Welcome back Stan.
I think.  It sounds like things have you as depressed as I am about the current situation.

Yes, good to hear from you Stan.

For me, I try not to be depressed, but I am… okay I’ll come out and say it:  Frightened.

As a lifelong hay fever sufferer, it would drive me insane.

Me too. I also have a violent allergy to most jewelry, because they alloy it with nickel. A nose ring would give me a horrible itchy oozing rash. Gross!!

I interrupt this thread for some meaningless wokeness.  We went to my grandson's soccer game last night, state playoffs quarter final, and noticed a banner at the entrance to the school that appeared to announce the school play. My wife could make out the first two words but not th third word.  She told me it said 12 Angry "something".  Well, of course it seems Men would ne appropriate as we are, likely, all familiar with that tile. My youngest son, father of this grandson actually had the lead in that play at a local theater group.  Too many letter though. when the light turned and we drove past, it became clear to me that last word was "Jurists", 12 Angry Jurists, brought to you by 21st century wokism.

That kind of thing sends me into a rage. 

I never did any of that stupid shit.

Being poor tends to make you less fashion obsessed.

Well I never went bra-less.   

Should that have been green font?

Not sure.

No, no, no to Niki Haley.

Do you wonder why Rand Paul isn't considered?

His hair style makes him look like a 12 year old kid. That’s why.

The dog was a year old not some fluffy baby puppy. It killed a neighbor's chicken and was about to do another.  She grabbed him by the collar and it turned around and bit her.  I don't know ND law, but I suspect any dog that attacks livestock or bites humans has to be put down.  Rural life.  But her career is toast.

The thing was 14 months old. German wirehaired pointers reach adulthood at 15 months. The fluffy “puppy” thing pissed me off too.  I’m not saying I would have shot it. My “hillbilly” ancestors lived in industrial city mountains on postage stamp sized lots and didn’t have working dogs or guns. They didn’t hunt. They had domesticated rabbits that they raised for food in addition to chickens. But I have the ability to put myself in the shoes of people not like me and not judge their way of life. (To a point; there is a line you don’t cross, like throwing gays off buildings.)

Maybe Noem lacks that ability and couldn’t imagine what today’s sissified Americans “feel” about dogs or animals in general: there is a movement to grant them human rights. This is from the same people who celebrate killing their own children before they’re born.