Nice . . . Peaceful

Ken Kirby

Name the City

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Sunday Morning

"My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other moms. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day. I told them this story: In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."


Tom Waits

Sunday Funnies

Oh Brother!

Well, This is Good News for Me and the Zoey

CaChing!

uuummm I think I know

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Funnies

uuurgh.

LIARS

So happy to get the money they didn't vote for.

Done!

Got it.

Winner of Olympic Snow Shoveling

I wonder if this was taken in D.C. or New England.

Why Doesn't This Surprise Me?

What a hypocrite!

For someone who once generated a national hysteria by claiming socialized medicine would bring about government-run "death panels" that would kill the elderly and children with mental defects, Sarah Palin seems remarkably calm, what with her grandson now facing the very same allegedly tyrannical construct, that is.

Yes, that's right: Sarah Palin, Alaska's former governor and a millionaire thanks to sales of her book, has a grandson whose health care is paid for by the federal government, according to newly released court documents.

The revelation was made in court documents filed Feb. 16, relating to the child support battle between Bristol Palin and Levi Jonson, available here courtesy of E! Online.

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," Palin wrote on her Facebook page in mid-August. "Such a system is downright evil."

Romantic

Very cool design.  What will the Germans think of next?

It's Cold, but Yell It Anyway . . .

Yay, It's Caturday!

How I Earn My Keep

Make the Bed

Do Laundry

Greet Mommy at the Door

Year of the Tiger?

"You Gotta Be Kidding Me"!

Oh No, Not Them Too!

It's catching.

See You Next Caturday . . .

"I'll keep an eye out for U".

Helllloooo!

Someone wrote this one for me!

Voices Heard This Past Week

One would think or wish that the fifth heart attack would take him out, but it didn't.  Dick Cheney's heart attack story got the most reaction this past week.  The comments in most cases were priceless.  Most focused on the hypocracy of a person who has had socialized government medical care since age 37 only to be against it for all Americans.  Like the rich keep sucking at the government teat but it's wrong when the middle class wants it.  How many heart victims have died for lack of care in the 32 years Cheney has been treated at the taypayers expense? 

News story first, then the comments.

(AP)-- Surviving five heart attacks makes former Vice President Dick Cheney pretty unusual - showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease.

But the number, attention-grabbing as it is, isn't the real issue: It's how much damage a heart attack does to the muscle of your heart that determines how well you recover, and the quality of remaining years.

CBS

starving1968-

How did he survive 5 heart attacks?

GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED HEALTHCARE!!!!!

ianlou

How Cheney Survived 5 Heart Attacks?
Our bad luck and God's devious sense of humor.

wjksea

Only the good die young.

humungo

Cheney has always been a person of deep, abiding faith.  That is what has sustained him through all those heart attacks.

bill0bob

Cheney is an internationally recognized WAR CRIMINAL and a TRAITOR to the United States of America. During his 8 years as VP, he continued to work for Haliburton, giving billions of dollars to Haliburton in no-bid contracts and he IRREPAIRABLY HARMED the interests of the United States of America, causing the needless deaths of over 4000 US soldiers and the deaths of millions of Iraqi men, women, and children who DID NOT attack the USA. In a just world, he would have already been tried, convicted, and HANGED for his crimes. In this extremely imperfect world, however, the cretin has managed to survive 5 heart attacks from the Almighty, thanks ENTIRELY to what he would call "socialized medicine" if it were being given to anyone else! Cheney's constant railing against "socialism", while he sucks at the public teat, has made people just a wee bit angry at the old fool.

T G I F

Don't be fooled by this week's TGIF model, those Canadian colors are not really for Olympic Medal Victories.  We were thinking of taking the kids camping up near Daytona Beach until the weather went from nice to freezing.  But she looks so happy I couldn't hold her over till next month when we may plan a trip to a national park to enjoy the nature here in Florida.  Whatever you do this weekend get some exercise.  Do something exciting that saves on $$$ and gas.  Have a great time!

Health Care Followup

I just hope voters remember this in November.

As expected, there is no chorus of kumbaya coming out of the summit. The Republicans still insist upon starting over, Obama and the Democrats have made it clear that they will not do so. It was as frustrating to watch as anticipated, because the Republicans would not veer from their talking points of tort reform, selling plans across state lines, minimize regulation, and give us a blank sheet of paper.


Democrats brought great stories, extensive knowledge of policy, strong substantive policy answers.   And that's where they left it.

DailyKos


Right-wing media figures have mocked Democrats' descriptions of hardships faced by their constituents who lack health insurance, including a story Rep. Louise Slaughter told about a woman who wore dentures that previously belonged to her dead sister. For example, Rush Limbaugh said, "So if you don't have any teeth, so what? What's applesauce for?"


MediaMatters

Paper Weight

I always loved these ocean reef paper weights.  My Mother had one on her desk and I used one just like it for years when I worked in downtown D.C.

It's Getting Close . . .

Soon, we're gonna be a thinkin Green!

Jon Stewart

A True Diplomat

O-Merry-ca

The President Meets Republicans Today

at the Blair House on the Health Care Bill

Will he Meet His Waterloo?

As Republicans Have Said?

Only if the president is willing to take command of the debate, Democrats in both chambers said, will a health-care reform bill have any chance of reaching his desk. "The difference here now is the president is not in a back room with his sleeves rolled up trying to play Lyndon Johnson," said Rep. Anthony Weiner (N.Y.), a leading House liberal.


"He's now out there being Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Abe Lincoln -- which, you know, is what we've needed all along," Weiner said. "That's what we really need here. And that's why I believe the vote count on things is not static."

"Hit a Home Run Mr President"!

WASHINGTON POST

Everything's Coming Up Roses

I bet you thought these flowers came from my garden here in Florida.  hahaha.  I just got in the mood for some reason and saw this lovely arrangement and thought my blogger friends in cold climates would love to share the hopes of a bountiful spring.  It's just around the corner Y'All.

Now We Know . . .

Right on!

Oh C'mon

Just because I posted one last week under the heading "Rock Band?" doesn't mean everyone who has one has to send me a variation now.  OK this one is pretty good so I put it up but for crying out loud, how many Pink Freuds are out there?  Oh, don't send them to me, just sayin.

Only 25 Cents . . .

Yeah, I bet.

The Color Yellow

Celebrating the color Yellow today! 

I Guess So . . .

I hear people yelling "no fair" already.

Cool Bike

When you get there you can use your bike to make a sandwich.

uhhh ohhh . . .

"run little mousey run"!

O-Merry-ca

Looks Like Healthcare is Back on the Table

But What Voters Want Most is the Public Option

President Obama's plan does not include a government-run public health insurance option, an idea strongly backed by liberal Democrats but fiercely opposed by both Republicans and key Democratic moderates.

CNN

President Obama: "I Didn't Campaign on the Public Option."

Oh Yes You Did!

"Essentially . . we're going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don't have health insurance. It will be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services."

Barack Obama 7/17/07

America’s health insurance industry has wanted this bill and the individual mandate from the get go. That’s their idea. Their idea is “look, our product is so lousy, that lots of people don’t buy it. So we need the government to force people to buy our product. And stunningly, that’s what the Congress appears to be going along with. Why would they do that?

Congressman John Shaddeg R-AZ

Go Canada!

Excuse Me?

"What the hell do you want"?

SHOOT! . . . NO Don't Shoot . . . I mean Shoot . . . No

I hate these confusing images.

Hat Chandelier

OK so it's two pictures put together.  I can't wait anymore for my friend up north to send me a photo of his creation . . . a group of top hats he somehow finished in metal coating, then wired them for lights and put brass tubing together to create a chandelier for his formal dining room.  He says  it looks like this but he has five top hats not three.  I bet it looks rather cool.  What a great idea.  Send a picture down Hank when you get a chance.

Pretty Close

This would have  to be hard work for any artist back then and look how close the artist came to the real photo.  Pretty good art work for not having a Photo Shop.

Here's the PhotoShop

Look.  You can even make a mask with it. hahaha

Yummy!

Rolled Sugar Cookies

I bet the cream cheese topping makes em!

RECIPE

It's Off to Work We Go!

Well, we can dream, can't we?  This would be a nice job to have, flying people to fascinating places.  I'd even beg to work the baggage area or serve drinks to the passengers.  Must be nice.  Wherever you are, if you have to make this another work week, make it a good week.  I can't believe it's the last week for February.  Time really does fly.  Have a good one!

Winter Scene from the Burbs in and Around Washington, D.C.

My friend sent me this image as a reminder of a blizzard we once shared growing up in Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.  I thought it funny that this blizzard last week was pegged as one that out did a blizzard on record 126 years ago, yet we remember one just as bad in the mid 1960's.  His 20 year son told me by phone that the snow was "rather Zhivago-esque".  You're kidding?  Zhivago-esque?  That movie is almost as old as I am.  I couldn't stop laughing.  Maybe later in the week I'll find a winter scene that looks "Zhivago-esque" so my friends son can tell the difference.