February 15, 2010 archive
Feb 15 2010
Docudharma Times Monday February 15
Feb 15 2010
Muse in the Morning
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Then I thought that needed some oomph and achieved what is inside…
Feb 15 2010
Obama affirms right-wing, pro-business policies in interview
Original article, by Joe Kishore, via World Socialist Web Site:
In an interview published in the latest edition of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, US president Barack Obama defended the right-wing credentials of his administration, insisting that everything he has done and intends to do is in the interests of corporations.
Feb 15 2010
Lyme & IDSA Criminal Conspiracy
I got a new doctor at the end of September and in 72 hours flat I was ready to go back to work full time. I’m thrilled by that, but I am still dangerously sick, so much so that a small mistake can tip me from seemingly normal into a dangerous place where I am physically and mentally disinclined to care for myself.
I have a regimen of several antibiotics which change about once a month. I fumbled the switchover mid February, losing a big chunk of Valentines day. I’m writing this after a three day antibiotic break to see how I feel, having just started a mixture of clarithromycin and plaquenil moments ago.
So … here’s a peak into what life is like with chronic Lyme. And a deeper look at what it could mean for health care reform.
Feb 15 2010
Eternal Afghanistan
From those who have not, everything will be taken, even the little that they have.
-Matthew 13:12
Feb 15 2010
Cheney: This is Waterboarding
Cheney is on a lying tour about torture again.
Mr. Cheney said interrogators should have had the option to use the “enhanced interrogation techniques” his administration approved-including the use of simulated drowning, or “water-boarding.” He called himself “a big supporter of water-boarding,” which critics say amounts to torture.“Now, President Obama has taken [those techniques] off the table,” Mr. Cheney said. “He announced when he came in last year that they would never use anything other than the U.S. Army Manual which doesn’t include those techniques. I think that’s a mistake.”
Enhanced interrogation techniques aren’t torture — the Bush Administration approved them, right???
Feb 15 2010
Docudharma is …
… one of my Favorite Things …
My favorite Valentine’s Day in seasons past was of the “Now Voyager” flavor:
Oh Jerry, don’t let’s ask for the moon … we have the stars!
I had been thinking about that movie and although at the time I had no lover I was still feeling the desire to celebrate Romance.
I had three male friends who were at odd ends that Valentine’s Day so I invited them over and rented “Now, Voyager.”
Each one ended up bringing me a present … and I also laid out a real Manhattan spread from Balducci’s for them. I received flowers, chocolates and something else I forget.
I ended up having a very lovely Valentine’s Day and felt I had experienced a salutary amount of Romance!
Yes, it’s the substance that is important — love — but the form can be a blessing as well sometimes.
Feb 15 2010
Pique the Geek 20100214: The “Common” Cold
Well, I am back now. I had planned to provide an installment last week, but I had a bad cold and just did not feel much like setting at the keyboard.
Personally, I do not mind the coughing nor the sneezing, or even the sore throat. The one thing that bothers me the worst is to lose my ability to thermocompensate, such that I feel either cold or hot when I should be in my comfort zone of temperature. Aspirin assists me to regulate a bit better, but being well is the better feeling.
Feb 15 2010
Sunday Train: Open Thread
Burning the Midnight Oil for Living Energy Independence
I’ve been like a hare chased by a hound this weekend, darting this way and that, so while I’ve got a lot of topics I could be writing on, I’ve got nothing coherent for a full fledged diary. So this week will be bits and pieces and this and that.
Feb 15 2010
Winter Olympics- Day II, Evening
Who doesn’t like kittens, bunnies, and little baby seals?
Me!
So you already know I don’t much like Figure Skating. Richard does though and tonight we have one of the two hardest and most technical disciplines- Pairs (the other is Ice Dancing).
The Chinese are the overwhelming favorites, people won’t shut up about them, and of course since it’s Figure Skating the Judging is a joke. About as credible as a Sunday Morning pundit and just as focused on celebrity and buzz and asskissing sychophancy.
The big difference is at least if they crash and burn Figure Skating Judges have the shame to deduct a tenth or two.
So I think it’s all as real a sport as professional wrestling.
Tonight is the Short Program that at least has the virtue of being short, though I’m certainly not going to guarentee to keep even one eye open after spending 6 and a half hours starting at 4:30 am drumming my fingers watching repeats of the pre-race show waiting for America’s Cup to start (we crushed Alinghi like a bug as I predicted).
Among the other offerings attempting to entertain me (starting at 7 pm on NBC main) are Freestyle Skiing Men’s Mogul, the last run of Men’s Single Luge (flaming twisted metal from the ladies tees), and Speed Skating (Women’s 3000m I think. Did I mention how useless the website is?).
Those are all on tape delay because they’re actually happening right now (6 pm).
Prison documentaries are far more important than anything happening in Vancouver so MSNBC is not carrying even a repeat of the Finland v. Russia Women’s Hockey that at least CNBC will put aside their paid programming and beat sweetening business biographies grudgingly aside for at 7:30 pm.
At the end of the evening nothing original, only a recap and anthem trivia medal ceremonies which will last but a merciful half hour before all the prancing sequined costumes we’ve seen before starts again.
If they have local news at 11:30 and don’t arbitrarily go off schedule again I’d like to recommend The Venture Brothers. It’s not the best episode, but they’re all good.
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