My brain’s a bit denatured from being cooked on high the past couple of days (much better now, though) so forgive me if this isn’t too terribly inspired, but…
On Press the Meat today, Timmy Potatohead has dubya’s second COS Josh Bolten on to tell us how the US has brought stability to the Middle East. Then Tom Ricks will be on to tell us what a “Fiasco” it’s really been.
On Faze the Nation, Bush buddy Bobby Schieffer has Isreali Ambassador Daniel Ayalon on to tell the Lebanese people that it’s nothing personal, and Syrian Ambasador Imad Moustapha on to say, “oh yeah?” Plus David Ignatius of the WaPost.
On CNN’s Late Edition, Wolfie has – get this – Israel’s tourism Minister, Isaac Herzog (“come for the beaches, stay for the shelling – plus, buy a one-way ticket, and your evacuation fee will be waived!”*). Then there’s another visit from Josh Bolten, and a bunch of lip-flapping politicians, Republicand, Democrats, DINO’s, whatever – who even gives a shit anymore?
Instead of This Weak with George Snufalufagus, it’s the British Open. Why would they bother with that, when the end of an era is being ushered in with the final BC Open (not in Broome County this year, thanks to all the flooding in the Binghamton area, and instead being held at the Turning Stone Casino and Resort – an Oneida Indian establishment; hey, maybe after the the Palestinian population has been reduced by 95%, they’ll be able to open Casinos and sell cigarettes in Gaza – it’ll give the Israeli tourism Minister something to hawk). Looks like a helluva nice course. But anyways…
On Fux News Sunday with Fuckface Wallace, it’s – once again – Josh Bolten (BTW, note to both CNN and Fux, it’s B-O-L-T-E-N, you idiots), plus the only man who looks more ridiculous in a white lab coat than George Bush, Denny “Grand Slam” Hastert.
Later, on 60 Minutes, Lesley Stahl repors on something that’s apparently news to her – Americans are working longer and harder than ever before. Speaking of longer and harder, Lara Logan reports on how she got embedded with the fellas that guard Route Irish (and how devasted she was when MSNBC’s best reporter, Mike B., rebuked all of her advances), and Steve Kroft talks to a bunch of jewel thieves.
Tonight, it’s new episodes of Deadwood (didja see Dan pull that guy’s eye out last week? Icky, icky, icky), the 4400, and the Dead Zone. Enjoy your Sunday.
*Limited time offer, subject to state, federal, and international taxes, Israeli government reserves the right to bulldoze your home, void where prohibited.
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My system has been corrupted
I felt especially
privileged being there for the first day of practice with bigger amps AND a
microphone, after some inspriational
coffy drinking, they kicked it off with a spacejamarific version of battle
in the sky
come out and play-ay and then start fuckin’ rockin’!!!
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AAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG…..:crap::blech:
Good morning/afternoon/evening/tomorrow/whatever
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KBOO FM
http://www.kboo.fm/content/view/24/38/
Weeellll… Whosenows… Israel’s urban renewal seems to be continuing .. The US gave then yet another week.. the Germans are salivating over all the reconstruction money.. The Russians are busy throwing out the US oil companies.:rant1::fustrate::paranoid:
It is the neocons’s finest hour. AND FINAL HOUR!
Dick Cheney is a Dick!
And this War makes me Sick!
Remember that from Gulf War One?
:fist:
There is a house hearing on FISA on C-span the rethugs are being fed a pile of :crap: by their rethug consultants. Its obviously being played up to justify all there worthless illegal electronic surveillance.
If you venture over there just keep your watch above your head to keep it out of the S*
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US to give Israel another week for attacks: paper (Haaretz)
US to give Israel another week for attacks: paper
Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:34pm ET
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli officials believe they have approval from the United States to keep up attacks on Hizbollah guerrillas in Lebanon for at least another week, an Israeli newspaper said on Sunday.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to leave for the Middle East on Sunday for talks on resolving the crisis, but Israel’s main ally has resisted growing calls for a ceasefire.
“Senior officials believe Israel has an American nod to continue operations against Hizbollah at least until next Sunday,” the Haaretz newspaper said on its Web site.
U.S. officials in Israel were not immediately available for comment on the report.
Israel’s onslaught in Lebanon to cripple Hizbollah, after the group abducted two soldiers from Israel on July 12, has claimed 355 lives, mostly civilians. Hizbollah attacks and rockets have killed 34 Israelis.
http://tinyurl.com/ecqgh
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Putin plan to shut out US oil giants
President Vladimir Putin is set to keep US oil companies out of a lucrative gas field in the latest sign of the deteriorating relationship between Moscow and Washington.
The Russian leader is expected to favour Norwegian companies and reject bids by America’s Chevron and ConocoPhillips after failing to secure backing from the United States for his country’s attempt to join the World Trade Organisation.
The tit-for-tat snub will be a blow to US companies scrambling for access to Russia’s huge gas reserves at a time of high energy prices. It comes after Putin failed to resolve differences with US President George Bush over trade and human rights at the G8 conference in St Petersburg last week.
The two leaders were barbed about each other’s democratic records at a tense G8 press conference. Putin later publicly praised Norsk Hydro and Statoil, the Norwegian firms that are competing with US companies for a role in developing the highly prized Shtokman gas field.
http://tinyurl.com/ho4cs
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Yet another nation that is not into globalization
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Alan Dershowitz aka Dipshitowitz in L.A. Times: Not all civilian deaths ‘tragic’
In today’s Los Angeles Times, Harvard University Professor Alan Dershowitz has written a column in which he argues that the value of some civilian wartime casualties is less than others.
“There is a vast difference — both moral and legal — between a 2-year-old who is killed by an enemy rocket and a 30-year-old civilian who has allowed his house to be used to store Katyusha rockets,” argues Dershowitz. “Both are technically civilians, but the former is far more innocent than the latter. There is also a difference between a civilian who merely favors or even votes for a terrorist group and one who provides financial or other material support for terrorism,” he continues.
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He is making all civilians sympathetic to the other view into terrorists. The next thing will be having a little red book in your book case..:gate::omg::jason::jason::fist:
Diplomatic flurry in Israel over Lebanon war
This is link to a tread on DU summarizing the world wide concern.. note that’s not the the world wide move to end the violence..
http://tinyurl.com/f46df
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Therefore, Dershowitz could not complain if a Middle East terrorist took out his big house in Cambridge. I mean, he is doing more than giving lip service to his favorite terrorist rogue nation. Uh oh. I am beginning to sound like Ward Churchill.
Those goddamn Norwegians are takiing our Russian oil contracts. Are they destined to go on our enemies list, along with Hugo Chavez?
I gotta go watch the Open Championship, now.
good morning sheeple
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22 July 2006 16:39
BP pays out millions to Colombian farmers
By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
Published: 22 July 2006
A group of Colombian farmers has won a multimillion pound settlement from BP after the British oil and gas company was accused of benefiting from a regime of terror carried out by Colombian government paramilitaries to protect a 450-mile pipeline.
Many of the 1,000 farmers and their family members who worked on 52 farms affected by the development, say they have been since been forced to live in destitution in the surrounding towns.
They alleged that BP benefited from harassment and intimidation meted out by Colombian paramilitaries employed by the government to guard the pipeline. It was never alleged that BP had any involvement in any of the paramilitaries’ activities.
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Colombian lawyers who tried to help the farmers claimed they faced intimidation by local paramilitary groups. Marta Hinestroza, one of the farmers’ lawyers, fled Colombia for Britain when she discovered that her name was on a paramilitary hit list. In November 2002, the Home Office granted Ms Hinestroza political asylum after she told of the threats she faced while working in the region.
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http://tinyurl.com/fctm7
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Now all they have to do is collect it.. Im sure BP has been studying the Exxon Valdez situation..
If we ever achieve some degree of world peace we can use the military to go after the international corporations.:rant1::fustrate:
Ewwwwww… the dumb nuts are out in force on WJ.. there are left sided folks telling it the way it is and then there are the FAUX news viewers ..Not to surprising most of them speak southern.:fustrate::fustrate::eek::shock:
Yea:banana:NickiRose is #1:banana:YEA
:yawn:The only news that makes me “giggle” is Putin’s “thumbing his nose at bush. :rofl2::banana:
All the news was so Morose until that.:yawn:, thus on that note I bid Adieu To One and To All.:wink:
You have to love the Olbermann
From Sean Hannity’s online dating site. I swear this is legit.
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Hah! That’s pretty funny, Andy. I’ve got green genes, myself.
Wow, I’m not used to watching commericals, I guess. There was just one on where a guy is in line at the grocery store bying tofu, which the guy behind him in line (who is loading up with ribs, and bacon, and various piles of dead animal flesh) scoffs at. The next thing you know, Mr. Tofu is buying a Hummer (the vehicle, not the other kind, which wolda been funny if he was buying it from Mr Meathead), with the tag line “restore your manhood.”
And this is on HGTV, fer chrissakes. Seems like they’re wasting their money there. Those of us guys who watch HGTV on Sunday morning are pretty darn secure in our manliness.
Picking up some stuff from the other thread:
1) Mammograms: Whether they save as many lives as said remains to be seen, but I saw a family friend die from metastatic breast cancer at 65. She’d never had a mammo, and by the time she felt the lump the cancer had spread through layers and layers of lymph nodes. That said, there is a kind of breast cancer that strikes younger women mostly called inflammatory breast cancer that is not picked up on mammograms.
2) Cancer treatment: Oh, what a nightmare THIS one is. My stepdad had thyroid cancer 20 years before what they said was recurrent mets to the lungs. Except that they did about 6 radioactive iodine scans before they got one that lit up. So they did the full-fledged radioactive iodine treatment and all that did was make him worse. He ended up getting a bunch of chemo that everyone knew wasn’t going to do him any good because he wanted it — he wasn’t ready to give up.
A few months after he died, I was looking at medical center web sites for design and layout ideas for my job and there is his endocrinology oncologist on the front page talking about the exciting new research in thyroid cancer.
I believe that my stepdad never had a recurrence of thyroid cancer at all. I think he had lung cancer from living with my mom who’s a chain smoker — and no one wanted to tell them that it was the second-hand smoke that caused his disease.
Just as an aside: My mom had lung cancer diagnosed over 15 years ago as part of a routine physical exam. She had surgery, she is now 79 and still smoking. Go figure.
I try to be drug-free. I don’t take HRT or any of that stuff; I’m toughing out the meno. I won’t take statins for cholesterol, I’d rather just try to be more conscientious about my diet.
As much as I’ve put off the scope, I’m doing it because I’m in a high risk group (over 50, meat-eater, family history) and because since it’s mechanical not drug, and if they can snip anything that looks suspicious, it’s worth it. Colon cancer is not a pretty way to die. I have less of a problem with the diagnostic tests in American medicine than I do with the treatments.
PJ, your father at age 70 probably should never have been treated for prostate cancer. How long ago was that? Now they seem to have come around to the notion that in older men, it’s best to leave it alone, that something else will get you before the PC does.
On to more pleasant subjects: Melina, I’ll check for a rerun of the Decades special and let you know when it is.
Good Morning :joe:
My dad died in 1994. My mother had open heart, and they were both eating right. Consequently, my dad lost weight, and was looking and feeling great. This was apparently a bad thing, so his cardiologist referred him to somebody else. His PSA was a little high, so naturally trhey blasted him with radiation. This started his colon to bleeding, and he began wasting away. They tried a bunch of times to cauterize it and stop the bleeding, but the tissue had been so degraded at that point that they could never get it stopped. So, he continued to waste away, getting to the point where he couldn’t do much of anything. Eventually, he got really sick (major infection as I recall), and my mom called me because he pretty much just wanted to die and get it over with.
Well, as always seems to be the case in my life, I was supposed to know what the fuck to do. So, I called an ambulance and he went to the hospital. They treated him with IV antibiotics, and he actually looked pretty good and got out of the ICU. I found out later that his heart had been quite damaged by the whole episode so that his ejection fraction (a measurement of the heart’s efficiency, used to estimate the function of the left ventricle, which pumps blood to the rest of the body) was very low, and that he’d never be able to do much of anything again.
So, he was up on a regular floor, and was feeling uncomfortable from being bedridden (especially at night – he had shingles), so they naturally gave him some kind of drugs (forget what, at the moment, but it was something very, very powerful that I suppose they hoped would knock him out) that apparently made him hallucinate, and he tried to get out of bed, falling on the floor, lying there for god knows how long. His hip was broken, and because of the heart damage, he was facing months and months or immobility, ‘cuz they couldn’t operate to fix it.
But that didn’t happen, ‘cuz he died alone in a hospital room in the middle of the night, instead of in the home where he lived for about 40 years. Missed their 50th wedding anniversary by about two months. I shoulda listened to him in the first place.
So, yeah, I wouldn’t ever profess to know all the answers, nor would I try to tell anyone else what to do. I just, personally, don’t buy into the whole system, because – while I know it can do some truly wonderful things – I think it’s been set up in order to make money for corporations. If the tech and the drugs were seen as a last resort, it would be great. I just don’t think it is, but hopefully that’s changing.
I just KNEW that Lara Logan was a hussy. 😉
speaking of parents…i’m having to fly out in the a.m. to wa state. mom’s been having some problems and the pops is freaking. dad called me yesterday with an sos phone call so i’ll make my first journey post-op.
I will say about modern medicine that I’m a walking repair miracle. horseback riding accident required a spleen repair (yes, the surgeon repaired it – very rare deal), repaired the old neck with 3 fusions and plates AND of course the repair job to the heart. I am NOW free of all medications and proudly announce I am taking nothing nothing nothing when I go for my check-ups. So guess I skirted the possibilities of a medical nightmare. I’ve work hard to be free of the system.
A woman in town had heart surgery the same day I had it. she had complications and her husband is a surgeon in town. the woman was completely over medicated over doctored, misdiagnosed and ended up dying two weeks ago. She was only about 7 years older than me. The system definitely failed the poor woman. I feel very fortunate indeed.
The final ride on the Tour is on, btw!
Mornin’ KP. How’ the heat your way? It’s amazing how much better 78 degrees feels in this little room than 88. Plus the reduced humidity. And it’s only supposed to go up to 82 outside today, so it should be a good day for, well, whatever.
That’s sad about your dad PJ. People are turning to naturopathic medicine more and more. Not as the only medical solution but along side western medicine. And it behooves insurance companies to embrace natural medicine because it’s cheaper than prescribing drugs.
One big problem is that the previous generation was brought up to just accept what “the doctor” said, and not ask questions. Questions weren’t especially encouraged, either. Hopefully people nowadays are less likely to accept whatever they’re told, and we have the ability to look things up on the Internet (which can be both good and bad; it’s just as easy – easier even – to get bad information off the Internet, than it is to get good info), and share our experiences. Knowledge is power.
It’s already over 100 degrees and it’s not even 7. :jerk:
Yeah, it would behoove to insurance companies, but that’s still rare. It’s amazing what they’ll pay for and what they won’t. They’ll pay to keep somebody in the hospital for $700 a day, rather than pay for a few hours of a home health aide at $8 an hour, and a couple of skilled nursing visits a week. If you don’t have somebody that knows the ropes and how to ask for and get what you need, you’re screwed. It was a big difference to have my wife around with my mom. Not that it was an especially pleasant time, but between her knowledge and my experience with my dad, it was a lot different.
Yeah, but it’s a dry heat, right? :rofl2:
I’m just thankful I was raised to mistrust doctors to some extant. Back in the early 70’s my mom went to a psychiatrist for depression and he prescribed something that made her sleep for 3 days. She’s been violently opposed to prescription drugs ever since. She hardly even takes aspirin.
No, it hasn’t been very dry at all. We get threats of rain every day, but of course, it’s been all bark and no bite so far. The humidity is up enough that the swamp is useless.
geez, kp….yikes! (heat AND your mom)
i was complaining because i walked in 71 degrees with 80% humidity. Heavy air.
I can deal with under 110. When it gets above that, it’s pretty unbearable. You can literally feel every single degree. And absolutely everything you touch becomes a branding iron.
UGH! 80% humidity! Maybe you should grow some gills FK. The humidity can really ruin 70 degrees.
good morning everyone…!
Such sad stories for a Sunday morning, but its important to know this stuff because nothing is cut and dried and the only way to navigate anything is to use the Dr’s as a
resources and any Dr who wont treat you as an equal consultant should be OUT. In all of these decisons its impossible to 100% know what the right thing is or would have been to do….alot of it falls to human hope and fear of death, so what can you do?
I regularly piss off doctors and have moved around quite a bit and worked really hard to find Drs who will work with me. They have only just to talk to me for a few minutes to know that Im smart enough to understand what theyre talking about
…I certainly know about meds and depression/anxiety and special ed….and, anyone who gets huffy about having to treat me as an equal will usually find out in no uncertain words.
Of course, sometimes Im really constrained by lack of specialists in existence (like Pediatric psychopharmacologists…which I am now having to take Will down to the city for,) and I havefamily help to see drs who arent covered by our pathetic insurance.
And then if I am able to find a Dr who will work with me (this new one is one of the top professors at Columbia Pres. and really well known, but supposedly also good with kids…which you would expect, but strangely….) then the insurance has a board of nurses who deicde that the medicine the Dr chooses is wrong and that he should pick somehting from the formulary…and then the Dr is reduced to calling this board and presenting his case. If they feel strongly he is then bumped up to a real Dr who can make a decision…and the NO decision usually means that I will be spendin a few hundred a month to try somehting.
Will is also on Lipitor for high cholesterol. His father’s whole family has this 400 level cholesterol that is not touched by diet…we’ve tried…and we eat really well even when we arent on a no cholesterol diet. But Will’s paternal grandfather dropped dead of a massive heart attack at 40…if I hadnt insisted on a cholesterol test (his pediatrician questions my requests as “misuse of medical dollars!”) Will would have heart disease by the time that an adolescent pediatrician ever thought to test him.
Not that statins work for everyone or are the right thing…I just know that if they didnt have this stuff we would be looking at heart diease no matter what he eats. I oculd never get more than a 10 or 20 reduction and when its 400 thats just not right…now its around 180 and his pediatric lipid specialist wants it at 160…
AND now they suddenly are worryin about his joint disorder because it can effect the heart so after allowing him to do lacrosse and all last year (and all these years) they are insisting on an echo cardiogram to make sure that his heart is OK)
So, my grandmother died of breast cancer and she smoked like hell and had a lump that she was afraid to have looked at for years bcause she tought it meant mastectomy….very sad because the step grandmothers were no party and the original weas wonderful and would have loved these great grandchildren that grandpa is getting to enjoy, in his way….
Just seems worth it to know…but maybe not to just follow.
I see so many people who are over medicated and not involed in their own treatment…but also people who neglect things like their kid has pulled out all of his eyebrows and eye lashes and cant stop, but their church councelor told them that she could cure him…some things need some meds, and ectreme obsessive compulsive disorder usually needs a little something lest you put your kid through years of talk therapy to do something that may be impossible…and the next thing is cutting or burning…heaven forbid (I saw too much at the ped. mental hosptial)
You just have to question and research and keep going no matter what. No one “takes care” of you anymore…youhave to actively do it yourself…and its exhausting…can you tell?
A lot of what they do just doesn’t seem to make sense. A while back, I was having back pain, due to a crappy ergonomic setup at work. So, I had pretty good insurance, and I wanted to go to a Chiroprator. Well, I had to get a freakin’ referral from my primary care physician first. Of course, I didn’t have one (oh, the shock!). So I had to get one, but I couldn’t get a referral w/o coming in. So I go and he takes x-rays and offers to shove his finger up my ass (which I politely declined), and makes me go and get all these goddamn blood and piss tests, and then he says he hears a heart murmur, which is news to me, so he makes me go and get an echocardiogram, and now I’m starting to wonder if my ticker’s going bad, and so I go and it turns out that there’s nothing worng and I’ve got no heart murmur, but at least I’ve got my Chiro referral. So, instead of just paying for the Chiro visits that they had to pay for anyway, the goddamn insurance company had to pay god know what for all those tests, all of which turned out to be fine, fine, fine (plus I wasted a couple days of my life, jumping through their hoops). Oy.
Fucking Clinton is supporting Joementum…is he trying to set himself and Hillary apart from eachother?…Joe is really looking like hes gonna lose…but is the message that we are supposed to fall in line with the Dems no matter what?
Ive told them in no uncertain terms that they get NOTHING from me until they denounce what Joe is doing….using his dem money to start a campaign s an independent…not supporting who would be the party’s choice because he thinks that we cant think for ourselves! The people are speaking here, and its gonna be like this in alot of places…alot…and if the people in the party dont listen they may have to go too.
I got my Lamont sign…I hope to go up there THIS week and get more signs and get them around Stamford.
Joe’s inported people are calling round and putting up signs…He dosnt even have anyone here to actually work for him…hes had to bring people in! Are we paying for this??
Today, with the web, there is no excuse for not being an educated consumer of medical care. My particular trauma is anesthesia, because until I had a cystoscopy a month ago, the most I’d ever had was nitrous oxide and novocaine at the dentist. I was terrified. That procedure used Versed, and it was a breeze. One minute I was making a joke and the next I was in recovery. For this scope they’re using Propofol (diprivan) which has me a bit nervous because it puts you under farther — but it doesn’t have the woozinees of Versed because its half-life is much shorter. The place I’m having it done is a surgical center, not a dr’s office, so there will be a dedicated anesthesiologist monitoring the anesthesia. It’s going to cost me some out-of-pocket $$, but if it means I’m not a basket case all day, it’s worth it. I’ll need my energy to eat everything in the house by then. :nod: And the amnesia effect of Versed seems kind of date-rapey anyway. :paranoid:
Let’s see, here in DC it’s 74 degrees and 78% relative humidity. Which is way better than 90 degrees and 60% RH. Looking at the past 24 hours here, at 4 AM it was 71 degrees and 96%. That requires a snorkel.
Oh lord, please spare me from getting entangled in the medical system and the legal system.
where I’m going it’s going to be 104. it’s rarely that hot this time of year….I really want some cool weather. Maybe in Colorado in another week……
the heart-lung machine had me freaked out, frankly. the thought of a stopped heart that had to be jumped started wasn’t a pleasant thought 😯 even though I know they do it all the time.
Oh, man, I wish I cold have some Versed to get me through the next two weeks. I’d love to go to sleep right now, and wake up in my own bed, filled with a few cats and my doggie. Oh, and my wife is welcome to join us, too.
Yeah, when I saw all the shit stuck into my mom after her open heart, I thought, damn I don’t want that. Especially when they yank that goddamn tube out of ya. They always say, “oh, you don’t remember it,” to which I say, “that doesn’t mean you don’t have to freakin’ go through it though, does it?”
Then being Irish and all, her scar tissue built up really thick, and hurt. So they – I shit you not – shoved a goddamn wire down into it and reamed it out from the inside. :omg: Apparently it was a little more painful than it sounds. Then they told her after two or three more treatments, she’d be all set. :omg::omg:
Cancer-whaat an terrible beast. The human devastation is awful to watch. But, compared to murdering those darling little blastulae, well what can I say.
Two more schemes to chew on from the Rethugs:
Dick Armey has an insurance scheme. In order to get low rates on a medical savings plan participants were asked to sign a paper that, without their knowledge, made them members of a group that supported a flat tax. They then were considered members of a group and given a discount rate. Armey made moola as he collected the dues for the group.
Randy “Duke” Cunningham used legislation that was classified and known only to congress, to insert his little perks in return for those lovely French commodes.
The name Dick Armey always conjures up a terrifying image in my mind. Kinda like the marching hammers in “The Wall,” only, um, different helmets.
Hang in PJ….Safe travel Kat, and check in with us or at least email if you can and let us know youre OK.
I put Rich up…
Have to get the boy up and start on my wonderful day of shopping with grandpa and Will at the museum of natural history for the origami meeting. They at least have a new live reptiles exhibit that maybe Ill spend $15 to see…though the frog one was no prize at theat price…you expect a little more than one little room of frogs, considering that Mystic Ct aquarium, much smaller in general, had so many more as part of admission fee….
whatever…
Have a look at rich…no commentary here because I’m just too overwhelmed to even think….
my gawd, pj your poor mom….did that work on the scar tissue?
I remember that damn tube in me and they lied. :growl: they won’t pull it out until you’re awake “enough” which means you are aware. “move your hands if you can hear me” meanwhile your arms are strapped to the bed so you can’t rip the damn thing out of your throat. :billcat:
have fun, Melina…but how does Will get around with his blue casts on the legs???? 😕
Yeah, it worked on her. Better her than me. She went through a lot of shit. Being a woman of a certain age and generation, they basically ignored and dismissed her an awful lot of the time. Plus, she was pretty goofy and silly, and always kidding around (a trait I was too much of a tightass to appreciate, most of my life – though I’d have appreciated it in somebody else’s mom), so I don’t think they took her seriously. Had to use my Klingon on a couple of ’em.
Yep, yep. None of that for me, thanks. I’m afraid I’ll just have to die. I was so reluctant to go the dentist at one point that I got abscesses, and I used to shove a sewing needle in them and squeeze out the pus.
There, that ought to show what my medical advice is worth. :rofl2:
Ugh, PJ…thats gross…really gross…
You need to have your teeth cleaned every 6 months….that is a must around here!
He can walk with crutches and he complains bitterly all the time. Right now Ive got his butt in the tub, after doinghis head separately…so I had to lower him in with my eyes closed and hes in there washing his bottom…
He is as bad as PJ…they would be a nightmare together!
His legs hurt him though because these casts put his foot at a higher upwards angle so hes walking on his heels…hopefullybuilding up callus.
I hope you have a good electric toothbrush and floss regularly anyway….not having teeth is no fun!
dental hygiene is very important in my book :nod:
so a third American has now won the Tour de France.
Floyd Landis deserves this win after that ride – and with a crappy hip to boot.
Hat tip to you Floyd! :nixon:
Oh, that was many years ago.
Re #48
I dunno, PJ. If there’s no room for me among all the critters, I can always find some company over at Hannidate — that RichNSmooth fella is quite a cutie :omg: woo hoo!:hubba:
Yeah, well, have you even noticed I haven’t been around lately?
I THOUGHT we’d hear from Raging Granny!
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Syria Says It Will Press for Cease-Fire in Mideast Fighting, but Only Within Broader Framework
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syria, one of Hezbollah’s main backers, said Sunday it will press for a cease-fire to end the fighting between Israel and the Islamic militant group but only in the framework of a broader Middle East peace initiative.
Damascus warned, however, that it will not stand by if the Israelis step up their offensive in Lebanon.
I feel somewhat speechless today- My cousin’s and his wife had their first baby yesterday. A visit to their website found not only pics of the new baby but 2100 fliker photos of my family many/ most I had never seen. I spent 2-3 of the wee hours this morning looking- pics of my mom and her brother both had emphysema. Many hospital stays over 20 years and the last one I spent 3 days on the cot in the room running interference with the nurses- Mom was not sure where she was -thought we had put her in a nursing home. Once we got here out of there and into Hospice care at home she lasted about 6 weeks.
It is still blinking hot in Seattle. I have been trying to get house ready for my guests and need to get up the road to pick them up at Vancouver BC airport this afternoon.
FarmerKat it sounds like you will be in Spokane? Write to me if you want at my handle at gmail. Travis may also be in Spokane soon. I also need to get out there to see clients sometime soon. If there is any way I can be a support to you don’t hesitate to be in touch.
I have many friends and loved ones who are also medical miracles.
Still for me (I’m a loner) I think it best not to go down that particular road if I can avoid it. Still I feel very emotional about that decision all largley due to my fears about treatments and tests.
I actually started taking Lexipro in order to deal with some of my health anxieties but I only took one pill and was so uncomfortable I couldn’t keep it up. I decided to cut down on sugar and coffee. Sleep was the big issue. I have been relatively OK. I keep on going. I hardly ever get colds anymore due to always carrying Ferum Phos with me.
I found a haven of sorts in my own neighborhood last night when I went out to dinner with a friend. A restaurant that advertises on my local AAafilliate has moved very close to me- had some good talks with the owner who is VERY active locally- he is a big Malloy fan and is walking the talk.
I plan to take my friends there this week- The food was also damned fine and the place seemed to be populated by like-minded individuals.
I can’t tell you what this means to me.
I also had good dreams last night about meeting PJ and RG. Many many thanks for what you have provided for us here.
:knit::knit:
#64 That kind of sarcasm is not endearing:no:
Even if you don’t think that I don’t miss you (which I do :knit2:, but you don’t want to believe it :smack:), Siggy & the :billcat::billcat::billcat::billcat:ies miss you.
You need to get back here soon:nod:. Being inside the Beltway is giving you an inconsistent mental disposition :jason::tongue:. Must be the tularemia in the air on the Mall:yuck::barf:
Tularemia
:omg:
I think I have that…
:tinfoil:
and….Will complains MUCH, MUCH more…we are an hour late getting out of here because he cant stop complaining and yelling at me….
Hang in there PJ…we all miss you being home at this point.
:rofl2:
Maybe the sideshow restaurant today??….take some pictures…???
Bye all….wish me luck in grandpa land and museum of natural history origami land…ugh…
#67 —
Hey, sbluefox,
Congrats on the new baby in the family!
Thanks for the kind words and it certainly would be great to have a Seditionist meetup at some point.
Re medical miracles — it always amazes me when people get better despite some of the horrific treatments that are prescribed. The mind-body-spirit continuum is pretty amazing and the power of belief has a lot to do with the resolution of any medical condition. If the mind-body-spirit created it, the mind-body-spirit can heal it, but that usually requires some help. Modern medicine has some fantastic technology in its arsenal that is not always judiciously used. Like Melina said, you really need to find a Dr. who will respect you and work with you — you need to at least be close to the same wavelength so that you can make the best decisions for your particular situation. :yinyang:
Staying healthy and treating dis-ease should be part of a multidimensional integrative health care system, not a profit motivated dehumanizing mechanistic system like the one we have. Change is slow in coming, but come it must!:fist::gate::yinyang:
Exactly, RG! :fist:
(good luck melina!)
PJ, I decided to purchase the following equipment, http://www.jkaudio.com/autohybrid.htm
Let me know what you think. I doubt I’ll be using it to often, but one never knows. If the sound quality is good it may encourage me to include call ins on most of my podcasts. Perhaps I can include live interviews of morningseditionist bloggers too.
Skype seems to have a limit of five on a conference call from what I read on their site. I guess I just want another gizmo to play around with. Prolly need my head examined, but that’s another story.
Oh . . . Hiya all.
:banana:good late morning.:joe::joe:Yesterday not as hot as forecast but muggy. Today forecast for 100ºF and looks like its going there. Ugh. Already in 80s. Ugh. All the next week is supposed to be 85º or higher.This is NOT supposed to be happening in Portland.
a pretty good chuckle at you boyz’ expense!
Senator Levin is showing the general pro-Israeli position among “most Democrats.” Israel has right to defend from Hezbollah. Hezbollah is evil. The group must be disbanded.A lot of Arabs live in Michigan. I wonder how he spins his partisan politics with them. Bender is quite the mainstream Democrat. I’ll bet that most AAR hosts hold similar positions.
At this moment Maron has 666 friends.
Druid!:omg:
Re #78
:omg::omg: That can’t mean that he is the anti-Christ???:omg:
……..
can it?? :tinfoil::rabbi::paranoid::rabbi:
re #76 :mad::fu::rant1::rofl2:
there should be a maron-date so that liberals can get with liberals! hanni-date is scary!
:yuck::barf:one chick says something like “i’m more coulter than ann” on that hanni-date site
I think you young folks should certainly have a MaronDate:nod::love:
The hanni-date is scary:jason:, but kinda funny, too :rofl2:
Are you shopping around, Seanie?:hubba:
What the hell does more coulter than ann mean? :jason::billcat:
:nod:yeah the political fundraiser guy from alabama with lots of “muney” is hilarious!
Un-official Marc Maron on AAR Wake #2 TONIGHT ON FREERADIOSAIC.ORG.
yeah im gonna find a nice conservative girl from hanni-date and then once we uh :jerk: yeah then i’m gonna tell her i voted for kerry!
hi painting girl!
:banana:i went to see clerks 2 yesterday!
ass2mouth! eat pussy! porch monkeys for life!
:lol::rofl2:pillow-pants!
Clerks 2. :smack: THAT’S what I should’ve done yesterday.
I was VERY close to attending the actual premiere of Clerks 2 in L.A. but alas… not meant to be.
Hi Sean!!!
So I was reading comics this weekend (Ultimate X-men Vol. 1) in my continuing attempt to compartamentalize my brain into WAR and NOT-WAR. But UNFORTUNATELY, the frickin’ volume has to take place in relative “modern day” with Bush as the President.
The kinda good thing is that Magneto threatens to kill Bush. Strips him naked on the White House lawn and almost kills him. ALMOST.
Damn guy makes it. :growl:
:fist:magneto is a super-hero then!
:crap:im gonna go see the super ex girlfriend movie
:rofl2:watermelon!
:rofl2:hes kelly and i’m the hot stud!
Hey cnick, looks good. Have fun playing.
Wow. Didja see this in the Hartford Courant (written by Irving Stolberg, who served two separate terms as speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives in the 1980s)?
I just heard the name of the AAR person who occasionally filled in for Rachel Maddow’s earlier one hour show. Isaac David Erickson? Something like that. He had a good radio presence.
Hot here. Okay. Not as bad as Arizona, but I must go out to get to a store.
:omg:
Go to a Mall! Go to a Movie!
Hey!
Anybody home?
Later.
:knit2:On the “run” in all dimensions and I seem never to be here when others are…RATS and I have rats — 😮
What a GREAT, INFORMATIVE BLOG, and I, especialy due to SO MANY YEARS in mountains am a:crap: typist
:eek::spank::jerk:… (was, in late teens and early 20’s 100 plusWPM then cop logs made me bad, THEN SCHOOl and the rad acts for animal and environmental reasons made me a worse typist, then came mountains that made typing horrid, hmm about 5WPM…then add contemplation and more school to the equation = I SUCK:!:
THE RAGE even made an appearance :knit2:
PJ, there are great reasons to double scar — We Heal Quicker:!:…AND SO SORRY ABOUT YOUR MOM.:growl:(to those who “didn’t get double scarring) It makes great scars though :rofl2: 😉
I have to go make Rat food, do dishes, and…Bah HumBug. I hope later I will be able stop “run’n” and to “?type?”, but most will be one. 🙂 🙁
11th inning, no SG1 or whatever.:growl:
just a tad out of breath but home
travisdem_04 , Rats, :knit2: I even missed you.
:knit::gate:Happy Journeys
:knit2:Susan_Joy, I am gone but saw you as I run :banana::wink:
interesting about Joe :banana:
CNN anderson cooper just aired a clip of mike’s interview with Sheik Hassan Nasrallah from 2001! Think mike is one of the few americans who have interviewed him. 😯 Showed the back of mike’s head, though :spank:
DRAT! I ALWAYS seem to miss Trav and Druid.
ok, out of here until I’m on the west coast.
Ciao!
Israel’s Air and Artillery War Against Hezbollah
Something Old, Something New, Everything Hopeless
by Daniel Douek; July 23, 2006
The current mini-war between Israel and Hezbollah inspires a serious case of deja vu. It bears striking similarities to the Israel Defense Forces’ spring 1996 “Operation Grapes of Wrath,” and carrying important lessons for today. The 1996 operation, while ostensibly aiming to paralyze Hezbollah’s operational capacity, claimed hundreds of Lebanese civilian lives while gaining precious little relief for Israel’s beleagured northern population, which was then, as now, the target of incessant Hezbollah rocket attacks. Today, of course, the major difference is that Hezbollah is bolder and possesses an array of new long-range rocketry capable of hitting more distant and populous Israeli targets, as well as guided missiles of the sort used to hit a state-of-the-art Israeli corvette-class missile boat last week, killing four sailors and striking perhaps the greatest blow to Israel’s image of military supremacy since Hezbollah ambushed an Israeli commando raiding team on the Lebanese coast in 1998, killing fifteen. As Israel invests ever-greater military resources in its pursuit of Hezbollah, the potential for unprecedented escalation grows ever greater. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has warned of “new surprises” awaiting Israel; the IDF, meanwhile, has destroyed his home and headquarters in Beirut and has made public its intention to kill him, while bombing targets throughout Lebanon, including along the Syrian border. Yet the most striking parallel of all between the current episode and the 1996 mini-war is that Israel, for all its military might, cannot “win,” where victory is defined as a serious crippling of Hezbollah’s striking capacity, and an emerging regional context in which Hezbollah and Islamic extremism as a whole are marginalized.
Of course, two general rules of modern warfare have already stacked the odds against Israel’s success: first, escalating violence against religious extremism tends to beget more extremism, especially when massive (and seemingly avoidable) civilian casualties are inflicted. Second, a conventional army has rarely been able to dislodge a highly motivated and well-equipped guerilla army, with Israel’s 1982 ill-fated Lebanese invasion serving as a prime example. But there are deeper reasons why this operation may well serve to weaken Israel’s position vis-a-vis Hezbollah, and for these I turn again to the lessons of 1996…
To Buzz Hargrove (President of Canadian Auto Workers) July 19, 2006
Buzz,
Israel has killed nearly 300 Lebanese civilians and displaced half a million. It has been given cart blanche by the international community – including Harper’s government – to kill as many people as it likes.
The corporate media has sold people on the lie that the crisis originated with the capture of a single soldier by Hamas militants based in Gaza. As always, Israeli expansionism is ignored and it is depicted as acting in self defence..Israeli strikes killed scores of civilians in Gaza in the weeks prior to the capture of the Israeli soldier. The day before his capture Israel kidnapped two civilians from Gaza. Worse, since 2000 Israel has implemented a murderous siege on Gaza that has tripled malnutrition among children according to conservative sources such as the UN and the World bank. It is important to note that Israel’s economic strangulation precedes both the election of Hamas and the so called “withdrawal” from the Gaza.
It is worth remembering that Israel funded Hamas during its early days to undermine the PLO. Israeli policy has consistently placed expansionism above security. Contrary to much fantasy that has not changed in recent years.
Please reconsider your stand on CUPE’s call for economic sanctions against Israel. The labour movement should be taking action.
Joe Emersberger Local 1498
http://www.zmag.org/content/print_article.cfm?itemID=10626§ionID=107
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CALLING ALL MARONITES!!!
Unofficial Wake #2 for TMMS and MS going on RIGHT NOW!!!
http://www.FREERADIOSAIC.ORG
Playing all of Morning Sedition Radio Theater’s Marc Maron and the Shadow Government!!!
Come one…. come all!
Please?
hey everyone…back again….
Im going to look for painting girl’s show….I think I missed it though…..
Didn’t miss it…. just started. 🙂
Some tech. problems but luckily I’m gonna try and squeeze all of “…the Shadow Government” on the show. Just gonna let it play….
Geez, it really IS great radio work.
I’m listening! Ah, gods, I needed a funny fix! It makes me sad, though, all at the same time.
Phoener….
Yep, I understand that.
But the more we show that THIS is the kind of show we want… the more likely it is that we’ll GET this kind of show…
whether it’s via AAR, Maron, or podcasting.
And in terms of this not being current, it’s astonishing how relevant MS’s material continues to be.
Hell, I’d still be listening to these old MS shows if they weren’t lost on my old hard drive!
I was listening to an Audible recording of Molly Ivins best columns, and you couldn’t tell the difference between Bush I and Bush II columns. 😀 I guess relevence is all relative.
With these wakes and all… listening to the past bits, etc… and reading these blogs… It just makes me realize how talented the whole community is. There should be a way we can take advantage of that and make something we’d all love….
Hey PJ if your around just thought I’d let you know that after ordering the JK Autohybrid I found a better solution for my Mac. Its called the “Phone Valet Message Center” by a company called Parliant. Check this out!
http://www.parliant.com/phonevalet/
So I’m going to call B&H Photo in NY tomorrow morning and cancel the JK interface in lieu of the Message Center. I ordered PhoneValet with the Podcast Bundle which includes some additional software to clean up my audio. I record my podcasts in the bedroom of my apartment and the extraneous noise always manages to find a home in my podcasts. Rather annoying, but I don’t have the ability to soundproof my apartment bedroom. So I’m hoping the additional software will do the trick. Alas, another toy to occupy my spare time. At least it keeps me at home and out of trouble.
Night PJ, Sheeple.
Druid!!! I like you . . . you’re so fun . . . I love trying to figure out what your saying. It’s like a puzzle with words and emoticons . . . way cooler than my damn rants. Keep up the good work. I’d help you wash those dirty dishes if I were there. Bye all, its time for bed for me. I gots to work early tomorrow morning.
cnick- my grandpa is a pioneer of radio and in the early days they did most of the shows from hotel room bathrooms. You can get a pretty good sound in the bathroom apparently….all the earliest radio was done that way.
huh so can i now download the whole shadow government as one file?
:growl:damn israelis!
:omg:i no longer believe there can be a two state solution its kind of odd i think that that is the one issue that bush kerry and nader are all on the same page on kinda frightening!
:fist:all i am saying is give peace a chance!
:blech:i’m all alone! ok well im out 180 miles to go!
:sdavid:i’m not anti-semetic am i?
:holla:i’m number 4! i think i dont like fred anymore!
:shock::paranoid:sorry fred please dont hurt me!
:yawn:
Not quite alone Seanie Sean- better watch out, I’m sneaking up on you. :jason:
:rofl2:SBlueFox :rofl2::rofl2::lol: 8)
I was looking up you and SeanMS :rofl2:
I was expecting you, SbluFox to be around SeanMS number 4 :rofl2:, but :rofl2:. Please I beg you SBlueFox and everyone else do many posts, but as people go up I am now 7:eek:…I liked when I was 10 or 11, and want to be in middle or below, so please all POST..:D Yeh, SBlueFox, you are advancing on Sean :rofl2:.”funny” teehee.. I have to run and do…maybe tomorrow i get to talk/write 😆 8) :doh: 😉