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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 15, 2024 12:17:35 GMT -5
Watching CNN now. Judge nearing the end of the jury selection rules with all and trump's gag order. But headlines noted 500 potential jurers are waiting for selection to begin. 150 of which are MAGA cult members who have/will lie and say they can be impartial. 150 are probably anti-Trump who won’t be impartial either, but since you need unanimous to convict getting a handful on the jury won’t make as much of a difference as getting 1 person who will vote to acquit no matter the evidence. Fortunately it works the other way around as well: 11MAGIDIOTS can't prevent a hung jury
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 15, 2024 12:12:15 GMT -5
Trump went on a weird ramble about Gettysburg. Gettysburg, what an unbelievable battle that was," Trump said while addressing the crowd in the town and wearing a Make America Great Again hat. "It was so much, and so interesting, and so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways—it represented such a big portion of the success of this country," he continued. www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-rambling-rally-speech-raises-questions-1890121Do any of the MAGA minions hear what he’s saying or do they just gloss on over the crazy parts? Or maybe Trump is trying to gin up enthusiasm for a second civil war? Hard to imagine anyone with any knowledge of American History at all thinking of Gettysburg as anything more than a tragic slaughter. But then, I imagine Trump knows about as much about American History as he does about the Constitution. Is that the battle where the orange paint addict personally advised Washington to attack the airfields so we could keep the "coloreds*" in their place. Just so they can not tax him and his buddies out of existence and persecute him in federal courts just to hamper his current attempt to get back i to the WH? I believe this was part of the trump university curriculum right? * I apologize for the use of that term but it fit in so well with the full page ad, calling for the death penalty for the later proven innocent Central Park 5, the orange paint addict took out. He is such a prince all around
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 15, 2024 10:34:57 GMT -5
Have you seen one of those "hoarder" episodes on tv? You know where they only have a small path through the house and the rest is stacked wall to wall up to the ceiling? Well, I can guarantee you that won't be me. This morning I almost fled my bedroom because all the stuff in it (and it is far, far less than the hoarders thing) almost caused me an anxiety attack! More will go in there today though most remaining stuff will go to the guest room.
Good thing, while I have not done a real first passthrough I have thrown out quite a few things and then there was yesterdays Goodwill run. All things I won't have to put back. Did I mention my cleaning lady comes next Monday? So the time pressure to put most things back in place is almost just as great...
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 14, 2024 19:31:03 GMT -5
Still at it with plenty of breaks*. I think that my idea yesterday to use the luggage cart (you know one of those those dinky things we used before suitcases had wheels) to move heavier items might be one of the best ideas I've had in a very long time. My back is somewhat tender but nothing like the crippling pain these activities would have caused me without. A few more spurts today and then tomorrow and Tuesday. I think I'll get it done I think I can, I think I can, I think I can... choo choo * I also managed to put in a run to a Goodwill and TJs around noon
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 14, 2024 0:29:35 GMT -5
I made good progress today but I will need every minute of the next three days to get this done. There will be a smallish goodwill run tomorrow but I just don't have the space to wait until I have more. that needs to go. Besides, I will make a short detour on the way home to TJs to pick up some ready made meals and salads. i really don't want to just eat fried food for a week because I am to tired to cook.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 13, 2024 17:04:40 GMT -5
30 sets of chopsticks is what I have. I bought, at most, 4 of them - the rest are gifts. All very beautiful as opposed to the four utilitarian sets I bought which are nice hardwood (rose wood) but still. Good thing I stopped giving big dinner parties or I might have enough of them now to open my own Asian restaurant. Maybe attached to that library I can open based on the number of books I have LOL.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 13, 2024 12:18:57 GMT -5
My back is never going to forgive me! Ouch. However, I did have a great idea when I woke up this morning. One of my problems is where to put all this stuff since ~ 75℅ of my condo will get new flooring. I can't use the balcony as the workers will need that space. So I woke up and thought - the dishwasher. I can put a lot of dishes, bowls, etc., in there. I don't need to stack it for washing purposes so I can get even more in there. Big bonus is that I have a "bar" to the kitchen just a step from my hutch so I have filled up the bar and walked around to the kitchen just twice to fill up the dishwasher. That thing is full and then some. Very efficient if I do say so myself.
Short break and then back at it
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 12, 2024 19:26:52 GMT -5
Going at it in 15-30 minute stretches. I see a Goodwill run in the making - not taking time out for the buy nothing group which is my preferred way of donating items.
A very quick go through has me at 40 CDs that are going. Some bowls and other odds and ends. I have not touched the dinnerware or any of the glassware (or books for that matter) yet. One step at a time is all I can face right now
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 12, 2024 16:28:18 GMT -5
You are not butting in, stop it! Menopause started for me a few years ago. I have no idea what my hormones are doing these days, but I did have a lot of hormone related issues before menopause. Thank you! I feel like the dirty little secret is just because you hit menopause doesn’t mean your hormones quit f*cking with you SIL said she stopped bleeding but PMS got even worse. DS‘ friend‘s older sister just started her period and her mom was trying to fix everything and I was just thinking man, life just got a whole lot worse for her for the next several decades. It’s okay to take a moment and just be like, this sucks. I started really late, and was crazy irregular/often long times in between, and in retrospect that was a blessing. Just settled into a monthly schedule a few years ago and the predictability is totally not worth the increased frequency. And those damn hot flashes that STILL!!! elect to make the occasional appearance. I'm 72yo for crying out loud
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 12, 2024 16:18:15 GMT -5
To be honest I don't have a who!e lot of problems with tne idea that California State workers would be required to live in California. JMO.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 12, 2024 15:11:11 GMT -5
So my two weeks wiggle room just disappeared. Good thing I am a natural procrastinator or else I would be totally panicking now : work will start on Wednesday and, if all goes well, will be completed by Friday next week. Forget about the first pass through. I will just do one when putting things back in place. There will be a few more times that I will have to go through things, reducing, before that big move but for now I will go with whatever I can get.
I do have a luggage cart, never used, that I was going to give away but now it will be used to take some of the strain of my back. If it is worn out by the time all this is done so be it. As long as my back holds up
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 21:45:30 GMT -5
Think of how fantastic you'll feel when it's done NastyWoman ! Crazy thought ... could you ask one of your sisters to come and help you? Maybe plan a short trip together for afterwards? A great idea but it won't work because of the timing. Really only DSis2 would be possible - #3 and 4 still work full time and #1 is electric wheelchair bound. And Dsis2 is working on a final project for an arts degree which she took up after retiring. I'll get it done I'm sure and I have already been thinking about ways to move things most efficiently*. *I just remembered what would have been an even more efficient way, time travel. Unfortunately all those rocket scientists I worked with for a couple of decades could not even build me a beam-me-up-Scotty leave alone a time machine. Dang it
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 17:47:19 GMT -5
I have a case of that stuff that killed the cat aka curiosity. After his acquittal Simpson lost a civil trial with millions of dollars awarded to the Goldman family. As far as I know he never paid that off. So now I wonder whether the Goldman's can file a claim against his estate? Does anyone know?
IMO, and it really is just my opinion, Simpson got away with murder. There is really no reason for even a penny to be left in any way, shape, or form.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 17:29:29 GMT -5
Another way too hot stroll under my belt. Yesterday I was waiting for my new range to be delivered. Today a contractor came (noonish but we had not agreed upon a time) to get me a quote for flooring in LR/DR/office. He had just done the same work for my downstairs neighbor & friend so I knew what to expect but it had to be done officially.
So by the time I was heading out it was hot again. However, like yesterday, I did get my steps in and I am once again drinking cold lemonade. Tomorrow it will be at least 10 degrees cooler and I don't have to wait for anyone to show up.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 14:16:36 GMT -5
Ok peeps, I may have gotten myself in deep doodoo here and I need you to send me all the good vibes, juju or whatever you have to spare. I decided to replace my flooring in the office, DR, AND the living room all at the same time. That means I will have to empty out 6 4-shelf bookcases (many double stashed), two 6-shelf bookcases, two hutches, hundreds of CDs, etc., etc., etc. I will have a one week lead time to get this done (though I have another week or two before the clock starts ticking - but I am an infamous procrastinator so there is that.
My plan for now is take everything out and get rid of things right there and then as a first pass through followed by a second pass through when putting things back in place.
I am already exhausted thinking about this and it, by necessity, turn me from an accidental declutterer into a full time one... AAAAAHHH!
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 13:25:59 GMT -5
I've heard it be said that nobody has more to fear from equality than a mediocre white man. Well Trump is the epitome of that.I have to disagree with (just) this part of your post. To call the orange paint addict a "mediocre white man" is an upgrade he neither deserves nor am I willing to give him that. He may be an idiot savant wrt to marketing himself but that is as far as I am willing to go.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 12:56:38 GMT -5
Just Posting quick. I have to leave for a Dr. Appointment in 3-4 minutes. I checked Mom's e-mail yesterday and deleted all the stuff asking for $$ or trying to make her feel like the world will end if she does not vote for or Donate to Donald J. Trump and every R Senator and Representative across the country. I went in today, and there were 20 more messages. There really is not anything in Mom's e-mail she needs to see. We need a spam law like the Do not call registry and it needs to include politicians. I tried blocking or unsubscribing, but that did not work. They just send from a different e-mail addy. I told WINRed that Mom was incompetent after she donated about 50+ times in one month, but they are still trying to get her $$.
If you hit an oil well you don't stop pumping. You go and get as much profit from it as possible. It is the capitalist way after all.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 12:51:15 GMT -5
If I had not long since fallen out with organized religion this would absolutely do it for me. That fact that I would have to educate/detoxify my child because of the poison and lies spewed by a pastor during a church service I HAD TAKEN HER TO, would be not just a step too far, it would be at least a mile over the line! For me personally It would be a case of never again. Now, again in my opinion, the fact that young (pre)teens are present during this sermon is all the worse. These kids are just at that age where parents no longer know everything so they are especially vulnerable to others spewing these vile opinions. And I do believe they are a target audience by this so-called religious leader. FWIW, my family and I are in the process of moving away from my born and raised very conservative Lutheran Church Mo Synod for this reason. My kid happened to be singing in choir as part of school requirement. We hope to find a church that fits our more progressive views on topics such as these or at least doesn't preach hate. My faith is still important to me.I understand and have a lot of respect for your efforts to find a congregation that is in line with your values! And to be fair: I fell out with the human part of religion, the so-called spiritual leaders, more than anything else. Funnily enough I was a young ten when that happened and, though I am quite sure he never meant to, it was my father who caused it without even one word about faith but a very clear comment to our parish priest. I was not even supposed to hear it but I was in the kitchen cleaning something up and there is that thing about little pots and big ears...
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 11, 2024 12:18:57 GMT -5
Along with all his moral failings, it's the mainstream acceptance of lying that really scares me. Was visiting a different church last weekend. Out of nowhere the pastor starts the sermon with Christians are being persecuted. Transgenders are trying to replace Easter by having Biden move their national holiday. Whaaaaaaaattttttt? Even I know Biden didn't declare the first transgender day. Second, it's always been March 31 - it's Easter that moves around to follow the lunar cycle. No, just no. To top it off, the rest of the sermon had nothing to do with either topic. The pastor just had to get his dig in right upfront.
Spent the rest of the service playing tic tac toe and hangman with DD11. If I had not long since fallen out with organized religion this would absolutely do it for me. That fact that I would have to educate/detoxify my child because of the poison and lies spewed by a pastor during a church service I HAD TAKEN HER TO, would be not just a step too far, it would be at least a mile over the line! For me personally It would be a case of never again. Now, again in my opinion, the fact that young (pre)teens are present during this sermon is all the worse. These kids are just at that age where parents no longer know everything so they are especially vulnerable to others spewing these vile opinions. And I do believe they are a target audience by this so-called religious leader.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 20:00:47 GMT -5
I'll wait for our legal scholar, ripvanwinkle , to weigh in on this conspiracy. 😂
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 17:23:38 GMT -5
Cool tallguy . I used to have no problems giving up my seat to someone taller than I am (my sons are dondub 's height) but my knees just won't do it anymore. And the majority of my flights are 11 or more hours long. Definitely worth the upgrade. Maybe that will be true one day for short flights as well but not yet...
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 16:52:35 GMT -5
Back from my daily stroll. Tomorrow I really need to go before 11am because it was just too hot for me today. I would have gone earlier today but had to wait for my new range to be delivered. Such is life but at least I got my steps in and now I am drinking a cold lemonade so all is good
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 16:02:22 GMT -5
Whether 6'4" is tall enough to refer to yourself as tall is neither here nor there (IMO 6'4" is right sized but definitely taller than average), but regular economy airplane seats are not designed for people that tall. I hope you will always find someone to switch seats with you tallguy but, to be honest, I would not be the one giving up my seat. Despite just being 5'7" my legs, specifically my knees, need the extra room on long flights. And on short flights I don't even pay to get extra room. I just plop my butt in my seat for a few hours and I am fine
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 14:30:09 GMT -5
i didn't say never. i said i could not imagine it. in 2016, i could not imagine an electorate stupid enough to permit the commander in thief to become president.
now, i can readily imagine it. i can even IMAGINE it happening again.
so, yes, when your situation changes, so does your imagination. Let's get something straight: unless there is a drastic change in the "sheeple" not only can it happen again, it WILL happen again. Now whether it will be the orange paint addict or one of his (potentially even worse) followers who would get into the WH I can't say, but it will happen and it will be bad!
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 12:43:23 GMT -5
TheOtherMe I know you don't want to have a "keepsake" of what is going on but maybe it would be a good idea to document what has happened and has been fixed in case you ever want to sell this place. Just put whatever photos you take where you won't run into them but where you can find them if needed.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 12:00:11 GMT -5
i have never flown business class . i can't imagine doubling my ticket price for extra legroom and meals. it is ridiculous, imo. i can use that money for expensive dinners, an extra night in a hotel, etc. it seems like business class is just a way of waving around your wallet to me. nothing i have ever wished to do. Meh, my older bones now demand economy plus on long flights. Meals, who cares but I can easily see how one day, in the not too far off future, I will need the extra legroom and lie flat chairs to accommodate my really old bones on an 11 or even 17 hour flight. Never say never!
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 10:21:55 GMT -5
You're right. I should have said fined. Contempt of court fine? A cease and desist order? Trump is ignoring the gag order because it violates his 1st amendment rights. I don't think there are first amendment rights for talking smack about the judge's children. Gag orders are common and are usually limited to talking about that case and the participants. A regular thing which of course Trump wants to ignore because he needs to beat his victim chest and give his minions targets to harass. Would you be so gung ho on his right to talk smack about people if you and your family were targets?And he would be such an easy target considering his stance on "illegals" and the fact that Rip's DIL* once was one of them... For the record, I have nothing, zip, zilch against Rip's DIL but the double standard runs deep in the man.
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 10, 2024 10:05:26 GMT -5
Washington Post article. The deeply silly, extremely serious rise of ‘Alpha Male’ Nick AdamsMeet the Trump-backed raconteur who is teaching America’s young men the art of being hard to deal with Nick Adams was speaking to the men in the room. “Never apologize,” he said. “Never mask up. Never pick up the Fortnite controller. It starts with the Fortnite controller and boneless chicken wings, and ends in gender pronouns and communism. We don’t want that.” “Damn right!” a young man in pleated khakis yelled. “Damn right, we don’t want that.” The crowd chuckled. The affirmation was jokey, but serious — fitting for Adams, a happy culture warrior whose weapon of choice is not a video game controller but an X account, “Nick Adams (Alpha Male),” where he professes his love for Hooters, makes goofy claims like how billionaire pop superstar Taylor Swift is only dating NFL tight end Travis Kelce because she wants a piece of his $70,000 Super Bowl bonus check, and posts videos about boycotting Mars candy because M&M’s had committed “egregious sexism” for having all-female packaging. He calls his fans Nick Adams Disciples, or “Nads.” On this occasion, the burgeoning Nads were young Republicans. They had gathered at the Capitol Hill Club to drink cheap beer, in a room decorated with porcelain elephant statues and photographs of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Sen. John McCain, and listen to a well-built man with a five o’clock shadow and an Australian accent tell them that “‘nasty women’ are coming for two things: your mind and your testicles!”In a Trumpified GOP, and a Trumpified Washington, the answer is yes. He is a presidential appointee to the board of Washington’s Woodrow Wilson Center, which, according to its website, “provides nonpartisan counsel and insights on global affairs to policymakers.” Donald Trump, who bestowed him with that honor during his last term, has recently made Adams an official campaign surrogate as the former president attempts to regain control of the White House. Rest of article here: The deeply silly, extremely serious rise of ‘Alpha Male’ Nick AdamsFor the record this NastyWoman would rather count her toes over and over again to make sure I still have ten than waste my time going after the non-existing brains and/or testicles of NADS. What an idiot and what idiots these "Alpha males" are to even just listen to this nonsense
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 9, 2024 19:00:43 GMT -5
Severe weather cancellations for tomorrow. I was planning to go into the office again tomorrow, but I'll have to wait and see. Depending on when the weather moves in I may be better of WFH tomorrow. The problem is, school is closed tomorrow. Which means DH and Kiddo will both be home tomorrow. Bothering me all day long. While DH is usually pretty good at remembering I'm actually working, I think Kiddo distracts him. Next thing I know he's like 5 minutes into a 10 minute conversation with me and I have no idea what he is talking about. Because I wasn't listening to him. I was working! Brooks will be glad to have them both home tomorrow. They both spoil that darn cat. Whatever you do, stay safe please
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Post by NastyWoman on Apr 9, 2024 11:21:12 GMT -5
I am sorry you have to deal with this BS. And I am so delighted that you are teaching your daughter the important lessons about her power over her body, and how to appropriately address the issues. I remember as a girl being told that boys pulling my hair, or shoving me, or even grabbing my breasts was "cute" and a sign that they liked me. It's also incredibly important for boys to learn from a very early age that no does mean no in every way. That seems odd to say about elementary age children, but nowadays puberty can start at 11 or 12. I struggle a lot with trying to figure out when I should step in on her behalf or not. Because I really wanted to get up and tell that little boy to keep his grubby little paws off my daughter. And while that certainly would have made an impression on him, I didn't do that because I wasn't convinced that was the right answer. He does know I saw him do it. The second time he did it I gave him the evil eye. I figured that was the least I could do since getting up in the middle of class to dress down someone else's kid didn't seem like the best idea. Despite how I felt about it. If he does it again she knows to cause a scene. Draw attention to the bad behavior. From there, her instructors will deal with it. But she has to call the behavior out because these kids do all this when the instructors can't see them. If that little boy is going to make her uncomfortable, then she needs to make the entire room uncomfortable. That means throwing decorum out the window and saying no and being as loud and as obnoxious as she can be. So far, nobody has come with the "boys will be boys" excuse. Unfortunately, I do get that vibe from this boy's parents. I hope I'm wrong. It's not a small thing that should be minimized. It's something that needs to be taught, learned, and corrected while these kids are young. No excuses for the behavior. Correct it so they can do better when they grow up. As the mother of two ,now adult, boys I have to point out that this goes for all kids regardless of gender. I definitely taught my kids the no means no thing but I was always afraid that one day they would snap. They were tall (98 - 99 percentile ) and very strong so they could easily have hurt someone or just plain got in trouble. The incident that stands clearest in my mind is when I got a call that DS2 got suspended from the schoolbus because he had pushed a girl. The girl was a lot smaller than he was though she was a year older. What the bus monitor had not seen, or not reported who knows, was that the girl had been pinching and punching DS2 for several days on the bus. The other kids knew though and they went together to the office to tell what happened. By the time I got to school (Bangkok, big traffic jams) I was told it was all cleared up and son was back on the bus. The girl had been "addressed". Now did she get suspended? Nope she got a talking to and that was it. Unfortunately the kid lived in the same building we did so they still had to go on the bus together. They just kept them separate. And I did talk to the parents, which the school did not do, but I don't know if they ever did anything with it. The double standard displayed still pisses me off to this day* In other words all kids need to be held to the same standard. No boys will be boys or girls will be girls. *ETA: I absolutely do carry grudges for a loooooong time. DS2 was around 8yo at the time. He just turned 42yo
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