Month: August 2017

send-me-noots:

Shoutout to the people who:

-have symptoms that aren’t visible to others

-are able to function even while in extreme pain

-hide their illness well

-who don’t “seem sick”

-who have flareups at night or other times when no one else sees

-fight a daily battle that others can’t see

-feel like they’re making too big of a deal out of their illness because “it could be worse!”

I see you out there, I feel you, you’re awesome.

That graphic with the ice cream bars also just reminded me that whenever I ended up getting dragged along to my grandmother’s weekly hair appointment when I was little, she would always stop and get me one of the Mickey Mouse bars on the way back.

I never really liked them, but I guess she thought they looked appealing for kids? I never felt like I could just say no, I’d rather have something else.

Don’t know when I last thought about that, but kind of strange.

aegipan-omnicorn:

limegum:

1970s

I remember most of these from when I was growing up (names are a little bit different, though – probably regional variations). My favorites were the Chocolate Eclair, the Cream Stix (we knew it as “Creamsicle” – it was vanilla ice cream coated in a layer of orange sherbet), and then, it was a toss up between the ice cream sandwich and the toasted almond.

I don’t remember a few of those, including the ices. There probably were some regional variations in availability too. I also don’t recall seeing the chocolate eclair/strawberry shortcake/toasted almond types until up into the ‘80s where I was. Never liked the crumb texture myself.

My faves as a little kid: ice cream sandwiches, Nutty Buddies, the little cups of ice cream with the wooden sticks, and Fudgsicles. (Not listed? Odd.) I kept getting the Mickey Mouse bars and hoping they would be better, but the texture was always offputtingly weird to me.

Source: limegum

Lawmakers unmoved by Trump threat to ax money for their insurance

soilrockslove:

fierceawakening:

politico:

President Donald Trump is threatening to ax money for lawmakers’ health insurance until they repeal Obamacare.

Senate Republicans aren’t trying to stop him.

“If that’s what he wants to do, he ought to just do it,” Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) told POLITICO. But as “probably he’s learned over the last couple of weeks, threats don’t really go over particularly well. My advice would be to either do it or don’t do it.”

In a series of angry tweets, Trump has threatened to cut off the government’s share of payments for the Obamacare plans that cover lawmakers and their staffs. Those payments are similar to the share many employers pay for their employees’ benefits — including other federal workers.

But for members of Congress, the payments have been a pain because they have opened them up to accusations from conservatives that they’re getting special treatment — even a “bailout.”

Read more here

They appear to have found a few vertebrae

So the Cheeto is trying to make lawmakers less sympathetic to people who stand to lose their healthcare… by threatening to cut off their healthcare?

Wow.

Lawmakers unmoved by Trump threat to ax money for their insurance

Court Keeps Great Lakes Wolves on Endangered Species List

rjzimmerman:

If wolves were aware of the politics being played over their lives by the idiots in Congress, the wolves would pack their wolf bags and leave Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and settle in a friendlier state (if there is one) or Canadian province.

First, the excerpt from this story about the appellate court decision to protect the wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan:

A federal appeals court is keeping gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region on the endangered species list.

A panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday upheld a district judge’s 2014 ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had acted prematurely by removing federal protections from wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Wolves had nearly disappeared from the region when they were designated as endangered in the 1970s. They now total about 3,800.

Federal and state regulators say they’ve recovered and should be returned to state management, which could include allowing wolf hunting.

Environmental groups say they’re still vulnerable.

The appeals panel said the government hadn’t reasonably considered factors including loss of the wolf’s historical range.

Nothing about the Wyoming wolves……….so far.

Then this lousy bill has recently emerged from the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee to advance the new Senate Sportsmen’s bill (S.1514) with its “War on Wolves” rider – an amendment proposing to permanently remove federal Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Wyoming, to allow trophy hunting of wolves to resume.  To add insult to injury, the language on the rider prohibits judicial review thus preventing any legal challenge.

See what I mean………courts say: the law protects the wolves. The politicians say: so we change the law.

Court Keeps Great Lakes Wolves on Endangered Species List