Tuesday News Roundup
Tara posted the Tuesday News Roundup at Blog for America at 8:03 p.m.
The headlines are:
Katrina's Wake
Leahy to Query Roberts about Torture
"Last Gasp" of Recession as Poverty Rises
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Karen is first.
ReplyDeleteAnd Renee for setting up this blog.
ReplyDeleteRenee, indeed!
ReplyDeleteRenee,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry.
I really wasn't trying to complain on the last thread. I would have no idear how to do as much as you have here and many of us appreciate it.
I was just making a suggestion for some time in the future if there is a need.
My post really wasn't meant to be negative at all, but if violated the positive vibe here, please feel free to delete it.
jessica, I don't need to delete anything--I was just "setting limits" for what I feel able to do.
ReplyDeleteIt is very unhappy in my house at the moment, re my son and starting school tomorrow. Please send gentle thoughts our way.
♥ Renee ♥
ReplyDeleteseashell, our son has Asperger's Syndrome. Transitions are rough for him, and at the moment he's fighting the dress code. Sensory issues are a big part of it, and control issues. Also, school starts way to effing early.
ReplyDeleteBoy, Renee. I can relate to those senory issues. Just my hair brushing against my bare skin drives me crazy when it is just one hair.
ReplyDeleteAnd I cannot take tags on clothing. I am so glad they are making more stuff with no tags. I bought a bunch of shirts on sale 70% off at JC Penney recently with no tags. Same with my underwear. Oh joy!
cheryl, it's my daughter too. No jeans, no corduroys--well, pretty much sweat pant kind of material. And she's gotten more particular about colors, especially about *hating* pink or anything too "girly". But we *can* find clothing she will wear. The school our son is starting at tomorrow was recommended by everyone as far as the best place to get the services he needs. But back then no one said "boo" about a dress code--which says sweats are not allowed. He's never worn anything *but* sweats.
ReplyDeleteRenee, my youngest son also has Aspberger's, so you have my full sympathy. My son is now 26. I wish I had lots of handy hints, but I don't. We just survived one day at a time.
ReplyDeletesusand, that's reassuring, in a way. At least it tells me I'm not a total screw up at this--because surviving one day at a time pretty much sums up what we do. Sometimes I feel like we should be progressing in a *forward* direction more than we are, but there's always a new monkey wrench being thrown into the mix.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know about your son. I recently heard somewhere that Dan Ackroyd has mild AS and Tourette's. That was news to me.
Yeah, unfortunately my son wasn't diagnosed until he was 16. They didn't know what was "wrong" with him before that. I just thought he was a brat and I was a lousy mother. Shrink made me feel better when he praised my mothering and said my patience probably saved my son's sanity ('course *mine* got a little cracked around the edges).
ReplyDeletelistener comes dancing in to say...
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Delightful Deaniacs! ♥
How lovely to find you here!
9:39 PM
Woot! listener! elaine! Good to see you here.
ReplyDeleteDearest Renee ... or shall we refer to you as ShadowMom ~ ♥
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to register and I keep clicking on "Sign up here" ~ but nothing happens.
Is there a secret click? LOL
Wait! That last anonymous was ME! LOL
ReplyDeleteRenee, I really do not get how a school for Aspergers kids would not allow sweat pants knowing how the sensory issues are. I have worn sweatpants my whole life, much to the disappointment of the men in my life. I am all about comfort.
ReplyDeleteToo bad she doesn't like pink. I think she would look great in it. Or a light lavendar.
listener, I just emailed you.
ReplyDelete{{{{Susan!}}}}}
ReplyDeleteThanks for the warm welcome!
♥ wOOt! backactcha ♥
Susan and Renee,
ReplyDeleteI am supposed to get my fillings out in November. Then I start a mercury chelation protocol. I will keep you posted if any of my Aspergers symptoms get better. I know after several years of them being more manageable the last 5 have really been hard and the allergies and everything else are so much worse.
Lights are a problem too.
Susan, I didn't find out I had it until Just a few years ago and I am a middle aged woman. And my parents were NOT the patient type...you didn't dare misbehave. Kudos to you for being patient.
Thank-you deeply, Renee!
ReplyDeleteSo, how is this lovely new ShadowBlog being paid for?
Do we need a bat?
Great post, Elaine. Your are correct about all of it!
ReplyDeleteelaineinroanokeva said...
Renee and Susand... So many people misunderstand disorders that affect the brain and behavior.
My daughter who has a master's in Neuroscience says that we are going to have to rethink much of our attributive behavior regarding such problems.
It's time society stopped trying to blame all behavioral problems on some shortcoming and started to realize that it's brain chemistry! It's illness! Wish I could stay but I have to go. Thank you for an alternative to the horror that bfa often becomes. I just gave up.
9:51 PM
Patience is (almost) my only virtue! Fortunately it served a good purpose.
ReplyDeleteYes, Karen. It's wonderful! Some people believe it shows strength of character to walk over coals, or sleep on a bed of nails, or put up with toxic people. I just don't happen to be one of them, and I'm thrilled to have a "positive" space.
ReplyDeleteListener, I am glad you made it here. I would have died without your graphics like the dancers and train, lol.
ReplyDeleteBe back later. We're on The World's Most Bizarre Schedule...so I have to go cook now, at 10 p.m.
ReplyDeleteSee you later, susand.
ReplyDeletelistener, no bat is necessary, unless people decide at some point to move to Typepad, as Jessica was suggesting in the last thread. This blog is free.
cheryl, it's not a school specifically for AS, but apparently they regularly have kids there with high functioning autism, so the school was recommended compared to the other public schools in the area. The dress code is entirely new this year. There was an open house for the parents of 6th graders last week, but I only teach one night a week this quarter, and it was on that night. You aren't supposed to bring kids to those things, and Demetrius would have had to bring both of them.
So I'm feeling kind of in the dark...we don't even know who his teacher will be. Have I mentioned *I* don't like transitions much either?
Renee,
ReplyDeleteI can SO relate. Each year change gets harder and harder for me. And when I don't have all the info like in your case, I panic.
THANKS cHeRyL!
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BTW, my name is ALL lower case.
I am not a capitalist! LOL
lol, listener. Habit I guess.
ReplyDeleteWe stumbled onto this on VH1 tonight, pretty much by accident, but it's interesting, so I thought I'd pass along the info to those who have cable.
ReplyDelete"Race-O-Rama is a series focusing on funny and provocative racial observations. The series is a follow up of VH1 and Ego Trip's first partnership, TV's Illest Minority Moments, which was adapted from Ego Trip's Big Book of Racism. The high profile show featured guests Anthony Anderson, John Singleton, Kelis, Outkast, the RZA and Joey Medina and others talking about some of the most compelling, provocative and unintentionally hilarious race-related moments in television.
The team is back and coined the new series Race-O-Rama, which will take the controversy one step further and ask questions that very few people have had the nerve to ask before. The series will consist of three one hour specials exploring some amusing, bizarre and hot button topics."
seashell ~~ drove to vets this a.m. He was gone on an emergency call (a moma pig in trubble), I waiting for an hour and a half (they couldn't contact him: cell phones don't work in the mountains. . . .) Am going back tomorrow. Francis is asking him to leave the meds out where she will see them.
ReplyDeleteAsuming, of course, God is willing and the crick don't rise. . . . And I don't like the sound of either the river or the rain.
I've been try to post this for half an hour and the phone keeps cutting out.
Hi listener
ReplyDeleteAnd hi and bye to everyone who showed (and left) before I got here.
{{{{{puddle!}}}}}
ReplyDeleteGosh, what a dedicated blogger, typing away and resending to spite the storm!
Go puddle! ♥
listener, tired blogger, lol. Last night I was blog babysitting after Oscar went back to work, and then this blog went out for a while, so I called him to tell him, and we talked for a while, and then I made my brand new baby blog, and since I didn't know what I was doing, lol!, I had to do everything three or four times. But, man, I am hooked. I love that little critter, :)
ReplyDeleteI just invited Teri Mills our National Nurse
ReplyDeleteto come over here and join us.
Nobody minds, right? LOL!
Nice baby blog, puddle!!!
ReplyDeleteHow did you create it? Can you send instructions?
(Think of it as getting something in Order. LOL)
Congrats on your first blog, puddleriver.
ReplyDeleteMy Alma Mater
ReplyDeleteHistoric Fort Jackson - the scene of many Orange Festivals
ReplyDeletepuddle, teri already got an invite when renee sent out the original but it is good to remind her.
ReplyDeleteHi, Everybody. Watching Katrina story on tube. It's unbelievable. What say we bring the National Guard home where they're needed and spend our money on our infrastructure, among other non-war related things?
ReplyDeleteHOW did so many of you manage to get registered here?
ReplyDeleteI just rebooted and it still won't recognise my click!
It's like being the only one who can't see the ♥♥♥!!
{{{ National Nurse Teri! }}}
ReplyDeletewOOt!!
If I don't get registered by this time tomorrow night
ReplyDeleteI won't have been a registered "blogger since August 2005"!!!
It doesn't recognize me either, though I registered this morning.
ReplyDeleteanne,
ReplyDeleteGood idea. Making war seems so senseless when you see what nature can do.
♥ {{{ HUGS }}} ♥
ReplyDeleteTO YOU TERI! Our nurse who really cares!
♥
ReplyDeleteTeri
Wow, Anne, that's REALLY weird!! :(
ReplyDeleteHi Teri, Sorry about your two AIDS patients. Sad.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Renee. I really owe to you for getting me here.
ReplyDeletelistener, in the process of registering here, the last step is asking you what you want to name your blog. First time I saw it, I panicked and left.(you become registered somewhere before that point, lol) Second time, I just followed through. The secret is to push all the buttons and read all the instructions. You saw I didn't enable comments at first because I didn't find out how to delete them until more study, and then it took a while to get that changed.
I think it's most error and error, and being willing to go back and do it again. Which why I really admire Renee, in the midst of all else that's going on, took the time to do it. Awesome.
puddle, I'd settle for being able to do it at all!!
ReplyDeleteI can't even get the "Sign up here" to open once!
Whaaaa!
(Sorry for being a baby. LOL)
I had a broken night's sleep last night,
as I was checking on my youngest (age 22) flying across country.
He saved $30 by taking the overnight flight with layover.
Next time I'll give him $30 so he can fly by day! LOL
Sweet Dreams, Teri!
ReplyDeleteunder the Wing...
Teri,
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry about your patients ♥
Renee, I hope despite the weight of this week on your shoulders
ReplyDeletesome part of your heart is light and dancing
because look at this that you have created
and look how much goodness it makes possible!
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
Trying again. Hi listener. I can't get past the continue button on the first registration screen.
ReplyDeleteWell, it's my turn to sleep.
ReplyDeleteTHANK-YOU for the Bright Light this blog is!
Funny that we call it "shadow"! LOL
Anne...you got a Continue Button? Kool!
ReplyDeleteI'm still not past "Sign in here"!!
I think I'm going to dream about wardrobes and lions! LOL
'Nite listener. Tomorrow is another day to try to register!
ReplyDeletelistener, several people have had problems because they've signed up before and forgotten. They keep hitting register, when they should be hitting login. . . .
ReplyDeletelistener, it does my heart good every time I see someone who has been away from the blog sign on and feel at home here.
ReplyDeleteGoing to watch some more of the Red Dwarf DVD with Demetrius before it's due back at the library tomorrow.
Good night, and sweet dreams to anyone who signs off for the night while I'm away.
♥
Peace... and dry land.
ReplyDeleteAndrew
Hi anne.
ReplyDeleteNight listener.
Think I need to sign off, as much as I'd like to stay. *Need sleep*
Moombeams guys.
listener said...
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to dream about wardrobes and lions! LOL
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No witches?
Andrew: beautiful blog you have there. In every way. Got it bookmarked. Hope mine is ever half as good.
ReplyDeleteDon't be a stranger, please.
*Hypatia* wrote on August 30, 2005 10:55 PM:
ReplyDeleteso i didn't read the threads fully and am now noticing that there's another blog populated by A LOT of people who used to post on this blog. i gather the reason, and hope people still check in here because although i very much understand why the other blog exists and wish it very very well i personally don't feel a need to leave this one. If someone is double posting on this and the other blog, please pass this announcement on....
BLOGGERS' BBQ
Saturday, September 24th, post peace march
4pmish at Hypatia's house in Washington DC....
hope you can make it!
Click to RSVP and for more details...