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The only good Trager is...
Second thoughts he might be missing his bucket for drippings..
Edit: That is to say, sure a state can pass/strike down any law it wants. But if there' is a conflict with federal law, the feds can and do decide if and when to contest it. In the case of marijuana, I think they looked at the rather overwhelming support for legalization in Colorado and Washington, and chose to just...deal with it. That ban, theoretically, should be on its way out federally anyway.
Are all kids this fucking stupid anymore??
Bright side: Nobody was hurt and car is not damaged (I hope).
(Spinesreach): Xiuhcoatl says, "Oh man, grab the children-corn. This is gonna be good."
woken up at 11 because someone needed me to drive them to six different places due to a medical emergency, hospital for a nursing friend to assist with the emergency, then to a few drug stores, was driving for nearly two hours. My sleep for the night is fucked as a result. Awake the rest of the night, finally fall asleep just a few hours before dawn, sleep the day away. Today, I mention the fact we lack a firstaid kit, and that there were errands I needed to get done yesterday, and that on monday, I will absolutely HAVE to get them done, last chance to get them done. The relative's response? "You should have thought about that yesterday before you slept all day. I would have been glad to help you then, I have to spend today getting ready for work, and monday will be the next time I don't have to work that evening." It took a lot of restraint to not want to smack that person as hard as I can.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
If someone wants to buy a motorcycle/atv/dirtbike from a dealership, they are -going- to come in during your open hours. Staying open for an hour later is not going to make a world of difference. And apparently, we're going to not have early nights or be able to come in late on alternating days. Working 50 hours a week, wahoo.
That's how delivery works, right?
I was ready to get gone.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
F - Forgetting
A - Anything
I - Intellectual
T - Through
H - Humiliation
NOTE: I am not saying faith is wrong, just that its impossible to be healed through 'faith'.
I remember, involve me and I
learn.
-Benjamin Franklin
I'm personally against the idea of having to have a legal form to "prove" your dog is a service animal. There is already a lot of negative stigma associated with disabilities and saying "You need to have paperwork to prove that you're legit," would, in my opinion, essentially institutionalize that stigma.
That being said, current laws state that a business owner/whatever can ask what task the dog is trained to do. They can't ask what your disability is. While I'm not going to pass judgment over these ankle-biters and their owners, I would guess that they fall under the category of an "emotional support animal" which are -not- protected under the ADA. So if Fufu in the purse is just there so you can tote them around and make you feel better, Fufu can stay in the car or better yet at home.
Now, there are a lot of really great things you can train dogs to do! They're amazing at their jobs, given some training! Anxiety a problem? Prone to panic attacks? You can train your dog to cue in on physiological changes associated with panic attacks and they can guide you to a quiet area or make your hand all nasty with wet noses and gross tongues to remind you to take deep breaths and so on. Or take a klonopin. Have a pretty grotesque medication schedule that even those people with amazing memories and awareness of time would fail at taking? Fido can be trained to help you remember to take your meds. They can even sense changes in your blood sugar for people who are diabetic/hypoglycemic/other things that can cause you to pass out from funky blood sugar. Train them to go open the fridge door and grab you a Sunny-D!
Anyways, tl;dr, they're already expensive, adding on official paperwork is only going to add to the cost.
Wait, is that how tl;dr are supposed to work? I don't think so. No new material in tl;dr.
I have all sorts of great crap I could be MADDENING about. I will say that I am most irritated that certain protected classes receive a disproportionate degree of what I'll call "sensitivity" and it quite frankly pisses me off. I had a professor last semester repeatedly tell jokes about disabilities and mental illness in class. I even confronted him about one instance of graphic content being displayed in class without warning and how it might be appropriate to include a heads up so anyone sensitive to such material could leave/be prepared/whatever. Mother fer mocked me to my face. Somehow he didn't even receive any sort of discipline as a result. Had he been telling jokes about people of color I can only imagine there would be protesters outside his office demanding his resignation (since that seems to be the trend around college campuses these days). Straight up pisses me off.
Oh well. At least in his account of the events, apparently I was this irate, towering figure that he had to use words to evaluate my mental state and was able to diffuse the situation with his masterful words. I'll give you that I'm 6'1", and I guess I might appear to be this burly and imposing figure of Hulk-esque raging strength and masculinity in my light autumn windbreaker weighing in at an astonishing 160lbs with little to no muscle definition while wielding my disposable venti Starbucks cup. Yeaaaahhhh baby. I guess I have a future as a bouncer. But then again, when you're reduced to making fun of people because you're so superior and intellectual dominate over people and you're forced to deal with lowly undergraduate students on a daily basis I guess you could be frightened by the shadow cast by a plastic bag blowing through the deserted corridors of your useless departments' building.
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They are testing me for some thyroid issues, im a bitter party of one right now.
Also @Arbre I hope your niece is okay, my niece did something similar trying to fly and snapped her collar bone, I know the pain of not knowing, I say go be close with your sister and mum for support, sounds awful...hugs to you.
On another note, I've been at the hospital this weekend. My dad has Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and it's been messing with him a lot these last few months. In November he had to go by ambulance and stay a few days, but got better thanks to medication. Two and a half weeks ago, he called me and asked me to drive him up again, because he had trouble breathing. He got the same treatment, but this time it's not helped. So yesterday he called again, and I drove him up to the ER. He was in really bad shape, taking only a few steps between stops to breath.
Turns out his heart is working too hard because of the COPD, causing his feet to swell and raising his blood pressure and pulse to ridiculous levels. He doesn't like staying at hospitals, but he's in there now. Things have calmed down considerably, but it's still not fun watching one of the strongest people you know being helpless. Hoping for improvement. He's not leaving the hospital today, we'll see about tomorrow.