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October 24, 2012
Venturing a bit further from home - sharing a rare sight
I was on my bike today, so I did not take my best camera. Wish I had though.
First I came to a local sight we like and are proud of: A Shell station - preserved and treasured as the antique it is.
A few houses down I ran into the rare sight, the yard of what turned out to be a woman in her eighties. The neighbors are proud. I got permission from her daughter to take a few shots, going from left of the property to the right.
"You ought to see it at Christmas. She said. That's when the decorating really happens".
I promised to be back, trusting you'll look at my photos if I take my good Sony
October 21, 2012
Look at and then share this video, you will know what to do:
Draw the Line - Sign the Bill
http://www.moveon.org/share/676c9a/kevin-bacon-knows-exactly-how-to-destroy?rc=share-10cb60
I looked and could not find that this has been posted. If it IS a dupe, please forgive, just look at it again and forward it some more.
Kevin Bacon Knows Exactly How To Destroy The GOP's War On Women
Kevin Bacon Knows Exactly How To Destroy The GOP's War On WomenLook at and then share this video, you will know what to do:
Draw the Line - Sign the Bill
http://www.moveon.org/share/676c9a/kevin-bacon-knows-exactly-how-to-destroy?rc=share-10cb60
I looked and could not find that this has been posted. If it IS a dupe, please forgive, just look at it again and forward it some more.
October 20, 2012
This is about a woman "caught in the headlights" - mental elevator is stuck
Woman Misunderstands Deer Crossing Signs, Calls Radio Station, Wants Them Moved
http://fox4kc.com/2012/10/18/woman-misunderstands-deer-crossing-signs-calls-radio-sation-wants-them-moved/
October 17, 2012
America Has Now Met the Many Romneys, and America Knows They Can Get Their Asses Kicked: At the Debate
By Charles P. Pierce
HEMPSTEAD, New York — Those of us who lived under the barely distinguishable leadership of Willard Romney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (God save it!) know very well that the emotional membrane separating Lofty Willard from Snippy Willard is thin indeed, and that the membrane separating Snippy Willard from Dickhead Willard is well-nigh translucent. Both of those membranes were tested fully here on Tuesday night by the president, by Candy Crowley — who has clearly had enough of your bullshit, thank you very much — and by the simple fact that certain members of The Help tested the challenger's ideas and found them wanting and, my dear young man, that simply is not done. And both of those membranes failed like rotting levees in a storm.
Before I arrived to Hofstra on Tuesday, I thought that, given the roll he's been on, Romney would be able to keep both Snippy Willard and Dickhead Willard in check. I had no doubt that, because the nature of the event required that he mingle with actual carbon-based life forms, we undoubtedly would see English-as-a-Second-Language Willard. And we did. ("Binders full of women"?) And, because at least some of the questions were likely to be wild cards, there was a better than even chance that Zany Improv Willard would put in an appearance, as he did on the very first question of the night, when he told a young man named Jeremy that, "I want to make sure we keep our Pell Grant program going," when, in fact, one of the under-appreciated consequences of the overall zombie-eyed granny-starving onto which he signed when he picked his running mate is the fact that his running mate's "budget" would utterly devastate... wait for it... Pell Grants!
(I have to admit it: When the president let that fat, hanging curveball go by, I thought he was in for another long evening.)
But not even I expected Romney to let his entitled, Lord-of-the-Manor freak flag fly as proudly as he did on Tuesday night. He got in the president's face. He got in Crowley's face. That momentwhen he was hectoring the president about the president's pension made him look like someone to whom the valet has brought the wrong Mercedes.
"You'll get your chance in a moment. I'm still speaking."
Wow. To me, this was a revelatory, epochal moment. It was a look at the real Willard Romney, the Bain cutthroat who could get rich ruining lives and not lose a moment's sleep. But those people are merely the anonymous Help. The guy he was speaking to on Tuesday night is a man of considerable international influence. Outside of street protestors, and that Iraqi guy who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, I have never seen a more lucid example of manifest public disrespect for a sitting president than the hair-curling contempt with which Romney invested those words. (I've certainly never seen one from another candidate.) He's lucky Barack Obama prizes cool over everything else. LBJ would have taken out his heart with a pair of salad tongs and Harry Truman would have bitten off his nose.
And Romney bitched endlessly — endlessly — about the rules, and why this uppity fellow on the other stool was allowed to speak before he was spoken to, and why he didn't get to speak at length on whatever he wanted to speak on because, after all, he is the CEO of the stage. Jesus Christ, I'd hate to play golf with the man. He's the guy who counts to make sure you don't have too many wedges in your bag. He knows every cheap subsection of every cheap ground rule, and he'll call you on every one of them. You couldn't get a free drop out of him with thumbscrews, and forget about conceding any putt outside two inches. And then, on the 18th hole, with all the money on the line, he kicks his ball out of the rough and denies up and down to the rules committee that he did it. Then he goes into the clubhouse bar and nobody sits with him.
all of it is at this link
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/last-night-debate-13800806
Meet all them Willards -- Charles Pierce / Esquire Magazine
America Has Now Met the Many Romneys, and America Knows They Can Get Their Asses Kicked: At the Debate
By Charles P. Pierce
HEMPSTEAD, New York — Those of us who lived under the barely distinguishable leadership of Willard Romney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (God save it!) know very well that the emotional membrane separating Lofty Willard from Snippy Willard is thin indeed, and that the membrane separating Snippy Willard from Dickhead Willard is well-nigh translucent. Both of those membranes were tested fully here on Tuesday night by the president, by Candy Crowley — who has clearly had enough of your bullshit, thank you very much — and by the simple fact that certain members of The Help tested the challenger's ideas and found them wanting and, my dear young man, that simply is not done. And both of those membranes failed like rotting levees in a storm.
Before I arrived to Hofstra on Tuesday, I thought that, given the roll he's been on, Romney would be able to keep both Snippy Willard and Dickhead Willard in check. I had no doubt that, because the nature of the event required that he mingle with actual carbon-based life forms, we undoubtedly would see English-as-a-Second-Language Willard. And we did. ("Binders full of women"?) And, because at least some of the questions were likely to be wild cards, there was a better than even chance that Zany Improv Willard would put in an appearance, as he did on the very first question of the night, when he told a young man named Jeremy that, "I want to make sure we keep our Pell Grant program going," when, in fact, one of the under-appreciated consequences of the overall zombie-eyed granny-starving onto which he signed when he picked his running mate is the fact that his running mate's "budget" would utterly devastate... wait for it... Pell Grants!
(I have to admit it: When the president let that fat, hanging curveball go by, I thought he was in for another long evening.)
But not even I expected Romney to let his entitled, Lord-of-the-Manor freak flag fly as proudly as he did on Tuesday night. He got in the president's face. He got in Crowley's face. That momentwhen he was hectoring the president about the president's pension made him look like someone to whom the valet has brought the wrong Mercedes.
"You'll get your chance in a moment. I'm still speaking."
Wow. To me, this was a revelatory, epochal moment. It was a look at the real Willard Romney, the Bain cutthroat who could get rich ruining lives and not lose a moment's sleep. But those people are merely the anonymous Help. The guy he was speaking to on Tuesday night is a man of considerable international influence. Outside of street protestors, and that Iraqi guy who threw a shoe at George W. Bush, I have never seen a more lucid example of manifest public disrespect for a sitting president than the hair-curling contempt with which Romney invested those words. (I've certainly never seen one from another candidate.) He's lucky Barack Obama prizes cool over everything else. LBJ would have taken out his heart with a pair of salad tongs and Harry Truman would have bitten off his nose.
And Romney bitched endlessly — endlessly — about the rules, and why this uppity fellow on the other stool was allowed to speak before he was spoken to, and why he didn't get to speak at length on whatever he wanted to speak on because, after all, he is the CEO of the stage. Jesus Christ, I'd hate to play golf with the man. He's the guy who counts to make sure you don't have too many wedges in your bag. He knows every cheap subsection of every cheap ground rule, and he'll call you on every one of them. You couldn't get a free drop out of him with thumbscrews, and forget about conceding any putt outside two inches. And then, on the 18th hole, with all the money on the line, he kicks his ball out of the rough and denies up and down to the rules committee that he did it. Then he goes into the clubhouse bar and nobody sits with him.
all of it is at this link
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/last-night-debate-13800806
October 17, 2012
The New Yorker
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The Borowitz Report
« Obama’s New Debate Strategy
Main
October 16, 2012
Romney Sets New Personal Best for Faking Empathy
Posted by Andy Borowitz
romney-borowitz-empathy.jpg
HEMPSTEAD, NY (The Borowitz Report)—Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney set a new personal record tonight by pretending to care about average Americans for nearly ninety minutes.
Mr. Romney began the second Presidential debate by simulating concern for a college student named Jeremy’s employment future and maintained a consistent level of feigned concern on a variety of subjects for the remainder of the night.
“It was an awesome display of stamina,” said Mr. Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, who watched Mr. Romney pretending to be empathic from a shelter in Virginia, where Mr. Ryan was pretending to feed a homeless orphan.
Mr. Romney’s new empathy record surpasses his previous mark, set seven days ago at a rally in Sidney, Ohio, where he pretended to give a shit about his audience for nearly an hour.
Tonight’s display of bogus sensitivity made a big impression on a post-debate focus group, as a majority of participants agreed with the statement, “Mitt Romney has the facial expressions of someone who cares about me.”
Moments after the debate, Mr. Romney pronounced himself “thoroughly drained” by the forced display of humanity.
“This empathy stuff is exhausting,” he told reporters. “On Day One, it’s going to stop.”
Throughout the evening, Mr. Romney traded barbs with President Obama, the first black person he has talked to since his speech at the N.A.A.C.P.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/10/romney-sets-new-personal-best-for-faking-empathy.html#ixzz29WO0UqIE
Long awaited (:)) Borowitz chiming in on Debate 2
The New Yorker
Online Only
The Borowitz Report
« Obama’s New Debate Strategy
Main
October 16, 2012
Romney Sets New Personal Best for Faking Empathy
Posted by Andy Borowitz
romney-borowitz-empathy.jpg
HEMPSTEAD, NY (The Borowitz Report)—Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney set a new personal record tonight by pretending to care about average Americans for nearly ninety minutes.
Mr. Romney began the second Presidential debate by simulating concern for a college student named Jeremy’s employment future and maintained a consistent level of feigned concern on a variety of subjects for the remainder of the night.
“It was an awesome display of stamina,” said Mr. Romney’s running mate, Paul Ryan, who watched Mr. Romney pretending to be empathic from a shelter in Virginia, where Mr. Ryan was pretending to feed a homeless orphan.
Mr. Romney’s new empathy record surpasses his previous mark, set seven days ago at a rally in Sidney, Ohio, where he pretended to give a shit about his audience for nearly an hour.
Tonight’s display of bogus sensitivity made a big impression on a post-debate focus group, as a majority of participants agreed with the statement, “Mitt Romney has the facial expressions of someone who cares about me.”
Moments after the debate, Mr. Romney pronounced himself “thoroughly drained” by the forced display of humanity.
“This empathy stuff is exhausting,” he told reporters. “On Day One, it’s going to stop.”
Throughout the evening, Mr. Romney traded barbs with President Obama, the first black person he has talked to since his speech at the N.A.A.C.P.
Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2012/10/romney-sets-new-personal-best-for-faking-empathy.html#ixzz29WO0UqIE
October 15, 2012
Late light and long shadows - more than 100 paces
Took a walk around a few neighborhood blocks tonight
October 15, 2012
Proud! Home made Bumpersticker I just discovered on the street where I live
My community has many many Obama signs.
I expect it of my neighbors, and I'm proud to live here.
Just saw this one about a half hour ago
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