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

suzie - it's one day of eating jello, drinking clear fluids and staying home. The rewards can be very well worth it.

On the other hand, I hope that some day research will find some other, more pleasant way to find the same information.

Good morning this morning.  I woke up with so many thoughts this morning....after seeing our President and Gov. Christie --- showing just how you SHOULD be using bi-partisanship to make the world a much better, stronger and healing place.  I am sad that it took a horrendous storm whose effects will yet be felt for so long.

At the same time the thoughts continue in my head that no one really knows ( well, we might all know some ) how many Republicans are not BUYING what Romney can't figure out what to try and sell to whom, and when......and they will go to the Polls and no one will be the wiser that they flipped.  There is much reason to sense real stability on the back of some rather large and late gaffes.  Namely trying to leave Ohio with such a crude and easily de-bunked lie.  With officials of car companies taking out their own ads --- with using the storm to 'garner' support.  Some Regressives will be foolish and hang on like it is the Holy Grail.  I credit many of the Republican party smarter than that.  They ( un-like so many of their counterparts ) listen to more than the Faux News source --- and they are not the ones who are sending up the hues and cries over voter suppression, Benghazi and all the rest of these things.  They are among the ones who are willing to THINK for themselves and not go the lemming route. 

Of course, things will be tight here and there, but Mitsy lost ground ( or his VP choice ) after every debate save the first one.  He has not had momentum....he has dementum and every time he has attempted to fix it, he has stepped off and went neck deep in it.  He is JMHO a man, not a good one, or a very nice one who has spent his whole life finding ways to GAIN for himself and the rest be damned.  He has demonstrated his character very vividly these past few days.  IMHO opinion, it is not a very pretty picture at all and those who use their head will see that and act accordingly.

Jackie

ETA....love it Blue.

Blue - thanks for posting.  I missed that one!!!

I've had to have three colonoscopies - keep growing polyps, and yes the prep isn't fun but it's definitely "doable" and the alternative of letting those polyps grow into something worse is beyond what I'm willing to risk.

Suzie, really it's one crummy afternoon and part of the evening of prep, during which you can get some reading done followed by a nap and scan. The alternative if you're not lucky would take a lot more out of your life.

Blue -- Just eat prunes every day and the feeling will continue.

If I could turn back the hands of time, I would have prophylacticly removed both breasts rather than go through breast cancer. (I am brca2+, and that is the Rx anyway, but still, no questions asked, atleast retrospectively.)  What's a little prep?? 

I had a friend who had a colonoscopy...all clear.  Three years later, he was experiencing diverticulosis...they told him to go on his cruise to Panama and come back for a colonscopy to look at the divertic.  Right next to the divertic, he had a Stage 3 colon cancer growing.  Must have been aggressive as it was just starting to break through the wall of his intestine.  Makes me wonder about the 5 year interval for high riskers.  (He wasn't even high risk.)

Kam and HL, my first "call-back" colonoscopy was on the 3 year plan, but now I'm on the 2 year plan which means I'll report again in June 2014. I also won't put this off.

Edited to add: I don't know if having my re-check cut to 2 years comes due to the polyps or to the fact that I now also have some diverticulosis.

HL, couldn't agree more!

So, hmm...I just had an ooph 8/30.  My doctor said she looked all around that cavity and "all clear."  While this is no substitute for a colonoscopy, I suppose a look-see, from the outside-in, is better than nothing (while I wait nervously for my gastro appointment)?

Suzie - I think we are all advising you that the alternative to the prep, makes the prep seem simple (and actually, it's not that bad).

This was on the front page of my newspaper (The Globe & Mail - Canada) today.  I wonder how many other papers made it front-page?  Easier question -- how many didn't??

Unfortuneately, I think the worst of this storm's after effects are not over.  These kind of events do not resolve with one Presidential visit.  It does take time to get people and assets in place, above an beyond assessing the situation.  I hear they are just becoming aware of missing people on Staten Island.   This is all normal - Republicans!  This is how huge events like this unfold.  I think people without power get restless, too, justifiably so, but there are just so many people that have the skills to remove trees from power lines.  That's a very specialized skill.

Oh, Kam, you are absolutely correct.  By Saturday, the regressives will be screaming bloody murder about the bungled, incompetent rescue effort mounted by "Obama's FEMA" and bleating about how much better it would be if it were run by a businessman and/or the private sector -- of course, completely ignoring the incredible incompetence of the FEMA heads appointed by the regressives.  And on Election Day, the regressives will be out in full force screaming that the relief effort has FAILED FAILED FAILED because the President and his Administration are incompetent and should have known beforehand that the storm would be so bad ... we know the drill, the tired old tropes, the pathetic attempts to smear good people.  And of course, these will be the same people first in line with their hands out for disaster relief should THEY experience a disaster.

I just feel so for the people who have lost everything ... the video footage and the still pictures are jaw-dropping, and the thought of so many people who had little to begin with now have nothing.  This is one of the cruel realities of poverty -- if you live on the edge, on the margins, often you simply can't recover from something like this disaster.  If your car was totaled and your insurance doesn't cover something like this, you are still liable for payments on a vehicle that you no longer own.  If you didn't have renter's insurance because you couldn't afford it and you were buying a TV on time, you no longer have the TV but still have to pay.  And you have to replace your clothes so you can go to work.  The weight of the despair of falling further and further behind without an opportunity just to catch your breath is crushing.  My heart just aches.

L

I love our president. I have never said that before of any head of state. He is a good man and a great man. Conservatives can scoff at these words, but they have a history of scoffing at the great.

Kam - lol!