Good news this morning. Time Warner’s attempt to institute “metered” Internet access (paying by the byte for downloads) in Rochester has failed miserably. This will hopefully put an end to this sort of nonsense. Otherwise, I’m too tired from the weekend to say much, except “smoke it if you got it.”
Lovely bit of botany to wake up to!
It’s cold. Supposed to rain all day. A perfect way to get back to work after a week and a half of doing other crazy things.
The lawyer has yet to offer the will for probate because he needed an affidavit from my aunt, attesting to the fact that I am an only child. As part of that affidavit he asserted that mother had been married only once. She had been married twice, the first time being a deep dark secret and aunty didn’t know how to break the news to me. (I had known for a long time and still can’t figure out why it was a secret.) Families are all crazy, I think. Anyone have a family that isn’t nuts?
I’m sure that, even if this is upheld as illegal by SCOTUS, the Obama DOJ will not seek to investigate – let alone prosecute – those involved, since they were just following
orderscivilian directives.heron flies east…
Sue P.
We found out that my grandmother was married before when my Dad started working on family history and was digging in the census.
Apparently it was an abusive relationship with “no issue”
She was married for 10 years to the bloke.
When I was looking into my family history, I found that my grandfather had been married before he married my grandmother.
I found an item in the November, 1913 newspaper that said when my grandfather came home from work on one night, he found the front door locked, and made his way in, only to find his wife locked in her bedroom, dead in her rocking chair with her knitting in her lap, windows sealed up tight, and gas jets wide open. The newspaper article indicated that she’d been treated for “melancholia” for several months.
Sad, but good for me, I guess, since I wouldn’t be here otherwise.
Not a story I’d heard before, but then my grandfather was dead more than 20 years before I was born.
Both of my parents grew up in a small farm community in NE Kansas. The things that happened in that little town would provide several seasons worth of plots for multiple soap-operas. I get a good laugh every time I hear some rapture-righty talking about getting back to the family values of the Eisenhower years. This was a town with a few hundred people and four churches. :jesus:
My mother was married previously and had two daughters who I grew up with but we never heard much about their father (who was killed in some kind of accident) and that side of the family. My sisters mostly visited them separately. I think it had something to do with the same reason I was not allowed to wear blue jeans. My mother and George :jerk: Will. Who knew?
C.I.A. interrogators used waterboarding, the near-drowning technique that top Obama administration officials have described as illegal torture, 266 times on two key prisoners from Al Qaeda, far more than had been previously reported.
The C.I.A. officers used waterboarding at least 83 times in August 2002 against Abu Zubaydah, according to a 2005 Justice Department legal memorandum. Abu Zubaydah has been described as a Qaeda operative.
A former C.I.A. officer, John Kiriakou, told ABC News and other news media organizations in 2007 that Abu Zubaydah had undergone waterboarding for only 35 seconds before agreeing to tell everything he knew.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30302830/