What Made You Sad Today?

[Tombstone Mountain]

Reading a post on facebook made by my sons girlfriend. It had a picture from a distance of the reflecting pool on the mall in DC from I believe back when MLK jr made his famous speech with the huge crowd. No problem with the picture but the subject matter had to do with getting a large gathering there for our resident socialist Bernie Sanders. The date is on my birthday no less and she posted she will be there. Guess my son will too. These are very intelligent kids but they just spent four years in school getting thier degree's and are now at Clemson in search of Masters degrees. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that fact but it is a bit disappointing I must admit... :codger:

Just a quick update on this disappointing series of events. My son and his girlfriend attended a Bernie rally this past Saturday in Florence SC. Good grief. He was a philosophy major and you would think he would know better. I talked with both of them briefly after the rally about it and it only made me feel worse. I don't want to turn this into a SOCN matter but she actually told me that people that have "made it" in life and have money are morally obligated to give it to others (the poor I suppose to be specific). Good grief again... :sigh:

 

I hope your son finds someone else soon.

She is very sweet but it is very much a turn off I must say. They have been together for about two and a half years now and I almost laughed out loud after she said it because she turned to him immediately and said "right hon?"... :sigh: Amazing that someone could be raised basically South Carolina country redneck (the hunting, fishing and the whole nine yards) and feel the way she does. Just shows the power of the liberal, leftist brainwashing going on in the colleges and universities these days. Terrible...

 

Yes. It is. And parents pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, or students accrue huge student loans, just so they can be refashioned and indoctrinated. Amazing.

Yep. You work for all those years raising them with morals and values and in a certain way and you would think they would see things at least generally the way I and my my wife do but no. At least not politically anyway. The morals and ethics I know and least are there and solid so that is at least a good thing. Guess they don't mind bankrupting the country even further and the government playing Peter Pan. Who knows...

 

The good news is that it's gone on long enough. And many are beginning to push back. It is gaining momentum rapidly.

Go Trump

 

I like his hair...reason enough to elect him. We're going off the rails on a crazy train. Ozzy is a modern day prophet! His lyrics are profound, and applicable today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNMnp2LyZE

Edited September 17, 2015 by Tombstone Mountain

[Narps]

Reading a post on facebook made by my sons girlfriend. It had a picture from a distance of the reflecting pool on the mall in DC from I believe back when MLK jr made his famous speech with the huge crowd. No problem with the picture but the subject matter had to do with getting a large gathering there for our resident socialist Bernie Sanders. The date is on my birthday no less and she posted she will be there. Guess my son will too. These are very intelligent kids but they just spent four years in school getting thier degree's and are now at Clemson in search of Masters degrees. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that fact but it is a bit disappointing I must admit... :codger:

Just a quick update on this disappointing series of events. My son and his girlfriend attended a Bernie rally this past Saturday in Florence SC. Good grief. He was a philosophy major and you would think he would know better. I talked with both of them briefly after the rally about it and it only made me feel worse. I don't want to turn this into a SOCN matter but she actually told me that people that have "made it" in life and have money are morally obligated to give it to others (the poor I suppose to be specific). Good grief again... :sigh:

 

I hope your son finds someone else soon.

She is very sweet but it is very much a turn off I must say. They have been together for about two and a half years now and I almost laughed out loud after she said it because she turned to him immediately and said "right hon?"... :sigh: Amazing that someone could be raised basically South Carolina country redneck (the hunting, fishing and the whole nine yards) and feel the way she does. Just shows the power of the liberal, leftist brainwashing going on in the colleges and universities these days. Terrible...

 

Yes. It is. And parents pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, or students accrue huge student loans, just so they can be refashioned and indoctrinated. Amazing.

Yep. You work for all those years raising them with morals and values and in a certain way and you would think they would see things at least generally the way I and my my wife do but no. At least not politically anyway. The morals and ethics I know and least are there and solid so that is at least a good thing. Guess they don't mind bankrupting the country even further and the government playing Peter Pan. Who knows...

 

The good news is that it's gone on long enough. And many are beginning to push back. It is gaining momentum rapidly.

Go Trump

:cheers: ...

[x1yyz]

Reading a post on facebook made by my sons girlfriend. It had a picture from a distance of the reflecting pool on the mall in DC from I believe back when MLK jr made his famous speech with the huge crowd. No problem with the picture but the subject matter had to do with getting a large gathering there for our resident socialist Bernie Sanders. The date is on my birthday no less and she posted she will be there. Guess my son will too. These are very intelligent kids but they just spent four years in school getting thier degree's and are now at Clemson in search of Masters degrees. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that fact but it is a bit disappointing I must admit... :codger:

Just a quick update on this disappointing series of events. My son and his girlfriend attended a Bernie rally this past Saturday in Florence SC. Good grief. He was a philosophy major and you would think he would know better. I talked with both of them briefly after the rally about it and it only made me feel worse. I don't want to turn this into a SOCN matter but she actually told me that people that have "made it" in life and have money are morally obligated to give it to others (the poor I suppose to be specific). Good grief again... :sigh:

 

I hope your son finds someone else soon.

She is very sweet but it is very much a turn off I must say. They have been together for about two and a half years now and I almost laughed out loud after she said it because she turned to him immediately and said "right hon?"... :sigh: Amazing that someone could be raised basically South Carolina country redneck (the hunting, fishing and the whole nine yards) and feel the way she does. Just shows the power of the liberal, leftist brainwashing going on in the colleges and universities these days. Terrible...

 

Yes. It is. And parents pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, or students accrue huge student loans, just so they can be refashioned and indoctrinated. Amazing.

Yep. You work for all those years raising them with morals and values and in a certain way and you would think they would see things at least generally the way I and my my wife do but no. At least not politically anyway. The morals and ethics I know and least are there and solid so that is at least a good thing. Guess they don't mind bankrupting the country even further and the government playing Peter Pan. Who knows...

 

The good news is that it's gone on long enough. And many are beginning to push back. It is gaining momentum rapidly.

Go Trump

 

I like his hair...reason enough to elect him. We're going off the rails on a crazy train. Ozzy is a modern day prophet! His lyrics are profound, and applicable today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNMnp2LyZE

 

TRUMP PINATAS SELLING OUT IN SAN FRANCISCO'S MISSION DISTRICT

Edited September 17, 2015 by x1yyz

[Tombstone Mountain]

Reading a post on facebook made by my sons girlfriend. It had a picture from a distance of the reflecting pool on the mall in DC from I believe back when MLK jr made his famous speech with the huge crowd. No problem with the picture but the subject matter had to do with getting a large gathering there for our resident socialist Bernie Sanders. The date is on my birthday no less and she posted she will be there. Guess my son will too. These are very intelligent kids but they just spent four years in school getting thier degree's and are now at Clemson in search of Masters degrees. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that fact but it is a bit disappointing I must admit... :codger:

Just a quick update on this disappointing series of events. My son and his girlfriend attended a Bernie rally this past Saturday in Florence SC. Good grief. He was a philosophy major and you would think he would know better. I talked with both of them briefly after the rally about it and it only made me feel worse. I don't want to turn this into a SOCN matter but she actually told me that people that have "made it" in life and have money are morally obligated to give it to others (the poor I suppose to be specific). Good grief again... :sigh:

 

I hope your son finds someone else soon.

She is very sweet but it is very much a turn off I must say. They have been together for about two and a half years now and I almost laughed out loud after she said it because she turned to him immediately and said "right hon?"... :sigh: Amazing that someone could be raised basically South Carolina country redneck (the hunting, fishing and the whole nine yards) and feel the way she does. Just shows the power of the liberal, leftist brainwashing going on in the colleges and universities these days. Terrible...

 

Yes. It is. And parents pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, or students accrue huge student loans, just so they can be refashioned and indoctrinated. Amazing.

Yep. You work for all those years raising them with morals and values and in a certain way and you would think they would see things at least generally the way I and my my wife do but no. At least not politically anyway. The morals and ethics I know and least are there and solid so that is at least a good thing. Guess they don't mind bankrupting the country even further and the government playing Peter Pan. Who knows...

 

The good news is that it's gone on long enough. And many are beginning to push back. It is gaining momentum rapidly.

Go Trump

 

I like his hair...reason enough to elect him. We're going off the rails on a crazy train. Ozzy is a modern day prophet! His lyrics are profound, and applicable today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNMnp2LyZE

 

http://abc7news.com/...strict-/960784/

Aren't all those people high out there?

[x1yyz]

Reading a post on facebook made by my sons girlfriend. It had a picture from a distance of the reflecting pool on the mall in DC from I believe back when MLK jr made his famous speech with the huge crowd. No problem with the picture but the subject matter had to do with getting a large gathering there for our resident socialist Bernie Sanders. The date is on my birthday no less and she posted she will be there. Guess my son will too. These are very intelligent kids but they just spent four years in school getting thier degree's and are now at Clemson in search of Masters degrees. I guess I shouldn't be surprised given that fact but it is a bit disappointing I must admit... :codger:

Just a quick update on this disappointing series of events. My son and his girlfriend attended a Bernie rally this past Saturday in Florence SC. Good grief. He was a philosophy major and you would think he would know better. I talked with both of them briefly after the rally about it and it only made me feel worse. I don't want to turn this into a SOCN matter but she actually told me that people that have "made it" in life and have money are morally obligated to give it to others (the poor I suppose to be specific). Good grief again... :sigh:

 

I hope your son finds someone else soon.

She is very sweet but it is very much a turn off I must say. They have been together for about two and a half years now and I almost laughed out loud after she said it because she turned to him immediately and said "right hon?"... :sigh: Amazing that someone could be raised basically South Carolina country redneck (the hunting, fishing and the whole nine yards) and feel the way she does. Just shows the power of the liberal, leftist brainwashing going on in the colleges and universities these days. Terrible...

 

Yes. It is. And parents pay thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars, or students accrue huge student loans, just so they can be refashioned and indoctrinated. Amazing.

Yep. You work for all those years raising them with morals and values and in a certain way and you would think they would see things at least generally the way I and my my wife do but no. At least not politically anyway. The morals and ethics I know and least are there and solid so that is at least a good thing. Guess they don't mind bankrupting the country even further and the government playing Peter Pan. Who knows...

 

The good news is that it's gone on long enough. And many are beginning to push back. It is gaining momentum rapidly.

Go Trump

 

I like his hair...reason enough to elect him. We're going off the rails on a crazy train. Ozzy is a modern day prophet! His lyrics are profound, and applicable today.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsNMnp2LyZE

 

http://abc7news.com/...strict-/960784/

Aren't all those people high out there?

 

We're high on life, baby!

[blueschica]

I found out that my great-aunt MJ, who is 92 and has always been active and fiercely independent (and whose mind has always been as sharp as a tack), is beginning to slide into the throes of dementia.

 

She has led quite a life- she was somewhat of a local celebrity here in southwest Ohio, in golf circles- from the 1950s through the '70s. (Also, just as an aside- the University of Connecticut's sports heritage museum was named after her husband, Robert Donnelly)...

 

She is also one of the last living links to my grandmother, who I absolutely adored. She has three brothers, my great-uncles, who are still alive, but I can't (or don't) talk to them about my grandmother in the same way that I can with MJ.

 

She still has lucid times, definitely. From what I'm told, at this point she is just cognizant of the fact that she is starting to lose certain pieces of her long-term memory.

 

The last time I talked to her was several months ago...and evidently she has undergone a significant change for the worse, in that period of time.

 

I'd like to talk to her again, now. But to be honest, I have some fear about that, too. Why fear? I don't know. But I do. That's really all I can say about it.

 

I'm so sorry to hear this, Blue J. It's so cool when there is older person in the family you connect with to fill you in on all the stories and history from the past. In my family, it was my grandmother, who had grown up in Pittsburgh and then left. When she came back to visit us she had so many stories about all the old buildings and growing up with 11 brothers and sisters.

 

Dementia is hard; my mother in law had it for several years before she passed. She kept her sense of humor for a long time, though; and so we did as well; it really helps!

I'm sorry your family has to go through this.

[troutman]

My grandmother is dying at 95.

 

Spent the night waiting for the call. It hasn't rung yet.

 

Hang in there.

[x1yyz]

Stuff (that I don't really feel like talking about) made me sad. Very sad.

 

*sigh*

 

:(

[Digital Dad]

Segs, I waited 3 long years to hear my Grandmother was dead. At one point I was booking a ticket for a round trip flight only to hear that she was going to be okay, at least for the time being. When she did finally pass 2 years later, I was around to see her a few more times, ill of health but still fighting. I cried like a baby for 2 days after she passed. Its not easy, in fact I think about her at least...maybe once a week 20 years after the fact. She was my favorite relative. She called me her gift. Now I'm gonna weep.

 

Very sensitive day for DD. ;)

[Blue J]

Stuff (that I don't really feel like talking about) made me sad. Very sad.

 

*sigh*

 

:(

 

Very sorry to hear that...I know the feeling. I normally don't post anything specific in this thread (except I did yesterday).

[Blue J]

I found out that my great-aunt MJ, who is 92 and has always been active and fiercely independent (and whose mind has always been as sharp as a tack), is beginning to slide into the throes of dementia.

 

She has led quite a life- she was somewhat of a local celebrity here in southwest Ohio, in golf circles- from the 1950s through the '70s. (Also, just as an aside- the University of Connecticut's sports heritage museum was named after her husband, Robert Donnelly)...

 

She is also one of the last living links to my grandmother, who I absolutely adored. She has three brothers, my great-uncles, who are still alive, but I can't (or don't) talk to them about my grandmother in the same way that I can with MJ.

 

She still has lucid times, definitely. From what I'm told, at this point she is just cognizant of the fact that she is starting to lose certain pieces of her long-term memory.

 

The last time I talked to her was several months ago...and evidently she has undergone a significant change for the worse, in that period of time.

 

I'd like to talk to her again, now. But to be honest, I have some fear about that, too. Why fear? I don't know. But I do. That's really all I can say about it.

 

I'm so sorry to hear this, Blue J. It's so cool when there is older person in the family you connect with to fill you in on all the stories and history from the past. In my family, it was my grandmother, who had grown up in Pittsburgh and then left. When she came back to visit us she had so many stories about all the old buildings and growing up with 11 brothers and sisters.

 

Dementia is hard; my mother in law had it for several years before she passed. She kept her sense of humor for a long time, though; and so we did as well; it really helps!

I'm sorry your family has to go through this.

 

Thank you.

 

My great-aunt (and, therefore, my grandmother) also had eleven brothers and sisters! There were nine boys and three girls...my great aunt is the oldest of the four of them who are still living; the three brothers are currently between 81 (he was the youngest of all twelve) and 90. My grandmother, if she were still alive, would be 97 today. But she died 23 years ago.

 

Anyway...yes, I have lots of family memories documented in all the scrapbooks and photo albums that I have...and there are a lot of items in those scrapbooks that are tangible ghosts of the past of the city where I still live. I love having those things.

[Babycat]

My grandmother is dying at 95.

 

Spent the night waiting for the call. It hasn't rung yet.

 

[The Cat 3]

Stuff (that I don't really feel like talking about) made me sad. Very sad.

 

*sigh*

 

:(

[jamie]

My favorite Rush tribute is having a show super close to my house but I can't go because I'm not 21. And I cant to go any of their shows because of my family's car situation :(

[Boots]

All the men in my social circle are thankless jerks. I don't always expect a thank you, but once in a while it's nice to be acknowledged or appreciated.

[RushCanuck]

I just heard a neighbor had a massive heart attack and died. Just 70 years young... The last time I talked to him, I wanted to tell him to take care of himself and lose weight but I bit my tongue. :(

[Narps]

I just heard a neighbor had a massive heart attack and died. Just 70 years young... The last time I talked to him, I wanted to tell him to take care of himself and lose weight but I bit my tongue. :(

It sucks sometimes when our own mortality smacks us right in the face. Sorry to hear... :( Edited September 19, 2015 by Narps

[Lorraine]

I just heard a neighbor had a massive heart attack and died. Just 70 years young... The last time I talked to him, I wanted to tell him to take care of himself and lose weight but I bit my tongue. :(

 

These things happen, but don't beat yourself up because you didn't mention to him to lose weight. I know someone who always took care of himself and watched his weight and what he ate, and the same thing happened to him. So, while excess weight doesn't help and might contribute, it happens to those who aren't overweight too.

[Blue J]

I just heard a neighbor had a massive heart attack and died. Just 70 years young... The last time I talked to him, I wanted to tell him to take care of himself and lose weight but I bit my tongue. :(

 

My condolences to you, RushCanuck. I know how you feel about wanting to have said something to him about it. My sister had a heart attack and died at 38, and it was due in large part to self-neglect, on her part. I never felt it was my place to say anything to her because she was older than I. I know that I should have, multiple times, but I also know that she was going to do what she was going to do, no matter what.

 

Anyway...my heart goes out to you.

[Rhyta]

So sorry to hear this RushCanuck. It is hard to know what to say to people, do you mention things like their weight or smoking or not? We are struggling with the news of my SIL having pulmonary hypertension. She's on oxygen now and she was a heavy smoker for years, tried to quit several times but never made it. My hubby is very worried, I don't know what we would do if she passed this year after just losing his mom in July. Hang in there friend Edited September 21, 2015 by Rhyta

[librarian]

everybody Edited September 21, 2015 by librarian

[Narps]

So sorry to hear this RushCanuck. It is hard to know what to say to people, do you mention things like their weight or smoking or not? We are struggling with the news of my SIL having pulmonary hypertension. She's on oxygen now and she was a heavy smoker for years, tried to quit several times but never made it. My hubby is very worried, I don't know what we would do if she passed this year after just losing his mom in July. Hang in there friend

You hang in there dear Good to see you popped in for a bit but sorry to hear about the circumstances... :(

[Boots]

My college's Facebook page died. That's why I'm so bored and miserable.

[J2112YYZ]

My grandmother is dying at 95.

 

Spent the night waiting for the call. It hasn't rung yet.

 

My grandma suffered a stroke back in March and since she was 92, there wasn't anything they could do for her but wait until her body finally gave out. She couldn't talk, do anything on her own and could barely communicate in anyway. We weren't even sure if she knew who any of us were anymore since she had no reaction to anything. She was in hospice care for a month before she died. But everyday for a month we were anticipating the call to come.

 

My mom and grandfather both died from cancer and it was the same situation. You knew the end was near but you didn't know when it was coming. It's the most horrible thing to go through, knowing that the call is coming but you don't know when or where you'll be when it does?

 

Hang in there. Bad times don't last but the strength we gain going through them lasts a lifetime.

Edited September 21, 2015 by J2112YYZ

[blueschica]

I just heard a neighbor had a massive heart attack and died. Just 70 years young... The last time I talked to him, I wanted to tell him to take care of himself and lose weight but I bit my tongue. :(

 

I'm sorry this happened to you! We have moved a lot and have been lucky to have good neighbors where we have lived. Two of them passed away in a short time last February and it left kind of a hole in the neighborhood. You were kind to want the best health for him even if the time to bring it up never quite came up.