Thursday, October 28, 2010

The glory of these hills...

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  1. Howard Dean is FIRST!

    Jon Stewart is also first for having President Barack Obama on his show earlier tonight.

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  2. Gorgeous photo, listener.

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  3. Just sent a pair of sestinas to a periodical called Breath and Shadow, which is based here in New England and specializes in disability issues and in writing by disabled writers. Won't hear back till after Christmas. If anyone wants to see the sestinas, just give me a shout.

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  4. puddle--I watched the Jerry Brown/Meg Whitman YouTube video--it *was* pretty good. I also clicked on the link to the video of Hitler finding out that Jerry Brown is the Democratic candidate, which wasn't half bad either.

    Making progress with narrowing down the number of potential Honda dealers to visit on Saturday... Naomi had two driving lessons today, one in the morning and one in the evening. No report back yet, but figure no news is good news.

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  5. Cat beat me to it.

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  6. listener, every last one of your recent pics has been a stunner! Speakin' troot here.

    Bright, coolish (60), windy here. Twigs and acorns hitting the tin roof makes it at moments feel like a war, lol! Really *fine* pre Halloween weather. . .

    Had to reset one of the stones in the porch landing: when a little TOO much hope factors into a project, lol! Took it out, laid a much thicker bed of concrete, put it back, tapped it down and filled in around it. Hope it holds this time.

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  7. Here it's overcast and very cool (45). Wind has finally died down.

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  8. Beautiful, sunny afternoon here, warm enough for open windows and short sleeves. Just gorgeous.

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  9. Alan and Bill, you were discussing Whitman's expenditures. Here's a comment from FB that nutshells them nicely. It's from a thread discussing what Whitman could have done with her money instead of spending it on her campaign.

    Nicholas Apostol Mathematics from a friend in California - Based on a population of nearly 37 million, 23.5 eligible voters and 17 million likely voters, she spent about $4.40 for every man, woman and child in the state, about $6.90 (my lunch today) for every eligible voter, and about $9.60 for every likely voter. I know a lot of people on the streets who would have made better use of that expenditure.

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  10. Well, at least a good percentage of that was pumped into the California economy. . . . Which is fine by me -- as long as she doesn't win. . . .

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  11. I agree with puddle. If advertising agencies hire copywriters who would otherwise be wondering where their next house payment was coming from, if campaign offices hire unemployed workers to go out and knock on doors --- That's what the stimulus is all about, isn't it?

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  12. Makes every penny I ever spent on ebay do double duty, lol!

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  13. One of the more lighthearted suggestions was that she could have bought a whole lot of stuff on ebay.

    Holy cow! Think how many books and records you could buy for 140 million? The very thought is giving me palpitations!

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  14. This is what I saw:

    Capitol in Brief: Meg Whitman's spending hits $163 million ...
    Oct 22, 2010 ... Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman spent nearly $23 mil- lion the first 16 days of October, bringing her record-breaking ...
    www.sacbee.com/2010/10/.../meg-whitmans-spending-hits-163.html

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  15. http://www.sacbee.com/2010/10/22/3123081/meg-whitmans-spending-hits-163.html

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  16. One perfect dinner: one perfectly ripened avocado, Adobo, olive oil. Die, and go straight to heaven. . . .

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  17. Ah. I see, her own munny vs OPM. . . .

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  18. http://www.webmd.com/diet/features/avocado-advantage

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  19. There's no date or venue on this that I can find. Still, it's an interesting discussion with Dennis Kucinich and Walter Cronkite of the projected Department of Peace.

    http://kucinich.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2804&Itemid=76

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  20. Well, if you like avocados. I'm glad you enjoyed it.

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  21. Seems like this might have been posted already? If not, it's very interesting.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1324494/Scientists-gene-gives-people-liberal-views.html#ixzz13hyqfQI6

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  22. I am a hard woman: I'm nevah going to forgive DK for giving his delegates to Edwards to prevent Howard from winning. Or even placing second. He's just a bit too cold for me. . . .

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  23. I find the newspaper article's description puzzling. Perhaps because it never defines "liberal." It appears at times to equate liberal with politically radical or unconventional. Are Tea Partiers liberal? I don't think so. I also don't view Dick Durbin as particularly radical or unconventional.

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  24. Thanks to you both! I got that photo when we took a wrong turn up a hill. We weren't sorry!

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  25. Thanks, puddle! ♥

    {{ { Hoping for you!! } }}

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  26. Mmmm, avocados. Yum!

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  27. I hears ya...!

    Tonight there was a Charlie Brown special on; we caught the last part of it just after I got home from work. It's the one where Linus is running for student body president, declaring that he is going to meet with the principal and parents and teachers and school board and get changes made. He wins (by one vote...that of the guy who was running against him! Ha!) and Sally pushes him into the principal's office to make demands. Linus comes out of the office all sheepish and says that the principal was the one who made the demands. Sally is extremely frustrated and says basically: "They're all the same! They make promises and we elect them but they never keep their promises!" Charles Schultz lived it before we did. He tried to warn our generation, too, God bless him.

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  28. Early as it is, I'm heading for bed. Hope to get in a good day's work tomorrow. 'Night all!

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  29. This was the seminal statement, as I saw it:

    "If people with the gene have a socially active adolescence, says the study, they tend to be more open-minded and tend to form less conventional political viewpoints as adults." I don't find the TeaCups all that open minded. . . .

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