Yeh, so anyway, I can recall the same angst as a little kid over "bed bugs bite" and "when the bough breaks" as the Simpson girls. But what really used to freak me out was the Christian claptrap "And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take." What a horrible thought to put in a kid's head just before you turn off the lights.
Hey, I'm back from the yard clean up! I can only do about an hour, hour and a half, at a time. Otherwise my back tries to collect IOUs... Waiting for the kids to show up!...
I need a palate cleanser. I just ran into a new neighbor who invited me to Easter services at her church. She mentioned that it was outdoors at a location I remembered from a different invitation by a different neighbor a long time ago. I said, "Is that Calvary Chapel?" And she said yes.
I freaked out inwardly, because I have not recovered from my previous exposure to this organization. Their attitude toward gay people is disgusting. Two of my best friends are gay and two of my children are gay. I don't understand how so-called "Christian" people can be so hateful.
NYT with article saying that Americans want a god and saying that religion is becoming more visible. Personally, I stopped going to church decades ago because it filled no social, spiritual, physical, or emotional need of mine. But, I acknowledge that religious institutions fill a hole in society that other organizations don't fill, and many of them do good. As long as they don't spread hate in the guise of piety and don't try to convert me, I leave them alone. But the current crop of god-botherers in the public eye have certainly given Christianity a bad name, and many churches seem completely oblivious to that. Christianity isn't a virtue, and the key ingredient of religion is belief, not fact.
Shall I introduce you to Grace City Church in Wenatchee, WA? They preach that empathy is a sin and that women should not be anywhere but in the home. They are much more insidious than this sounds. A local journo just did an expose on their ties to a local kids stage school. Many parents have suddenly withdrawn their kiddos from the stage school programs.
Omg, all the snotty white kids from my high school were Calvary Chapel assholes. I remember going to the one in Costa Mesa as a kid and being like wtf is this crazy Pentecostal shit.
OMG, I can't believe you're talking about Calvary Chapel. A neighbor just invited me to Easter services at a South OC one tomorrow, and I politely declined. I remember hearing one of their pastors bad-mouthing gay people and I almost got physically ill. Two of my kids are gay and two of my best friends are gay. I don't understand what is wrong with these "Christian" people. What would Jesus say???
Calvary Chapel has been on my shit list ever since that first visit as a kid. I totally fired my GP because I found out he was a CC adherent. They're hateful creepy assholes, and I will not give any of them my time or business.
Never heard of Cavalry Chapel; sounds so generic. So I googleized it and up came a "Find a Calvary Chapel" near you thingie almost like it was a Dairy Queen or something. Well, the one nearest me - about 20 miles away - is the site of an annual "old fashioned church revival", tent meeting (except instead of a tent they have a permanent enclose amphitheater for collecting souls) and it goes on for about two weeks every summer. And I asked a guy who lives closer about it one time - "Saves Soul? - hell, they create more brand new souls up there every summer than they save."
Mister Garcia has NO tattoos according to his wife and family.
I wish like HELL that I had gone to law school. It would provide me considerable joy and satisfaction to have a JD following my signature when signing off onerous warnings to cease and desist this depraved defamation of a man currently unable to defend himself.
Can I ask you a question or any of the other nurses who non-comment here? As I mentioned in a comment yesterday, I had blood work done yesterday. The lab posted my results. Almost everything is within normal range, but I'm confused by the results for my HDL Cholesterol. It says the normal value is > OR = 50 mg/dl. I know what > means, I'm even pretty sure I know what mg/dl means, but what does OR mean? It doesn't show in any of the other results. Anyway, my result was 53, so a little high, but if I look at my results over the last 3 years, they've trended downward. The highest was 59 but last year's was 54 and now 53.
No worries if you prefer not to answer, I realize you may not want to give medical advice to someone you've never examined. I'm just curious.
I'm not a doctor, so don't trust me. HDL (high density lipoprotein) is the 'good cholesterol'. You want that to be 50 or more. A 53 is OK - my doctor wants me to get to 60.
I'm so glad that Oscar is there to offer a bit of tender love and distraction while you're feeling poorly. Is there someone available to go to the market and fetch you some ginger ale?
I have some, thanks. It's due to adjusting to a new blood sugar med. Very effective on the blood sugar, but with the unfortunate side effects of intermittent puking.
I'm not much of an egg eater, so I really don't have a clue how expensive they have gotten. But I saw this morning that "many" people are dying potatoes instead of eggs. I guess they'll have to make french fries out of the remain rather than egg salad
My dear old, departed daddy used to say "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit" though I am now wondering how that is germane to the conversation.
Happy 4/20 Day to those who celebrate.
I was going to go to church, but I decided to just hang around.
(Ha ha ha... NAILED IT!)
Glad to be a happy cat lady with two boys who cause me less trouble and are more loving than most hoomins.
Meow
I am nothing without my dogs.
Ta, Robyn. The Cat Lady looks like your relative, but it's from 1969.
Yeh, so anyway, I can recall the same angst as a little kid over "bed bugs bite" and "when the bough breaks" as the Simpson girls. But what really used to freak me out was the Christian claptrap "And if I die before I wake I pray the lord my soul to take." What a horrible thought to put in a kid's head just before you turn off the lights.
"It's also the anniversary of like, everything that has ever happened!"
LMAO! YAAAYYY!!
Hey, I'm back from the yard clean up! I can only do about an hour, hour and a half, at a time. Otherwise my back tries to collect IOUs... Waiting for the kids to show up!...
I hadn't seen that Simpsons short before. I watched twice, my eyes watering with mirth.
I need a palate cleanser. I just ran into a new neighbor who invited me to Easter services at her church. She mentioned that it was outdoors at a location I remembered from a different invitation by a different neighbor a long time ago. I said, "Is that Calvary Chapel?" And she said yes.
I freaked out inwardly, because I have not recovered from my previous exposure to this organization. Their attitude toward gay people is disgusting. Two of my best friends are gay and two of my children are gay. I don't understand how so-called "Christian" people can be so hateful.
NYT with article saying that Americans want a god and saying that religion is becoming more visible. Personally, I stopped going to church decades ago because it filled no social, spiritual, physical, or emotional need of mine. But, I acknowledge that religious institutions fill a hole in society that other organizations don't fill, and many of them do good. As long as they don't spread hate in the guise of piety and don't try to convert me, I leave them alone. But the current crop of god-botherers in the public eye have certainly given Christianity a bad name, and many churches seem completely oblivious to that. Christianity isn't a virtue, and the key ingredient of religion is belief, not fact.
Shall I introduce you to Grace City Church in Wenatchee, WA? They preach that empathy is a sin and that women should not be anywhere but in the home. They are much more insidious than this sounds. A local journo just did an expose on their ties to a local kids stage school. Many parents have suddenly withdrawn their kiddos from the stage school programs.
Well, when you buy into a fake reality, everything is possible...
Omg, all the snotty white kids from my high school were Calvary Chapel assholes. I remember going to the one in Costa Mesa as a kid and being like wtf is this crazy Pentecostal shit.
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OMG, I can't believe you're talking about Calvary Chapel. A neighbor just invited me to Easter services at a South OC one tomorrow, and I politely declined. I remember hearing one of their pastors bad-mouthing gay people and I almost got physically ill. Two of my kids are gay and two of my best friends are gay. I don't understand what is wrong with these "Christian" people. What would Jesus say???
Calvary Chapel has been on my shit list ever since that first visit as a kid. I totally fired my GP because I found out he was a CC adherent. They're hateful creepy assholes, and I will not give any of them my time or business.
So, you're South County, eh?
Never heard of Cavalry Chapel; sounds so generic. So I googleized it and up came a "Find a Calvary Chapel" near you thingie almost like it was a Dairy Queen or something. Well, the one nearest me - about 20 miles away - is the site of an annual "old fashioned church revival", tent meeting (except instead of a tent they have a permanent enclose amphitheater for collecting souls) and it goes on for about two weeks every summer. And I asked a guy who lives closer about it one time - "Saves Soul? - hell, they create more brand new souls up there every summer than they save."
https://mahaffeycamp.com/about-us/history-of-the-camp/
Not the Calvary that I want to call in time of need.
That kitteh up at the top is so snuggly-looking!
O/T
Someone is really trying to make That Guy look bad...
‘𝘏𝘦’𝘴 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘔𝘚-13 𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘦𝘴’: 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘶𝘱 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢’𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥-𝘰𝘶𝘵 ‘𝘔𝘚-13’ 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘣𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘰 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘧𝘦’𝘴 𝘛𝘪𝘬𝘛𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-hand-b2735920.html
MS-13 have commented on this as well stating it is totally fabricated ruubbish
Trump's brain is a deep fake.
Republicans LIED?!?1? My gast is flabbered.
I'm simply baffled as to why they might try to do this.
It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside treasonous GOP bullshit.
A con, dum-dum, ya might say.
like lye inside a chocolate bonbon...
Mister Garcia has NO tattoos according to his wife and family.
I wish like HELL that I had gone to law school. It would provide me considerable joy and satisfaction to have a JD following my signature when signing off onerous warnings to cease and desist this depraved defamation of a man currently unable to defend himself.
[fumes furiously]
NO tattoos is a form of tattooing.
Just as NOT A genius is a kind of genius.
Can I ask you a question or any of the other nurses who non-comment here? As I mentioned in a comment yesterday, I had blood work done yesterday. The lab posted my results. Almost everything is within normal range, but I'm confused by the results for my HDL Cholesterol. It says the normal value is > OR = 50 mg/dl. I know what > means, I'm even pretty sure I know what mg/dl means, but what does OR mean? It doesn't show in any of the other results. Anyway, my result was 53, so a little high, but if I look at my results over the last 3 years, they've trended downward. The highest was 59 but last year's was 54 and now 53.
No worries if you prefer not to answer, I realize you may not want to give medical advice to someone you've never examined. I'm just curious.
That's a good thing. You're nearing normal. You can read about HDL at the Mayo Clinic site...
I'm not a doctor, so don't trust me. HDL (high density lipoprotein) is the 'good cholesterol'. You want that to be 50 or more. A 53 is OK - my doctor wants me to get to 60.
Reference: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-cholesterol/in-depth/hdl-cholesterol/art-20046388
I've been out of the nursing biz a long time, but is that greater than or equal to 50 mg/dl?
Ah, what do I know. I was a psychiatric nurse on the locked violent ward. Simpler times.
Well, if normal is greater than 50 mg/dl, my 53 is not too high, I guess? But thanks for answering.
These lying fucks. I hope Garcia sues errrrrrybody for defamation.
I doubt he'll be allowed to live long enough to do that.
Now that he has been paraded infront of cameras I am hoping it will harder to permanently disappear him
Okay, I'm going out to work on yard cleanup some more. Thanks for the respite!...
Ugh, I threw up.
Oscar Cat has come to comfort me.
I'm so glad that Oscar is there to offer a bit of tender love and distraction while you're feeling poorly. Is there someone available to go to the market and fetch you some ginger ale?
I have some, thanks. It's due to adjusting to a new blood sugar med. Very effective on the blood sugar, but with the unfortunate side effects of intermittent puking.
Eric Roberts' finest moment. "They took my thumb!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW6IrQSR9X4
agreed!
Ok so I see a church in my area having an..."Easter Potato Hunt" this year...
Because nothing screams "Fill our collection plate!" like a poor man's potato hunt.
Da.
good god, we were just joking about such a thing yesterday. i was trying to figure out how to do a pysanky potato.
Hey Siri, show me another sign that we are living in an end-times dystopia.
LMAO at Cris Shapan's satire about Mickey Rooney's Potato Fantasy Restaurant
https://hangingwithdoctorz.com/sponsors/mickey-rooneys-potato-fantasy/
I love that YouTube channel!
Do they have anything without Spam?...
it's the eggpocalypse.
And we are truly all in deep vichyssoise.
I'm not much of an egg eater, so I really don't have a clue how expensive they have gotten. But I saw this morning that "many" people are dying potatoes instead of eggs. I guess they'll have to make french fries out of the remain rather than egg salad
Potato salad!
Hmm - the fact that I didn't even think of that shows just how much I loathe potato salad ( I also loathe egg salad, tho' )
Maybe you just hate mayo?
My dear old, departed daddy used to say "You can't make chicken salad out of chicken shit" though I am now wondering how that is germane to the conversation.