Blue - the cat and puzzle is so funny. When I was a kid I had a cat that looked just like that. He owned the house and permitted us to live there, but only on his terms!! His favorite sleeping spots were the top of the fridge and the middle of the kitchen table. I remember one day that my grandma was ready to kill him. She was going to serve rhubarb cobbler, and he had walked right through the middle of it.
April 25th???? Man, these people take their sweet time! So yes, maybe it won't make a medical difference, but do they think people love to just wait?
I don't feel like being PC about those Boston bomb suspects. Immigrant families are like all humans. Some are good, some are ok and a few are rotten to the core. Some make this country better and others bring their intolerant views over with them. Meaning some one welcomes, some one barely notices and some one wishes had drowned on the way over. It's the sea of life.
Yeah, Athena. I called my onc's office and left a garbled, screaming message about needing to do something NOW because the cancer is growing in my SPINE and Xanax isn't helping!
Crazy isn't limited to an ethnicity or citizenry, it's in all of us.
And I can report that George III most likely wished mine had been HANGED at sea. Having fought the Crown and fled to Scotland, they then came here to take up arms in the Revolution. Nothing but trouble!
Paul Krugman and a few others have the academic integrity to see this issue for the complex one it is - neither the Rousseauian view nor the bigoted one are anything but a fantasy. I hope we can find a solution to and for those living here illegally - most are taxpayers, a few are takers and thugs and a majority want the chance to vote.
Good for you, crazy E! I can't bloody understand the leisurely pace with which metastatic BC is treated. It pisses me off to read how much stage IV patients have to wait. "Yeah, you're gonna die anyway," the doctors seem to be saying. (One wants to say, "Doc, how would you like a premature death yourself - because I am coming with a baseball bat if you make me wait.") Grrrr.
Wanted to add - I have really admired how Gov. Patrick has handled the crises in Boston - first with the storm, then with the terrorism. He was wise to shut down transportation.
My heart goes out to the family of the policeman who was fatally shot.
Interesting to note, though, that Newtown had more fatalities. Meaning that a gunning can cause more damage than a bombing.
(The naive observer might ask: Now congress is going to pass a law criminalizing anyone who publishes names of pressure cooker owners? Expanded permits for bombers? Train more bombers to blow up suspected bombers??)
The National Rifle Association and President Obama responded to the Newtown, Conn., shootings by recommending that more police officers be placed in the nation’s schools. But a growing body of research suggests that, contrary to popular wisdom, a larger police presence in schools generally does little to improve safety. It can also create a repressive environment in which children are arrested or issued summonses for minor misdeeds — like cutting class or talking back — that once would have been dealt with by the principal.
Stationing police in schools, while common today, was virtually unknown during the 1970s. Things began to change with the surge of juvenile crime during the ’80s, followed by an overreaction among school officials. Then came the 1999 Columbine High School shooting outside Denver, which prompted a surge in financing for specially trained police. In the mid-1970s, police patrolled about 1 percent of schools. By 2008, the figure was 40 percent.
The belief that police officers automatically make schools safer was challenged in a 2011 study that compared federal crime data of schools that had police officers with schools that did not. It found that the presence of the officers did not drive down crime. The study — by Chongmin Na of The University of Houston, Clear Lake, and Denise Gottfredson of the University of Maryland — also found that with police in the buildings, routine disciplinary problems began to be treated as criminal justice problems, increasing the likelihood of arrests.
Children as young as 12 have been treated as criminals for shoving matches and even adolescent misconduct like cursing in school. This is worrisome because young people who spend time in adult jails are more likely to have problems with law enforcement later on. Moreover, federal data suggest a pattern of discrimination in the arrests, with black and Hispanic children more likely to be affected than their white peers.
Just wanted to say that while some oncology practices are insensitive regarding timely responses to their patients I really sense that most of us have chosen facilities and oncologists who take very good care of us and try everything possible to buy as much time as we can get.
gg- self portrait = typing person having wet panties from laughing!!!!!
Blue - meant to say how much I loved those turquoise blue birds with the amazing curly head feathers...
HL - you are SO good - parakeets talking to mirror is q funny image, btw, one posted was a cockateil....same difference.
Frightening times in Boston - so many interviews with people who went to school with suspect, and important question seems to be what coul dhave made him CHANGE so much in such a sort time, especially after becoming a citizen. Curious.
Sunny - the uncle who was estranged from them speculated that they did not adapt well and that they "hated" those who did.
Maybe their motives were banal. Maybe they did it for thrills. Who knows. This reminds me a bit of the sniper shootings a decade ago in the DC region, but without knowling more it's hard to tell.... In that case, the older man was someone who had failed at everything he tried in life and was bitter. The younger one, though, was apparently more in it for the thrills - if I remember correctly.
There is something called a "folie a deux" in which two close people can feed off each other and together commit acts that, alone, they would NEVER think of committing.
