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The morning check-in is an open thread posted to give you a place to visit with the meeses. Feel free to chat about your weather, share a bit of your life, grump (if you must), rave (if you can). The diarist du jour sometimes posts and runs, other times sticks around for a bit, often returns throughout the day and always cares that meeses are happy … or at least contented.

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  2. JanF

    Conservatives Complain That Obama Paid Tribute To Mandela, But Snubbed Thatcher

    Nelson Mandela – Iconic leader who spent 27 years in prison for daring to declare that black people must have a say in their own country. And this:

    There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

    Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

    Margaret Thatcher – Conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain whose policies would make Ayn Rand proud:

    I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand “I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!” or “I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!” “I am homeless, the Government must house me!”.

    Well, I can see why President Obama might have skipped the Thatcher eulogies.  

  3. DeniseVelez

    19 degrees.

    Staying inside – but have to go to school tomorrow for a final exam.

    We seem to have snow in the forecast through Sunday.

    Well at least I’m not where you are Jan 😉

  5. bfitzinAR

    just 10 degrees up – and usually Austin, just 10 degrees down 🙂

    Maybe I’ll actually get some work done today, as in work I was working on last week when we went into “inclement weather policy” mode.  Maybe.  Heck, maybe I’ll manage to finish some of it and have time to read those fascinating-looking stories on the Front Page.  (Yeah, right.)  Stay warm.  {{{HUGS}}}  

  6. pittiepat

    winter-type precipitation.  That will end tomorrow.  It will climb to the 30s with rain and freezing rain, then the temps will drop to about 13 with rain/sleet changing over to snow.  Going to be very slick Saturday so will get my week-end errands done today.

  7. princesspat

    Just a normal chilly day in the PNW. I ::shiver:: for all of you living with real winter weather.

    From this morning’s Seattle Times…..

    Budget deal a high point for Patty Murray’s career

    WASHINGTON – Sen. Patty Murray has to think big while also thinking local, and that means curbing federal spending while keeping federal dollars flowing back home in Washington state.

    ~snip~

    Murray says her mission is to promote responsible federal spending, not simply meat-ax budget reductions. Budgeting, she maintains, is a nuanced process, where not every federal dollar has to be treated the same.

    “A steady force”

    Murray’s role in the deal was no surprise to analysts. “She’s been a steady force, a calm voice,” said Peter May, chairman of the University of Washington political-science department. “She’s not a show horse. She’s not a bomb thrower. She’s a consensus builder.”

  8. anotherdemocrat

    Wow did I sleep in or what? I haven’t had breakfast this late in I don’t even know how long. Guess I needed my sleep.

    No plan for today, just hanging out. Maybe a movie this afternoon, maybe not.

    It is finally supposed to get above 50 today, and maybe even back to normal – 60s – by the weekend.

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