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

SunflowersM, There is a double strength flu vaccine that is recommended for folks over 65.  From what I heard, Medicare was not paying for it in 2012.  Around here, only the physicians were getting supplies, not the clinics like they have at Costco and the pharmacies.

Blue, Hope you feel better soon.  

Athena, Sending positive, healing thoughts your way.

Craze-E, hope tomorrow is the day you get your results.

I can't find where anybody said anything shocking but I'm going to post this anyway.  

Now it's up to youse guys to give the kitty a reason to look like that.

Pat Toomey's remarks re: the background checks bill just confirmed what everyone already knew:  Republican congressmen don't want to support anything the President supports.  Because they don't like him.  

Those assholes are hurting people and our government and they don't even care.  I don't understand.

E, I read Toomey's remarks as well and I don't get it either.  I guess it comes down to the same thing as the airline sequester that the Senate has fixed now.....if it doesn't somehow have a huge personal impact they can all just keep on whistling while doing all possible to stop the Pres. from doing what is the right thing. 

My viewpoint would be.....don't be surprised that it is noticed and adjudicated during elections.  JMO but the rt. while possibly stopping the President in some ways will not get where they want to go.

Amused at the clever Bush library tactics of letting people pick the scenario for the WAR he instigated.  Clever but I don't think in the end it is going to do that much for him.  First you steal at least one election and then you have to steal the truth from history so you won't look so bad.  Sad....just sad. 

Jackie

From Think Progress:

On Wednesday, a five-year-old Kentucky boy accidentally shot and killed his two-year-old sister with a gun he’d been given as a birthday present. The weapon, a small rifle, was manufactured specifically for children’s use.

The boy’s weapon was a “My First Rifle” .22-caliber gun from Keystone Sporting Arms’ youth branch, Crickett. Crickett’s website markets itself “especially for youth shooters.” The firearms come in several neon colors, and the website even has a “kids corner” featuring pictures of small children with guns:

Crickett does not manufacture bullets. The company offers books for “Grades 2-3 and up,” and says their guns are “ideally sized for children four to ten years old.”

The militarization of children has been tragically spotlighted in the aftermath of the horrific shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut last December. Since then, the country has paid heart-sickening attention to the myriad accidentalshootings that have taken place around the country, and the growth of a market ofbulletproof children’s clothing.

In one week alone last month, four people were shot by toddlers.

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So --- think of all the children's toys that have been taken off the market because they've been deemed "dangerous" -- Jarts, anyone?  Or the strict regs about infant car seats, cribs etc.  And yet, a company is allowed to sell children's weapons with no problem?  What is wrong, wrong, wrong with this picture?

gg - I've made an appt. to see my doc next Tuesday.  Taking a "poll" and most of my friends with asthma seem to be taking Singular.  Sure I have the "remains" of bronchitis, viral, from the flu - and it's triggered asthama.  Am allergic to almost all antibiotics, so refuse to go that route.  This is TMI, but only mucus in am when I wake up - and it's not green so don't think it's an infection.

Head-desk-brick wall. So loathe to add another medication to the pill box.  Go the ok to stop arimide after 5 1/2 years in february, can't tell if I feel better cuz got flu march 2 - oh, well....

ENJOY - call the docs - it is ridiculous that the hammer bearers haven't gotten results by now.

Hi girls - all ready to go, but I'm an hour early Steve takes forever to get ready, so I just got him up. Meanwhile, I've locked up and just waiting for his toiletries to put in the bag and we're set.

Athean - hear our ROAR!!!

The NRA will day you're never too young to exercise your Second Amendment rights! Disgusting.

GOOD NEWS:  Biopsy results negative for cancer.

BAD NEWS:  False negatives for bone biopsies are common.

*headdesk*

Oncologist is fairly certain it's cancer so we're going ahead with the Tykerb/Aromasin clinical trial. 

Gosh, I'm SOOOOO glad I went through torture for nothing! 

I'm an honorary three dollar bill.....

Jackie

Yup -- it counts.

YAAAAY, E!!! So good to hear good news on this dreary, snowy (can you believe?) day!

Alexandria -

Yes, there's a chance it's true negative but the PET/CT and MRI point to cancer.  I signed up for a clinical trial today and as part of that they're scheduling a CT and bone scan.  Perhaps those will shed some light on this very murky and frustrating ordeal.

Why order a biopsy?  Well, first of all, I didn't KNOW that false negatives were common.  Secondly, I was hoping for an answer one way or the other.  Last, I was hoping to learn the cancer's pathology.  It's been mutating and changing each time it's come back.  I wanted to make sure that we were treating the right type of cancer.  BUT....I guess we won't know.

from Ringside Seat....no surprises here:

GUNS DON'T SUPPORT SENATORS. VOTERS DO.  

It has long been axiomatic among political professionals that gun-rights supporters vote based on the gun issue, while those who favor more restrictive gun laws don't. Consequently, office-holders believe that contradicting the National Rifle Association (NRA) carries a political cost, while supporting the NRA's position doesn't, even when the group is at odds with what most Americans want. That may partly explain why expanded background checks, which polls have shown enjoy the support of nine out of ten Americans, weren't able to overcome a Republican filibuster to pass the Senate.

But that conventional wisdom may turn out to be wrong. A new round of polls from Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling firm (but one with an admirable record for accuracy) shows that senators who voted against the background check bill have suffered losses in their standing among home-state voters since the bill failed. And polls in Louisiana and North Carolina show Senators Mary Landrieu and Kay Hagen, both of whom are up for re-election next year, getting high marks from their constituents for voting in favor of background checks.

Meanwhile, Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire has been getting the kind of news coverage few politicians want, with angry constituents confronting her at town meetings over her opposition to the background-check bill. She made the national news when the daughter of the Sandy Hook Elementary principal went to one of Ayotte's town meetings and asked her how the "burden" Ayotte was worried about imposing on gun-shop owners stacked up against the burden on victims of gun violence.

Perhaps by the time the next election rolls around, all this will be forgotten. But at the moment, it looks like, for the first time in many years, those who oppose any and all restrictions on guns may actually be paying a price for the position they've chosen to take. Imagine that.

My horse comes home on Saturday, I have hard cider in the fridge, and tomorrow is my last day of one of my Jobs.  Life is good!