Welcome to Thursday Coffee Hour. This is an open topic thread. So grab something to drink and to munch on and sit a spell and let us know what is going on in your life. This is my first time back in 2 months after getting knocked down and into the hospital with pneumonia. Since I am now at 1,051 recipes in my original recipes books I thought maybe I should share a few with people. I am making Cajun Red Beans and Rice with Andouille Sausage for dinner tonight.

I'm currently reading "A Start in Life", a 1970 novel by one of my favorite authors, Alan Sillitoe. His books have tough Northern England types who get by on "cunning" and are brutally honest. In the spirit of that...

Good Morning 99%'ers. Today's Open Thread topic in another in the series on neo-liberalism. For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.

Other people here have already written similar sentiments in regards to how Hillary's supporters keep trying to guilt us into stopping the Trumpenstein monster the Clintons and their allies in the media built to give her something she could beat to begin with, but I feel the need to take it a few steps further.

While there is often snippets of humor to be found in comments and in some essays, we all too often get bogged down in the day-to-day pouring out of the many problems facing our nation and the world. Most people can only take just so much bad to horrifying news before just throwing their hands up in the air and saying, "Fuck it!"

Last night I wrote about the monthly meetings I was forced to go to for SNAP. Well, at today's meeting I was told I wouldn't have to do this anymore due to the fact that I'm no longer considered 'able-bodied' according to DCF rules. This is how it should have been because I've been working with Voc Rehab for years to begin with.

That's a huge weight off of my shoulders.

See ya around,

Aspie

I saw the Physician's Assistant yesterday for the follow-up from the hospital stay. I really like this woman. She was reading my chart carefully. I was in the hospital from July 15th through the 20th for Pneumonia due to infectious organism, COPD, and Sepsis. Gina kept trying to find that the experts in pulmonary problems and COPD were working on controlling my COPD and she was coming up with no information.