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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:17:25 -0700

Whatever happened to Meatloaf?

Maybe he eventually did "that"...

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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:39:15 -0700

OK. SO I have my I.D. number [given to me by SU].
I have my nickname: yobaba.
I have the fact that my regular email address is the same one I gave to SU a couple of years ago - the email address that (for some reason) the system does not recognize.
And I have the password that I established in December of 2008.

I am going off-line now. If you guys do not see yobaba again in like, say, 10 minutes, it is because SU does not recognize me AT ALL. Like they won't let me back through the portal or something. In which case I will make up another identity.

Such a waste. Or not, depending on how one looks at it.

Wish me luck. I feel rather as though I am now going to take a sip of Kool-Aid.

***

YAH - it worked! I got back in! I truly am part of the Borg!

And now I can disconnect this 10-yr-old relic of a computer and hook up my new machine! Yippee!

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:31:10 -0700

So ... I just tried out the new look ... hate it.

So ... everyone's pages are going to look alike (white?)

So ... what happens to the stumblers who like being creative with their blogs and have done a damn good job of it? Too Bad?

I see a lot of dropouts coming. I can't imagine most of my 'friends' and 'favorites' continuing to blog on this platform.

How very sad.

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Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:37:15 -0700

Alice --

This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I'd been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who've been honored by this prize -- men and women who've inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it's also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

That is why I've said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won't all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it's recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.

This award -- and the call to action that comes with it -- does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.

So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we've begun together. I'm grateful that you've stood with me thus far, and I'm honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama

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Sat, 19 Sep 2009 23:55:57 -0700

Got my annual flu shot at Walgreens this afternoon.

Cost me $25 because my insurance company no longer pays for a flu shot unless I go to the doctor's office to get one - my co-pay would be $30.00; my doctor's 'take' would be $120.00. The flu shot would have been (cough cough) "free".

So I saved myself 5 Bucks and I guess I saved the insurance company $120.00.

THIS IS SOOOO STUPID.

Related - our employer discontinued offering dental coverage a couple of months ago - he just could not afford the premiums (the same insurance company had raised them five years running) - and since we can not afford the coverage offered by the State of Oregon, we now have no dental insurance. This was not a huge problem, since our dentist allowed us to pay on time for the ordinary procedures that all seem to cost $500 each. That is, until we got a letter from the dentist stating that he is now sending all outstanding balances of 60 days+ to a collections agency. So not only do we not have dental coverage, I guess we are no longer going to go to the dentist ...

We are not "poor", though I suppose we do make below the government's average of (?) $50K or so. But truly, people, each one of us is just one health crisis away from either (1) bankruptcy or (2) death.

In 1999 health care costs were 8% of the median family's income, today they are 18% and, if nothing is done, will be 35% in less than a decade.

Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/ignored-by-all-media-majo_b_290586.html

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Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:05:45 -0700

In an email from my daughter-in-law this morning:

"Does anybody else think this whole "government doesn't belong in my healthcare" rant from the right is a little ironic/hypocritical?

Isn't that EXACTLY the opposite of what they've been supporting this whole time by wanting the government to stop abortions?"

GOOD ONE SWEETIE!!!!

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 23:20:37 -0700

"Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll

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Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:21:30 -0700

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as 'Euro-English'.

In the first year, 's' will replace the soft 'c'. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard 'c' will be dropped in favour of 'k'. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome 'ph' will be replaced with 'f'. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent 'e' in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing 'th' with 'z' and 'w' with 'v'.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary 'o' kan be dropd from vords kontaining 'ou' and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

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Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:16:21 -0700

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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:20:39 -0700

Why I had so much trouble in high school: