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

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  • QuinnCat
    QuinnCat Member Posts: 3,456
    edited September 2012
    Grabbing Yorkie's hands and jumping up and down in unison! Cool  Time for a rum ball!
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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited September 2012
    Yep, I want me a rum ball!! Time to party hardy while I'm jumping up and down with Kam!  Laughing
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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited September 2012

    KAM what fantastic news!!! Rum balls all around!

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited September 2012

    ***RUMFETTI***

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited September 2012

    Yay!  

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  • Bren-2007
    Bren-2007 Member Posts: 6,241
    edited September 2012

    Good Afternoon Friends!

    It's been another long day for me trying to figure out the needs of my new client .. and ensuring they are met.  It's a struggle as he is very demanding.  He calls all the time, even late at night and on the weekends.  It is such a small account, I just don't know if it's worth my time.

    Kam ... Yay on the scan results!  Who would've thought we'd be so happy to have arthritis?!?

    Yorkie ... So happy to hear the good news about your TM's.

    Can I have some of your rum balls?  I really want a whole lot of them ... okay?

    hugs,

    Bren

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  • bluedahlia
    bluedahlia Member Posts: 6,944
    edited September 2012

    WTG YOU TWO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Enjoyful
    Enjoyful Member Posts: 3,591
    edited September 2012

    YORKIE just saw your great news! Rum party, babies!

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited September 2012

    Yeah, Yorkie!

    We'll have a "rumfetti" fest when our Bartender gives the word.

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  • YramAL
    YramAL Member Posts: 1,651
    edited September 2012

    Good news Kam and yorkiemom!

    We love good news around here!

    Mary 

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited September 2012

    Let there be a "Rumfetti" feast!!!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited September 2012

    Yorkie, Kam - YEAH, NOTHING!  Our favorite things...congratulations...whew, time to reeeeee-lax for a while.

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  • pupmom
    pupmom Member Posts: 5,068
    edited September 2012

    Thanks gals! I just love celebrating with my lefty friends! Just imagine how much fun we'll have on election night! YEEEEEEHAAAAAA!

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  • ananda8
    ananda8 Member Posts: 2,755
    edited September 2012

    41 days to go:

    Today's Good News for Obama: Florida, the swing state with the most electoral votes, turned a darker shade of blue today as Obama opened up a 53-44 lead over Romney. Along with Ohio, Florida is widely considered a must-win state, and the Romney campaign has been aggressively pushing to sell its Medicare plan to the state's elderly voters. But that message appears to have been overwhelmed by Obama's aggressive ad blitz in the Sunshine State. By one count, Obama's campaign has run 10,000 more ads there than Romney's since the beginning of August, which may account for his widening lead.

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  • RetiredLibby
    RetiredLibby Member Posts: 1,992
    edited September 2012

    Re: the President's descent from slaves on his mother's side - yes. There was an indentured servant who ran away. By running away, he forfeited his right to freedom - if I recall, historians said he was actually the first slave in the colonies. It was not clear to me if he was white or black, though. I will see if I can find it & post the link.

    ETA - the link about the President's U.S. slave ancestor on his mother's side:

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/obama-descended-from-slave-ancestor-researchers-say/2012/07/30/gJQAUw4BLX_blog.html

    AND ETA: Whoo hoo to Kam and Yorkiemom!





    I am lovin' me some polling today!



    I saw several articles about the delusional idiot who "unskews" the polls - he has been debunked six ways to Sunday, but facts have never, ever stopped these crazies from attempting to create their own reality.



    L

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  • 208sandy
    208sandy Member Posts: 2,610
    edited September 2012

    Two big "Attagirls" - one for Yorkie the other for Kam - I say rumballs all around!!!

    As for HRC running in 2016 - she'll be 68 and wouldn't it be nice to have a young woman run so the youth will have a role model and perhaps start voting in larger numbers - nothing against HRC - worked for her campaign in the '08 primaries but now I'm in Canada so probably (according to another thread) not supposed to take part in this.Innocent

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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited September 2012

    I heard a new, weird twist on Obama at work last weekend. A black lady who IS voting for Obama insists he's NOT our first black president; he's our first bi-racial president!! I went "Huh? He's not black enough for you to claim?" And she said, "Oh, we'll claim him because "you guys" won't, but he's bi-racial, not black." I let it drop there, because that "you guys" had the potential of getting very ugly, very fast, but I wanted to ask her, "How black to do you have to be? Is this the opposite of that old "one drop of black blood" thing? Because I thought that was considered offensive? How black are you? Is it based on skin tone? How far back in the "woodpile" your white ancestor is? Whether you call yourself black or bi-racial?"

    Is that the weirdest thing you've heard in what's been a very weird campaign? 

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited September 2012

    Wow, Sandy - as our biggest trading partner, our neighbor and friend, Canada has every right to opine. The US is the world's superpower. Who we elect affects everyone. Opine away - it's your planet too!

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited September 2012

    Riley, I ran into that but with a white female pharmacist back in 2008.  She heard another customer and I talking about making calls and doing door to door for Obama and how historic the election of the first black president would be.  The pharmacist overheard and she obviously was against Obama, which was ok, that's her opinion.  But then she blurted out, "he's not black, he's mixed.  I don't know why they keep saying he's black.  He can't claim he's black."

    I also brought up the "one drop of black blood" thing.  Sometimes you just have to shake your head and walk away. 

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited September 2012

    I have a different view. American constructs of race often don't take into account  complex situations - and the intent of people who say "bi-racial" may be not to negate a part of one's culture, but to explain it fully.

    I see Obama as biracial and bi-cultural because he grew up in Hawaii but went on to make his way in "white" America.

    Obama is as much white as he is black. To negate any portion of his whiteness --or his blackness-- would be a disservice to his heritage.  Each deserve equal respect.

    Edited.

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  • crazy4carrots
    crazy4carrots Member Posts: 5,324
    edited September 2012

    Will we ever, ever, EVER get past the race thing?  It's so dishearteningCry.  The sooner people of whatever hue start to believe that we are ALL related, the better off we'll all be.  Yeah, I know, in my dreams.......

    As for Canadians (and any other nationality) not having a right to comment or "opine" on the U.S. election, I say "Phhhhht"!  Interesting that King Abdullah of Jordan, when asked last night, if other heads of state were upset about not getting a one-on-one with Pres. Obama, his response was "None that I know of"!  Another case of making a mountain out of a molehill for partisan purposes. 

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited September 2012

    So Miit is now trying to tell people that he really does have empathy - and he is reminding folks that he got everyone insured in MA.

    AT LEAST he is beginning to get the problem.

    More here:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/mitt-romney-health-care-law_n_1917784.html

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  • riley702
    riley702 Member Posts: 1,600
    edited September 2012

    Hopefully too little, too late. This Independent has already made up her mind.

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  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 6,696
    edited September 2012

    Oh, yes. No one in his/her right mind will believe it.

    It is a testament to the ideologically untenable position Romney is in that every time he defends himself, he has to say something his base disagrees with. That's what happens when you run with no ideas for a party that has no coherence.

    It's almost as if he is inferring: "I had empathy in MA, but I have no empathy for the US - I will overturn Obamacare."

    NEW RULE: If you are the GOP presidential candidate, you MUST decide who you throw under a bus and stick to it. Don't keep throwing different people there. Tongue out

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  • IllinoisLady
    IllinoisLady Member Posts: 29,082
    edited September 2012

    Yorkie -- Kam.....splendid and well done.  Just got home and I'm exhausted.  Going to park my derriere in my recliner in front of MSNBC and stay there and enjoy.  See you all in the morning.

    Jackie

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited September 2012

    Hi,  My internet was out for much of the day - so I just read the posts I'd missed and saw Kam's and Yorkie's news.  Happy Dance for both of you.  So glad to see good news.

    I just watched last night's Jon Stewart where he compared Romney to Charlie in Flowers for Algernon - that he keeps losing intelligence as time goes on since the things he says get progressively stupider.  The statement about having empathy because he insured children in MA  while he is vowing to eliminate similar insurance for the rest of America's children seems an apt illustration of that idea.

    Wishing all of you a pleasant good night.

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  • CherrylH
    CherrylH Member Posts: 1,077
    edited September 2012

    So h e got everybody in MA insured. And we should be happy about that. Only he doesn't want those of us in the other 49 to have the same benefits because he promises to over turn the ACA on Day One. Very empathic, Willard!!

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited September 2012

    Latest WSJ news: employers starting to give employees lump sum and telling them to go out and buy health insurance.  Sears is one employer they mentioned.  Great for young healthy people.  Not so much if you are older or have health issues.

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  • alexandria58
    alexandria58 Member Posts: 1,588
    edited September 2012

    Oh, and here's the link to Huff post's replaying of the Jon Stewart bit.

    www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/26/jon-stewart-romney-getting-dumber-video_n_1915728.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false 

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  • River_Rat
    River_Rat Member Posts: 1,724
    edited September 2012

    Athena, I agree with your statement on biracial/cultural recognition.  The whole conversation with the pharmacist was just very weird.  She was practically frothing.  The other customer and I (both also white) took what she was saying as justification for her being against Obama - as she wanted to make sure that we knew she wasn't voting against him because he was black, because he isn't (and yes she only expressed disdain for him no support for McCain).

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