*runz in circles*
Eggos! aaaargh!
Not bad enuff?
Srsly. I’m gonna have a mutiny of 30 on my hands with no punky pie…
11/20 at 08:40 AM •
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Apparently the job of a “bookseller” in and around San Francisco is not so much to sell product, but rather to give comfort to like-minded individuals and convert the remaining unwashed masses to lockstep ideology. Politics trumps profit, even though profit generates the much needed tax revenue, job growth, and consumer spending this state dearly needs....
“Our customers are thinking people,” said Nathan Embretson, a bookseller at Pendragon Books in Oakland. “They’re not into reading drivel.”
”Anything like that we wouldn’t carry,” said clerk Emily Stackhouse at Cover to Cover Books in San Francisco. “We’re a small store and it would probably gross us all out. Some things you carry because of freedom of speech, but a book like that is just gross.”
Thanks to the dedicated staff of Capital Medical Center and the cooperation of the U.S. Army, an army sergeant stationed in Iraq was able experience the birth of his second child via the Internet using Skype, a real-time video and audio program.
The sergeant was able to communicate with his wife throughout labor and delivery with the use of a laptop computer at the woman’s bedside. He watched as his new daughter got assessed and bathed; got to see her long eyelashes, and know that everyone was healthy.
Special kudos to Laurinda Elgin, the hospital’s neonatal nurse practitioner and military wife who has expertise in computers. She spent many hours talking with Army staff and Capital’s information technology staff to arrange this feat.
As a registered nurse in this department, I feel it is an honor to be involved with the administration and staff that supported this event and enabled it to happen.
Our troops deserve it.
MELINDA HARRIS-MOULTON, Olympia
Name a personal accomplishment that you are proud of.
I can do 33 real push-ups in a row without stopping...and I’m almost 29 4/5th years old! My goal is 40 by the new year. Pushups!
Santa Claus with his Reindeer and sledge in Rovaniemi’s Christmas theme park in Finnish Lapland. Santa has promised children he would travel around the world to bring them Christmas presents despite the global swine flu pandemic.
Anyway, there he was in Seoul, the last stop of his journey.
And out of the Seoul sky, President Lee Myung-bak hands over to the American leader a tae kwon do outfit. And then Lee, who practices tae kwon do himself, presents Obama with a coveted black belt.
After zero long years of study.
I spent one Saturday afternoon watching a couple of the guys at my gym go for their brown belt. They trained for years and the beating their bodies took that day to EARN it STILL stands out in my mind as one of the most impressive accomplishments I have ever witnessed. I’m sure there’re a few Nobel prize nominees who’re as disgusted as I am right now.
If he had any, this is one honor he should have respectfully declined.
HotAir
...because I’ve missed a few birthdays lately..........
( and who am I to decide :)
Mild content warning.
Kick THAT ginger and you might lose a leg.
People suffering from a form of incurable blindness could soon become the first patients in the world to benefit from a new and controversial transplant operation using stem cells derived from spare human embryos left over from IVF treatment.
...I have some weird leftovers in my fridge, but they’re more likely to cause Jekyll-and-Hyde syndrome, bleeding sphincter, or spontaneous decapitation.
A HarperCollins insider told The Daily Beast that the book [ Going Rogue ] sold a staggering 300,000 copies on the first day alone, which was Tuesday. “Sales are phenomenal, and we are convinced that the book will continue to sell phenomenally for some time to come,” says the insider. They’re not prevaricating: As of 2:30pm today, the book was #1 on Amazon…
While Hannity’s audience of more than 4 million viewers with the author of Going Rogue aboard at the start of her national book tour well exceeded the 2 million-plus turnout that the FOX evening news got with a long-sought Obama interview, both shows were ratings leaders for the No. 1 cable news network:
Hannity’s ratings were his second-highest for the year, according to the Nielsen Media Research count, and he beat the network’s top-drawing Bill O’Reilly, who had 3.868 million viewers Wednesday night.
Nielsen found that FOX News Channel’s Hannity drew 4.2 million viewers with Palin’s appearance - far surpassing the competition in the time slot: MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, with 957,000 viewers, and CNN’s Larry King, with 835,000.
FOX’s Special Report with Bret Baier, airing an interview of Obama conducted by FOX White House correspondent Major Garrett in China, drew 2.235 million viewers - a number which FOX will take as a sign of playng to a wide audience.
This is now an Open Thread.
Enjoy.
and warning . . .
Friday, November 20, is “National Kick a Ginger Day”.
Ok - so this is another one of those pathetically impotent Canadian ”Holidays”, mostly cuz Canada has to import their minorities. I mean, sure—they’ve got Eskimos, but seriously.... Ya wanna kick someone who kills and eats polar bears? With pointy sticks?!? Ermm, No. So who’s left—that’s right: us gingers. Lame, but there ya have it.
BTW, anyone wanting to bring this hate crime festival to The States be warned: we’re erm… they might be armed. Ya never know, yanno?
11/19 at 01:52 PM •
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This is a woman who has got into a position of leadership by sending very powerful sexual signals. And we see that in the way that men like her much more than women do…
Major Nidal Hasan seemed worried about the results of an HIV blood test taken a week before the Fort Hood shooting rampage, according to federal investigators piecing together background details on Hasan’s life.
The information came from a member of the Fort Hood medical staff who was in the building where Hasan is accused of opening fire on November 5 and killing 13 people.
The investigators said there was no indication that Hasan was HIV positive, although a bottle of medicine used to treat HIV-positive individuals, Combivir, was seen in Hasan’s apartment by ABC News last week. Medical experts say many doctors also have Combivir on hand in case of an accidental needle stick. A second drug seen in the apartment, clarithromycin, is an antibiotic designed to treat respiratory infections. However, it can also be used to treat specific opportunistic infections in patients with HIV.
Hasan, who is not married, was a regular at a Killeen, Texas strip club which features nude dancers, according to employees there…
Investigators said Hasan followed his own strict interpretation of how a Muslim should live --
Obama arrived on the base 3:19 p.m. local time (1 a.m. Eastern Standard Time), and received a rousing welcome from 1,500 troops in camouflage uniforms, many holding cameras or pointing cell phones to snap pictures.
”You guys make a pretty good photo op,” the president said.
Standing on a riser wearing a blue suit and red tie, with a cluster of troops and a large American flag behind him, Obama expressed “the gratitude of the American public” and said his meetings in four countries over eight days in Asia will help deliver a “safer more prosperous world for all of us.”
He got a huge cheer when he told them he was increasing military pay. ”That’s what you call an applause line,” he said, before boarding his jet and taking off at 4:11 p.m.
No word if their salary increase would be a cost of living raise or combat pay.....
Mother says school work sheet is racist
Lenape Middle School principal Nick Chubb said administrators are investigating the matter.
When she was helping her son with his homework Saturday night, a Central Bucks mother noticed something that surprised and shocked her.
”I couldn’t understand what I was looking at,” ...
RUSH: Would you like to hear an interesting little Biden story? He was in Las Vegas recently, where corporate executives have been discouraged from going by President Obama; getting on their planes, flying to Vegas—those days are over. But “Nobody Messes With Joe [Plugs] Biden”—was in Las Vegas to do a fundraiser for some Democrat out there, and had an aide call a local members-only golf course, a pretty exclusive members-only golf course. The club pro who answered the phone said, “No, no, no. Sorry. We like the vice president and all that, but this is a members-only club,” and they hung up the phone.
A short while later another phone call came, this time asking for the manager of the club. The message was: “Look, [Plugs] Biden really wants to play your course.” The call came in at 7 a.m., and he wanted to play that day. The second call came in before 8 a.m., I’m told. The club manager, realizing what he was being told, relented, and Plugs Biden showed up with some Secret Service guys at 11 a.m. to play the course.
Now, keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, that corporate executives and the entire hospitality business have been under assault by this very president and vice president. They can’t go to Vegas, they’re not supposed to hop on their planes and go to Vegas, they’re not supposed to play golf at exclusive members-only clubs. I will guarantee you, if a Republican vice president had done this, the media would right now be scouring the membership to find out how discriminatory it is. Are there any blacks in this club that the vice president played? Are there any Jewish members of this club? Do they allow women? That’s what the media would be doing right now.The only story we’re getting out of this is a local Las Vegas newspaper, and, of course, this is how the elites do it: They want to go play golf where they’re not a member, they want to angle themselves in using the force of federal power and intimidation, they do it. The media doesn’t say a word about it. They say, “Old Joe is out there playing golf before a fundraiser, there’s Joe Cool.” Republicans try that and the media takes on the club trying to find out who belongs, who was not admitted, and why. And then they would also be doing stories about, “Here we are in a recession, 10.2% unemployment, we got Marines dying and military people dying in Afghanistan, we’re dithering on whether we should win the war over there, nothing is going right, the president’s out of the country, the vice president wants to play golf and all?”—that’s what we’d be getting if Plugs were a Republican. But we’re not getting anything of the sort.
