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Me either must be somebody who reads and not posts??? Or Blaest?
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I know who it is and it doesn't matter..........I think I accused Summer of something which I shouldn't have........sorry about that Summer.........anyway back to the "right" way of thinking.............ha..........Shokk
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It is not suprising that Blago is now calling for a special election. He wants to stick it to his democratic foes. Madigan the dad, and Madigan the daughter, who is heir apparant to the Governorship have been fighting Blago for years. By calling a special election, his nemesis' in his own party will probably be ursurped by a republican. Wouldn't that be the ultimate irony. Obama's seat goes to the GOP!
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no problem shokk
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Messing around trying to find an avitar again (I keep getting bored with avitars lol). Wasn't quite happy with the wise old owl either.
Been a long time since we heard from Mr. McCain. Here was an interesting article I thought.
(CNN) -- Sen. John McCain said Sunday he would not necessarily support his former running mate if she chose to run for president.
Speaking to ABC's "This Week," McCain was asked whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin could count on his support.
"I can't say something like that. We've got some great other young governors. I think you're going to see the governors assume a greater leadership role in our Republican Party," he said.
He then mentioned governors Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota and Jon Huntsman of Utah.
McCain said he has "the greatest appreciation for Gov. Palin and her family, and it was a great joy to know them."
"She invigorated our campaign" against Barack Obama for the presidency, he said.
McCain was pressed on why he can't promise support for the woman who, just months ago, he named as the second best person to lead the nation.
"Have no doubt of my admiration and respect for her and my view of her viability, but at this stage, again ... my corpse is still warm, you know?" he replied.
In his first Sunday political TV appearance since November 4, McCain also promised to work to build consensus in tackling America's challenges, and criticized his own party for its latest attack on Obama.
McCain rejected complaints from the Republican National Committee that Obama has not been transparent about his contacts with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
"I think that the Obama campaign should and will give all information necessary," McCain told ABC's "This Week."
"You know, in all due respect to the Republican National Committee and anybody -- right now, I think we should try to be working constructively together, not only on an issue such as this, but on the economy, stimulus package, reforms that are necessary."
McCain's answer came in response to a question about comments from RNC Chairman Mike Duncan. The RNC also released an Internet ad last week, titled "Questions Remain," suggesting Obama is failing to provide important information about potential links between his associates and Blagojevich.
Blagojevich was arrested Tuesday and charged with trying to trade Obama's Senate seat for campaign contributions and other favors.
"I don't know all the details of the relationship between President-elect Obama's campaign or his people and the governor of Illinois," McCain told ABC. "But I have some confidence that all the information will come out. It always does, it seems to me."
McCain said he, like Obama and many other lawmakers, believes Blagojevich should resign.
Despite the heated nature of the race and attacks both former candidates lobbed at each other, McCain emphasized that he plans to focus on pushing lawmakers past partisan politics.
"I think my job is, of course, to be a part of, and hopefully exert some leadership, in the loyal opposition. But I emphasize the word loyal," McCain said.
"We haven't seen economic times like this in my lifetime. We haven't seen challenges abroad at the level that we are experiencing, certainly since the end of the Cold War, and you could argue in some respects that they're certainly more complex, many of these challenges. So let's have our first priority where we can work together...
"Will there be areas of disagreement? Of course. We are different parties and different philosophy. But the nation wants us to unite and work together."
McCain said he wouldn't comment on whether he thought he had a good chance of winning the presidency, given the Bush administration and the GOP were perceived to be responsible for the economy's problems. McCain said he would "leave that question" for others "to make that kind of judgment."
He pointed out that his poll numbers dropped along with the Dow.
"That would sound like I am detracting from President-elect Obama's campaign. I don't want to do that... Nobody likes a sore loser."
The key to moving past the stinging defeat, he said, is to, "Get busy and move on. That's the best cure for it. I spent a period of time feeling sorry for myself. It's wonderful. It's one of the most enjoyable experiences that you can have.
"But the point is: You've got to move on... I'm still a senator from the state of Arizona. I still have the privilege and honor of serving this country, which I've done all my life, and it's a great honor to do so."
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I'm glad you feel better too, DD.
I'm confused. Is it that easy to even GET disability? I understood that you had to work and PAY into the system for a number of years in order to even qualify to draw it, and even after that it's so hard to get that most people hire lawyers or wait until they're terminal to apply for it. I've seen the shyster advertisements on television. There wouldn't be lawyers who specialize in that field if it was easy to get it.
I'm working and earning points so that if my condition deterioriates I will have the points required to qualify for disability. I guarantee you that after I work for a number of years and pay into the system I will not feel 'entitled' to anything but I will be cashing in on what I've paid in. It's okay. I'll take monthly payments. I don't expect to draw out what I have paid in, all at once. ROFL!
I think that when you pay in to the system you have a right to expect something back. Obviously the other person you speak about paid in so she has every right to draw disability if she can clear the hurdles required to qualify.
I still haven't figured out what I got for the taxpayer dollars I paid in last year. I know the perks rich people got may have been where some of it went and some of it probably went to kill people. But I can't seem to put my finger on what I personally gained from all the money I paid in.
And I never did figure out why it's a travesty for the families of rich farmers to pay inheritance taxes or face losing the business, but it's a-ok for my family to lose our home if those enormous medical bills don't get paid. But I digress...
In any event, the government doesn't have money. It's all taxpayer money because that's where it comes from. While government decides like the little gods they think they are, how it should be spent, make no mistake about it the government itself has no money. They're just spending ours.
Now, if there are some taxpayers who are out there wondering what they are getting for their money and they think that their healthcare is just as much a right as the healthcare elected officials receive, and like senior citizens get, and like veterans get, I would hardly call that 'entitlement' since it's just hard working people wondering what they 're getting for their money. That is, besides corporate bailouts and neverending killing sprees in Middle Eastern countries.
And please...with the paranoia! I am not blaest (sp?) and I am not DD. Maybe these are just lurkers who don't post very often like I was. But I am not them.
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jaedeen I don't know anything about disability or if it is easy or hard. I had to take 3 months off for treatments and I wondered if I would qualify for something during that time, but assumed not since I am self employed. I never pursued it.
From what this young woman posts on her personal website, she says she has been on disability since 1990. She has a pic of her self on her home page and her avatar here use to have her pic in it with Rosie O'Donnell (UGHH. puke, nasty) and She looks very young I would guess late 30's early forties at best, so in 1990 she would have been fresh out of college (she claims to have a degree in psychology, but I have read some of her posts to others looking for bc answers and she is down right mean, telling them to "get over it"). Couldnt have POSSIBLY worked long enough to pay into disability benefits to justify being on disability for 18 years.
I absolutely agree that people who truly need should have avenues to them to get it, especially those who have paid into for years because of actually working. I think this is why I got so pi$$ed off when I saw her say she was getting these benefits.
It seems several people have been accused of being me, and I am sorry for that. Since I dont know anyone here, I wouldnt want any "regulars" to get blamed for my words. I take all the credit for them myself.
I hope your condition improves and certainly hope you never have to go on disability. But if you do, I hope they dont make you jump through hoops and poop nickels to get it! People like you who have earned it probably have a HARDER time getting it, while "other" people around here seemed to have gotten and continue collecting it without having to earn it.......
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Let me also say, I am the kind of person that likes to work. I worked up until the night I went into labor with my first child and second child. Went back to work after 6 weeks- although I hated it and wanted to be a stay at home mom. But heck, with my second child, I worked in the school system and had her the day after school let out, so i had 3 months home with her. I was GLAD to get back to school so I could rest!!! LOL Being a stay at home mom was WAY harder than working with middle school kids!!!!
I know even if I won the lottery I would continue working, although I gotta say, I would certainly take vacations like every 6 weeks and travel 2 weeks or do whatever. I just get bored easily and find I must keep my mind occupied.
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This is just my opinion, but I don't think it's appropriate for anyone to be speculating here about whether or not another poster is entitled to disability or not. Just because you read posts and visit home pages does NOT mean you have any idea what someone's day to day life is like. And, I know more than one person with fibromyalgia that draws disability. And it is true that one cannot draw disability unless one has worked enough in the years preceeding the onset of the disability. That is why I, as a person with "terminal' cancer, am unable to draw; I am medically qualified for it but short on work credits.
Just my 2 c.
Carry on...
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Lessons from Chicago
JOHN BARBER
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
December 16, 2008 at 6:06 AM EST
Number of public officials and business people convicted of corruption in Chicago since 1971, according to Dick Simpson, a former city alderman and University of Illinois-Chicago professor: 1,000.
Number of aldermen (city councillors) among them: 30.
Equivalent numbers for Toronto public officials since that time: Seven or eight, among whom three were politicians.
A guileless information-gatherer might conclude from such a contrast that Toronto is much cleaner than Chicago. But that would be to ignore the shameful absence of any equivalent to U.S. federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald operating north of the border. If any Canadian crusader dared to emulate the man who exposed Governor Rod Blagojevich and sent Conrad Black to jail while steadily picking off key lieutenants of Mayor Richard M. Daley, he himself would probably be jailed. Such activities are considered a gross violation of the unsaid omerta that accompanies Canadian-style peace, order and good government.
If there were prosecutions, there would be convictions. But there never are any prosecutions. While Mr. Fitzgerald and his legal militia wiretap and subpoena their way to glory, secret reports of amateurish police investigations pile up on the desk of successive Ontario attorneys-general, passing from one to another until euthanized by some merciful limitation.
Perhaps there's not as much difference in cleanliness between Toronto and Chicago as all these sensational stories suggest. But even allowing for a generous Family Compact factor, there's still an obvious difference. Pinning down the reason for it would be an interesting project for a graduate student, but one factor stands out at first glance. We have strict laws limiting contributions to local politicians, they have none. The comparison suggests that maintaining those laws and the accountability they enforce is far more important than many complacent Torontonians might think.
Mayor David Miller and council will face a key test of their commitment to election-finance reform in the new year when they deal with an initiative to outlaw corporate and union donations from local campaigns - something many support but few champion. Mr. Miller and a handful of councillors have made it their practice not to accept such donations, while others would wither to nothing without them. But council has twice voted to petition the province for permission to enact such a ban, and last year the province granted it. Now there is no excuse not to act
"It's already our policy and I voted for it the first time it came out," Mayor Miller said yesterday, although he hesitated to endorse a new law before it has been through the process mill. Banning corporate and union contributions is only one of the recommendations made by a local task force and first endorsed by council almost five years ago. It also recommended banning the practice of rolling forward surpluses from one campaign to another and tightening the rules that permit six-figure victory parties for $20,000 campaigns. Accomplishing all three at once would be a hat trick beyond the dreams of most municipal punters. Then, people who like to compare Toronto and Chicago would really have something to talk about.
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jaedeen wrote:
I still haven't figured out what I got for the taxpayer dollars I paid in last year. I know the perks rich people got may have been where some of it went and some of it probably went to kill people. But I can't seem to put my finger on what I personally gained from all the money I paid in.
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Joe Biden...It's patriotic to pay taxes.
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Jaedeen..But I can't seem to put my finger on what I personally gained from all the money I paid in.
ALL THE MONEY you have paid in..yes there's lots of government waste...PORK..yada yada...but ONE BIG THING you got from paying those taxes since you want the rich to be patriotic and the wealth to be spread around...is..and guess what it is.....YOU, my dear are living in one of the best countries of the world IF not the best for ALL of it's faults. You are free to worship or not worship or worship whatever or whomever you want. You have free speech and don't have to be worried that you'll be carried of and tortured and murdered because YOU said something against this imperfect government. You have the right to laugh at the president...like shoes being thrown at him instead of being insulted that that would even happen to a head of state or president. You live in a country where there's clean water, food, roads to travel instead of walking down dirt roads for hours or days and hauling your own water back to where you live. You have electricity to heat and cool your home. You can burn the flag or you can stomp on it or trash it, spit on it OR you can respect our flag that has flown in many battle grounds where our troops have given us our freedom in this imperfect country. You can protest in FRONT of the Whitehouse where our president lives without the worry of being shot! You have the right to a trial by jury...not just put in front of a firing squad just BECAUSE. We live in a civil country where we don't kill thousands of innocent men, women AND YES..the most innocent of all..babies...of course that depends on when YOU think life begins..AND OH THE SILLIEST RIGHT OF ALL IS YOU CAN HAVE A MAMMO WITHOUT ASKING YOUR HUSBAND OR HAVING HIM DRIVE YOU TO THE MAMMO...isn't that a weird kind of freedom?
Oh, there's so many more reasons you get back what you put into this country. And there are so many people who are getting from our government even though they put no $$$ i.e. education, food stamps, healthcare...etc. But ya know...WE'RE SUCH A MEAN COUNTRY AND WHY IN THE HECK WE'RE PROUD OF OUR COUNTRY IS BEYOND ME! You have every RIGHT to grumble. I also grumble because I have the freedom to do so.
I just do not understand why people live in this country who thinks it so horrible and that their getting NOTHING back from their tax dollars. I can tell you one then, Jaedeen, their are a lot of people ripping off our system and there are a lot of crooks in Washington ripping us off and just plain mean people..but it's NOT all of our country's fault. It's PEOPLE who are unscrupulous like this Bago guy.
There's a few hundred other reasons I could probably come up with, but I haven't had my first cup of coffee yet.
Shirley
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Hey Jaedeen maybe you should move to a state where the taxes aren't so high...........
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I don't know DD, but all I'm going to say is..I think when the person she's talking about lectures women with bc or even fibro..like she''l assume they're "being a victim" because someone treats them like idiots because they say they have fibro...and when women who are asking for a soft place to fall because perhaps their dhs are acting stupidly..don't try to understand what the women with bc or fibro might be going through..these women come here for support...not a lecture on...just go and read the fibro thread. I was appalled. The ONLY reason I stepped in to read is because I was dxd with fibro in the 80s. However, I truly do not think I have it..never had the tender points..the docs just couldn't explain why I had the symptoms I had/have. But fibro is real and for some very bad. But when a woman OR man on this board asks for ways in which they can feel better about themself or what to say or how to react to someone who may think you're diagnoses with a disease is a cop out and a woman on this board comes along and says..get over yourself..or you're playing the victim..or whatever bad judgment she's using with the one seeking help...it shows that that person has no empathy or regard for that person's problem.
Shirley
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badboob you are absolutely right, I dont know her situation and it is wrong for me to jump to conclusions. In fact whether she works or not is none of my business.
However, when anyone who is capable of working but doesn't because they can draw disability instead, costs all of us money. I bet there are many people drawing disability that could in fact work full time. People look for ways to abuse the system all the time. I knew a guy one time drawing "workers comp" because he claimed he hurt his back at work and could never work "again the rest of his life" and guess what? He was outside bent over his car working on it, rotating his tires, changing his oil, etc. He could work, but he was lazy
There are millions of dollars spent every year on people who draw disability and workers comp who are abusing the system. Then people who really need it have twice as hard a time getting it! So it burns me up and I can't help that.
Maybe I could apply for mental disability..........
Please understand there are people who draw on disability that deserve it and I am glad for anyone who truly cannot work to have this program to help them live.
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Every time I hear or read about another appointment from our elected one, my stomach turns. He only knows Clinton rethreads or people out of the Chicago crime syndicate? This is the best of the best?
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Sherri, I thought the same thing...a superintendent from Chicago?
Rosemary, do you remember any other PE announcing ALL of their cabinet, and having these press conferences? Geez! His honeymoon will be over before he EVER gets in!
Shirley
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Oh, can BTW..I loved the way President Bush reacted at the "size 10" shoe being thrown at him. They have shown this over and over on Fox and it almost looks like he's enjoying it...LOL He said he was not bothered by it one bit at all. He's an easy going guy. I just wish he would show his face on TV more. Obviously he has a reason....let Obama be seen and HEARD enough and.......
Shirley
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If someone through a shoe at Obama, I'm sure it would be because they were racist.
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I thought the prez was pretty cool and very sharp and definitely showed a great sense of humor.
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Shirley,
I can't say that I ever saw anything like this before. This entire process smacks of just cronyism or David Alexrod. Looking for the best of the best usually is a long process, people have to be found, interviewed, vetted, and time marches on. I don't think Chicago schools are winning any awards, yet we have another Chicago pick.
Speaking of cronyism, Rohm Emanuel has some explaining to do. He and Blago spoke 21 times. If Emanuel didn't drop the dime on Blago, then they have a big problem. Do we think they talked about the weather? So how is our MSM going to cover this up if Emanuel's next call after hearing Blago talk about selling the Senate seat, wasn't to the AG's office? Stay tuned there's more scandal to come.
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Sherri,
The MSM won't be talking too much about it. That's the cover-up. They'll just have a few words about it, then it's dropped. To me, this isn't about who talked about it, Obama or Emanuel, it's all about calling the AG's office to report it. Did they? If they didn't they're just as guilty. They obviously turned him down, thus the remarks by Blago. They knew about it, and did they report it?
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I heard a Chicago radio show host yesterday saying that everyone believes it was Rahm who tipped off the feds on Blago because he was pissed Blago would not appoint Jarrett, hence Jarrett dropped out and went to DC. He also says there is a rumor that Blago was arrested so quickly, even while they could still be collecting evidence so that they could keep anyone from Obama's club getting caught in the sting.
Illinois is no longer called "The Land of Lincoln"
Illinois' new motto: "Illinois, where even our Governors MAKE the liscense plates"
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Okay, every since chemo, my "smarts" have come to a crawl. My elevator does go to the top, it just takes a while to get there! I JUST now figured out what/who PEBO and PEBHO is! LOL I've been thinking all this time "who the heck is pebo"!!!!! Sometimes I am not the sharpest knife in the drawer! LOL
BUT I still cant figure out what IMHO means. Will someone enlighten me?
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IMHO = In my humble opinion.
I know who PEBO is, but who is PEBHO?
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Moody -you are not alone---I knew who PEBO was but not what the initials stood for. Finally dawned on me tonight.........
IMHO is In My Humble Opinion.........
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Shirley---Its the same as PEBO just with the middle initial included..........
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Lol, I just found out what IMHO means.
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OMG! Maybe you guys need to hire some teenagers to tutor you! LOL
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ALl these LOL , BRB, ROFL, etc are now in the dictionaries
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Thank goodness I wasnt the only one
Alright ijl, I know LOL and BRB, I used to know ROFL but now I cant rem and what is ALI?
BTW= by the way
TY=thank you
TYVM=thank you very much
NP=no problem
NTX=no thanks
NT=nice try
VG=very good
see, I am "cool"--
--just sloooooow & forgetful 
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