This has been a long, long week. I know I say that a lot, but yesterday had to have been the longest Thursday in recorded history. If today goes as slowly as yesterday did, I might have to shoot myself in the head.
On the bright side, Fritz had his first doctor’s appointment yesterday, and he’s a very healthy little (maybe not so little anymore) boy. OK, let’s get this shit over with already.
Now how the heck can there be seven online right now and not a one posting a comment- except for me, I mean.
Since I was the last poster yesterday I thought it would only be fitting if I were the first today
I wonder if Melina or Will have heard about this.
So Kev, you gonna be able to make it see Maron down your way?
Comment by pjsauter — March 27, 2008 @ 8:08 am
Right now it doesn’t look good. I didn’t find out about it until last week, so no time to plan. Which is my own damn fault because I haven’t been on Maron’s website in months. Plus I won’t know until this afternoon whether or not I have to work tomorrow, in addition to having no transportation to and from the gig unless I cab, which is about 30 miles each way, so do the math.
This sucks, because I’ve been waiting four years for Marc to do shows here, then he finally does and I can’t go. Hopefully he’ll do enough business to make it worth his while to come back in six months or so.
Aaaargh.
:smack:
:joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: :joe: 😮 😮
:omg: Its Friday again and there are :sheep: le out there. 😯 😯
A nice overcast Friday and I’m ready for my second :joe: .
The first thing I read about Gov. Siegelman, last night, was that he had been cleared to testify before congress and would be escorted to DC, under guard, to do so. Then I read that the 11th Circuit had freed him on bond.
Last night, on DKos, I read that he had NOT been cleared to go to DC, but the 11th Circuit decision made that moot.
Carl Rove must have a case of indigestion , this morning.
In the past two weeks, the Federal Reserve, long the guardian of the nation’s banks, has redefined its role to also become protector and overseer of Wall Street.
With its March 14 decision to make a special loan to Bear Stearns and a decision two days later to become an emergency lender to all of the major investment firms, the central bank abandoned 75 years of precedent under which it offered direct backing only to traditional banks.
Inside the Fed and out, there is a realization that those moves amounted to crossing the Rubicon, setting the stage for deeper involvement in the little-regulated markets for capital that have come to dominate the financial world.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703662.html?wpisrc=newsletter
Cult Friction
After an embarrassing string of high-profile defection and leaked videos, Scientology is under attack from a faceless cabal of online activists. Has America’s most controversial religion finally met its match?
Although political rhetoric often focuses on “runaway entitlement programs,†it is important to recognize that Medicare’s financial woes are not intrinsic to Medicare. The relentless rise in health care costs are driving up premiums for private health insurance and employer-based coverage as well. Medicare will not truly be “fixed†until those costs are brought under control.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/opinion/28fri2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Wow, re: 8, that’s really really creepy. 😯
Yesterday we had to put down our beautiful blue merle austrailian shepard “Shep” who fiercely guarded and protected his boy and mom for 12 years and me for the last five. Severe arthritis in his back legs, pancreatitius, possible pancreatic tumor- the three of us didn’t want to subject him to being an invalid dog who wouldn’t have lived another two weeks to six months. We had the best care and expert advice from a great staff at local vet hospital.
Trusting, brave and a weak tail wag in the end…., the responsibility that we all take on for these wonderful companions is not a burden but a shared life and death experience that brings us all together.
As my wife’s ex expressed “He was almost too sweet for this world.
:gate: Shep
art and family…
So sorry for your loss 🙁 :gate:
Oh, Art, I’m so sorry. I really hate that part of it. I hope we all see each other again on the other side.
🙁
Old Blue
:gate:
sblue, pj, vernon- thank you.
We’re all their :sheep: le.
An old friend is taking me to see Ray Davies tonight.
I know there may be a bias toward the Pink or the Led here but the Kinks may top my all-time list.
Enjoy the show vernon… :knit:
If I suwvive watching Bawack Obama on The View.
Re: 7 We have ro keep the pigs fed .. the people..well… they can pull themselves up by their boot straps but the pigs .. ONK ONK Squeal Squeal :reaper: :reaper:
The Hospital industry is the growth industry of the 21st century.. with the graying of Amerika more and more people will need hospitalization ( whether they really need hospitalization or not)..
I haven;t seen any analysis but are cost going up because fewer and fewer people can afford to pay their bills or is it totally a matter of feeding more pigs . ONK ONK Squeal Squeal
Around here it would seem that the private hospitals are adding more but frequently unoccupied beds , new equipment and more ( but generally part time and lower paid) staff .. The public hospitals are in general in world of hurt .. with the the politicians yelling privatize them thats the way to make them better .. :yuck:
Oh, I definitely like the Kinks and Ray Davies, Vernon. And I wasn’t even going to mention that it would pretty much have to be an old friend taking you. 😉
And of course we all remember what Jim Earl thinks about Led Zeppelin. “Does anyone remember laughter?” :rofl2:
Areas of Saigon fall to North Vietnamese troops while ARVN falters in Camran Bay ,
OOPS got a flash back from another time ..
Perhaps thats why they built such a large embassy .. more room for the helicopters to land .. :reaper: :reaper:
More competition for the PHDs to contend with for jobs at SubWays .
artnorton :bow: I am sorry for your loss. Sadly I know it well.
:peace: :yinyang: :pent: :priest: :rabbi: :om: /|\ All which is dear to us will always travel with us — no matter the “state” :knit: Shep :gate:
Art, I am so sorry that you lost your dear companion. It is an awesome responsibility when those life and death decisions have to be made. Sparing an animal suffering, I believe, is a great kindness.
Iraq’s Prime Minister was staring into the abyss today after his operation to crush militia strongholds in Basra stalled, members of his own security forces defected and district after district of his own capital fell to Shia militia gunmen.
With the threat of a civil war looming in the south, Nouri al-Maliki’s police chief in Basra narrowly escaped assassination in the crucial port city, while in Baghdad, the spokesman for the Iraqi side of the US military surge was kidnapped by gunmen and his house burnt to the ground.
Saboteurs also blew up one of Iraq’s two main oil pipelines from Basra, cutting at least a third of the exports from the city which provides 80 per cent of government revenue, a clear sign that the militias — who siphon significant sums off the oil smuggling trade — would not stop at mere insurrection.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3631718.ece
Sue P, Druid- thank you.
Art, so sorry to hear about Shep. When I was a senior in high school, our dog was put down in similar circumstances. It’s what’s best for the animal, no doubt, but it doesn’t make you feel any better about it. Condolences.
Art, I’m so sorry to hear about Shep. 🙁
I think this is appropriate
My condolences, Art.
It’s strange that our furry companions get better end-of-life care than we give each other. Every day, I’m relieved that my dad was in a hospice.
That’s the truth.
🙁 Sorry for your loss, Art and MrsArt. :gate:
Rethugs meet in private session to reserve their seats in the life boats
Art So sorry to hear about your dog.. 🙁
:banana: veggie monster is a lie!!!!!
so my roommate tells me they changed cookie monster to veggie monster i trust him so i took his word for it today i thought about it and finally did the vetting online and lo and behold it was not true!!!!! so i send him a text message asking him who told him this he says a teacher at the school he was student teaching at last semester i tell him it looks like a right wing smear campaign against a left leaning show and ask him if the teacher was liberal or conservative of course the teacher was conservative go fucking figure!
can those evil fucks ever tell the truth about anything? i was especially upset because i unknowingly spread disinformation to people i know thanks to this conservative fuck teacher and my roommate that did not question something a republican wack job told him lesson learned NEVER TRUST A REPUBLICAN
Sorry about Shep, Art, cattle dogs love to “work” more than anything and when they lose mobility it’s hard to see them suffer. It was so hard to see my Sweet Jane gimping on barely 3 legs, the dog that jumped more than 6 feet in the air for a frisbe a few years earlier and was obsessed with balls. I considered building her a cart but she got too bad before I could build it. Dogs are awesome :pup:
Fucking conservative “ask me nots”. They believe everything they hear from an authority figure. Dumbass sheeple. :sheep: :tommygun:
:nuts: back to xbox world so i can pretend everythings ok………
:yawn: Lights out, sheeple.
Ray was as great as he could be. He told a story about when he and Dave were shopping themselves to labels. The initial response they got was their sound was too working class but they thought that their trademark guitar sound was more like dogs barking. :pup:
and at that I thought of Shep and the artnortons, of course.
🙁 :gate: :pup:
PJ, I am sorry so delayed in my answer back. I went over to other site and got “stuck”. But I wanyt to answer soooo…next post 😉 A!I!V!