What a wonderful woman! nt

Go only if you're prepared to be roughed up, spat upon, cursed,

thrown out, and ultimately charged with disturbing the peace.

I am sort of chicken when it comes to breaking off. I'd probably tell her

a white lie - something like her current salon being too inconvenient to get to.

But, yes, a card at the holidays is always a nice gesture, and she will appreciate hearing from you.

Who is the Examiner that is promoting itself on DU, and making a point of

identifying Joe Scarborough as an MSNBC host? - (technically correct, of course, but Scarborough is known as the token Republican on MSNBC).

My father died unexpectedly late on Thanksgiving Eve (Wed.) a number of years ago.

I remember going to Thanksgiving Day Mass the next morning, tears coming down throughout the service.

The plan before he died had been to have Thanksgiving dinner at my parents home, but when he died, we brought my mother to my home. I don't remember the dinner, as we were busy calling and being called by family and friends.

After Dad's funeral service, we served the turkey he had bought for Thanksgiving Day dinner. - I always thought that was so ironic - that he bought the turkey for his own funeral service.

Today, I'll be having Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant with my three local adult children. Conversation will be pleasant.

Thankful for all the blessings I and we have.
Best to all the DU family.

Trump would be crazy to choose Cruz - Trump wouldn't be able to

control Cruz. - and Trump likes to control.

Can New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu be persuaded to run as the Dem. nominee

for the Senate?
Has the political climate in Louisiana changed enough to permit a Democratic Senate victory?
How did the down ticket Democrats fare in the election?

A tall order. Too much to bite off and swallow in one gulp.

The world is made up of several billion souls.
Each person has limited time, energy and resources.
Most of us can only influence the small space and time around us.
By acting together we can influence more and for a longer time period.

Our challenge is to make the outcome positive, in the best sense.
Getting consensus on the goals is the hard part.

Having a good, strong leader helps, but that leader or leaders is hard to find.
Some want to lead for less than pure purposes.

Some persons confuse short time good for long time good.
The two are not the same.

Prayers for your brother, and a quick resolution to his and your problems.

It's hard to imagine that in this day and age chronic pain cannot be eased.
I cannot contemplate life under those circumstances.

Peace to you and your family.

I agree re Southern Dems promsing to expand Medicare. That was, I believe, the biggest mistake

of Kentucky Dems - Allison Grimes and Jack Conway - running away from Obama and the ACA, when they really needed to be promoting the good done in KY with kynect.