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

crazy4carrots

Oh my -- this is TOO funny!  Can you say "schadenfreude"?

http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/14/18248320-justice-department-targets-ap-phone-logs

And hurray for our little Chickadee's good news!

RetiredLibby

Chicky, your good news brightened my otherwise sucky day! I can go to bed cheerful now!



L

bluedahlia

IllinoisLady

Fox News has gone and done it again; they’ve once again proved that they are not an actual news source. They have shown that they are nothing more than a far right propaganda machine whose sole purpose is to destroy any credibility the President has with its viewers. This time they have once again sunk to an unbelievable all too common low and edited a statement made by President Obama so that he is perceived as a man who hates America and cares nothing about the lives lost in the September 11th attack in Benghazi. During a May 13th press conference the president responded to a question about the attack in Benghazi.

Gretchen Carlson accused the president of dismissing the victims of the attack as a ‘sideshow’ on Fox & Friends. She continues her manufactured outrage by saying that nobody has been apprehended for the attack (I’m sure their audience now believes the perpetrators are dining with Obama in the White House) and she says that the memos on the attack were changed twelve times. WOW! What a heartless bastard President Obama must be to dismiss the attacks! He MUST be impeached!!! Of course, what she fails to mention in her cute little tirade about the president is that the clip of the statement Fox is playing is missing half of the statement. I mean cute in the most condescending way possible, by the way.

Here is the clip Fox played courtesy of Mediamatters:

OH MY GOD! How dare he!! We should all be so offended because Fox is telling us to be offended! That was just horrible to watch, even the caption at the bottom of the screen,”Dismissing Dead Americans,” points out what a horrible president he is! Well it’d be outrageous if you didn’t take a whole two minutes and search for the remark in its entirety.

 

Here is what Obama actually said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8gQDEVpLUg

Now the picture is a lot clearer; the president did not in any way shape or form dismiss dead Americans. As a matter of fact, the entire first portion, roughly one and half minutes, of his comment discussed the fact that Americans died and the administration is doing what it can to stop that from happening again. Fox News just left that part out and why? Well because they can’t have their viewers thinking the president actually cares about this country because that does not further their agenda. Fox News claims that it is ‘Fair and Balanced,’ but it is nothing more than the right arm of the Republican Party. Fox News exists to spread lies about the president, his administration and Democrats at large. They have no problem lying to further that agenda and that is precisely why they continue to shine a great big conspiracy spotlight on Benghazi. It does not matter to fox that the cover-up myths have been debunked; they do not care. And their carelessness is why in poll after poll they consistently have the least informed viewers. Because it is a helluva lot easier to control the sheeple if you dumb them down. Fox news doesn’t present news; it brings tin foil hat fairy tales to cable TV and passes them off as news stories.

Bravo Fox & Friends, troll on.

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/14/fox-news-sinks-to-a-new-low-and-edits-obamas-comments-about-benghazi-video/#ixzz2TJEbfmbI

Almost nothing to say here --- so sad that so many people listen to the meaningless drivel that spews from the mouths of all at Fox News.  Talk about being walked down the rosy garden path and have little idea.  Seems quite easy to make a great deal of people believe they are hearing the truth, and nothing but the truth so help Fox News.  They are in theirs glory to have so many loyal subjects.

Jackie

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

bluedahlia

THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME:

1. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
"Your room looks like a tornado hit it."
2. My mother taught me about RELIGION.
"You better pray that comes out of the carpet."
3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
"If you don't straighten up I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week."
4. My mother taught me about OSMOSIS.
"Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
5. My mother taught me about the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
"I brought you into this world, I can take you out."
6. My mother taught me about ENVY.
"There are millions of less fortunate children in the world who don't have wonderful parents like you."
7. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
"You are going to get it when we get home."
8. My mother taught me about GENEOLOGY.
"Shut that door... You think you were raised in a barn?"
9. My mother taught me about JUSTICE.
"One day you'll have kids... I hope they turn out just like you!"
10. My mother taught me about LOGIC.
"Because I said so, That's why."
11. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
"You'll sit there until your spinach is gone."
12. My mother taught me about IRONY.
"Keep crying. I'll give you something to cry about."

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

Anonymous

Chirp, chirp, cheep, cheep, chirping with JOY for Chickadees b-o-r-i-n-g results, and looking forward to hearing all the good news about the CRUISE...chocolate delicacies?  JOY  JOY  JOY 

BLUE = that is the MOST amazing waterlily bud - don't know who took the pic, or coloured it, but it's divine.

Woolies.  Back to WOOLIES on May 15. Frost last night, still in the 30's.  Ok, ok, there are other things going on in the world, but I WANNA plant my sunflower seeds   Well, after todays thunderboomers, we're supposed to get back to normal, tee, hee...funny word to ever describe weather in western MA - in the 60's.  Still, happy dance no cicadas...have I spoken of black flies, and the little net horse bonnets we all wear til the middle of June?  Cute...I wish there was a body bonnet, they've learned to attack ankles....

Anonymous

My favorite carrot friend - that was a FABUOUS link, one of my favorite, favorite lines:

"And why was the Justice Department doing this? In part because congressional Republicans demanded a full-scale leak investigation and DOJ officials took the request very seriously."

tee, hee...indeed.......

Anonymous

BLUE - thank you, and Spock.

Really, you guys are the BEST researchers - I don't have to go anywhere else to follow an issue.  Love reading the links you all find...THANK YOU...

Happy today...ROAR, ROAR, ROAR of sunshine to all...'specially Our Lioness....

E- news?  Do you need chocolate?  carrots?  sugar cubes?  hugs? 

Enjoyful

No news, really, but donations of hugs and chocolate are appreciated!

Monday was a bone scan.  Yesterday was blood work; CT of chest, abdomen, pelvis; and echocardiogram.  Tomorrow I start the clinical trial meds.  I think.

No test results yet but I should find out something tomorrow.

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

IllinoisLady

Beauty of a morning here....and couldn't resist the cartoon.  I blame it all on cancer.  I didn't actually perceive how opinionated I was until after diagnosis.  Probably due to all those years of repressed thoughts.  So, every thing teaches you something.

Blue....I loved the "Mother's Teaching" piece.  My daughter laughs about her"mothers curse".....hope you have two just like you. 

E - will be thinking about you tomorrow and hoping that things come up really great.....and that you have a smooth successful 'trial'.

Jackie

IllinoisLady

Some extra thoughts from the Balance Sheet:

IRS: INTERNAL RETRIBUTION SERVICE 

Since the days of FDR, the executive branch has used the IRS as a tool of payback; past administrations have gone after Communists, political opponents, Christian schools, even lefty magazines like Mother Jones. It's no surprise, than, that scandal-mongers have latched onto recent news that the agency unduly targeted conservative Tea Party groups for increased scrutiny—if political power was indeed abused, the public has a right to know. But an Inspector General's report issued yesterday amid Obama's condemnation of the IRS tactics as "intolerable and inexcusable," seem to paint the picture of a "little-known operation conducted in Cincinnati, largely out of the sight of Washington officials," according to The New York Times. It's not the salacious "smoking gun" link to the White House that Republicans were surely hoping for; the report instead alludes to the actions of a few rogue managers among the sprawling organization's 100,000 employees.

Jackie

QuinnCat

E - It seems I have an endless supply of virtual chocolate, so sending some your way.  Which clinical trial are you in?

Off to see my MO for 3 month checkup.  Never quite sure of the point, but they probably know something I don't...and likewise.

Momine

For no particular reason:

alexandria58

E - sending thoughts of chocolate, anyway.  Hang in there.

pupmom

E, here's a little something to help you through those ultra boring scan results.

bluedahlia

Guess who came over yesterday?

And guess who was protective.........

But this little rascal couldn't settle down.............

bluedahlia

ooooops!

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/15/2013511/gop-congressman-defends-doj-surveillance-they-are-doing-what-we-asked-them-to-do/

bluedahlia

bluedahlia

For Athena!!!!!!!!

bluedahlia

Two good ol' boys up in the Kentucky hills were sitting on the front
porch talking one afternoon over a cold beer, and after getting off of work at the local coal mine. After a while the 1st guy says to the 2nd, "If I was to sneak over to your trailer Saturday & make love to your wife while you was off huntin', and she got pregnant and had a baby, would that make us kin?"
The 2nd guy crooked his head sideways for a minute, scratched his head, and squinted his eyes thinking real hard about the question.
Finally, he says, "Well, I don't know 'bout kin, but it'd make us even."

bluedahlia

yup .. I was one of them .. how about you ?

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days." The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment f or future generations."

She was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled. But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribbling's. Then we were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags. But too bad we didn't do the green thing back then.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throwaway kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana.

In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

suzieq60

Blue - the baby is gorgeous!!!!!

E - hope your results are boring (((((((((((HUGS)))))))))))

1Athena1

Blue - awwweeeeeee -  too sweet. Thank you.

As for freedoms, interesting how gun advocates will jump at any suggestion of curtailing essentially the freedom to kill - while forgetting the inalienable one to life.

E - Hoping for some good and definitive scans.

As for me, I am am recovering slowly, having some stronger days than others. Not used to this slow pace of things. I am usually up and working normally 24-28 hours after surgeries. My memory of much  of my two-week hospital stay is checkered or nonexistent, but what emerges from accounts by the surgeon, the other treating physicians and family is pretty scary.

After surgery - which doctors debated on extensively) I actually spent 2-3 days on a ventilator wth induced unconsciusness/coma (till don't have full post-op notes) so that I wouldn't have to feel the pain of surgery. This procedure is apparently well known for the pain involved. Thereafter, I was on a constant dose of both morphine and dilaudid - I was able to self administer meds as often as ever 8 minutes! I had the switch in my hand but was so spastic that I had trouble finding thr button. Tde dilaudid hallucinations were certainly colorful but did not alarm me unduly, as I recognized them for what they were. Besides, anything to control the pain.

Surgeons essentially extracted and rebuilt all of C-7, which was being constrained by a large breast cancer tumor that was threatening to paralyze me. Saw surgeon yesterday - he is happy with my progress and I only have one month more of the neck brace. I only need short acting oxycodone, which I usually need 2-3 times a day - a huge improvement over dilaudid.

The surgery itself lasted about 4 hours. The surgeon is apparently quite prominent and even he was rather awed by everything that was necessary. Luckily, they did do a brain MRI which showed no cancer.

And then there is a small bit oif good news - only in our crazy cancer world does this qualify as good news, of course. It seems I don't have any more bone mets at the moment. Given what was excised by surgery I only have the liver spots. Again, only in cancer does that pass for news.

So I still need to spend lots of time in bed. My appetite is nonexistent - eating is like a forced march - but it means I have lost weight - yey!

I began Tamoxifen 4 nights ago and still haven't grown fangs or hog hair. I am trying to not think too much about it. I do feel better about taking it this time because I KNOW I have cancer that needs treatment, and TAM is one of the more effective BC drugs out there - much better record than AIs, generally speaking. I was never comfortable operating in the adjuvant "just in case" setting.

BUT I may still have my non posting periods. I still shake my head in shock to think my poor family had to see me with a ventilator. All because I walked into the ER one night complaining of hideous neck pain. Be careful what you complain about. :-)

Off to get my first Zometa treatment tomorrow, which we are doing more as a strengthening agent than an anti-cancer one.

Athena, of the Bionic Vertebra

bluedahlia

What a terrible experience Athena.  I can't remember anything from my 2 day stay at the hospital after my brain surgery.  Don't know what I was on but, apparently, I had everyone cracking up with my Joe Pesce jokes and telling the nurses I loved them.  I don't think anyone of them looked like Amanda Tapping.  If I was a man, well, you know!