One week left before the election, and it’s certainly looking like the only questions are how big a win Obama will have, and whether or not his coattails will lead to a filibuster-proof Senate and another 30 or so House seats. The other question in my mind is what the sheeple will do if this election is stolen the way the past two were.
Hopefully we won’t have to find out the answer to that one.
Nor’easter working its way through today. Mostly rain, here, though they say temperatures are going to drop into the 30’s during the day, and as the storm passes by and we get the lake effect backlash, we might get 1″ – 4″ or so of snow. Up in the ‘higher elevations,’ they expect a foot to as much as 20 inches of snow by tomorrow. Better them than us, I reckon.
Today would have been my parents’ 62nd anniversary. Happy Anniversary, guys.
Nice photo, PJ.
Minnie, my german shepherd, is going to have sonogram today because there is a mass in her belly. I’m hoping for the best, fearing the worst, and happy to go to work so I don’t have to think about it for a while. One very good thing about teaching is that you can’t do it and think of something else, at the same time.
That nor’easter is visiting the City, also. The wind is really howling and it’s raining hard.
Good luck to both you and Minnie. I hate that stuff.
Wow, Robin Trower’s Bridge of Sighs is a $1.99 mp3 download at Amazon (the whole album, not just one song)!
When Biden isn’t being a schmuck, he’s pretty good.
This information is hard to accept and hard to reject. So, I’m just putting it out there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od29Ece8OsE&feature=related
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:gate: TONY HILLERMAN 1925-2008 :gate:
His mystery novels brought me much pleasure over the past 20 years since I was introduced to them.
OK, this is just too goddamn cute (reminds me of Fritz, too).
‘Deep Throat’ director dead at 80
MIAMI (AP) — Gerard Damiano, director of the pioneering pornographic film that lent its name to the Watergate whistleblower known as “Deep Throat,” has died. He was 80.
After “Deep Throat” opened in Times Square, word from media critics and outraged conservatives made it a hit.
:jerk: :boobs: 🙁 :gate:
It might have been more appropriate if he’d passed away 11 years earlier.
Thanks for the good wishes, PJ.
Hmmm, this is interesting:
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another individual.
Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge “developed from first-hand sources” of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html
How do we fix this?
Conservatives Have Reshaped Appeals Courts
“Republican-appointed judges, most conservatives, make up 61 percent of the bench, up from 50 percent when President Bush took office.”
And they all make leagal rulings based on political ideology, not the law. Unless your last name is Incorporated you haven’t a chance of winning a court case.
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This is for RG:
The new book, Reflections on Doctors, Nurses’ Stories About Physicians and Surgeons. Edited by Terry Ratner, R.N. Kaplan Publishing, is a collection of essays, written by nurses, examining their relationship with doctors.
The Times had a book review, today, in the Science section
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/28/health/28book.html?ref=todayspaper
Next thing they’ll be examining the relationship of teachers and principals. Ugh!
The news about Minnie is very bad. The mass encompasses her liver and at least one kidney. The vet says kindness is to let nature take its course. Minnie, at the moment, seems to be OK. So, I guess we will have to accept this and follow it to an inevitable end.
I wish it were otherwise.
I’m so sorry about Minnie, Sue.
It’s a regular winter wonderland out there tonight.
Wow, bigtime snow coming down now. Everything’s still too warm to cause much of a problem on the streets (the grass is covered now though), except there are still leaves on the trees, and if it snows enough, branches could come down and take out power lines.
Sure is purdy, though.
What I’ll miss about dubya, a slideshow by Mike Lukovich.
Sue P- My sympathy about Minnie. We lost our boy about a year ago. At some point she’ll let you know it’s time.
Rachel will be interviewing ‘bama in Florida in person Thursday night.
Sorry to hear about Minnie Sue.
Well I didn’t make to the rally, the weather was just too nasty 35 degrees with wind driven rain. My luck after standing out there for three hours I’d have gotten pneumonia.
🙁
Sue, I’m really sorry to hear about Minnie’s diagnosis. May she feel nothing but love (and you, too).
Oh Sue, So sorry about Minnie. I hate this part about pet ownership. They deserve to live longer than us.
Sue,
That was not the news I was hoping for and I am truly sorry. I hope the remaining days for Minnie are good ones as much as that is possible.