Thanks for the links. This looks like a fairly decent organization.

Again, I'm all for cutting down on gun violence and specially suicide I'm just not sure what public policy would be effective.

I'm a bit dubious about the website you have linked. In discussions about guns there are so many rabidly anti/pro gun groups. I try to stay away from these.

What I am referencing is that the guns bought over time don't go away. They stay in the population. We can make gun control laws but about half of Americans already own guns. Any new laws won't really affect this fact. . . . .irk . . . I'm no expert on laws not guns so maybe there is a gun control law that would cut down on our suicides and murders but I am a bit dubious. I would be happy to change my mind if you can argue for a way we can improve things.

Sadly so much "help" for kids needs to start at birth. Seventeen can be too late. Sure some troubled kids can become working members of society but some never will. Ugh.

Kids probably are no different but the US has a huge proliferation of guns now and schools are not allowed to expel students without finding alternative means of educating them.

No shame in that. Some of us have an embarrassing obsession with vintage clothes and will happily help.

Also the others are correct. This is 1920s. Someone really good can sometimes narrow it down within a few years.

That is really an interesting idea. Being an anchorite would have given you food, protection, shelter and a bit of standing in the community.

Thanks. Ugh. As I age I'm getting more gullible.

Well Mary has commonly been mis-portrayed as white and blond. I don't see this as sacrilege but it does seem a bit misleading.

>Ding ding ding

Thanks. I was needing a bit of positive reinforcement today.

This is how I think too. It is just too expensive to put them to death as well as giving government too much power.

Often the death penalty seems to be pushed because of human anger at the horrific crimes of these people. I understand that but I don't think it is the best basis for establishing policy.

Yes. I really enjoy going to mass in different cultures.

Yeah I knew it was Spanish.

I was in Puerto Rico one advent and Christmas. I don't remember a Posada but I remember how big a deal Three Kings day was.

Oh wow. I've heard the word but I don't know about this. What country or culture does this take place in?

Right but most people are already celebrating Christmas during Advent which is the 4 weeks before Christmas . . . . you probably know this. Some us don't start Christmas until the 25th.

Yes. Advent is a big deal for a lot of Catholics. In my family we put the tree up Christmas eve and took it down on the Epiphany.

Times sure have changed around the Christian seasons. This is natural as far as I can tell. Christmas day used to be Saturnalia before the Romans became Christian so Jesus wasn't really the "Reason for the Season".

Laughing. No weed but I am older and in a family with a history of early onset dementia (-;

Edit: here is an article about the polio virus in sewage https://www.npr.org/2022/09/10/1122196513/poliovirus-detected-in-more-wastewater-near-new-york-city

Thanks.

Oh wow, this is amazing. I thought this was the last place that polio still existed but I think it is still in India and has been showing up in sewage samples in the US.

Ugh yes. Not a guy most of us would want to hang out with.

Wasn't he mentally ill?

From what I understand he deserted Nesbit and she received no help raising their son.

Ugh. Evelyn Nesbit's childhood and youth was so horrific.

Ugh. I have just recently quit wearing a mask. I think I'm going back to it.

That is a really interesting read. I wonder why. I tend to think they had some chemical exposure that caused it.

Our brains can really become our enemies.