety in distribution is seen more in adults because of hormones or sports or working out or repetitive motion jobs, etc.

So retailers are refusing to set limits or enforce limits but sell out so quickly they have to cut back the hours they are open so they can re-stock? But cash registers are not ringing during those re-stocking hours? (1/3 of the day in my town). Totally makes sense to me. Not. The pisser is the certainty that retail grocery decision makers are not personally experiencing any shortages in THEIR homes. Oooff.

The reference to Dr Z/ the 444-day captivity of the hostages in the main show thread brought back a LOL memory. My daughter was 9 years old for most of that event and she was mortified because I made a big sign and put it in the front window and, for over a year, random cars would slow down and honk from morning 'til night: Visit Iran - Fly B-52. Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. (I was less ... versed ... on the history of the US in the Middle East then). Vocals from Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, and my boyfriend George Harrison. (It looks like McGuinn is the only one who doesn't need to read the lyrics on the crawl and, WTH, Dylan wrote the song).

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, formerly known as Lew Alcindor. Because I am old and a SoCal native I remember what a big deal it was when he began his 3-year UCLA varsity career in '67 (after playing on the freshman team the previous year). FWIW, I remember all the reporters and sportscasters (local and national) pronouncing it as Al SIN der and vintage youtube videos back up that memory. Billy Crystal went to high school with him and that's how he pronounces it. Anyway, Scoop goes with a pronunciation she likes (or two or three) and how a person pronounces their own name means nothing. Yamiche needs to suck it up, buttercup! (Perhaps AL sin dore is Yamiche's preferred pronunciation, I heard that on another show).

I was raised in music stores so songs and singers have always been a major interest. I stumbled onto something cool on youtube the other night and went down a rabbit hole for a few hours. I was watching Steve Perry videos and saw some vocal coaches evaluating his live songs and from there I saw some people called reactors. Reactors are kids, OK late 20s early 30s but kids to me, who have youtube channels where they listen to a song for the first time while taping their reaction and in the comments people suggest more songs and it goes round and round. The three guys I glommed onto are charming and well-spoken and they have similar reactions: "My granny and my mom and my aunties always said their music was the best, the songs were about important things, important feelings, and I was like blah, blah, blah but now I been listening and I LIKE that music!" They smile and they bop and they get chills and sometimes they're near tears. "And these people don't auto-tune or lip synch or sing over their track, they sing for real." Welcome to my world, kiddo. It's a trip to watch their faces when they discover stuff that "I" consider classic. Like Patsy Cline or the Bee Gees or Linda Ronstadt or Steve Perry. It's like watching your baby the first time they eat ice cream. One guy said, after listening to Linda Ronstadt, "Please tell me she's alive still, you guys keep sending me people who have passed." Bonus: they're not into negativity. They post only the songs they liked and they delete negative comments about the videos or their opinions. Yay!

And what was the snippy one's opinion?

WalMart scoop from northern Utah (we have two in our town). I've been ordering online for pickup every week since November and the deal is you pick up the day after you order. This week I couldn't pick up until the second day (today) because all the hourly slots yesterday were full. They send an email about 20 minutes before the start of your hour letting you know your order is ready and when you get there you call them and they bring it out. My pickup today was 4-5pm and a half hour ahead I got an email saying they were running behind and my order would be ready later then scheduled. I called when I got to the store at 5pm and said I'm here, if you need more time I can come back later. She said "Corporate sent a memo to all stores this early this morning telling us to cut off pickups at 2pm local time and to suspend online ordering until further notice." She said that was because their system cancels an order when they can't fill a certain percentage of it. She sounded a bit harried, otherwise I would've said "And when were you planning to notify me that my order was canceled eight hours ago?" Her best guess was that online ordering might resume in a couple weeks. I trudged inside in my night wear that can pass as lounge wear and luckily I had sorta done my hair and had a jacket with me. An employee was posting a sign saying the store will be open from 7am to 11pm (instead of 24 hours). It wasn't terribly crowded but lots of shelves were empty or mostly empty. Plenty of milk, no eggs, very little butter or sour cream or yogurt, no fresh chicken, very little ground beef, lots of beef steaks and roasts and fresh pork, no canned fruit, very little canned vegetables or cereal, very little canned or dried soup, just a few boxes of saltines, eight 4-packs of tuna were left so I took 1. Plenty of cheese and lunch meat, bacon, sausage. The bakery and produce depts were fully stocked except for bananas, nada. The bread aisle was stocked like normal. No disposable diapers or baby wipes, no kleenex, no paper towels, ten 4-rolls of TP were left so I took 2 (and I saw a shit ton of people walking out with one or two 9-rolls of TP as I was walking in so I was like yay and went to that aisle first). I heard 2 people asking employees about distilled water for C-PAP machines, none available. I mentioned the short hours to the cashier and she wasn't aware but she was glad, she said they need the time to re-stock. She said they're not out of anything, not even close to being out, they have pallets and pallets of everything, they just can't re-stock quickly enough. She said employees are ticked off about people grabbing 10 packages of TP or diapers or whatever but management doesn't listen to their input and refuses to place limits.

Like most publications, the online edition of the New York Times limits the number of articles available to non-subscribers. This has been suspended for articles relating to the virus. Nice move! OTOH, this guy is a tool. By driving for miles around he was able to fill a U-Haul truck with 17,700 bottles of hand sanitizer and now he can't sell them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

Lucky her, provided for on both coasts while indulging her bottomless need for public attention, fueled by minimal talent. Lucky him, for landing a foul-mouthed pussy patter. Some matches are made in heaven.

Wow, it would be wonderful to see more of the top earners in the world step up like this. Cool dude! https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nba/zion-pledges-to-cover-pelicans-arena-staff-salaries-for-next-30-days/ar-BB11aamD?li=BBnb7Kz

You have to buy a membership to shop at Costco so I think that implies an obligation to provide an experience that isn't chaotic. If that includes limiting items per customer, oh well, then do it. Actually, I think all stores should be posting and enforcing limits in situations like this because what people are doing amounts to sanctioned looting.

I try not to let it happen but shit like this moves my meter from "Most people are good" to "Most people are assholes."

All the markets near me are out of TP (and nearly out of wipes, Kleenex and paper towels) so I checked Amazon last night, nada. re "Can you spare a square upthread?" there are lots of people on eBay selling TP for 99 cents per square! But it was described as "new, unused" so that's a screamin' deal. I ended up getting 4 rolls for $12 and that and the 4 rolls in the cupboard will have to do while I decide which bidet to get. Bastards!

If not the play, all of the incidentals and minions that keep Mama in tiptop condition. And a roof over her head and transportation to and from the theatah.

Every month that you are a (cough) successful LLR seller is a month you are buying inventory. Those who are chosen allowed to go on LLR cruises and attend other reward promotions are big buyers. They tell themselves they are big sellers but the reality is that they are big buyers. Independent retailers, my ass.

Me too. When that happens I try to calm myself by substituting Don't Dream It's Over. That's the song Frannie and Harold listened to on the battery operated record player they found. It was the first time I heard it, so a roundabout thank you goes to Stephen King. Neil Finn who is a Kiwi wrote it after an argument with his wife. (This video, in front of the Sydney Opera House, captured the final song on the final night of their final concert tour).

Karl Marx said religion is the opium of the people. Opium dulls pain and creates pleasing illusions. Marx saw religion as an opiate and a pressure relief valve that blinds people to the inequalities produced by unregulated capitalism, causing people to delay or resist or ignore the need to install socialism (or another system) instead. Credit has become the new religion and it has more believers than any religion could hope to have. What do people actually own as the fruit of their labor that isn't financed, thus in reality belonging to a bank? Very, very little. Nearly nothing. Credit persuades us to not examine the true state of how wealth is distributed. In the US the top 1% owns as much as the bottom 45% and some would say those in the top 1% are hogs. Some would say the biggest reason the top 1% has 45% of the available wealth is because of the 80% of Americans who live paycheck to paycheck. I don't see how we can have a huge health crisis that doesn't lead to a financial crisis but the system won't change unless and until a change is forced to happen. Power is never surrendered willingly. "It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees" comes to mind.