tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post1940338303613741588..comments2023-11-08T23:06:17.381-08:00Comments on Sugar & Blood: Safe place to land.Mattyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-5302265166799053872013-01-13T17:17:33.655-08:002013-01-13T17:17:33.655-08:00Ah, thank you for sharing that fantasy - that was ...Ah, thank you for sharing that fantasy - that was brilliant! I feel better too! Mattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-44409347739008036902013-01-13T13:37:12.859-08:002013-01-13T13:37:12.859-08:00I told my husband about the 2.3 million for Sandy ...I told my husband about the 2.3 million for Sandy relief and he said, "Oh, I hope you bought one." Er ... yes I bought um one, HA HA, if he only knew. But it was for a good cause.<br /><br />With gun control as with all the issues facing our country I just wish both sides would listen with open minds to the other side, but no one wants to allow that there might be merit to anything that doesn't agree with their view. I'd just be happy with some civility, that's all. I'm so tired of watching our "leaders" behave like badly brought up children. It's embarrassing. They need a good smack. All of them. And a time out. Maybe dock their paycheck for rude behavior.<br /><br />Well how about that, I feel better too, thinking about sitting those politicians in a corner with a chunk out of their paycheck until they behave brightened me up immensely! <br /><br />Tome of the Ancienthttp://tomeoftheancient.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-81758433861826901952013-01-13T13:13:45.658-08:002013-01-13T13:13:45.658-08:00Thank you for your very thoughtful response, and y...Thank you for your very thoughtful response, and you're right - if the answers were easy they'd be in place now I suppose. All cultures struggle with belief systems, right or wrong, working or not, as the world shifts and changes. There are very real threats, but I suppose if I wasn't an idealist at times I would sink like a lead balloon.Mattyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05504775167541916213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3878753035017181139.post-39542165024321759842013-01-13T12:15:15.668-08:002013-01-13T12:15:15.668-08:00As a non-American but someone who grew up surround...As a non-American but someone who grew up surrounded by guns and the men who carried them I have mixed feelings towards guns and gun laws. Both Mr Harpy and I (for totally different reasons) are excellent shots and several members of both our families have fairly impressive collections of shotguns.<br /><br />I also went to school on a bus which was checked for bombs by armed men twice a day, we also had soldiers who patrolled our playing fields and perimeter on a daily basis and to me, looking back I'd hate my children to grow up like that.<br /><br />Learning so young (I think I was seven or eight when I realized that the "game" Daddy and I played of looking under the car for "presents" wasn't really a game at all but a very real bomb check) that there are people out there who hate you for simply being what you are is a painful lesson and one which brings issues of it's own. <br /><br />I suspect that with most things so ingrained there is no easy answer :(Erinyshttp://harpysnest.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.com