OldHippieChick

I did not know that! Oof.

I fear he & Kegsbreath will send in a few elite units of warfighters to get the Mogadishu treatment.

Because we basically have BI through pensions, we would probably do what we did with Covid payments - share with our kids who are just making ends meet.

I can't believe germ theory could really be next but some of the comments I have seen on FB have been wild! Raw milk seems to be the gateway. Pasteurization is for cucks!

That's terrifying. My grandpa, when old, could still cry over his two lost sisters.

Pertussis requires boosters, I think, to stay protected. We used to do a lot of our own work on our mid-century homes so I kept my tetanus up-to-date religiously. Now I keep it up-to-date for the pertussis part.

I think because they both have a "rash."

Also, I see conflating with the milder rubella. That's because, back when I was a kid & there weren't vaccines for them, rubella was "German" or "3-day" measles. Rubeola was "hard" or "7-day" measles. But a lot of people just said "S/He has the measles."

Yes. Including old people who misremember & claim their mom had "measles parties". No one needed to have measles parties because it's so contagious & everyone understood getting measles was bad. Chickenpox was understood to be not great but, like mumps, worse to get if you were older.

Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia' Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.

Yes. The next 2-3 years could be interesting for the folks that caught measles. What we know about immune amnesia started with folks seeing that after kids like me got measles shots instead of measles, death for a variety of childhood illnesses declined.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...

That's the other "measles", "German" or "3-day" measles. It's not actually measles but it's what we called it. It is generally a milder illness than rubeola but it is extremely dangerous for a baby in utero. We were kept in strict quarantine for "German" measles for this reason.

If you can afford it, do it. Shingles was awful. Mine started inside my mouth, ran around my lip, up under my eye and to my scalp. Horrible, shocky pain. My eye twitched when I was tired for months after initial illness.

I once walked 1/2 mi. on a broken foot. Shingles made me yelp. Scared hubby.

Yes. I had a horrible case of shingles around 40. I think because I had such a terrible case of chickenpox. My mother, who had nursed my two older siblings through, was startled by how covered with pox & how sick I was. I was scarred for life on my face & have dozens of spots that don't tan.

Racism and Jew hatred used to be taught at home, but now more kids absorb it on social media, I think. A lot of US churches trade in religious bigotry and fear mongering about queer people. "There's no hate like Christian love." Misogyny is in the air we breathe here.

I grew up in purity culture. My 1st French kiss was delivered by our minister's son. I was 6. I was SA'd by a decades-older man when I was 12. Possible help was near, but I didn't scream because I thought I would be blamed for his "sin".

The culture creates perverts & their perfect victims.

That which you resist persists.*

*what Jung actual insight was “what you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.”

Does the entire Junk Drawer possess the same powers as the Tangerine Tyrant?

Not confirmed that I've seen, but read school property used to be part of a nearby navy installation. Also saw some chatter by folks who use it that says AI has kind of a bias for older information. That makes sense in a lot of applications, but not for a targeting system to value old military maps.

Being immediately blocked proves I was correct, I think. This post was in reference to the happy Indonesian children who keep a whale company now after pulling a whaling hook from it's mouth. Modern day Androcles.

It's being shared by good hearted people. The only love I have to give is tough love.

Bombed the school twice, it appears:

bsky.app/profile/alex...

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

I don't get the celebrating about Noem. She's still going to be on the government payroll with, I presume, more opportunities to rob us blind in a hemisphere wide war on drugs. No accountability in the Federal government as per usual.

Nothing say merit hire than making up a new job title, putting someone in it without going through an interview process and then they get to make up their own job description.

Don't talk to me about how you want "merit hiring" ever again.

I'm sorry because everything is terrible. We long for uplifting stories. This whale looks dead to me. The only movement of the whale seems to be caused by the movement of water.

Truth is under attack. There is a war on it, too, as well as on the planet. We have work to do. Fairy tales don't help.

We have so much work to do after this regime is vanquished. In addition to Constitutional reforms, we are going to have to de-Nazify the country.

Trump administration under fire as thousands of Americans are stranded in war zone U.S. officials — and the president himself — have struggled to explain why the government wasn't better prepared for the consequences of Iranian retaliation.

We have a zombie government. While the Tangerine Tyrant & his Junk Drawer loot the Treasury, most Departments are shambling remnants of their former selves. It's why migrants with toothaches die of sepsis in "care" of DHS & how US citizens are stranded in a war zone.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Even when he's gotten people killed. He's a malignant narcissist. It's DARVO.

How I arrived on Bluesky

Opinion | This Summer, Students From Hundreds of Colleges Will Heed One Urgent Call

Gift link.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

"In fact, the U.S. government is on the moral level of the Sandy Hook school shooter, a fact that even president Trump’s critics may have a hard time fully accepting."

That is not how forgiveness works when your error harms other people. The person he needs to seek forgiveness from can't grant it because she's dead. And if she were my daughter, he could crawl across broken glass on his knees for miles to beg me for forgiveness, and I'd point him to the graveyard.