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"go to sleep little doggie, go to sleep" I sang to her the first night that she stayed in our house. We had just adopted her and she wouldn't go to sleep. She kept crying in her crate. My wife already, had one dog and I really didn't want another dog...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Sat Apr 20, 2024 at 07:54 AM PDT
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I do. I find it odd that his own family that we know of is not at his trial. Not one sibling, not any family or if he has friends...where are they? I know if my husband or family member was on trial, I would try to be there at least one day. If Melania...
by Vetwife
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 08:39 AM PDT
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What a week.�
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by zenbassoon
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on Sat Apr 13, 2024 at 07:00 PM PDT
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Relationships have great value to me, for emotional support.
And relationships�give me comfort, as I think about a bugout scenario.
Alright, here we go again.
Here is the Red Cross link:
www....
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Wed Mar 06, 2024 at 10:01 AM PST
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The healing-industrial complex has mushroomed into a gazillion dollar business, and for good reason: there’s an endless volume of toxicity being spewed at us daily, either in the news or from people in our lives. These days, there’s something...
by Alison Gallant
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on Tue Jan 30, 2024 at 06:33 PM PST
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This past June marked the fifteenth year since we purchased our family home. That is fifteen revolutions around the sun, an undisputed fact of existence that routinely blows my mind. Significant memories have been created, good and bad, at different...
by Eihenetu
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 11:39 AM PST
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This weekend my sister and I are off to Nashville to see the Isles play the Predators on Saturday night along with other members of the New York Islanders Booster Club. This is first non-road trip ...
by cohenzee
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on Tue Jan 09, 2024 at 07:00 PM PST
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The very jaded and cynical part of me wonders why it took Ashli Babbit’s husband three years to sue the federal government over her death. The husband and the estate of slain Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt sued the U.S. government on Friday, arguing that...
by Merlin196360
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on Sun Jan 07, 2024 at 05:32 PM PST
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Greetings and welcome to a fluffy, little open thread. This week I thought I'd sit back and engage in a bit of digestion. You know, take a moment to review the damage.
by Marko the Werelynx
44 comments
on Fri Nov 24, 2023 at 01:07 PM PST
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Setting a High Standard When one talks about First Lady Rosalynn Carter and President Jimmy Carter, the words honesty, humility, and decency immediately come to mind. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) talked earlier this year about President Carter and...
by JekyllnHyde
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on Thu Nov 23, 2023 at 05:06 PM PST
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I just wanted to take time to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving. But I need something. I need us all to remember that not everyone will have a full table. Some won’t have any table. And I need us to remember that full tables aren’t guaranteed in...
by Rule of Claw
37 comments
on Tue Nov 21, 2023 at 08:36 AM PST
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Okay, step by step:� Family time, outdoor chores:�it’s quality time, and builds an appetite. Making bread. MMMmmmm! Season the turkey. Cook the turkey. Smash the turkey. Add cheese to the ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Nov 20, 2023 at 10:01 PM PST
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Evening all.
This week has been a bit of a beast —�I’m not feeling my best, my lab partner didn’t leave me any fish to test and I was unable to pull a proposal out of my ass so I’m probably ...
by Mortifyd
25 comments
on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 04:57 PM PST
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This week I want to tell you all a story. It’s not a happy story, all of it. It’s a story of grief and loss and tragedy. But it’s also a story of strength, and discovery, and joy. The year is 2002. My grandfather is dying. My mother asks him to share...
by Ninalyn
59 comments
on Thu Nov 16, 2023 at 05:28 PM PST
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For such an ordinary word, it has BIG meaning. The dictionary defines it as:
tra·di·tion � trə-ˈdi-shə...
by zenbassoon
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on Sat Nov 18, 2023 at 07:00 PM PST
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Thursday night on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg addressed newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson’s vitriolic homophobia. It kicked off ...
by Walter Einenkel
199 comments
on Fri Nov 03, 2023 at 10:21 AM PDT
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For many years, I have sought a break from the pain of politics and taken refuge inside of fiction. When this wasn’t enough, I began creating my own. For your Halloween moods…. This is an excerpt from my unpublished short story work (copywrited). “A...
by MorganMidlothian
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on Tue Oct 31, 2023 at 01:28 PM PDT
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Ha!
Welcome, my internet friends.
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at, to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, ...
by bigjacbigjacbigjac
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 10:01 PM PDT
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There is no low to which the Republican Party and individual republicans and Fox News will not go. Their hypocrisy is brazen. It's stunning. Every time I think they can not get worse, they do. Making Jim Jordan their speaker nominee is an example....
by Dem
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on Mon Oct 23, 2023 at 07:06 AM PDT
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It is like a timer, this tap on the mental shoulder. He is never late. At about the same time for each anniversary of her death, I pop up and look at my phone. It happened again this morning. So I did what I usually do, which is write. It was 4:34 a.m....
by Rule of Claw
26 comments
on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 05:43 AM PDT
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