First and foremost.....I SURVIVED!

This trip had been bumped and rescheduled...we were supposed to go a week ago (on an off week for me), but it got changed at the last minute to a treatment week.

This was Javi's first real trip with the Troop - there was no way I was going to miss this.

So, like a good Scout Parent, after schlepping to the hospital to get rid of my pump Friday afternoon, I made sure I stayed active until the troop was ready to depart, in an effort to avoid my Friday pm crash. With the help of Five-Hour Energy, it worked!
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82 comments (Latest Comment: 11/13/2012 05:11:41 by clintster)

In the focus on the election, there are some important science stories that I thought I would look at today. Even as the election becomes a memory, many Americans are still facing the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. This disaster has focused much attention on the issue of global climate change which was seldom discussed during the campaign season
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7 comments (Latest Comment: 11/10/2012 18:50:40 by Will in Chicago)

Prior to Tuesday's election the outcome was anything but certain. Poll-meister Nate Silver gave Obama's chances of winning somewhere in the 70-80% range, but there were a lot of unknowns and uncertainty. Would supporters show up? Would the voters still be registered when they got there? Would their IDs be accepted? Would the votes be counted? What if the polls were wrong?

There was enough uncertainty that the candidates and their supporters should have been prepared for it to go either way. Mitt Romney and his supporters, however, seemed to think it was a done deal except for the (vote) counting. They weren't really prepared to lose. They were genuinely shocked (not just disappointed) that he lost, and acted out in ways that are really unseemly.
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80 comments (Latest Comment: 11/10/2012 04:48:19 by Will in Chicago)

The NYT summed this up pretty simply:
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16 comments (Latest Comment: 11/08/2012 15:43:40 by TriSec)

Woke up late this morning.. big surprise! So I figured I'd get things started here early.

Just heard a report on Morning Joe that the GOP Senate leaders are meeting with "outside groups in the beltway" to start looking for candidates for 2014 that "can win"..



Here's a clue for Mitch McConnell - it's not your candidates that makes you lose.
It's your archaic oppressive ideology.
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8 comments (Latest Comment: 11/07/2012 14:25:51 by BobR)