A girl in a neighboring school district was given detention, and threatened with more if she did not stand for the Pledge. The ACLU had to step in.
Per SCOTUS, she's been allowed to sit since 1943, FFS.
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SeraRelm
Back home now. Danced with the bride (friend) and grabbed her butt twice (just for you, Null). 
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makare
no more facepalms for da he has met his quota.
I officially no longer want a small SUV/Jeep to drive.
Long story for those who want to read:
TL;DR - I hate inattentive drivers in Jeeps.
Long story for those who want to read:
My current car, a '03 PT Cruiser, is starting to get to "that point" - where it cost more to repair it than it's worth. So, my dad, being the wonderful guy he is, offered to drive his same-year Buick Century (with WAY LESS miles on it) home from Arizona for me to use - since he has apparently planned to get a different mode of transport at his winter home in Mesa.
To do this, though, he had to take my wife's car home (since I now live on the opposite side of the state of WI from him). We went this weekend down to his place to get her car and drive both home.
We're about five and a half miles away from my dad's place, tooling along on a county highway in the middle of farmland, when a guy on a cross-street in a Jeep Liberty apparently did not see the stop sign and drove right through the intersection - just as I was driving through in my car.
I swerved to try to avoid broadsiding him, successfully, but I failed to avoid hitting him. I hit his right front wheel and had visions of sailing across the road, across the ditch and into the farm field beyond. Hitting his wheel kept me from doing that; however, he over-corrected in trying to not hit me, and rolled over into the ditch.
I'm okay, though my wife strained her neck and shoulder a bit. He got cited (obviously) as there was another car behind me and another one oncoming that saw the accident. The car's got some significant damage, though. At least the airbags didn't deploy, and the car was drivable.
To do this, though, he had to take my wife's car home (since I now live on the opposite side of the state of WI from him). We went this weekend down to his place to get her car and drive both home.
We're about five and a half miles away from my dad's place, tooling along on a county highway in the middle of farmland, when a guy on a cross-street in a Jeep Liberty apparently did not see the stop sign and drove right through the intersection - just as I was driving through in my car.
I swerved to try to avoid broadsiding him, successfully, but I failed to avoid hitting him. I hit his right front wheel and had visions of sailing across the road, across the ditch and into the farm field beyond. Hitting his wheel kept me from doing that; however, he over-corrected in trying to not hit me, and rolled over into the ditch.
I'm okay, though my wife strained her neck and shoulder a bit. He got cited (obviously) as there was another car behind me and another one oncoming that saw the accident. The car's got some significant damage, though. At least the airbags didn't deploy, and the car was drivable.
TL;DR - I hate inattentive drivers in Jeeps.
Cajungal
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It's funny, I got so many hugs and kind words on Friday (not to mention a lot of hard work
) that it made me forget the awfulness of earlier this week! 
I would've posted this yesterday if I wasn't on "HF sabbatical."
I'm getting sick and tired of the "clever" re-wording or celebration of a meaningless day. April 20, May 4, November 5. It was funny and clever the first time I heard it years ago, but now it's just a Facebook flooding that gets annoying as hell.
I'm getting sick and tired of the "clever" re-wording or celebration of a meaningless day. April 20, May 4, November 5. It was funny and clever the first time I heard it years ago, but now it's just a Facebook flooding that gets annoying as hell.
Would you laugh as much if 20+ people all posted it, though? That's my issue with the above mentioned examples.
I laughed for a week after seeing a cubicle at work where someone had put up a sign which said "Pre-Madonna". I'm fairly certain they weren't referring to before the 80's.
Neeeeeeeever mind.
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SeraRelm
Dey all fam'ly down dere!
Hanko de Mayo?
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SeraRelm
All I remember is Natalie Portman in an inappropriate dress.
I miss celebrating Guy Fawkes Night... when I'd try and explain to Americans about "Burning the Guy," they'd get all weirded out. As for me, it was always strange being in summer clothes instead of bundled up to watch fireworks. *chuckles*
You're in Texas, I kind of figured that was a given...
You know, overall I like to think I'm a pretty tolerant individual. If I disagree with someone on 99% of things it's cool, I can respect them and their opinions.
Apparently anti-vaccine nuts fall into the 1% of folks I cannot tolerate nor respect. Apparently my wifes best friend is one of them. And she keeps giving my wife bullshit "research" she did online and it's making me want to LOSE. MY. MIND.
It's worth noting my wife thinks she's nutty on this too, so I'm not worried, it just drives me nuts because I really, really cannot deal with these people in a respectful way no matter how hard I try.
Apparently anti-vaccine nuts fall into the 1% of folks I cannot tolerate nor respect. Apparently my wifes best friend is one of them. And she keeps giving my wife bullshit "research" she did online and it's making me want to LOSE. MY. MIND.
It's worth noting my wife thinks she's nutty on this too, so I'm not worried, it just drives me nuts because I really, really cannot deal with these people in a respectful way no matter how hard I try.
My wife and I have a friend like that, she blames everything that is wrong with her son on "Big Pharma." She's constantly posting up "research" that has shown that everything that is wrong in the world was caused by this "Big Pharma" and that anything that is wrong in our lives must be their fault also. I've kept her as a friend on facebook simply because we've known her so long, but have chosen the option that doesn't show me anything from her unless it's a direct message to me or if I go to her page.
Guys, look, bad things don't just 'happen' to people. Clearly evil scientists are breaking into your home to replace your water with freon causing your brain to turn into a sponge. Why are they doing this? To get rich of course, because you'll need their 'medical expertise' to cure your spongebrain (side note: Spongebrain was the name of an unsuccessful Spongebob spinoff with zombies).
Ironically, spongebrain might explain antivax nutters.
On that note:
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Staff member
My best friend from high school, who is still one of my closest and dearest friends is antivax. Also anti microwave, and a few other things. It's actually really hard to deal with, because she and I have always been on the same wavelength about most things. She's smart enough to know the arguments against her point of view, too, but because she had a personal bad experience with vaccines (her eldest got really sick, and it was attributed to the vaccine), she has become somewhat irrational on the point. It's one of the few things I leave alone.
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earlier today, while preparing dinner, i was injured by a potato.
