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

whoa, macadamia nuts for Athena

You live in what was a former swamp, no wonder it's the most humid place on earth, and you going to leave your cool abode to go to a HOT ROOM to do Power Yoga?  Should we add a beer to the refreshments waiting for you at BCOB&G?  Do ya want it warm???

I just want to interject.. I really can't drink anymore.. my meds are just too strong but I love a good strong spicey Bloody Mary..

also Athena, I really appreciate your wit, humor, succintity (is that a word) and mediation attempts.. you go girl.

Apple .. love your musical apple avatar!

Cindy .. I saw Les Mis in LA too.  It was wonderful!  Also Cats and Phantom.  I saw Phantom twice, I loved it so much.  There isn't anything like that where I live now.  Happy Birthday to you and your sister!

Bren

I'd thank Athena too, but I'm drooling too much at the thought, just the THOUGHT of Salt&Vinegar Chips.  "Discovered" them when I lived in London years ago, used to buy a large bag on my way home from the gym..tee, hee...

Still love them - but Costco Kettle SomethingorOther Potato Chips - which are thick enough to DIP in vinegar ( and much cheaper) are excellent. $4. for a, get ready for it, 2 pound bag.  I buy them for parties at friend's houses - and HAVE to drop them off on my way home from Costco, cuz they aren't safe in my little cabin!  Honestly, I could eat a bag.

((( Athena )))

I'm off to the dentist .. Barbara .. I skimmed the article, interesting read, need to read it again when I get home.

Bren

I am addicted to Utz's Sour Cream and Onion.

(I don't drink beer - I will have lots of iced water this evening.)

May Murdoch and his son end up doing hard time. That man has done more to pollute the intellect and promote backwardness than Mao during the Cultural Revolution. 

So MUCH of the fury about the hacking in the UK, not publicized much here, is that the NOTW hacked the cell phone of a young girl who had been kidnapped, kept reading the messagaes left, having the parents of that poor child thinking she was still alive.  She was dead.  They later found her body.  Not only did NOTW hack her cell phone messages - without of course letting the police know but the reporters ERASED message when the "mail box" got too full.  Deleting information that the police might have used to capture whoever kidnapped & killed the girl.

Just unbelievable.  And that was only one case.  But the one that made the news , I think it was in 2009.  I don't think the Spectator article refers to that incident at all.

Barbara - I think you misunderstood where I am coming from on this. My problem with Murdoch is his disregard for the truth, and I am less concerned with US politics and more with British tabloid character assassination when I say this. Phone hacking and publishing information or gossip about a celebrity which you know to be false are my main concern. As is creating an empire based on shameless innuendo. 

Murdoch's decision to close down The News of the World, while welcome, is also a step towards inoculating himself and his own from further inquiry. By moving to self-regulate, he is likely hoping that the British authorities will go no further. I think it is too late. The British are sick of him, as they should be. He has singlehandedly run much British journalism to the ground.  

Barbara,

Correction - the woman who was the editor at the time of the worst hacking is no longer the editor because she has been PROMOTED to a higher position in the organization.  Rebekah Brooks, long red hair, pictured standing next to Murdoch, is the person who was the editor.Reading the British papers, there are those who are theorizing he shut it down to save her?  The male editors are being investigated, she isn't - yet.

I thought she was indicted and fired. Checking her out.

....and, according to observers, likely to stay there as the only protection barrier standing between the Murdochs and the police.

Barbara -- Murdoch's editor-in-chief Rebecca Brooks, wasn't fired.  She's still safe and sound within the bosom of News Corporation, last I heard.

I remember reading a "roman a clef" novel several years ago which was actually about Murdoch and his chief rival at the time, Robert Maxwell.  Both despicable human beings.  Interestingly, Maxwell died under mysterious circumstances, and no one was charged with his "murder". 

Jancie, I didn't know Percocet has been recalled. Darvocet is off the shelves, but I still have my stash. When it's gone, I'll cry. Hope you're feeling better today.

Ok, so when the Mods remove a post it's apparently due to tone that may incite a riot, and they can keep on doing their fly-by's or hit-and-runs of snarkiness, get a post yanked, perform a few mea culpas, and do it all over again.

But not Blue. She gets banned.

YIkes? Percocet has been recalled?  I've still got my "stash" since my exchange surgery.  Really needed one last year when I did a Major Fall on the ice in my driveway...ooohh....is it really bad for us to take it???  Gotta go google...

and I'm back editing to say I just googled Percocet and couldnt' find anything about it being banned?

Revkat

you live near the 405???  Oh, my, we've been hearing about carmageddon on all the news. Can't imagine how you can get around without the 405.