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* "Staggering Four Billion People May be Facing Water Scarcity:" http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/37226/20160215/staggering-four-billion-people-facing-water-scarcity.htm

* "Australian hospital refuses to discharge asylum baby:" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35568467

* Republicans are insisting that some random thing said by noted dead racist segregationist Strom Thurmond that's always been ignored before including by Ronald Regan somehow trumps the Constitution.

* "You Lost, Scalia's Gone, And President Obama Gets To Pick His Replacement:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/02/you-lost-scalias-gone-and-president.html

* "Minority Students Visiting A&M Harassed, Told To Go Home:" http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Black-High-School-Students-Visiting-Texas-AM-University-Harassed-Told-to-Go-Home-Texas-Sen-Royce-West-368503021.html?_osource=SocialFlowFB_DFWBrand

* "Fantastic Features We Don't Have In The English Language :"

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* Pratchett's last witch novel, catches the way I mourn better than most things. I keep thinking of that.

* Do not feel obligated to talk to me about my dead cat, folks. Really, I appreciate your sympathy, but I’m still processing at this point. I'm not at the point I much want to talk yet anyway. I've done the things that immediately need doing, except for putting the bed back together, for which I am saving up spoons. The third load of soft furnishing laundry is in the dryer, cleaning and ceremony are done. The airing process is ongoing. I wasted insurance money on pizza, because I hadn't eaten in close to twenty four hours and I was not up to cooking, but I've eaten now, Hector's special feeding station is broken down, all the dishes except the ones Squirrel just brought out are done. Fish and plants are tended. I cry when I need to and then do the things needing doing. That's how I am. That's how my family always has been since long before we came over in boats. We grieve and we keep on going. That's all one can do really.

* LM came out for a cuddle nap in the cat cave and just had a good scritchen.

* "The Walking Dead, Season Six, Episode Nine: No Way Out:" http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2016/02/the-walking-dead-season-six-episode.html#more

* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help

* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Want to help finance my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com

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* "Grassroots Organization Aims to 'Change the Narrative' About North Korea:" http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/grassroots-organization-aims-change-narrative-about-north-korea-n516261?hootPostID=b26ba78bdadf876e444fcb0ec87d3275

* "South Dakota Fighting Unjust Anti-Trans Bill:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/02/south-dakota-fighting-unjust-anti-trans.html

* "Australian comedian comes out as transgender in an original way:" http://siz.io/australian-comedian-comes-out-as-transgender-in-an-original-way/?src=tum

* LM is fundamentally Squirrel's cat, to exactly the extent Hector was mine. She'd come for pettins and crashes out in my bed with me sometimes, but until last night, she's never sat on my feet or curled up in the leg mest in the bat cave for cuddle pets for more than hours. Poor beastie.

* One of the things I like about Walking Dead is the way both carol and Darryl use the skills they developed to survive abuse as zombie apocalypse survival skills, even though they have come a long way from who they were when they've abused. The healing process is ongoing, but they haven't forgotten how to deal with dangerous unpredictably violent people. We've seen Carol do it a lot over the years. The bit with Darryl and Neegan's men was perfect. you could see him adopt the behavior and persona he used to survive Meryl as a mask, letting them assume he was the weakest link, while they focused on the big obvious alpha male looking guy in the dress blues and the obviously tough and angry Sasha, thus lulling them into not guarding him properly. It reminded me a lot about carol using her old skills for surviving her husband to lull the Alexandrians when the group was not sure what was what there.

It was something I can really identify with. I don't call on my survival self often, but it is incredibly comforting that the skills and defenses are their when I need them.

* As it turns out, I like the Knick more than Mercy Street so far, though they are very similar.

* Cambridge Spies was excellently done and relevant to at least three of my interests.

* Black Sails XXII:

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* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help

* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx

* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan

* Want to help finance my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com

* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general

* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help

* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com