Come on Luv. Lay back down and let me get comfortable.

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Well as long as the Bats, Monday, aren't driving you, Batty..

Thats the problem Vic, they are very annoting critters.

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Well as long as the Bats, Monday, aren't driving you, Batty..

Thats the problem Vic, they are very annoying critters.

Bats, when they were still here, just ate insects, some in Congress are more annoying, wanting to fast-track the tpp, among other stupid ideas, Democrats in the Senate said no to that..

As did Sen Bernie Sanders..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

All hail the new mascot! :)

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Just make sure you keep it out
of the medical garbage....

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Just make sure you keep it out of the medical garbage....

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Raccoon stuck in a garbage can lid..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Raccoons at the salad bar..

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I've got bad news for AB474, the bill has been, I think, killed for the year. I could have really used that extra $199 a month in 2016, at least I may get $11 a month more in 2016, but it isn't enough, I can't even finance a used car to replace what I have now, which is starting to show it's age, as My car in 2016 will be 17 years old and some parts are already hard and/or expensive to find.

By: Assemblymember Cheryl R. Brown (D-San Bernardino)

SACRAMENTO- How many times have we heard the phrase that “our budget is a reflection of our values; or a society is judged by how it treats its elderly, sick and disabled members?” Well, it's high time to reflect on our values and to be judged. Until we restore the cuts to our seniors and disabled, we are guilty of abandoning our ethical principles to care for those who are helpless.

On May 7, 2015, AB 474, a bill that would restore recession-era cuts made to the SSI/SSP program to balance the State’s budget, which helps seniors and disabled adults, was the victim of the California Legislature’s latest budget procedure. The Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Budget Process, Oversight and Program Evaluation placed the bill on its suspense file. This procedure of a bill being placed on an Assembly Budget Subcommittee’s suspense file was unusual because normally fiscal bills go to the Appropriations’ suspense file.

By placing AB 474 on a suspense file, relief for seniors and disabled adults being forced to live below the federal poverty level will not happen this year. I have a problem with that; especially, when the state has continuously taken $1.4 billion from the seniors beginning in 2008. For me, this is unacceptable, and I will not be silent and allow this injustice to continue.

The Supplemental Security Income/State Supplementary Payment (SSI/SSP) helps 1.3 million low-income seniors and people with disabilities in California pay for housing, food, and other basic living expenses. It is funded with both federal (SSI) and state (SSP) dollars. SSI/SSP provides modest income support to the most impoverished seniors and disabled adults. At a minimum, this allows many to avoid total destitution and homelessness.

In 2007, the Legislature took those funds by cutting the state’s SSP portion for both individuals and couples to the minimum levels allowed by federal law to help close budget shortfalls that emerged as a result of the Great Recession. In addition, we eliminated the state cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for SSI/SSP prior to 2010-11.

You would think there would be some urgency to restore those funds; however, due to these cuts, state spending for SSI/SSP dropped from $3.9 billion in 2007-08 to $2.5 billion and has not changed despite the fact that the recession ended several years ago. These devastating cuts to seniors and disabled adults should be moved to the top of the California Legislature’s agenda; especially with an anticipated surplus in this years’ budget. We do it for other constituencies but for some reason we have abandoned our senior citizens.

AB 474 is the first step to restoring our moral responsibility to care for our most vulnerable citizens and prioritize our seniors and disabled constituents. I for one cannot in good conscience accept the raise we have just been awarded while our seniors and disabled are left without a solution because it will cost too much. I will donate my raise to those in my district who are helping seniors and disabled adults in poverty; because if I don’t, it will be used to fund other state priorities. I will be lobbying my colleagues to do the same in their districts.

CONTACT: Cody Boyles, (916) 319-2718

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I've got bad news for AB474, the bill has been, I think, killed for the year. I could have really used that extra $199 a month in 2016, at least I may get $11 a month more in 2016, but it isn't enough, I can't even finance a used car to replace what I have now, which is starting to show it's age, as My car in 2016 will be 17 years old and some parts are already hard and/or expensive to find.

I have two nieces who would have benefitted from that bill. But this is not the first time the "Leadership" in Sacramento has disappointed its own partymembers. I've read many articles comparing them to various wild critters, none of which are complimentary to either the critter or the politician.

Getting back to the preferred topic of this thread, my kitties are out on the pool deck playing in the drizzling rain.

Ooooh, ooooh! A hummingbird just visited the bottle-brush tree outside my office window.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Meet Elsa :)

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A friend posted this on facebook with the comment: "It's scary how heavily armed the police are in the US. I'm glad I live in a country where officers don't carry raccoons on sticks"

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Just think of the poor cop who has to
take that beast off the stick....

:):)

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A friend posted this on facebook with the comment: "It's scary how heavily armed the police are in the US. I'm glad I live in a country where officers don't carry raccoons on sticks"

Jazz hands.

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That would appear to be the elusive Manitoban Flying Racoon, never before captured on film.......

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"Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)>

Oh no you found out about them....
Now we will be inundated with requests
for them pesky eco-tourists clamoring
to get images of these things.
Oh oh oh!


:):)

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Found a drawing of one...



Apols for size.

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Finding my passport... packing my bags... getting ready for my eco-trip to that vast frozen tundra that is Canada, so that I can see flying raccoons!!!