About Us
Mission Statement
Rules of Conduct
 
Name:
Pswd:
Remember Me
Register
 

TTNBC- Duck Dynasty Version
Author: velveeta jones    Date: 12/22/2013 14:24:40

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the manse
Not a creature was stirring, they'd been shot at first glance
The shotguns were hung by the chimney with glee,
With dreams of killin' animals on a long shootin' spree.
Continue reading...

6 comments (Latest Comment: 12/23/2013 01:03:55 by BobR)

A year.
Author: TriSec    Date: 12/21/2013 12:32:00

It's almost Christmas…365 days ago, I was in pretty sorry shape.

Last year at this time, I was looking at 2 more chemo treatments, and by then it had finally caught up with me. I had an anaphylactic reaction to the oxalaplatin (AKA "Satan's Drool"), my white blood count had tanked, and pretty much crushing fatigue had taken hold.

Christmas was done as best as we could, but I grasped onto January 2013 with the tenacity of a sinking man clinging to a lifeline as he waited for rescue. Medically, I made it….but 2013 had it's share of challenges, too. I spent the first six months of the year getting routine occupational and physical therapy for my neuropathy. (Which is better, but my feet still linger), and even a year later, the fatigue never resolved itself...I tire easily, I feel like I've got no stamina, and I can't climb up a flight of stairs without sucking wind, but I suppose it all beats the alternative.

Continue reading...

3 comments (Latest Comment: 12/22/2013 14:02:30 by AuntAzalea)

Dung Dynasty
Author: BobR    Date: 12/20/2013 16:10:48

It's a sad day in America. At least - it's sad for me. I am sad because I feel compelled to write a blog about an ignorant racist and bigot that people who should know better are holding up as some sort of martyr to "free speech". I don't watch any of those mind-numbing reality shows. Reality for me is my life. I don't need to vicariously live someone else's life. I am not that much of a voyeur that I need to see how other people live their lives (knowing full well they are being filmed for TV). I don't get it.

But some people do watch these shows, and get so attached to the people on them, they start to feel for them like they are part of their own family. Who doesn't have a redneck uncle that spouts off about the gays and sinners and other nonsense? Of course, the reality is that these are NOT our family members - they are employees of A&E, and are being paid to bring ratings and sponsors to A&E. If A&E feels someone on the show has damaged that relationship, then they have to go where their wallets tell them to go. Plenty of TV shows get cancelled all the time for the simple reason of poor ratings and/or the inability to sell commercial time.
Continue reading...

116 comments (Latest Comment: 12/20/2013 22:31:45 by Will in Chicago)

Big Pharma is paying attention
Author: Raine    Date: 12/19/2013 14:03:16

I"ve been a bit harried this week, So I do apologize for no blog on Monday. Today looks to be a light one as well. I wanted to mention a story -- a really big thing -- happened this week that may have gone under the radar.

One Of The Biggest Drug Companies In The World Will Stop Paying Doctors To Promote Its Products
Continue reading...

64 comments (Latest Comment: 12/19/2013 23:54:55 by Raine)

One Last Dance with Snowden
Author: BobR    Date: 2013-12-18 11:55:01

Back at the beginning of this year, the news cycles were exploding with the exploits of a then-unknown government contractor who stole a bunch of documentation that purported to show extensive illegal data collection by the NSA and/or CIA. The charge was that the government was collecting the metadata (send/receive address and subject) of every email sent by everyone in the United States, as well as phone records. There was initially false reporting that the government was listening to calls or reading emails or other deeper intrusions, but these turned out not to be true.

The man behind these leaks was revealed to be Edward Snowden, who fled to Hong Kong with documents in tow. As the pieces started to come together, it became clear that he was working with self-styled journalist Glenn Greenwald before he ever took the job. It became apparent that he took the job for the singular purpose of stealing the documents.
Continue reading...

81 comments (Latest Comment: 12/19/2013 02:46:08 by Raine)

Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec    Date: 12/17/2013 11:19:30

Good Morning.

Today is our 4,454th day in Afghanistan.

We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing war, courtesy of Antiwar.com:

US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 2,290
Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,105

We find this morning's Cost of War passing through:

$ 1, 497, 705, 600, 000 .00

Continue reading...

64 comments (Latest Comment: 12/17/2013 23:43:51 by Raine)

This is a stub.
Author: Raine    Date: 12/16/2013 14:00:48

This is coffee:

This is me



I'll return!
Continue reading...

69 comments (Latest Comment: 12/16/2013 21:23:10 by livingonli)

You are having a heart attack
Author: AuntAzalea    Date: 2013-12-15 12:20:42

"You are having a heart attack, the ambulance is on the way"...those are the words spoken to me this past monday at my doctors office by a physicians assistant because the doctors were too busy to squeeze me in when I called with breathing problems earlier that morning.
Continue reading...

4 comments (Latest Comment: 12/16/2013 01:28:41 by AuntAzalea)

Towards a New Progressive Movement
Author: Will in Chicago    Date: 2013-12-14 08:22:08

Late in the 19th Century America, two movements -- Populism and Progressivism , challenged a political system in the Gilded Age, when tycoons had a great deal of influence on politics. Farm rights, labor rights, child labor, the plight of immigrants and racial equality were among some of the issues both movements addressed to various degrees. Many figures, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Jane Addams and even Theodore Roosevelt were looked at in alarm by many of the conservative politicians and pundits of the day.
Continue reading...

3 comments (Latest Comment: 12/14/2013 15:28:17 by Will in Chicago)

Of Rhetoric and Reality
Author: BobR    Date: 12/13/2013 22:27:02

In the days, weeks, months, and several years after 9/11, the response was somewhat different inside and outside of NYC. Those on the outside, those who had never set foot in Manhattan were sometimes the loudest to proclaim what we as a nation should or shouldn't do in response. Those who live and work in the city just wanted to get back to normal, and not pick at the scab from the wound torn on that horrible day.

On year ago tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the shooting that shook the nation. On Dec 14, 2012, Adam Lanza murdered 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Most of those were children. The nation recoiled in horror and tried to take a long look at itself in the mirror. Tried, I say, because those who think guns are more important to our nation than our children fogged up that mirror with 2nd Amendment rhetoric. This time, we were promised, something would get done. One year later, only a few states have moved towards common-sense gun regulation. At the federal level - bupkis.
Continue reading...

77 comments (Latest Comment: 12/13/2013 22:44:27 by Raine)

<<  375  376  377  378  379  380  >>
Order by most recent comment   Complete Blog Entry List