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

Hi Girlfriends!

Thanks for the birthday wishes.  I spent the day at the dentist.  I broke a tooth off last night and cried myself to sleep thinking he would have to pull another one.  This one would be quite noticable when I smiled.

Thank goodness the dentist was able to cement the broken tooth back on.  I am so glad I saved the part that broke off.  He drilled a little spike thingy into the tooth to use to hold it in place.

Good news is Mr. Tim was home today.  He's been gone for two weeks and he leaves again in the morning.  It's the first time in years he's been home for my birthday.  woohoo!  My sis bought us some steaks at Sam's club so he's going to bbq for dinner.  We're also having bbq baby zuccini and steamed broccoli.  Yum!  I'm so happy I don't have another hole in my mouth and I can enjoy dinner.

Hugs to all,

Bren

There's the birthday girl!  The dentist thing sucks ... glad he was able to fix you up.  Now enjoy that steak!

I hate it when people use statistics to imply or lie!!!

Happy Birthday Bren! What a bummer to spend your special day at the dentist! 

Happy Birthday, Bren - glad the dentist could fix you up.  I have to get a crown replaced and am sincerely dreading it.

Susie - I've heard that claim about base load from renewable energy sources before, but according to many, it's a fallacy - especially for wind energy - solar maybe not so much, as it's pretty hard to generate solar energy when the sun is below the horizon.  Wind, though, as long as the wind farms are geographically distributed, is pretty reliable - though I agree that any energy company based wholly on renewables that didn't have back-up gas or hydro turbines would be skating on fairly thin ice (with the notable exception of hydro, as rivers run pretty constantly). 

Kay - much of the energy for the NorthWestern US comes from hydro.  That is also remote from most of the users of the electricity.  Also, electric companies buy and sell power, so, for example, when Seattle City Light has more than it needs for its customers, they sell the power to other electric companies and vice versa.  It's very high volume trading that goes on all the time.  The electricity running through your house could very well have been generated hundreds if not thousands of miles away at any given time.  As long as we use electricity, it must be generated somewhere - It would IMHO be ideal if each and every house/apartment bldg had it's own solar panel(s) that generated power and sold the overage to the electric companies, and that may be in our future.  One of my big regrets is that we didn't install solar panels on our house when we purchased it.

Happy Birthday Bren - sorry about the tooth but glad to hear it's all fixed now and you can eat steak with Mr. Tim.

I live in Pa...........and can honesty say...I don't think it has been decided yet what they will do as far as the ID's go................sad for the elderly, and we know why it is being done..........at least in the Philly area we know why...............so what else is new...........Let's make him a 1 term President......sound familiar......what better way then to lose the Philly vote because of ID's.....................

Bren - funny you broke a tooth too - I also took the piece with me in case he wanted to superglue it on or something - he didn't need to.

Riley - my mention of a wind turbine catching fire, was just an anecdote I remember seeing in the news lately - not a statement that they are bad.

I have hope for the Penn ruling.  I saw snippets of the questioning and all of the justices seem to wonder "why do we need to implement this so fast?"  The "Liberals" on the court questioned the political motives of the law, specifically the Republican head of the State Senate who basically said to some group of Republicans "Implement Voter ID Laws - get Romney elected - Done!"  They also questioned the amount of Voter Fraud that had occurred in Penn and the government's lawyer basically said "Well, we have no documented cases."

Jim Cramer (CNBC) tweeted a couple of weeks ago "I have a problem.  My dad, a vet, won't be allowed to vote in Pa. because he dos not drive, he is elderly, and can't prove his citizenship."

Ofcourse, the state of PA came quickly to the rescue of Jim's father because of the bad publicity, but what about the 750,000 others?  Argh  This is how they steal elections now.

Happy BDAY Bren!

The sad thing is that the politicians who vote for what is effectively a poll tax, think it is AOK, including most of the people who voted for them.  They also don't care that the political operatives storming Broward County were from DC working for Karl Rove and pretended to be local concerned citizens.  Stealing an election, whichever way is ok if their guy wins.  I felt like a dark cloud moved over my life in 2000 and didn't leave until 2009.

Sorry I misunderstood, susie! 

Yeah, Scoot, that was truly one of the lamest statements I've heard from Romney. Are they TRYING to lose?

Oh boy. The tape of Romney saying that and more was on NBC Nightly News. Go to "Mother Jones" and you can watch the whole tape. Nothing you didn't already know, but pretty bald out there.



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