Jerry Ford’s cozy little cottage in Colorado is up for sale, if anybody’s interested. It’s only listed at $13 million, and from the photos, it looks like pretty nice digs. Makes me wonder what Jerry did for a living, though, to afford a place like that. I mean, wasn’t he a congressman for, like, ever, before he got the gig as Nixon’s VP (thanks to Spiro Agnew being a criminal)? And then he got to be President for a little while. Doesn’t seem like those jobs pay enough. But I suppose he wrote a book or something.
For the most part, I don’t mind winter. In fact, I dislike the real hot weather a lot more than I do the cold stuff (there aren’t any bugs, you can actually do stuff without sweating to death, and the snow covers everything up, so you don’t have to worry about complying with what your neighbors consider an acceptable level of lawn care). But now we’re getting toward the end of February, and, while it’s staying lighter a little bit longer, it still gets dark depressingly early. We’re right around our average with 85 inches of snow so far, but, statistically speaking, we’re due another 40 inches or so before it’s all over. Not a big deal, but I’m at the age where I feel it all in my bones (and in my joints).
Speaking of bones and joints, I really wish they’d allow medical marijuana dispensaries here in the Empire State. That would definitely take the edge off things, and a couple cookies before bedtime would help me sleep. Oh well, the government knows best, I guess.
It was a pretty stress-free weekend here (though not a very productive one, as I accomplished pretty much nothing). SU didn’t play a hoops game, so there was nothing much to anguish over (though lacrosse season started, with the men winning once, and the women winning twice). Now, though, it’s back to work.
It depends on what kind of winter we have. The weather forecast for the next 4 days is rain snow and sleet with alternating freezing and thawing temperatures. Yuck! Although, if it’s yucky enough, I will take the day off and that is just ducky.
Sue, I heard this on NPR. :omg:
Op-Ed: Ignore Your Food’s Expiration Dates
Audio for this story from Talk of the Nation will be available at approx. 6:00 p.m. ET
I’m sure we can now keep food forever. I just wonder if eating this forever lasting food is good for us. I have no confidence in the honesty of either big agra or bought off government.
Long a fixture among young people, use of the country’s most popular illicit drug is now growing among the AARP set, as the massive generation of baby boomers who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s grows older.
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/pot-seniors-rises-baby-boomers-age/
During an appearance Sunday on NBC’s Meet The Press, Gen. Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, told host David Gregory that he doesn’t regret the US won’t have Bush-era interrogation techniques to use on the recently captured Pakistan Taliban leader, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
“Do you wish you had the interrogation methods that were available to you during the Bush administration to get intelligence from a figure like this?” Gregory asked.
“I have always been on the record, in fact, since 2003, with the concept of living our values,” Petraeus responded. “And I think that whenever we have, perhaps, taken expedient measures, they have turned around and bitten us in the backside.”
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/petraeus-harsh-interrogations-bit-backside/
In a Sunday appearance on CBS, former Secretary of State Colin Powell defended President Obama’s national security strategy, suggesting that former Vice President Dick Cheney’s attacks were not “borne out by the facts.”
Speaking to Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, Powell cast doubt on what was characterized as Cheney’s near weekly attempts to undermine President Obama’s national security efforts. He defended the president on both his national policy, escalating the war in Afghanistan and continuing support for Pakistan’s government, and using federal courts to prosecute the Christmas Day bomb plotter, instead of military tribunals.
“In eight years the military commissions have put three people on trial. Two of them served relatively short sentences and are free,” Powell said. “One guy is in jail. Meanwhile the federal courts, our Article 3 regular legal court system has put dozens of terrorists in jail. They’re fully capable of doing it. So the suggestion that somehow a military commission is the way to go isn’t borne out by the history of the military commission.”
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/powell-rebukes-cheney-backs-obama-national-security/
Florida gov, Charlie Crist says the stimulus created jobs.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/22/839586/-FL-Sen:-Precursor-to-a-switch
Scott Brown, Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, and Voinovich all voted for cloture on the jobs bills. Ben Nelson voted, “No.”
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/22/839635/-Hey,-A-Bipartisan-Jobs-Bill!
There must be something in the water, today, or perhaps it’s that never-spoil food. Or, maybe that senior pot smoking is catching on with the Senate Rethugs.
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Don Pardo
http://www.movieline.com/2010/02/still-live.php
92 yrs young! :bow:
:cake: :banana:
http://www.brainygamer.com/the_brainy_gamer/
i think you might enjoy this site pj oh and you need a mic and we need to play some of the spec ops missions from call of duty!