What are you doing right now?

[Kulindahr]

Listening to "Cam and Company" on the topic " Second Amendment History is Black American History".

The basis for the discussion is this article: Second Amendment history is Black American history.

 

[Alistair]

Sitting at work with my feet up on the desk.

 

[Vannie]

I made a huge kinda Italian Frittata with red yellow and orange peppers along with lots of fresh garlic and green onions. And I made a quick spicy tomato sauce for the top.

Picked up fresh still warm semolina bread and stuffed my pie hole.

Bada bing bada boom!

And potatoes! Duh!

 

[Rickrock]

It is a good thing that I went out to McDonalds to buy a breakfast sandwich this morning and passed a gas station and gas had gone up to $4.15 this morning, an increase of 16 to 18 cents overnight. I ran to a station that is slower to raise their rates and bought 7.5 gallons at $3.97 and saved myself $1.35. Although it did cost me $4.19 for my breakfast sandwich of bacon, egg, and cheese on a biscuit.

 

[Vannie]

Trying not to eat the chocolate chunk cookies from the bakery.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Writing an open letter to Marvel advising them to slow down before they burn out, which we're already seeing with sloppy editing and confused writing.

 

[Peloso]

Not playing with my cat because we overdid it last night and her incision is a bit frayed so I am sorting socks and watching Ozark and eating Nips while she stares angrily at me and howls.

 

[Rickrock]

I voted in the primary election where we decide who will represent our party in the November election. We had to vote who would run for governor and in the U.S. Senate. Most of the judges were running unopposed, but I was dismayed that there were three offices that I didn't know were open and had no idea who the people were, so I didn't vote for those three offices.

 

[Kulindahr]

Reading crime news and wondering why in hell prosecutors all over the country are releasing violent criminals who misused guns to commit their crimes without bail! It was bad enough when it became common procedure by many big city D.A.s to drop charges for illegal uses of guns as parts of plea bargains, but this is ridiculous! They're letting violent criminals out on the streets and they wonder why there were over five million new gun owners in 2021.

We need a law that would make it a federal crime to not prosecute for the misuse of a gun by employing one in a crime -- criminal use is, after all, hardly an example of a "well-regulated militia" that the Second Amendment says we need; on the contrary, it makes the criminal an enemy to "the security of a free state". Threaten a citizen or legal resident with a gun, and the perp should have to serve at least three years behind bars with no possibility of good time or parole, and any prosecutor letting a violent criminal out o the streets after criminal use of a gun should serve the same sentence.

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

Reading crime news and wondering why in hell prosecutors all over the country are releasing violent criminals who misused guns to commit their crimes without bail! It was bad enough when it became common procedure by many big city D.A.s to drop charges for illegal uses of guns as parts of plea bargains, but this is ridiculous! They're letting violent criminals out on the streets and they wonder why there were over five million new gun owners in 2021.

We need a law that would make it a federal crime to not prosecute for the misuse of a gun by employing one in a crime -- criminal use is, after all, hardly an example of a "well-regulated militia" that the Second Amendment says we need; on the contrary, it makes the criminal an enemy to "the security of a free state". Threaten a citizen or legal resident with a gun, and the perp should have to serve at least three years behind bars with no possibility of good time or parole, and any prosecutor letting a violent criminal out o the streets after criminal use of a gun should serve the same sentence.

yes, when the laws fail to work due to lack of enforcement, just pile more laws (that won't be enforced) on top of it and this whole thing should work itself out.

 

[Alistair]

Getting a 10 minute break in. They’re killing me at work. I’m the only supervisor here today for the whole shop so I’m running between three departments and I’m loading or unloading trucks every time they show up.

 

[rareboy]

Working at home today....we came home yesterday to find that our older cat had apparently had a series of strokes and was lying on a rug in the basement and even after the vet visit, he has had several more seizures, likely because of a neo-plasm and infection that he has totally hidden....so I have him in his comfy bed at my side today so that I can give him fluids, gabapentin and some comfort. He isn't in pain, but I think we're going to lose him so we are very sad....

 

[Vannie]

Sorry to hear rareboy ^

 

[Alistair]

I’m snuggling Zeus right now. That’s so sad.

 

[Kulindahr]

yes, when the laws fail to work due to lack of enforcement, just pile more laws (that won't be enforced) on top of it and this whole thing should work itself out.

Well, a law requiring people whose job is to enforce the law to actually do their jobs ought to be a no-brainer.

The Second Amendment gives having a "well-regulated (i.e. disciplined and effective) militia" as a reason for protecting the right to keep and bear arms. Criminal misuse of arms is the opposite -- like about 179° opposite -- of any kind of militia, let alone a "regulated" one. So criminal misuse of arms ought to be a federal crime since it is totally contrary to the purpose of the Second Amendment. And prosecutors bargaining away charges for gun crimes should itself be a crime for the same reason.

 

[Kulindahr]

Getting a 10 minute break in. They’re killing me at work. I’m the only supervisor here today for the whole shop so I’m running between three departments and I’m loading or unloading trucks every time they show up.

Times like that I always told myself, "Hey, at least I'm getting some exercise!"

Though I never ended up dealing with three different departments -- that's crazy!

 

[Kulindahr]

Working at home today....we came home yesterday to find that our older cat had apparently had a series of strokes and was lying on a rug in the basement and even after the vet visit, he has had several more seizures, likely because of a neo-plasm and infection that he has totally hidden....so I have him in his comfy bed at my side today so that I can give him fluids, gabapentin and some comfort. He isn't in pain, but I think we're going to lose him so we are very sad....

I'm still reeling from losing Skylix, so I understand.

Stay with him as much as possible. My last cat disappeared when he got sick; I finally found him between the headboard on the bed and the wall; there was a sort of ledge there he was resting on. I carefully pulled him out but he stopped breathing in my arms not fifteen minutes after. He kept nuzzling my chin like he used to when he wanted a treat, but he didn't have the energy to chew one. Be good to him while he's still here!

 

[Vannie]

The asparagus thread made me pick up several bunches of fresh asparagus.

Making Swiss steak at the moment.

 

[cityboy-stl]

Ugh! I got a new smartphone. I'm losing my mind trying to set it up.

 

[rareboy]

I'm still reeling from losing Skylix, so I understand.

Stay with him as much as possible. My last cat disappeared when he got sick; I finally found him between the headboard on the bed and the wall; there was a sort of ledge there he was resting on. I carefully pulled him out but he stopped breathing in my arms not fifteen minutes after. He kept nuzzling my chin like he used to when he wanted a treat, but he didn't have the energy to chew one. Be good to him while he's still here!

Still so sorry about your loss...I have had one of our cats die in my arms because he just didn't want to go...and I brought Emma up to my bed so that she would know I was there....and on Thursday night, I came down and put a blanket and pillow down and had a sleepover with Beebs. We just laid head to head and I had a terrible night's sleep and my back is still screaming, but it was sweet. On Friday morning he wanted to be in the sunbeam and so we laid there until the vet came to help him rest. He most likely had serious lymphoma and wouldn't eat or drink although I did have him take a dropper of water every hour.

Tomorrow we will take him down to rest among all our other loved cats.