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Post by conniefromct on Jun 7, 2019 15:50:21 GMT
Happy Birthday, Joyce!! I turned 70 a few weeks ago and it hit me hard for a few weeks and I'm over it now. Just very grateful to still be here and able to enjoy life with all my marbles. I love that you're doing this big "cousins" party - hope not toooo much work for you! Your Mom would be very pleased. lani, my best friend is 81 and in lousy health and I just dread losing her.
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Post by lani on Jun 7, 2019 17:42:36 GMT
conniefromct, my friend is in good health generally, but she recently had a fall in her garden, and a mishap where she left her car in gear after she stepped out and the car reversed out her driveway into the street. She has hidden both of these from her husband. She is a Scott and her motto is "what the eye don't see, the heart can't grieve." I'm worried about her.
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Post by birdgal on Jun 7, 2019 21:14:47 GMT
Connie, you are such a good friend. I don't know how true this is, but I've been told 90% of the things we worry about never happen.
I do know how you feel though. The thought of her not being there is unbearable.
Your friend is blessed to have you in her life and you are blessed to have her.
Does she know how concerned you are about her? Maybe you both could find a better and safer way for her to get these things done. Not all at once. Slowly in easy and workable chunks.
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Post by birdgal on Jun 7, 2019 21:19:31 GMT
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JOYCE!
Have a fun celebration. Save a piece of cake for us if you don't mind.
ENJOY!!!
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Post by nashville11 on Jun 7, 2019 21:21:46 GMT
birdgal Passing around 0 points virtual birthday cake to each of you. Any flavor your heart desires!
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Post by birdgal on Jun 7, 2019 21:38:03 GMT
I wonder if anything would change or be different if we said,"a woman's right to choose" over and over again instead of that other knee jerking, button pushing word that magically appears as we get closer to the election.
Because it really is about a woman's choice. That's the bottom line. Her body. Her Choice.
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Post by nashville11 on Jun 7, 2019 22:05:53 GMT
Pat, that's a very good point. I think "a woman's right to choose" would not stir up near the angry rhetoric. I think the Republicans know that too so that's why they won't use that phrase.
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Post by birdgal on Jun 7, 2019 23:36:17 GMT
Thank you, Joyce. It's not just the Reps. The media uses that hot potato word, politicans from both sides do too.
It has to go. Lol.
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Post by doordie50 on Jun 8, 2019 0:41:18 GMT
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Post by birdgal on Jun 8, 2019 0:51:24 GMT
Pam, I like your new avatar! That's one fine looking yacht. I was going to say boat but it's more than a boat. Nice shot too. Makes me feel like I could jump on from here. lol. Well, not jump. Walk carefully. Very carefully.
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Post by birdgal on Jun 9, 2019 0:19:11 GMT
I'm not ok with someone leaking what Pelosi said in private. Betrayal is the unforgivable sin in my book. Despecable!
Now that it's out there I agree with her 100%. If a regular citizen did half the things this A Hole they'd be in jail already. He's an evil and corrupt con man. Lock him up!
Now he's crying about Pelosi being nasty and all the other BS he's saying about her. Hello? I did not know the White House was a glass house. Did you?
Suck it up, Donny. I know you have a problem with strong, brilliant, truthful, uppity women. They're here and there's more on the way. Get used to it.
Respect is a two way street. It's not a given. It's earned. Nancy Pelosi has earned it!
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Post by yogamama007 on Jun 9, 2019 1:31:07 GMT
JOYCE MY FRIEND................HAPPY BIRTHDAY...........
"Cousins get together" sounds wonderful. Good idea.
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Post by yogamama007 on Jun 9, 2019 1:36:10 GMT
Very quiet here today.....you all must be exhausted from the T juniors all expense paid trip to London to see the Queen.
That is sure as hell how I want to see my taxes spent. None of this infrastructure and educational improvement nonsense.
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Post by yogamama007 on Jun 9, 2019 1:41:00 GMT
This is too well done not to share:
"How did the Trump family’s UK state visit look from social media? I’m glad that you have emphasised that this was the Trump family’s state visit, as opposed to just the president’s, because this was very much – I just need to cue up Sly and the Family Stone – a family affairrrrr! Zzzzip! Record scratch! Sorry, that was a bad booking for this party, given that, according to the New Yorker, whenever the man now improbably known as President Trump would visit his casino in New Jersey, “the bosses would order all the black people off the floor”. So come on, Stones: you can leave through the fire exit, and be quick about it, please. This is a presidential issue.
Quite why US taxpayers were funding Trump’s four very definitely adult children to come on a family holiday to London has never been explained by a White House administration whose only consistent policy has been “never explain, never apologise”. Yet, in an administrative snafu, someone with self-awareness has been hired to run the White House’s Instagram account and he or she notably cut the Trump juniors out of all photos posted of National Lampoon’s London Vacation. Even Ivanka only makes a fleeting, possibly accidental appearance, even though, as we all know, she has a very important job in the White House that she totally got on her own merit.
Yet while the White House itself might have been strangely reluctant to record this made-for-TV sequel to the 90s comedy King Ralph, the Trump juniors were documenting their every move online with the enthusiasm of, well, hopelessly basic American embarrassments. And given that this presidency was pretty much won on social media, it makes sense to recall its high points the same way.
Ivanka kicked things off with a photo of her outside the V&A, on her way to visit the Christian Dior show, and as an American taxpayer, can I just say how thrilled I am to have paid for her to do this? Other highlights include what is now known as the Children of the Corn photo, in which Ivanka peers mournfully through a window in Buckingham Palace alongside her husband, Jared Kushner, who, judging from his recent TV interview appearance, has Botoxed his brain. Another photo shows her sitting at a boardroom table “to discuss advancing our bilateral trade relationship”, and of course she would be there, being the – wait a minute, let me check my notes. I need more time. Ah! She is the “informal adviser to the president”. Is that just code for “favourite child”? Nothing strange AT ALL about her being at these talks, looking very much like Boardroom Barbie. And before anyone cries “sexist”, I say that not because Ivanka is an attractive woman. I say it because she is an idiot. Sign up for the Fashion Statement email Read more
Which brings us to Dumb and Dumber, AKA Donnie Jr and Eric. Donnie, sadly, left his girlfriend, former Fox News presenter Kimberly Guilfoyle, back in the US, which is a shame, because she would have been the sludge on this whole trip’s cowpat pie. Still, Donnie wasn’t a total bust: the photo he posted of him and his siblings in the Churchill War Rooms was a real insight for those who ever wondered what Britain would have looked like if the Nazis had won the war. Eric Trump is best known for the lawsuit issued against his charity, and his presence here, alongside his pregnant wife Lara, was so inexplicable I have nothing to say about it. Other than that his fondness for placing a hand on his wife’s stomach (“Look what I did!!!”) in photos is so creepy it should be illegal.
I loved youngest Trump daughter Tiffany’s decision to dress like Aunt Pittypat for the dinner at Buck House. But more than that, I loved that dinner. One day, can the person who decided which American was paired with which Brit – Ivanka with Liam Fox! Kate Middleton with Steve Mnuchin! Sarah Sanders with Prince Michael! – explain how those decisions were made? And will I go to hell for wheeling out the shamelessly predictable Star Wars cantina analogy? Ah well, too late.
But it was the King of Social Media, the big Don, who definitively won this trip’s social media war, when he marked D-day by furiously tweeting at 1am on Wednesday about “psycho Bette Midler”. You can take the Trump out of America, but you can’t take the Trump out of Trump."
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Post by yogamama007 on Jun 9, 2019 1:44:30 GMT
Age and getting older:
Agree some Birthdays are a kick in the head.....my 40th was like that, wasen't giving in to it so took everyone to Playland in Rye N.Y.. Then
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