starrcat

Something really wonderful happened to me over Thanksgiving. I don't want to forget so I decided to post this so I could come back and read it when needed.
I have been baking with the D's for over Thanksgiving. We started it on Fridays making different cookies but it has developed into making this one cookie that everyone loves.
As kids came, they joined in and certain traditions developed. We bake on the Friday after Thanksgiving and go to our favorite chocolate store while the cookies are cooling. None of the kids were going to be around on Christmas so instead of the usual basket of Christmas chocolate, I decided to let them pick out their own chocolate at Thanksgiving
So I was talking to the clerk and she asked if we were all one family and I started to say no, they were but I wasn't. AND EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM SAID NO, YOU ARE PART OF OUR FAMILY! Cnanot every tell anyone how much this meant to me.

Self isolating hasn't been easy but over the last week, I had to accept that someone I thought was a very good friend wasn't. We are still friends but no longer the type that can turn to each other in times of need. More like business friends. You know, friends because one works with someone but the friendship ends when the job does.

Very sad for me, but time to acknowledge reality.

I woke up to the good news that Moore was defeated. What really gets me about this is that there was such a good chance that an alleged pedophile would be even considered for Congress much less endorsed by the president.

That is the sad state of our country right now.

My heart is broken. My country is gone and for the first time in my life I don't want to live here.

So so sorry to all our allies and friends. This isn't America. It just can't be.

In honor of the 90th anniversary of women obtaining the vote I am posting a picture of my grandmother's banner that she wore during her many years of fighting for the vote. She started in college (class of 1904) and went around the country working for the vote until her mother died.She then limited her work to her home state of NY. She even took my mother to one of the last suffragette parades in NY.

Here's to you and all the ones like you, Grandmother. Every time I vote I think of you.

I posted this as a comment on a friend's LJ and realized that I should also post on mine. My disgust for this "law" is unending.

The law is so dangerous because it also gives individuals the right to sue the police for failing to enforce the law.

Arizona is going to have an avalanche of lawsuits, probably from both sides. And it is clear that this will not solve the problems that I understand were the basis for its passage. Drug cartels really aren't going to care if they are pulled over - they simply will shoot their way out. It is the innocent worker who will bear the brunt of it along with innocent civilians.

My grandparents died in Nazi Austria because of quotas. I am a firm believer in no quota immigration. We may not want the criminals (though of course, that notorious criminal, John Lennon, had problems with INS!) but otherwise, let in and legalize. Give meaning to the statute of Liberty. Don't become like the Nazis.

Climbing down off of my soapbox.

I really love the Daily Show but man, it annoyed me when I watched yesterday's show. To place the reporting of Rachel Maddow, who has been highlighting the disaster in Haiti, next to the disgusting, sub-human comments of Rush Limbaugh, is disgusting. Don't like what she said, no problem. But nothing compares to the nastiness of Limbaugh, who actually suggested that no one should give money in support of the relief effort going on. And the way it was presented, at least to me, it looked like it was meant to be equivalent comments.

Most disappointing.

And I just had to vent.

We have cloture!!!!

RIP. You will be missed.