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MrSmith1 — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 22:19:29 +0000

In reply to Isn't that funny? My older

Isn't that funny? My older

Richard Day — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 21:48:13 +0000

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Isn't that funny?

My older sister (who did not count anyway because my Dad wished for boys!) was five years older than me and I would beg to play with her friends. She was five years older than me and wanted nothing to do with me. hahaahahah

So I would beg to play hide and seek and one day she said: SURE

So I hid and after about half an hour, I figured out that no one was seeking me. hahahahah

But I do not recall her ever dropping a lid on me. hahahahah

Lovely.

Oh and thanks for the gratuitous haiku.

hahahahahaa

By the way, isn't there a movie about doorknobs and broomsticks?

I only have one sibling. We

MrSmith1 — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 20:24:07 +0000

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I only have one sibling. We didn't always get along. When I was little, she did things like telling me to look inside the toy chest and then would drop the lid on my head or put me on my rocking horse and pull it back as far as the springs would allow, telling me I was going on the "ride of my life" and then she would let go ... But, somewhere, later in life we finally saw that we needed to be allies and not enemies. Funny how that happens.

haiku for DD:

Please make a note; He

won't compromise with doorknobs ...

... or Republicans.

Well thank you for the

Richard Day — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 17:29:01 +0000

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Well thank you for the complement.

I think you have read enough of me to know that I realize you cannot ever compromise with door knobs or repubs these days.

And Boehner is caught between a hard place and a bar...

I was just dreaming I guess.

I find your posts interesting

ocean-kat — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:06:06 +0000

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I find your posts interesting and I think the way you use personal anecdotes to lead to a political point is clever. But I totally disagree with your conclusion.

And then we all must pray that the Dems and the Repubs sit on the couch watching competitors assault each other and come to the conclusion that:

THIS IS ALL JUST PLAIN STUPID.

From my point of view the tea party republicans are the liberals greatest allies. I pray the tea party will continue to be completely intransigent. I pray they will refuse all compromise. Obama will sell us out on entitlements if he gets the chance. If Boehner had been able to deliver the house he already would have. This is what Obama offered Boehner in 2011.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2012/11/aust-n15.html

http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/11/15089281-white-house-grand...

OH MY GOD, you liked this!

Richard Day — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:31:02 +0000

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OH MY GOD, you liked this! hahahahaahha

And not only that, you know exactly what I am talking about! hahahahaha

What does this all mean?

I have no idea.

I just know that Erin and Sean figured it out!

Without me! hahahahah

Thank you for this.

Thank you so very much!

ha!!!!

Sometime, somewhere, you have to tell me how your brothers react to scenes of old.

hahaahahahaah

Oh and do they still love their Sis?

1) THIS IS ALL JUST PLAIN

artappraiser — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 05:05:26 +0000

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1) THIS IS ALL JUST PLAIN STUPID.

No, it's not! I happen to like these kinda rambling posts by you better than the other kinds you do.

2) In those days and under those circumstances, no one went to the hospital.

You would not even think to have the 8 year old checked out.

We tend to forget about this whole thingie when thinking about why health care costs have gone up a lot since like 1960. Doh!

It really was the way things were for a lot of folks, yes even the middle class ones and the working class ones with those great manufacturing jobs. Lotsa people "stitched up" their kids themselves (without the internet and maybe even without a single medical book in the house, not even Dr. Spock,) unless it was really clear they broke a major part of their body....children are much more valuable these days, when most have fewer of them?

3) I also recall coming home to Richfield as a sophomore in college and Kevin was literally killing David in the bathtub.

I intervened and began pummeling the shite out of Kevin and David revived and started swearing at me.

Confession: I did this too. I was the oldest, a girl, and the two next younger were boys who continually viciously physically fought one another. The thing is, I wouldn't have dreamed of hitting someone else's kids when I was babysitting them and they were fighting. (Maybe because the way things were back then, they never would do it in front of a babysitter? I don't in fact remember any doing it, though I did sit for one only child who was a genuine psychopathic monster the minute his mom left, stuff like running around throwing lit matches and cackling. I never touched him.)

But when I babysat my own brothers, if they were fighting (which often happened seconds after my parents drove off) and wouldn't stop from my screaming, I more than once found myself hitting them while still screaming "stop it, stop it, stop it!" And they'd stop, partly because they couldn't hit a girl back, and partly because it freaked them out seeing their older sister as out of control as they were? I still can't figure it out. I dislike violence and have always disliked it. Why as a kid myself did I react to violence with more violence? And why did it work? What does it all mean?