Tuesday, March 1, 2011
2/16/11
2/16/11
8:54a
My week of hell starts today. I must compile the e-billing inv status report. It takes me over a week – I have to do it every month on the 15th – and it is so grueling…
9:29a - OMG! Mike Gallagher was just talking about the tanning booth tax – I’d heard about this tax before – Hugh Hewitt was talking about it last year with my honey bunny Mark Steyn – I’m sorry I know he’s married – but his accent makes my knees weak….uh…back to topic at hand…OH YEAH! Tanning booth tax…so mark was saying it was prejudice against all those pasty white people in New Hampshire – but I never thought about it being a Caucasian racial thing! Black people don’t tan – this tax directly affects Caucasian people ONLY! How racist is THAT Michelle OBAMA-MAMA? That does tick me off just a little bit. What a witch!
11:33A –
The Kindle is on sale at Target again for $139. I think I’m going to get one this weekend. I want to purchase Dean Koontz’s ebook – Darkness Under the Sun. It is a companion book to What the Night Knows.
Plus – all the Odd Thomas books and all the Frankenstein books. Those are my absolute favorites of Dean Koontz’s.
I am going to try to be very conservative in my purchase of books. Like – only one at a time. ALSO – I really want a new iPod Nano. My old one doesn’t work, I’ve lost all my music – and the new nano has 8gb’s for $145 – although the 16gb is only $175. The iPod classic has 160GB but it’s $250.00
AND – for my birthday I was thinking about on buying a Nintendo DS XL - $169
I’m going to go heat up my chicken & dumplin’ soup…
12:51p
From Dennis Prager: Marry with your brain, your heart, and your sexuality. – not necessarily split 33%, 33%, 33% - but with all of those involved.
2:20p
You too, huh?
8:54a
My week of hell starts today. I must compile the e-billing inv status report. It takes me over a week – I have to do it every month on the 15th – and it is so grueling…
9:29a - OMG! Mike Gallagher was just talking about the tanning booth tax – I’d heard about this tax before – Hugh Hewitt was talking about it last year with my honey bunny Mark Steyn – I’m sorry I know he’s married – but his accent makes my knees weak….uh…back to topic at hand…OH YEAH! Tanning booth tax…so mark was saying it was prejudice against all those pasty white people in New Hampshire – but I never thought about it being a Caucasian racial thing! Black people don’t tan – this tax directly affects Caucasian people ONLY! How racist is THAT Michelle OBAMA-MAMA? That does tick me off just a little bit. What a witch!
11:33A –
The Kindle is on sale at Target again for $139. I think I’m going to get one this weekend. I want to purchase Dean Koontz’s ebook – Darkness Under the Sun. It is a companion book to What the Night Knows.
Plus – all the Odd Thomas books and all the Frankenstein books. Those are my absolute favorites of Dean Koontz’s.
I am going to try to be very conservative in my purchase of books. Like – only one at a time. ALSO – I really want a new iPod Nano. My old one doesn’t work, I’ve lost all my music – and the new nano has 8gb’s for $145 – although the 16gb is only $175. The iPod classic has 160GB but it’s $250.00
AND – for my birthday I was thinking about on buying a Nintendo DS XL - $169
I’m going to go heat up my chicken & dumplin’ soup…
12:51p
From Dennis Prager: Marry with your brain, your heart, and your sexuality. – not necessarily split 33%, 33%, 33% - but with all of those involved.
Ps. I’m going to go dump out my chicken & dumplin’ soup. Bleckish. I did eat a can of sliced pears that was yummy.
You too, huh?
In an interview slated to air Sunday on the CBS-TV show "60 Minutes," Brown said he was abused several times by the counselor.
Brown also said he suffered physical abuse at the hands of his stepfathers, according to a news release issued by the show.
Brown told interviewer Lesley Stahl that even his mother didn't know about the abuse.
"That's what happens when you're a victim. You're embarrassed. You're hurt," he said.
Brown said the camp counselor had touched him and he had been forced to touch the counselor. He said the counselor threatened to kill him if he told anyone about what had happened.
"Fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated, so to speak, but it was certainly, back then, very traumatic," he said.
Brown gave the interview on the eve of publication of his memoir "Against All Odds."
In promotional material for his book, Brown said he was subjected to “a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather” at the age of 6 after stepping in to defend his mother from abuse.
He told "60 Minutes" he once took a tour when a house where he had lived with an abusive stepfather came up for sale. "As I left, I said, 'Man, I wish I had the money. I'd just buy this thing and burn it down," he told the show.
Brown caught the national spotlight in January 2010 when he won a special election to replace the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate who had represented the state for decades. His election upended the political landscape and turned out to be a harbinger of a Republican resurgence in the fall elections.
New Study Highlights Cold-Busting Properties of Zinc
People also tend to spend more time indoors during winter, which increases the frequency of close contact with one another, and boosts the likelihood of virus transmission. In addition, viruses remain in common space areas such as elevators and break rooms, as well as on surfaces such as countertops, doorknobs, and telephones.
The normal duration of a cold is about seven days, and although the virus may make you more susceptible to other bacterial infections, it does not cause them. Therefore, if your symptoms begin to improve and then worsen over a period of days, a visit to your doctor is advisable.
As to the outcome of the new study, it is not yet clear as to what dosage of zinc is sufficient for the prevention and cure of the cold virus. The researchers concluded that “at the moment, it is still difficult to make a general recommendation, because we do not know very much about the optimum dose, formulation or length of treatment.” Future investigations into the matter will be necessary to make any definite determinations.
For now, the best preventive measure against the cold virus is to wash your hands frequently and thoroughly, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer as your backup. In addition, getting a sufficient amount of sleep can cut your risk of getting a respiratory infection. Research has also shown that regular exercise can help ward off the common cold. And, of course, a healthy diet including zinc can’t hurt. If you already have a cold, cough into your elbow instead of your hands to lessen the likelihood of your cold spreading to others.
People also tend to spend more time indoors during winter, which increases the frequency of close contact with one another, and boosts the likelihood of virus transmission. In addition, viruses remain in common space areas such as elevators and break rooms, as well as on surfaces such as countertops, doorknobs, and telephones.
The normal duration of a cold is about seven days, and although the virus may make you more susceptible to other bacterial infections, it does not cause them. Therefore, if your symptoms begin to improve and then worsen over a period of days, a visit to your doctor is advisable.
As to the outcome of the new study, it is not yet clear as to what dosage of zinc is sufficient for the prevention and cure of the cold virus. The researchers concluded that “at the moment, it is still difficult to make a general recommendation, because we do not know very much about the optimum dose, formulation or length of treatment.” Future investigations into the matter will be necessary to make any definite determinations.
For now, the best preventive measure against the cold virus is to wash your hands frequently and thoroughly, or use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer as your backup. In addition, getting a sufficient amount of sleep can cut your risk of getting a respiratory infection. Research has also shown that regular exercise can help ward off the common cold. And, of course, a healthy diet including zinc can’t hurt. If you already have a cold, cough into your elbow instead of your hands to lessen the likelihood of your cold spreading to others.
from 2/14
Verses from the Bible that have affected my life - From Dennis Prager
Those of you that love God must hate evil (Psalms)The fear of the Lord is to hate evil (proverbs)
What Books Every High School Student Should Have Read
What Books Every High School Student Should Have Read
"The works of Shakespeare, the Declaration of Independence, Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn" and the Bible lead the list of works that every high school student ought to be required to read, in the opinion of some scholars, journalists, teachers and governmental and cultural leaders.
"Mr. Bennett put the question to a list of experts of his own selection.
"Responses from 325 people were compiled, 73 replying to Bennett's letter, 84 to an article that George F. Will, the syndicated columnist, devoted to the project and 168 high school teachers who took part in summer seminars sponsored by the Government agency and the Mellon Foundation.
"Thirty works were mentioned most frequently. Mr. Bennett commented that any 10 of them "would compare favorably to what is read in many schools," and added that he himself had not read all 30 on the list.
"No book published in the last 30 years made the list.
"Recommended Reading
"Shakespeare's plays, especially "Macbeth" and "Hamlet," were the only works listed by a majority of the participants - 71 percent.
"Fifty percent cited such documents of United States history as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Next came "Huckleberry Finn," the Bible and these works of literature, philosophy and politics:
- Homer's "Odyssey" and "Iliad."
- Dickens's "Great Expectations" and "Tale of Two Cities."
- Plato's "Republic."
- John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter."
- Sophocles' "Oedipus."
- Melville's "Moby Dick."
- Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
- Thoreau's "Walden."
- The poems of Robert Frost.
- Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby."
- Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."
- Marx's "Communist Manifesto."
- Aristotle's "Politics."
- The poems of Emily Dickinson.
- Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment."
- The novels of William Faulkner.
- J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."
- De Tocqueville's "Democracy in America."
- Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
- The essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Machiavelli's "Prince."
- Milton's "Paradise Lost."
- Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
- Virgil's "Aeneid.""
"Mr. Bennett put the question to a list of experts of his own selection.
"Responses from 325 people were compiled, 73 replying to Bennett's letter, 84 to an article that George F. Will, the syndicated columnist, devoted to the project and 168 high school teachers who took part in summer seminars sponsored by the Government agency and the Mellon Foundation.
"Thirty works were mentioned most frequently. Mr. Bennett commented that any 10 of them "would compare favorably to what is read in many schools," and added that he himself had not read all 30 on the list.
"No book published in the last 30 years made the list.
"Recommended Reading
"Shakespeare's plays, especially "Macbeth" and "Hamlet," were the only works listed by a majority of the participants - 71 percent.
"Fifty percent cited such documents of United States history as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Next came "Huckleberry Finn," the Bible and these works of literature, philosophy and politics:
- Homer's "Odyssey" and "Iliad."
- Dickens's "Great Expectations" and "Tale of Two Cities."
- Plato's "Republic."
- John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter."
- Sophocles' "Oedipus."
- Melville's "Moby Dick."
- Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four."
- Thoreau's "Walden."
- The poems of Robert Frost.
- Whitman's "Leaves of Grass."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby."
- Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales."
- Marx's "Communist Manifesto."
- Aristotle's "Politics."
- The poems of Emily Dickinson.
- Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment."
- The novels of William Faulkner.
- J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye."
- De Tocqueville's "Democracy in America."
- Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice."
- The essays and poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- Machiavelli's "Prince."
- Milton's "Paradise Lost."
- Tolstoy's "War and Peace."
- Virgil's "Aeneid.""
02/14/2011 uh-oooohh....it's V-day...
2-14-2011
10:36a
Danke schoen = thanks beautiful
DEATH TO V-DAY!!!!! What a commercialized institution – created to instill guilt in the married and grief in the single
from 02/11/2011
2/11/11
7:21a
It’s Friday. The week doesn’t end with a boom but a fa-shizzle. I’m sleepy – I woke up several times during the night – one time I turned on the TV and watched 2 full episodes of the Cosby Show.
from 02/10/2011
7:30a
Spent the morning fantasizing about guys that I had a crush on about 10 years ago. 2 specifically that I used to work with. Just maybe want a little romance in my life. Watching too many valentine’s day episodes on tv.
11:53a
Obama Urges Mubarak to Begin Transition Now
U.S. President Barack Obama is urging Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to immediately begin the process of handing over power, but the U.S. leader stopped short of calling for Mr. Mubarak to leave office right now.
Mr. Obama said the future of Egypt must be determined by its people. He said the world is watching the events in Egypt and said this moment of turmoil should be turned into a moment of opportunity.
He spoke Friday in a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Mr. Obama condemned violence between supporters of President Mubarak and opposition protesters.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said earlier that Mr. Mubarak needs to make real and legitimate efforts to reach an agreement with those outside the government.
White House officials have been talking with Egyptian officials about forming a temporary government to prepare Egypt for new elections.
Earlier reports citing U.S. officials said the U.S. government and Egyptian officials were holding talks on a proposal for Mr. Mubarak to resign immediately and turn power over to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military.
Suleiman has offered to meet with Egyptian political leaders to discuss such a transitional government.
A senior U.S. State Department official said a scenario "under active discussion" is the prospect of Mr. Mubarak stepping down and taking up residence in Sharm el-Sheikh, on the Red Sea at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
Mr. Mubarak has recently said he will not go into exile and wants to die on Egyptian soil.
President Obama also spoke with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by telephone Friday about the situation in Egypt.
The White House also defended the intelligence community against critics who say it did not give Mr. Obama adequate warning of the brewing unrest in the Middle East. Gibbs said President Obama received accurate and timely intelligence on the situation in the region.
U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the talks with Egypt include a proposal for a transitional government to invite members from opposition groups, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to begin work on opening the country's electoral system for free and fair elections in September.
The top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, cautioned Friday against any move to cut the $1.3 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt. Mullen also said he has been assured by his Egyptian counterpart that troops will not fire on protesters.
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution late Thursday calling on President Mubarak to immediately begin a peaceful transition to a democratic political system. The resolution, co-sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat John Kerry, also expresses "deep concern" over any organization with an extremist ideology, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mr. Obama said the future of Egypt must be determined by its people. He said the world is watching the events in Egypt and said this moment of turmoil should be turned into a moment of opportunity.
He spoke Friday in a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Mr. Obama condemned violence between supporters of President Mubarak and opposition protesters.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said earlier that Mr. Mubarak needs to make real and legitimate efforts to reach an agreement with those outside the government.
White House officials have been talking with Egyptian officials about forming a temporary government to prepare Egypt for new elections.
Earlier reports citing U.S. officials said the U.S. government and Egyptian officials were holding talks on a proposal for Mr. Mubarak to resign immediately and turn power over to a transitional government headed by Vice President Omar Suleiman with the support of the Egyptian military.
Suleiman has offered to meet with Egyptian political leaders to discuss such a transitional government.
A senior U.S. State Department official said a scenario "under active discussion" is the prospect of Mr. Mubarak stepping down and taking up residence in Sharm el-Sheikh, on the Red Sea at the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula.
Mr. Mubarak has recently said he will not go into exile and wants to die on Egyptian soil.
President Obama also spoke with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan by telephone Friday about the situation in Egypt.
The White House also defended the intelligence community against critics who say it did not give Mr. Obama adequate warning of the brewing unrest in the Middle East. Gibbs said President Obama received accurate and timely intelligence on the situation in the region.
U.S. officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the talks with Egypt include a proposal for a transitional government to invite members from opposition groups, including the banned Muslim Brotherhood, to begin work on opening the country's electoral system for free and fair elections in September.
The top U.S. military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, cautioned Friday against any move to cut the $1.3 billion in annual U.S. aid to Egypt. Mullen also said he has been assured by his Egyptian counterpart that troops will not fire on protesters.
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution late Thursday calling on President Mubarak to immediately begin a peaceful transition to a democratic political system. The resolution, co-sponsored by Republican John McCain and Democrat John Kerry, also expresses "deep concern" over any organization with an extremist ideology, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
11:54a – from terri - the problem is the “democracy” 80% of the people want is the Sharia law.
"Firework"
Do you ever feel like a plastic bag,
drifting through the wind
wanting to start again?
Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin
like a house of cards,
one blow from caving in?
Do you ever feel already buried deep?
6 feet under screams but no one seems to hear a thing
Do you know that there's still a chance for you
'Cause there's a spark in you
You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
You're gonna leave 'em going "Oh, Oh, Oh"
You don't have to feel like a waste of space
You're original, cannot be replaced
If you only knew what the future holds
After a hurricane comes a rainbow
Maybe your reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow
And when it's time, you'll know
You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through-ough-ough
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
2:18p
This has been a LONG day. I worked through lunch – so the day’s gone on and on and on…
You know it’s rough when you’re ready to leave and there’s still 2 ¼ HOURS left in the day.
How am I going to get through this day? …guess I’ll turn on Michael Medved. I originally typed guess I’ll turn Michael Medved on – but I’m sure he’s married…
2:22p – saw this on the news this morning – but OMG! This would be so great! I think they should show the mother the sonogram – the doctor could lie. And more than likely will.
Anti-abortion activists rally at Texas Capitol
By AP News
Thursday, February 10, 2011
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Anti-abortion activists rallied at the Texas Capitol on Thursday and lobbied lawmakers for tougher restrictions on abortions. The rally comes the day after a state Senate committee approved a bill that would require doctors to perform a sonogram before performing an abortion. The bill requires doctors to explain what they see to the woman while they perform the sonogram. If passed, doctors also would have to describe any visible internal organs, legs or arms. The woman would also have a chance to see the image and listen to the heartbeat. In a substantial revision made late Wednesday, the amended bill provides exemptions in cases where there are fatal fetal abnormalities or women or who are victims of incest or sexual assault. The bill now goes to the full Senate.
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