Today, I added some parameters into our filter that deal with the current political election. I don't want to go there. Please do not mention current candidates in your comments. It is not a hill that this blog want to die on. Child sex abuse, yes! Politicians, no!!! Thank you.
Good call.
Second.
Dee,I promise I won’t. Honest Injun!
Thanks. There are plenty of places we can argue *those* issues.
Right now I just want to refer to politicians as the unmentionables 😉
Thank you. There is more than enough of that around. 🙂
Here is my latest status:
Well, here is my current status. My car is dead…a friend is coming over in a little while to help me take the battery out. I’m hoping that is all it is as the battery is still under warranty (5 months old). If not….. I have $400 of bills coming due in the morning and I am also down to rice in the cupboard and am almost out of some of the treatment protocols not covered by insurance. I am working on trying to not panic. Mostly successful in that….somewhat. 🙂 So….if anyone has the ability and desire to help, that would be awesome. But I understand that things are really tight for most people. The who can and/or have helped: thank you so very much!
http://www.gofundme.com/ljahelp
Not even Bill ‘n Opus? (This Time They’re Not the Worst…)
Thank you! May TWW be an oasis, away from All That.
Very sorry I responded.
@ Jeannette Altes:
By the way, here’s the information on where to get food (usually from the Second Harvest Food Bank in your area): http://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank/
If you’re down to rice, please call them.
I’m sorry I can’t help right now. I have some major medical expenses. I am praying for you.
Also, I know that you were looking for a job. If you need work clothes, please contact Dress for Success, a charitable group that outfits people for free:
https://www.dressforsuccess.org/
“It is not a hill that this blog want to die on.”
Hard to get away from mentioning Hill, isn’t it 🙂
Thank you!
Thank you for this; the world goes not well–but the Kingdom comes. (With thanks for Tales of the Kingdom by David and Karen Mains). I have always appreciated the focus here, on Kingdom issues.
srs wrote:
A fellow Bloomie!
Dee, I know this is off topic but I know you will see this. Thank youuuuuuu it was such a blessing. I am up and going again, finally and I am doing the work hustle lol. You will know what that means i’m sure.
Patriciamc wrote:
“Don’t blame me, I voted for Bill’n’Opus.” (I went to university with Berkeley-Berke-Breathed. He was one of the gems of being at UT.)
@ Velour:
Thank you. Fortunately, a friend took me to the store tonight and a have food. She also helped get my battery replaced and my car running.
I appreciate the links and the prayers!
@ Jeannette Altes:
I’m so glad Jeannette. I have been praying for you.
Jeannette Altes wrote:
I wish you lived near me. You could shop in my cupboards. And we have a wonderful local charity that gives out all kinds of things that I could direct you to. Start3d by one woman who was frustrated at folks who “fall thru the cracks”. Prayers, dear lady.
mirele wrote:
Oh wow! I had all his books back in the 80s and am enjoying his new stuff on Facebook.
@ zooey111:
Thank you, Zoey. I appreciate your prayers and kind words. Most of the time, I have faith that what I need will be there when I need it. But there are days… 🙂
Sorry I went there….
I read your wonderful blog daily but don’t believe I’ve ever commented. As I’m an unaffiliated, non-Messianic Jewish guy, I don’t tend to have a horse in the particular races apart from this one
Considering the extreme polarization and unfocused partisan rage, regardless of the side of the aisle, just wanted to say thank you, and that’s one of the wisest choices I’ve seen in a long time.
Nothing more, and I’ll go back to lurking, but thank you.
(although I do have and have had family members and friends over the decades who’ve been caught up in the topics you discuss here, so there is that)
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thank you for saying this.
srs wrote:
“Why vote for the lesser evil? CTHULHU FTHAGN!”
mirele wrote:
“OOP! ACK! PHTTT!”
— Bill the Cat
Headless Unicorn Guy wrote:
Amen.
Headless Unicorn Guy wrote:
Best candidate for President ever!
Even REVEREND Nehemiah Scudder in 2012?
(Now to see how many of you know their Heinlein…)
Wayne Borean wrote:
I used to have a Bill the Cat T-shirt. Wore it to SF cons on the last day of the con, because usually by the last day I was a walking Bill the Cat impression. “ACK!”
Also, 30 years ago there was this one female in local SF/anime fandom who could do a GREAT Bill the Cat impersonation. (Or “Bill the Cat being strangled” – hard to tell the difference.) “ACK! PHTTTTT!”
I posted two tongue in cheek comments, and you AREN’T kidding! 🙂