Squirrel
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If it's on your phone, you need to switch from the mobile version to the full version. Then post it like a photo.
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I was thinking it was kind of a sloppy game.
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No, they won't be. They'll be a drunken mess. Just like the Stanley Cup wins. Mess.
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Well, maybe now we won't have to keep hearing about the goat. Glad I'm out of town this week.
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Didn't he give up a 3-run home run the other night?
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How many innings does this go?
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Honestly, I haven't even been watching consistently. But you know how it goes ... it ain't over til it's over
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AAA must've provided some good road-side assistance.
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It's okay. I give you permission to call it Chitown's.
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Running a restaurant means never having another day off in your lifetime! But the dream of it sounds good.
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I'm sorry. I've known you long enough to know you do mean well. As I said ,.. I am REALLY tired. A lifetime of tired coming to a head. It's easy for all of us to have our nice, intelligent conversations, identifying the problems of the world, but the reality is really quite basic, and the needs quite basic, yet day after day we face the same things. I've often said 'the more things change the more they stay the same' and that's how it feels to me, and I'm sure how it feels to many. For whatever progress on any front we think we've made, it doesn't feel like it at the most basic, day to day level.
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Actually, my desire is to find an island somehwere ... but honestly, what good does that do? I'll go back to work ... continue the slog ...
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And further, when one is dismissed as often as I have been on here, and elsewhere, when I am willing to talk, but no one else is, then this is how it is. No one hears. Don't you think that perhaps I can relate a little to the plight of many out there in ways you can't? It's great to have intelligent conversation here, but what are you doing about it out there? So don't belittle me and complain that I'm shutting down the conversation when you and others have shut it down long ago.
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Did I end the conversation? No. And I don't think saying I'm tired is ending anything either. I have brought up these issues ... many times, MANY times on here ... and the response I got, especially from you, was it's not a thing. And onto the next more important thing. Every time I brought up sexism in this campaign, you more than anyone else shut down the conversation. Every time I bring up the double standard issue, it was always, 'I don't think it is. Next!' So when I suggested to look a mirror to another poster, I meant it. For all of us. So sorry you are offended with my anger and my exhaustion, but I am ... both.
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If you go back to where this statement stemmed from, it was about being really tired of this ****. And don't lecture me as if I don't know a damned thing. It gets really annoying. You likely don't even realize how dismissive you sometimes are.
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For my Mom ... much older than ... growing up in northern MN she was a Cardinals fan. I think there was a minor league team nearby as well as some radio broadcasts.
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As I said, it's not a personal indictment, but sorry to say, there is a hell of a lot of truth in it.
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It's funny here in Florida. Lots of people cheering on the Cubs ... people who aren't really baseball people but just like a 'good story' who are convinced they just have to cheer for the Cubs. I ask why and get the answer 'Because it's the Cubs!' I usually don't say anything because whatever, but this is why I get annoyed with most of the Cubs fans out there ... they know nothing of the sport nor of the team nor of any other teams (even their local teams) but yay! it's the Cubs. Edit: Go Indians!
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Getting some good doses of Vitamin D this week. Hibernation can be put off until I return to Chicago in a few days.
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I honestly think if we can come to a compromise she will be the one to do it. But the if in there is pretty big. Too many equate compromise with losing and losing is unacceptable with those same too many.
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I agree. But it's even more than that. We have developed this WIN WIN WIN attitude at the expense of constructive thought, reasoning and compromise which creates an even worse divisiveness. I don't know for sure if things are truly more divided now than at other times, but it certainly feels like it. Maybe because there wasn't just 'one big thing' that people rallied around like the Vietnam War, it's a host of things and this stronger than ever pervasiveness must win at all costs without compromise is what scares me.
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We've had various discussion on this pages ago, I think with the same article posted. I also read this today. Interested in reading the book mentioned. http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/11/1/13420262/jd-vance-donald-trump-hillary-clinton-republican-democratic-hillbilly-elegy
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First of all, I said 'in general' because I know it's a generalization. It's not an individual indictment, but generally speaking, it's true. Secondly, your response is part of the problem. I'm sorry, but it is. Your first response is to recoil, point a finger and claim unfair sexism and racism without even perhaps looking hard in the mirror and asking from where, perhaps, did my response start from. I'll tell you where it started. I was 10 years old when my mom ran for a position in the state legislature. The response I, as a 10 year old, got from total strangers, white male strangers, educated me at too young an age. When I was in junior high, being groped by a boy in school and told it was nothing. Being told, in church, that I was 'less' for being female and that my role is to serve men. Open my mouth in high school to debate gay rights and told to shut up, and apparently it's acceptable for boys to do that to the girls but not vice versa. Paying more for my health insurance in my 20s because I might get pregnant, but not covering my prescription for birth control. Getting paid SIGNIFICANTLY less than my male colleagues. Being underestimated, dismissed and ignored at every turn, because, well, that's just how it is. And my experiences are nothing compared to most women.
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This sums it up for me.
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For me, it's mostly white men, but yes, in general.
