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

E - glad you got to see Glenna and have a horse visit too - overthrowing "stuff" is a GOOD thing I think - or you could move up here for a while....

Gardengumby - don't let the CNN polling throw you - lately they've been acting like Faux News - there are better polls out there - Quinnipaic is one that I trust more than some of the others.

Scoot/Enjoyful, Glenna - when we takeover can we do it on our SCOOTERS..with the coloured spangles?  And flourescent thingies hanging off the handles?  I wanna do it NOW.  N.O.W.

Hi Everyone!

Scoot ... So excited you got to meet Glenna.  I'm so jealous you spent the day together. 

How wonderful for Glenna to also meet our Scootful.  She's a wonderful friend!

Pip ... I know how you feel.  I often look at the pictures from our get together last summer.  Sure do miss everyone.

Hope everyone had a good day.

Bren

It was a big one.  Lindasa was very generous and hosted it. Lassie, Enjoyful, Lewing, Happy Libby, Ann NY, Rachel Mumayam, Sandy, BinVa, Sugar, Luah, hrf, Rosemary, Barbe, Blue, BarbA, Yan, Cookiegal, me (PIP) and our angel Dreamwriter.  We honoured 2 members who passed before we got together, Olga and Konakat.  

Cookielegal? I've seen that name, but not on this thread.  You guys made me cry.  Wow, how wonderful.  Doesn't Linda live in Canada??? Is that where you met?

Riley - I had 4 Zometa infusions - had a bone density after 2 years on A and no significant change. My Vit D is 92 - I take CaltratePlus which has 4000iu in it and a separate D3 of 1000.  My onc said that if your bone density was good to start with, then A is less likely to cause problems.

Oh, yuck yuck yuck! The Huff Post has gone all pink for breast cancer. I thought they were more intelligent than that. How mortifying....

Riley, that article was GREAT! It would be wonderful if it happened that way, wouldn't it?!



L

Interesting article on Hoover, FDR and the Great Depression.  I'd seen much of the same information on a History channel program.  Wealth becoming concentrated among a few, wages stagnating, unregulated stock market out of control, banks making reckless loans and then going under ... Hoover's belief that 'trickle down' would solve the problems.  Sounds familiar huh.   http://iws.collin.edu/kwilkison/Online1302home/20th%20Century/DepressionNewDeal.html

And just for a laugh ... this guy should have spent a lot less time on his costume and much much more time on his sign.

WR, I have been laughing at that picture all day -- have seen it several places!



L

Why are some getting Zometa?  My MO never mentioned it to me.  Hmmm

Yorkie:

The AZURE trial  suggested that the early stage women who most benefitted from Zometa were those who had been in menopause for a while, whereas premenopausal women or women who had just entered menopause, got less benefit. In the eyes of many, this seemed to contradict the assertion made by the so-called Austrian trials in 2009 that premenopausal BC patients could benefit. The 2009 Austrain trail was practice-changing for early stagers and so was the AZURE trial. Many of us stage II-III people were put on Zometa, then taken off it.

But both were well designed studies whose results appear to hold over time. What the scientists ignored was that the women in the Austrian trial had not had chemo and the ones in the AZURE trial had. But in BC research they never seem to concern themselves with "details" -arghhh!

I PROBABLY don't need Zometa, but it was one of my few hopes, so I was sad to lose the option.

I am going to give you a link to a Stage III forum thread where we discuss the trial results - voraciousreader published them. I think it was December of 2010...off to find the link.

Athena, I'm going to read it all. Thanks for the link! I had been menopausal for 14 years before getting Zometa. Maybe it is indicated for me. Seems the problem is those who were not menopausal? Anyway, I'll learn much more once I go to the link. 

Re: the vote:

Statewide,
Republican voter registration in California is in decline. Thirty percent of
voters are now listed as Republican as opposed to 32% in 2008. It was awfully
suspicious, then, when GOP registrations in Riverside County jumped by 35,000 this
year, seemingly giving them an advantage of 51,000 voters over Democrats. It
turns out that thousands of Democrats have been re-registered as Republicans
without their permission.

A
Republican voter outreach program named 'The Golden State Voter Participation
Project' stationed workers outside of stores and welfare offices to sign people
up. Democratic activists are alleging fraud and have given the county registrar
of voters 133 affidavits from Democrats, many of whom are Latino or African
American, who state that they were wrongly re-registered as Republicans. Many
were presented with documents that were misrepresented. One thought he was
signing a petition to lower the price of gasoline, another that he was
supporting the legalization of marijuana. Some were promised free cigarettes in
exchange for signing.

//
//

How
would such fraud help Republicans? First of all, inflating their numbers gives
them a fundraising boost by making their chances of success look greater than
they are. Secondly, Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts would be thwarted since
the party wouldn't reach out to people listed as Republican to make sure they
made it to the polls.

Candidate
Richard Roth, who is running for state Senate against the Republican incumbent,
is making the alleged fraud a campaign issue. After all, in an unfortunate
development for the GOP, Roth is one of the victims whose registration was
changed to Republican. He complains that the drive was manned by paid signature
collectors who received $7 for every signature, and that his opponent voted
against a measure that would ban 'bounty hunter' registrations.

According
to California Watch, the bigger picture in the state
shows that only one county currently remains a Republican-majority stronghold.
Even a conservative, military town like San Diego is now evenly split between
Democrats and Republicans. So one has to wonder, didn't it occur to anyone in
the GOP that Dems might notice the strange surge in Riverside County?

 This article is just speaking about California ( before I came back home here.....I lived there  in the Santa Barbara/Ventura areas ) for 25 years. I know this has/is going on everywhere. I think this is a major problem ---- about the part without their permission by representing what was signed to be apparently something else.  A person could be registered and then vote however they chose, but it is appalling to me.  Also, that people are PAID to defraud on top of everything else. Doesn't matter what anyone may get for these reprehensible acts.....I don't even care which party --- the are still the worst kind of losers in my book....not that it would matter to a single one of them. Sigh.

Jackie....not so eloquent as usual.