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Quark
I tend to think that when people latch on to a particular phrase there's a reason for it.
Richard A Adlof
Can't tell if you're short, You're certainly not ugly. In this tiny picture you remind me a little of Andy Kaufman, but he had so many faces. As for your attitude, like most people, I'm sure you have your good and bad moments. But there are times when you show keen insight and times when you're pretty funny.
DDay
"In my humble opinion" isn't necessary in a statement like that. I actually struggle with the "most beautiful woman in the world" comment because my lady is amazingly beautiful, yet I know there are many many amazingly beautiful women in the world. I just give myself the leeway to express whatever feelings insist on forcing their way out of my soul. I think it would be injurious to my being if I tried to repress those feelings. So go on witcha bad self.
Richard,
Mmmmmmm...chocolate!
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/uploads/image/Chocolate%20chick.jpg
Richard,
Not true. You have a good face and besides I like piss-poor attitudes.
Hi Thom and Louise,
Would it be possible to interview some experts about natural remedies for H1N1? This is a political issue because so many are uninsured and the immunizations are slow in coming.
I have brewed up a black elderberry tincture (sambucu nigra) which has worked twice to stop symptoms but there are some concerns about sambucus causing a"cytokine storm" in really sick folks which could actually make H1N1 worse.
Common sense reasoning suggests to me that since proliferation of this bug is the real problem, if you catch your symptoms early by gargling with salt water, using a neti pot, and perhaps using just a few doses of elderberry tincture you might be able to stop the proliferation of H1 N1, but if your symptoms worsen much you shouldn't use elderberry tincture because of the risk of creating a "cytokine storm".
But it sure would be nice to have a few experts discussing with you possible natural remedies to stop H1N1 from getting worse. We trust you, whereas other promoters of natural remedies are at times offering snake oil, so it would be cool if you would interview the experts about flu remedies!
B Roll,
I guess that means I should never say this to my wife: Oh honey, honestly, in my humble opinion, you are the most beautiful woman on earth.?
@B Roll,
I constantly tell folk that I’m a short, fat ugly little man with a piss-poor attitude . . . Unfortunately for me, it is accurate.
B Roll,
Sometimes "in my humble opinion" is just a rhetorical throw-away phrase, don't you think? (I don't pay it much heed, I guess.)
Something in the back of my head is telling me that October 28, 2009 is National Chocolate Day.
A few observations:
Women who repeatedly say that people tell them how beautiful they are feel insecure about their attractiveness.
People who repeatedly tell you that they're honest usually are liars and cheats.
People who repeatedly say "in my humble opinion" don't know what humility feels like.
"I'm gonna make Libermann an offer he can't refuse."
Halloween fun!
Richard,
Olbermann interview (Video):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olb...
Richard,
Speaking about the cost of health care in this country, did you hear about this study, just released?
"US healthcare system wastes $700 billion a year: Thomson Reuters"
http://www.domain-b.com/economy/worldeconomy/20091028_us_healthcare_syst...
Keith Olbermann cited it in a conversation on Countdown last night. (I will post the link to that interview.)
@THOM:
OMG!!!! Social mobility smacks of freedom . . . USAians can’t have that . . . It sounds soooo French.
Single-payer is NOT free; it is just a whole shit-load cheaper than what we got.
All-in-all, I regularly find myself compelled to say a ‘misheberach’, prayer for health and healing, for Senator Joseph Lieberman. It appears that he has wholly forgotten that the ways of the Torah is the ways of peace.
The idea of recalling a senator came up when Lieberman showed himself to be a weasel right after winning reelection in 2006. Nothing came of it, so I doubt he can be removed that way. But the good news is that only the Senate is required to remove a Senator. It doesn't work like impeachment of the President, where the House has to agree to it first.
If a senator could be removed by his state, there would have been no point originally in giving them 6-year terms; state legislatures could have changed senators on a whim.
@Quark:
I really think that Senator Lieberman got ‘broken’ by the combination of the failure of Vice President Gore to stand up when the 2000 election was stolen and 9-11 attacks. The perceived betrayal and the fear fused with his personality. Before the attack and the loss, Lieberman was a fairly strong liberal of conscience. Whatever switch was thrown in his brain shifted to him into being a fear-driven corporatist.
Remember, Lieberman had stood on the edge of greatness. No Jew was ever so close to being President of these United States. Now, even Lieberman’s religiosity has been become subdued by his desire to remain in power to remain control.
Sometimes, I think all his ‘paling about with the terrorist, President George Bush, allowed the sociopath to rub off and infect his soul.
Connecticut has a long history of being separate and different. They were founded by a group of dissident zealot Puritans who marched out of Massachusetts into the wilderness in 1635. They soon cut their own deal with the British monarch. Remember the Charter Oak? Not to mention the fact that the Bush clan came from there. They even elected Prescott to the senate. Then again I should be careful about throwing stones...I live in Bachmann's district.
I called Lieberman's office for clarification as soon as I heard the announcement of his vote on the public option. My call was transferred to a staffer who explained Lieberman's position. I told him that I thought Lieberman's position was unconscionable, especially because 1) polls consistently show that a majority of Americans WANT a public option and 2) nearly 45,000 Americans die every year from a lack of access to proper health care.
I ended my call by telling the staffer that Lieberman is a rat. (I startled myself with the spontaneous utterance of that comment.)
It may be conspiratorial, but do you believe Joe Lieberman was EVER a true Democrat? If you watch the movie about the Bush/Gore Election, it shows Joe as very quiet, never really fighting for their cause. He's almost viewed as a shadow in the movie. He's much more passionate now against Democrat issues, which is a bit strange, when you get 1 chance at VP. He's shown over and over he's not a Democrat. My family & I are from CT and cannot believe he remains a part of this process. Could he be a Republican imposter? It might sound crazy, but he's been vital for them.......He needs to go!
I'd like to be Joe Lieberman's dentist. I think he has too many teeth.
Lieberman's wife, Hadassah, is a lobbyist for Big Pharma:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hadassah_Lieberman
To mix metaphors, when you have no conscience any road will take you there.
In Joe's case, he will always follow the money.
If he fails to fall in line on the cloture vote, he should be stripped of all Committee assignments and treated as the Junior Independent Senator.
Remember Connecticut is FOR Lieberman to solely represent Aetna . . . Even though he ran on his efforts to obtain SINGLE-PAYER . . .
"Bill Seeks to Shift Rescue Costs to Big Banks"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/us/politics/28regulate.html?_r=1&adxnn...