No worries. The cats always remember...:)

Hee:) So, to account for my failing at making friends here...

I am so sorry. Healthcare-for-profit is a shitshow. Even the phrase, ‘Elder-care Industry’ makes me shiver.

I don’t need 3 degrees in psychology (although I have them, all shiny on my wall) to know what ‘projection’ and ‘distraction’ are. 70% of the voting public isn’t that stupid.

And if the Rs get Ryan’s wet dream of gutting Medicaid, screw your grandparents, and parents and you. Medicaid is responsible for keeping our elders (of which you will be one, some day if you’re lucky) in nursing homes.

You have room for one more? I’ll shovel the driveway (all 3 miles of it), chop wood for the fires, cook amazing things with nothing but deer and things I find at Tim Hortans...

Fox just took advantage of something that was already there. The Birch society, the Christian Coalition, the Moral Majority... those were all the 70s and 80s. Long before Fox News was a thing (I could say something extremely vulgar here, but I’m in nice company). I’m sure my Mom could tell stories of decades earlier…

It’s far older... and it was a marketing campaign against everyone who isn’t Christian. Because they weren’t being persecuted enough to roll in those sweet sweet Jesus dollars. To elect people. To have power.

For you, I will have a diabetic-friendly cake (my Ma, who bakes like an angel and is Type III). With filtered water and maybe a sparkling something to celebrate the happy couple and their enlightened family?

You wouldn’t have been wrong. Anyone who brings that level of minutiae into the workplace and gets angry about it enough to put it in writing and press send will be an HR problem at some point.

Disregard her politics, she’s just fucking stupid.

Amen! (from another atheist)

I have cake too? Would you like cake?

You’re right, but it pre-dates Trump by decades. Birch, the Moral Majority (who was neither), the Christian Coalition, etc. Trump rejected all of them when he figured it wouldn’t get him laid. Now, however, it will get him applause from a narrow sliver of the electorate.

I am that old and I remember Happy Holidays in the early 70s. It’s because, as you said, there is an absurd number of holidays, many spanning days, during the Winter Solstice (the original, btw:)) And you never know a stranger’s preference.

Good gods, that makes me smile every time I see it.

Come sit by me. I brought extra... and wine:)

I know you don’t know me, nor does this burner have a history here, so take this from a stranger...

Granted... but then we’d be sitting on pillows waiting for Canumanity to feed us or dazzle us with nip:)

Late to the party, as usual, but I wanted to chime in on your comment.