sandyleelee

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:04 PM

Re: smaller government, DrB?

I find this so frequently with Conservatives as they rail about defunding Sesame Street and a few other programs of no meaningful dollar cost, thinking that somehow that is going to fix things and when it doesn't come close they start monkeying [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 2:18 PM

Re: This is extremely cool.

sll: Genealogy at it's most entertaining.

Shriek!

SLL, how could you

My fingers have always worked entirely independently from my mind.

The fingers are WAY faster.

And somewhat [more]

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sandyleelee posted to the Atheist Fools board. 12:08 PM

This is extremely cool.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/07/charlemag...

Genealogy at it's most entertaining.

We're all descendents [more]

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sandyleelee posted to the Atheist Fools board. 10:42 AM

If you can help . . .

http://www.lifewithoutcarelosinghaydomhospital.org/

Powerful film, profound need.

SLL

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 1:01 PM

Re: Random bucket list thoughts...

1) Where would you go that was dark enough (pollution free enough) to see the milkyway? I want to see a sky full of stars, but lived most of my life in light pollution.

The Serengeti (with the added advantage of seeing the southern [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Political Asylum board. 12:23 PM

Re: Oh No! You can't do that.

Some Democrats in those counties are going to be hurt by Obama's inability to NEGOTIATE with Congress.

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

(It doesn't mean "capitulate to," for [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 12:33 PM

Re: Local news....

Honestly, AM and I are the only people here not into fantasizing about beating up dogs?


Make that 3 of us, 6.

SLL

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sandyleelee posted to the Atheist Fools board. 1:38 PM

Article on animal intelligence

Fascinating:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732386960457837...

SLL

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 11:38 PM

Re: from UltraViolet re. rape!

It's actually not a fictious device. It is used, I believe, by many women in several African countries.

Probably elsewhere as well.

SLL

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sandyleelee replied to the Best Travel Spots/Tips board. 12:39 PM

Re: South Africa

Two things:

1) Jo'berg Airport is perfectly safe. The city -- not so much.

2) Anyone wanting to visit Tanzania and the Serengeti can do much better (and often less expensive) with a private safari, arranged through a local [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Best Travel Spots/Tips board. 12:32 PM

Re: South Africa

I'm late to reply, but South Africa is mostly no more dangerous than any other place in Africa, and much safer than most.

You don't want to be spending time in Jo'berg, but Cape Town is lovely, and a trip down to the Cape is a fabulous way [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 12:24 PM

Re: seafood

This is the Republican "caveat emptor" Shangri La. It's your own fault if you can't tell fake fish from real fish at a glance. Hire your own damned inspectors! Government has no business getting in between fraud and the victims of fraud! [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 11:07 AM

Re: New Sandburg Poem...Timely

My own commentary on the subject, written, perhaps, five years ago:



The Birthday of the Bullet


Today is the birthday of the bullet.
Happy Birthday, bullet. Your mother
labored in the dark to bear you, down [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 10:20 PM

Re: Sable.

What a beauty. He looks just like my Charlie, whom I lost 3 years ago in January.

I'm so sorry, Buffy.

Damn,
SLL

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sandyleelee replied to the Political Asylum board. 1:17 PM

Re: Really Do Something, Mr. President

Sorry nothing but another Rev Bill

Ohhhh, Obama has not been perfect time for hims to step it up

But at the end of the day, you like he will be on board that the Republicans should have done better, and he wasn't the problem [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Political Asylum board. 10:20 PM

Re: Food stamps for pets?

Thanks for helping me figure out why I don't post here very much any more.

Jimbo

SLL

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sandyleelee replied to the Atheist Fools board. 10:14 PM

Re: Premeditated....

This hurts so much, and my heart goes out to you.

But it's the right thing to do for your baby. Suffering lasts. Oblivion is vastly preferable, particularly for a being which cannot understand its own pain.

Between now and Thursday, [more]

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sandyleelee replied to the Political Asylum board. 11:44 AM

Re: Fauxcahontas Is Doing Her Thing

As I mentioned elsewhere, though, she could easily have had the answers to these questions anytime within the last month and a half. All she had to do was have her chief of staff or LA get the information. The purpose of these questions was not to [more]