It's a Miracle!

Got the pups out of the house this afternoon for a good LONG walk, hopefully getting Neil and I an extra hour of sleep in the morning.

It must have been a long time since Kiara had been swimming.

 Koda is the happy boy cut suit matron that dons a bathing cap and does her exact same four laps every day at the country club, reminding everyone that she was on the Byrn Mawr '72 swim team. Kiara is the stoned 11th grader doing cannon balls during that adult swim. I don't think she remembered how deep the water was. We had a very good time.

again with the rapture, enough already, finish your brisket.. everything will be fine.

So, tomorrow is the big day, up, up and away, and all that ! I just read or saw somewhere that a bunch of folks are planning to gather, Media in tow in freaking TIMES SQUARE ( someplace I would not want to see the world end..) and be .. raptured from there. Now, do all these followers of the nut job radio guy realize that the Biblical rapture is NOT just an American thing??

Lets take Mr. Camping ( the dude who is planing this shindig ) at his word and at 6 pm all over the world, in what ever time zone you are in, the rapture will take place. Why it won't happen all at once, I do not know, but anyway, Six in the evening.. NOW, in Samoa or Guam or where ever, 6pm, there, is 6am in the East Coast of the US. The math was not hard to do. And unless everyone that is going to be called home, is from the United States, then won't the rapture have already NOT happened by the time it gets here?

Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet

There is close to nothing as dull as reading about someone elses weather, that does not involve a firestorm or hurricane, etc. AND AGAIN, there are real weather issues out there, floods, drought, locusts, got it.
But come one! I walked out my front door this morning, early ( we have Kiara, there is no sleeping in....) and it was like walking into some crazy science fiction movie. It has been rainy/misty/foggy for like ten days . Since the snow melted, there has been maybe, maybe a week of sun, maybe less. The farmers up here cant get their crops in the ground, baseball, both in my back yard and for the Redwings has been a bust, the Lilac Festival missed a couple of days. Walking around on any grass is like walking on a sponge. It is just crazy!

Gonna eat'em all : Rap-ture.

A big joke for most people. I thought this was a MOST interesting about a " true believer " from today's Huffington Post. ( read this, it is just fascinating )

Koda swims

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

( needs more unicorns )

Minnesota is in the throws of GOP madness spreading across the mid-west, and for the first time, their newly all Republican legislature is going gang busters on jobs! jobs! jobs! an anti same sex marriage constitutional amendment. The head haters there in the gopher state, The Minnesota Family Council had Presidential stumbler NEWT! up for a little meet and greet, and book sale. Same old same old, right?

Enter Professional prankster, and I guess gay activist Nick Espinosa aka Robert Erickson, who has done this sort of thing in the past ( dumping a bunch of pennies on some Republican last year ) NOW, you think these Einsteins running the Minnesota Family Cross Burning would have a photo of the only professional political prankster milling about the twin cities. But, FEEL THE RAINBOW !

Now then, I do not approve. Pranks like this are selfish and for the most part don't work. That and somebody had to clean up that mess, and there could have been some sort of odd reaction with the third Mrs. NEWT's! botox. Again, I do not think that attention grabbing stunts like these do anything at all except for the pranksters youtube account, but what should the glbt and their straight allies be doing these days.

• The Then-they-came-for-the-Trade-Unionists,-and-I-did-not-speak-out --Because-I -was-not-a -Trade-Unionist Award goes to : Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who " believes that a law that gives same sex couples hospital visitation rights violates the state constitution. YES! ( more ) Your freaking husband or wife of .. FORTY years is in a car accident, a serious one, and YOU are kept from the bedside. None of the legal papers you have at home, none of your powers of attorneys, legal proxies or any of the hoops you have jumped through make you any more than a roommate. Deal with it.
• Same Sex Marriage in New York. Being held hostage by a few state senators. Up to 60% of New Yorkers want SS Marriage, with 10-12 % not giving a fuzzy rats patootie. But it could again go nowhere because of a hand full of chicken shit GOP AND One big Democratic Senators. 
• You HAD to know this one was coming, this weekends rapture : THE GAYS.
• North Carolina is going for the super anti gay amendment as well, claiming that marriage is GONE in Scandinavia . ( But interestingly healthy on the seventh anniversary of same sex marriage in Massachusetts ) Also free speech stops at anti gay rights rallies.

And this is ONLY what I read this morning. So, maybe FEEL THE RAINBOW was a bit much, but man, the Christianist out there are coming after us big time and maybe a new approach - NON glitter related - is needed. 

It will be Spring! It will be Spring!! It will be Spring!!!

First lakeside grilling of the year for Geneva bff and world traveler, Dr. Tinkler. No grilling here yet.. but soon.