Sorry for her, sorry for us

Good morning Sunday bloggers!

C9

But Hillary is part of the 97%. Hillary understands Capitalism and The American Way!

Shut the fuck up.

get a life.

Oh we all know the 3% support the troops, they just don't want the troops to win in Iraq. The 3% is totally invested in the defeat of the US troops in Iraq.

US Naval Ship Arrives in Bangladesh

FARID HOSSAIN
Updated: 11/23/2007
Happy News dot com
The U.S. Navy was prepared Friday to deliver much-needed food and medical supplies to hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis stricken by Cyclone Sidr, a top U.S. military commander said.

The arrival of the USS Kearsage off the Bangladesh coast came as authorities and aid workers warned that the South Asian country faces acute food shortages after the devastating storm ravaged crops and destroyed infrastructure across a large swath of the country.

''We are here to help the people in their time of need,'' Adm. Timothy Keating, the top U.S. military commander in the Pacific Ocean, told reporters.

The first ship arrived Thursday and Keating said a second ship, the USS Essex, would arrive in the coming days.

The ships are each carrying about 20 helicopters, which will help in delivering water, food and medical supplies to survivors in remote areas, U.S. officials said.

Did you see that? They sent in the Navy.
Facts from the CIA
In 1947, West Pakistan and East Bengal (both primarily Muslim) separated from India (largely Hindu) and jointly became the new country of Pakistan. East Bengal became East Pakistan in 1955, but the awkward arrangement of a two-part country with its territorial units separated by 1,600 km left the Bengalis marginalized and dissatisfied. East Pakistan seceded from its union with West Pakistan in 1971 and was renamed Bangladesh.

An aside to the topic "Away from Her" an excellent Julie Christie movie.
Christie plays Fiona a women with Alzheimers, and as she looses memory of her marriage and begins a relationship in the nursing home.
In the movie the Fiona's husband like Justice O'Connor is not jealous of her spouse's new relationship.

The movie is worth the rental.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0491747/

C9

feels any remorse for her actions in Dec of 2000.
5/4 decision was all it took to stop the recount.

We reap as we sow.

One election at a time...

I thought it was just the anons you hated. Now we find you hate free speech.

in all it's glory!

big front offshore but nice here this dawn.

Blog.

We hate STUPID speech!

You keep us well supplied.

You just made my mawnin'!

I get the owner's manual! Wahoo! Although I don't think you want me to try and drive something that big. I have somewhat of a reputation with vehicles...seems I has a bit of the leadfoots.

You just don't want to be reminded of reality. You want to live in a pretend world.

article about growing old. Not the part that John found love. Rather the lifetime of regret that nearly made him vegetative.

can we enter you as the Blog Driver in the annual garbage truck races?

i'll wrench for the race, and we can talk dada into doing the racing stripes and numbers!

Russian police have broken up an opposition rally, arresting activists for the second day running.

Police detained about 150 people in St Petersburg, including opposition leader Boris Nemtsov - who was later freed.

The protest was organised by the Other Russia, a coalition of anti-Kremlin groups. They accuse the government of crushing dissent ahead of elections.

On Saturday Other Russia leader and former chess champion Garry Kasparov was arrested during a rally in Moscow.

Mr Kasparov was jailed for five days for leading an unauthorised march.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7111753.stm

is like a possessed doll made somewhere in china. you pull the string and it says a canned toxic phrase. by my count it seems to have about 30 phrases that it can puke up. same stuff over and over. never any original thought. never a defendable point. rarely something that is remotely believable.

/|\ and Blessings that her troubled husband has found something special to go with "This Passing".

10-year-old's fascination with garbage trucks is rewarded with special ride.

http://www.azcentral.com/community/westvalley/articles/0609gl-jimmy09Z1....

"Ten-year-old Jimmy Yurkovich can hear a garbage truck's special hydraulic brake system a mile away.

He can distinguish which city he's in by the type of garbage containers that line driveways.

So the young Peoria resident was speechless when he walked outside Wednesday morning to find two garbage trucks waiting for him.

Glendale learned about his passion for garbage trucks through one of its sanitation workers and decided to surprise Jimmy with a special ride.

"This is like one in a million," Jimmy said afterward. "I wasn't expecting this."

The is for War Dog ...

Wingnut Crap of the Week
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 10:20am.
Via Roy, the very prestigious New York Post, as well as Citizen Journalists across the land, are horrified, just horrified, by the results of this poll:

Nearly two-thirds of Americans think it is possible that some federal officials had specific warnings of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, but chose to ignore those warnings, according to a Scripps Howard News Service/Ohio University poll.

The Post reports on these findings in its distinctive idiom:

‘BLAME U.S. FOR 9/11′ IDIOTS IN MAJORITY
‘PLOTS’ THICKEN IN SHOCKING POLL

Michelle Malkin is likewise (ahem) disturbed. “Guess Kos was right when he proclaimed of the nutroots: ‘We are the center.’ The fringe is now mainstream.” Other voices on the Right are just as alarmed: “This is madness writ large.” As indeed it is — for instance, the NY Post wrote it large in all capital letters.

As Roy remarks, “‘Blame U.S. For 9/11′? Seen from a less hysterical angle, the poll result seems like a merely uncharitable reading of the findings of the 9/11 Commission.” Exactly. Which is why I tend to have little patience for 9/11 conspiracy theories, on the grounds that such theories distract from the appalling public record.

But then again, the public record is rather the point. I find 9/11 conspiracy theories troubling, but then, I ask myself, “Self? What do you expect? It is quite clear that the administration began a war on the flimsiest of pretexts, then botched this war in an amazingly obvious fashion, all the while running an absurd PR campaign designed to sell the American people a bunch of absolute horseshit about how swell the war was going.” This is an administration that says torture is not torture, that corruption is not corruption, that lies are truth. Hell, it even stonewalled the 9/11 investigation. What were we all supposed to make of that? The known, undisputed and indisputable history of the Bush administration reads like a conspiracy theory.

So I have some sympathy with those who worry that one can never be paranoid enough when it comes to this bunch. Of course one can take that too far. But there should be no question of where the responsibility lies for the current climate of cynicism, paranoia, doubt, and distrust. Conservatives alarmed by such developments might want to run on a different campaign platform next time out, other than the one they’ve been using, which deliberately foments such passions in order to gain electoral advantage. Just saying.

Honestly. It’s pretty rich seeing lunatics like Malkin getting into hysterics at conspiracy theories. Movement conservativism is nothing else but one big giant conspiracy theory. What else was the Clinton impeachment mess but the wreckage of conspiracy theorists run amok? What else are we to make of the article of faith that Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were in cahoots — and of the fact that a conservative who even mildly hints otherwise is going to get smacked back into line mighty quick? What about the hysterical global warming denialism? The Lancet study madness? Or, the daddy of them all, the belief that the Main-Stream Media is deliberately conspiring to win elections for Democrats? And that the only way to prevent their dastardly scheme from succeeding is an army of online idiots who have some half-assed ability to run Google searches and can thus maybe get someone they don’t like harassed or fired for some imaginary transgression?

It’s obvious who’s on the “fringe,” and that would be the 30% crowd. And, of course, the Democratic leadership that’s still for some unfathomable reason afraid of these drooling fools, not to mention their punditocracy enablers. Why should that be, I wonder…?

(Shrugs) Dunno. Might have something to do with Elvis. Or Bigfoot. Probably Bigfoot.

http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/11/24/late-night-wingnut-crap-of-the-wee...

Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has launched a stinging attack on US policy, comparing it unfavourably with the British Empire.
[...]
Moral high ground

Dr Williams said the US, as the only "global hegemonic power", was trying to accumulate influence and control, rather than territory. But he said: "That is not working," describing the result as "the worst of all worlds".

He told the magazine the US had lost the moral high ground since the 11 September attacks and needed to take steps including "generous aid" to "the societies that have been ravaged", a "check on the economic exploitation of defeated territories" and a "demilitarisation" of its presence in them in order to recover.

The US believed that in Iraq it could then leave others to "put it back together", he said.
[...]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7111686.stm

BLOODY HELL
Garry Kasparov arrested in Russian protest
new
Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 10:58am.

and sadly DITTO is happening to American (ROMERICA[N] protesters. :(

From Australia
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 10:42am.
The New Blame Game : Why The Liberals Were Massacred At Election

By Darryl Mason

The John Howard Liberals have been effectively destroyed at the 2007 Australian federal election. It's a stunning victory, and Kevin Rudd will go down in history as the Labor leader who brilliantly defeated the supposedly unbeatable John Howard.

The Liberals, and conservative media, will never admit it, but Labor won because they ran a smoother, far more effective campaign and had a better dream to sell, and they sold it with skill, focus and patience.

The Liberal Party is already tearing itself apart. Alexander Downer's interview on Sunday morning on Insiders was absolutely hopeless. Expect him to join the conga line of "fuck this, I'm outta here!" Liberals moving on to very greener pastures in the corporate world. Costello will be first, Downer most likely second, followed by Tony Abbott.

David Flint, salty monarchist and paranoid conservative, has kicked off the "We Wuz Robbed!" campaign, and previews the long months to come of rampant conspiracy theorising amongst Liberals as he decides to blame :

....internal Liberal fighting and media bias for the poor Coalition showing and giving Kevin Rudd "a dream run".

Ah yes, media bias.

Not the media bias from Andrew Bolt, or Tim Blair, or Miranda Devine or Piers Akerman or most of the editorialists at The Australian newspaper. They were all for shredding Rudd and Labor without pause, so that was fair enough in Flint's view.

He's talking about the 'media bias' of the dreaded ABC, Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age. Curse those Evil Lefties!

But Flint has more theories than just 'media bias'. Dark theories. Of 'own goals' inside the Liberal Party. There was a plot, dammit! And Flint knows all about it. But he won't elaborate. Naturally :

More here:

http://theorstrahyun.blogspot.com/2007/11/new-blame-game-why-liberals-we...

Seem Australia has similar Media problems.

hows the fingers this AM?

think we're in winter mode allready.

Tasers a form of torture, says UN
Submitted by toniD on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 10:30am.
TASER electronic stun guns are a form of torture that can kill, a UN committee has declared after several recent deaths in North America.

"The use of these weapons causes acute pain, constituting a form of torture,'' the UN's Committee against Torture said.

"In certain cases, they can even cause death, as has been shown by reliable studies and recent real-life events,'' the committee of 10 experts said.

Three men, all in their early 20s, were reported to have died in the United States this week, days after a Polish man died at Vancouver airport after being Tasered by Canadian police.

The man, Robert Dziekanski, 40, fell to the ground and died after the police officers piled on top of him.

There have been three deaths in Canada after the use of Tasers over the past five weeks.

The company that makes the weapons has said that similar deaths have been shown by "medical science and forensic analysis'' to be "attributable to other factors and not the low-energy electrical discharge of the Taser".

The UN committee made its comments in recommendations to Portugal, which has bought the newest Taser X26 stun gun for use by police.

Portugal "should consider giving up the use of the Taser X26,'' as its use can have a grave physical and mental impact on those targeted, which violates the UN's Convention against Torture, the experts said.

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22814674-5001028,00....

[and I HAVE to clean Rat cages.]
Tea Cheers All and FareWell.

For years, we've grown dependant on American consumers as the world's spenders of last resort. They've kept Europe out of recession, allowed China to industrialise, and prevented global deflation.

But at the same time, they've not been looking after their own futures. The savings ratio in the US (the proportion of households' disposable income that is not consumed) has been in a long-term decline since the early 1980s. In the most recent data, it has dipped negative – yes negative. It means they are "running on empty" as they say. It can't go on.
[...]
For the past decade, Americans have seen their wealth increase without them having to save: first, their shares went up, and when they stopped rising in 2000, their houses went up. That gave people a sense of wealth that appeared to justify saving less.

But with the housing market in serious decline, people will have to save if they want a pension. Not just sit and watch the pension materialise out of nowhere.
[...]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/evandavis/2007/11/title_1.html

Briefly before heading out to church. I've been attending a UU church lately to see how I feel about it.

As a born and raised but disillusioned Catholic, I still feel the need to be part of a church "family." The more I hear about UU, the more interested I am.

Anyone here part of a UU church?

U.S. Scales Back Political Goals for Iraqi Unity
By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ALISSA J. RUBIN
WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 — With American military successes outpacing political gains in Iraq, the Bush administration has lowered its expectation of quickly achieving major steps toward unifying the country, including passage of a long-stymied plan to share oil revenues and holding regional elections.

Instead, administration officials say they are focusing their immediate efforts on several more limited but achievable goals in the hope of convincing Iraqis, foreign governments and Americans that progress is being made toward the political breakthroughs that the military campaign of the past 10 months was supposed to promote.

The short-term American targets include passage of a $48 billion Iraqi budget, something the Iraqis say they are on their way to doing anyway; renewing the United Nations mandate that authorizes an American presence in the country, which the Iraqis have done repeatedly before; and passing legislation to allow thousands of Baath Party members from Saddam Hussein’s era to rejoin the government. A senior Bush administration official described that goal as largely symbolic since rehirings have been quietly taking place already.

Bush administration officials have not abandoned their larger goals and emphasize the importance of reaching them eventually. They say that even modest steps, taken soon, could set the stage for more progress, in the same manner that this year’s troop “surge” opened the way, unexpectedly, for drawing Sunni tribesmen to the American side.

A senior official said the administration was intensifying its pressure on the Iraqi government to produce some concrete signs of political progress.

“If we can show progress outside of the security sector alone, that will go a long way to demonstrate that we are in fact on a sustainable path to stability in Iraq,” the senior official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/25/washington/25policy.html?_r=1&hp=&adxn...

What's a UU Church?

Unitarian Universalism (UUism) is a theologically liberal religious movement characterized by its support of a "free and responsible search for truth and meaning." This principle permits Unitarian Universalists a wide range of beliefs and practices. Unitarian Universalist congregations and fellowships tend to retain some Christian traditions such as Sunday worship that includes a sermon and singing of hymns, but do not necessarily identify themselves as Christians.

from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism

sounds pretty good to me.

Unitarian Universalist principles:

* The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
* Justice, equity and compassion in human relations;
* Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations;
* A free and responsible search for truth and meaning;
* The right of conscience and the use of the democratic process within our congregations and in society at large;
* The goal of world community with peace, liberty, and justice for all;
* Respect for the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Seems like a very common sense approach.
The last time I stepped into a Catholic church the service was still done in Latin.
Wow..it's been awhile

A friend of mine (she and her husband moved last year from the US to Canada) has been attending UU church for many years. She herself is Buddhist but has loved the community of the UU church.

Personally, I've been exploring Buddhist ideas off and on for many years now and found a podcast by a very American Buddhist from California to be quite informative.

What sounds best about UU to me is that they allow the people in their congregation to find their spiritual way through whatever means works best for them. The service is *very* comfortable since it has its roots in standard "Christian" services. (Last Sunday we even had a form of communion.) The songs are mostly familiar with traditional melodies but more universal lyrics.

I'm not sure my extremely Catholic mother would understand me wanting to make this sort of change, but I just don't feel comfortable in the trappings of Catholicism anymore and haven't for a very long time.

from the government that brought you "you have nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide" as they seized our civil liberties in the name of fighting terror, there is and always has been one outstanding unanswered question:

why did you block the investigation to 9-11? what are you afraid of? what are you hiding?

Service starts just after 11:00.

See you all for the book broadcast!

i understand they've come full circle and the new reich pope allows the mass to be said in latin again.

one of the first things that comes to mind is 'Opus Dei'

Much hipper!

On Nov. 6, Rep. Dennis Kucinich introduced articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney on the floor of the House of Representatives. For one shining moment the will of the majority of Americans and the promise of this nation's founders were truly represented.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/340904_focusimpeachment25.html

"Don't throw the past away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When ev'ry thing old is new again"

Isn't it ironic, a service performed for the moral benefit of the faithful is incomprehensible by those who need it most. Ritual...

Do high schools even teach Latin anymore?

U.S. friends and foes grabbing power
By HELEN THOMAS
HEARST NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON -- While President Bush has been distracted with his unpopular war against Iraq, friends and foes are busy grabbing power to perpetuate themselves in office.

Among them are Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan; Russian President Vladimir Putin; Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and President Mikhail Saakashvili of Georgia.

There is little the United States can do about the drift toward authoritarian rule.

For Bush, the toughest problem is the Pakistani leader whom he has called a "friend." The two men have established a close relationship and the U.S. president is not about to lower the boom on the Pakistani leader who has received a bundle of U.S. aid since 2001.

Despite Bush's personal entreaties and a visit from Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte, Musharraf has refused to reverse his decisions to suspend Pakistan's constitution and impose emergency rule, which is de facto martial law.

Musharraf's purged court has defended his decisions and opened the way for him to serve another 5-year term -- this time as a civilian president. The ruling is expected to hasten his decision to relinquish his post as commander of the armed forces.

Musharraf took power in a coup d'etat in 1999, deposing elected prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

Meantime, opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan -- who was ousted from power twice on accusations of staggering corruption -- has called on Musharraf to resign.

U.S. officials also are concerned about the safety of Pakistan's nuclear weapons.

Despite his efforts, the whole Pakistan episode is taking a toll on Bush's reliance on personal diplomacy. Remember when Bush met with Putin, looked into his eyes and said he had a "sense of his soul"? Putin's former career in the KGB secret police seems to have escaped Bush in the State Department's Cliff notes.

Under Russian law, Putin must step down as president next year -- but he obviously finds such an option to be very painful. The Russian president says he will run in the December parliamentary elections and hints that he could come back as a future prime minister.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/340911_thomas25.html

In a chat room there's usually a way to put people on "ignore" if they act like morons all the time.

true, but growing up i found the mass in latin went by faster than the one in english since you didn't have to pretend you understood what they were saying or that it had any real meaning to practical life.

hmmm, what was the penance for getting to first and if you were lucky second base? as monsignor buffet says: There's a thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.

This guy is GOOD.

Check him out, SEDER!

http://www.light-to-dark.com/Stephen_Pitt_Cartoons.html

Audio here:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5345

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 11/23/2007 8:55AM
AUDIO: Brad on the Stephanie Miller Show This Morning, Discussing the Sibel Edmonds Case...

Philippines where tribes lived that had never seen a white man. These tribal

people would occasionally see American and Japanese aircraft fly over. They had

no idea what the big noisy birds were. When explorers later found one of these

tribes, they found that they had invented a religion. They had constructed a huge

"airplane" made of bamboo and branches. They were worshipping their "Godbird" by

fire and smoke and bells, etc. The early explorers were amazed to see that these

indigenous people had "invented" the Catholic Church...in a remote jungle.

Absotively!!!! Although, I don't know how to drive a stick. I have to have the automatic variety. :-) And air ride is a must if I'm takin' the trash du jour limo on a jaunt at the speed of sound. :-)

97% of the American People love America and think it is the best country in the world.

97% of the American People love America and think it is the best country in the world.

anyone know how long youtube's site has been down????

When the story hit here earlier in the week I could see just from reading the headline that the underlying heart break for Justice O'Connor is not about her husband, but just, Justice.
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Rockettes are calling... off to work.
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Jamesbennett

it's PIG Latin.

Submitted by Peter Dragon on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 11:45am.

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Ad astra per alia porci!

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Pigasus story:

http://steinbeck.sjsu.edu/biography/pigasus.jsp

This guy's good - just listening to the podcast from last wednesday. MUCH more enjoyable than Lionel. and Schultz. and all the Green & Greene shows. and the world's most dangerous liberal (forgot his name). and Thom. and Malloy. and Randi.

Will Durst for Rachel Maddow

http://www.quakeradio.com/podcast/maddow.xml
From Green 960 in San Francisco - the Rachel Maddow show.

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/108150/2941771
Project on Governmental Oversight

he IS good!

http://www.light-to-dark.com/Stephen_Pitt_Cartoons.html

ABC NEWS

ABC News' Teddy Davis Reports During an interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday, former Sen. Fred Thompson, R- Tenn., grew testy when shown clips of conservatives Fred Barnes and Charles Krauthammer saying that the former Law and Order actor could not win.

Thompson said such doom and gloom had been a "constant mantra" of Fox News since he got into the race.

He complained about the show's decision to show his poor performance in New Hampshire primary polls and pointed to how he is doing nationally (where some polls have him in second), in South Carolina (where some polls have him "leading or tied for the lead") and in Iowa (where third still puts him numerically ahead of Rudy Giuliani).

"For you to highlight nothing but the negative in terms of these polls and then to put on your own guys who have been predicting for four months, really, that I couldn't do it kind of skews things a little bit," said Thompson. "There is a lot of other opinion out there."

When asked by Wallace if anyone thinks he has run a great campaign, Thompson said, "It's not for me to come here and try to convince you that I've run a great campaign."

He then pointed to praise his policy ideas have received from the conservative National Review magazine........

Free Democracy

The funniest thing I ever heard on the Seder show was the day a guy called up (we later learned was a comic friend of Seder's but he stayed in character the whole time) claiming to be from Fox News Security, ordering Seder to leave Air America and report to the nearest police department. This happened the same week Bill O'Reilly had threatened a caller by saying Fox had his phone number and he could expect Fox Security to come and - arrest him? Do bodily harm? I dunno.

Anyway the bit on Seder's show was probably the funniest thing I ever heard on Air America outside of Janeane once upon a time commenting live during Bush's State of the Union address.

Janey's corny old fascist father would go on and on with his 97% bullshit!

Submitted by pbtrue1 on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 11:59am.

Do high schools even teach Latin anymore?

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Yes.

Kewl kids learn Latin like Harry Potter.

Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus.

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Hey, there's a hot Latin Club on Seder's blog now!

n.b. Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cohn11242007.html
Marjorie Cohn

If the United States attacks Iran, the results would be catastrophic. Three Europeans, including former French Prime Minister Michel Rocard and Yehuda Atai, a member of the Israeli Committee for a Middle East without Weapons of Mass Destruction, wrote in Libération, "We are being warned about it from all sides: The United States is at the brink of war, ready to bombard Iran. The only thing lacking is the presidential order." Drawing parallels with the U.S. war in Iraq, they caution, "An attack against Iran, whatever its targets, its methods and its initial scope, will significantly aggravate the situation, achieving similar results, without even talking about the disastrous impact on the global economy."

...

The threats against Iran appear to be politically motivated. Seymour Hersh's extensive research has convinced him that Bush/Cheney will invade Iran. They likely think embroiling us in Iran will ensure a GOP victory in 2008. It will certainly make it harder for the next President to withdraw from Iraq once we are mired in Iran.

If Hillary Clinton becomes that next President, she will likely continue Bush's foreign policy. Clinton, who favors leaving a large contingent of U.S. troops in Iraq, says nothing about disbanding the huge U.S. military bases there. Clinton is also rattling the sabers in Iran's direction. She voted to urge Bush to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization and she, too, misquotes Ahmadinejad about Israel...

morfternoon!

i'm waiting for when we can get brain upgrades we can plug in.

i've always wanted a proficiency in the old scholar languages

I like the Pink Rudy.

whoa BB!

available for yer blogging pleasure!

a home riff 4U folks...

when Granny'd get excited, she'd sound a lot like a motorbike horn

eya voxxer!
Submitted by Sunshine Jim on Sun, 11/25/2007 - 1:24pm.
morfternoon!

i'm waiting for when we can get brain upgrades we can plug in.

i've always wanted a proficiency in the old scholar languages

_________________

Sunshine Jim,

Sub sole nihil novi est.

(There's nothing new under the sun.)

I enjoyed learning a Latin word or two. I love reading books.

I think you would like some satire in Latin -- especially since I know you enjoy reading Twain.

...to all that took the time to visit my site and see my pictures. Currently, I'm in writer's block mode, but will re-engage the enemy as soon as possible.

Not that I'm reticent or out of the action. Some large sites have actually discovered that a harmless ideological progressive who doesn't spam can get the word out and link up without breaking rules. Communication is everything. Its never been any different.

Anyway, my sitemeter got me here, and when I read the kind words, I was compelled to register and give thanks.

OMG! You allow "img" html. Is that for real? Could I post images?

In the meantime, feel free to right click my stuff for any non-commercial use. We are all in this together.

Thank you all again. I needed it.

Who can save? I'm from the baby boomer generation-they jacked up what they took out of paychecks in my early working days-Thank's Reagun. But I knew it had to be to.. the responsibility to care for us would not land so heavily in the future. It was hard to find a good job, competition was brutal due to the numbers. Impossible to get into the majors wanted in college. Corporate america big stores wiped out our towns and community based stores. Good jobs disappeared to other countries. Technology and robots downsized others. The few jobs that offered health insurance charged more and more and finally either hired younger folks they could pay less or dropped health care altogether. I am too old to do heavy work anymore but I wouldn't be too proud not to take anything. My husband is totally disabled, needing medical care forced him to apply for SSD. He could not find a new job that covered him with a pre-existing condition. Again, up a creek-no paddles.

We have no car, rent and have 1 credit card for emergencies. We owe $150 on it and it has never been higher. We do not have anything fancy, we get no haircuts-don't eat out or order pizza's in. I am barely 56, my husband 51. I have 20 year old dentures, have not been to a doctor or opthamologist in decades. We were middle-class, hard working, saved what we could-wiped out time after time when the washing machine gave out, or the kids needed something. I am college educated but because we lived in the outback so long, had iffy vehicles (and a lot of time no phone)-lack consistent work history. I am glad I could be home for the kids but am paying for it now. I do what I can-clean and cook for seniors-who think I'm very young still!
I sew and repair clothes. I make baby quilts and pillows. I garden and we eat the produce. I drive for people who have cars. Any of that money goes so we can have more heat and don't have to close off the house with blankets, or afford a birthday present. A lot of it is just bad luck here and there no matter how good you think you've planned things.