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Rants & Raves 9.20
Here it is, Rants! & Raves!, your weekly chance to sound off about the week past. Remember the rules:
1. A Rave! is something that happened during the past week that you’re pleased about and is signified by the word “Rave!” and/or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
2 A Rant! is something that happened during the past week that you’re ticked about and is signified by the word “Rant!” and/or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
3. You may Rant! about something a person said, did or wrote, but you may not Rant! about generally disliking a person.
Have fun!
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My (almost new, but out of warranty) monitor is flickering. I may be off line soon.
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Chas, my sympathies. Our monitor went about a month after the warranty ran out. We hoped it could be fixed, but were told the repairs cost almost as much, or more than a new one.
So sad, too, about the lack of rain. Poor other parts of the country where their cups and basements run over!
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That’s health care workers who go beyond the call of duty!! :0
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Rave: Our first grandchild will be born today!!!
Rant: None today, life is good.
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Adios, Congratulations!
But you have to watch out for those grandchildren, they soon learn how to “handle” grandparents. You will find yourself putty in their little hands.
I once overheard a conversation that went something like this.
Their mother was sending us off somewhere, maybe the park, I don’t remember. She said, “Now y’all behave and do what Da (me) tells you.”
Becky, the oldest, whispered to Mary, the next.
“We can handle him.”
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:/ In about four months, I will retire. If I don’t get fired first for arguing with my boss. I may go into the Guinness book of World Records as the person who was fired the closest to retirement for cause. Perhaps losing my chance of getting a job at Wal-Mart after I retire. Assuming Wal-Mart doesn’t go broke because we may be entering the 2nd Great Depression. Or will it be called the Greater Depression? Or will it only be called the Bad Mood of 2009? Or perhaps, the Wrong Time of the Month of 2009 if we get our first female Vice President, who may become the first female President.
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Rant. My crooked smile doesn’t work.
Trying again.
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As I tell my students in the computer classes I teach, why do computers always display “OK” on messages when they should also have an opttion to click “NOT OK”?
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Hello Random. Welcome to the weekend!
oh………by the way, methinks you may wanna type : – ?
9obviously without the spaces between)
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Delights: Construction has begun on the additions.
Sads: We had to turn down two more children yesterday.
Delights: We get to take a break from the construction to go gather firewood. This time, a friend came with a truck and took my horse trailer up to the mountains so we can put wood in there rather than just in the trucks.
Sad: This fifty one year old who has done little construction finds digging all those trenches and dismantling all those other things very tiring.
Delights: It is good to be tired from working hard.
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I’m far beyond ranting this morning. In one huge last gift to corporate America and Wall Street, the administration, with help from the Democrats, most notably the senators from NY, NJ and CT is going to give them $1 trillion of our money.
If you wonder who is benefitting, read the NYTimes story here and follow the connections.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/business/20winners.htm
In the meantime, mortgage foreclosures will continue ejecting families from their homes, medical bills will continue forcing them into bankruptcy, our infrastructure will continue to crumble and our fossil fuel dependence will finish off what was once a great power.
When a Republican Treasury Secretary, a Republican appointed Fed Chairman, and the Democratic Senators from the NY area all suddenly discover a crisis that needs such incredible sums of taxpayer money, you can bet that the tune is not being called by America, or Main Street, but by Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia and China and Wall Street.
They are our masters and we must impoverish ourselves, our children and our childrens’ children to dance to it.
What if we said no?
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The house has finally been started! The county building department OKed the plans and the builder started with the foundations.
I retired in April of 2007 and the house is finally started. Will we finish by Christmas? Will we move in by January ? As God wills.
Thank you Lord, Thank You.
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1. Tickets to the Tennessee vs N. IL football game. I’d prefer FL or AL, but those are hard to get. I’m happy that I just get to go to a game – I haven’t been in 2 years.
2. The whole box set of “Northern Exposure” DVD’s, which is one of my all-time favorite TV shows.
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Rant! Shame on yopu, IKE! You caused a lot of people a lot of misery during the past couple of weeks. But thank God for the many who have been able and willing to lend a hand, AMERICAN STYLE, to help with relief and cleanup efforts. Wish I could have gone, too… We had damage here, too, but nothing like that suffered nearer the coast. My heart goes out to the folks in Galveston and all along the coast who lost their homes and possessions and some who even lost loved ones. This would have been infinitely worse if we didn’t have the technology to know when these storms are brewing.
Talked to a friend in OHIO yesterday who said their power was out for THREE DAYS due to Ike. I reminded my friend that you live in OHIO now, where they don’t have hurricanes. But I guess Ike was a little different…
This country REALLY NEEDS REVIVAL! And stop calling God “Mother Nature”! It sure does seem to annoy Him. Try calling your earthly father “Mother Theresa” and see how he reacts. But be prepared to run / hide / find a new place to live.
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Congratulations Michelle and Bob.
Michelle, let us know when the book comes out.
Mumsee, it is indeed good to be honestly tired from work. What isn’t good is being tired before you start. It will catch up with you too someday. Hopefully decades away.
I’m taking my hour rest from an hour work now.
I can hardly read thhis screen
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A pat (not a stab in) on the back to Theophilus.
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#18 first item.
I am not sure you had a choice in the manner, though probably you thought it was your idea (group’s).
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;-( Speaking of the SD Union Tribune, it was the flagship of the Copley family newspaper chain and is now up for sale. The paper I work for also was Copley, we were sold nearly 2 years ago and now are part of a much larger newspaper chain. The era of the family newspaper is sadly coming to an end, with more and more news outlets being owned and operated by fewer people/corporations …
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Just what all goes in squirrel soup?
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Can squirrels be made into hats?
Actually, I think squirrels are pretty darn cute and (personally) I could never hunt (unless I had to). But I also appreciate the necessity in some cases, as well as the long tradition, of hunting in so many parts of our country.
(I was in line at a chain drug store yesterday when the customer ahead of me, who was wearing a top imprinted with dozens of little cartoon cats, noticed that the clerk’s first name was “Sarah.” This triggered something in her and she just blurts out how perfectly awful it is that Sarah Palin CUTS THE LEGS OFF LITTLE ANIMALS. Silence followed. The clerk appeared confused and really quite dumbfounded by the outburst. I rolled my eyes. After giving the wound-up woman in the cat shirt a rather blank stare, the clerk finally said, “That’ll be $10.95 please.”
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I’m tellin’ you, people are just in a tizzy out there.
How many more days til this election is over?
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Rant: We have to figure out how to come up with thousands of extra dollars to pay for oil to keep warm this winter. I need to split and stack more firewood and buy a new wood stove too. It is already starting to get cold here in the Great North Woods.
Rave: Preparing for winter can be a chore, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I love wrestling with nature. Someday I’ll be found frozen solid with a smile on my face.
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#1 Theophilus,
Yeah I know what you mean. The cold front git us in Phoenix and itr will only be 98 today. Hope my heater works but I won’t know till the AC shuirts off in a couple of months.
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I’m stuck at home 24/7 as a caregiver but trying to do the one thing I can to help my country. Whichever way the election goes, it certainly will be a huge relief when it’s all over!
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L L Mac – Welcome aboard. Be careful, We get feisty around here. I’s nice to see a new handle on the blog.
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Hi KLASKO, many thanks for the words of wisdom. I had noticed a few hints of feistiness here and there… But I’m not quite ready to jump under the Michelle O. “Downright mean” bandwagon just yet.
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Welcome LL Mac — Guess I’m ‘new’ in some ways, too: I’d been a subscriber of World since 1993 and had been following the blog since it began, but mostly as an observer/reader only. I posted very rarely from time to time, but more so recently.
I’m a lightweight. My favorite topic? Dogs, of course.
(as opposed to the sometimes rough-and-tumble political dust-ups with the “big kids.” Although I’ll sometimes dare to dip a toe into those waters, too. Kinda scary, though, talk about intensity. But I think most of them are harmless enough, truth be told.)
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JaneDoe,
Is squirrel a white meat or dark meat?
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McCain: “Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation.”
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Squirrels are rats with fluffy tails
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GOP delegate’s hotel tryst goes bad when he wakes up with $120,000 missing
Some highlights:
In an interview filmed the afternoon of Sept. 3 and posted on the Web site LinkTV.org, Schwartz was candid about how he envisioned change under a McCain presidency.
“Less taxes and more war,” he said, smiling. He said the U.S. should “bomb the hell” out of Iran because the country threatens Israel.
Asked by the interviewer how America would pay for a military confrontation with Iran, he said the U.S. should take the country’s resources.
“We should plant a flag. Take the oil, take the money,” he said. “We deserve reimbursement.”
A few hours after the interview, an unknown woman helped herself to Schwartz’s resources.
He met her in the bar of the swank hotel and invited her to his room. Once there, the woman fixed the drinks and told him to get undressed.
And that, the delegate to the Republican National Convention told police, was the last thing he remembered.
Schwartz is a fixture in Colorado Republican politics. He was one of the state’s delegates to the convention this month in St. Paul.
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Thanks, DONNA J, and hello to you too. I know what you mean about politics; enough is enough. But if they get too tough, just remember the old “Sticks and stones” rule. This page is the only one I’ve revisited enough to carry on a conversation. Hope I didn’t make the big kids mad anywhere else. Didn’t mean to, honest.
I’ve been wanting to get my grandmother (and me) a dog. She has Alzheimer’s and is just so much like a big, sweet kid these days but she has always been a big Collie fan. We’re cat people, but not exactly by choice. When they just show up and decide they’re gonna live with you, what is a person to do? Can’t seem to find the right dog that can resist the urge to chase the redhead (tabby) but not be bullied around by the blonde (Siamese). Why can’t we all just get along???
I’m not going to ask about the squirrel thing that seems to be a recurring theme up above. Reminds me of my grandfather talking about growing up as an orphan in Arkansas during the Great Depression. But I’m sure squirrel must be a lot better tasting than possum. They look like big rats and a wild animal that doesn’t run away from you is just too creepy to me… A lot of the natives like to eat wild game around here. I THINK they’re just kidding when they call it “road kill” but I’m not totally certain about that.
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JaneDoe: Have never had squirrel pot pie, but in fact I have made both turkey and venison pot pies. Very yummy!
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they didnt learn the BASICS
AND AMERICA IS more BANKRuPT by the day.
there’s no more help fro homless MULTI disabled to afford to get into section8 housing. in THE OC. everyone is bailing out the coprPorations vets are stuill dying inthe road on americansoil caUse we cant afford tehhud vash section8 hosuing ALSO asks fro homEless disabled to have savings!
SO FOR ANY WHO COULD WITH HELP EXPECTinsted TO JOIN THE OTHERS DYING IN THE ROAD.!
economics 101 ( forwarded BY THE HOMELeSS for potential WORLD LEADERS)
Years of Change: The 1960s and 1970s
From U.S. Department of State, for About.com
http://economics.about.com/od/useconomichistory/a/change.htm
The 1950s in America are often described as a time of complacency. By contrast, the 1960s and 1970s were a time of great change. New nations emerged around the world, insurgent movements sought to overthrow existing governments, established countries grew to become economic powerhouses that rivaled the United States, and economic relationships came to predominate in a world that increasingly recognized military might could not be the only means of growth and expansion.
President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) ushered in a more activist approach to governing. During his 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy said he would ask Americans to meet the challenges of the “New Frontier.” As president, he sought to accelerate economic growth by increasing government spending and cutting taxes, and he pressed for medical help for the elderly, aid for inner cities, and increased funds for education. Many of these proposals were not enacted, although Kennedy’s vision of sending Americans abroad to help developing nations did materialize with the creation of the Peace Corps. Kennedy also stepped up American space exploration. After his death, the American space program surpassed Soviet achievements and culminated in the landing of American astronauts on the moon in July 1969.
Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 spurred Congress to enact much of his legislative agenda. His successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969), sought to build a “Great Society” by spreading benefits of America’s successful economy to more citizens. Federal spending increased dramatically, as the government launched such new programs as Medicare (health care for the elderly), Food Stamps (food assistance for the poor), and numerous education initiatives (assistance to students as well as grants to schools and colleges).
Military spending also increased as American’s presence in Vietnam grew. What had started as a small military action under Kennedy mushroomed into a major military initiative during Johnson’s presidency. Ironically, spending on both wars — the war on poverty and the fighting war in Vietnam — contributed to prosperity in the short term. But by the end of the 1960s, the government’s failure to raise taxes to pay for these efforts led to accelerating inflation, which eroded this prosperity. The 1973-1974 oil embargo by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pushed energy prices rapidly higher and created shortages. Even after the embargo ended, energy prices stayed high, adding to inflation and eventually causing rising rates of unemployment. Federal budget deficits grew, foreign competition intensified, and the stock market sagged.
The Vietnam War dragged on until 1975, President Richard Nixon (1969-1973) resigned under a cloud of impeachment charges, and a group of Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Teheran and held for more than a year. The nation seemed unable to control events, including economic affairs. America’s trade deficit swelled as low-priced and frequently high-quality imports of everything from automobiles to steel to semiconductors flooded into the United States.
geez!
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they missed this!
economics 101 from the homeless for potential world leaders..
Years of Change: The 1960s and 1970s
From U.S. Department of State, for About.com
Filed In:Help For Econ Students > Outline of the U.S. Economy> 3. U.S. Economic History
1960s 1970s
The 1950s in America are often described as a time of complacency. By contrast, the 1960s and 1970s were a time of great change. New nations emerged around the world, insurgent movements sought to overthrow existing governments, established countries grew to become economic powerhouses that rivaled the United States, and economic relationships came to predominate in a world that increasingly recognized military might could not be the only means of growth and expansion.
President John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) ushered in a more activist approach to governing. During his 1960 presidential campaign, Kennedy said he would ask Americans to meet the challenges of the “New Frontier.” As president, he sought to accelerate economic growth by increasing government spending and cutting taxes, and he pressed for medical help for the elderly, aid for inner cities, and increased funds for education. Many of these proposals were not enacted, although Kennedy’s vision of sending Americans abroad to help developing nations did materialize with the creation of the Peace Corps. Kennedy also stepped up American space exploration. After his death, the American space program surpassed Soviet achievements and culminated in the landing of American astronauts on the moon in July 1969.
Kennedy’s assassination in 1963 spurred Congress to enact much of his legislative agenda. His successor, Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969), sought to build a “Great Society” by spreading benefits of America’s successful economy to more citizens. Federal spending increased dramatically, as the government launched such new programs as Medicare (health care for the elderly), Food Stamps (food assistance for the poor), and numerous education initiatives (assistance to students as well as grants to schools and colleges).
Military spending also increased as American’s presence in Vietnam grew. What had started as a small military action under Kennedy mushroomed into a major military initiative during Johnson’s presidency. Ironically, spending on both wars — the war on poverty and the fighting war in Vietnam — contributed to prosperity in the short term. But by the end of the 1960s, the government’s failure to raise taxes to pay for these efforts led to accelerating inflation, which eroded this prosperity. The 1973-1974 oil embargo by members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) pushed energy prices rapidly higher and created shortages. Even after the embargo ended, energy prices stayed high, adding to inflation and eventually causing rising rates of unemployment. Federal budget deficits grew, foreign competition intensified, and the stock market sagged.
The Vietnam War dragged on until 1975, President Richard Nixon (1969-1973) resigned under a cloud of impeachment charges, and a group of Americans were taken hostage at the U.S. embassy in Teheran and held for more than a year. The nation seemed unable to control events, including economic affairs. America’s trade deficit swelled as low-priced and frequently high-quality imports of everything from automobiles to steel to semiconductors flooded into the United States.
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Sorry, disregard post 55.
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L L Mac: Ah, a collie, then you really must talk with Cheryl D about the amazing Misten! I’m still jealous of her gravatar depicting Misten & was going to try to make one with my dog, Tess. But the instructions looked kinda intimidating (?!).
Our cats (and a couple of our dogs) also tended to “find” us rather than the other way around. Not a bad arrangement, really, I consider it all Providence.
But with regard to your grandmother, pets can be wonderful therapy. I’m a newspaper reporter & did a story last christmas on a retirement/assisted living facility in our community that is run by an order of nuns. The head nun (now that sounds silly, I think they do actually still call them Mother Superior) had adopted a couple border collies (the breed I currently have) and took them on rounds to interact with the residents.
How fun to watch the residents just beam when they’d see the dogs (wearing jingle bells in honor of the season) coming into their rooms. One of the volunteers there told me about one of their residents who hadn’t hardly spoken at all since she arrived. But when the dogs came into the picture, she began opening up, “talking” to them about what was on her mind — and in the process providing the staff with some valuable information about her needs and how to better meet them.
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What a wonderful story Donna
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Kim #47
Squirrel is dark meat, sort of like rabbit.
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L L Mac – God bless you for taking care of your grandmother. I, along with my husband & our 2 girls, took care of my mother-in-law for over 4 years, & she had Alzheimer’s, too.
We have been blessed to have a local nursing home that is very good, which we had to put her in when I could no longer take care of her due to her increasing health problems & such.
Are you male or female?
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L L Mac: Good to have another collie fan onboard.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney must preserve a broad range of records from his time in office, a federal judge ordered Saturday, ruling in favor of a private watchdog group.
The Bush administration had sought a narrow interpretation of the act to allow for fewer materials to be preserved by the National Archives.
Gee. Why would the Bushies desire less evidence — I mean materials from their legacy (cough) — preserved by the National Archives??
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Delighted to say: we were able to fill the four horse trailer and are well on our way to a full woodshed for the winter.
Also delighted to say: it has been raining and the clay will be easier to dig on Monday when we need to get that last digging in for the foundation. I was afraid I would have to use a pocket knife but it looks like a shovel will do. The tractor was unable to make it through the last four to eight inches of hard clay.
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Praise the Lord, Mumsee!
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Mumsee – I’m happy all is working out so well
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#39 LL Mac “Whichever way the election goes, it certainly will be a huge relief when it’s all over!
Well, if a Democrat wins, the election will be over. We’ll all go home and have four years of peace.
If a Republican wins, first you will hear how it was won illegally. Then NPR will spend several days asking themselves what went wrong. For four years you will hear non-stop hatred, ridicule and scorn on every media outlet and there will be non-stop campaigning against McCain who will be called evil incarnate. The hatred and criminal activity against Palin will escalate. There will be no peace.
So, the only way this election will ever end is if you vote for the racist who betrayed American troops and hobnobs with terrorists and takes advice and money from the people who trashed the economy.
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All (ultimately) for His glory and our good. “Win” or “lose”: Praise God.
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Well, if a Democrat wins, the election will be over. We’ll all go home and have four years of peace.
We could only dream of that happening. The Republican “hate machine” has been in operation since Clinton was first elected. It’s not going to disband anytime soon.
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Donna and Cheryl, many thanks for the encouraging words, especially concerning dogs. But I have to plead ignorance of what a gravatar is — a sculpture? But collies really are beautiful no matter how they’re depicted. And I am intrigued by this amazing Misten. My Grandma had her special collie “Kiltie” while I was growing up on my grandparents’ dairy farm, and we also had a couple of his descendants for playmates and protectors. They were absolutely her pride and joy.
I wonder if anyone out there has heard of pets being afraid of someone with Alzheimer’s? It’s not anything related to her behavior because she’s sweet and childlike with no aggressive tendencies whatsoever. I believe it has to be due to one or more of her meds but can’t find an “expert” who can say for sure. They advise getting a puppy but with our situation I don’t think I could be away from Grandma enough to spend the necessary time outside training a puppy. And her time to go Home to be with the LORD may be drawing near; my own future is too uncertain to risk having another dependent.
RE pet therapy, we did have a cute little cockapoo a couple of years ago when Grandma became ill and had to spend some time in a nursing home. I took Tucker to see her, but she just wasn’t up to enjoying his visits very much. Many of the other residents loved him, though, and he was very good at lifting the spirits of folks who were down. The Activities Director fell in love with him and I ended up giving him to her, both as a pet for her family and as a sort of mascot for the nursing home. Speaking of Providence, that was a real happy ending for Tucker as well, since I couldn’t seem to resolve the cat/dog issues at home. A great animal trainer I ain’t. This is getting awfully long but I could tell a couple of other Providence stories concerning the LORD finding just the right home for a dog that just wasn’t quite right for our needs. It’s pretty encouraging to see how He cares about even His four-footed creatures and finds just the right homes for them.
Someday I hope I can go into pet therapy if the LORD wills, as my heart really goes out to people in nursing homes. There’s such a spirit of hopelessness in them and it really is amazing how much joy an animal can bring to a lonely heart. A lady had a little Yorkie she would take to a nursing home and the little thing seemed to love those visits. He seemed to know he was an ambassador to unhappy people all up and down the halls. I’ve never seen a dog that small on a leash seem to be almost PULLING its owner around from room to room. You’d have thought he was a husky… The lady would put him in Grandma’s lap and they were both in dog Heaven.
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“So, the only way this election will ever end is if you vote for the racist who betrayed American troops and hobnobs with terrorists and takes advice and money from the people who trashed the economy.”
No, McCain is not the answer, my friends.
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LL Mac: I have a friend who recently went into an assisted living facility. When her former neighbor and I took her cat, “Baby,” to visit with us a couple weeks ago, I was amazed — residents just gathered around, Baby was such a magnet. They took turns holding her, cooing over her, just sitting and smiling at her.
I’d love to do pet therapy also as a way of also sharing the gospel. Both my dogs would do great, but especially Cowboy, who’s so calm and friendly.
You’re such a blessing to your grandmother! I know how hard it can be to be a caretaker. We will pray for you & her both, that God will bring very special blessings and lessons for you along the way.
(A gravatar is the little picture some posters have next to their names; if you go to the website helps bar at the bottom of this page, it will give you some explanation.)
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I just realized that those who post on here from a left leaning perspective have become the victim of the flypaper tactics similar to those used to draw in terrorists in Iraq.
The number of sway voters that visit here are at a minimum so really those with a right leaning worldview are most apt to visit this site. Now assuming they (conservatives) are firmly ground in their political ideology, left leaning posters only hope for gains here are to antagonize those with an opposing viewpoint. Do you really believe there is much of a chance of changing the minds of conservatives?
Given the assumption that sway voters wouldn’t normally visit this site, any postings by the left in theory could be wasted words. Words that should be saved for a more secular audience in say a daily newspapers website.
So my theory is that for every left leaning posting put here, a sway voter is shielded from this same information because they just don’t visit sites like this.
Therefore, just like drawing terrorists to Iraq so they cannot be effective elsewhere, the more liberals that can be drawn here to post their rants and raves protects the sway folks that tend to visit more mainstream websites. The sway voter is where the battleground for power is this election year and if my theory is right, every left leaning post here helps the conservative cause at the voting booth in November. So keep the liberals occupied here folks where they can do the least amount of damage to our nation with their propaganda!
Is what I just posted a rant or a rave?
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Chalzz,
I am not sure your interesting post qualifies as an answer to why you post. Probably, the most important thing to tell sway voters would be to stand up straight and improve their posture. Leaning either left or right might make you more likely to fall over in the event of an earthquake.
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Anlir, the Democrat “hate machine” has been around since Goldwater.
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Donna, thanks for the info. I had noted Cheryl’s photo of Misten but I didn’t know that was what you meant by ‘gravatar.’ Maybe I’ll try one with the little Siamese cat, “Honey.” When I pick her up, she climbs up on my shoulders and nuzzles up near my ear so I can scratch her ears and neck. Too cute!
That is a beautiful Best Friend, Cheryl! I had tried contacting a Collie rescue and told them our story, but I guess they thought our situation was just too weird; they didn’t even return my email, but I can’t blame them. I thought fostering an older dog would be a good solution for us — someone who has a similar energy level to my grandmother and would just be happy to sit by her and be adored. Pet therapy, as you probably already know, has its own training and certification program. I looked into it when we had Tucker, but he did have issues that would have disqualified him (somewhat afraid of men). When we took him to the nursing home it was just “unofficial” but a lot of folks loved him just the same. I just had to watch people’s reactions to know who did or did not want him around them. There will always be the, “EWwww, a DOG!” crowd that just don’t want to be loved.
Thanks so much for your prayers. It sounds nuts, but you know there are even blessings to be found in the tragedy that is Alzheimer’s. Almost everything else has been stripped away but her faith is still there. “Except ye become as little children…” I know I’m taking it somewhat out of context but I think there’s an application to be gleaned here. Everybody was worried about what might happen when she got mean (some Alz patients sure do get mean and violent) but by the grace of God it just didn’t happen. But I’ve got to go and get her up for breakfast. I think she’s going to be up to going to church today! Even though she hardly recognizes anyone there (she’s been a member for about the last 20 years or so) but she can tell everyone loves her there. They’ve been so good to us and have helped us a lot. Have a great LORD’s day! Thanks for writing.
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Chalzz: I think you hit the nail on the head, so I think your post is definitely a RAVE.
I’m smiling now, realizing that every leftist wasting their time on WoW is less effective in swaying the opinions of those who are truly gullible out in the mainstream.
Whoo-hoo!
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Outkast – Maybe WMB has neutralized our astroturfing comment spammer? That would be a rave. I could put up with a month and a half more neck pain for that.
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“the Democrat “hate machine” has been around since Goldwater.”
Funny you should mention Barry Goldwater. Here is what Wick Allison, who organized the Dallas Youth for Goldwater back in te day, has to say about John McCain, Obama, and the new bread of conservative:
Today it is conservatives, not liberals, who talk with alarming bellicosity about making the world “safe for democracy.” It is John McCain who says America’s job is to “defeat evil,” a theological expansion of the nation’s mission that would make George Washington cough out his wooden teeth.
This kind of conservatism, which is not conservative at all, has produced financial mismanagement, the waste of human lives, the loss of moral authority, and the wreckage of our economy that McCain now threatens to make worse.
Barack Obama is not my ideal candidate for president. (In fact, I made the maximum donation to John McCain during the primaries, when there was still hope he might come to his senses.) But I now see that Obama is almost the ideal candidate for this moment in American history. I disagree with him on many issues. But those don’t matter as much as what Obama offers, which is a deeply conservative view of the world. Nobody can read Obama’s books (which, it is worth noting, he wrote himself) or listen to him speak without realizing that this is a thoughtful, pragmatic, and prudent man. It gives me comfort just to think that after eight years of George W. Bush we will have a president who has actually read the Federalist Papers.
Most important, Obama will be a realist. I doubt he will taunt Russia, as McCain has, at the very moment when our national interest requires it as an ally. The crucial distinction in my mind is that, unlike John McCain, I am convinced he will not impulsively take us into another war unless American national interests are directly threatened.
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Indeed, Klasko. Aren’t we instructed by Scripture to “bear one another’s burdens”? In that case, by enduring that particular individual, we are helping to protect others!
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NC Poll: Obama And McCain Tied In State
“With voter concern over the economy in North Carolina at an all time high, Barack Obama has pulled into a tie with John McCain in the state for the first time in a PPP survey,” said the polling firm.
In the most recent poll, 58 percent of the voters polled said that the economy was the top issue and the firm says that Obama has a 58-34 advantage with those voters who believe that the economy is their biggest concern.
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Stung by job losses in manufacturing, Ohio’s unemployment rate jumped to 7.4 percent in August, up from 7.2 percent the month before and the highest rate in 16 years, the state reported Friday.
What was 16 years ago? Hmmmmm….. the end of that other Bush’s Presidency?
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Alaska town opens ‘road to nowhere’
Still without a bridge, Alaska town gets its ‘road to nowhere,’ thanks to US taxpayers
Alaska now has a Road to Nowhere going to what would have been the Bridge to Nowhere.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s transportation department has completed a $25 million gravel road leading to the site of a bridge that Palin, as John McCain’s vice presidential candidate, now boasts that she stopped, so as to save taxpayers money. The road was built with federal tax dollars.
Ketchikan Mayor Bob Weinstein said the 3.2-mile road will be useful for road races, hunters and possibly future development. But with no bridge to serve it, that’s probably about it.
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Thankful we got to go to church today. The service was such a blessing and I feel so refreshed! Instead of a lot of preaching, there was mostly just Scripture reading and lots of good, old-fashioned Christ-honoring music. Good medicine for the soul.
Some of you bloggers have been real nice and help make up for all the negativity and nastiness elsewhere. Life’s too short to be ugly, isn’t it? THANKS — I feel 100% better!
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Super news, LL MAC. Our service was wonderful this AM too — especially the Lord’s Supper and the fellowship. Certainly a wonderful way to start the week off!
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Outkast, our service was wonderful – the message was very good, talking about how many people want to distort the Word of God, to accommodate their sins.
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Being in church is the high point of the week for me.
Our sermon today was on the first chapter of Ruth, focusing us on how God works through all circumstances, good or ill, all for His glory and our good. He directs all things, either directly or through secondary means.
Congregational singing included Psalm 100, “Great is Thy Faithfulness,” and the “Church’s One Foundation” …. followed by the Lord’s Supper (which we observe every week). It all truly restores the soul!
God is good. God is faithful.
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Celebrating the Lord’s Supper every Sunday morning is the highlight of my week — every week!
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XION: . . . vote for the racist who betrayed American troops and hobnobs with terrorists and takes advice and money from the people who trashed the economy.
Well then, at least he doesn’t murder babies.
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… and murders babies.
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Xion: So, the only way this election will ever end is if you vote for the racist who betrayed American troops and hobnobs with terrorists and takes advice and money from the people who trashed the economy.
I’m confused … I’m not aware of any candidate that fits that description.
(And I would have thought better of you, Xion!)
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That’s unconvincing, Xion. Child killing isn’t an afterthought, is it? The other counts of your indictment are just as erratic and phony.
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I’m confused … I’m not aware of any candidate that fits that description.
You wouldn’t.
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Anyone ever watch the movie Lillies of the Field with Sidney Poitier? Great movie about Catholics and Protestants working together to build a church! If you’ve never seen it, look for it someday.
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101- Puh-leeze, Anlir. Jealousy? Class warfare? We live in a capitalistic society where those who earn the money can buy whatever they wish. How about the $1 million+ mansion Obama has in a high end neighborhood in Chicago? How can he pretend to know my struggles when I cannot even get a HELOC to upgrade my $50k house?
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L L Mac,
As to dogs being afraid of people with Alzheimer’s, it probably depends on the dog.
I have taken Misten into assisted living twice (and hope eventually to have her certified as a therapy dog…I think she may be still a little too eager in greeting people to be ready quite yet, but these were informal visits to a facility that just needed a list of her shots). The training stuff says to be sure to have dogs encounter everything they might encounter, wheelchairs and so on, before taking them in. Well, Misten, on her very first visit, was on tiled floor (a bit insecure in footing), had her first experience riding an elevator (which she didn’t like very much), and within a few minutes of going inside, she was surrounded by four wheelchairs with people who pulled close to see her. Collies aren’t a fearful breed, but they are a sensitive breed that has to be trained well lest they become fearful. But my pup didn’t even notice the wheelchairs; she was too busy lovingly greeting the people in them. (I held her on a tight lead so that she wouldn’t get too loving, and she really did great.) Then we went into the room with the main person we were going to visit, a friend’s mom who wasn’t just in a wheelchair but was also frail, and Misten went up to her very carefully as though aware she was fragile. No fear at all, but the same gentle approach she uses with small dogs and babies, the innate sense that caution is required.
I really don’t think she’d respond fearfully to Alzheimer’s. In fact, I have near proof she wouldn’t: She let foster kids kick her in the face, and had to be put outside for her own safety when they had tantrums. And one time when one kid was on a dining room chair having a tantrum, I looked down to see Misten pushed up as tight against the chair as she could get, as close as she could get to her young friend who needed her though the child didn’t know at that moment she needed her. I pointed it out: “Look, you’re in a bad mood; you’re being mean to everybody. But see how much Misten loves you, that she still wants to be with you?”
I’d think your best suggestion might be to look for a dog that has already spent time with seniors–maybe a dog whose elderly owner has recently died. But I imagine any fully mature collie or Lab or golden retriever, if it is known to be gentle even under stress, would be good.
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Anlir, I believe your “17 homes” was a typo, but you might want to correct it. And honestly, almost anyone who runs for president these days has wealth and privilege, including both of this year’s candidates. And Obama’s inexperience isn’t an asset.
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Cheryl D.,
7 homes. Sorry.
There is no comparison between McCain’s wealth and Obama’s. The Obama’s are well off, maybe even wealthy by many people’s standards. The McCain’s are obscenely wealthy by anyone’s standard.
Do we want a politician who’s been ensconced in Washington DC for a quarter of a century, and represents the party of corruption, incompetence, wealth, and privilege? Or do we want a man who isn’t part of the Washington elite and wants to bring change to the way things have been done for the last 8 years?
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Peter L-
Can you show us mansions in Chicago for a million bucks?
Sorry. But a million dollar home in a city is hardly unusual, and I suspect you are making things up about it being a mansion.
McCain spends a quarter of that a year just on his servants.
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Anlir-
It’s his 13 cars
He can’t work the google, but he sure likes to be driven around!
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Anlir,
I don’t really care how rich my president is, seeing as we now have a system where it’s virtually impossible to get elected without money. I wish we didn’t have such a system, but we do, so I deal with it and don’t care about the wealth of the president. I care about his convictions, his policies, his history, his judgment, etc. McCain was far from my first choice, but Obama is my last choice.
The Republicans definitely aren’t the party of corruption.(The others on your list could be said of either party equally–in fact, the Democrats are actually the party that wealthy citizens vote for today, for the most part. Think Hollywood and media elite, for instance.) But while we’re speaking of “corruption,” I am not at all sure that a Chicago insider is better than a Washington insider–in fact, he’s probably worse. And a Chicago insider with virtually no experience, and with notoriously bad connections–no thank you, I’ll pass. (Even apart from the Born-Alive Infant Protection stuff that makes him unfit to be dogcatcher.)
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Peter L.
I didn’t hear back, so I looked it up myself.
Here’s a Chicago a million dollars worth of Chicago mansion. Looks like a regular old house to me.
Or is this more typical of a million dollar mansion in Chicago? Here’s another “mansion”
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Peter L.
I didn’t hear back, so I looked it up myself.
Here’s a Chicago a million dollars worth of Chicago mansion. Looks like a regular old house to me.
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Or is this more typical of a million dollar mansion in Chicago? Here’s another “mansion”
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“I don’t really care how rich my president is, seeing as we now have a system where it’s virtually impossible to get elected without money.”
That’s what Jack Abramoff, Ted Stevens, Tom DeLay, and Duke Cunningham say too. They are all for McCain
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Anlir – 107
Anlir – Cindy McCain’s parents made their money by selling what they had, taking 10,000 dollars and starting a business of which she inherited. Cindy has given millions of dollars, rolled up her sleeves and helped thousands of children with health care, children who would never have had the surgery’s they needed. Cindy brought one of those dear little girls home – Cindy and John adopted their daughter just like millions of people have.
OBSCENE – take a look at the definition. There is nothing obscene about having money, its what people do with it – look at the Kennedy’s and others who have had great wealth. Cindy oversees a large corporation which employs many people. Who do you think builds company’s and gives employment to millions of American’s? Do you own your own company? Have you ever put all your money on the line to start a business? Have you adopted a child?
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Vicky YOU WRITE: Offensive to accepted standards of modesty?
Repulsive; disgusting
John McCain having Jack Abramoff, Ted Stevens, Tom DeLay, Duke Cunningham, Dick Cheney as supporters, and the former lobbyists for the Myanmar Regime and Ferdinand Marcos on staff?
That’s repulsive and disgusting, and defies accepted standards of modesty. It’s obscene. The lustful feelings about these men I’ll leave to you.
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Oh, Victoria, Anlir’s problem with the McCain’s wealth is jealousy. That’s all there is to it. Plain old envy.
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NJL is correct. Lumpy and Anlir are both jealous of those of us with normal conditions and sexual orientations.
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NJL and Outkast
It is jealousy. My point was to show how Cindy McCains kindness, and generosity have helped so many.
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But Victoria, she’s rich, so she must be evil. Says so right here in the Dem handbook. Lumpy’s jealous cuz’ they’re rich, Anlir because they’re straight.
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And I see Outkast is back to his personal attacks on me again.
I call on Outkast to cease his personal attacks on me.
They’re a direct violation of the Worldmag rules.
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So thankful to read so many were blessed by Sunday services and communion. God has indeed been good to us, though looking too much at the world and not enough into the WORD can sure get us down if we don’t watch out…
Cheryl D, many thanks again. I don’t think it’s the Alzheimer’s itself because my grandmother doesn’t do anything scary. She is neither aggressive toward nor frightened by dogs. My theory is that it could be some kind of chemical change from some of her meds that only animals can detect. But as far as I know this isn’t something that has been observed anywhere else.
What a great dog you must have to not react badly to the abuse when the kids misbehave! What a blessing you both must be to reach out to the people most in need in nursing homes and foster care situations. Donna J. was right when she said Misten is “amazing.”
A dear couple in my church used to take care of foster kids and sure got their hearts broken a lot. The kids were so needy and hurting, but sometimes they must grow up thinking life is just about being hurt and hurting others. The couple had to stop when a teenage boy beat the mom up and she ended up in the hospital. Don’t stop loving and helping people, but be careful.
We tried adopting a Lab a few months ago and “Blondie” was a very sweet, loving dog that someone had abandoned. Awful story, but I won’t go into that. She didn’t show any signs of fear; in fact, I’d only left her alone with my grandmother in her room for a few minutes when I found her comfortably stretched out beside her on the bed. I guess she thought she was a lap dog — she was mostly on the bed but also partly on Grandma — and just a bit too heavy. Not to mention that happily wagging tail was kind of bludgeoning her. She actually tried to climb up in my lap a couple of times, too. I guess when you raise a large breed dog you really need to resist the urge to hold that cute puppy in your lap! Don’t worry, though, she’s got the perfect loving home now with some young neighbors who just adore their 80-pound lap dog and Sonic burger disposal unit — but that’s another of my way-too-long stories.
Appreciate another post in which you say, “I don’t really care how rich my president is, seeing as we now have a system where it’s virtually impossible to get elected without money.” I couldn’t agree more, but it’s sad to note that we do end up voting not so much for a candidate we like as for the one who’s running against the one we can’t tolerate.
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