Will Congress Do The Right Thing?
Posted by Michelle Moquin on April 9th, 2013
Good morning!
Congress is back from a 2-week recess. Now they need to make some decisions. The question is…Will Congress do the right thing?
From the Huff Po:
Obama Gun Control Speech: President Makes Push In Central Connecticut (VIDEO)
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* Obama says “We will not walk away” from gun promise
* Gun control measures are struggling in Senate
* Newtown families to fly on Air Force One with president (Updates with excerpts from prepared remarks)
By Roberta Rampton
HARTFORD, Conn., April 8 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama urged Americans on Monday to pressure a reluctant Congress to pass new gun control legislation – one of his top domestic policy priorities – as he traveled to Connecticut, where December’s school massacre took place.
Initial momentum for tougher U.S. gun control laws sought by Obama after the Dec. 14 shootings in Newtown has stalled in Congress in the face of fierce lobbying by gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association.
Obama, speaking at the University of Hartford, said that date changed everything for families of the 20 children and six adults killed at Sandy Hook elementary school.
“I know many of you in Newtown wondered if the rest of us would live up to the promises we made in those dark days … once the television trucks left, once the candles flickered out, once the teddy bears were gathered up,” Obama was to say in prepared remarks. “We will not walk away from the promise we’ve made.”
No major gun legislation has passed the U.S. Congress since 1994 and the current White House guns push is in trouble.
“The policy window is either really close to closed, or closed entirely,” said John Hudak, an expert at the Brookings Institution think tank. “In honesty, this is really a last-ditch effort by the White House.”
Obama is hoping to build support among lawmakers for several gun control measures, including universal background checks for gun buyers. The Senate is expected to take up gun control legislation as early as this week.
The president has invited 11 parents of children killed in Newtown to fly back to Washington with him aboard Air Force One after his speech. The parents are set to lobby Congress this week for gun control measures, although it may be too late to rescue major legislation sought by Obama.
Some of Obama’s proposals – reinstating a U.S. ban on assault weapons and cracking down on high-capacity ammunition clips – already appear to have little chance of passing the Democratic-led Senate, let alone the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
BACKGROUND CHECKS
Obama is hoping to salvage the proposal for background checks on all gun buyers to try to ensure that criminals and others prohibited from buying firearms cannot get them. There are not yet enough votes in the Senate for expanded background checks as Democrats seek Republican votes.
“Congress is only going to act on them if they hear from you – the American people,” Obama will say in his address.
Around a dozen Republican senators led by Rand Paul of Kentucky have threatened to use procedural tactics to try to prevent any votes on the gun measures.
“You deserve better,” Obama will say. “You deserve a vote.”
Last week, Obama gave a speech in Denver trying to rally support for gun control, touting a new state law in Colorado – scene of two of the deadliest gun massacres in American history – as “a model of what’s possible.”
The president’s speech on Monday will be followed up by a White House event on Tuesday with Vice President Joe Biden and law enforcement officials. Biden also is due to speak about gun control on Thursday on the MSNBC cable TV network.
First lady Michelle Obama is set to address gun control during a visit on Wednesday to Chicago, which has faced a spree of gun violence. (Editing by Alistair Bell and Xavier Briand)
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I just got caught up on 60 minutes from Sunday evening as well. The topic: Gun control. If you didn’t see it, I am posting it here too. It is a very moving piece as parents of the loved ones lost express their grief and faith.
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Readers: I stand in support of president Obama. You can feel his compassion, conviction, and commitment to bringing about change in this very important issue. I encourage you to stand up and raise your voices in support of gun control too. Make your thoughts known to Congress and push Congress to put politics aside and do the right thing. The time is now.
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April 9th, 2013 at 8:33 am
Michelle this white girl believes we will never get good gun control laws as long as our men are in control of both houses of Congress.
White men are voting their tiny penis neurosis. The MSM will not examine the dynamics involved in psychological implications of a race of men voting for something because the need it to help them cope with an imagined physical inferiority.
April 9th, 2013 at 8:38 am
This is very scary.
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N. Korea threatens to hit US bases in Japan, Guam
SEOUL North Korea on Thursday threatened strikes on US military bases in Japan and Guam, escalating tensions as suspicion deepened that Pyongyang was behind a cyber attack on South Korean broadcasters and banks.
The tone of the strike threat, attributed to a spokesman for the army’s supreme command, blended with the torrent of warlike rhetoric from Pyongyang in recent weeks, but stood out for its precise naming of targets.
Military tensions on the Korean peninsula are at their highest since 2010, with Pyongyang irate at the use of nuclear-capable US B-52 bombers and nuclear-powered submarines in joint military drills with South Korea.
“The US should not forget that the Andersen base on Guam where B-52s take off and naval bases on the Japan mainland and Okinawa where nuclear-powered submarines are launched, are all within the range of our precision target assets,” the army spokesman said.
North Korea has successfully tested medium-range missiles that can reach Japan, but has no proven long-range missile capability that would allow it to hit targets on the US mainland or Guam — more than 2,000 miles away.
Nevertheless, US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel announced last week that Washington had decided to bolster missile defences along the US west coast so as to “stay ahead of the threat” from the North Korean regime.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had issued a more general threat to destroy US bases “in the operational theatre of the Pacific” on Wednesday, as he directed a drone strike exercise.
Still photographs broadcast on state television seemed to show what looked like a rudimentary drone being flown into a mountainside target and exploding.
In Seoul, analysts said the latest threat to US bases was another attention-grabbing move.
“This is just more bluster,” said Baek Seung-joo, who heads the North Korea Research Team at the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses. “It really seems aimed at shifting responsibility for the current tensions to the US and South Korea conducting their joint military exercises,” Baek said.
The response from Tokyo was measured, with a foreign ministry official voicing regret at the North’s “provocative action.”
In a further sign of current tensions, North Korea issued an air raid warning and put its military on alert Thursday, South Korea’s Unification Ministry said.
The public air raid alert was issued through state radio, a ministry spokeswoman said. “We assume its an air defence drill,” another government official said.
In South Korea, government agencies were trying to confirm who was behind a concerted cyber attack the day before on three TV broadcasters and three banks that crippled their computer networks.
The regulatory Korea Communications Commission said it had sourced the attack to an IP address in China, fuelling suspicions that North Korea may have been responsible.
Previous cyber attacks blamed on North Korea have also been tracked to Chinese sources, and security analysts in South Korea believe the North sends hackers to China to hone their skills and operate from there.
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If it were any other President, I wouldn’t be too comfortable thinking the mainland has our back. But with Obama on the job. I feel pretty safe.
Hafa Adai
Anna
April 9th, 2013 at 8:40 am
It is sad to say but the men of my race are holding up saving lives because they want to fill their pockets at the expense of the American people.
April 9th, 2013 at 8:45 am
Hafa Adai:
It seems to me that the mainland is not as concerned as you are Anna because most have no idea what who or where a Guam is.
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Guam: A shield against North Korean nuclear missiles – but just where is it?
Agana : Guam | Apr 04, 2013 at 2:32 AM PDT BY INVIGILATOR 10 VIEWS: 1,328
With the news that the US is positioning a huge nuclear missile shield on the island of Guam, in the light of warmongering threats from North Korea, the big question is just where and what is Guam?
For most people Guam is just a name; it could just as well be a fictional place.
Some clues may be in the press that it’s somewhere in the Pacific and that it’s an island. Seems to be a US military base too. Do real people live there? And how do they make their living? So many questions!
The Pentagon says the proposed nuclear missile shield will be ready within weeks, adding to warships that were sent to the area earlier. So we can imply from this that the US military infrastructure on Guam must be already well developed.
North Korea announced that Guam, along with Hawaii and mainland US, would be one of the locations targetted for nuclear attack. Clearly Pyongyang views Guam as an American outpost so why do we know so little about the place? Lets try and put that right.
Is North Korea correct in identifying Guam as a US territory? Well it’s almost as good as but not quite. Guam is officially designated as an organized, unincorporated territory of the United States in the western Pacific Ocean. And what I hear you ask does this actually mean?
A quick shifty through Wikipedia reveals that an unicorporated territory of the United States is is a legal term in United States law denoting an area controlled by the government of the United States, but which is not a part of the United States proper.
The citizens of Guam, as an unincorporated territory of the US, are entitled the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States. This of course includes the right to be threatened by nuclear attack by the enemies of the US and so also the right right to protected from such an attack.
North Korea see the US military presence on Guam as a threat in itself, not from the ordinary Guam folks but a direct threat from the US. Thats why they have announced Guam as what they portray as a legitimate target for, what at the moment seems rhetorical, nuclear attack.
Setting aside the American military base, the main income for Guam is tourism. One would imagine that the current situation in the area will not be doing much for that idustry at the moment.
Perhaps I’m wrong and there’s a dollar or two to made made from nuclear tourism aside of an influx of US servicemen and women on the back of the current crisis.
Let’s explore Guam a little further. Move beyond viewing it as just some US military outpost in the Western Pacific.
Guam, like everywhere, has a long history. It was first populated around 4,000 years ago by its now idigenous people, the Chamorros. The capital of Guam is Hagåtña. Guam, as the largest island in Micronesia its strategic position was recognised by early European explorers such as Magellan who came across it during his Spanish expedition of 1521.
Spain developed it as a colony in 1668 and it became an important stopover and base for Spannish galleons, so setting the pattern that down the years sees its use now as a US military and naval base.
The US took control of Guam in 1898, as a result of winning the Spanish-American War. The US got formal control as part of the Treaty of Paris. That’s not the end of it though as just hours after bombing Pearl Harbour the Japanese captured Guam on December 8 1941.
The Japanese occupied Guam for two and a half years. The Japanese made the local people adopt Japanese culture and enforced this with a regime that included torture, beheadings and rape. The island was liberated by the US in 1944 after fierce fighting.
Ironically the Japanese are now the biggest income generators for the island’s ecconomy as they are by far and away the biggest tourist group to visit the island. After Japanese tourism income from the US military provides Guam’s second bigest income.
There we have it. Guam, since being ‘discovered’ by Magellan in 1521 and subsequently being collanised by the Spanish has been a constant pawn in one political and actual war or another in the struggle for a strategic foothold control base in the Pacific.
And so it continues right up to this very second and I’m sure beyond as North Korea threatens to destroy it with nuclear missiles and the US moves to once again protect the island and more importantly its own and other world interests with a missile shield and destroyer ships such as the USS John McCain.
As it was so shall it be!
April 9th, 2013 at 8:47 am
Actually Anna, I didn’t know that much about Guam.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:04 am
The inescapable fact is that there is no reason to ban the future sale of assault weapons. They already kill fewer people than any other gun (rifles in general) and the supply would dry up for several decades if not longer.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:05 am
I don’t understand how he gets all these people to support his so called deserving “vote” and claims that the majority of people want a gun ban. Mr. Obama that is your selected audience, not the majority of the population. There is more than one solution to counteracting gun violence, not just gun restrictions.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:06 am
I can’t stand this silly son of a bitch.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:06 am
green and white …. yellow and blue … my community schools colors are the same from K-12….he keeps dividing and uses the the “Victim” card in everything he wants to push for he learned it in college thats wat socialist do….. they play the racist/discrimination card to discredit/deface the opposing party and end the argument ….. who does these things oh yea a SOCIOPATH….
April 9th, 2013 at 9:07 am
wiki “green in islam” notice green wrist …. he is using symbolism…. he is showing muslims he can will the people to cry for peace at the price of submission
April 9th, 2013 at 9:08 am
so wat do they want now background checks? how bout we start with yours Barry…AKA barrack hussein obama( his converted muslim name )
April 9th, 2013 at 9:08 am
his manscara is running
April 9th, 2013 at 9:08 am
As this Kenyan sells guns to Mexican drug dealers…….
April 9th, 2013 at 9:09 am
ya you want a vote, you also want a barrel aimed at your head when its all done and over with
April 9th, 2013 at 9:09 am
Don’t Tread on Me!!!!!!!!!
April 9th, 2013 at 9:12 am
Reading this comment stream is hilarious. Seems to me there should be a vote on education. Undoubtedly they are insecure white boys. Penis envy is broadcasting loud and clear on your blog today Michelle.
Go on boys keep pretending it is about the 2nd amendment, wink, wink, we know it is about that tiny little thing between your legs.
I know, I’m married to one.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:12 am
this President is the biggest fear-mongerer ever. And Sen. Rand Paul is not just floating the idea around, he’s going to do it. Thank God some of our leaders still have a spine!
April 9th, 2013 at 9:13 am
This nigger is a fucking clown
April 9th, 2013 at 9:14 am
maybe congress knows it unconstitutional to pass the bullshit your trying to sell the American people you turd!!!! Im so sick of this scum bag clown this is your president Amecrica!!!! he makes my stomach turn he really looks spooky and I would bet he looks 10 times worse with out the make up wow he he gonna make it another 3 years America he looks spent now!
April 9th, 2013 at 9:15 am
Barry is at it again, listen Hussein go back to indonesia if you have a problem with guns. From my cold dead hands!!!!
April 9th, 2013 at 9:19 am
Okay, boys you are really expressing you tiny penis frustration today. No wonder the black man hasn’t been allowed to gain parity in the economic arena.
If you allowed that even the big gun with all those big magazines wouldn’t be able to soothe the frustration economic equality would give the black man in the selecting-a-mate arena.
Would you lose big then. I mean what woman would want a tiny dick wonder like you, if she could get big dick and a big paycheck from the man she chose.
So continue to rage on. We see through your bullshit.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:20 am
haha get em ralph u salty mother phucker
April 9th, 2013 at 9:20 am
Kiss my ass your statist POS
April 9th, 2013 at 9:21 am
They are persistent if nothing else. But nothing will change the fact that they are just boys screaming that they need guns to play in a man’s world.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:21 am
I bet most of you bitches are just nigger lovers.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:22 am
ASSHOLE, I didn’t think the dumbed downs would vote your Kenyan born ass back in but they did.
Kenyan-born US Senate, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:23 am
Come and get’em buddy.You want Civil war,you just keep it up asshole
April 9th, 2013 at 9:23 am
I’m a Christian and pro-life and a gun owner, or my family are gun owners. However, I’m against your point of pro-gun child killing. You want war, well lets have war buddy. You won’t win.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:23 am
Obama is the biggest fool on the Earth. First he ‘FearMongers’ spew all the place, then he demands cutting US Defense Budget, Puts a MUSLIM as US Sec of Defence, sits on the UN Council (80%) Islamic Nations, Increases TSA, DHS IRS his Personal Army, FEMA Camps, Prisons, ETC Weapons and Ammo, THEN DEMANDS AMERICANS HAND OVER THEIR GUNS. Either He is the biggest fool on earth or he thinks All-American Americans are. #USArocksBawackySucks ٩(●̮̃•)۶ Just ask Larry Sinclair.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:25 am
The sad truth is most of these gutless wonders claiming they are willing to fight in the streets to keep their guns are the same ones that hid behind excuses to avoid military service.
Tiny dick hypocrites.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:29 am
It is so interesting reading the vitriol from the racists who are just angry that now in your country it will be impossible for any white to claim “I never had any connections with a black person.” I used to hear that excuse all the time when a white from America visited my country and black and white relationships in Ameria arose in a conversation.
If someone tries that bullshit now, we smile and say hey liar the President of your country for the past 4 years has been a black man. The First family in your White House is a Black family.
Actually that is the elephant in the room on this blog today. Obama is BLACK and they can’t stand that fact.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:31 am
It will never happen Michelle. The NRA has paid off too many republicans!
April 9th, 2013 at 9:31 am
Parents of Sandy Hook, give it up. That happened nearly 4 months ago. No one cares anymore.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:32 am
Sexual predators are not allowed to dictate America’s rape laws. Why are firearm fanatics allowed to dictate what weapons and ammunition magazines are marketed in our country?
April 9th, 2013 at 9:33 am
All little libbies love their boy, obama. LOL
April 9th, 2013 at 9:34 am
thank you NRA for being at the front lines, defending our constitutional rights and for speaking up for the millions of real americans who hold the same beliefs our forefathers held.
if the left gets their way, the fallout isn’t going to be pretty.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:43 am
I’m sorry, but this proves that most white men are insane when it comes to racism. It is not really about guns, it is about it is a Black man proposing something.
It could be anything and these same people would be as passionately against it. It a bit funny how they hint at the looming possibility of the angry white boy with a gun if he loses the legal battle.
Remember the days of the MSM telling us OTWs to be wary of loosening the white man’s angry backlash upon us?
What you assholes don’t get is that day is definitely over. Just as we kick your ass in any fairly run physical competition. We will annihilate your asses in a race war.
The reason is that at least one third of your race are not going to support your insane racist actions and at least one third of your race are pure gutless wonders who would piss themselves in a gun battle in which the other side is returning fire.
So continue to talk that “take it from my cold dead hands” bullshit. You are preaching to a non believing choir. As for the rest of us, we say Bring It On!
We know it is just talk to get you hard and to impress the white woman. No one else put an iota of belief in that song.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:48 am
Most of the anger directed at Obama here on this blog Michelle, I hear every day from the males and a few of the brain dead females coming and going in my protestant white world.
It is truly sad that the color of that man’s skin can make so many whites vote against their own best interest.
April 9th, 2013 at 9:55 am
Skip the Fast Before a Cholesterol Test?
If you’ve ever had a cholesterol test scheduled for midday or afternoon, then you know what a pain it can be to have to fast for the usual eight hours beforehand—because in reality, you probably won’t have eaten since the previous night’s dinner—a lot longer than eight hours.
Fasting doesn’t bother some people—lucky them. But lots of us find it very difficult. I, for example, don’t only get hungry. I also tend to get a headache and feel dizzy when I don’t eat for much longer than four hours—which makes the eight-hour cholesterol-test fast a bear!
So I’m happy to tell you today that this ironclad fasting rule—which was thought to ensure more reliability in cholesterol test results because eating could make your results spike higher or lower, depending on what you ate—might not be essential.
And in fact, as I learned recently from Christopher Naugler, MD, of the University of Calgary in Canada, what you eat before a cholesterol test may not matter much at all. Here’s why…
LOOKING FOR A MORE EFFICIENT TEST
In addition to his work as a professor, Dr. Naugler is zone clinical section chief of general pathology for Calgary Laboratory Services, which processes an average of 36,000 cholesterol tests each month.
With such a large volume of work, “we were looking for ways to avoid turning away nonfasting patients,” Dr. Naugler explained—nonfasting patients create more work for everyone (including themselves) because their appointments need to be rescheduled.
As there were already several small studies suggesting that fasting had only a modest effect on cholesterol levels, researchers at the lab decided to simply begin processing cholesterol tests for all of its patients, regardless of whether patients had remembered to fast or not. (In case this sounds reckless to you, don’t worry.
The cholesterol results, as well as the number of hours the patient fasted, were both reported back to the patient’s physician, who could then decide whether the result was acceptable or whether the patient needed to return for a repeat test.) “After six months, we had more than 200,000 cholesterol panels, which is a large amount of data,” said Dr.
Naugler.
So Dr. Naugler and his team decided to analyze those tests to see whether fasting did indeed impact the results of cholesterol tests.
This was what’s called an observational study, so the researchers did not directly compare, say, two patients of the same gender and age who had similar risk factors for high cholesterol and then ask one to fast and ask the other not to fast. (Hopefully future studies will.)
Instead, these researchers compared groups of thousands of individuals (ones who fasted versus ones who didn’t) and then controlled for age and gender. They were curious to see what the broad, overall trends suggested.
Dr. Naugler’s analysis found that levels of HDL cholesterol and total cholesterol stayed relatively stable, varying only about 2%, depending on whether patients had or had not fasted. Levels of LDL cholesterol varied by less than 10% and triglycerides (blood fats) by less than 20%.
“The levels that varied the least—HDL and total cholesterol—are the ones that matter the most in terms of estimating risk for cardiovascular problems,” said Dr. Naugler.
“The algorithms commonly used for assessing cardiovascular disease risk (the Framingham Coronary Heart Disease Risk Score and the Reynolds Risk Score) use only HDL and total cholesterol levels (not triglyceride or LDL levels).”
Now, you might be thinking, But isn’t a variation of 10% and 20% kind of a big difference? Dr. Naugler didn’t argue that those variations aren’t significant—his point is simply that those variations, no matter how big or small, are not as meaningful when it comes to assessing a patient’s risk for cardiovascular disease.
“This confirmed similar results that had been reported previously, but ours was the first large-scale North American study to report this finding,” Dr. Naugler said.
“We suggest that there is now sufficient evidence that most routine cholesterol screening tests can be performed without fasting. This is more convenient for patients and would also benefit labs by transferring some of the morning demand for tests to later in the day.”
A FASTING-FREE FUTURE?
Ask your doctor whether fasting is necessary before your next cholesterol test. If your doctor allows you to skip the fast, use common sense and avoid eating high-fat foods in the day or two before the screening, advised Dr. Naugler, since those types of foods are likely to cause cholesterol to spike the most.
But don’t be surprised if your doctor still asks you to fast before your next cholesterol test (especially if he’s ordering other blood work that does require fasting, such as a blood sugar test). “Time will tell,” said Dr. Naugler when asked whether his research is likely to shift any of the official recommendations about cholesterol-screening protocols.
Source: Christopher Naugler, MD, assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Calgary, Canada, and coauthor of the study, which was published in Archives of Internal Medicine.
April 9th, 2013 at 10:05 am
These republican hypocrites.
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The North Carolina state constitution disqualifies those who do not believe in God from public office. The provision has been unenforcible since the 1961 Supreme Court decision in Torcaso v. Watkins, which prohibited such bans.
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Aren’t these the same people who keep telling us they want to keep government out of our lives. I guess that only applies to things they don’t like.
April 9th, 2013 at 12:05 pm
How about the resentment of education? What have we come to as a nation? Fight for the right to bare arms but not the right to receive the best education possible.
If you don’t support gun rights you’re a communist and if you support education you’re an elitist. Scary!
April 9th, 2013 at 12:07 pm
I think it’s time to get our hands on the death scene police photographs of the massacred children, and parade them in front of the offices, homes and churches of EVERY Senator and Congressperson who is against gun control. we may as well let them know what their NRA allegiance is buying! Why are people so skittish about hard ball?
April 9th, 2013 at 12:16 pm
Most of these comments come from white boys who don’t know any better. Most they come from states that marry their first cosins!
April 9th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
The problem isn’t that they are ignorant, the problem is they are OWNED! I can tolerate an occasional lapse of intelligence; I can’t tolerate politicians with their palm up!
April 9th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
When our elected reps go against the majority of what americans want and believe…you take it to the people, because our elected reps are not listening. What congress miss’ is they work for americans, not the NRA…I don’t see angry, I see passion for a cause.
April 9th, 2013 at 12:19 pm
Many of these representatives are from the gun toting, gay hating christian loving red states – the majority of their constituents approve of what they are doing and as long as Mississippi has the same number of senators as New York or California we will continue to be vexed with this type of situation.
April 9th, 2013 at 1:04 pm
Anonymous #41 – Spot on.
April 9th, 2013 at 8:22 pm
Hey Ira #25,
…truth be told, you are one jealous man if you need to refer to women as ‘nigger lovers’ (translation: black men have better equipment and my angry inch is PO’d about it).
Luv, Zen Lill