With all of the bad headlines, I thought I'd take a break
from them and do a run of funny headlines. These are all from
legitimate newspapers... and you have to wonder how the editors didn't see them! Here's part 2. - Good advice from Utah... and you have to wonder if the editor on the truck accident did wrote that headline on purpose. - I don't think I've heard of a deer talked about like this before... and UM, are there any cities out there with sewers that don't smell?
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog heads down to Texas to cover the state's
highly anticipated senate race between Beto O'Rourke and Triumph's dream
interview, Ted Cruz.
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/GJ8VV6TqeXI
True intimacy is letting someone in and giving them access to parts of yourself that you hide away from the rest of the world.
When you’re dating, anxiety is the ultimate third wheel: You overanalyze everything you say on dates ― that is, the ones you actually go on and don’t cancel at the last minute.
It doesn’t necessarily get easier when you’ve gotten past the dating phase and are ready to get serious: You want to commit, but worry that your anxiety might sabotage an otherwise great relationship.
It
doesn’t have to, though. Below, therapists share six ways to keep your
anxiety in check during the beginning of a relationship and as it
progresses.
1. Practice vulnerability in stages.
True
intimacy is letting someone in and giving them access to parts of
yourself that you hide away from the rest of the world. When you have
anxiety, though, you might worry that exposing the messy, real,
complicated side of yourself might make your S.O. like you less.
Don’t fall prey to that kind of thinking: If this person loves you, they’ll love all sides of you.
“Plus, you don’t have to share your deepest, darkest feelings all at once,” said psychologist Stacey Rosenfeld.
“Experiment with small ‘exposures,’ exercises where you try out being
vulnerable with your partner and, as your confidence builds, work toward
increased vulnerability over time. Fears associated with vulnerability
should lessen with increased exposure.”
2. Clearly communicate your expectations.
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You don’t want to constantly ask your partner for reassurance, but when something is continually bothering you, talk about it.
Anyone who has anxiety has gotten stuck in thought loops:
Those unwanted, repetitive thoughts you can’t seem to escape even if
you know they’re silly. That kind of thinking is particularly damaging
in relationships. For example, maybe your girlfriend doesn’t call you
after work a few nights in a row like she usually does. Stuck in a
thought loop, you figure she’s bored with you when the truth is that
she’s on a project deadline.
You
don’t want to constantly ask your partner for reassurance, but when
something is continually bothering you, talk about it. Say, “I know
you’re busy, but I really look forward to your calls in the evening.
When I don’t hear from you, my mind gets stuck in a story that you’re
sick of me.”
“The person with the anxious mind ruminates,” said Jenny Yip,
a psychologist based in Los Angeles. “Most people with anxiety will
ruminate and imagine the worst possible thing happening. Rather than
dooming your relationship, clarify and communicate what your
expectations are from the start so that your mind doesn’t have to
ruminate to the worst possible places.”
3. Separate your “anxious self” from your “true self.”
A wise man on Twitter once said,
“Anxiety is literally just conspiracy theories about yourself.” Don’t
let that negative self-talk sabotage your relationships. Instead of
listening to your anxious inner voice, listen to your true voice, said Jennifer Rollin, a psychotherapist in North Potomac, Maryland.
“Your
‘anxious self’ may tell you things like, ‘If you open up to him about
your anxiety and going to therapy, he will leave or think you are
unstable,‘” she said. “That’s because you have anxiety, your mind often
comes up with a variety of scenarios that often are not true. It can be
helpful to practice speaking back from your ‘true self.’”
If
your true self is speaking, it will probably say something far more
comforting, like: “Going to therapy doesn’t mean you’re crazy, it means
you’re taking proactive steps to becoming the best version of yourself.”
“And
worst-case scenario, if he does think it makes you crazy, it says a lot
about him and nothing about you,” Rollin said. “You deserve to be with
someone who doesn’t judge you.”
4. Accept that you can’t control everything your partner does.
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"You have to celebrate your partner’s individuality – you aren’t joined at the hip, after all.”
Part
of managing your anxiety involves letting go of the need to control
things that are utterly out of your hands ― including some of your
partner’s more annoying habits. It may annoy you that you lose half of
your Sundays with him to the boys every football season, but take it in
stride: You can’t allow your anxiety to threaten your S.O’s autonomy in
the relationship.
“For those who
are anxious, it’s often common to want to control the situation, but you
can’t always have it that way,” she said. “You can communicate your
wishes, but it doesn’t mean that you have a bad partner if your wishes
aren’t met exactly how you imagined. You have to celebrate your
partner’s individuality – you aren’t joined at the hip, after all.”
5. Talk about your anxiety and how you tend to express it.
Your anxiety isn’t something
you have to combat on your own. Open up to your partner about how your
anxiety tends to play out ― maybe you get flushed skin and sweat because
of your social anxiety, for instance.
While
it’s up to you to learn the best ways to self-soothe, take comfort in
knowing that your partner can be an ally who can help you maintain some
calm in stressful moments.
“Sometimes,
anxiety festers when we’re trying to cover it up, afraid of how others
will respond,” Rosenfeld said. “Explain your anxiety to your partner; it
will alleviate the additional stress of trying to hide your symptoms.
Being honest and upfront about any anxiety or insecurities can sometimes
help defuse these situations.”
6. Create some rules of engagement for arguments.
All couples argue, but disagreements and their aftermath can be particularly stressful for people with anxiety, Yip said.
“Let’s
say you get into a fight and your partner walks away. That’s annoying
for most people, but a person with an anxious mind has a very hard time
with the uncertainty of walking away,” she said.
To
that end, create some guidelines for arguing that help offset your
anxiety. Maybe you have a rule that either of you can table a heated
discussion, but only if you return to the conversation within 24 hours.
“As
a couple, decide together what your rules are in advance, so that
there’s structure and a plan,” Yip said. “This will help those with
anxiety know that there’s a next step.”
Before you VOTE for anyone, I urge you to read the following.
This is what the GOP has done in the last two years. If you're unhappy
with any one of these outcomes, VOTE DEMOCRAT. If you are happy with
all of these outcomes, then you need to re-assess.
WHAT THE GOP DID NOT DO: The GOP did NOTHING to address the nation’s infrastructure needs, pass the Dream
Act, reduce gun violence, address climate change and reduce greenhouse
gas emissions, increase the minimum wage, address the soaring price of
prescription drugs, lower the cost of health care, strengthen voting
rights and curb the power of foreign and corporate wealth in our
elections, or challenge the corruption of this
administration.
WHAT THEY DID DO (and it wasn't good for the Average American): 1.The GOP voted
to gut the Affordable Care Act, which would have caused millions of
Americans to lose their preexisting condition health care coverage and
millions more to pay more money out-of-pocket for their care. 2.The
GOP voted to gut the Dodd-Frank reforms, rolling back essential consumer
protections and returning us to the pre-2008 era of Wall Street abuse
and recklessness that produced the worst financial crisis since the
Great Depression. 3. The GOP passed their infamous Tax bill, aptly
named “H.R.1” in 2017 because it was a huge gift to the richest 1% of
taxpayers and corporations and added more than $1 trillion to the
national debt, a deficit-exploding and budget-busting self-inflicted
national wound which Republicans now invoke as reason to force massive
cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. 4. The GOP then
voted, in their Tax bill 2.0, to cement tax breaks for billionaires into
law, delivering tens of billions of dollars in permanent tax cuts to
the plutocrats while setting the stage for massive cuts to Medicare,
Medicaid, and Social Security. 5. The GOP voted--without a
hearing--to restrict the ways in which women can spend their private
health insurance dollars on contraception, and voted repeatedly to
restrict and dismantle a woman’s right to choose. 6. The GOP
voted--without a hearing--to let states strip public funding from
Planned Parenthood and other family-planning providers, making it much
harder for millions of Americans to get access to comprehensive health
care. 7. GOP Voted--without a hearing--to change the
Constitution with a so-called “Balanced Budget Amendment,” which would
jeopardize retirement and health benefits for millions of seniors and
disabled Americans. 8. Voted to undermine the existing
right to overtime pay for overtime work by authorizing employers to
substitute comp time for overtime pay, while giving employees no
guarantee they can even use their comp time when they need it. 9.
GOP voted to override the laws of 50 states by placing a $250,000 cap on
damages that victims injured by medical malpractice can recover in
court for ongoing pain and suffering, permanent disability and
disfigurement, or even wrongful death, and by shortening the time period
in which a medical malpractice lawsuit can be brought. 10. The GOP
voted to make it harder for Americans to seek justice when they have
been harmed by corporate wrongdoers by moving personal injury cases away
from state courts and state juries and into the overburdened,
inaccessible and costly federal courts, now packed with right-wing
judges. 11. The GOP voted to put class action lawsuits in a
straitjacket, making it virtually impossible for civil rights, consumer,
privacy, and employment lawsuits to proceed. 12. The GOP voted to
obliterate the laws of 50 states by granting people who have obtained
the right to carry a loaded concealed weapon in the most permissive
states in the Union--such as Florida, where more than 1.3 million people
now have such licenses--to carry their weapons into any state,
including those (like Maryland) where the laws would have stopped them. 13. The GOP voted to impose extreme new requirements under the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) that would throw more
than 2 million Americans in need out of this anti-hunger program. 14. The GOP voted to give unelected commissioners appointed by President
Trump sweeping control over America’s regulatory policy, allowing them
to prioritize corporate profits over the health and safety of the
American public. 15. The GOP voted--without a hearing--to
undermine efforts by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to
reduce discriminatory lending practices in the indirect auto lending
industry. 16. The GOP voted to weaken the Clean Air Act and give
breaks to special interests that pollute our environment with toxic
emissions that cause neurological ailments, lung disease, asthma and
heart disease among both children and seniors. 17. The GOP voted to
allow banks and other lenders to escape reporting requirements designed
to detect predatory and discriminatory lending practices. 18. GOP
voted--without a hearing--to roll back a rule limiting the dumping of
mountaintop mining debris near streams and a rule limiting wasteful
venting and flaring of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in oil and gas
operations. 19. The GOP voted--without a hearing--to rescind a
rule requiring Alaska to scientifically justify the hunting of certain
wildlife and prohibiting inhumane kill methods.
People are still committing mass murders with assault rifles and Congress has done NOTHING. -Recently, right-wing
extremists, conspiracy theorists, and even people who support Nazis are pouring
out of the wood work , all inspired by you know who. VOTE BLUE. VOTE Democratic Party to curb this insanity.
Just in the last 2 weeks…
MASS MURDERER IN PITTSBURGH, PA - The mass murderer who
killed 11 people in Pittsburgh supported the Nazi party, and Used an Assault
Rifle to kill 11 innocent people becausethey are Jewish. - He's a nazi, GOP/Republican supporter and again, with the assault rifles.
RIGHT-WING BOMBER - Another nut that supports you know
who had a lot of political stickers and signs on his van -pro-GOP/Republican and anti
democrat. He mailed at least 13 bombs to Democrats and supporters.
GOP/REPUBLICAN CHIEF NIXES JEWISH CONSPIRACY TWEET House Majority
Leader Kevin McCarthy (Republican-Calif.) deleted a tweet that warned three wealthy
Jewish Democrats are “buying” the midterm elections for their party
FOX ‘SORRY’ FOR DOBBS’ GUEST Fox Business condemned
remarks made by a guest on “Lou Dobbs Tonight,” who claimed migrants headed to
the U.S. are being funded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros and the
State Department
CAMPBELL SOUP COMPANY CEO FIRED FOR SPREADING RIGHT-WING CONSPIRACY THEORIES
A Campbell Soup Co. executive, company CEO after Kelly
Johnston was fired after spreading a right-wing
conspiracy theory that liberal donor George Soros is bankrolling a caravan of
immigrants heading to the U.S. border. Campbell vice president of government
affairs Kelly Johnston, a former secretary of the U.S. Senate, tweeted Monday
that Soros’ Open Society Foundation was providing aid to the caravan. There’s
no evidence for a such a statement.
Johnston claimed
that Soros’ organization was the puppet master behind “troop carriers” and
“rail cars” moving the migrants. Johnston’s account is no longer active.
Randy Rainbow does it again - with this funny parody of the song "Be your best" and changes it to "Just be best" - quoting Melania Trump's poor grasp of English. The parody is from the Beauty and the Beast movie soundtrack, and by the end of it you'll laugh out loud! Enjoy!
Video: https://youtu.be/HJVXDqzUFQA
With all of the bad headlines, I thought I'd take a break from them and do a run of funny headlines. These are all from legitimate newspapers... and you have to wonder how the editors didn't see them! Here's part 1.
- The first one is the weirdest baseball practice I've ever heard of! :)
- Someone in Colorado doesn't know that 25 isn't a teenager! - and someone else seems to think that dead people talk to the police on occasion... they could, if there was a medium on staff...
Anyone who has had or still has a student loan or anyone planning to get one needs to know this
before you vote this November. The current Administration and Republican party is NOT protecting your interests.
Here's the story from the Associated Press on Aug. 28th, 2018:
STUDENTS LOANS CHIEF QUITS OVER WHITE HOUSE ‘BETRAYAL’
Seth Frotman, the government’s top government official overseeing the
$1.5 trillion student loan market, has resigned, citing what he says is
the White House’s open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions
of student loan borrowers.
NEW YORK — The top government official overseeing the $1.5 trillion student loan market resigned Monday, citing what he says is the White House’s open hostility toward protecting the nation’s millions of student loan borrowers.
Seth Frotman will be stepping down from his position as student loan ombudsman at the end of the week, according to his resignation letter which was obtained by The Associated Press. He held that position since 2016.
Frotman is the latest high-level departure from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau since Mick Mulvaney, President Donald Trump’s budget director who has been also acting director of the bureau, took over in late November.
Under Mulvaney, the bureau has scaled back its enforcement work and has proposed revising or rescinding all of the rules and regulations it put into place under the Obama administration. Mulvaney downgraded the mission of Frotman’s student loan office and moved it the umbrella of consumer education instead of enforcement.
“The damage you have done to the Bureau betrays these families and sacrifices the financial futures of millions of Americans in communities across the country,” Frotman said.
Congress specifically created the student loan ombudsman office when it created the CFPB. A previous occupant of that position is Rohit Chopra, who is now a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission.
The position is quite powerful, able to work with the bureau’s enforcement staff to specifically target bad behavior in the student loan market. The office has returned $750 million to harmed student loan borrowers since its creation.
This is part 2 the event we attended for dog-Halloween! There was
a Pumpkin
an
event sponsored by the Bowie Claw rescue group at Patuxent Gardens in
Bowie, MD. We brought all four kids in their outfits, but there were a
lot of other dogs and this blog focuses on them and their costumes! - Other dogs who were there were dressed as a Hot Dog, Lumber Jack, Bat-Dog, a farmer, donuts and a Pumpkin.
Happy Halloween! This year Dolly, Franklin and Tyler dressed up as Sharks and little Dash dressed up as a scuba diver! We attended a dog-Halloween event at Patuxent Gardens in Bowie, MD and brought all four kids in their outfits. You'll read about support from 3 friends, our winners, other dog costumes, and Tyler and Dash Prepare before the event!
GREAT SUPPORT BY FRIENDS
L to R: Tom & Franklin, Kelly&Dash, RJ & Dolly, JJ & Tyler
Fortunately, our friends RJ, JJ and Kelly met us there and helped us wrangle the kids for photos and the costume contest! They not only helped with the kids, but cheered them on, too!
CONTEST WEINERS, UH, WINNERS!
Dolly accepts the award for the pack
All four were entered in the "most creative" contest and they won!
We all posed for pictures with the big weiners, uh, winners.
Dash the Diver!
Dolly poses for a pic
Dolly accepted the award for the entire school of sharks and the brave little diver, Dash!
Dolly checks out her award
Striking another pose
Franklin the Shark in the Flowers
Tyler the Shark
Tyler doing a Shark - Attack!
DASH AND TYLER PREPARE FOR THE EVENT- Dash and
Tyler decided it would be helpful to ensure their costumes were on
properly. fun to pose for pictures, so here are some funny pics of
them!
I'm a simple guy who enjoys the simple things in life, especially our dogs. I volunteer for dog rescues, enjoy exercising, blogging, politics, helping friends and neighbors, participating in ghost investigations, coffee, weather, superheroes, comic books, mystery novels, traveling, 70s and 80s music, classic country music,writing books on ghosts and spirits, cooking simply and keeping in shape. You'll find tidbits of all of these things on this blog and more. EMAIL me at Rgutro@gmail.com - Rob
With all of the bad headlines, I thought I'd take a break
from them and do a run of funny headlines. These are all from
legitimate newspapers... and you have to wonder how the editors didn't see them! Here's part 2.
and you have to wonder if the editor on the truck accident did wrote that headline on purpose.
- I don't think I've heard of a deer talked about like this before... and UM, are there any cities out there with sewers that don't smell? 
Before you VOTE for anyone, I urge you to read the following.
This is what the GOP has done in the last two years. If you're unhappy
with any one of these outcomes, VOTE DEMOCRAT. If you are happy with
all of these outcomes, then you need to re-assess. 
People are still committing mass murders with assault rifles and Congress has done NOTHING. -Recently, right-wing
extremists, conspiracy theorists, and even people who support Nazis are pouring
out of the wood work , all inspired by you know who. VOTE BLUE. VOTE Democratic Party to curb this insanity. 
- and someone else seems to think that dead people talk to the police on occasion... they could, if there was a medium on staff...
Anyone who has had or still has a student loan or anyone planning to get one needs to know this 
This is part 2 the event we attended for dog-Halloween! There was 
All four were entered in the "most creative" contest and they won! 
