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I’m not sure what to do

November 15, 2008 · 5 Comments

Tammy’s new chemo didn’t come in yesterday.  The specialty vet pharmasist came out and told me she couldn’t get it while holding another pup who needed it in her arms.  She asked me how old Tammy was and then said the pup she was holding was 12.  Poor Tammy is maybe 5 or 6.

Given how happy she is and how crazy it’s been trying to get the damned thing that may kill her, I don’t know.  I want her to stay with me for as long as she can, but I also want her to be happy, like she is now.

I wonder if the vet could just cut out the obvious tumor and then check the area regularly.  Would she perhaps get better?  It’s so hard to decide what to do, especially since she’s just her happy normal self.

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McCain Meets with Obama

November 14, 2008 · No Comments

Could he be SoS?

I’m more tired of this rumor shit than I am of Kathleen’s nonsense:

Did you get the feeling that this Presidential race was a lot like a reality show? But only for the minor players, because we never saw the reality of Obama or Michelle.

When did people become celebrities just for being a part of it? I saw William Ayers doing the morning shows to promote his book that he is re-releasing (which I would NEVER link here, and if you buy it I hope the teeth in your head rot out). Ayers knew that this was his 15 minutes of fame (without blowing anything up anyway) and he is taking advantage of it.

I’m waiting for Rev. Wright to do the same. Why waste your 15 minutes of bigoted fame?

Joe The Plumber said that he has received 2000 marriage proposals since he asked that one question of Obama. Maybe they had him confused with Mr. Clean?

Just kidding. I liked Joe The Plumber.

The reality of the Obama adminitstration is going to hit her like a bus.  I saw the aftermath of a bus vs. person accident in Mexico many years ago.  It made a huge impression on me, unlike some teeveee show.

I think Kathleen is disappointed that the rumors about Obama didn’t take hold and let her smear him anymore than she already has.

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Still good for a laugh

November 13, 2008 · 3 Comments

Rove looking like he will live to be the person those who watched him on election night thought he was.  I didn’t see it, so when I read this, I thought, yeah sure.  He’s fair.  He’s someone who can give a good analysis.  So, it looks like he has turned it all around and now will be able to cash in on his analysis for 2010.  Obama isn’t even in office yet, but Rove is already writing the future.

Speaking of which, I have to paste her whole post:

The biggest myth of this election is that our country will be united under Obama. That isn’t going to happen. It will seem so because it’s our side on the other side and we won’t be making films about Obama while he is in office distorting his words and bashing him. We won’t be drawing pictures of him with monkey ears and calling him Obamahitler like the other side did. We won’t have people running up to Obama’s Sec. of State with ‘blood’ on our hands like Code Pink did. We won’t parade paper mache images of Obama and Biden in prison uniforms down streets of our towns.
And one thing is for sure. The classy and gracious staff of Pres. Bush won’t be pulling the “O” off all the computers and vandalising offices like the Clinton staff did. The Bush family won’t be stealing furniture from the White House either. You won’t have country music artists slamming Obama on foreign soil or agreeing with our enemies about how awful he is.
It will seem better because of the class of Republicans, but it will still be as divided because our ideology and vision is so completely opposite of Democrats and nothing is going to change that.
Given how long it took her to acknowledge material that she stole, I feel certain she won’t make a stink.  And who would she make it to anyway?  She probably won’t understand anyway.
That post is chock full of wrong.  At least she gave up her Chronicle blog.

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Disturbing

November 13, 2008 · 3 Comments

Kids chanting on a bus:  “assassinate Obama”

A long list of racially motivated incidents since election day from across the country.

I’m not surprised by any of this, well maybe the thing about the kids, but there were enough actually interviews with people who felt the same way even before the elect.

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Lee Atwater

November 11, 2008 · No Comments

On PBS.

The dogs are barkin.  Literally.

Strom.  Good ole Strom.

Some Tucker person has a promenent role.

Back even to South Carolina and Reagan.

Ed Rollins.  Worst prognosticator ever.

The Tucker person from the McCain campaign gloating is not quite fair.  He’s kind of saying that this stuff is funny and ok.

ZOMG

This is better than I thought it would be.

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Worse Than I Thought

November 11, 2008 · 3 Comments

It’s still too early to to tell, but I thought it might take more than a week.  Kathleen:

She is fearless, focused, and a woman of the people.
I feel so strongly about her that if her staff called me tonight and asked me to work for her for this next year without pay, I would do it. I would fly across this country to make sure our nation understood what a gift Palin is to us. She is us.
Just as she abandoned John McCain when he needed her the most, Kathleen abandons him again, this time for Palin.  I can only wonder what it must be like to spend one’s entire life as if in high school.
Current President Bush is no better.  He’s whining about his meeting with Obama to Drudge of all people.
This morning, Bill Bennett complained that the change over in administrations is going to be too long.  This from the American history guy.  It’s unlikely that he knows that it used to happen in March.  His show is filled with people telling him what he doesn’t know.
I’m not only looking forward to this transition, but also to the next four years.  It’s going to be difficultl, but we will get through it.  I am hopeful still.

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For Vets on this Day

November 11, 2008 · 1 Comment

A report from the News Hour.

Last night there was a report about the Veteran’s Administration denying that vets of the conflict in Iraq suffered from PTSD.  Way to go. U.S.A.  Unless you are seen as weak.

This nonsense has to end.

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An Interesting Link about Guns and Obama

November 10, 2008 · 3 Comments

I came across this in a comment thread at another blog.  It’s looks like some sort of clearinghouse for paranoid gun owners.

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Before the Morning

November 9, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’m looking forward to Bill Bennett’s show tomorrow morning, though since I have a real job, I can only listen for a bit.

The LA Timeshas a nice take down of wingnut radio although it only took on part of it.  I’d like to see this more.   Limbaugh is a big target.  It’s the lower level radio types that perhaps get away with the most (see my earlier post and comments).  They can say anything they want.  Pointing out how they are wrong on the facts is up to all of us.

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Sunday Afternoon Radio

November 9, 2008 · 19 Comments

I previously wrote about a relatively new (since September) right wing talker on local radio on Sundays, Lores Rizkalla.  When her bit gets cut short, I’ve switched over to KTRH’s sister station, KPRCfor nationally sindicated Gun Talk.

Today Rizkalla only had an hour to talk about how she’s proud that the country elected a black president (her words), but that she still has problems with his policies and his associates (bringing up the right wing bogey men several times).  She eventually agreed with her callers that Obamagot elected because people wanted to votefor a black man (her words).  I am actually looking forward to following her.  She’s wing nut lite and doesn’t have any original ideas, but even still, she has potential to come out with some doozies.

The Gun Talkshow may get a little tiresome, but the website may have some interesting information.  The first thing I heard when switching stations was about Obama’stransition website.  The host, Tom Gresham, gave out a URL with a cached page from the site.  The information there, according to Gresham, is scandalous:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve guncrimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.

So, why is it a cached and not live?  I don’t know, but Gresham thinks it’s because he started talking about it around 1:00 CST this afternoon. 

What’s to oppose in the policy statement?  Well, first off, Gresham agreed with his guest (didn’t catch the name, sorry) that local law enforcement already has access to all the information they need to trace guns and giving them any more access would just allow them to go fishing around in gun owners’ information.  Really?  That sound awfully paranoid to me.   Of course Gresham, as a part of the gun industry and stating that he has just returned from a gun show, doesn’t think there is a gun show loophole.  That just doesn’t comport with reality.  Gresham even mocked the idea of making guns childproof.

Here at the end of his show, Gresham is talking in ‘fighting’ terms about defeating elected officials at the ballot box, like 1994!!!!!11111!!!  WOLVERINES.

I can’t find a podcast yet, but I’ll keep looking.  Meanwhile, here’s a tidbit from the “Truth Squad”section of Gresham’s website:

School shootings in Virginia and Mississippi were stopped by students and a vice principal who ran to their cars and got guns. The shooters gave up when faced with someone who had a gun. At the Trolley Square shooting (in a mall) in Salt Lake City, Utah, an off-duty police officer had a gun in a “gun free” mall (I guess it wasn’t so gun-free after all). He distracted and delayed the shooter, saving lives.

There is a difference between feeling safe and being safe. You will hear people talk about wanting to feel safe. Offer the idea that it’s more important to actually be safe. The police are good, but they can’t be everywhere. Victims are everywhere, so they are the “first responders” to a crime.

“Gun Free” zones stop only honest people from having guns, making them less safe. If the idea is to get rid of all guns to make an area “safe,” then prohibit the police from carrying guns there. No? Because we know that a trained person with a gun can stop a murderer. Doesn’t matter if that person is wearing a uniform.

The school shooting in Virginia is not the one you probably first thought of, but rather this one.  Whether or not the armed students stopped any further deaths is disputed.  In the Mississippi shooting, the vice principal kept the shooter from leaving.  If Gresham can’t be honest in how he advocates his positions, why should he be taken seriously?

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