Volplane verb (used without object) to glide toward the earth in an airplane, with no motor ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

New word for me, and it sounds terrifying!

Trumpty Dumpty's corruption is being laid bare: [bbc.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

We live in interesting times, today is one of those days where it's looking better for the sane side.

Tell ‘em, Forrest!

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Liz has got all the balls of the Republican party. I am so impressed by her!

With the Done Cheato, loyalty is a one-way street.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

We live in interesting times, and sometimes things brighten up a bit and I can't wait to see what's next.

Drive-By Truckers deliver the goods: [youtu.be]

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

OMG, this is soooo perfect!!

Enough with the phony sanctimony!

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 13, 2022:

Thoughts and prayers are easy. And ineffective but at least they can say they're doing something. Back in the day that I was a follower, I'd say I was praying. Sure, I'd pray because that was a fast way for me to fall asleep.

Hahaha!!! 🤣 When that door is opened.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

I'm really happy to see this happening. Maybe the tide is starting to turn. It is interesting times we live in.

14 Black inventors who the world owes gratitude.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

I got a "content isn't available" message. :(

Jan. 6 panelists: Enough evidence uncovered to indict Trump.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

I knew when he announced his candidacy that it was going to be a sh-t show. I just didn't fully comprehend what kind of cesspool it would really be! I'd like to slap a few people who told me I was overreacting.

Alaskans have a mythological creature running for the House of Representatives.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

I'd vote for him.

What In The Red State Hell 🤣🤣🤣 @ Dr.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

Those children done got left behind.

Zooid noun any organic body or cell capable of spontaneous movement and of an existence ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 12, 2022:

also: ZOOLOGY an animal arising from another by budding or division, especially each of the individuals which make up a colonial organism and typically have different forms and functions. Cool! New one for me.

Quinceañera! My baby girl is turning 15 years old 15 years ago I saved 3 kittens from someone who ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 11, 2022:

Wow!! 15 is old for a cat! Happy Gotcha day!

Puts a whole new light on it?

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 11, 2022:

I'd pay to see this. I really hate ironing, I do it only when absolutely necessary. I press while I'm sewing but that is absolutely necessary and usually not as persnickety as ironing.

Louisiana man was rescuing one kitten — then 12 more appeared : NPR

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 11, 2022:

I lived in semi rural Louisiana, just outside of Ft. Polk in the early 1980s. We were the first nice neighborhood after the farms. Frequently the locals would dump their unwanted critters on our streets. I cannot count the number of times I saw sick dogs running loose, and OMG cats by the dozens. It was really annoying, and the town was too small to have a dog catcher, and the local law enforcement was usually out fishing and didn't give a darn. That was one state I was thrilled to see in my rear view mirror.

Mine at my bedroom door…

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 11, 2022:

It only seems like 1000 times

in the 13th century, cats were demonized by the church... It didn't work out well for them...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 11, 2022:

The law of unintended consequences struck hard. Religious superstition will be the death of humankind yet.

REMNANTS OF TRUMPISM: The U.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Makes me less sad about living in the middle of the US, but that is a ridiculous amount of power for them to have.

Trump's niece called it.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Like, why didn't we have some sort of warning...

Trump's current mentor is Vlad the Invader.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Yep, thanks to Donnie Boy, they think it is.

"legitimate political discourse"

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Ain't that the truth.

According to the GOP, this is "legitimate political discourse."

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

You can't have "discourse" with those who refuse to listen.

Trying to rationalize their censure of Lyn Cheney for her participation on the Select Committee, the...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Thank goodness she has more balls than the rest of the Rethug party put together.

I find it amusing when people argue that women were not slighted in the past merely because they ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Oh, for sure! Women have to be far sicker than men to be taken seriously by doctors of EITHER gender, which usually means we have to be pretty much dead before they admit we "might" be sick. I've had crappy docs of both genders, but after my youngest was born and my male doc dismissed my pain I decided to never again see a male doc. And with my women docs I will tell them upfront if I think I am not being taken seriously. It's sad, but it is the world as it is now. I think it is getting better, but not damn fast enough.

I find it amusing when people argue that women were not slighted in the past merely because they ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Oh, for sure! Women have to be far sicker than men to be taken seriously by doctors of EITHER gender, which usually means we have to be pretty much dead before they admit we "might" be sick. I've had crappy docs of both genders, but after my youngest was born and my male doc dismissed my pain I decided to never again see a male doc. And with my women docs I will tell them upfront if I think I am not being taken seriously. It's sad, but it is the world as it is now. I think it is getting better, but not damn fast enough.

White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows witnessed Trump's sedition first hand.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

We live in "interesting" times. Stressful but interesting.

The "good guy with a gun" argument in (in)action.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

That is too accurate.

A new mantra.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

I WOULD put that on my car, even with the new wacko neighbor across the street who has flags on his truck and house.

Wise advice ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Yeah, that frozen stuff is hard on the teeth.

It's just a matter of time folks, and it won't be a flood that does us in: [sapiens.org]

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

Either way, I'm thinking the end times are upon us.

Churrasco noun meat cooked over an open fire.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

BBQ!

So will these hearings end with the arrest of Trump and his minions and ultimately their public ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 10, 2022:

I don't know about his execution, but I'd like to see it end with his disgrace, and possible long prison sentence. Very long ass prison sentence.

Funny how prophetic Margaret Atwood was in not only writing The Handmaid's Tale, but in her ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

She is an awesome writer, and sadly looks like she was prophetic as well. Scary times we live in.

School kids shouldn't have to carry this baggage.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

We have a generation of kids with PTSD

Teachers already have enough on their plates. They don't need to be packing heat.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

I don't want my kids' teachers armed. My smart mouthed little brat woulda been shot had the teacher been packing heat. She just did not know when to STFU. She's awesome now, but she was hell on wheels for a couple of years.

That is some weird shit. I can't believe they're sticking with the same old, tired politics.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

I know, they're so afraid of things that won't kill them, they can't see the evil that they're perpetrating.

Not really an overstatement 😳

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 9, 2022:

This is scary how accurate that is.

Sen. John Thune says Americans need AR-15s to fend off "prairie dogs."

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 8, 2022:

OMG, I can't believe the obtuseness of elected officials. The only purpose of an AR15 is to inflict massive damage. They need to put pictures of the bodies of the school shootings on television, that would horrify the population really fast. It would also traumatize everyone else, but what is a little collateral damage when children have been killed. NO ONE needs an AR15, ever! If someone wants to handle an AR15 let them enlist and handle the first cousin of the AR15, the M16A1 rifle. That is locked in the Arms Room while it isn't checked out to be used for training. They are highly controlled, as is the ammunition.

I hope Trumpty Dumpty lives long enough, unlike Slobodan Milošević, to be confronted with the ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 8, 2022:

If Trumpty Dumpty shuffles off this mortal coil too soon, he could be further idolized and turned into a martyr by his mindless and slavish followers. The Cult of Trump would be worse than they are now. I'd like to see him hang around long enough to be further disgraced, and then shuffle off with his tail between his legs and fade into obscurity.

freebooter /ˈfrēˌbo͞odər Noun a pirate or lawless adventurer.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 7, 2022:

Aaarrrghh, pirates and scoundrels!

WONK.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 7, 2022:

Yes, a word I am familiar with, can't think of the last time I saw it in print though.

People need to remind today's Republican politicians that in the good old days of the 1950s, if a ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Ronnie Raygun and the NRA

Let's face it: the Republicans in Congress will continue to block any meaningful gun control ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Any one of us could come up in the cross hairs of some mentally ill gun owner and we'd be just a memory.

Proud Boys leader and top members charged with seditious conspiracy over January 6.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

'Bout damn time.

We don't live in the 18th century.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Fat old white men owning slaves and living without electricity or cars wrote the Constitution. Things have changed a tad since then. The constitution has to adapt to the times.

Let's be very clear about one thing: if you want to find American supporters of PUTIN's illegal ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Putin and Donnie are BFFs, so of course the MAGA crowd loves Putin as well. They're totally into totalitarianism.

Kim Jong-Un Sends Surprising Message To Queen Elizabeth - Benzinga

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

It is uncommon, maybe he has the hots for her now that she is a widow.

If only these despicable pols would pass through the door marked "exit."

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

The current crop doesn't care for anything except the cash they can tuck away.

Vietnam, 1967. Not me.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 6, 2022:

Is that you holding the magazine?

Fear-fueled white Christian nationalism runs amok.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

With the attrition rate our public schools are dealing with right now, this may be the only option left. My local school district has about 40% of their staff resigning at the end of the school year.

Right now, I cannot express how much I loathe string trimmers and how I resent my dependence on ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

You make me so happy I pay for a yard crew. Well, that and the killer slope in my back yard. I do have a string trimmer that I will need to get out in the next few weeks. Battery powered only. They can be kinda fun, and they can be dangerous too.

Anyone else's eyeballs want to bleed when they read the following?

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Oy, my response would have been "Next!" Awful, just awful. Not attractive at all.

Why women have lower alcohol tolerance than men: It is not just because they are smaller.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Age plays part of that too. I used to drink and party for hours. Now I take a drink at bedtime because it will put me to sleep within 30 minutes. Life of the party I am not.

Do not respond to a post by FrayedBear.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

I blocked him within his first few months on Ag.com. Then for a new year's experiment I unblocked everyone. It took about 2 weeks before I blocked him again. I decided that experiment was not worth repeating. Now when someone gets blocked they remain blocked forever. Especially him.

Sunday morning cuteness...Where's my human?

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

Nah, s/he is watching for birdies or rodents! Pretty little ginger!

UNCOUTH.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 5, 2022:

That describes Donnie and his offspring so well. My Grammie used to tell us we had lots of couth and most of it un.

Rice tasting different ?

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Fer sure!

From our Borderline Ambiguity Department:

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Canada has much more going for it than the US does, however it is a good object lesson for them.

If the MAGA crowd have their way, this is how it will be in America:

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

Yes, this could be the future of America. If it comes to this I will like like a rug and fight like hell for the underground. I'm can be a convincing old lady and a conniving b-tch.

I have to wonder about this idea.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

I have watched a few of those videos on FB. It sounds good, but I live in Tornado Alley, and I'm afraid that house could be gone with the wind in this area. And in Tornado Alley not having a basement is a huge concern. I'm also concerned for resale value. I know my house is now worth double from when I bought it, not that double is a huge amount. But would those houses have any resale value? And of course if a tornado does swing by there would be no resale. And then there is the insurance issue...

Pachyderm pivot, mammoth mendacity, elephantine evasion 🦣

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

There was a comment from Uvalde shooting that it was too soon to talk about the shooting, they would wait for the grief to subside. Essentially they said they will never talk about it because that grief will NEVER subside. Those parents will never truly recover, they just learn to live with it. The children who's parents died will also always have a gaping hole in their lives. And if the authority figures don't deal with it there will always be an open gaping wound.

Open for bu$ine$$

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

OMG, way too accurate. All it needs is an NRA sign.

Senior Trump Administration advisor Peter Navarro first defied a congressional subpoena to testify ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

We live in interesting times, and it's exhausting. I hope they hang Navarro by the short hairs.

Pagoda noun a temple or sacred building, usually a pyramidlike tower and typically having ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

I have some Atheist/Agnostic/Humanists friends who have several pagodas in their yard. They like the aesthetic.

Every day 321 people in the USA are shot.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

America is a gun

Charity Accuses Soldiers Of Blow-Dart Attacks On Stray Cats At Hawaii Army Barracks | HuffPost ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

OMG, there is no end to the degradation that the military has sunk to. This isn't surprising considering the recruitment base, but it's terribly sad to have it affirmed.

That's a whopper. With cheese.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

He is a toxic nightmare.

Hypnopedia noun the act or process of learning during sleep by listening to recordings ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 4, 2022:

I tried that once, it was not something I ever wanted to repeat.

Drought, or new normal? [cbsnews.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

I'm leaning towards "the new normal." Most of CA and NV should never have been watered. They're deserts, and to the desert they will return.

You must watch to the end for the best part! [m.youtube.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

The depth of his ignorance is astonishing.

Until yesterday I had thought that only the peacock raised their plume, one of the rabbits had ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

It makes sense that the female can raise it as well, it helps them to look bigger to discourage other animals that might think they were an easy target for a tasty meal.

Piebald adjective having patches of black and white or of other colours; parti-coloured.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 3, 2022:

I've always thought that "the horse with no name" must have been a piebald.

I'm not willing to waste time with emotionally-constipated men.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

I love that term! It's perfect.

The NRA's unbelievable crassness and brazen insensitivity in holding their convention right after ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

My employer (a FCU) bought out a credit card line from another banking institution, that line was issued by the NRA. It takes me about 25 seconds to identify our NRA members, and that is before I even look at their accounts. There is an attitude about them that is very off putting, and frankly scary. I'm glad to have miles of phone line between us. These are people I would not want to have any relationship with in my real life.

The Republicans are hard workers, and earn every bit of ridicule they get.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

The Republicans have earned every damn bit of ridicule they get.

There was a time in Japan when the samurai always carried their swords in public.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

If only we could learn from the Japanese.

Background: Trump falsely claimed that the FBI's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Perfect

From our Fatal Distraction Department:

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

People know more about the trial than they do about the shooting and other real crisis in America. I think this experiment as a country is failing.

This wasn't the first time that a good guy with a gun failed to stop a bad guy with a gun.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

Only in Texas they prevented and delayed the end of the crisis. They actually exacerbated the crisis. It takes a special kind of monster to do that.

Fascist mother's milk.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

The seem to breathe, eat, and drink conspiracy theories.

Gun control, UK style.

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 2, 2022:

114 weapons is described as a "staggering amount." OMG, if only. There are individuals who have that many in the US. The US is definitely sick, sick, sick.

Investigation Scorecard XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX MUELLER INVESTIGATION Purpose: investigate Russian ...

HippieChick58 comments on Jun 1, 2022:

crazy

This story made my stomach turn! [news.yahoo.com]

HippieChick58 comments on May 31, 2022:

This is one of those evenings that I cannot read anything like this. Not if I have any plans for sleeping anyway.

But, ma bone spurs

HippieChick58 comments on May 31, 2022:

The only hat that should grace his bulbous head.

fricative fric·a·tive /ˈfrikədiv/ adjective: fricative denoting a type of consonant made by ...

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

New one for me.

Civics class in the 21st century.

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

My oldest grandchild starts Kindergarten in the fall. I'm excited for her, and terrified all at the same time.

Do you think this message will offend men on Fitness Singles?

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

They're not selling themselves very well. Just lazy, or not quite bright.

How is your garden coming along?

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

My garden is doing well. We had an inch of rain over most of two days last week. A slow gentle rain was just what was needed.

Ragged Glory

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

America is a gd gun.

Just in case you wanted to know what "Olly olly oxen free" meant. [en.wikipedia.org]

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

Brings me back to my childhood.

After Uvalde, mass shootings continue over the weekend across the U.S. : NPR

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

America is a gun. https://www.facebook.com/BrianBilston/photos/a.1011165745567209/1267219516628496/?type=3

As they left my last B&B guests asked me if I had any plans for memorial Day.

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

That has pretty much convinced me I'd never be good with the B&B stuff.

OBGANIATE.

HippieChick58 comments on May 30, 2022:

I don't remember ever seeing that word before, cool!

Dreadful first date with a Trump Supporter. September 2017

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

Well, it was 5 years ago, hopefully you've learned since then. You're still trying, I admire your tenacity. I don't know if I will ever try again, Nebraska has a dreadful Republican governor and I think I've met most of the single liberal men in my area. I'm not holding out hope for a miracle.

Personal tragedy, national disgrace, international embarrassment.

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

I have an adult child considering moving to the Netherlands. And of course the two babies will go with her. I don't blame her, I'm trying to figure out how I could go. I don't see that happening.

This American life:

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

Especially in Texas, America is a gun.

How many have to die?

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

It isn't HOW MANY, it is WHO is dying. Let the child of a politician get shot and you'll see all sorts of weeping and wailing, AND change.

How is it this is a even political issue?

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

Common sense is very uncommon, especially amongst politicians.

I'm with her.

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

Oh yess! Every time I hear that someone is praying I want to punch them, and ask "What? Your prayers didn't protect you? How can that be." It's a damn good thing I work from home.

How is Miss Sally who teaches 3rd grade going to do better than cops who have decades of firearms ...

HippieChick58 comments on May 29, 2022:

With all the other crap that teachers have to put up with, I don't want live weapons in the classroom. This is not the time to pile extra responsibilities on teachers. In Omaha over 20% of teachers are not returning in the fall. Arming teachers will only drive more of them to seek other jobs. And I support them 110% to finding a job where they are supported and appreciated.