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Wednesday Watering Hole: Check In & Hangout for the Herd

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Good morning meese! Happy happy Wednesday!


  PLEASE Do Not Recommend the check-in diary! 

        Recs on the weather jar comment are still welcome.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

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The morning check-in is an open thread and general social hour.

It’s traditional but not obligatory to give us a weather check where you are and let us know what’s new, interesting, challenging or even routine in your life lately. Nothing is particularly obligatory here except:

Always remember the Moose Golden (Purple?) Rule:

Be kind to each other… or else.

What could be simpler than that, right?

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  1. iriti

    Early summer approaches. High of 70 today, then near 90 tomorrow. Spring arrived late this year and serms to be compensatng by leaving early. Sigh.

    See that tiny speck on the horizon? That’s Friday. It’ll be here before you know it.

  2. JanF

    It is 50 degrees here with an expected high of 72. Tomorrow it will be 80. Yikes!! I am not ready for 80. If I have to go from furnace to air conditioning it will be very sad. I like the 3 month break when my utility bills don’t make me weep.

    So the architect of the outrages that inspired Moral Mondays in North Carolina will be the GOP nominee for senate. From what I have seen, Senator Kay Hagen is not afraid to take the gloves off. Her folks have been digging up Thom Tillis quotes for the general election. Here is a “nice” one!!  

    “What we have to do is find a way to divide and conquer the people who are on assistance,” Tillis said. “We have to show respect for that woman who has cerebral palsy and had no choice, in her condition, that needs help and that we should help. And we need to get those folks to look down at these people who choose to get into a condition that makes them dependent on the government and say at some point, ‘You’re on your own. We may end up taking care of those babies, but we’re not going to take care of you.’

    Something tells me that his list of things that people “choose” would include unwanted pregnancies that his policies won’t let women terminate. Or being unemployed in a terrible economy and unable to get a job because the color of their skin puts them at the end of the line. Or the criminal justice system branding them a felon and making it even more difficult to find work. Pitting the disabled against those who have fallen on hard times? How christian of him!

    I hope that Rev. Barber is ready to GOTV to show this guy what North Carolinians think about his shredding of the social safety net. Thom Tillis is from a safe district but this will be a state wide race that will include Democrats.

    Have a great day, all y’all!  

  3. DeniseVelez

    busy following the coverage of the twitter story re:Dutchess County Comptroller James Coughlan. He’s one of three Republican candidates for the State Senate  Terry Gipson is the current office holder and he’s a really good Democrat.

    http://www.nysenate.gov/senato…


    Jim Coughlan (pictured), the controller of Dutchess County, N.Y., who is running for a state Senate seat, fired off a bigoted tweet aimed at MSNBC political commentator Melissa Harris-Perry (pictured). “Keep your dirty stinking paws off my kid you damned dirty ape,” he tweeted. Coughlan is insisting that he did not know his target was an African-American, according to the New York Daily News.

    http://newsone.com/3008750/mel…

    Anyone who thinks that racism is limited to the South needs to check out the r-scum we have here in NYS.

    The nopology denial from Coughlan is par for the course.

     

  4. anotherdemocrat

    Eating breakfast, drinking tea. Warm today – heading to 90 probably, thunderstorms coming tomorrow.

    Few thoughts in my head, because very loud earworm Rise Up is drowning out most things.

  5. Diana in NoVa

    Hope I can plant the zinnias before it rains, if it’s going to.

    Our Pink-Cheeked Precious is with me this morning because I’m taking her to the dentist. She’ll miss lunch at day care so  I’ll give her lunch at home before taking her back. Daughter-in-law is telecommuting today and tomorrow, thank goodness for that. She is so huge and uncomfortable!

    Monday’s planting made me so stiff and achy I couldn’t believe it!  Truly, one is growing old. Never believed it before but now I am obliged to do so. 🙂

    Hope everyone in Mooseland has a good day, and I hope beautiful, feisty, well-educated Melissa Harris-Perry does not feel hurt by the remarks of the racist hyena. Hyenas are the most unpleasant animals I can think of, and if you care to read up on them, you’ll soon see why.

  6. bfitzinAR

    and expecting rain (maybe) any time starting tonight through Sunday.  Of course through Sunday, that’s when I’m doing my laundry.  We’ll probably get just enough to keep me from hanging out my clothes.  Walked in the door to telephones ringing, students are running around trying to get last minute things in (Commencement is Saturday), and I’m still working on summer payroll.  

  7. princesspat

    I made slow progress on my tasks yesterday, so I’d best focus today. But my thoughts are already wandering to the garden and to the new book I found while browsing at the bookstore yesterday. I really needed that break 🙂

    Discipline….I used to have it!

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