Thursday, October 1, 2009

Good morning, afternoon, evening *everyone*!™

Help yourselves!
Posted by littleoldlady at 1:49 AM

75 comments:

  1. HAPPY FIRST THURSDAY OF OCTOBER!

    Heh™

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  4. littleoldlady said...
    First "duh" of the day...

    Obama's 'Safe Schools' Czar Admits He Poorly Handled Underage Sex Case

    Ya think?
    WHY DOES THIS MAN STILL HAVE HIS JOB?!

    Hey, he's still up to 0bama's standards!

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  5. Pi Guy! :-)

    Yeah. I guess so. :-(

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  6. Oh boy....are people gonna be mad!

    The Trick - How to convince middle-class Americans that Obamacare won’t cost them a thing.

    Or not. Maybe they WANT to pay higher taxes or huge fines for lack of health insurance...

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  7. littleoldlady said...
    Pi Guy! :-)

    Yeah. I guess so. :-(

    Have you already forgotten that the left has no problem covering up older age people having sex with younger people. In Hollywood, it seems to be all the rage...in every sense of the word.

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  8. Please! I'm gonna be SICK!

    Let's talk about Iran, okay?

    Oh. Wait...

    :-(

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  9. littleoldlady said...
    Please! I'm gonna be SICK!

    Let's talk about Iran, okay?

    Oh. Wait...

    :-(

    OK, you got it...

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  10. We could talk about healthcare. No. That makes me sick, too. Carbon dioxide?

    /DON'T EXHALE!

    I think if we put the two together we can figure out how to make healthcare more affordable.

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  11. LOL, here's something that should help, Click here, then click on any video, watch it, and you'll be better off afterwards.

    :)

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  12. You're right, Pi Guy! THANKS! :-)

    /everybody needs some "feel good"...

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  13. VERY interesting article about the kind of behavior that can lead to the massive government bailouts we've seen this past year:

    The Hazard of Moral Hazard

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  14. littleoldlady said...
    VERY interesting article about the kind of behavior that can lead to the massive government bailouts we've seen this past year:

    The Hazard of Moral Hazard

    Excellent!

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  15. Perhaps Holder won't get away with letting the Black Panthers off the hook?

    U.S. panel chides Holder in Panther probe

    But Mr. Reynolds, a former deputy associate attorney general under President George W. Bush, has voiced concerns that the legal precedent set by the department in its May decision to drop the case against three of four named defendants would encourage "other hate groups" to act similarly at polling locations in the future. He also has charged that other groups might not have been treated so leniently.

    "If you swap out the New Black Panther Party in this case for neo-Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan, you likely would have had a different outcome," he said in an August interview. "A single law, a single rule should be applied across the board."

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  16. Abraham Lincoln turns down a loan

    (Contextual note: $80 in 1851 is equal to roughly $2000 to $2100 today.)

    As his station in life slowly improved over that of his poor relatives, Lincoln was frequently called upon for assistance. He always displayed a keen interest in the welfare of those who had been close to him in his youth, especially his stepmother, and gave liberally to their aid from his limited means. The following letter to his step brother, however, shows that he was not to be imposed upon in this respect. It also bespeaks a regard for the dignity and value of labor that is in the best American tradition.

    Dear Johnston:

    Your request for eighty dollars I do not think it best to comply with now. At the various times when I have helped you a little you have said to me, "We can get along very well now"; but in a very short time I find you in the same difficulty again. Now, this can only happen by some defect in your conduct. What that defect is, I think I know. You are not lazy, and still you are an idler. I doubt whether, since I saw you, you have done a good whole day's work in any one day. You do not very much dislike to work, and still you do not work much, merely because it does not seem to you that you could get much for it. This habit of uselessly wasting time is the whole difficulty; it is vastly important to you, and still more so to your children, that you should break the habit. It is more important to them, because they have longer to live, and can keep out of an idle habit before they are in it, easier than they can get out after they are in.

    You are now in need of some money; and what I propose is, that you shall go to work, "tooth and nail," for somebody who will give you money for it. Let father and your boys take charge of your things at home, prepare for a crop, and make the crop, and you go to work for the best money wages, or in discharge of any debt you owe, that you can get; and, to secure you a fair reward for your labor, I now promise you, that for every dollar you will, between this and the first of May, get for your own labor, either in money or as your own indebtedness, I will then give you one other dollar. By this, if you hire yourself at ten dollars a month, from me you will get ten more, making twenty dollars a month for your work. In this I do not mean you shall go off to St. Louis, or the lead mines, or the gold mines in California, but I mean for you to go at it for the best wages you can get close to home in Coles County. Now, if you will do this, you will be soon out of debt, and, what is better, you will have a habit that will keep you from getting in debt again. But, if I should now clear you out of debt, next year you would be just as deep in as ever. You say you would almost give your place in heaven for seventy or eighty dollars. Then you value your place in heaven very cheap, for I am sure you can, with the offer I make, get the seventy or eighty dollars for four or five months' work. You say if I will furnish you the money you will deed me the land, and, if you don't pay the money back, you will deliver possession. Nonsense! If you can't now live with the land, how will you then live without it? You have always been kind to me, and I do not mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will but follow my advice, you will find it worth more than eighty times eighty dollars to you.

    LINCOLN TO JOHN D. JOHNSTON, JANUARY 2, 1851

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  17. littleoldlady said...
    Perhaps Holder won't get away with letting the Black Panthers off the hook?

    U.S. panel chides Holder in Panther probe

    I'm glad to see that letting Holder investigate his own actions is being questioned.

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  19. littleoldlady said...
    Pi Guy,

    "Moral hazard"! ;-)

    I've been called a lot of things before, but never "Moral Hazard"!
    ;)

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  20. Hey! I was talking about your Lincoln letter!

    /variation on a theme ;-)

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  21. I know, but it's funnier my way.

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  22. Okay, if you want to be a moral hazard, far be it from me to get in your way...

    /are we back on the Helen Thomas thread? ;-)

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  23. Geez! I didn't even realize it was 3:00 AM already!

    I'm going to head on out for the night.

    Good night!

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  24. The big question is...do they have EARS in Washington?!

    The Rasmussen poll shows that a 56 percent majority of Americans now oppose the plan, and a slight 47 percent to 46 percent plurality say that its passage is unlikely.

    Perhaps most telling of all, senior citizens are strongly opposed to the $1 trillion plan - with a muscular 59 percent of them opposed and just 33 percent in favor. Significantly, only 16 percent of Americans over 65 years of age "strongly favor" the Democratic bills, while 46 percent are "strongly opposed."

    Hellllooo! Remember us? We old folks VOTE!

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  25. Nighty night, Pi Guy, you moral hazard, you! :-)

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  26. What have you done for me lately?

    The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation that could protect reporters from being imprisoned if they refuse to disclose confidential sources who leak material about national security, according to several people involved with the negotiations.

    The administration this week sent to Congress sweeping revisions to a “media shield” bill that would significantly weaken its protections against forcing reporters to testify.

    "Are you guys union? Because if you are, well...you know...that would be different!"

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  27. Bwahahaha!

    Yes We Can!

    COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Brazil's president took a leaf out of Barack Obama's electioneering manual to cast aside any lingering doubts about Rio's ability to stage the 2016 Olympic Games with an emphatic 'Yes we can' rallying cry on Thursday.

    Mimicking the phrase used by President Obama as he was catapulted to the White House, president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said he was confident Rio would be named the first South American city to host the Summer Games when the International Olympic Committee votes in the Danish capital on Friday.

    He's a gd lawyer, you'd think Obama would know enough to copyright that!

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  28. Yes THEY Can!

    ZURICH — Like every other country in Europe, Switzerland guarantees health care for all its citizens. But the system here does not remotely resemble the model of bureaucratic, socialized medicine often cited by opponents of universal coverage in the United States.

    Swiss private insurers are required to offer coverage to all citizens, regardless of age or medical history. And those people, in turn, are obligated to buy health insurance.

    That is why many academics who have studied the Swiss health care system have pointed to this Alpine nation of about 7.5 million as a model that delivers much of what Washington is aiming to accomplish — without the contentious option of a government-run health insurance plan.

    I still say the difference between healthcare in a small country like Switzerland and a big one like the U.S. is economies of scale. Apples do not equal oranges.

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  30. Good morning littleoldlady. Thanks for your timely fruitcup.

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  31. Another country mad at us...

    I think he's going for the full roster at the U.N.

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  32. PHIL! :-)

    I can stop [sob!] typing to myself!

    ;-)

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  33. There, there, littleoldlady. You are giving us important news stories to read with our fruitcup. :)

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  34. I guess I should also provide finger bowls so you don't get ink on your breakfast...

    ;-)

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  36. It's good to run out of news on occassion. I am sure that more will arrive. :p

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  37. Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of! :-/

    There's always The Daily Shoe Toss...

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  38. Well at least it was just a shoe and not something more...

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  40. Good morning RR, just getting ready to head out the door to my job.

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  43. That cat is gonna pay that dog back! LOL!

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  45. Indeed, lol...I see claws, and puppy fur flying!

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  47. Oh, the look on that little one's face! Poor baby...

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  49. Whoa! The mirror crack'ed!

    Costa Rica President Oscar Arias, the principal negotiator in the “Honduran crisis,” let the cat out of the bag on September 29 by stating that the situation is due at least in part to the Honduran constitution. He called it “the worst in the entire world” and “an invitation to coups”:

    It lacks an impeachment process, so I imagine the only way of calling the president to account was to oust him. … This is something that will have to be resolved, and the best way to do this is, if we can’t have a constitutional election, is to have certain reforms so this Honduran constitution ceases to be the worst in the entire world.

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  50. brb...we have a coffee emergency here! :-(

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  51. Time to start the day...take care, {lol}.

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  53. Ruh roh, she says, while rounding the corner to old age...

    Social Security: The Train Wreck Is at the Station

    It wasn’t supposed to happen this soon. Year after year during this decade, Social Security’s trustees told us that while the system’s long-term solvency problems are very real, a cash crunch was roughly a decade away.

    But in their most recent report in May, based on the system’s situation as it existed at the end of 2008, the trustees ominously trimmed that estimate to seven years

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  54. Romanian Government Collapses

    BUCHAREST, Romania -- Romania's coalition government collapsed Thursday after Social Democratic ministers quit in protest at the firing of the interior minister.

    Social Democratic Party leader Mircea Geoana said the nine ministers resigned "in solidarity" with Dan Nica, a party member who was fired by Prime Minister Emil Boc on Monday over comments the interior minister made about potential fraud in elections scheduled for Nov. 22.

    Damn, I saw 'Social Democratic Party' and 'collapse' in the same sentence and thought Obama packed his bags and left town.

    What a letdown.

    Morning,LoL,Phil,and RR.

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  55. squatch! :-)

    I am SO GLAD to see you! :-)

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  56. Morning squatch. We can only hope that Teh One's government would collapse. That would bring change we needed.

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  57. LoL,

    I totally understand.

    Must be my new muskle shert.
    /

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  59. Ah, and Phil's back, too! (YAY!)

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  60. That would bring change we needed.

    That would be change I could believe in.
    It's happening. They're all hopping around on one foot, having discharged the gun into their own foot. Let 'em keep going, I say.
    Keep spewing that crap, trying to ram it through.
    See what it buys 'em.

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  61. Mr. Boc named Vasile Blaga, a Liberal Democrat who is close to Mr. Basescu, as the interim interior minister Tuesday. The ministry is one of the country's most powerful because it controls a controversial domestic intelligence agency and has almost 200,000 employees.

    WOWSERS! Sounds like Obama's domestic army...

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  62. WOWSERS! Sounds like Obama's domestic army...

    And I'll bet he talks to them more than once in 6 months.

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  63. Just a quick drive by. How is everyone this a.m.? It's a beautiful Fall day here in the midwest.

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  64. Just a quick drive by. How is everyone this a.m.? It's a beautiful Fall day here in the midwest.

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  65. Israeli diplomat expelled from Russia

    Israeli diplomat Shmuel Polishuk, who serves in Nativ, was forced to urgently leave Moscow after Russian authorities accused him of espionage, it was reported on Thursday.

    Israel had pressured Russia to prevent his official expulsion and even threatened a counter move, Ma'ariv reported. According to the report, it was eventually agreed upon that he would not be declared a 'persona non grata' but would have to leave the country.

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  67. Hi sos. I have about 10 more minutes.

    Shmuel Polishuk accused of espionage - how convenient.

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  68. 'Morning, everybody!

    Here's the usual, along with some pumpkin bread to mark the odometer's rolling over to October.

    Where has this year gone?!

    Have a great day, and I hope I'll be able to catch up with you later.

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  70. Bin Laden in Pakistan, US envoy claims

    ISLAMABAD : US Deputy Ambassador to Pakistan, Gerald Festine on Thursday claimed that al Qaida chief Osama Bin Ladin is alive and exists in Pakistan, Aaj News reported.

    Talking to newsmen here, he also claimed that Taliban’s command system existed in Quetta, demanding that government of Pakistan should take stern action against the terrorists within its territory.

    Well, go get him then, dammit.

    He denied the reports about mysterious activities by US security companies in Pakistan. “Blackwater or no other security firm of US is functioning in Pakistan.”

    Sorry, I have to ask, Why Not ?

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  71. {lol} Thanks for fruitcup. I am taking it upstairs. :)))

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  72. maudgonne! :-)

    Just in time...I'm STARVING!

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  74. I'm closing this one down, folks....UP you go! ↑

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  75. I bet if it was the pub it would not take 20 minutes for someone to notice a new thread. :)))

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