Thanks N. I love reading your stories. :)

Found it again!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021...

Original source is:
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati...

I saw it somewhere a few days ago, sorry cannot recall where.
It is from UK gov data. Be careful when interpreting, data should be shown in narrower stratas.

The peds and the poop. That's fitting...

Source on that vaxxed vs. non-vaxxed graph?

I think I'm reminded of the kindness that was extended to us by Houstonians while our husbands served. I hope we haven't lost this completely. The gas company that gave that young wife a year's service at no charge. We once were eating at one of Houston's finest restaurants and one of the wives got a relay call. She was yelling 'over' into the phone and the patrons got very quiet. The wait staff told them she was a 'Waiting Wife' and all our husbands were in VN. Champagne came to our table (four bottles) and there was no bill when we left. Just applause. This is what those idiots in Washington would like to take away from us! They know how effective we are when we band together.. N

At the home of an enlisted man's family, their little five year old when we asked, said he wanted a Christmas tree. He didn't ask for presents. You should see the tree we got him! Wow. And presents. My husband only asked for one thing while gone that year. He wanted bread! I went to Rainbo Bakery and told the manager I wanted a crate of bread. He asked why I wanted a crate of bread and I told him. Rainbo put the bread on an airplane personally and flew it to him. No charge for the bread or the shipping. He said it was still warm when he got it! LOL

Okay if you want idiotcy, I'll volunteer for it. When our husbands were in VN in 1969-70...we held our Christmas trees over until they came home because 16 of the Waiting Wives' husbands missed Christmas and their kids. We also 'stood in' for a young Lt whose wife had their baby while he was in VN. I verbally kicked the butt of an apartment manager because he wouldn't repair the A/C in a Major's wife's apt and she was 8 months pregnant in a Texas summer. We called the gas company to connect the gas in a young mother's apt in the winter and they did it free of charge, no deposit, no bill the entire time he was in VN.They all came back. I volunteered to do Teletype duty at the Red Cross and sent messages to husbands. N

A friend in NYC sent photos of Thursday's parade and said it made her feel like a kid again.

Macy's always had a Christmas Parade at Thanksgiving. I loved watching it every year with my children. N

I'm thinking with the covid fear that many businesses are in serious financial trouble. Kicking off the consumerism of Christmas early was a hope to move from the red and into the black a little early, maybe to carry forward even after the season. Things have been so freakin' nutty the last 2 years I really can't blame business owners for wanting to prime the pump if they can.

Yep, the Christmas parade massacre was a distraction...incidentally, who has a Christmas parade before Thanksgiving?...think about that...

More illustration of: "Facts are stubborn things..." - John Adams

They better have some stout bodyguards around her. N

Gassed up for the winter. Bring on the S-T-O-R-M.