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1. about 6 hours ago on Breaking Cat News

   South Central Upper Peninsula of Michigan here. We’re actually having a pretty good winter. We (finally) have enough snow cover that I’m not worried about my daffodil bulbs freezing solid or my town friends’ water pipes freezing between the main and and house. It’s been chilly, mostly teens & low 20s for daytime highs, zero-ish at night, but that’s as it should be here.

   To the north, along the Lake Superior shore, they’ve been getting blasted all winter, lots of snow (good for the winter tourist trade) and some really cold and windy weather (not so good for schools).

   Our snow fall here on the sheltered side of the bay of Green Bay has been moderate. The county has only had to plow our side road 3 or 4 times (and knocked down our mail box twice!). It’s been snowing fairly steadily since early Saturday, but just light fluffy, easy to shovel stuff. It’s warmer today than it’s been, but still below freezing so no rain (I really hate freezing rain.) Tonight it will get colder and stay on the cold side of normal U.P. winter for the next few days then gradually warm up to low 30s with 37 predicted for the high in a week.

2. 3 days ago on Non Sequitur

   My two sisters and I are mostly on the same page for politics and things like social justice, less so for religion. Our one remaining brother lives in a different world, but his daughter turned OK. My nephew the libertarian is in his mid 30s, past the age when an auntie can have much influence. My youngest niece/nephew just turned 30 and my oldest is 59, so I’m kind of out of the influencer role for them. But I do try to keep my great nephews and great nieces aware of the real world. (I just got the youngest of them (age 2) a subscription to Ranger Rick Club from the National Wildlife Federation).

3. 5 days ago on Francis

   Yes, I know. But does trump know?

4. 6 days ago on Francis

   MAGA logic. Try to scare Canada because a minuscule amount of fentanyl comes into the US via our northern neighbor, but set a major drug dealer loose. sigh

5. 6 days ago on Francis

   So NATO should be safe. But the Paris Accords have little protection.

6. 6 days ago on Francis

   King Canute is so misunderstood. He knew darn well that no person could order the tides to do anything. But he wanted to make a point to his courtiers. They were flattering him endlessly, and Canute didn’t want a bunch of yes men. He was trying to show that only God controls nature, and that kings are just men, not mini-gods.

   I don’t think his courtiers got the message, but it sure would be nice if certain ‘leaders’ would get that message and stop trying to play God with the government.

7. 6 days ago on Non Sequitur

   MY kids were raised on Harry Potter. My nephew? Probably not, he was raised by Midwest overly conservative, ‘follow the people in charge because they know what they are doing’ parents. (How my husband and his brother can be so different has always been a mystery to me.)

8. 7 days ago on Non Sequitur
   “Maybe breaking the government and leaving it broken is exactly what they’re trying to do.”

   Sounds like you’ve met my nephew. He’s a young (34) Libertarian who told me that the Federal government has no business making decisions about public health. He doesn’t like rules and regulation and thinks they should all be done away with. He’s quite happy with what Musk and his henchmen (are they old enough to be henchmen? Maybe henchkids is a better name) are doing. He wants the government destroyed because then there won’t be any rules. Poor kid, he hasn’t given one thought to what will replace the government he wants smashed. He’ll be rather surprised when he finds out the rules of an autocracy are a lot more confining than the rules of a democracy. I know the kid isn’t old enough to remember Nazi Germany (at 75, neither am I) but you’d think he would have run across authoritarian regimes in books and movies. Did he not notice the Nazis in Raiders of the Lost Ark? Come to think of it, he’s young enough that Raiders is prehistoric. Maybe he never HAS read about authoritarians. (Probably banned at his high school)

9. 8 days ago on Thatababy

   I notice that those folks who brought the elaborate offerings do not have a small child in tow. I wonder if that has anything to do with the That-a-Family’s choice?

10. 10 days ago on Breaking Cat News

    Sending my prayers for you. Take care.