I think the best thing about this whole HD thing has been Dan Rather Reports on HDNET. Aside from the rather stunning HD picture, it’s the kind of quality news reporting that you just don’t get on the regular teevee anywhere else. In addition to Dan Rathere, they also have two other excellent news shows – In Focus, and World Report. You have to hand it to Mark Cuban. He really seems to be putting money into this thing.
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WAKE UP, SLEEPYHEADS!!!!
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What is also great about the Rather reports is that you can view past episodes online!!
:fist: A!I!V! :fist:
oops! How did THAT happen?? :omg:
OK. #2 was because #1 all of a sudden came up 3 times & I edited #2 but #3 was still #1, so now I’m editing that so that the same thing doesn’t show up 3 times in a row.
I don’t know how that happened. I’m so confused. :billcat:
:doh:
:joe: I need :joe:
RG- maybe the way things are going for you so far today you should call in sick :40:
How :cold: is it today?
Just one more stinking thing our troops have to deal with — shittily made single stitched uniforms with “crotch durability” problems. :growl: :smack:
Wonder if they were made in China.
Rah Rah. Support the Troops. :tommygun:
OK, so I’m kinda half-watching the lo-cal news this morning, and a commercial comes on for some kinda All-Bran cereal, where a guy in a hardhat at a construction site says he wasn’t regular, but this cereal fixed him up.
At the end of the commercial, he starts chowing down on a bowl of this stuff, extolling its virtues. While this happens, a huge dump truck backs up behind him, and dumps a huge load of some sort of brown debris.
You gotta love it.
:pup: Good Morning, Art! :cat:
34 degrees & looking to be snowshowers & blowy today. :cold:
No SICKO Land :slap: :reaper: for me today as I am scheduled off :yippee: so I don’t have to call in SICKO and have a little time to hang out here instead of my usual drive by/lurking.
Hows things out your way?
:jesus:
Cenk has gone from talking about sex in the office to Al Gore for president :hot:
Cool in a normal sort of way but we were about 10 to 20 degrees warmer than normal for most of the last six weeks. Due for a couple of little snow storms in the next week and a lot of cold,but only half or less of normal snow pack in the mountains. This area is considered high desert though the resorts want you to think of powder. :tap:
enjoy your day off whatever you do…. :bong: :knit: :joe: :nuts: :doh: :alc: :rofl2:
I won’t be attending the protest or whatever at the YouTube debate tonight. Mostly for personal reasons… verbally shitting on people is not a good management technique, let alone a way of getting someone to agree with your point of view. Plus the organizers are bringing in out-of-towners in an attempt to “gain attention,” and the whole thing is beginning to smell fishy to me.
Hopefully the people who choose to attend will peacefully assemble and get their point of view across, but more and more this thing is getting away from what is was supposed to be when I first got the word a few months ago.
And just now I read an e-mail that Willard “call me Mitt” is going to be in a downtown park at 11 AM this morning, and they’re looking for volunteers to go there and verbally shit on him. Had I known before I got to work, I would have been happy to be ALL OVER something like that. 😀
BTW, art, don’t think I didn’t catch your little snipe against SU the other day. :growl:
Actually, I’d forgotten there was even a football game on Saturday night. We’re all very glad this season is over, and we’ve moved on to hoops.
Word has it they’re too cheap to buy out the coach’s two remaining contract years. Looks like he’ll get one more year to do something.
😯 I……….don’t ………..remember………….anything…………………………….about ……..that……….can’t……….recall………(said in the voice of Alberto Gonzales) :rofl2: :tinfoil:
I was just trying to drown the pain of Kansas’ losing effort against Missouri :crap:
There’s a great coach available (Sonny Lubick) who was just dumped after 15 years here at CSU.
God, Condi on the Today Show. :omg: Thank god it’s not in HD.
My goodness. Everyone is up early today. Good morning :joe: :joe:
I must admit that walking dogs, first thing in the morning, is a great “am I too sick to work test.”
Usually, if I’m not feeling well, I start thinking, gee, I can stand, maybe I can make it through the day. But, when you get out and walk those dogs you really KNOW, if you’re gonna make it.
I’ve decided I’m gonna make it today, but I’m going in late and leaving early. I do feel better than yesterday.
Well, I guess this makes it all better. This should make Dubya and Too Much Cappuchino Perino happy — But did he take it ALL off?? :nana: :hubba:
So, now everything is all hunky dory in Pakistan and we can all breathe easy again. :yawn:
:pup: Sue P :pup:
Have a good day & feel better :dancers:
You don’t want to end up in
:slap: :reaper: SiCKO Land :reaper: :slap: !!
:nixon: :fist: A!I!V! :fist: :nixon:
This is pretty creepy.
I don’t know how you do it RG. I’ve spent the last 2 days painting murals in a kids ER. :holla: There’s a good reason I don’t have kids :holla:
WOW so many Cheers All…
I was over at Sederville. SOMEONE, WFC, has pneumonia and most likely wil not go to Dr. or Hospital.
I had and told what doctor insisted if I did not go to HOSP. But so glad to say TEA CHEERS… 😉 :fist: A!I!V!
I wish I thought that the judge was right that this action would “freeze keyboards” before buying from Amazon but I’m afraid that most americans are so brain-dead about their rights that they wouldn’t give a sh&* 😡
RAGING Granny a special :growl: for SICKO and :pirate: :yippee: and sad I missed You. :fustrate: A!I!V! Go and Kick :pirate: :dancers:
Now I have read all. 😉 :pirate: :yippee: but first get TEA 😉
I don’t think people understand the implications of of losing their privacy until they lose their job because of something they bought on Amazon. :reaper:
:yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮 :crap: :yuck: 😯 😯
❓ ❓ ❓ Whatever :sheep: le
I would think that being able to get out of bed to walk the dogs would prequalify one as fit for work.. of course .. it gives you time to think of some good excuse. :reaper: :reaper:
So George Orwell is alive and well in the Amazon.com data base 😮
More privacy issues :tap: This is from Move On
:rofl2: It’s really hard to take the gubenator seriously when he speaks in commercials! :rofl2: I keep thinking it’s Jim Ward.
You have to give Amazon credit for standing up to the subpoena. Of course, were they hit with an NSL under the USA PATRIOT Act (already ruled unconstitutional by a federal court – twice – because they are a clear violation of the first and fourth amendments – these are issued without probable cause or judicial oversight, and impose “gag” restrictions on recipients, forbidding them from disclosing that they have even received the letter), they wouldn’t be able to say anything, let alone get the matter heard before a court.
Amazon is wealthy enough to hire an army of real lawyers to face down the justice dept’s army of IDIOT MORON lawyers, maybe even to buy a judge or two. :reaper: :reaper:
So Heir dictatordorp put the Israeli puppet leader and the Palestinian puppet leader in a room and Condie loser Lice wiggled the strings.. The Palestinians of course didn’t think much of it..since their negotiator didn’t represent the government they elected ….. Kind of like the Amerikan voter observing congress on C-span. :reaper: :reaper:
Re #23 — Death by Doctor :reaper:
Pneumonia is very serious shit and can happen in varying degrees. I’ve had a nasty case of bronchitis for the past 6 weeks or so (developed around the time Siggy ran away) and I am certain that stress & the poison hospital air I have to breathe at work & the crazy weather fluctuations (and maybe chemtrails?) contributed to its onset and continuance. I need to heed my own advice :spank: and hop on the Oil of Oregano wagon to prevent walking pneumonia from happening.
Oil of Oregano & colloidal silver may not have the One-Two-Pow of antibiotics (when they work and they don’t always) but they DO work and they don’t have the horrendous side effects that antibiotics do. Antibiotics are Anti Life and pro $$$ for big pharma.
“Health” care has become a highly que$tionable bu$ine$$ as far as I am concerned.
We still need doctors and always will and there are lots of good ones out there — those would be the ones who don’t rush to push drugs on you for every symptom. Everyone needs to use their own judgment as far as when they need to see an MD.
My preference is to stay the hell away from them unless something is so busted that only surgery could fix it. :tinfoil:
Well, I need to take the :pup: out and feed the :cat: :cat: :billcat: and get on with the day. **poof** (thanks, Dru — I like that one — we should have a **poof** emo PJ!!)
It’s been fun, Bloggies :boobs:
Have a good day, y’all! :nixon:
:jesus: :fist: A!I!V! :fist: :jesus:
Kristapea, Yes I had heard of that … and I have a bloody site, but luckily I haven’t the time to work with it. Even Cool 8) Environmental and Gore’s site keep saying, why aren’t I on? This is my :paranoid: ahhhhh the hairs of (GOSH I FORGOT NAME — Haven’t read since a teen :smack: ) Stalag 357 (kinda I think) :fustrate: :fist: A!I!V!
RAGING Granny , we have the same time … we get to make a wish … it is a weak way of wish’n but fun…
Link “pinkies” and pull saying:
Chimney. Smoke. Our Wish Cannot Be Broke 😉
Make Your Wish :dancers:
Thats why I have been running. :bow: But you to have to take out the :pup: :pup: :pup: :pup: (Sue P has two and Kristapea has One :dancers: ) :nana: Already done mine :nana: 😉 :fist: A!I!V!
A poof emo? Maybe I can find that guy from Little Britain.
I had Died several times when 16 — really (Clinically Died :rofl2: )
and I smoked then (to be 30 years) and I have claustrophobia (I know how to meditate) and the Idea of going to hospital :omg: made me Madly Crazy. 😡
BTW I have been up all night. I was unable to sleep before Bill’s Show on C-Span. Then told what was DEMANDED by Doc. Which was when Doctors had their heads (snicker :hubba: ) screwed on a bit better … well other drs seemed to be :doh:
If you “fly” by Sederville: (golly G, I :love: the Net ) If you come if you want to look up 8) or to talk….about, but if cool (do ya have a name or I will call you Anonymous except if person is and send what you said also especially the latter but confirm the first, as what you and others have said. But I am Here for now :nod: A!I!V! :fist: :dancers:
It took me a few PJ, :rofl2: :rofl2: :rofl2:
Wake Up, Me :doh: ….. :reaper: :fist: Boo A!I!V! :reaper: Boo
Ahhh Pink Clouds. Never wore Pink until last year or few ago … and ALWAYS Inspires Me and Reminds me of Molly I : :dancers:
In Honour and DITTO to RG and Sue P and Kristapea : 8) cool :pirate: :dancers:
Women Who Behave
Rarely Make History
ARREST ❗ IMPEACH ❗ VIGILANCE ❗
Two Out of Three Middle Class American Families on Shaky Financial Ground, According to New Report
NEW YORK, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Fewer than one in three middle-class families in America is financially secure, and the remaining majority are either borderline or at high risk of falling out of the middle class altogether, according to a new study published this week by Demos and the Institute for Assets and Social Policy (IASP) at Brandeis University.
“By a Thread: The New Experience of America’s Middle Class” is the first comprehensive report to measure economic stability across the American middle class. Based on national government data, “By a Thread” is the first in a series of reports and briefing papers that will utilize the new “Middle Class Security Index” developed by the non-partisan policy center Demos and IASP/Brandeis.
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The “Middle Class Security” Index shows worrying trends:
— Only 31 percent of families who would be considered middle-class by income are financially secure.
— One in four middle-class families match the profile for being at high risk of slipping out of the middle class altogether.
— More than half of middle-class families have no net financial assets whatsoever.
— Middle-class families have median debt of $3,500 and at least half of them have no assets.
— Only 13 percent of middle-class families are secure in their asset levels – meaning that they have enough to cover most of their living expenses for nine months should their regular income cease; 79 percent are “at risk” in this category, meaning they could not cover the majority of their expenses for even three months. Another 9 percent are “borderline.”
— Twenty-one percent of middle-class families have less than $100 per week ($5,000 per year) remaining after meeting essential living expenses. These families are living from paycheck to paycheck with very little margin of security.
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,232081.shtml
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But…but… but… with 4 something percent unemployment they should be able to get at least three jobs. and wouldn’t be in this predicament. :paranoid:
I don’t think the TalkOfools have the slightest clue as to what one has to do to deal with an invasion of sociopaths. Voting is not one of them.. :reaper: :reaper:
So now the liberal cry is “We need another FDR” of course none of the 2008 candidates look or sounds like another FDR so we get to roll; the dice and “hope” that we
electselect the one in the chest beating “Amerika is the Greatest” bunch that will be that FDR or we will for sure have water in our tennis shoes if we are wrong. :reaper: :reaper:This saddens me so. I have to use that for increasing speed. I just feel that CONGRESS should here this and IMMEDIATELY do something! :growl: :fist: A!I!V! :growl:
I think Edwards comes closest to being FDR-like.
Edwards rhetoric comes closest to making him sound like he at least understands the problem.. The IDIOT MORONS on the other hand may well decide that demorops are no better than rethugs when it comes to the senate and the house so the whole thing begins to look like you are requiring winning the lottery to make your next house payment. :reaper: :reaper:
PJ or Fred, I think ( I hope not a dream) that Elizabeth will help keep him Edwards “straight”. :knit: :priest: /|\ :gate: A!I!V! :dancers:
What a busy day at the blog.
Fred, the unfortunate thing about dogs is they must be walked no matter how you feel or what the weather is like. Of course that’s also the good thing about dogs, ’cause they make sure you get some exercise.
My getting sick has been my nightmare. With hubby out of commission, it’s been up to me and trying to do it while I feel like crap has been an “interesting ” experience.
I still feel like crap, but less so than yesterday, and that’s good.
Yeah, I feel like I’m coming down with something myself. Guess I’d better hit up the Oregano. That usually does the trick.
As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.
The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1107/7073.html
The federal official helming a probe into potentially illegal partisan political activities conducted by Karl Rove and other White House officials is himself the focus of a federal investigation.
Scott Bloch, the Bush-appointed head of the US Office of Special Counsel, is under investigation for the alleged improper deletion of emails on office computers, The Wall Street Journal’s John R. Wilke reports.
“Recently, investigators learned that Mr. Bloch erased all the files on his office personal computer late last year,” writes Wilke. “They are now trying to determine whether the deletions were improper or part of a cover-up, lawyers close to the case said.” The inspector general of the Office of Personnel Management is examining the case at the urging of the White House.
The Special Counsel is also under scrutiny for claims that he used his position to retaliate against other employees, and that he “dismissed whistleblower cases without adequate examination.” Investigation began in that case in 2005.
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Official_probing_Rove_now_under_investigation_1128.html
Here’s the only verse of an old lefty song I learned from ….an old lefty.
But it is apropos for #52:
Who’s gonna investigate
The guy who investigates
The guy who investigates me?
Maybe he’s a guy who’s fond of herring
Maybe he has too much Brass
Maybe he he drinks tea from a glass
Believe me brother, that wun’t pass.
So, who’s gonna investigate the guy who investigate me?
:pirate: SUE P re 52
:pirate: :yippee: :dancers:
AND THE WALLS KEEP TUMBLIN’ DOWN
:pirate: :yippee: :dancers:
:yippee: :pirate: YEA more #7 probes … :hubba:
A Level 7 Wipe
In Colorado we have what is known as back yards where you let the dog out to go roaming ( and other) in the morning… Most of the public green ways have plastic glove /bag dispensers if thats where you chose to “walk” your dog. :tongue:
Fred, in Brooklyn we have a tiny backyard, which we’re glad to have as backyards are rare. It’s about 20′ X 50′, But it’s planted and there is no place for the dogs, who are pretty big. But, I’ve been thinking that, in a pinch, I could let them out there.
The local dog walker, has met them and refuses to walk them. I could probably board them if I really needed to. Hopefully, I will mend soon.
Hubby is beginning to hobble on 2 feet. He’s even walked several feet without crutches. It’s been a little over two months, but there are hopeful signs.
On Shelter Island, there is a big backyard and I just let them out. Unfortunately there is no supermarket around the corner with a smörgåsbord of prepared food from which to select dinner.
There is no entertainment on Shelter Island other than bars and the library. There are restaurants but they are very expensive and they are really bad. If you’re into paying $20 for 4 arugala leaves and a nasturium, Shelter Island is your place. There is no decent diner (or indecent) diner. People cook out there.
I have many many failings and being a really bad cook who hates cooking is just one of them.
Pneumonia is very serious shit and can happen in varying degrees. I’ve had a nasty case of bronchitis for the past 6 weeks or so (developed around the time Siggy ran away) and I am certain that stress & the poison hospital air I have to breathe at work & the crazy weather fluctuations (and maybe chemtrails?) contributed to its onset and continuance.
Hey Granny,
I got chemical pnuemonia back in my fire fighting days when a Scottpack leaked on me. I ignored it and wound up in the hospital for a week. On the plus side by the time I got back to school (high school) The story of how I got sick had been blown all out of proportion and evryone thought a building collapsed on me…I eventually corrected them.
It’s raining and a little chilly tonight in St Pete. Perfect weather for a protest. Yes, I’m being sarcastic. And I’m part of the problem because I decided not to go.
I had the local ABC news on a little earlier while I was working out. It didn’t look like there was a huge turnout, but hopefully they’ll pick up more as people get off work and come downtown. The march to the theater (or as close to it as the cops will let them get) was supposed to start at 6 PM.
They also showed some footage of Willard and his clone sons playing touch football in the park this morning. I would have loved to have shown up in a dog suit with diarrhea dripping out the ass. Maybe next time. :pup:
I may watch some of the first hour during KO’s breaks, and then maybe some of the second hour as well, since I won’t be working tomorrow to listen to Cenk/Steph/Hartmann/Randi break it down for me.
Hartmann mentioned today that he had heard a rumor that CNN was feeding the questions to the candidates in advance, but I never heard whether or not he was able to substantiate the rumor. Anyone hear about this? I certainly wouldn’t put it past either CNN or the Repigs.
I’m going home now while I still have the energy to walk. Level 4 on the bike always beats the hell out of me. But it’s the price I pay to :40: :40: :40: :40: :40:
#57 — Andy — the chemical pneumonia is definitely bad shit — those 9/11 workers have that and chronic bronchitis & godknowswhatelse going on — having to struggle for each breath you take is one of the worst feelings in the world (Oh — hey — I ought to contact K.O. about that idea — feeling like you can’t take your next breath and you’re gonna die because you can’t breathe but Kristie Todd Whitman said — nah, nothing to worry about here — carry on, you’ll be fine == but I digress). I was, alas, a smoker for 15+ years, quit about 23 yrs ago (when it was still relatively cheap to smoke) when I found out I was pregnant with my last child. Never went back to smoking — it is truly a very huge hassle and one of the things that made it easier for me to quit back then was being around non-smokers that made it a HUGE pain-in-the-ass to light up, figure out where you were going to dump the ashes & debris & then dispose of the stinky mess.
My reward to this day is asthma and propensity to bronchitis. The stubbornness and distrust of medical establishment have always been there. It is ironic that I managed to actually achieve RN licensure. But I find it interesting that so many of my peers are very much like me as far as distrust of the medical establishment. I have long believed that we are the karmic agents of change because our role and mandated licensure limitation is to diagnose “HUMAN RESPONSE” and from there RNs can make nursing diagnoses relating to emotional stuff, knowledge deficit, “self care”l deficit, and on and on. and then make referrals as needed and hang on to the case as needed. But so many places in the good old U.S. of A. don’t have the resources that we have in New York State and specifically in the county where PJ & I live. And those resources are drying up by the minute because of the Republican business friendly sociopaths that keep getting elected because of god-knows=what corruption and arm twisting that goes on.
oh, I have to go back to Hospital Land tomorrow :knit2:
And I’m really, really tired right now :blech: :blech: :blech: :yawn: :yawn: :yawn: so I gotta go —
Later :40:
I Fell asleep … then I had to bitch for last hour (actually two when posting this) and read 6 bloody Pages/Sites/Whatever/some bloody ( :rofl2: ) blogs since I fell asleep reading,,,,,,,hmmmm and I can’t look to see who posted or I “erase” :smack:
Looking at me with a blank face and of course doing nothing, that is why I call many people Blanks since a (later) teen,
I always apologize to most if not all with asthma …
because I knew since early 70’s that people polluting the enivronment were at fault and/or at the very least, an irritant. :fist:
OMEGA A!I!V! I bet cha I, this time, is a proper OMEGA :rofl2: