I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

YramAL

Here's what I have to say to those who want to argue the semantics of the shooting-Dead is dead. Sad that there are those that think changing the wording of that somehow makes it more acceptable.

Mary

QuinnCat

"Two spirit people"....love that, love that.  I need to catch up on the sniper story...all I heard was Texas, gun range, sniper killed....all too familiar.  Another person killed with a gun.  I will read for the nuances.

Sunflowers - I am definitely going down the road of anti-inflammatory.  Started the day I got my Vitamix in mid-December.  No dairy, mostly gluten-free, almost no sugar, only organic (I was already organic, but now even more of a stickler) and low glycemic.  I'm trying to get a pound or more of greens a day (my food bill has become atrocious on this diet, though).  I had one brownie on xmas and a bite of cheesecake at my retirement party, that's it for sugar since 12/10.  I don't eat bread except for buns for my salmon burgers.....have had 8 whole wheat buns in total and haven't quite figured out how to give those up....therefore "mostly gluten free."   Meat?  Wild Salmon and organic chicken - on occasion.  I did find a good gluten-free pasta and use winter squash a lot!

The swelling has gone down when walking in last week or two, so that took about 6 weeks from diet change, so there really is no way to know if it is the diet, but the morning stiffness significantly eased the morning after wearing wrist splints (Yorkie gave me that idea).  I love the diet though and have no plans of going back, just getting better at it.  Thank you for confirming it's benefits.  Additionally, I'm losing weight without really trying, as long as I lay off the olive oil in a significant way. 

QuinnCat

Wabbit - Your comment about PTSD and guns reminded me of my gf who had post partum depression...within 6 weeks of giving birth to her second child she took one of the shotguns from her house, drove up the road, and committed suicide. Why did her husband keep these guns in the house we all said!   I heard these stats this morning vis a vis women and guns:

• In one year, 1998, for every time a woman used a handgun to kill an intimate acquaintance in self-defense, 83 women were murdered by an intimate acquaintance with a handgun.
• In one year, 1998, for every time a woman used a handgun to kill a stranger in self-defense, 302 women were murdered with a handgun.

Having guns in their home is a dangerous thing for a woman.

bluedahlia

I may forgive but will never forget!  They will never have my respect!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_PX5L_v_7I

Chickadee

Anyone who has Netflix, check out "House of Cards". Produced by and starring Kevin Spacey, its a political drama. Kevin plays the Majority Whip congressman, Democrat, and from the first five minutes you see what ruthless is all about in the halls of Capitol Hill and the White House.



It's an experiment by Netflix to deliver original content, all 13 episodes, you can watch as much or as little as you want. I'm up to episode 9 and keep wondering how much nastier he and his wife can be. She's a complex character too. Just when you think she's sympathetic, she burns someone. Talk about power couples. Talk about how things probably get done in DC. The only character I could do without is the ambitious little reporter. She's a distraction.



Anyway, really well written and intriguing. Shot in DC and Baltimore, got a real feel to it.

bluedahlia

Enjoyful

Power outage at the Dome during the Super Bowl?  Obama must be responsible.

Chickadee

Well heck YEAH! He's the Snideley Whiplash of our times.

Belinda44

suzieq60

Blue - that pic is gorgeous

IllinoisLady

Blue....I found that picture having a quieting effect....after the harshness from a couple of different areas, the one being that video. 

Obama....seems he is either loved or hated.  Well, hate has done very little that was decent, kind, caring and beneficial.  I think I'll choose construction over destruction.

Love & peace,

Jackie

bluedahlia

I love cats too but am allergic.  Who won, I fell asleep when Obama made the lights go out.

Enjoyful

Ravens, baby!  We were leading by a ton when Obama cut the lights.  The Ravens lost their momentum after the game delay and the 49ers started scoring.  It ended up being a close game, but we managed to pull it off.

alexandria58

By the way, Jon Stewart had a great bit last week when he did a Dr. Suess type poem, Oh the People who Hate You.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-31-2013/skeet-fighter

bluedahlia

E, I was thinking about the light situation at the super bowl and I'm sure it was medicare that done it.  They knew you were watching!

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

Interesting for all us history nuts!

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/04/16832540-verdict-issued-on-skeleton-found-under-parking-lot-its-king-richard-iii?lite

AnneW

Blue, you've been on a roll with those pictures!! They've been great--except that fat hairy man in Speedos. Glad I didn't see that one before I went to sleep last night--the stuff of nightmares!!

And "hateriot" is pricelss. Let's see if we can get that term to go viral!!

pupmom

Big Dawg tells it like it is!

1Athena1

One of these days.....Must be Medicare - and I'm not even on it!

lassie11

I was surprised to learn today that if a person "has" to fire employees, it is Obama's fault, only Obama's fault. Reminded me of the child who hit his sister and announced he had to hit her because of something she did.  I talked about taking responsibility for your own actions. Actually, I talked about that a lot with my children as they were growing up.  Seems some get it more than others.

Anonymous

Kam - gluten free buns for your salmon burger, usually in the frozen food dept of health food store.  I don't even use those anymore - amazing difference without ANY carbs but veggies, quinoa, even brown rice seems to send my blood glucose up now.  Definitely notice when I eat any sugar ( cut out Agave, too many conflicts about the fructose content)or dairy, I can't wear rings I can wear when not eating any of that stuff.  That's enuf of a "signal" for me

Takes time to change patterns of eating, but I feel so much better, no joint pain, more energy, it's worth it for me.  But then, I'm one of those "strange" people for whom food is not a big deal, not a major part of my life.  I'd raher FEEL GOOD than enjoy a taste sensation.  Just my personal choice.

Wrist Splints SAVED MY LIFE - wore them for more than a year, always sleeping, and often during the day.  Also a physiotherapist can give you exercises to help keep your hands mobile.  The joint near our thumbs seems especially susceptible ( sp?) to aromatase inhibitor - it's not carpel tunnel, but mimics it.  Anyhow, be HOPEFUL, it all works. 

ACUPUNCTURE, was, IS, the mainstay of my well being.  Knees don't crunch anymore - even going downstairs..

BLUE - I too am allergic to cats, but loved the pics.

CONGRATULATIONS Enjoyful - good thing the Patriots weren't playing

1Athena1

To Sunny's lifestyle tips I would add the importance of a good mattress! My new one arrived on Saturday and I have spent two glorious nights on it. It is soft at the top but firm underneath and my aches and pains from my previous mattress are almost gone.

Congrats to E and others who supported the Ravens, and condolences to the supporters of the other team. I wonder how the anti-gun ad that aired in the DC market during the game went. Pity they weren't able to go national. I wonder how many TVs  would have been sprayed with bullets if that had been the case!

Anonymous

Lioness, happy new mattress.  I echo your advice - and ADORE my IKEA mattress, with a memory foam topper, divine.  Really, the IKEA foam is in sections, not at all like the BRICK of foam sold in most mattress stores.  LOVE IT.  I'd never use a "regular" mattress again - and this is coming from someone who had major back surgery in 1983

IllinoisLady

Hmmm, I'm just getting over a bad back and have had to put a bill aside to wait until I get paid this Friday.  I'm calling Obama and read him the riot act for it. 

Seriously though, we all have to do whatever comes......would that we all could have a little magic wand and when something came along that just didn't work right ---ppffffft.  But the value in life is the living and striving and the overcoming......all of which can take quite a while.  President Obama has no magic wand either and must deal with many different divergent personalities......some trying to thwart his every attempt to right what is happening in our world.  I detested the Bush years but I went along trying as best I could to keep things going for myself and my family.  I didn't diss him every time he did something I didn't care for --- which in fact was quite often.  Some talk is cheap as mine would have been then. 

Some times you just have to swing your feet over the side of the bed with an attitude of grattitude and make your life as good as you can because it is what it is and blame, shame and regret won't move your feet one inch. 

Jackie

QuinnCat

Sunflowers - last night I was rewatching "The Last Heart Attack" that I had recorded off CNN in summer of 2011 - ah, in those innocent days pre cancer.  The contention among doctors like Dean Ornish and the Forks over Knives guy, Esselskyn (sp?) (Clinton's people), plaque build up (which we all have) is reversible by diet.  I worry about that (too), so now it looks like I'll have to give up fish and chicken!!  That solves the salmon burger bun dilemna though maybe I'll want to eat bread stuff after giving up those two items. 

A physiotherapist?  I've been just wondering what is the title of someone who treats hands screwed over by Exemestane.  Is that it?  I'm still "fighting" (term used loosely) with my MO that these things we even endure are caused by their silly drug.  Last Friday, the PA said, "that sounds like something else."  Maybe she and her coworker need to get on BCO and see all of the women who have these issues and just started taking AI's.  Sometimes I wonder.

Does that IKEA mattress fold up enough to get into a Honda CR-V?  Going to be near an IKEA this weekend....my current Beautyreast, 7 years old only, sucks.  $1000 thrown away.

I'm convinced GW causd my BC.  I remember a permanent dark cloud over my life when he became POTUS.  Seriously, it was the most depressing time I can remember in this country, living with that guy as POTUS and who would barely qualify to deliver mail in the real world.

No word from oncology place about my lump. I'm actually too afraid to call.

1Athena1

We are waiting with you, kam.

gardengumby

Kam - when I went to my last onc visit, they found a long lump in my "new" breast (well, to be honest I had found it a couple months before but wasn't worried about it).  The oncologist felt strongly enough that it was scar tissue (which is what I had thought as well) that she didn't test it in any way.  This probably won't make you feel any better, other than to know that someone else has weird shit going on.  I just wanted to let you know that long twisty scar tissue sure can happen.

On a different note - our house was inspected Saturday - hopefully we'll hear from the real estate folks sometime today or tomorrow as to what was found - good, bad and ugly....

QuinnCat

Thanks guys.....I really am hoping for the best and your company is comforting. 

Anonymous

Kam, hello fellow CRV owner - well, the mattress rolls up - so it's the length you'd have to check.  I have a twin, which fit easily, and with the 2 back seats down, and the front passenger seat down, the 85 ish inch metal parts of the day bed frame fit in too ;-)))  I'm going to go to the website for IKEA and see if I can find the mattess I bought - I wanna say Sultana, but that's British for something like a raisin