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  2. DeniseVelez

    37 here – going into the 40’s.

    Keeping a wary eye on the weather for the week since the Nor’easter heading our way could be damaging to coastal areas and then again it may miss

    Reading Dennis (weatherdude) over at The Vane helps, if only to be assured that there isn’t an answer to what is going to happen yet.

    http://thevane.gawker.com/nore…

  3. Portlaw

    lots to do today but will check the news first. I usually read the Times print copy every day but never on Sundays. Can’t stand Dowd or Douthat.Won’t have them in the house. Off to Brooklyn for breakfast. Check in later. Hope everyone has a great day.

  4. anotherdemocrat

    Cold front came in — yesterday was shorts, today I’ll need a sweater.

    Eating breakfast & watching Krystal Ball host Up. Wage theft, the spread of the Moral Mondays movement….. There are outrages, but people are fighting back.

    I’ll probably get the soba noodle dish made before I leave for church. Then I’ll come home & do the sweet potato one & the asparagus one. Did laundry yesterday, I’ll have elastic bandages to roll up. I can do that while I sit on the floor & have my legs squished.

    So, that’s a plan for a pretty full day.

  5. princesspat

    My old camilla is recovering nicely from the March snow, and seeing the blooms from the kitchen window this morning is enticing me to go outdoors and be in the garden today. Joe’s Gardens is open for the season so cold weather pansies could fill my empty flower pots if I just go do it!

    Another cup of coffee and a bit more reading is enticing too.

  6. Otteray Scribe

    It rained this morning. Supposed to have another freeze tonight. The garden shops cannot put their annual bedding plants out until all risk of overnight freezing is past.

    Not doing much today. Just a few chores around the house, getting ready for spring cleaning and sprucing up outside.

  7. DeniseVelez

    Nuns standing up for birth control:

    These nuns need you. A few weeks ago, Sister Donna Quinn of the National Coalition of American Nuns (NCAN) asked me to help spread the word that their coalition of more than 2000 Roman Catholic sisters has endorsed providing birth control through the Affordable Care Act. Because of their faith, they believe “that women should not be singled out by any organization or group through its refusal to insure a woman’s reproductive needs.”

    The nuns are bravely speaking out just as those on the right want us to believe that birth control use is immoral. In just a few weeks, the Supreme Court will be hearing two cases where company owners who don’t support contraception personally are denying their employees insurance coverage for birth control as mandated by the Affordable Care Act. The lawyers for these corporations (one of which is Hobby Lobby) go so far as to call birth control use sinful and immoral. To make it worse, the owners are claiming that including contraceptives in health care violates their company’s religious freedom.

    Sister Donna and the nuns at NCAN know differently, and they’re bravely standing up to their hierarchy. But they need us to stand with them — to say that as people of faith we support universal access to contraception.

    They have a petition

    http://action.groundswell-mvmt…

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