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President Biden just gave the first real Presidential Press Conference in years.
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Shopping NEVER makes me happy. Yuck! Daughter got all that sort of joy. She has a black belt in shopping. I'd rather use a catalogue if I had my druthers. I despise malls.
DeleteIt depends on *where* you shop. My faves are thrift stores. Treasure hunt, save money and recycle all at the same time.
DeleteVery good point, Susan.
DeleteI still don't enjoy it.
I'd rather have 3 good outfits and just keep wearing them than have to go clothes shopping. When I do find something that really works, though, I tend to get multiples of it. I have a dozen corduroy shirts and 3 pair of Keen shoes that are the same, just different colours.
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Interesting. Our new District Attorney, whom we elected following a petition drive to oust the incumbent, announced that he's going to need more people because the legislature has designated more crimes. Presumably that means reclassifying misdemeanors as felonies.
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It is the deifnition of crime in terms of property damage which used to make it difficult to prosecute rape. Given that some simple-minded individuals consider the depostion of sperm to be a gift, proving criminal intent is virtually impossible if simple assault is not serious.
That individual integrity is not to be violated is a complicated notion.
I like the way the Anglican catechism says it:
Delete"respect the dignity of every human person"
That ought to be law.
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Double horrors!
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If I could persuade all my children and grands to come with me I'd be there next month.
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It's all being kept quiet until they tell the littles. Seems so unfair to have lost most of the last year to Covid and now we'll just have the Summer.
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Now time to go pull weeds in the front yard for a while. TTFN
Oops, no--I have to visit the dentist at 3PM.
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223 deaths (+1)
Recovered 15,240(83.7%)
Hospital:25(+2) ICU:6(+1)
Tests 350,472 (+1211)
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ReplyDeleteIt sounds absolutely disgusting! LOL!
DeleteAnd if you want to stay out of the dentist's chair, you're gonna have to lay off the fairy bread. 😆
Marvels of modern technology! I had X-rays at the dentist's office today, and they had completely replaced film. A sensor (probably like a digital camera sensor) goes into the mouth behind the teeth, with a wire leading from it to the computer, and the X-ray shows up on the computer screen. Much more comfortable, and fewer exposures because it is about twice the width of the old films. Faster, easier, and more comfortable.
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