TabbyCat

I don't either. I respect the laws and the posted speed limits. I will admit though, I do make sure to cross my t's and dot my i's when I travel through the town where I live (meaning--I don't speed). I think that's a positive effect of their law enforcement. I have no problem with folks knowing that breaking the law here is risky and that you probably should obey it. That's a good thing. There are some bad people here, but that's true everywhere. I don't think there's more here than anywhere else in metro Atlanta, and compared to some places (for example, where I work, in the hear

I live in PS. I do not fear the cops here, but...I also have lived here long enough to know their patterns. Oh, and I've caught flack on here before for pointing out their obvious revenue-generating activities. But I digress. I appreciate these people who drive around all day looking for trouble. I don't appreciate it if/when they create it.

I missed his dance last night because I switched off of ABC to watch the season premier of House on Fox. But tonight I am watching the results show on ABC, and his performance had me in tears. It wasn't only technically beautiful, it was heartfelt and so completely touching. I LOVED it! Watch it yourself and see: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSdHRF25VPs&NR=1 I don't know how anyone could watch that and not be deeply touched. GO J.R.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't live in PC...I live in Cobb (Powder Springs), but we have battled water woes for YEARS. I would faint from happiness if I had a $20 water bill. I haven't seen one of those in about 5 years. We DID have a leak on our side several years ago, when the bill first spiked. We had a plumber out to test the lines and find the leak, and we paid (dearly) to have it fixed--but it was necessary. Our home was built in 1995, and they piping they used when the house was built was inferior and destined to decay--which it did--so we had to replace the piping from the house to the street. However, w

Not if you don't post anything you wouldn't share with those people anyway. Which is kind of the point.

In any concern I might have had about her and her case, her sexual needs and how they were met never came into consideration. Coming from a man who is also a jailer and speaking of a 24 year old young woman jailed for four years apparently innocent of the crimes she was accused/convicted/finally acquitted of, I find his comment about her sexual need following imprisonment particularly distasteful and disturbing. While perhaps true, in your own words it was crude at the least, and highly inappropriate and non-germane under the discussion of her acquittal and release.

Perhaps...but also really irrelevant to the conversation.

I came by for a sample of the famed Brunswick Stew, but there was no one in the pcom booth when I stopped by. I waited, but... I left without having any stew. I did get plenty of yummies, though. It was nicely done. Good job!

And what I'm saying is that I don't post anything I have to worry about anyone else reading. And the only things I ever block/hide/delete are political in nature, from friends I have on either the right or the left. I don;t want those things in my feed, so I remove them. But that I have friends on either side of the political spectrum who choose to post political things on their FB pages doesn't reflect directly on ME. And if I'm not comfortable with the message, I send a message by hiding/blocking/deleting. If a friend became bothersome with such postings, they'd be gone, too. It'

Exaaaaactly!

And?

I recently added my new boss and co-worker as friends. I'm not worried about it--I don't post anything I don't care to share, and my friends and family don't as a rule, either. And if they do? It's not me. And I still have the ability to block/delete/hide.

THANK YOU for reminding me!! I feel so awful that I still haven't watched last season's finale yet. I still have it on DVR, but I just never got around to it. So, I'll be a bit lost with this season's premiere...the summary up above helps a bit...so, he crashed his car into Cuddy's house? Was she injured? Her daughter? I hate this! I wish I'd found the time to watch before tonight.

Oh...and an interesting factoid from the link I posted above? According to another article linked in that one, FB now hosts 4% of all the photographs ever taken, at a rate of 10,000x more photos than the Library of Congress. Wow.

I posted this link today on my FB page. It's an article from The New Yorker titled "What Facebook Really Wants." It's an interesting perspective, I thought.

That simple! You're welcome. I do this always when I make ham and white bean soup. If it's not as thick as you want it after the first mashing, cook for about 30 minutes longer, and repeat with another cup of beans.

Take a cup or so (depending on how much you're cooking) out when they're done, mash them with a fork into a puree, and add them back into the pot. This will thicken your sauce.

I think the degree of panic would match the degree of severity of the event. If it were immediately clear that chaos was in charge, it would be foolish to think you could just drive yourself away to safety. Not everyone thinks that small.

I think I was fortunate spending the time I did in Alaska. I went to grad school there, and later, moved there to teach for a couple of years. When you live in a remote place with harsh conditions, I think if you're smart, you learn the basics of survival. So, there was that element when I chose to teach my kids about subsistence--certainly. But...I also saw the bigger picture. If our world went into a survival mode, what would the people I loved the most need to know to survive? Cooperation would be tops on the list. But equal on the top would be the knowledge that bugs are protei

You are a bit limited in what you see as resources. I don't think anyone said there was no cooperation involved in subsistence. But if you are talking TRUE subsistence, canning really isn't a part of the equation, anymore than freezing meat would be.

#3, first list above: I shouldn't enjoy my yard and plant flowers because some scumbag sees that as an invitation to my "finer things"? I don't think so. I (knocking on wood) haven't been robbed ever as an adult. But when I was a teen, my parents' home was robbed twice within less than a month. It was excruciating, the feeling of violation that followed. I remember it well--and the fear. Several years ago, my neighbors were beaten to death in their home--a triple homicide, to this day UNSOLVED. That surely rocked my security world. I was TERRIFIED if I was ever at home alo

A part of my contingency plan is to have enough supplies on-hand to subsist HERE until it was safe to get to someplace else. I would never want to be HERE for any length of time if there were true upheaval in our ability to conduct regular commerce. This place would be so unsafe. It already can be--how much worse would it be in a time of true unrest and shortage? I shudder to think about it. In fact, this would be among one of the LAST places I would want to be. Any good plan would include provisions to get away from a place that already has so many who can't accomplish ordinary su

Yes. And so could all three of my kids. I raised them to understand that possibility, and to know what to do should it become a reality. I felt it was as important as learning to write or do algebraic calculations. And I still hope they never need to use that knowledge.

This forum had good archives where folks could read the drama on that external site and keep the cr@p off here. Wouldn't that be nice? And a bonus would be that the tactics of some really NASTY folks would also face the restrictions of verification and PROOF. It's sorely lacking now. Good wishes to all of those who have that high perch that makes them (mistakenly) believe they have nothing to give to anyone else but their pity that we all aren't as "cool" as they are. CRACKS ME UP!!! Cool doesn't = cruel. Neither does it embrace false concern. If you're nasty to