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15311. judithathome - 6/2/2005 11:45:00 PM Arky, you've got mail... 15312. Magoseph - 6/3/2005 8:57:49 AM thoughtful, I hope there'll be better news today.
Hello, Mac! 15313. Macnas - 6/3/2005 10:16:28 AM Eh up Mago. 15314. Magoseph - 6/3/2005 10:35:28 AM Where's the humor in this cartoon--can you tell me?
 15315. Macnas - 6/3/2005 10:45:46 AM I suppose that, it's saying most of the american public have forgotton or never really heard of watergate until now.
Piss-poor cartoon in any case.
I like Dilbert, Barkeater lake, and Get fuzzy. 15316. Magoseph - 6/3/2005 11:21:12 AM Since it was in Harper's Magazine, I assumed the meaning escaped my understanding. 15317. judithathome - 6/3/2005 5:11:32 PM I thought it was rather funny, myself...
Mags, in the letters section of my papaer today, someone took Bush to task for using the word "disassemble"....you have a good ear! 15318. robertjayb - 6/3/2005 5:26:59 PM I caught that and immediately thought of my good friend, concerned. Seems to me that he, too, has been trained to disassemble. 15319. robertjayb - 6/3/2005 5:43:34 PM Came through part of your territory the other day, judith. Down I-35E at midafternoon. Mercy, what a mess. After hours of peaceful cruising through Kansas and Oklahoma my ankle started to cramp from all the stopping and starting. Shaken, we bailed off the interstate at Hillsboro and took to the boonies. That was a good thing. Fine roads (thanks to our state's larcenous contractors) and we avoided the smalltown speedtraps. 15320. arkymalarky - 6/3/2005 5:54:00 PM Hey Judith! Just got back online and responded.
I just got back from a tooth-cleaning--the best appointment of the FIVE I have this summer. The other three are replacing old fillings and finally finishing this stupid root canal. 15321. arkymalarky - 6/3/2005 5:54:24 PM Other FOUR, I mean.
15322. robertjayb - 6/3/2005 5:59:34 PM re the latest Bushism: I've heard it said that if you are determined to use a word you don't really understand, get it out there good and loud. As I recall, dubya did that. Good for him. 15323. robertjayb - 6/3/2005 6:22:23 PM Make that I-35W--- goes through Foat Wuth, don't you see? I-35E goes through Dallas, definitely not judith territory. 15324. judithathome - 6/3/2005 6:45:20 PM Jeez, Robert, I wish you'd hollered out on your way through!
Come down on Sunday and join us while we picket Rick Perry when he signs two bills into law at a huge megachurch here...yes, signing legislation into state law inside a CHURCH. 15325. robertjayb - 6/3/2005 7:59:19 PM Come Sunday, judith, it is you who will be doing the Lord's work.
What a truly rancid exercise. It will not be the last. 15326. arkymalarky - 6/3/2005 8:55:24 PM I'm telling you, you Texans and your legislature make us Arkies look downright civilized. ;-) 15327. thoughtful - 6/3/2005 9:28:09 PM did you see the yale divinity law school went to the air force academy in colorado springs and was shocked to learn how the evangelicals have so penetrated the school? Must be pretty bad for seminary profs to notice.... 15328. thoughtful - 6/3/2005 9:28:29 PM good news on brother....looks like he might come home tomorrow. 15329. Magoseph - 6/3/2005 9:55:54 PM Oh, good, thoughtful--is the family going to ask him, rather demand of him that he takes care of himself when he feels better? 15330. thoughtful - 6/3/2005 10:21:12 PM I don't know mags, that presumes a willingness to listen on his part which he has yet to demonstrate.
To give you an idea of how concerned he and his wife are about health issues, she had to have her gall bladder out so they did it laproscopically. Well of course they wanted her to stay a couple of days in the hospital, but that would mean she'd have to go a couple of days without smoking, which she couldn't do. So she left. She told them she was leaving...made them pull the ivs and all and left AMR and went home so she could smoke.
So yesterday she and my mother go to visit brother in the ICU and the first thing she says to him is, if you don't like it here, just leave. That's what I did. They can't make you stay. My mother was stunned and was glad my brother ignored that 'helpful' suggestion!
See what we're dealing with? Highly unlikely anything will change. And they are very good at blaming each other for their poor habits. She says I can't quit smoking because he won't, and he says I can't quit smoking because she won't. Fundamentally, neither of them has a desire to quit despite the expense, the inconvenience and the oh so obvious health risks. They're killing themselves, and they know it but they don't care. So it goes.
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