Happy Memorial Day.
That doesn’t sound right, does it? I mean the “happy” part. Today shouldn’t be about “happy.” It should be about remembering all that Guidi Ruliani did on 9/11, and what a hero he is. Instead, today has become just another excuse for picnics, beer drinking, and partying. Kind of like the Fourth of July without the fireworks (though I did hear fireworks around last night – whether they were “official” or not, I don’t know). But, like most Americans, when I think of Guidi in drag, I kind of have a little party (with fireworks) in my pants (a sensation that, I’m sure, crosses all boundaries of gender and sexual preference).
Anyhow, back here in small-town (aka, “real”) America, today is a bit anti-climactic. At least at our house.
Sure, there’s a parade down in the Village (in fact if we were truly motivated, we could probably make it to three different parades all within a hop, skip, and a jump of here, conveniently spaced a half hour apart), but our weekend guests (one of the kids who survived the ravages of the killer tornadoes in Minneapolis and her boyfriend) have left. Too bad, because it’s good for the dogs to see new faces (have I ever mentioned that it’s all about the dogs?).
After sitting up way past my bedtime around the fire last night, they had to make an early-morning flight which required leaving the house at 4:00 (not me), so naturally the t-storms that had been holding off all weekend (really nice weather, thank you Mother Nature that actually saw the pool get quite a bit of use, though the water was just a wee bit chilly; good thing we’re all hearty stock from well north of the Mason-Dixon line) decided to roll in at about, oh, I dunno, midnight or something.
So it was up and out of bed for me with the dogs, and on with the Thundershirts – which I think really did help to calm them down, so maybe they’ll work out. Fortunately, I had an unwatched “Friday Night Lights” recorded, and the dogs really like that show because it has lots of cute girls in it (my boys really like the ladies – not Guidi Ruliani, though).
Anyhow, not much sleep for me, so it’s a good thing it’s a holiday. And no toads in the skimmer basket, which is always a nice way to start the day.
What a lovely way to start the day, with a photo of Ghouliani in drag. If he were president, perhaps he would reprise that role at the correspondents dinner. During the day he could think of ways to restrict human activity such as flying kites. He said that we should not think of freedom as the freedom TO do stuff but the freedom FROM things. He freed us NYers from flying kites, crossing the street and putting up protest signs, among other such helpful stuff. Then, we were freed from him, which was a wonderful thing.
Isn’t there a video of Ghouliani in drag getting nuzzled by Trump?
We need more Kinks…
Or maybe this one is more appropriate for Giudi or Barri down there. \/
That photo is oh so disturbing :billcat:
With Republicans in complete control of Maine’s state government for the first time since 1962, State Senator Lois A. Snowe-Mello offered a bill in February to limit doctors’ liability that she was sure the powerful doctors’ lobby would cheer. Instead, it asked her to shelve the measure.
“It was like a slap in the face,†said Ms. Snowe-Mello, who describes herself as a conservative Republican. “The doctors in this state are increasingly going left.â€
Doctors were once overwhelmingly male and usually owned their own practices. They generally favored lower taxes and regularly fought lawyers to restrict patient lawsuits. Ronald Reagan came to national political prominence in part by railing against “socialized medicine†on doctors’ behalf.
But doctors are changing. They are abandoning their own practices and taking salaried jobs in hospitals, particularly in the North, but increasingly in the South as well. Half of all younger doctors are women, and that share is likely to grow.
There are no national surveys that track doctors’ political leanings, but as more doctors move from business owner to shift worker, their historic alliance with the Republican Party is weakening from Maine as well as South Dakota, Arizona and Oregon, according to doctors’ advocates in those and other states.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/30/health/policy/30docs.html