Heh. My mom was THRILLED when I started receiving letters from her Congressman at her house. She hissed at me when I went home for Thanksgiving that year, “What ARE you doing? Whatever it is, STOP!” She was convinced the FBI was now watching her. I blame it on wine and too much Rachel Maddow.

She can sponsor you to become a citizen. I have a friend who just got her Canadian version of the green card, and she’s super excited she can now sponsor people. There’s a long, long line. Her daughters are dual citizens, I wonder how old they need to be to sponsor people?

Do you have a boat? There aren’t roving border patrols on the Great Lakes. And there is plenty of uninhabited shoreline.

I rent, so I won’t be seeing the effects of the water bill increase til this summer. Can’t wait to get that rent renewal notice.

Oh God, I literally jumped when Eric showed up on my screen.

I believe he told Tony Blair, “Don’t fuck it up.”

A friend of a friend has her green card but is currently out of the country tending to a sick family member. She’s Muslim. Her husband and kids are freaking out that she may not be able to come back home.

I live in Chicago. We’d have people out in the streets with all the guns that have the serial numbers scraped off.

Chicago, while liberal, is pretty much up shit creek without a paddle money-wise. Yes, it is the major city for the region, and yes we are in the top 5 largest cities in the country, but our state, city, and county governments are a mess and we seriously can’t afford the feds holding back money. But fuck that. What…

That happened in Chicago about 10 years ago. A Mexican woman took sanctuary in a Catholic church while her options were explored. She had a son who was little, maybe 5 or 6, who had been born here. I don’t remember what happened.

The area I grew up in in northern Michigan has a severe shortage of priests, so several of them have nuns running the show with priests rotating in on important holy days. Sister Ginny, who was at the parish my mom goes to, was amazing. About 2 years ago I was home and her homily was all about respecting women and…

The one man was a dentist. I went to one of my dentists yesterday - he’s the one I see for my biteguard for sleep apnea and jaw clenching - and he commented on how great my smile was. He has done that each time I see him, and none of the times was it creepy. It’s professional appreciation. Ihave a cousin - who is…

Well, the one man was a dentist. They tend to notice teeth. I like it better than when a dentist says you have great teeth. Makes me feel like a horse. I think it’s just professional appreciation.

Did you have an attorney representing you? Because attorneys should know this - it’s pretty basic. And it isn’t the judge’s job to tell you how to do everything, which is why attorneys are important. We go to school to learn these things. So, if you represented yourself, you get a pass, but JLo presumably has a…

I guess I was thinking more about Connecticut - it is on the smaller side and pretty densely populated. I imagine a lot of former farmland has been turned residential. I haven’t been there since I was a kid, so I definitely could be wrong.

But it isn’t farmland anymore...you going to raze all those houses and put the people in tenements to get back your farmland? Or forcibly relocate people to parts of the state they don’t want to live?

Well, for instance, Illinois is in the top 5 for giving federal income tax dollars. And bottom 5 for receiving them. So, for every dollar we give in income tax, we on;y get back around $0.43. I’m not sure how Washington and Oregon fare.

I loved DiorShow, too. I just had to return a tube because I looked ridiculous. I tried one called Cannonball - I think it was UD - and one by Buxom that were okay. Cannonball took all the curl out of my lashes though. Mine are pretty long, but stick straight, so I need to keep the curl in there in order to look…

No, I haven’t tried Almay. I usually go for Maybelline. I’ll check it out next time I’m at Target. Thanks for the rec!

What do we want? A time machine! When do we want it? It’s irrelevant!