BlueKota
BlueKota's JournalI'd rather be a childless cat lady
than a pile of manure. I didn't have children not because I hate kids or am miserable about my choices in life.
I decided not to have children because though I loved my Mom, and she never beat me, she was constantly criticizing me. I also did get beaten in Catholic school and was often mocked by students and teachers.
There was depression on my Dad's side of the family. One of his first cousins committed suicide. My mother and her siblings had a Dad who beat them. He actually hit my Mom in the head with a hammer and left her unconscious and bleeding on the ground. If one of my Uncles hadn't witnessed it, and got my grandmother, my Mom might have died. All because he dropped the hammer and told her to come pick it up for him, and she said she couldn't because she was in the midst of doing a chore my grandmother had asked her to do.
So when I read in psychology, socially and biology books that this type of behavior might be passed down genetically, or through a learned cyclical pattern, I decided not to risk it. I never wanted to be responsible for making a child feel as worthless as I was often made to feel. That's why I chose to break the cycle by not having kids. I gave my love to the cats and dogs who needed it, and they gave me the sense of being loved and needed in return.
So no I don't feel miserable about the choice I made for myself because I wasn't thinking only of myself when I made it.
The technican who did the annual
check up on my heater, AC, and generator must have appreciated that I tipped him. He drove by when I was out with my dog in the fenced in yard, and waved and blew the horn. 🤣
I really love Jasmine Crockett
She's smart, and funny, and doesn't take crap from the Pukes. Just watched a You Tube video of her wiping the floor with Gym J on interfering in the Trump New York fraud case. We need more people like her.
Sharing because I feel this song in my soul today
and it's meaningful because I have a fear of allowing myself to hope too much, but I woke up with it on my mind so I am just going to go with it for now.
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I am sad and hopeful at the same time
I am sad that President Biden will not get a second term. On the other hand there seems to be an excitement in the air that I really haven't seen in awhile building around Vice President Harris.
I read an article in the Washington Post about how younger voters were feeling disillusioned about politics, and felt until there was generational change, there wasn't a reason for them to hope the system would progress.
Experience and wisdom are necessary too, but so too is allowing in newer voices, and letting them know our party hears them and is happy to include more of them.
I think that's what Vice President Harris will be able to achieve.
Plus on a personal note- I really want to see a woman President before I die. It would be a 🖕to the misogynistic assholes I used to work with.
I wonder if because people are so mad
at those saying President Biden can't win, that it will actually drive more every day Democrats to the polls to vote for him in the actual election? I mean anger can be a strong motivator!
In Memory of Bob Newheart
One of my favorite sitcom scenes ever!
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Just went through another Tornado warning.
Update: The National Weather service confirmed a EF0 tornado touched down in the primary shopping, and dining area of our nearby city. It uprooted trees, caused phone and electricity polls to topple trapping many people in their cars until emergency crews could get there. Almost all the business remain closed, with some uncertain about when they can reopen. The post office even had to close. What a mess, not to mention nerve wracking. Luckily no damage at my house other than a lot of tree limbs down. Also no loss of life reported.
I have lived in the Finger Lakes region of NY for all 62 years of my life. There have been more Tornado warnings in the past 3 years then there were in all the previous years combined. We almost never have snow anymore.
Yet there are still idiots who think Global Warming and Climate Change are a hoax?
I gave a lab tech a musical ear worm.
I had my blood work done on Tuesday for my regular check up and I had my Monkees T Shirt on. The male lab tech who looked to be middle aged said "So you're a Monkees fan. Are any of them still alive? I said Micky Dolenz is. Then as I was getting up to leave he said, " now I am going to be hearing, "Not You're Steppin' [link:
?si=YMSa8FNarW5zXKPV|Stone," in my head for the rest of the afternoon. 🤣This whole pile on situation is out of control!
Whether the intention was meant as genuine concern, mistaken interpretation or fabricated sabotage no longer matters.
At this point it looks to be turning into mass political suicide. It's practically all anyone is talking about. Not about Project 25, and not about the danger of a mentally ill want to be dictator, taking over a position of unchecked power granted him by a majorly corrupt Supreme Court. That's the bottom line whether anyone realizes it or wants to accept it or not.
I hope like hell this stops in time but everyday it goes on, the likelihood of the damage being irreversible goes higher. The only ones beniftting from this garbage is Trump, Putin and the Maggats. This isn't about being blindly loyal to President Biden. I learned a long time ago blind loyalty is for the naive.
It's about basic politics. You shouldn't do the oppositions job by shitting on your own nominee in full view of the public, unless they are a totally twisted evil psychopath rapist like Trump. Trump is the one that needs to be publicly dumped on not Biden. The Democratic Party should be concentrating on doing everything to stop Trump, period, because we know the Republicans back him no matter how insane he is, and aren't calling in the press for him to step aside.
Wake up people!
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