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I hear he's going to star in a historical documentary on the life of a famous composer. He'll be Bach.

Cats are soft and warm and fluffy Anything that is also soft and warm and fluffy but isn't a cat is obviously incomplete so she is obligated to cover it with her scent and hair to make it as cat like as possible

I can tolerate that people hold strongly to a religious belief. I cannot and will not tolerate that they attempt to impose their religious belief on me either personally or politically. I will to the end of my life fight against attitudes so insular and so blind that they will deny me my personal identity, liberties and rights simply because my existence makes them feel uncomfortable. And since I strongly feel that this sort of oppression links together and intersects, that includes the oppression they direct towards beliefs other than their own, persons of colour and Blacks, the disabled, all other LGBTQI* people and the impoverished. That is all.

Literarily allergic to cats. >_>

No, it is not possible Phobia implies an irrational or excessive fear There is no such thing as "Too Much" fear when we must confront our feline overlords Love Cats Admire Cats Take them into your family Treat them as friends But always fear them and remember your proper place

Explorer has decided that I need to be up and feeding her, plus playing with the string that closes the hood on one of my hoodies. She's much more active than I'm used to cats being, but that might be a function of age as she's just barely out of kitten hood. She's been blasting around the house at a zillion miles an hour for about a hour. I've gotten up and dressed and have taken my morning meds, I might as well face it, I'm up for the day now.

I have made it through my knee surgery, successfully as far as I know of at this time. I'm walking on a cane through the house. However, I'm having a slight problem keeping myself awake. I keep passing out at random times, like I just did. A nurse suggested that I back off on my pain medicines. I might back off on my gabapentin. Otherwise, I'm doing okay. More later.

Rowling makes Dumbledore the gay lover of Wizard Hitler, yet she can’t accept transwomen? The hypocrisy is strong with this one.

It was incaution that killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.

I know that there are at least some Christians present, either former or currently practicing, and I thought this might be of interest to them. https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2019/december-web-only/trump-should-be-removed-from-office.html Meanwhile, I need to go have a heaping helping of crow. I have been condemning Evangelicals wholesale for a while now and was recently reminded that this was a bad thing. This article drives the point home quite hard.

UPDATE: Explorer has gone to bed. In my bed, right where I would be if I wanted to take a nap.

Explorer, my cat, seems to be of the opinion that I can and should do something about the weather. She has gone from sitting on the window sill to being at my feet several times this morning during the rain. After the 3rd cycle of this she has given up and is on the chair.

I'm aware of that issue. This is more of a cord than a string and is attached to the hoodie. She can't eat it, or at least shouldn't be able to. At any rate I'm keeping it where she can't get to it with out me playing with it because if I don't she pulls the hoodie on to the floor.

Here is explorer hanging out on my overstuffed chair .

And here I thought you were a Linux man.

Finally, a therapist who is doing what you need, instead of merely what he thinks you need.

The physical therapist thinks I may have done it during one of the exercises of the previous class. We won't be doing those exercises anymore, he says, mainly due to the knee replacement recommendation. PT won't help with those particular exercises. Friday's PT class was strenuous rather than painful as a result. He worked the hell out of the areas that can benefit from PT and left the problem areas alone.

Enjoy the mild day while it lasts!

I just had my yearly blood draw for "tests". Took way more out of me than I expected it to. Thinking strongly about taking a nap and dealing with life in the afternoon time frame. At least I don't have a headache and didn't pass out when they took the blood.

Just remember that every ounce that a cat consumes would have as much effect as an entire pint would on an adult human, just from the body mass difference alone.

Blasphemy

I have a new cat. Her name is Explorer and she has already settled in and is hanging out with me in bed. She is about 2 years old and was a part of a colony that a friend of mine's parents had. She has spent some time inside, but was, when I picked her up, a barn cat.

Or possibly that people were doing the same thing about her.

Good to hear. Feel better soon!

Yeah, pretty much. Getting over it, weekend should be OK.

Well, you are hitting on why I have faith, but don't like religion. If you feel the need to beat someone up because they do not believe as you do, you've already blown it.

Thank you. We can only strive to do better.

Wednesday's going to be a real test of my scoped-out knee. Mrs. Prof and I are going to the NHL Winter Classic at the Cotton Bowl Stadium in Dallas on New Year's Day, just a light rail ride away from our house. Only problem is that there's quite a walk from the parking lot to the rail station, then another much longer walk from the terminal station to the Cotton Bowl. After that, we've got to go through security, make it up the ramps, and navigate the steps to our seats. I hadn't planned for this when I scheduled my surgery. Here's hoping my knee holds out ... either that, or my pain medicine holds out.

Cosmetic Morphing Device. Or Tedd's Uryuom transformation gun.

... and yet, when a brother and sister do this, it's considered to be weird. Go figure.

Honestly, that last panel speaks to me on multiple levels. I think the combination of the human desire for physical contact (hugs), and specifically from someone who is taller or larger than I am, must trigger some kind of latent memory or instinct. Not to get too scientific, but you see it in animals like cats - when you do things like picking them up by their scruff (disclaimer: don't do this to an adult cat) and they go limp, or when littermates who've grown up together wash each other by mimicking the behaviour of their mother.

I have a good time, in spite of my family's best efforts to derail it.

Reminds me of lecture regarding Superheroes and Physics...

It is, as always, a matter of individual judgment. I personally feel that it is perfectly all right to enjoy problematic works as long as one remains aware of the works being problematic and does not make excuses for it. Shakespeare, for example, reflected a number of views that are really not acceptable today; anti-semitism was one, misogyny another. This does not mean one cannot appreciate his art for what was good about it. It is my own judgment that I will no longer be able to enjoy Rowling's work. I am certain this will not cause her much loss of sleep. I am also perfectly fine with other people enjoying it still, as long as they do not merely tamely accept the parts of it that reflect hate propaganda.

All I wanna do -- is see you turn into -- a giant woman!

I think that Susan wants to experience a hug that can fully envelop her, as she could back when she was originally child-sized. I am betting that her mother stopped showing her that sort of affection not too long after the breakup with Susan's father. Oh, and regarding the ship that sailed in the EGSNP strip, I only just realized that the ship (by sail plan) is a Yawl, making a pun with Y'all.

Note the past tense Perhaps the small changes to Magic will also include details involving Immortal Magic? .... hmmmmmmm .... I don't consider it that much likely but it's true that we can't take anything discovered before the magic "small" change for granted. Especially considering that it may not be change of immortal magic but change of ordinary magic. By "Smoke", I meant the wizard who Grace and Sam met. I had actually forgotten that Luke's friend Camdin (presumably the person Smoke copied the spell from), had talked about spying on "the Super Chicks" - though if he is doing it he's going against Luke's instruction not to spy. ... I'm not sure who has more right to be called "Smoke". That would be LOT of luck to not trigger Edward's defenses. I was mostly just using Immortals of an example of the fact that whatever security the house has doesn't protect against every sort of magical intrusion. That said, Sirleck was able to exist on another plane of reality as well (and he was originally human); this raises the possibility that humans could enter and leave the spirit plane under their own power (as opposed to whatever led to Magus being stuck there). The Whale also got there. I believe Sirleck was not able to exist on that another plane without host ... but, yes: There might be way how human magic user can enter the spirit plane. However it seems it's hard to do and/or not widely known, as it didn't seem DGB had any other way to search on spirit plane than asking immortals for help. On the other hand ... we know that immortals can hide from each others as well. Maybe imagining spirit plane as ONE plane is misleading. ... as far as we know, Agent Cranium's method of seeing place without being there involves spirit plane. Speaking about which, this COULD be Agent Cranium. ... wait. One more idea about the clicking involving invisible people. So far we evaluated two possibilities: that invisible person manipulated ordinary door and that the door itself is enchanted. Another option: Door is enchanted to be part of house protection. It auto-locked itself when it detected someone invisible near.

Which is in-character and hasn't killed you (yet).

Also, the production lead time for major motion pictures these days often exceeds two years, so the Captain Marvel film was already in production before Wonder Woman had been released, so the box office returns from WW were not a factor in the decision to produce Captain Marvel. Good point. According to wikipedia, developement of Wonder Woman started 1996 and Captain Marvel 2013. Didn't though it's THAT long. And looking at category .... hmmm ... Æon Flux wasn't good, Electra wasn't good, Catwoman (2004) wasn't good, Supergirl (1984) wasn't good, Ultraviolet wasn't good ... and Witchblade was for TV. Wikipedia sometimes miss stuff but I don't think they would miss major motion picture, so ...

All this talk of chopped liver makes me want some braunschweiger Braunschweiger specifically NOT Liverwurst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFs6IoTM214

Even if there was no danger of property damage or physical harm to anyone, the possibility of something embarrassing happening is still enough for Tedd to want to be extra cautious, she hasn't known Ashley very long and hasn't been able to properly assess what her limits are and it hasn't helped that Ashley's been both enthusiastic and freaked out by the stuff that's happened so far. And then Diane is a complete stranger to Tedd aside from knowing that she's somehow related to Susan, so far Diane's been friendly and enthusiastic but Tedd has no clue what a wardrobe malfunction might do.

I just got a time a little while ago for my surgery on Monday. I check in at 11:15 a.m. CST, and they wheel me back at 1:15 p.m. CST for a God-knows-how-long scoping out of my left knee. I met with the surgeon yesterday and asked him a few questions—he said he'll be doing a "diagnostic arthroscopy" to begin with. In other words, he'll go in and scout out the whole knee to see what might be wrong before he starts doing any repair work. Once the diagnostic is done, he'll do the actual fixing, in which he expects to include repair/removal of torn meniscus material and a small amount of shaving down of my arthritic kneecap. After my surgery and my recovery time, he expects that I'll be walking on my left leg in no time. In fact, I should be using either crutches or my cane to leave the hospital! How different from the primitive arthroscopic surgery I had back in 1984.

Now ingesting "Wake the Hell Up!" brand "Jamaica Me Crazy"-flavored Ultra-Caffeinated coffee. Waiting for the caffeine rush to hit.

He chortled in his joy.

You melt it down and sell the gold, which is just about the stupidest way imaginable to get money out of a priceless collectible. The same thing happened to the Golden Horns, priceless relics from the time of the Vikings. Sigh. Indeed. Imagine what would happen if a president of the United States could just do whatever they wanted.

I was referring to WW2 and I was being deliberately ridiculous. My apologies! You are of course correct otherwise. No need to apologize. Something being joke rarely stops me from answering sort-of-seriously. (Maybe I should've added smiley as well. Sorry. Like, sorry I forgot about you, smiley )

54% for impeachment and 50% for both impeachment and removal, if it is the one I saw quoted.

"Religion has actually convinced people...that there's an invisible man! Living in the sky! Who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of TEN THINGS he does NOT want you to do! And if you do ANY of these ten things, he has a special place full of fire, and smoke, and burning, and torture, and anguish, where he will send you to live, and suffer, and burn, and choke, and scream, and cry, forever and ever 'til the end of time. "But he loves you! He loves you. He loves you, and he NEEDS MONEY! He always needs money! He's all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow, *thunk*, just can't handle money! "Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story, ho-ly shit." ~George Carlin

I think I'm going to gallumph off to bed.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son. The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!